NIU is quickly joining the ranks of colleges getting drawn into the fracas about words and which ones are slurs. A tough spot to be in and an equally tough spot to stay out of. The Northern Star printed "nigger", "Jew" and "faggot" in its top story Wednesday....

As a volunteer at PADS (Public Aid to Deliver Shelter), the local homeless shelter here in DeKalb, I am surprised by the fact that so few members of the Forum for Marxist Humanist Thought, as well as members of other organizations on campus, volunteer...

Spring means a lot of different things to different people. To some it is the rejuvenation of dormant life and a signal that warm summer days are around the corner. To others, it means it's time to pull out that dusty Bible and start preaching their words...

This school never ceases to amuse me. It's nice to see that the Star is so concerned about the great horned owls in front of Faraday that you ran an article entitled "Curious students could endanger owls." That's fine and good, but did the Star think...

When Martin Luther King Jr. marched peacefully down city streets for civil rights, there was a lot of blind anger and blatant misunderstanding of his concept of freedom and equality for blacks. We seem to be experiencing a very similar problem here on...

I am writing in regard to an article which was printed last week in The Northern Star. Nice try, but we all know that the parking division, who you tried so hard to portray as humans, is staffed by blackhearted minions of Satan who roam this campus like...

Let's talk about the "Balance of Equality" sculpture which is going to be located in the King Memorial Commons. I'm not going to say that I don't like it, or that it will be incomprehensible to future students. People who use those arguments against the...

Well I guess I am a ‘narrow-minded individual' as I thought that the purpose of a government-run institution is to protect those discriminated against. But as Jason Inman has clearly pointed out to me, government-run institutions should reflect only...

Mr. Inman's letter of April 8 left me somewhat confused. For the past three years, people like Mr. Inman have been speaking out against homosexuality because the Bible tells us in Leviticus that it is wrong. Well, in Leviticus 19:27, the Bible also tells...

NIU administrators should be encouraged by a recent survey of students but also be wary that it might not reflect more than a knee-jerk response. A survey, commissioned by The Northern Star, gauged student attitudes at NIU and came up with some positive...

I have been a student aide at Founders Memorial Library for two years and in that time raises were given periodically based on merit and the amount of time a worker had been at the library. This has meant that workers were rewarded for their service to...