For my sixth week of Twitter #FollowFriday recommendations, I thought I’d take a cue from a former college classmate of mine and give you five Northwestern University recommendations.

I graduated from NU in 1991 and have had the good fortune to not only keep in touch with many of my fellow graduates, but also run into lots of others over the years. And they’re not even all Medill grads (the journalism school).

It’s also sort of in honor of John Hughes, who died yesterday. He filmed lots of his movies in the Chicago suburbs and was a cinematic hero to my generation for such gems as Sixteen Candles and Pretty in Pink. Every Northwestern student could recognize several locations in every one of his movies.

For the uninitiated, I do my #FollowFriday this way because it doesn’t clutter up the Twitter stream too much and I get to explain why I think you should follow folks. I do five recs each week.

I’m always looking for more interesting people to add on Twitter, so please recommend at least one person in the comments. Would love to hear who you think is worth my time to follow.

So here’s this week’s #FollowFriday recs:

• @johnjedwards3: John’s the one I referred to in my first paragraph; he did an NU-themed #FF a few weeks back and I rediscovered some folks I’d gone to school with but didn’t know were on Twitter. John’s scary smart, has worked for the Wall Street Journal for years as a reporter and editor and has a very dry sense of humor (check out his bio). John was a couple years behind me at NU.

• @moryan: Maureen Ryan is the TV critic for the Chicago Tribune and had some of the best interviews with the cast and crew of Battlestar Galactica during its run. She tweets out links to her reviews and interviews, and interacts a lot with her followers. She’s also somewhat of a sci-fi geek. I didn’t know Maureen in college, but I wasn’t surprised (was rather pleased, actually) when I found out she was a grad.

• @sizzlemaker: Shari Weiss just graduated from Medill this spring and I actually met her on Twitter. She has an outsized affection for teen soaps (90210, Everwood, etc.) and is currently interning at the Chicago Tribune. If they know what’s what, they’ll hire her fulltime. She also runs the blog TeenDramaWhore and is in charge of Breaking Tweets’ entertainment tweets.

• @toddpruzan: Todd Pruzan and I were at Northwestern at the same time. Both in the J-school. Knew a lot of the same people. Never knew each other or even heard each other’s names until running into one another at AOL recently. Todd is an editor for Daily Finance and WalletPop. And likes his rice cooker. He does, however, see the uselessness of the diaper genie. Oh, and he recently moved to Jersey. Hahahahaha! (Full disclosure: I live in Jersey.)

• @stephaniemehta: Stephanie N. Mehta and I were roommates in college for two years and her family was like my second family for four years at Northwestern. She once spackled over a hole in the wall that I … um … caused. She has always been one step ahead of me in finding cool music and I tape-recorded every single one of her CDs before we graduated on her boom box (if the RIAA is reading this, I’m just kidding). She’s now Technology Editor for Fortune magazine and doesn’t tweet nearly enough. I’m thinking that if more people start following her, maybe she’ll break out the TwitterBerry more. Hmmm, Steph?

Anyhow, that’s it for the week.

Please let me know your recommendations in the comments!