Recently, the U.K. proposed laws that would strictly regulate social media content. The Northern Star Editorial Board asserts that while hate has no place on social media, restricting the capacity of social media is not the solution.A proposal for a set...
Hate flyers, stickers and posters have been spotted around campus.Acting President Lisa Freeman condemned the postings and said the message being distributed does not align with the university's mission of diversity and equality, according to a March...
In my last letter to the editor on March 27, I expressed the opinion that NIU is a broken institution. I made my points in economic terms because that seems to be the only thing that the people in charge pay attention to these days. That’s the real...
Our government is broken. Whether it is the local, state or federal government, it never can seem to get anything done. We have an ever increasing amount of debt, another potential government shutdown on the way and presidential campaigns that last forever,...
A century-old battle has been fought over the concept of "corporate personhood," a political construction that grants corporations the same rights afforded to human beings. On its face, corporate personhood is a matter of logistics--corporations are...
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...
