Only days before the Nov. 7 midterm elections, Reverend Ted Haggard, president of the National Association of Evangelicals, resigned amid allegations of paying a male prostitute for sex and drugs. The high-profile evangelical Christian leader became head of the 30 million-member organization in March of 2003. Later that year, he […]

The powerful voice of student Gerald Chaney belting out the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” greeted students who attended the first-ever Veterans Day Concert at NEIU on Monday Nov. 13 in the Auditorium. The concert was sponsored by the Student Government Association (SGA) and was the result of a collaboration […]

During the “Dialogue under Occupation” conference that NEIU from Nov. 7 to 11, Christine De Matos was the only speaker to address how “in some ways, Japan is still occupied.” De Matos, who came from the University of Wollongong in Australia, engaged the audience in a discussion on gender roles […]

Sometimes, there is no going H.O.M.E. The anti-gay organization Heterosexuals Organized for a Moral Environment has come to NEIU on and off since at least 1994. Most of the time, they were either ignored or protested. That all changed in fall of 2003 when a large protest broke out, and […]

As to his professional relationship with NEIU prior to his appointment to the Board of Trustees on Nov. 16, Carlos Azcoitia said “I’ve had none whatsoever. This is my first meeting.” At that first meeting, Azcoitia abstained from voting to confirm the new university presidential appointee Sharon Hahs, saying “I […]

The university has proposed tuition rates for the 2007-08 school year that would include a 14.7 percent increase for continuing students enrolled before fall 2004. The proposed tuition hike comes one year after increasing tuition 7.9 percent for continuing students and 9.4 percent for incoming students. For the incoming freshman […]

#8220;Keep the symmetrical power between minority and majority, even if it means sacrificing equality in numbers,” Professor Ilham Nasser, Ph.D., told her audience at the panel discussion, “Social Justice and Peace Education.” Nasser studied a school in village called Neve Shalom/Wahat Al Salam (NSWAS) in Israel, a place where Jews […]

Leticia Hill and her 15-month-old child sat in the back of the classroom. The child became restless and began to cry softly. The professor stopped her lecture and asked if everything was all right. Leticia apologized and said she was on a waiting list for the campus Child Care Center […]

The votes are in: the Democrats hold the power in the House and the Senate. History is the only thing in the way of the Democrats to see if the election has done anything for America. “This election was a good day for democracy,” said Assistant Professor of Political Science […]

I was picking up the typical bread, milk and eggs recently at my local Jewel store when I noticed a new addition at the cash register. Next to the credit card reader was a little green box with a small pane of glass on it and a scanner underneath. The […]