Northeastern Illinois University is the recipient of the national 2007 “Outstanding Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) Member Institution Award.” According to its website (http://www.hacu.net), the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) was established in 1986 with a founding membership of eighteen institutions. Today, HACU represents more than […]
Month: November 2007
Lack of media diversity addressed at media ownership hearing
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) held its fifth official media ownership hearing on Thursday, September 20 at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition headquarters on the South Side of Chicago. The issue involves Big Media’s desire for the FCC to lift the restrictions on broadcast cross-ownership and allow one company to own […]
SGA and University stalemate
Members of the Student Government Association (SGA) met with Northeastern Illinois University President, Dr. Sharon K. Hahs, and top administrators on Tuesday, October 9, 2007, over lunch. The luncheon marked the “third or fourth” time President Hahs has met with the SGA during her tenure, and her first meeting since […]
Bernstein visits Nixon Library for first time
By Christopher GoffardLos Angeles Times YORBA LINDA, Calif. — In the official narrative of the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace, Carl Bernstein has long been one of the villains, a reporter whose name — along with that of former Washington Post colleague Bob Woodward — elicited special loathing. That sentiment […]
Jerry Seinfeld appeals to the hivemind
#8220;This is the moment in your life to do something crazy” was Jerry Seinfeld’s message to everyone in the screening room. During Seinfeld’s recent Chicago visit to promote his new film, he suggested that every college student make a list of the top seven things that they really want to […]
‘The Cook’ sizzles
Under the direction of Henry Godinez, the cast of The Cook takes the audience on a rollercoaster of joy and sorrow, love and hate, strength and weakness. Tender moments are interspersed with periods of rage; and the actors portray these emotions believably with a touch of humor thrown in to […]
On your marks…
November, the season of politicians to begin campaigns for reelection or for higher office. It’s also a time where change can be anticipated, even when there isn’t an election to be had. Change and diversity are the usual motives behind politics these days but when are these ideas not enough? […]
Mail Bag
The undersigned members of the English department regret that Professor Harry White, in a recent issue of The Independent, resorted to airing his scholarly and pedagogical differences with his colleagues in a public manner, expressing them in the forms of insult and personal animosity rather than in the spirit of academic argument […]
Police Misconduct
Most police officers are honest, hard-working public servants who serve their communities they are charged with protecting with honor and distinction; yet a seemingly growing number of what are sometimes called “rogue cops,” appear to be exempt from the very justice they’ve sworn to uphold. A recent joint investigation by […]
Chicago: A city of big shoulders?
Chicago is a glowing metropolis built on the dreams and shoulders of working class citizens. The essence of the city, photographed in glossy travel magazines with the Sears Tower in its skyline, is not the same city known to the homeless elderly man living on Wacker Drive. The city that […]