Now that the students have shown they want to vote in an Illinois Student Association referendum, they had better follow through with their concerns. That's right, enough students signed petitions to move one step closer to voting for a referendum on...

I am absolutely appalled. I just read the Jerry Thompson guest column in the Feb. 4 issue of the Star. This is the paper's adviser? This man shouldn't be "advising" anyone except nazis and fascists on how to muzzle protest and freedom of speech and turn...

Recent reports in the Chronicle of Higher Education had potentially good news for educators. College students are reading the works of famous philosophers. Unfortunately, the philosophers they're reading are in name only: Calvin and Hobbes. According...

My question is a simple one. Why don't we honor Abraham Lincoln's birthday? Grade schools do, high schools and community colleges do and yet NIU does not! NIU honors Martin Luther King, Jr. for his accomplishments, and yet where would King have been without...

I would like to take issue with Jerry Thompson's conclusion that "only by some demented stretch of logic can one claim to be for troops and against the policy of war in the Middle East" (Feb. 4, "A pox on ‘cheerleaders'"). It seems to me, rather than...

With Valentine's Day just around the corner, no one wants to find themselves in the dog house, but some NIU students have no choice. There will be a mandatory meeting for all NIU "dog pound" members on Tuesday night. All members of the Huskies' booster...

The focus of the war in the Persian Gulf is turning toward when the land battle will begin. And even though speculation is present in everything, the world will have to wait. But waiting hasn't proven too badly thus far. That's why the United States shouldn't...

Here is a question addressed to anyone who holds a driver's license and drives a car regularly. What do College Avenue, Woodley Road, two equilateral triangles and about 24 simultaneous heart attacks all have in common? If you're having trouble figuring...

It's been said before, but nobody listened. For those Student Association senators who have been either too ignorant to pay attention or too high on their horses to care, listen up! Even fellow senators are fed up with what isn't getting done. Recently,...

I am writing in response to Michael McVey's letter, "NIU poor sports," which appeared Feb. 5. First of all, thank you Mr. McVey for attending an NIU game! The men's basketball team is experiencing its best season since 1972 and you finally come out to...

It's February—the month that's full of fun and exciting holidays like Groundhog Day, various presidents' birthdays, Mardi Gras, and yep—VALENTINE'S DAY! What other yearly event has the power to instill so many emotions in people young, old, rich,...

The NIU men's basketball team has climbed to the 35th spot in the Associated Press college basketball poll released this week. The Huskies received 14 votes in the "others receiving votes" category. Here is this week's poll: 1. UNLV_1,575 2. Ohio State_1,472...