Month: April 2007

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The freeing of souls

Should a slight breeze have slid past the doors of El Centro’s reception lobby, it would have glided past the doors and fluttered the T-Shirts hanging near the offices, releasing the tension of the usually still fabric…perhaps drowning the evil that has been sketched and painted upon their cloth surfaces. […]

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Ten ways to graduate on time

What does every student at NEIU have in common? They all want to graduate. It is well known that Northeastern has a low graduation rate, so how are students ever to get out of here? There are a few things that might help expedite the process. Go see your advisor […]

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Plight of Burma front and center

#8220;They would come up to me on the street and whisper, ‘tell the truth.’ In a career filled with encounters with war, violence and bloodshed across the globe, American journalist and author Barbara Victor spoke from experience about the fear and repression she saw in her visit to Burma. Burma […]

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First annual conference on creative methods to live

If you’re in a slump, writers block or just feeling flat, be creative. This was the overriding theme at the “Creativity Conference” sponsored by the Honors Program and Honors Society, and organized by Dana Cooley. This three-day conference focused primarily on creative methods to “stoke or spark one’s creative fire, […]

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Hahs’ first show at Board of Trustees

President Hahs attended her first Board of Trustees meeting since her election as university president last week. Hahs laid out some of her new initiates including a statement of values for the university and a set of peer institutions NEIU will use as bench marks to measure against. Other items […]

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Fiery SGA Debate Day focuses on speech

Free speech, access to classes and money were the overriding themes discussed in sometimes fierce and sometimes tepid debates for Student Government Association (SGA) elections held last week. Only a third of the candidates came out to “Debate day” April 5 in the cafeteria answering questions from the students written […]

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Larson and Barrios’ second day in court

Students, Matt Larson and Kenneth Barrios, appeared in court for a second time on March 28. Barrios’ charges were reduced to a “2A battery” a less severe charge of battery. In this procedural hearing the university offered to drop their charges of interfering with a public institution if Larson and […]

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Blagojevich reaches 2008 budget

The Governor’s office has released its Fiscal Year (FY) 2008 Budget and is well on the way to having it considered by the Illinois General Assembly. The General Assembly is set to vote on the budget in May. The process started in June 2006. FY 2008 starts July 1, 2007. […]

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Lending a hand after the storm

Instead of relaxing during spring break, a group of ten NEIU students helped victims of Hurricane Katrina rebuild their homes and their lives. “You don’t see it on the news now, how it really is down there,” says Politics Club President and trip organizer Jonathon Winkler, who led the group […]

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Liquid

Every other Friday night, at a nice little pub called the Green Door Tavern, you can catch a great improvisational group called Liquid. Liquid is a group of several improvers who do political and social satire. Improv is basically like watching a play that is made up on the spot, […]