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To better safeguard the privacy of everyone who visits campus,  NIU should implement sanitary disposal boxes or tiny waste bins in not just women’s bathrooms, but in all bathrooms, period.  Sanitary disposal boxes allow for people to discreetly and sanitarily dispose of period products from within the safe haven of a bathroom stall. Without these...

How do you know if you have full consent? Is it an STD or an STI? Could you really tell if you’re in a toxic relationship? If you graduated from a public school system, there’s a good chance you learned these answers outside of class.  Public schools are notorious for teaching abstinence-only sexual education. I...

Electric scooters should be the future of transportation around campus.

Unpopular Opinion: Kanye West’s Stem Player is Genius Protesting When the Chicago native announced his upcoming album, Donda 2, would only be available via the Stem Player, an in-house proprietary gadget which works as an MP3 player, people took to social media with turbulent opinions. However, Kanye’s reasoning isn’t as ridiculous as it seems at...

Limiting a health-conscious student to a salad bar some days is cruel and unusual.

There’s concern about the process City of Fairbanks Mayor Jim Matherly used to review applicants vying to be the city’s next police chief. During a city council meeting last night, there were public comments critical of a process that screened out some applicants prior to the interview stage. Mayor Matherly explained a step in the process, in which Juneau Police Chief Ed Mercer and consultant Greg Russel screened applications.   "They reviewed the 18 applications we got. We got 18 of them,...

During the forum, which was broadcast online by the city of Fairbanks, the five candidates each answered three questions and gave a brief statement about what they hoped to bring