Your editorial of July 1, 1987, makes a very valid point; that NIU needs additional funding if it is to take on major new obligations. That is obviously an even more compelling consideration as we confront funding levels this year which will be considerably...

I am writing in response to Michael Murvihill's letter to the Northern Star. I'd like to say bravo, Mike! What an original idea, attacking Democratic deficits. Sounds like the 1980 and 1984 Presidential campaigns. But what year is it now? Isn't it ironic...

At last month's rally against racism and general minority discrimination, I, along with several others, spoke out against the intimidation and persecution of the estimated 2,500 to 5,000 gay and bisexual students on this campus. Gay Awareness Week marked...

With the spring football game, jazz concert, Springfest and other such cherished rites of NIU come and gone, only the slight matter of final exams remains before the end of another academic year. This last column, therefore, undertakes to provide a few...

Most college students share the common fear of walking into a classroom with their zipper wide open and cole slaw hanging off their upper lip. Others actually have experienced such common nightmares. The fact is that all of us, no matter how "cool" we...

The Northern Star should be commended for its recent series on discrimination. One article within the series focuses on discrimination against disabled persons. It is within this article that I am presented as a member of the organization, Students for...

At the moment the serpent seduced Adam and Eve into their fall, man became capable of the greatest good and the greatest evil. With the knowledge went the capability, and since then man has demonstrated time and time again that it is more in his nature...

Students for Rehabilitation, an organization addressing educational and professional concerns in various rehabilitation fields, wishes to recognize The Northern Star for its efforts in publishing the recent article discussing discrimination and disability....

It's time for students to write to their representatives and encourage "yes" votes on Illinois House Bill 728, which would give limited voting rights to student members of the Board of Regents. Currently, student regents can make and second motions, sit...

Summer. It turns me upside down. Summer, summer, summer. It's like a married blow clown. Are those the words? I've never been sure. But then, I never know what to expect from anything associated with summer, that most glorious of seasons. Close your eyes...

It seems NIU never will escape the stigma created by Clyde Wingfield. It appears it might take twice as long for the former president to admit his wrongdoing. The Auditor General's forthcoming supplement to a recent report, which details misspending on...

NIU President John LaTourette would have gotten a big red ‘F' in a public relations course after the press conference he held this week. Why public figures at this university insist upon trying to cover up blatant wrongdoings of the past is beyond me....