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Campus Cinema: Big movies for small prices

By Phil Case | September 20, 2010

As a student, I will try any business that has words like "campus" or "student" in the title at least once. You may find me working off my meal from Huskie's Pizza, 850 Pappas Drive, Suite C, with a round of bowling at the Huskies Den, located in the...

In Focus: How should we attract students to NIU?

In Focus: How should we attract students to NIU?

On Thursday, the NIU Board of Trustees took the next step in constructing a new residence hall on campus. As NIU President John Peters has said, NIU needs to be able to compete with other universities. For this week’s “In Focus,” various Northern...

Sometimes nice people are atheists, too

By Phil Case | September 13, 2010

There are probably no gods." Many of us have seen these words on plain white fliers posted on campus bulletin boards or scrawled on the sidewalk as we walk to class. Although some may be too disinterested to be affected, it is certainly a bold statement...

In Focus: What’s changed since 9/11, 9 years later?

In Focus: What’s changed since 9/11, 9 years later?

This Saturday marks the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Americans and single-handedly defined a generation. For this week's "In Focus," various Northern Star columnists and editors will weigh in on this question: 9 years...

Bachelor’s degree alone can be useless

By Phil Case | September 8, 2010

If you are lucky enough to be finishing up the last year or even semester of your academic career, you are probably being forced to address that question that lingers incessantly in the back of every good collegiate mind: Should I go to grad school or...

Everyone should take advantage of BYOB

By Phil Case | August 29, 2010

For those returning to campus, DeKalb may seem like essentially the same place you left back in May: a small but vibrant island of college life rising out of a sea of cornfields. However, one subtle difference you may have missed is the fact that the...

Weighing in on the Ground Zero mosque

Weighing in on the Ground Zero mosque

For the past couple of months, politicians, pundits, and ordinary citizens have weighed in on the Cordoba House, an Islamic community center (with a mosque) that would be built within two blocks of Ground Zero. As part of our new "In Focus" series, various...

Sticking around: Should I stay or should I go?

By Phil Case | August 25, 2010

If you are new to NIU, this weekend marks the first time you will have to make the decision of whether or not to stay in DeKalb over the weekend. If you are homesick, low on money or just generally worried about how much a town that celebrates corn so...

3 simple rules to computer lab etiquette

By Phil Case | August 24, 2010

It may be hard to imagine the amount of stress that lead to the consumption of ungodly amounts of caffeine and all-night knowledge benders when you’re still reading syllabi and learning the names of all of your classmates.  When that time inevitably...