Wednesday’s Day of Action was a flop because its message went to the wrong people.

Different people spoke for about two hours in the King Memorial Commons as more than 300 students signed a petition supporting a tuition freeze.

And although the hoopla had the right message —telling state and university officials to stop digging into students’ pockets just because they know they will always have enough people hoping to go to school—the focus went the wrong way.

Wednesday turned out to be a total flop because it was more like a support group than anything else.

NIU students are the last people on earth that need to be told they are getting screwed. NIU students need to remind the people that make all the decisions that they won’t be forgotten.

That’s what politics is all about. Signing petitions are great. But students should be able to sign a petition in the Student Association office everyday if they wanted.

People said all along that DOA 1990 wouldn’t live up to its predecessors’ billing of marches and arrests. Some hoped and prayed it wouldn’t. But give credit where credit is due. Those DOA’s got the attention of the big boys in Chicago and Springfield.

DOA’s another one of those things that has to happen all year long. But the direction has to go to the big boys—they’re the ones making the rules.