It costs more to eat in Russia these days. Moscow's long-time inexpensive food prices are doubling. The people are confused, but the government needs to do it because they'll go belly up without it. Many Moscowites even refuse to believe it, but they...

I am ashamed, Mr. Melan, that you have been accepted by this institution of higher learning. Your ignorance is apparent through your poor reasoning skills in accordance with the Women's Alliance. For many small organizations, it is difficult to achieve...

Wednesday's Day of Action was a flop because its message went to the wrong people. Different people spoke for about two hours in the King Memorial Commons as more than 300 students signed a petition supporting a tuition freeze. And although the hoopla...

In response to the April 19 article "Woman's Alliance Protests Newspaper": I feel that this is the most ridiculous article I've ever read. Those women holding up the "stop sexism" signs are only jealous of the women in the DeKalb Nite Weekly. How can...

Regarding the reactions to the Women's Alliance protest of sexism in the DeKalb Nite Weekly, I would like to make a few comments. The allegation is that the Weekly's treatment of women is sexist. The publisher and others deny that this is true. I wonder,...

For those of you who were out of town or deeply engrossed in studying at the time, marijuana was apparently legal on campus Monday. Yes, "Hemp Tour ‘90," a 60-date cross-country tour promoting the call to legalize marijuana, made it's way to NIU Monday....

Where's my MTV? What ever happened to the best television network to ever broadcast on the face of this earth? I know this might be difficult to imagine but picture this - a music television station. Not just a television station, but a station completely...

Upon reading the article concerning admission requirements on the April 18 issue of The Northern Star, we were quite surprised to learn that Daniel Oborn has created his own form of racial discrimination. To enter NIU, whites must receive an ACT score...

Recently a truly incredible person passed away. This person made many people open their eyes. I had never met him. He was not a movie star, or a comedian, or a nobel prize winner. He was his own kind of hero. He touched much of America, even as some of...

I still look on the incident with disgust and pity. Unfortunately, "Party Til You Puke" is a pretty common saying among those who like to have fun drinking, but this was one time that the phrase had been followed to the word -- and too far beyond. The...

Society should resist the urge to forgive the immortal Pete Rose and let him swing in the tree he nurtured for himself. Rose will plead guilty Friday to felony tax charges after a year-long investigation focusing on income earned from signing autographs...