A human being never thinks she is right, she knows she is right. Northern Star journalists are, with rare exception, human beings, and they suffer from this shortfall. It is natural and forgivable. What is unforgivable is a journalist who fails to consider...

This is in reply to Mike Solley's column Oct. 26. Solley accused the John Lenon Society of being "a self-centered group of extremists motivated to scurrilous behavior by ignorance, hate, and a warped view of reality." Solley came to this conclusion as...

In Mike Lacy's column about the University Committee on the ROTC and Tom Rainey, a student who opposes the ROTC, Mr. Lacy describes Mr. Rainey's beliefs: "...that ROTC should (not) even exist" and "...that we don't need armies." I share these beliefs....

The NIU Graduate Council approved a plan Monday for English proficiency testing for foreign graduate students. The final form the proposal has taken should be acceptable to people on both sides of the issue. A great deal has been said about "kids who...

The members of the DeKalb Senior Centers' Legislative Committee urge you to vote "YES" on the social service advisory referendum appearing on the DeKalb Township ballot Tuesday, November 3rd. Passing the advisory referendum will not raise your taxes....

Student apathy. In the three years I've been attending NIU I have heard people accuse students of being apathetic many times. NIU students are supposedly only "suitcase students," preferring to live out of their cars and only sleep on campus. Only recently,...

The NIU Athletic Department might have taken the turn last week that will point it in the direction of the light at the end of the tunnel. At a Thursday press conference, NIU President John LaTourette named Gerald O'Dell to the department's athletic director...

In regards to Nora Schattke's letter from Oct. 19 concerning the problem of "promoted" racism at NIU I would like to say I couldn't have said it better myself. I see no reason for any group which exercises segregation practices of any kind to be allowed...

In his Oct. 22 column regarding the Day of Action, Mike Lacy went on for 70 lines to insult a group of NIU students. I do not personally subscribe to many of the "hard-core liberals" points-of-view. I, as Mike Lacy, regard myelf as a fairly realistic...

I have worked on the NIU campus some 26 years. Many, many times during the past I have been tempted to write the Northern Star to express my displeasure with some facet of the operation. I have never done so. I am writing now, not to criticize, but to...

This is in answer to Gretchyn Lenger's column about "Thunderbolt." I would respectfully like to thank you for sharing your opinion. However, I strongly disagree with your views. It's true first amendment rights are an integral part of this country's belief...

special education When I found out that I was coming to America from El Salvador, the image that I had of Americans became meaningful to me. We Latin Americans think that North Americans are completely different from us. We think that people in the U.S....