Getting people to agree in their attitudes about something is usually the hardest part, but at NIU it seems to be the easiest step in a much bigger mess.

You would have had to be living under a rock to not know that the ROTC program has been on thin ice at NIU the last few months. Specifically, the ROTC could be gone in less than two years unless it changes its ways concerning its discrimination against homosexuals.

It seems logical that students currently in the program or coming into the program should be warned of its iffy status. Both NIU and the ROTC agree. Wow. That sure was simple.

The problem comes in where letting these students know about the ROTC’s status is concerned. It seems that everyone agrees the students should be warned, but they’re having deciding who is going to tell them. What?

NIU Provost Kendall Baker was assigned the task of figuring out who will write such a warning and how it will be sent, after Faculty Assembly member Sherman Stanage proposed the idea at the assembly’s last meeting.

It seems like this issue is a mole hill being made into a mountain. The students should be warned as soon as possible so they can alter their college plans if need be. Perhaps if it isn’t too much trouble, both groups could warn the students. It would certainly help to make sure everyone gets fair warning.

Baker said, “Students are entitled to know about this matter.” Well, let’s all let them know.