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Northern Star

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Northern Star

Many students to consider

May 2, 1990

NIU should be congratulated on the recent groundbreaking for Faraday II, a needed and welcome addition to the campus. The newest building in 10 years, Faraday II is bound to improve the university as a whole. The four-story building will increase the...

Goodbye blues felt by more than grads Claudia Curry

May 2, 1990

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...

Students at loss on council

May 1, 1990

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...

A document a day keeps the landlord at bay

May 1, 1990

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...

Unknown event

May 1, 1990

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...

Final exams overlooked

May 1, 1990

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...

Societal flaws

May 1, 1990

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...

Fight drug war

May 1, 1990

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...

Women: a mistake or deliberate curse

By Alex Pope | May 1, 1990

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...

Spiritually bare

May 1, 1990

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...

Unfair opinion

April 30, 1990

I am writing in response to Claudia Curry's editorial about the Christian Science family whose child died because their religious beliefs did not allow medical treatment.

Ms. Curry judged this family's religious beliefs to be wrong. I would like to remind her that the United States was founded in part upon the notion of religious freedom. As a journalist, Ms. Curry should respect the beliefs of these people.

This family chose to believe that God could heal their child, thus they refused medical treatment. Assumably, they had enough money to pay for treatment if they had so chosen.

I have one question: For all of the people who are too poor to afford medical treatment for their illnesses, do we charge them with manslaughter as well since our society often refuses to give them the opportunity for help?

J. Simpson

Graduate Student

English

Vice chair must delegate

April 30, 1990

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...