The film Freedom Writers, directed by Richard LaGravenese, is based on the true story of teacher Erin Gruwell, whose book, The Freedom Writer’s Diaries: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them, garnered national attention. Erin Gruwell, played by Hilary Swank, is […]

Dorm Rooms to Boardrooms by Victoria Pilate is all about life after college. The first chapters go into the job search, the necessary resume-building and job fairs or mixers. There are great tips on making an early start during college. There are also little stories about people who were surveyed […]

The year is 2027 and the world is grieving because the youngest person on earth just died at the age of 18 years and 6 months. A death of a young person is tragic, but what makes this one so heartbreaking is it was the last birth the world has […]

Warner Bros. Records, in association with producer Tedd T. and his independent label Teleprompt, now brings the public four fresh new faces in the alternative rock scene: guitarist Greg Hill, Roy Mitchell-Cardenas on bass, drummer Darren King, and Paul Meany on vocals, naming themselves MuteMath. According to written sources from […]

Cooking Mama, available for the Nintendo DS, is one of the best and cheapest games released this season and a definite must-buy for anyone with the system. The game, which falls in part-cooking simulation and part-short minigames, is another risk by Nintendo to when it comes to games. It offers […]

You probably haven’t heard of Mike Judge’s new movie, Idiocracy. The director of the cult classic Office Space received no help from 20th Century Fox in promoting this movie. It doesn’t even have a trailer or movie poster associated with it and was released quietly to a few select theaters […]

YouTube killed the video that killed the radio star. A few weeks ago, I sat in my friend’s basement on a futon that had three legs and a stack of moldy books holding it up. “You’ve gotta see this,” she said with a smirk, and whipped out a laptop that […]

A mere seven years into the new millennium, President Steinberg decided to organize the Presidential Task Force on the Millennium Student. The task force is charged with finding the “best practices and action steps … [for] overall excellence across the University,” according to an announcement for the task force’s kick-off […]

When Antonio Champion and Desiree Borishade were elected as SGA senators in spring 2006, one of the ideas they ran on was to reevaluate the English Competency Exam (ECE), which is a baccalaureate degree requirement. Unfortunately, both resigned not long after being sworn in. Certainly it’s important for NEIU students […]

#8220;Rendition,” a practice of the CIA, is when a captured terrorist suspect is sent to other countries for interrogation.  As reported by David Ignatius in the Washington Post, the reason for this practice is that the nations these suspects are sent to have torture as a readily available option. A […]