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...

Well, this is it folks. I'm finally leaving for good, to return to DeKalb no more. Graduation is upon me, and I've packed my bags to venture out into the horrible void of life known as none other than the "real world." I must admit that for some reason,...

We, the Women's Alliance, would like to respond to your editorial entitled "Look for a Different Route." Prior to your article was a cartoon portraying our members as cockroaches being exterminated by "Freedom of the Press" bugspray. Does the cartoonist...

It was just a slight oversight. Really, it was. Perhaps a particular news item in Monday's Chicago Tribune will eventually end up under the heading of "Just Another Crazy Thing That Happened Up In Wisconsin," but the public should take notice. It concerned...

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...

Student Association Mass Transit Board members found a way to help themselves. The SA passed a proposal for a transit board vice chairman position to handle some of the adviser's responsibilities in more depth. One of these responsibilities is to try...

Getting people to agree in their attitudes about something is usually the hardest part, but at NIU it seems to be the easiest step in a much bigger mess. You would have had to be living under a rock to not know that the ROTC program has been on thin ice...