While the Sept. 7 story in The Northern Star entitled "Instructor to take NIU to court" was correct in most parts of its reporting of my actions in response to the "REG" stamp fraud of spring semester, 1988, I would like to clarify several points. I never...

The Board of Regents consistantly have shown poor judgement in their choice for university presidents. The past two presidents for NIU have generated plenty of negative news for the university. And most recently, the president of Sangamon State University,...

The sound of a jazz big band—popular from the 1920's and 1930's, flows from a downtown DeKalb drinking establishment one night a week, providing the town and NIU students with the jazz sound that they cannot get anywhere else in the area. NIU Graduate...

Southern Illinois University was the first university in this country that brought college-level education to Illinois' inmates 34 years ago. And now SIU as well as NIU will not be renewing their contracts with the Department of Corrections because they...

NIU's Student Housing Authority deserves a pat on the back and at very least a thank-you from students living in Grant North, Stevenson South, Douglas Hall and now Neptune North residence halls for finding a way to give students something during a time...

Affirmative action, though once touted as the solution for all complaints of racism and discrimination, has not turned out as expected or even as hoped for those it was intended to benefit. Even as defined now in current dictionaries, affirmative action...

Ben Franklin once said that death and taxes are inevitable. But Mr. Franklin did not say it's inevitable that Illinois homeowners have to be taxed to death by our state's runaway tax system. That's why Illinois taxpayers need "Proposition 2", a constitutional...

For the second year in row, NIU has suffered the veto power of Gov. James Thompson. Last year, he slashed $53 million from higher education which resulted in a 4 percent cut for NIU and a $150 mid-year tuition increase. This year, the governor struck...

People like Michael Fortino are probably necessary, but it is necessary for him to be so depressing? Probably. He lives in Pittsburgh (which has suffered enough) and runs a consulting firm specializing in "priority time-management training," a new form...

All NIU faculty and staff, employed as of June 30 1987, received a 2.48 percent salary increase as a result of new pay rates approved by the Board of Regents this summer. For fiscal year 1989, faculty pay increases were distributed on a 25 percent basis...

While registering voters at a table in Holmes Student Center, I hear a lot of people asking quite a few questions about voting. Those questions include: "Why should I register and vote?" and "Why do I care who wins on Nov. 8?" I'd like to add a few questions...

Powell won't go away The other day I had a conversation with a fellow student, and it went something like this: He said, "Hey, what about this Mark Powell guy?" I replied, you mean DeKalb's 7th ward alderman. Yeah, what about him? "Well I heard he was...