Last week I lamented the media's poor coverage of the Olympic games and the overkill of such mundane subjects as politics, but I've got to slightly renege on my complaint this week. Forget Greg Louganis, Seoul and the shotput...just for a while. The biggest...

Hats off to the 1988 NIU football team! They made history last Saturday in defeating UWM in Madison. When I first came to DeKalb in 1977, nobody believed NIU would ever be capable of beating a big 10 football team. Progress may have been slow, but we...

Try as you might, you can't legislate against idiocy and other mental deficiencies. But that's just what the gun-control lobbyists recently tried to do when they pushed for a mandatory nationwide one week waiting period between the time a firearm is purchased...

The Student Association Election Commission has not tallied the votes submitted in Tuesday's senate election, but will begin determining the results once polls close at 7 p.m. today. Students with an NIU identification and a fall semester schedule can...

If McPaper wasn't enough of a disgrace to the world of journalism, then McTV certainly is enough to push all media credibility over the brink. Catering to America's get-it-to-me-as-fast-as-you-can attitude, some bright spark came up with the idea to push...

We recently made the sad mistake of reading a copy of the three sheet newspaper "They said it couldn't be done", published by the Freak Power Caucus (FPC) and hand distributed in the Martin Luther King Commons on Sept. 12. We have never read a more pathetic...

A recent NIU study documents the incredible growth of admissions of older female students. While male on-campus enrollment fell 2.3 percent from fall 1978 to fall 1986, female enrollment went up 7.6 percent in the same period. "Most of this rise in females...

Last weekend I finally escaped from the walls of the newsroom long enough to actually forget the daily spazzing out, yelling, deadlines and seemingly endless nights of double vision from computer-terminal burnout. But taking my mind off of work was not...

It came...it went...and much to the relief of many self-respecting human beings, it passed largely unnoticed—at least by most people on this campus. What I'm talking about is that dreaded annual event in which droves of Barbie Doll clones prance about...

It is my personal belief that the educational atmosphere of a university is greatly inhanced when that university has a school newspaper which takes the time to reflect the opinions, concerns and emotions of the student body, as well as the faculty. This...

Compliments to Gerald O'Dell and his staff on the exciting environment they provided at the first two football games. It was organized, festive, and "Tent-A-Gate" is a wonderful idea. My compliments to the student body for turning out for the MTSU game;...

Speaking from the bar In response to the many questions the office receives this time of year reguarding security deposits, portions of three relevant laws are set forth below; If this is not an issue at present, you might consider clipping out this column...