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Northern Star

The Student News Site of Northern Illinois University

Northern Star

The Student News Site of Northern Illinois University

Northern Star

Students should show some courtesy when attending guest speakers

By Jim Lentz | September 26, 2011

Totally by chance, I had the pleasure of hearing the intervarsity sponsored guest speaker, Cliffe Knechtle,answer questions on Christianity outside the Holmes Student Center on September 23. It was annoying that certain students continued to interrupt...

Vaccines prove progress is making religion outdated

By Letter Writer | October 12, 2010

I was intrigued by Kathryn Minniti's article "Practicing Your Religion is a Right Until it Imposes on Another's Rights." To set the bar, I'm an atheist and here's my assertion: Anyone who identifies themselves as Christian, who also agrees with Kathryn's...

What’s terrorism, and how should the U.S. respond 9 years after 9/11?

By Adam Brown | September 12, 2010

Terrorism as a force, is an idea has existed in many forms for decades--or centuries--depending on how one looks at it. It has no nationality, ethnicity or race. There has existed church-sanctioned terrorism throughout the Middle Ages, Buddhist car bombers...

Weighing in on the Ground Zero mosque

Weighing in on the Ground Zero mosque

By Aaron Brooks, Phil Case, Matt Liparota, Logan Short, Taurean Small, and David Thomas | August 26, 2010

For the past couple of months, politicians, pundits, and ordinary citizens have weighed in on the Cordoba House, an Islamic community center (with a mosque) that would be built within two blocks of Ground Zero. As part of our new "In Focus" series, various...

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