"For every argument against the shopping mall there is a much better argument in favor..." Unfortunately most of these other arguments are based on faulty figures or on utopian and politically motivated dreams. The estimated market of more than 100,000...

This is a new semester here at Northern, and I am looking forward to a wonderful semester. We did not have a very pretty semester last year, and we all felt the tension and the unrest that came about because of the "racial" incidents on campus. I put...

Webster's ninth collegiate dictionary defines audacity as "a bold or arrogant disregard of normal resraints." I looked this up because I wanted to know for certain that it was properly used to describe a group of Sigma Chi little sisters coming together...

It seems a few individuals are upset about the $25 million spent on behalf of President Bush during his inauguration. It wasn't made clear where this 25 mil came from, but it is clear that they don't believe it appropriate for these resources to have...

It seems the funding problems of NIU get worse every day. Contrary to what some might think, these problems do not go away. In fact, they seem to get worse and worse. Now, the classroom is not the only place suffering from a lack of state funding. The...

It is good to see the Student Association's Supreme Court show concern for students' representation in government. But their decision to disband the entire legislative branch of government is premature and a disservice to the students that government...

Sometimes customers come last. Whether they use it or not, every consumer in the community would benefit from the fresh breeze of competition a mall would bring. We might see merchandise we now drive miles to find. We might find better deals in quality,...

"The best laid schemes o‘ mice and men..." As poet Robert Frost said, some schemes often don't go quite the way we plan. Such was the case for a would-be motel robber in Deridder, La. This man, while caught up in his excitement, forgot to punch eyeholes...

On Tuesday, Jan. 17, I was told that a friend of mine had committed suicide. At first I didn't believe it—it was just a bad rumor. I called his roommate from last year, his former R.A., and many of my former floormates. The rumor was true. I first met...

The University Council external affairs committee will meet today at 3 p.m. in room 403 of the Holmes Student Center to consider whether it will support legislation for a separate governing board for NIU. Under Senate Bill 0001 proposed by Sen. Patrick...

I'm not sure if life was more difficult for women before or after the befuddling ERA movement. (And, I don't mean Earned Run Average.) I used to think I was really tough. You know, real cool ‘cause I was going to go to college and after that pursue...

A front page headline on Jan. 17 commits a common error when dealing with the word "sanction." This interesting word has very different meanings as a noun and as a verb. As a noun (for example, "the organization received a sanction") the word refers to...