The findings in a USA Today poll printed in The Northern Star last week are startling. The survey was conducted by the University of Chicago showed that in a national poll of almost 1,400 white people more than 50 percent have negative feelings toward...

I opened up the Northern Star on January 18, 1991, as I do every morning. Halfway through the paper, page 10 to be exact, I see a "How Whites View Blacks" survey poll taken from USA Today. I was in total shock!!! I would like to know how such trash ended...

Just like the toaster Mom got you for Christmas, NIU comes with a limited warranty. Only two months after the prolonged completion of the King Memorial Commons, the smooth-topped cement is crumbling away beneath the feet of anyone who crosses. But not...

Something's happening in March that's a little premature. In a little more than a month, NIU students will have the chance to vote for replacements to the Student Association execute board. It's far too early. The SA's early dates will put a cog in its...

This letter is in response to the mass display of ignorance shown in the letters to the editor on January 18. It doesn't surprise me that in this day there are many who so badly want to strangle people's freedom. What does surprise me is the use of such...

In response to the Jan. 15 The Northern Star editorial regarding the events in Lithuania, we are deeply angered at the ignorance displayed by the author as to Gorbachev's involvement in the attacks on Vilnius, in which 14 Lithuanians were killed and several...

In regards to Jean Dobrzynski said "a band of students from the Reserve Officer Training Corps started to speak in support of President Bush and the U.S. troops" She then proceeded to quote a guardsman who was not in ROTC. There are many reservists and...

Workaholics, alert: It pays to stay healthy. Just ask a Springfield state government employee who decided to leave his job and cash in on all his previously unclaimed sick pay. David Mizeur, deputy director for audit and finance of the Illinois State...

NIU's Marxist-Humanist Forum is sponsoring an anti-war meeting tonight to present Marxist views and opinions on the Persian Gulf war and the troops who have become prisoners of the week-old war. The presentation, "Bush's Drive To War Demands Total Opposition,"...

The following is King's obituary as it appeared in the New York Times April 5, 1968. King, Martin Luther Jr.—Jan. 15, 1929-April 4, 1968. Baptist minister, integrational civil rights leader dedicated to nonviolence; president of the Southern Christian...

Less than 1 percent of the NIU population give a hoot about the war in the Middle East, or at least this is the message given by the only 200 students and faculty present at Thursday's rally. The King Memorial Commons should have been flooded with students...

NIU students considering looking for jobs on the golden West Coast of California and other Pacific Coast states might not want to get their hopes up before "going west, young man." Markets there will be mostly flat. The West should benefit from job and...