Regarding your recent homecoming special issue, I found it to be quite informative, yet lacking in one particular aspect. I'm sure all the students on campus are familiar with the annual celebrations of homecoming; its parades, pep rallies and football...

As a third year Resident Assistant, my reaction to Christine Rechner's letter "RAs too strict," is that Christine is very mis-informed as to what an RA's job responsibilities consist of. One of the RA's job responsibilities is to complete a series of...

As a Canadian I found Gina Quilici's column (Sept. 19) really well done. It sure is frustrating for us Canadians to find out that you do not even know basic political facts about our country. A few of weeks ago I was visiting my girl friend who attends...

I would like to comment on a very rare occurence I experienced Sept. 28. I came onto campus to take a computer class, parking my scooter at the Swen Parson Hall bike racks and apparently leaving my keys in the ignition. I didn't notice I'd forgotten my...

Speaking from the bar When you and your roommates sit down for breakfast, is it so cold in your apartment you can see each other's breath when you speak? When you go into the kitchen for an early a.m. snack, do you catch hordes of roaches picnicking on...

How many times have you walked through the NIU campus, passing well-tended trees and carefully manicured grass and flowers, only to trip over fast-food cartons, soda cans and old newspapers? Granted, all of us have "more important" things to think about...

In response to a letter to the editor written by TR Biddle (Sept. 8) concerning Columbia and the drug war, I must tell Mr. Biddle to wake up and smell the (Columbian) coffee. He states that "if it wasn't for those greedy Columbian drug farmers, this country...

The Palestine Human Rights Campaign will hold its 12th annual conference in Chicago from Oct. 6-8. For more information call PHRC at (312) 987_1830. Exercise classes Exercise classes for DeKalb County Farm Bureau M and A_plus members begin Oct. 9. Low...

I feel I owe a public apology for marching the Huskie Marching Band into the alley next to the Egyptian Theatre for a "pep fest." I felt so proud when the athletic and music department said they would cooperate with my "wish" to have the band and football...

I would like to respond to a letter from Keri Putnam (Sept. 28). In her letter, Putnam expresses the opinion that the factions in the debate over abortion should be labeled "pro-life" and "anti-life," and also states, "your choice might be murder." In...

No one likes to pay taxes, and no one likes to die. Above all, no one likes the rich folks out there getting a break on taxes. But wait a minute; hold the phone. Bar the door. With a reduction in capital gains taxes passed last week, many liberals are...

Please bear with one more letter on the pro-choice/life topic. I am writing in response to Fred Freund's letter that appeared in the Sept. 29 issue. Mr. Freund, when a woman "opens her reproductive system to intercourse," she usually does not do so with...