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...

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...

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...

About this time of year mild southern breezes seem to set everything and everyone in motion. Modes of transportation, bicycles, motorcycles, skateboards, etc., proliferate. Pets and toddlers you never knew your neighbors had promenade up and down the...

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...

Coming soon to a theater near you. Fear...has a new name...and a new face which actually looks very much like its old face but only slightly younger, thanks perhaps in part to a nose job here and eye tuck there and a little dab of Grecian formula. Anyway,...

Throughout the year I have read many articles and witnessed many events pertaining to the issue of abortion. In many of these instances the "pro-life" views were most strongly represented by individuals or groups of the Christian faith. Unfortunately,...