It's been some time since I've been to the NIU campus, and it's been even longer since I heard or have known about the basketball team making the NCAA playoffs. I remember the last time we made it, it was during a student demonstration and with a team...

The nation is in an uproar. But by now everybody has heard about the Los Angeles police who were videotaped beating a black motorist. One of the latest bits of info in the case is that L.A. Mayor Tom Bradley wants the Police Chief Daryl Gates to resign....

I want to publicly thank Greg Rivara for his excellent column of April 3. Not often on this campus do you hear it asserted that there are limits to what any community, whether that community be a town or a university, can impose on individual members...

I've seen many letters to the Star that have made my blood boil, but Wednesday's letter by Arthur Shimkus, the siddah yoga, really blew the lid! I've been homeless three times in the last seven years totalling about seven months. I've slept at Public...

Area residents should take advantage of Saturday's visit by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. The IEPA will trek to DeKalb to collect hazardous household products. It will set up shop at the DeKalb County Highway Department, 2910 Barber Greene...

Safe Passage should be congratulated for successfully tackling the 63 percent increase in domestic violence that the shelter has had to take on since July. The increased number of cases was the result of a domestic violence task force created by Safe...

Monday's jump in the minimum wage is a mixed blessing—but not much more. In one respect, it's good to see NIU accepted to pay the optional increase in wages. It'd be unfortunate to discover that someone slaving over hot food in the residence hall cafeterias...

To straighten the record, the Circle K recognition packet was submitted six weeks ago; and in the past six weeks, I have had absolutely no response from the Student Association. Frequent visits to the SA office have been to no avail. But thanks to people...

The Washington Post Robert J. Shapiro of the Progressive Policy Institute may feel a bit like a lecturer who, having donned his newest, most elegant suit and delivered the speech of his life, is approached by a member of the audience whose only comment...

The use of ground forces was much abandoned as the result of massive objections to the Vietnam war. It necessitated that a war could only be fought with the people's permission, must be short, with no media visuals of casualties or uncensored reports....

The war has not ended. The greedy—those who have more than what they need—are still killing Americans via homelessness. Three million Americans are literally on a forced march to oblivion thanks to a society that puts material values above spirituality....

The Washington Post After months squandered on such trivial pursuits as the liberation of Kuwait, the savings and loan bailout and the search for a Democratic presidential candidate, Washington finally has focused on an important objective: getting itself...