Have any studies been made concerning the salaries paid to our public officials in this state compared to the states at the top of the list for higher education appropriations? Is it a concern to anyone that in 1974, 37.5 percent ($325 million) and after...

A panel discussion on careers in communication will be held today from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. in Room 204 of DuSable Hall. Communications graduates will discuss corporate and media employment opportunities. The event is sponsored by the NIU Advertising Club...

Long-term Witness for Peace volunteer Marilyn Felian has come up with a grassroots lobbying effort to defeat the horrendous bipartisan agreement between the Democratic leadership and the Bush administration to continue aid to the contras (who are, of...

As a sequel, Wednesday's Day of Action III turned out to be a dud. The event appeared to have minimal participation, and the result was a series of theatrics aimed at the wrong people with little effect. To be effective, the event would have needed better...

Last Friday, while taking in my sister's high school softball game, I had the pleasure of playing catch with a young man whose sister was also a member of the team. Mike and I tossed a ball around for a while and got to talking sports. This third-grader...

"Hey, did you see the new condom machines in the restrooms? Do you think anyone buys those things? Fifty cents for a condom! Do they think we're made of money? Are these name-brand condoms or generic ones?" These are some of the comments we've heard in...

David Charbonneau's recent (March 30) letter supporting the JLS belies a common problem those wrapped up in fiction often make. Unable to differentiate between intellectual activity and stupidity, David believes that the JLS "...serve(s) as a needed alternative...

Economist Paul Gregory will give a lecture entitled "Perestroika and the New Soviet Economy" Friday at 10 a.m. in room 120A of DuSable Hall. Gregory is a professor at the University of Houston and recently returned from a ten-day meeting with Soviet officials...

Jim Wright, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, has become the second major ethics figure of the year in the world of politics. The man second in the line of presidential succession is the subject of as much hype and controversy as surrounded...

To the GLU and "gays" in general: Thank you for the opportunity to express myself against something I vehemently disdain. Now, before you mistake me for the common, closed-minded bigot, let me say that as human beings, I hold nothing whatsoever against...

Abortion is a very controversial issue. Those who defend abortion tend to look at pro-lifers as not giving each woman a choice. The one thing that many people conveniently overlook is the individual life of the baby. What we, as pro-lifers, are fighting...

As we Americans sit down to figure out how much tax we're paying Uncle Sam this year, it's appropriate that we take a look at how that money is being spent. The shocking fact is that 52 cents of every tax dollar is spent on wars—past, present and future....