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...

I am writing in favor of the towing companies. I'm tired of hearing everyone bad-mouth them when all they are trying to do is their job. They are hired to do a job for someone, and they do it. I'm not saying I wouldn't be upset if my car got towed, but...

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...

The College Republicans of Northern Illinois University support and encourage the investigation by university officials of the recent distribution of racist material in the Greek Row area. Presumably because of their traditionally moderate to conservative...

I remember Jim Fabris. I never knew him personally, but I admired him. While I was publicly silent about my political views, he was out protesting, forming organizations and trying to bring about change in a world full of injustice. But I read a letter...

Mike Lacy's use of Rhonda Silverstein (Thurs., 9/17) as an example of a "pathetic" and "deplorable" person, who does not take advantage of the opportunities afforded to us as Americans, was very inappropriate. I know Ms. Silverstein is very active both...

In barely more time than elapsed between the first press reports of Gary Hart's indiscretions and his forced withdrawal from the Democratic presidential race, Deleware Senator Joe Biden has gone from serious contender to shocked victim—done in by news...

As the last strains of "no tuition increase" echo throughout campus—for the time being anyway—faint whispers of "fee increase" have risen to take their place. Fee increases are nothing new. They take place every year and are generally accepted as...

The battle lines over the confirmation of Judge Bork are drawn more sharply and bitterly than is usual because the future of some large and weighty constitutional rights is deeply in doubt. Bork's defenders—and the judge himself—cast the nominee as...