The Student Association's revised recognition form is turning heads so quickly, the student body fails to realize the broad step forward the SA is making. For the first time in recent history, the SA is going after something instead of waiting to catch...

Hey NIU students, either put up or shut up. Today is your chance to tell the government to take a hike some place other than your tuition bill. A Joint Committee on College Tuition formed by the General Assembly with students, legislators and educational...

The exchange between Professors Hudson and Self on the merits of reverse discrimination sidesteps any discussion on the role of a university as an institution of learning. Learning is the acquisition of knowledge. The most important knowledge is neutral...

Sharon Holmes, Republican candidate for the office of DeKalb County Clerk, will attend a College Republicans meeting tonight to deputize student registrars and register student voters. Jeff Ehrlich, Student Association voter registration co-chairman,...

The idea behind the editorial "Owner strain:student gain," (Sept. 7,1990) is that as the vacancy rate of student apartment complexes goes up, due to new units coming on stream, such as Polarbek's proposed complex at Hillcrest and Annie Glidden, owners...

Nobody cares about a good-looking corpse. Case in point: Last week, a woman died from a rare type of anemia after taking some tanning pills. Was this woman so blanched that people wretched whenever she passed by? Probably not. The more likely scenario...

Condom vending machines have been on campus for about a year and a half. While there are indications that people are using condoms more often (about 40,000 are distributed each year), there were still over 2,500 cases of STDs at the University Health...

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. For instance, many student organizations' activities will be delayed this fall thanks to the Student Association's postponed senate elections. For those students who believe what the SA does won't affect...

We never anticipate emergencies. They always seem to happen to others, but never to ourselves. Last week, I found that I too was vulnerable. One morning, I was suffering from a bad case of the flu, thinking it was only a cold. After running, I was extremely...

Do not allow it to happen to you. As a minority student that has been here for several years, I have delegated it my responsiblility to advise you with a motivational objective in mind. The college experience is a wonderful one that is often times short-lived...

Low clouds and fog Saturday grounded NIU's Flying Huskies, although the club already has rescheduled the lost day of free flights over DeKalb. The club set Saturday, Sept. 15, as a "rain" date, said Flying Huskies President Jim Siminak. But, because so...

NIU is not getting its money's worth. The Student Association pays $22,000 each year for membership in the Illinois Student Association that gives them nothing in return. Most recently, the ISA appointed Dave Hopkins from Sangamon State University in...