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Not brainwashed

September 11, 1991

This is my response to Eric krol's letter of Sept. 10. Eric, your letter really offended me (maybe as it was intended to), not because you wrote about supporting homosexuals, but because you were Christian bashing. For your information, I am a member...

Not obeying God

September 11, 1991

I wish that Eric Krol would reconsider his statement that, "God and the great novel of His really don't have much impact when budget crises and arms reduction summits come around." When you look at this closer, you'll realize that our budget crises are...

No-win situation in Mideast

September 11, 1991

Maybe the "new world order" never really existed outside the minds of President Bush's speechwriters. But if it did, it is about to crash and burn in the latest flap in the Middle East. Israel wants a $10 million loan from the U.S. to house the high numbers...

Lumped together

September 11, 1991

As a Christian, I believe I must respond to Eric Krol's column of Sept. 10. While I do not claim to speak for Scott Stocking or any campus orgaization, I find it reprehensible that the condemnation of homosexuality by some Christian groups is lumped together...

Dead space not necessary

September 9, 1991

A quick look at the picture of the Neptune Hall parking lot on the front page of Tuesday's Northern Star will explain the problem. Most of the picture shows only black pavement with cars in the backround. This black pavement is the infamous "dead space"...

Timely aid better

September 9, 1991

Over the summer approximately 1,400 NIU students received letters in the mail that basically told them to finish college somewhere else due to lack of funding here at Northern. Many of these students are upperclassmen and some are even fifth-year seniors....

A grain of salt

September 9, 1991

In regards to Eric Krol's column in The Northern Star on Sept. 3, I would like to express the flipside of his unfounded allegations. Mr. O'Dell did everything within the realm of possibilities available to him in order to keep Jerry Pettibone and Jim...

Rural battle for cow a lesson in courage

By Linda Warchal | September 9, 1991

There's a small rural town in northern Illinois waging a battle to save something the residents care about. That something is their fiberglass cow. For 25 years, this cow has stood at the five-corner intersection of the highway leading into Harvard—the...

Let veterans get on with life

September 9, 1991

Let's hope the Huskie football game planned to honor Desert Storm veterans is the final straw. Enough is enough. There's no problem with honoring the troops who fought and won the Persian Gulf war, but for most of them, a warm handshake or a pat on the...

Newsworthiness

September 8, 1991

This is in response to a letter written by Jim Tubridy, in which he accused The Northern Star of being anti-greek. While some of Mr. Tubridy's points may be valid, I see a lot of the "pot calling the kettle black" in his letter. Tubridy lashed out at...

Recycling plea

September 8, 1991

I would like to thank Rachel Vellenga on her recycling advice and saying that saving the planet is more than wearing "Earth" T-shirts. Recycling is important and it must be done by everybody.

Recycling on the small scale is great but if we really want to make a difference we must also focus on large corporations, the largest polluters of water, air, and land. We must put a stop to large scale pollution once and for all.

First of all we must join together to clean up the Great Lakes. You shouldn't ever eat the fish there anymore, so it must be cleaned up.

One of the largest problems of the pollution in the Great Lakes is the pulp and paper industry. The pulp and paper mills in Canada and the United States are bleaching the paper with chlorine to make it white. The chlorine's by-product of this process is dioxin, a deadly toxic waste that will sit in the Great Lakes for 10,000 years.

The mills can switch over to a process called "oxygenization" that releases oxygen into the air and water as opposed to toxic poison. The jobs at the pulp mills will still be there because the mills are still in operation.

We should put pressure on NIU to use only chlorine-free bleached paper for all of the university's uses. Universities use lots of paper, and when we tell them we want this kind of paper, and keep the pressure on them, they can eventually switch over. When universities tell paper mills what kind of paper they want it has a large impact.

These are just some steps towards cleaning the Great Lakes. Let's all work together and get this done.

Kenyon J. Koselke

Junior

Art and design

Wichita protests are righteous “terrorism”

By Ken Goze | September 8, 1991

Things might be getting back to normal in Wichita, Kan., but civil disobedience in America is dead. For those of you who don't keep up with the news on TV, have trouble remembering week-old news or, like me, are too damn cheap to subscribe to other newspapers,...