The pro-life movement is engaged in one of the most noble struggles I have ever seen here at NIU. The dedication that these good people have put into supporting the rights of unborn fetuses and embryos would be an inspiration to us all. I believe it is...

In response to a letter written by Kathryn Haraldson, Jennifer Lenkszus and Kelly McInerney concerning the football team's behavior at the Homecoming pep rally, the opinions expressed by the aforementioned scholars are quite obviously uninformed and naive....

The events surrounding the recent re-instatement of Brian Subatich as the Student Association Community Affairs adviser brings only one concrete thought to mind: The SA needs to re-evaluate the effectiveness of their constitution and make some changes....

I am as outraged at Kelli Christiansen's column, "Stop reading now, every word is a lie," as I am with Greg Rivera's article "Many battle on abortion rights," about the Feminist Front-sponsored video "Abortion For Survival," and the responses and discussion...

I should have stopped reading then—before Kelli Christiansens's column "Stop Reading now, every word is a lie," outraged me. The Star is well deserving of the "vicious attacks" it has recently received. I, like Marna Coldwater, often ask myself why...

For the past few weeks I have been reading many comments about minorities on campus who are being mistreated. One minority on campus that I have witnessed abuse against is the NIU Huskie Bus driver. Several times, I have seen pedestrians walk in front...

They call the effort to halt the cocaine cartels in Colombia a "drug war." But, the war being "fought" is a losing effort with people in the country claiming the ineffectiveness of the battle is wearing thin on nerves and patience. The U.S. has sent roughly...

The public interest is served only when government operates in the open. It was with this central premise of representative government in mind that the U.S. Congress and innumerable state legislatures, including Illinois, have in recent years enacted...

The Northern Star appropriately titled my previous letter "Be responsible." In that letter I said there were other issues I wanted to address regarding the abortion issue. Well, here's one of them: gender-selective abortion. Let's title this one "Be consistent."...

On Oct. 27, I had the pleasure of watching the Black Theatre Workshop's opening performance of "The Lord's Will," a two-act production both written and directed by BTW's own Oscar P. Grant. I found the play to be very entertaining and downright touching...

It is great to see the Student Association looking for new avenues in which to make students better aware of what they have to offer. However, the proposed movie clips might not be the most favorable way to go unless they use this idea to benefit all...

The vacant building of the American Cultural Center, now an abode of silence, reluctantly receives a visitor, unlocking two padlocks and an iron-barred gate; a strip of empty air is hung at the flagpole where the Star Spangled Banner had been fluttering...