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...

Sunday, to me, has served as the height of excitement in my lifetime. Mike Ditka took his Bears into Philadelphia and beat on Buddy Ryan's Eagles. How sweet it was. Or at least it would have been—if the real Bears had faced the real Eagles. Unfortunately,...

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...

What would you be doing right now if you knew you were going to die tomorrow? Haven't you asked yourself that many times? What if you knew your best friend was going to die? Morbid thoughts, yes, but the possibilities became a reality early Sunday morning....

Unity through Diversity week is underway at last! Now everyone has a chance to engage in public hand-wringing and breast-beating over issues of racism. Step right up and genuflect at the altar of cultural pluralism. If you do not, you must be one of those...

Now that it seems certain of at least a treaty being signed eliminating medium-range missiles in Europe, the Reagan administration's policy towards nuclear arms control should be commended. President Reagan has followed and succeeded in the only course...

Glancing through the newspaper the other day, I came across an ad for a new movie entitled "Like Father, Like Son." The premise of the movie is that a father and son (Dudley Moore and Kirk Cameron) switch places with each other—literally—in mind and...

A new Illinois law requires a minimum three-year drivers license suspension for anyone convicted of drunk driving twice in a 20-year period. Rep. John Countryman, R-DeKalb, praised the new law as "One of the best drunk driving packages we've ever come...

Dave Duschene's 9/23 column claimed that sitting back and calmly accepting a $150 tuition increase was a practical way of dealing with the realities of life. I say bunk. It is possible that Dave can sit back and pay the $150 increase, but I cannot. It's...

Pro football is shut down, which it should be until baseball reaches its October apogee. Football owners, with time on their hands, should note that the national pastime has vindicated the national premise: Freedom works. Football's controversy concerns...