I must say that I found Jeff Vogelsang's column on the minimum wage bill very interesting .05 average. I hate to be the one to burst your bubble, Jeff, but raising the minimum wage increases poverty. Wages are a price for labor, and that price should...

Illinois deserves a break, and the chance to become home for the proposed Superconducting Super Collider would be just the opportunity. With any change there is always the bad that needs to be taken along with the good. And in this situation the positive...

As a veteran of the U.S. Army, Airborne Infantry, I am somewhat confused about George Bush's claims to be strong on defense and experienced in foreign policy. Was it experience or a desire to be strong, that motivated this administration to send 241 Marines...

Today I think I'll pick on some radicals. Yea. This should be an easy one because lots of people think radicals are a bunch of ridiculous low-life scum anyway. Oh boy, I can see you conservatives starting to smirk already. "This Vogelsang clown has finally...

I am writing in response to the ludicrous letter by Marlo Buddy (Sept. 28) requesting the Star to drop the issue of Martha Palmer. I must say I didn't realize business majors were being schooled in censorship, but with your management background, I'm...

I am currently enrolled in Linda Son's Math 101, and I have to admit—I thought it would be an easy A. Too bad, so sad, it's not that easy. It shocked me, and it obviously startled you, too. I realized that I had to study. Well guys, instead of choosing...

The question of people's voice in making decisions at NIU has come up once again. This time the question concerns members of the Campus Parking Committee. Chairman Robert Bornhuetter, Parking Manager Lynn Fraser and four NIU officials met absent the rest...

I've noticed an annoying trend in newpaper practices. It seems that popularity/opinion polls and questionnaires have become increasingly popular. You'll pardon my directness, but I find them terribly boring and, for the most part, irrelevant to someone...

On Sept. 29 I attended the Interfaith Celebration for Peace in the commons that was held as part of Unity in Diversity Week. The reason that I attended was to hear NIU's Black Choir. I had attended one of their performances last spring and was anxiously...

Cheers are in order for the League of Women Voters. Monday the group announced they would no longer sponsor presidential debates because the candidates gave the group no control over the format of the debate the league planned to pay for. Once again the...

I have been furiated (sic.) by the recent articles shown in the Star about the SA elections. These articles, instead of focusing on SA issues, are constantly putting down greek organizations and their members. I feel that it should be obvious that these...

I strongly object to the content and the tone of Jeff Vogelsang's Sept. 26 column. His version of the "reality of drug use" is a fantasy, and his solution to the drug problem does not work. Jeff mentions the "casual user" of drugs and asserts that they...