Planning a class schedule is difficult for any student. Finding a way to balance the right amount of credit hours, class difficulty, and making sure it does not interfere with work or home life takes time and patience. Of course there are those classes that refuse to adhere to carefully […]

Campus map kiosks Four campus map kiosks will be installed on campus to help orient visitors. Kiosks will have an overhead canopy and will be located on walkways at the east and west pedestrian campus entrances. Construction began in Aug. 2007 and will be completed in Jan. 2008. -Compiled by […]

The primary season is well underway and the herd is being thinned by the voters and press; the voters are making their allegiances known at the polls, primaries and caucuses while the press is beginning to focus mainly on those candidates they feel have traction. On the Democratic side, three […]

Nonsmokers or general sadists hoping to find a contrasting voice here are going to be disappointed. Although I’m not putting it as elegantly or professionally as Kelly Lucia did, I agree with just about everything Lucia had to say. There is a disturbing trend in this country. On second thought, […]

I am by birth American. I can vote and I qualify for in-state tuition rates in my state of residence. However, the current controversies over immigration policies have made me curious about the process that has afforded me, and millions of other American-born children of immigrants, the privileges of citizenship. […]

La dolce vita is an Italian phrase that in translation means “the sweet life.” What exactly constitutes a “sweet” life? Is a sweet life a life led without hardships and excess amounts of wealth and fame? Is a sweet life, a life led with little material things but with the […]

In April of 2000, the South Carolina legislature voted to remove the rectangular Confederate battle flag from atop the Capitol in favor of flying a more traditional square battle flag. The newer battle flag flies on a pole in front of the Capitol in a memorial to fallen Confederate soldiers. […]

For students enrolled in 2004, the Truth in Tuition plan locked in their tuition for four years. On Feb. 7, approval of proposed tuition increases for the ’08-’09 school year goes before the Board of Trustees. Students who have not graduated yet face a proposed 25 percent increase in tuition. […]

It was the week before Christmas and all the smokers in Illinois were getting apprehensive about their upcoming exile from public places on New Years Day. I was at a well-known local blues bar enjoying some live music when the bar owner came up to the stage to introduce the […]

It isn’t enough that CTA passengers have had to hold their breath through the holidays. That’s on and off since Halloween, by the way, not just through December and the New Year. But maybe it is a good thing that their breath was held. As reported by Dana Kozlov for […]