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Northern Star

WKDI requires student support

April 6, 1987

WKDI is presently heard on 93.5 FM through cable transmission. Due to this type of broadcast, WKDI is severely limited in listenership. Currently we reach only about 1,000 students at NIU daily. It is obvious that this system restricts growth of college...

Work on parking

April 6, 1987

The NIU Parking Division is an absolute disgrace. How much clearer can we students make it? There is in no way enough parking spaces available to students to handle the large amount of student-owned vehicles on this campus. So, in turn, when a student...

Clarifies position

April 6, 1987

I'd like to respond to your March 24 editorial regarding my involvement in WKDI FM's proposed conversion to a regular FM frequency. What you failed to mention in your editorial is the projected start-up cost of $180,000 which would be required to bring...

Whose walkway?

April 5, 1987

How many of you out there have found yourselves in a similar situation? As you're walking down one of the sidewalks at NIU, you suddenly hear the hum of a motor directly behind you, and when you turn around, there is an NIU van or pick-up truck behind...

Badly timed ‘slam’

April 5, 1987

This is probably just one of many replies to Debra Fleischman's April 2 descriptive commentary on sorority girls. (Normally, I would not waste my time on something this trivial, but I decided to cast aside my lip gloss for this one.) Being a greek, I...

Implication unfair

April 3, 1987

Dave Duschene, in his March 31 column, alluded to Brigham Young University, and thereby the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, being involved in what has been called "Pearlygate." Those who have followed the controversy know that this is not...

Limited support

April 3, 1987

I was personally offended by Jim Becofske's letter of March 20. In the letter, he implies that there is some correlation between holding so-called liberal beliefs and taking drugs. He also equates liberalism with being closed-minded. In my experience,...

Yearbook facts

April 2, 1987

Recently there have been several responses published about using activity fees to support the yearbook. I believe it is important to clear up some misconceptions regarding this issue. In the past, student activity dollars were used to publish the yearbook;...

Politics not involved

April 2, 1987

I am writing to express my extreme outrage at the way certain campus organizations used the anti-racism, anti-discrimination rally held on March 5 to further their own self-centered political views. Racism isn't a political issue caused by politicians...

Try using dictionary

April 2, 1987

Larry Arnhart's letter of March 17 proves that one shouldn't talk about a subject he or she knows little about. Arnhart says that "female" suggests an appendage of a male. The Oxford English Dictionary (long considered the "Bible" of the English language)...

Must find own meaning

April 2, 1987

I would like to commend Laurie Johnson for a well-written column on suicide in the March 25 issue of The Northern Star. Although I can understand the majority of her views, there is one particular statement that troubles me. She states, "The need to talk,...

Seeking true unity

April 2, 1987

One thing that has bothered me for a long time is that there is a black Greek system and a white Greek system. I am not a member of a fraternity or sorority, but I am a member of the University community, and we all affect each other whether or not we...