Dear Congressman Dennis Hastert, As two high school social studies teachers (people with whom you can surely identify), we are very concerned about the direction politics in this country is taking. It is evident that Americans are becoming disenchanted...

Dear readers: Welcome to the letters section of The Northern Star's Issues pages. The beginning of a new semester seems an appropriate time to reiterate the purpose of this section and the required format of letters to the editor. The letters section...

Northern is now being compared to schools like Stanford, UCLA, Johns Hopkins, U of I Champaign and UW Madison. Is it because of our academics? No. Is it because of our athletic programs? Of course not. It is because of our racist activities. Why are people...

It's unbelievably tragic but true: 18 of our world's children die as a consequence of hunger every minute of every hour of every day. While this devastation is equivalent to the bombing of Hiroshima every three days, it is also true more people have died...

A status review hearing for about 75 NIU students involved in the April 13, Day of Action II protests is scheduled for Friday at 1:30 p.m. The students were charged with obstructing a highway, which is a traffic offense, for their participation in the...

I would like to know more about the "‘publish or parish' syndrom" (sic) that Miss McGinnis spoke of in her column of 11/30. I'm not sure what is the exact nature of a "syndrom," but in light of its modifier "publish or parish," I would guess that we...

The DeKalb County Board will vote on whether to sell county farm land to developers for an enclosed shopping center at tonight's meeting at 7:30 p.m. Officials from Wilmorite Inc. have offered to purchase 119 acres for $1.9 million to build a 300,000-square-foot...

When the going gets tough, the tough normally get going. Except in the case of the Illinois Board of Higher Education. One year before new academic standards for state university admission set by the IBHE were slated to have gone into effect, the IBHE...

President-elect George Bush, who will be inaugurated as the 41st president of the United States this Friday, seems to have the potential to be an effective leader in at least two repects. First of all, Bush's cabinet choices point to sensible decision...

Findings from a one-and-a-half year study conducted by the University Council's Ad Hoc Committee on Teacher Evaluation will be presented at the council's meeting Wednesday. The meeting will begin at 3 p.m. in the Clara Sperling Skyroom of the Holmes Student...

The airports are closed, the mail isn't coming, the corporations are disfunctional. Go ahead. Scream it again. Scream "racism" and our whole country shuts down. Is it a game to see who can get the most attention? Well, I think we have a winner: Martha...

It is amazing that we are all required to pass a test on the U.S. Constitution and yet many of us seem not to know what it truly means. I am referring to the incident regarding Sigma Chi's suspension. It seems to me that the key issue here is freedom...