I've had the opportunity to work with Paula Radtke this past year as a friend and fellow SA executive staff member. She has worked unceasingly for the interests of students in many areas this year, specifically on the issue of higher education funding....

What effect does a new tower at the Holmes Student Center have on NIU? Is it supposed to impress the students and faculty or give some modern prestige to the campus? The school was courteous enough to ask us to vote on which tower design we liked best...

A debate Wednesday at 9 p.m. will feature the presidents of NIU College Republicans and Young Democrats who will discuss U.S. involvement in Honduras, the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty, the government's role in supplying and financing education...

Remember to vote today in the Student Association executive elections, if you didn't yesterday. There is some validity to the opinion that those who do not cast ballots have no right to cast stones when decisions are made that they disagree with. This...

It was encouraging to read Jim Wozniak's column about the athletic department. Finally, someone is willing to ask the right questions and bring some issues into the open. The athletic department has started a fund-raising campaign sloganed "Share the...

It has come to my attention some students believe that the current administration of the Student Association is filled with members who dress, act and look, not like the student body, but, the John Lennon Society. Fortunately, I believe my record of appointments...

NIU is confronted daily with different issues. Some of them require much thought and effort, such as academic programs, security policies in the bookstore and tuition increases. Others need little debate, such as which former bigwig deserves to have a...

Most people have experienced to some degree the frustration of being subjected to receiving reams of "junk mail." Everything from sweepstakes entries requiring a purchase to enter—and which no one ever seems to win—to offers of cheap life insurance...

You know, it's not too unusual, in this happy, congenial world we live in, for two columnists at the same newspaper to have completely and utterly dissimilar opinions on the same topic. Such is the case that I am hereby faced with. Last Wednesday, my...

Recently, NIU's Latino student movement was told that there was no precedent for their demand for 50 percent student representation on the search committee looking for a permanent director for the Center for Latino and Latin American Studies. I would...

In response to the letter from David Pierce and Margaret Price on March 1, 1988: we would like to know if your article was a joke. You complain about the high cost of tuition, yet you want "low-rise dorms with Spanish-style roofs." Are you on drugs? Who...

I do not believe that the SA executive debates were an "embarrassment" or a "night at the circus." One of the main issues at the debate was the lack of interest and attendance of the SA senators at meetings. I believe the main reason for this non-involvement...