The Reagan Administration, which recently incited a violent demonstration in Nicaragua and then professed moral outrage when President Ortega reacted by expelling Ambassador Melton and tightening internal security, reminds me of the man who killed his...

Let me respond to your July 27 editorial, "The alderman who cried wolf." Be assured I'll keep that one in the scrap book. The issue before my fellow citizens if DeKalb is what type of government do they want? Do they want an open and honest government...

The Board of Regents' secret arrangement to give former NIU President Clyde Wingfield a one-year leave of absence with pay appears to be in violation of the Illinois Open Meetings Act. While it is up to the courts to decide whether the Regents' actions...

In a recent editorial, Sylvia Phillips spoke out against the use of animals in laboratory research. While I am troubled by the animal rights movement in general, I am particularly concerned when such anti-research views are expressed within what I would...

This is intolerable. I can't take this anymore. In my years here as a student at NIU I've read more crack pot hair brained letters in this paper than I can throw a stick at. Just last week Mr. Tom Rogers was kind enough to inform me that he and his associates...

I send this letter because I do not wish to be interviewed by any reporter of The Northern Star. This letter is in response to the article entitled "Dispute centers around Mitchell" of the Wed., July 20 edition of The Northern Star. I was not and I am...

The DeKalb County Special Education Association (DCSEA) recently awarded NIU their "Employer of the Year" award for participation in their student work release program. The four employers from NIU who received special recognition for their work were Gary...

NIU President John LaTourette called Kenneth Beasley, his assistant in governmental relations, "one of the country's leading experts" in the research field after he received an award for research service. Shirley Myers, administrator of Sponsored Projects...

Fulbright grant by Kristin Rachie Jon Dalton, NIU vice president for student affairs, recently took part in an exchange trip to West Germany as part of a grant from the German-American Fulbright Commission. As part of the grant, Dalton and 19 other higher...

This spring neither our legislature nor our governor saw fit to actively pursue a tax increase to support higher education as well as many other social services. Although the General Assembly granted us a budget that contained enough money for a 5.7 percent...

On June 16 an article appeared in the Chicago Tribune which quoted me as saying that the Regency Universities are "meat and potatoes schools (which) do a very good job at what they do." Understandably, this characterization has elicited a considerable...

If Gov. James Thompson gives the go ahead as pedicted, for the funding of a new reserach and development park, NIU just might find a silver lining in the state funding grey cloud. With the $1.2 million dollars the university is seeking from the state's...