Last weekend, another member joined The Club. Yeah, you know the one—the club established by one-time world heavyweight boxing champion Trevor Berbick. The club with such household names as Mitch Green, Marvis Frazier, James "Bonecrusher" Smith and...

The approval of one Bush cabinet member all but disappeared last Thursday in the shadow of controversy surrounding the nomination of John Tower for defense secretary: the Senate Finance Committee's approval of the nomination of Dr. Louis Sullivan for...

The Reagan outcry against a chemical factory in Libya was ballyhooed as a plan to produce chemical weapons. For our public via the media, former Secretary of State George Schultz publicized Libya's chemical factory, ignoring the existence of our own vast...

Sean Noble Uh, hi. My name is Sean Noble, and I'm a ... a liberal. Whew! I said it. I decided this week that I can finally come out of the closet. It's time for me to face up publicly to what I really am and have been hiding for more than six months:...

I wish to respond to the criticism of the cartoon Rodent Speak that appeared in the Feb. 23 Star. Rodent Speak is, without a doubt, one of the most original and well-executed features of your newspaper. It's true that Mr. Persche's sense of humor can...

I am extremely concerned about a recent letter from Dr. Harry Canon to The Northern Star in the Sept. 21 issue. Dr. Cannon, a former vice president for student affairs and currently a professor, takes The Northern Star to task for an editorial that he...

I am a non-minority student who originally enrolled into NIU through the CHANCE program in 1985. I think some things need to be made straight regarding the program and its goals. True. The program is designed for students who have shown motivation, talent...

Since my arrival at NIU I have periodically chided editors at The Northern Star and insisted that editorials should be informed opinions -- not uninformed biases. Your editorial on Sept. 19 is certainly not informed and it certainly represents a serious...

I'm sure by now you've received quite a few responses to the editorial "CHANCE Fails To Achieve," printed in the Sept. 19 issue of The Northern Star. You couldn't have possibly underestimated the infuriating impact this article would have among CHANCE...

The Office of Campus Recreation's creative art center will have classes in jewelry, woodworking, ceramics, drawing, painting and photography. Classes begin the week of Sept. 25 and continue until Nov. 16. Register at OCR's service window or call 753-9424...

In an age of credit cards and lay-away, it seems the easiest way to get by is to take now and pay later. The federal government has mastered that trick. But NIU students are no different. When applying for loans, students are asked whether they want a...

There have been many theories on how to crack down on drugs, but the police chief of Washington, D.C. came up with an unprecedented doosie. The work load on the chief must be a little too much because he seems to be getting delirious. In his frustration...