FIX THE HEADS.

The Northern Star has been commenting on the latest change of plans from Northern Illinois University, which has in the past ten years gone from an era of downsizing to an era of enrollment expansion and Boise State envy.  Just don't answer nature's call ...

Improvements need to be made to buildings campus-wide, not just in those that house our most prestigious programs (or faculty and staff). The university can't expect to attract prestigious English, political science or communications faculty (or students) if they have to work and teach (and relieve themselves) in a building like Reavis.

We're not asking that every building on campus be as nice as the Engineering Building; that would be entirely unrealistic. But asking that bathrooms be made sanitary or ensuring professors don't need to worry if their books and papers will be ruined by a leaky ceiling, as in Zulauf, is not too much to ask.

NIU has more majors than merely business, engineering or law - many more, in fact. But the learning environment for the varied academic pursuits at this university are not always equal.

Perhaps that's the real reason behind the push for online enrollments ... in addition to supplying our own dry erase markers and computers, faculty and students will be supplying their own sanitary pots.