The Boy Scouts of America are better off without Chicagoans Ray Baker and Deneen Robinson. Baker and Robinson were fired this week for refusing to join a mandatory training program because they believe it has racist elements. One element is a wooden-bead...

Students are willing to take on the financial problems of the state and pay any price for their college education. That's the message we gave to a tuition study panel of legislators, educators and other students on Wednesday when only five people attended...

Taxes' lethal hands have left education alone, until now. In Evanston, the city council decided it needed more money and didn't want to go to the usual taxpayer. With a gleam in their eyes, they looked toward Northwestern University and approved a $5-a-month...

The sweeping recruiting changes trickling down from fraternity and sorority national chapters is impressive, but the future will speak for itself. A fraternity and three sororities with NIU chapters have brought the reforms to this campus. They will have...

By now you are hopefully serenely settled in your new living accomodations and finding they meet or exceed your expectations. Realize that when problems arise, they usually begin early on in the tenancy or housing contract period. The following are steps...

I feel I must respond to Wednesday's letter by Alfred Tatum which berated the Star for printing an article concerning the credit abuses by a set of fraternity men. I fail to see how these men were "victimized" by this article; they allegedly stole from...

Cracks appeared Tuesday in the U.N. trade embargo against Iraq as Saddam Hussein sought to circumvent the economic noose around his country. Japan, meanwhile, announced it would increase its aid to countries hardest hit by enforcing the sanctions. Hoping...

We're adults—supporting children while going to school,full-time—and often among the poorest persons in this country. We're a growing segment of this or any University's population; but so far not a big enough segment here to be highly visible or...

Scott Stocking ("Moral Defense," 9-11-90) posits an "absolute truth" that homosexuality is "morally and ethically wrong" and uses this to support the ROTC's discriminatory policy against homosexuals. Perhaps if his conception could be validated, such...

Once again the spectre of the ‘ROTC' issue haunts NIU. This time, it is raised by Scott Stocking. I am grateful to him for having raised the issue, but I disagree entirely with him and feel compelled to respond. Why is it that all pro-ROTC arguers have...

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...