As the Brown Line beautification project progresses and cold weather draws near, many students who depend on the brown line (most notably the Kimball stop) to get to and from school may have begun to realize that unless the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) does something, it will be a very […]

Twenty-six student clubs have been deactivated until next January, according to an e-mail sent to all university club presidents and vice presidents from Director of Student Activities Sharron Evans. The deactivation came from club officers’ failure to attend a workshop on Sept. 20 and 21 from 1:40 to 3:00 p.m, […]

Students from NEIU’s Muslim community and members of the Jewish campus group Hillel gathered on Thursday, Sept. 25 to continue a dialogue between the groups that has been ongoing since the summer. Members of both Hillel and the Muslim Student Association have been discussing world political events as well as […]

The challenge is over, the survivors have been named. Over the last two weeks, the Student Activities Office, in conjunction with the Office of Student Affairs, has run their Survivor Challenge workshops. Eight workshops offered over a span of two weeks covered topics ranging from problem solving and interviewing skills […]

Amy Goodman, host of the nationally syndicated radio show Democracy Now! spoke at Northwestern University on Sept. 20. This was a part of her “Breaking the Sound Barrier Tour,” promoting a new book that she wrote along with brother David Goodman, which is entitled Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders and […]

Dr. Conrad Worrill, director of the Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies (CCICS), recently attended a conference of U.S. and Cuban leaders, including Cuban President Fidel Castro and U.S. Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan, to discuss disaster relief and the U.S. government’s poor response to Hurricane Katrina. The […]

Earlier this year, Congressman Charles Rangel, a Democrat from New York, proposed a bill that makes the typical fears about military drafts pale in comparison.  The bill proposes that all civilians should be required to serve two years of civil service for the United States government.  Those drafted for civil […]

Daniela Truty knows what it means to be politically savvy, sharing her insight with students during a workshop entitled “Political Savvy in the Workplace.” The session was part of the annual Survivor Challenge Workshops hosted by the student activities office. Truty, undergraduate advisor and faculty member of the educational leadership […]

The NEIU Image Art Club wants to be seen. Rather than being relegated to the confines of the classroom, they are determined to find a way for the university’s students to show the fruits of their labors beyond a meager allotment of wall space in the Fine Arts building. During […]

About one in every six students that enter the halls of NEIU as a freshman graduates within six years. Two summers ago, the Chicago Tribune published data from a study of Chicago Public School students who went off to college that showed that graduation rates lower than 20 percent were […]