All of the scripted television shows are going to a little vacation spot called hiatus. No one should worry because there will still be plenty of reality shows and news programming to tide the audience over until the end of the writer’s strike. To be clear, it is not just […]

R.E.M. once swore to never make a live album. Yet on Oct. 16, R.E.M. LIVE came out as a 2 CD and 1 DVD package deal. It covers a two-day live set on Feb. 26 and 27, 2005 at The Point Depot in Dublin. Covering classic R.E.M. hits, the band […]

Mario is back and better than ever on the Nintendo Wii. Super Mario Galaxy never fails to live up to the legacy of the most-loved games in the series. Platformers had stagnated and all but died on the current generation consoles, but Super Mario Galaxy completely revitalizes the classic genre […]

Unlike most compilations, The Orange Box is mostly great games, and three of them are new. If there is one dud in the bunch, it is Team Fortress 2. There are only six maps and one game-type per map. It is also buggy and generally not that fun. Halo 3 […]

Avenged Sevenfold’s new self-titled album seems like it would have been a great album. Riding on the coat-tails of the successful release of their album City of Evil and the touring that followed, it just falls short of what the band’s potential was shown to be. Everything seems much more […]

Food, dances and fashions with a multicultural flair were the highlights as celebrated the 32md annual International Day festival. The international celebration was created so that the different cultures of NEIU could come together and display their native traditions. The October 15 event, held in Alumni Hall was sponsored by […]

In 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled their milestone decision in the landmark Brown v Board of Education of Topeka case: “Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” Fast-forward 53 years. Are educational institutions racially equal? Whether or not their “facilities” are fairly balanced is debatable; however, the question of whether […]

Halloween has come and gone. It will be another year before playing dress up would not look too weird. Dorothy of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, a witch, a satyr, and Venus, Medusa, Winnie the Pooh, a samurai, a Cabbage Patch Kid, a tavern wench, and Wedding Peach were present at […]

Illinois State Senator William Delgado met with students from Union for Puerto Rican Students (U.P.R.S.), Chimexla, Que Ondee Sola, and other organizations to discuss the possibility of having a Latino Cultural Center at NEIU. He is the co-chair of the Illinois Latino Legislative Caucus, which will be coming to campus […]

At the start of a new school year, we might remember that much was made of a 2006 Consortium on Chicago School Research report that fewer than 2 of every 10 students who enroll at Northeastern and Chicago State will graduate in six years. For example, this report led to […]