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Criminal justice reform continues to be a contested issue in the wake of officer Derek Chauvin’s trial following Daunte Wright’s fatal shooting in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. Despite these repeated calls for reform, only 46% of Americans think the issue is of top priority, according to a Pew Research Study poll, and only 2% find it to be the most important non-economic problem facing the U.S., according to a Gallup poll.
In the midst of this public debate, The Northern Star Editorial Board urges everyone to understand and exercise their rights while interacting with law enforcement.
Understanding and exercising your rights is not only a way to protect yourself, but also a way to hold officials sworn to protect us accountable for their actions while in uniform. The Editorial Board believes these specific rights are important to understand and exercise while interacting with law enforcement.
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The termination of spring break, in exchange for two days off, was not an entire student body decision and has driven students to a new level of burnout out this semester. The Northern Star Editorial Board believes the university needs to incorporate student opinion more in actions that directly affect them, starting with allowing students to choose unsatisfactory/satisfactory or the regular grading system to appear on their transcript this semester.
The Faculty Senate discussed the unsatisfactory/satisfactory system at a meeting on March 24 and was torn on whether to use the unsatisfactory/satisfactory grading system or not, according to a March 25 Northern Star article.
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On March 9, 2020, the world as we knew it stopped. This was the date that some say was the official start of the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine. As college students, we have a very unique perspective that no other age group has. We are coming into our own during this time where the world is paused. The Northern Star Editorial Board members would like to reflect on what we have lost this last year and how this time has truly changed our lives.
Haley Galvin | Editor in Chief
If you would have told me when I left for spring break last year I was never coming back to campus, I would have laughed at you. But here we are, my senior year at NIU and I can say I will never get to see those halls and be a true college student again, and I haven’t been for a year. This past year has changed me in many ways, and the COVID-19 pandemic has amplified that change in every way.