Steriod users risk both injury and some long-term ill effects. Anabolic steroids are forms of testosterone artificially created in a laboratory. Testosterone is a hormone necessary to build muscle and is produced naturally in the human body. It is produced...

Why doesn't anybody scream "sexism" when Marilyn Skinner labels the possible removal of the Wirtz House as a "very characteristic male way of thinking?" I'll bet if some male said something was a very characteristic female way of thinking (even if it...

Now that Illinois has lost the chance to house the Superconducting Super Collider, it is time for this university's top administrators to stop focusing their attention on how building the SSC in Texas is going to hurt NIU. Instead, these administrators...

University Police Captain James Webster was quoted in a recent article criticizing the security phone system proposed for NIU. He apparently was unaware of the facts regarding the system. The security phone system proposed by the SA Welfare Committee...

I am outraged about the parking situation here at NIU. Last semester, parking stickers were $9, so why did the price increase to $30? What is NIU trying to pull on its students? And also, there is a problem with finding parking spaces on campus. Students...

Each year, when Thanksgiving approaches, many of us think about the things we are thankful for. For most of us—especially college students—there's a long list. Most of us have family, friends, health, a place to live and even the chance at a college...

What will they think of, or rather, make pocket sized next? The ever expanding world of high technology in the entertainment business has produced many wondrous products over the past few years. The Walkman, the mini television and the video-cassette...

The first significant decline in the sale of parking permits at NIU is not surprising. NIU has sold almost 2,000 fewer permits this year than last year. NIU sold about 800 fewer orange stickers than last year. Orange permits are sold to students living...

There is actually a project that makes a huge difference in the quality of life, one in which we can all participate. It is ending hunger. Persistent hunger (not just famine) and starvation on our planet takes a huge, not yet fully calculated, toll. No...

After months of electioneering, Campaign ‘88 belongs to the historians and political scientists. Questions of the relative negativeness will fill hundreds of pages while analysis of the vote count should keep the finger pointers in a state of bliss...

Alas, winter is upon us once again. With freezing rain thundering upon our weary bodies and gail-force winds threatening to rip our lips off, it's getting harder and harder to slither off our cozy matresses and futons in the morning. In the literary world,...

I was appalled by the comments made by Marilyn Skinner concerning the demolition of Wirtz House. What do they teach in the Women's Studies program? She says that "women need their own place that has memories and traditions from the past," and they need...