Month: September 2007

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Touching technology

It seems anywhere one looks these days companies are touting their new touch screen technologies. Nintendo kick-started this touch revolution in 2004 with its Nintendo DS, a handheld portable game system that utilizes a touch screen as a means to control and interact with its games. It has proved to […]

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Pre-Law

Are you an NEIU student thinking about pursuing a career as an attorney at law? Do you want to learn the ins and outs of how to guide yourself towards law school, during and after Northeastern? Are you wondering how good of a student you have to be to attend […]

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Precious “Jewl Box” gem

Before beginning her performance last Saturday at NEIU’s recital hall, the Korean born pianist Soojin Ahn bowed humbly to the crowd. This acknowledgment of the audience was short lived, as she shifted her attention to the open Steinway grand and Hayden’s Sonata in E minor, Hoboken XVI: 34. The sounding […]

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Great theatre seats await

Muvico Theatres has been expanding beyond their Florida home base since the mid-Eighties and have now opened a location in the Rosemont Walk Entertainment District at 9650 Bryn Mawr Ave. This 18 screen state of the art facility sports 4K Sony Digital projectors and full Dolby Surround Sound with six […]

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Danger and comedy

The Edge Comedy Club in Chicago is brand new, having just opened earlier this month, and is owned by Dave Odd. Though the club is for all ages, it’s geared towards young adults and college students. It also contains a bar for your drinking pleasure. Before the show started, the […]

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Not too bad for a Nightmare

The Arctic Monkeys have done it again. Their 2007 release Favourite Worst Nightmare is out now under the Warner Brothers piggyback label Domino Recording Company. And as much as this is a very much commercial type of slick product, the music on this album does carry a few noteworthy elements-albeit […]

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Another nail in Blago’s coffin

Governor Blagojevich’s new state budget mandates a 30% cut in funding for the Illinois Arts Council. While this decrease of an already small pittance may prove devastating to a small, ever-dwindling number of grant recipients, the cut does not come as a surprise. Nor should it stand as a new […]

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Passive resistance, no taser required

On Monday, September 17, 2007 a University of Florida student named Andrew Meyer, age 21, barged to the front of a line of students waiting to ask questions to U.S. Senator John Kerry. He then proceeded to barrage Kerry with a flurry of questions before his microphone was cut off. […]

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SGA votes to boycott Sodexho

By the time this comes to press, the Student Government Association, (SGA) citing a lack of student particpation in administrative decisions is executing a boycott on food service provider Sodexho, the food services contractor for NEIU. The company sent a representative to the SGA’s last meeting on September 13 to […]

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Will things ever really change?

There are some parts of this country where tension between the races still exists-or at least they aren’t hidden. Places where, for the most part, white children will not play with black children, or vice versa. The small town of Jena, Louisiana is one example of a place in the […]