At last month's rally against racism and general minority discrimination, I, along with several others, spoke out against the intimidation and persecution of the estimated 2,500 to 5,000 gay and bisexual students on this campus. Gay Awareness Week marked...

With the spring football game, jazz concert, Springfest and other such cherished rites of NIU come and gone, only the slight matter of final exams remains before the end of another academic year. This last column, therefore, undertakes to provide a few...

The Northern Star should be commended for its recent series on discrimination. One article within the series focuses on discrimination against disabled persons. It is within this article that I am presented as a member of the organization, Students for...

At the moment the serpent seduced Adam and Eve into their fall, man became capable of the greatest good and the greatest evil. With the knowledge went the capability, and since then man has demonstrated time and time again that it is more in his nature...

Students for Rehabilitation, an organization addressing educational and professional concerns in various rehabilitation fields, wishes to recognize The Northern Star for its efforts in publishing the recent article discussing discrimination and disability....

It's time for students to write to their representatives and encourage "yes" votes on Illinois House Bill 728, which would give limited voting rights to student members of the Board of Regents. Currently, student regents can make and second motions, sit...

Summer. It turns me upside down. Summer, summer, summer. It's like a married blow clown. Are those the words? I've never been sure. But then, I never know what to expect from anything associated with summer, that most glorious of seasons. Close your eyes...

It seems NIU never will escape the stigma created by Clyde Wingfield. It appears it might take twice as long for the former president to admit his wrongdoing. The Auditor General's forthcoming supplement to a recent report, which details misspending on...

Regarding Dave Duschene's column on the JLS and the draft, Mr. Duschene's belief that a foreign war should not be met with apprehension or fear by the young men of our country saddens my heart. If the presence of the resistance movement had not been so...

The trend in our society of late is to discuss everything. The liberal penchant for free discussion of any controversial and previously taboo subject has gone awry with the two most popular topics of the day: teen suicide and sex education. The old saying...

Well now In the early 1970s, students at Wayne State University and the University of Massachusetts (Boston) were questioned about suicide thoughts and suicide attempts. Of the 293 students surveyed, 65 percent indicated they had considered suicide on...