The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Costa Rican President Oscar Arias evokes the ultimate nightmare the Reagan regime dreads—the break-out of peace in Central America. The argument against the peace plan is that it can not succeed. Yet, if it's...

Chlamydia is: (a) a flower; (b) a spermicidal agent used in condoms; (c) the most common sexually transmitted disease; (d) a recent heavy loser in the stock market. Those who correctly answered (c) know more about chlamydia than the majority of the population....

I would like to respond to Mr. Nolan's letter from the Oct. 22 Northern Star. Evidently he felt that the Gay/Lesbian Union's participation in Unity Through Diversity Week was a disservice to the community. I feel Mr. Nolan, despite his assertations, lost...

Imagine how the public would react if it was discovered we were printing The Northern Star from the basement of J.P. Hannigans. We would be working there because they would serve us beer and pizza while we produced the paper. There would be uproar, even...

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...

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...

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,...