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The different ways we raise daughters vs sons can have major impacts on society.

Column: Equal parenting standards should be common sense

By Angelina Padilla-Tompkins, Editor-in-Chief | March 24, 2022
It's time to break the cycle of treating children differently based on their gender.
Student mothers have plentiful resources at NIU

Student mothers have plentiful resources at NIU

By Lisa Lillianstrom | September 26, 2018

Being a mother and a student can be challenging, but NIU has resources to help student parents succeed in reaching their goals.One resource available to all mothers is lactation stations. These stations are located around the campus and are private rooms...

Cortland resident Michelle Berge with son Ethan, age 7, watch while Molly Trickey, Executive Director of the Midwest Museum of Natural History helps dissect a pig heart at Dissection Workshop: Have a Heart, an educational event hosted by the Midwest Museum of Natural History at 425 West State Street, Sycamore on Saturday afternoon.

Local museum hosts Valentine’s Day heart dissection

By Brooke Shinberg | February 17, 2013

Charlotte the spider certainly wouldn’t have approved of a local Valentine’s Day-themed class. Children and their parents were able to dissect pig hearts on Saturday at the Midwest Museum of Natural History, 425 W. State St. in Sycamore, in honor...

Manager in training, Chris Olah, assists Salvation Army customer, Stacy Johnson, on Friday evening. Stacy, of Shabonna, shops for toys for a family friend’s new baby.

Salvation Army helps children throughout the year

By Northern Star Staff | October 1, 2012

For the seventeenth year in a row, the Salvation Army helped children throughout DeKalb prepare for the beginning of a new school year. The Salvation Army provided for 1,207 children, more than double the amount of children served in 2011. Volunteers...

Senior journalism major Brittany Watson goes down a slide with
her daughter Haelo, 2, at a McDonalds playground in Sycamore on
Sunday.

Student mothers: Joys, Hardships, Misconceptions

By Chelsey Boutan | January 25, 2012

On April Fools' Day three-years ago, Brittany Watson got a phone call, but it wasn't from a prankster.A nurse was calling to give her news that would change her life."The results from your blood test came back," the nurse said. "You're pregnant."Watson...

Society is becoming desensitized to school violence

Society is becoming desensitized to school violence

By Portia Kerr-Newman | May 1, 2011

School violence happens every day in every state, whether it is a fight, a school shooting or just general bullying. Just recently, I heard of a kindergartner bringing a gun to school in Texas. The gun fell out of the young boy's pants and went off,...

Why flu shots may not be worth the risk

Why flu shots may not be worth the risk

By Kathryn Minniti | January 25, 2011

At the start of the "flu season," everyone starts to rush off to receive their flu shots. However, when going through the positive and negative effects experienced by those who choose to get the flu shot, it is hard to believe that they are actually worth...

Children, minorities experience the highest poverty rates in the state

By Melissa Mastrogiovanni | November 1, 2010

As the season begins to change, some will pull out their winter coats and turn up their heaters to stay warm. Some people, however, don't have that luxury. According to the Social Impact Research Center at Heartland Alliance, as of 2009 in DeKalb County,...