“The athletic department wants to be in the Missouri Valley Conference for one reason—money. With reduction of state money for state athletics and limited fundraising efforts, their only hope is to continue financial support is IF the valley says no to NIU it may be the end for athletics.”

“How come there is never anything in Sports about triathelons. There are many many tri-athletes that go to this school. I happen to know a bunch of them that competed this weekend. They were in the Sun-Times but not in the Star. How about a little article about local tri-athletes.”

On NIU Gate…

“The wonderful new gate that they are spending all of our money on is just great, However I think we need to build more things that work and not just look good.”

SA article…

“I wanted to leave a message regarding the article on the SA expo. It was mentioned that Golden Key is not as active as Mortar Board. I just wanted to clear up that the Golden Key is very active and very involved on campus and in the community.