Your recent series of articles on apartment housing in DeKalb was one-sided and prejudiced, to say the least. Your asumption that every landlord in DeKalb is out to take students for all their money is ridiculous. Using one student’s opinion to symbolize an entire rental population is biased reporting at its worst.

We cannot speak for other DeKalb complexes, but the managers here at University Heights Apartments are NIU students and our main priority is to keep our apartment community as the best possible environment for our tenants. That includes making necessary repairs in a very timely fashion and understanding the needs, financial and otherwise, of our tenants. In fact, we go out of our way to make sure our tenants understand their legal and personal responsibilities.

We also strongly object to your featuring of certain apartment complexes (those which run LARGE ads in the Star) as if those were the only places to live in DeKalb. Even your coverage of the disastrous DeKalb Center was hardly complete. It actually seemed like a nice place to live, according to your report.

We strongly suggest that a series of articles giving general information on what to look for in an apartment complex should be included in The Northern Star. Unfortunately, this last series of articles did not convey any of that general information, but rather a few biased opinions of students. Most apartment complexes will gladly provide information about their services. We realize that no one complex can meet every person’s needs, but your articles seem to say that no student can trust apartment managers in any situation. We resent that implication.

Amy Sharer

General manager

Donna Gulden

Office manager

University Heights Apartments