On behalf of the Unity Through Diversity Week Essay Contest Committee, I wish to thank the following persons and local businesses for lending their support: Conrad Hallgren, Richard Willey, Jeff Fender and Wenke Hansen. Additionally, a debt of gratitude...

Unity Through Diversity Week is fading fast in the minds and memories of some people on the NIU campus. The spirit of community that created the week is getting lost in the "poor me" attitudes of people who obviously totally missed the point. Unity Through...

There are some who need a cause, or should I say, a controversy with which to surround themselves. Thank you, Larry Robertson, for bringing the "Thunderbolt" publication to our attention. As you stated, it is your job to bring the concerns of minority...

Illinois has one of the toughest anti-drunk driving laws in our nation. The intent of the Illinois DUI law is to prevent people from driving when they've been drinking, and from drinking when they're going to be driving. Any driver who, having been arrested...

As the mother of a 6-year-old physically handicapped daughter, I know these barriers to be very real. Lack of ramps, curbs that are too high, broken sidewalks and lack of elevator accessibility are a few. There is no excuse that so much of the world is...

Florida has a new gun law. Anyone who's not a convicted felon or "incapacitated" can acquire a concealed weapons permit. A provision prohibiting the carrying of weapons in plain view was left out of the new law, supposedly as an "oversight." Change does...

Talking. We do it everyday. Some of us are quite good at it. We talk with friends, teachers, parents, landlords, grocery store clerks. We talk about plans, careers, hopes, fears, sports, sex. Well, maybe not so much about sex. Sex is a topic most of us...

The classroom is quiet but for the rustle of paper. Every student is intent on his own work, scarcely even aware of the competitors in the room. The brighter students are writing rapidly while their slower counterparts are somewhat more plodding, but...

I'm writing this letter to thank the person who defaced a College Republican's flyer. Your actions clearly showed how hypocritical the left is on campus. The left claims to support all students' rights, yet they attempt to prevent an organization with...

In the Sept. 29 issue of the Northern Star, Jim Fabris is quoted as saying the attendance at the rally of Sept. 28 was lower than the attendance at the rally of March 5 because "there aren't any television cameras." This statement is nothing more than...

The Sept. 1, edition of the Northern Star contained a column by Jeff Kirik entitled, "1987-88 might be another year of question marks for Huskie athletic department under reconstruction." In the article, Mr. Kirik commented on the work of the committees...

After reading a great deal of print about the need to stamp out racism, I felt the need to put forward my own views on what basis it should be done. As I see it, there are two types of racism, institutional and individual. Great strides have been made...