In less than two weeks, I will walk across a stage to accept the item listed at the bottom of my resume: my diploma. Colleges and universities across the nation will spend hours recognizing graduates during commencement ceremonies. I ask you to take just...

You may see a lot of feet today. They’re out for TOMS Shoes’ “One Day Without Shoes.” TOMS encourages people to walk around barefoot to “spread awareness of the impact a pair of shoes can have on a child’s life by taking off our own.” The...

BOOBS! Do I have your attention? I should, because that’s the marketing strategy behind Save the Ta-Tas, a non-profit organization that donates fundraising money and 5 percent of its clothing and accessory sales to breast cancer research. The campaign...

In his Vision 2020 plan, NIU President John Peters identified student quality as an area for improvement for the university over the next eight years. This three-part series will examine past trends in student quality, comparisons to other public Illinois...

Lying on the beach in Cancun is out; laying the foundation for a Habitat for Humanity home is in. Next week, four small groups of NIU students will travel to locations all over the U.S. to volunteer with NIU’s Alternative Spring Break. In the last decade,...

See, this one time, I spilled coffee on myself during a job interview. I’d like to think this will never happen again. But I know better. We all know better. We would all like to think we’ll never fart in public or Freudian-slip during a presentation...

The Northern Star took home 16 individual awards and an honorable mention in general excellence Sunday at the Illinois College Press Association convention.Several current and former staff members won individual awards for their contributions to the paper....

I have a problem. I'm not sure what country, world or economic class of people my problem belongs to; a recent internet trend would have me believe that my problem, one of language, of an over-used joke, of a Twitter hashtag, is something an African child...