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Public can influence change, lacks focus

By Anthony Szudarski | June 25, 2013

The public eye should be a force to be reckoned with. When the public is informed, it serves as a watchdog to protect people. But all too often the media allows important issues to fall from the entire nation’s attention long before something is done...

Media should deliver objective information

By Taurean Small | April 17, 2012

If I had to choose the most important lesson learned from my journalism education here at NIU, it would be that the media should never be the story. For a while now, local and national news sources have abandoned this fundamental and tainted the word...

Concealed-carry law returns to Ill. General Assembly

By Mary Diamond | April 8, 2012

If you’re reading this in the state of Illinois, the person next to you is not carrying a concealed weapon - at least, not legally. The Family and Personal Protection Act (HB0148), failed to pass in the Illinois General Assembly by 6 votes last year,...

Trayvon Martin

Trayvon Martin vigil planned

By Northern Star Staff | March 28, 2012

A vigil for Trayvon Martin will be held at 3 p.m. Friday in the MLK Commons. Senior Farouk Olayiwola will speak at the event, as will Derrick Smith, the academic counselor at the Center for Black Studies. Martin was a 17-year-old killed Feb. 26 while...