It's that time of year again. The weather is getting bearable. The rabbits are getting busy. We're all getting stressed from finals and Claudia's getting depressed. Yes, depressed with a capital D. What do you expect? It's graduation time. Everyone's...

The Student Association is doing what they should be—trying to help the students—through its latest proposal of having student police patrols. But the idea is handcuffed before it can get rolling because there simply is not enough crime to justify...

Many of us are aware of the evils of racism and homophobia and are becoming aware of, through the animal rights movement, the evils of speciesism (the belief that the human species is superior to other animal species). Prejudice, in whatever form, only...

The University Council needs to consider all the options before granting the Student Association the ability to appoint all 14 student council seats. Huda Scheidelman is making a proposal to the council today to allow the SA to appoint all 14 of the vacant...

With the Homecoming football game, jazz concert and Springfest come and gone, only the slight matter of final exams remains before the end of another academic year. This column, therefore, undertakes to provide a few tips to avoid common legal problems...

I was very disappointed to read The Northern Star on April 23 and not see a single line or picture from the NIU Girl's Basketball Banquet held on April 22. Two hundred and fifty attended this occasion to pay tribute to a great team of gals and coaches...

Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell's and the entire Athletic Board's commitment to the student athlete is questionable. After debating for an hour, the board apparently threw out a policy not to schedule games near finals week. The men's basketball team...

I am writing in regard to DeKalb Nite Weekly publisher, Frank Trebusak's comment in the April 19 Star. Trebusak implied that Nite Weekly protesters are only "jealous" of the Night Weekly models. Hopefully he has not really drawn such an off-focus and...

University Police knew that illegal drugs would be used at the April 23 rally that called for the legalization of marijuana, but the police failed to respond. I can only hope that President Bush is NOT as devoted as Captain Webster and the UPs in fighting...

About two months ago I dedicated a column to the problems women have becoming romantically involved with men. Basically, the point of the column was that some of us shy away from committment. Since then, many women have asked me the real reasons for this...

I am writing to inform Dr. LaTourette and all other interested parties why I, and by report, a number of other long-term Huskie boosters, are not contributing to the annual athletic fund raiser this year. The answer, very simply, is that we are quite...

The reasoning used by John McManus, the John Birch Society public relations director, is both appalling and dangerous to our environment. In the April 20 issue of The Northern Star he is quoted as saying, "All the environmental issues ... are in the theory...