Since Gretchyn's column on freshman all I have read are complaints. I think you people are missing the point. I don't think Gretchyn is making fun of them as much as with them. We were all freshman at one time and I'm sure all of us have some humorous...

I thought, until Monday, that The Northern Star was a paper obligated to local—yes, even student—talent, a place where aspiring reporters, columnists and even cartoonists were given a necessary hearing. Apparently, I was mistaken. But since the Star...

NIU's 24-hour discrimination hotline is a novel idea, but it does not appear to be doing anything about discrimination that was not done before. The hotline does serve as a central location for complaints of discrimination and can refer potential victims...

A "two-car accident" complete with blood, injuries, dead bodies and arrests will be staged Friday at 11:50 a.m. outside the Holmes Student Center on Carroll Avenue. The mock disaster is being presented by the American Red Cross and NIU's BACCHUS chapter...

I am writing in response to the Oct. 10 column by Jeff Vogelsang entitled "Homosexuals Deserve Basic Civil Rights, Too." I am not writing to dispute that issue. However, I will not sit back and let persons such as you, Jeff, make unfactual statements...

On a chilly, gray afternoon one year ago this week, about 100 NIU students took their grievances about higher education budget cuts to the streets. They said they were fed up with tuition hikes and the ignorance paid them by legislators in response to...

While students still are paying to fix one broken student building, NIU should not make plans to build another one. Even though there is no harm in dreaming, NIU should consider the available funding sources before actual plans for the proposed Student...

The Oct. 4 column by Marianne Renner is one of the most ridiculous, or should I say absurd columns I have ever read in The Northern Star. Who gives you, Marianne, the right to call 18-year-olds peewees? In what way you got on the writing staff I will...

Even though The Northern Star interviewed me about my CAB spirituality class, there still remains a great deal of misunderstanding about what I teach. What I teach is a form of Vedanta and Siddha yoga. Vedanta simply means the fundamental truth; and it...

The NIU Parking Committee will hold a special meeting today at 1:30 p.m. in the Holmes Student Center, room 406, to complete discussion on items from an Oct. 6 meeting agenda. Among the items to be discussed will be the question of whether the NIU Parking...

I cannot believe the ignorance of James Kappel and I am still wondering what influenced him to write the letter to the editor "Leave SCOPA be" in The Northern Star on Oct. 11. James, what gives you the right to generalize about the greek population? How...

You know, I am continously dumbfounded by the current information my fellow Americans base their political affiliation upon. Typically, a Bush supporter will present me with this, or a statement of similar weight, to support their preference. "Bush is...