After four years at NIU, one starts to get tired of this whole Student Association garbage and wonder why the group even exists—other than being a supposed resume garnish for some young lawyer hopefuls or to provide some radical college idealists with...

The Washington Post In the most poignant moment of his recent address to Congress on the war in the Gulf, President Bush described the scene we had seen on television: four Iraqi soldiers emerging from their bunker, "broken, tears streaming from their...

We want to extend our thanks to the thousands of Chicago-area men and women who have so generously rolled up their sleeves as volunteer blood donors the past two months. In the last year, the blood needs of all Chicago area residents have been met without...

To whom it may concern: I am a 1990 NIU graduate with a bachelor's degree in finance. Four days after my December commencement, my Air Guard unit was ordered to active duty by President Bush. The ladies of Alpha Delta Pi sent me the two-page spread in...

The judicial code saga continues with another student blockade. University Council Committee B Chairman Norman Magden said students have until March 18 to tell the committee they want to attend the meeting to give input on who should have control of the...

The Washington Post With near-perfect timing, the Committee for Economic Development, a policy and advocacy group made up of 250 leading business executives, chose the morning after President Bush's speech ending the Persian Gulf War to remind Americans...

The faculty, staff and students with disabilities do not need the extremely inaccurate coverage of the open hearing provided by this newspaper! 1.) The Star stated there was a "disabled hearing" which is an incorrect and inappropriate use of language....

Student Association members better wake up and smell the coffee while their parents are still around and willing to save their sorry butts. The SA is a mere toy by which students use to have some minuscule say in what most directly affects their lives....

While our sanctions were effective but our soldiers were sent to war to keep Kuwait royalty, our Arabic allies plus our oil and top weapons companies profit. The losers of war that pay are soldiers, with taxpayers defraying the financial costs of our...

Now that the Gulf War appears to be ending, it is time for the American people to reflect back and do the serious work of analysis concerning this and any war. Those who have felt criticisms should not be voiced while we are fighting need to join others...

Officials from NIU and the Board of Regents, the school's governing body, hold immense power over the students. They disburse this power to the students through student organizations, the most visible being the Student Association. But it is nice every...

I don't get it either. Kay Forest asserts the Kuwaitis were stealing Iraqi oil and undercutting Iraqi oil prices. So what? In the Pacific Northwest, salmon fishermen have complained about Canadian fishermen stealing U.S. salmon. Foresters have complained...