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...

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,...

Congratulations to the North Central Narcotics Task Force on making its 400th drug-related arrest last week. The force is made up of different officers from area departments. Locally, members of the DeKalb County Sheriff's Police, the DeKalb City Police,...

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...

The Student Association and Holmes Student Center Bookstore officials have effectively worked together in initiating a bookstore "charge it" system. Beginning in the fall semester, students should be able to charge textbooks and other necessary school...

As members of the Women's Alliance, we are writing in response to the April 19 article entitled "Women's Alliance Protests Newspaper." We would like to take this opportunity to reply to the other individuals who were quoted in the article. First, we feel...

For the sake of accuracy and for the benefit of your Weekender readers, I am writing this review of Sean Leary's review, "New Age Sounds Apart from Crowd," which appeared in the Thursday, April 19 paper. Selecting Kitaro for this introduction to some...

The state government seems to finally see the importance of a well-educated society. A school voucher proposal suggesting state-funded grants for parents of students, which has been considered in the House Executive Committee for the past couple of years,...