Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan welcomed attendees of a Campus Safety Summit in the Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) Alumni Hall on Dec. 13, 2007. The summit, which was quietly organized and held with no PR preamble to the student press, was kicked off by Madigan at 9 a.m. who led […]

NEIU’s Theatre Department brings a couple of short plays: Joe & Stew’s Theatre of Brotherly Love & Financial Success by Jacquelyn Reingold and Oedi by Rich Orloff, to The Studio Series at 1:40 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 5 and 7 Series in room F-109. Joe & Stew’s Theatre […]

The mission of Adult & Women Student Programs (AWSP) is top promote the unrestricted access and active involvement of the adult learners and women students in all aspects of the NEIU student experience. As a resource action center, AWSP responds to their unique and varied needs at our culturally diverse, […]

Facebook has once again incited a mass user protest. The first mass protest was for the use of the News Feed feature that was introduced in 2006. More than 700,000 users protested their activities being broadcasted to their friends’ pages. The issue this time is the same as the last […]

Due to insufficient state funding, the CTA will be forced to raise fares and cut back services on Jan. 20, 2008. CTA plans to discontinue 81 of its 154 bus routes; lay off more than 2,400 employees; and increase fares by about 35%. Also, due to the service cutbacks, 700 […]

There is just no getting around it. I am a big man. I’m too big. I haven’t always been this way. I started on the road to obesity while quitting smoking five years ago. Then I was a slip of a lad at a mere 200 pounds, but juggernauted toward […]

When looking for a good topic to cover for this first article I came across the definition of a soldier on an online dictionary. The word “Soldier” had ten different sub-definitions; the first three and the last two sub-definitions talk about military personnel. The middle five definitions deal with ants, […]

The beginning of a new semester can be dreadful experience for Northeastern Illinois University students. The overdue release of book lists from the bookstore is not any consolation for students. Beck’s releases book lists for classes two weeks before classes begin. The sluggish turn around for the release of book […]

Let’s not mince words to open this up. The “war on terror” is a buzz topic that is largely ignored by the administration that started it unless there is a convenient time to bring it up. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, which are described to be a part of […]

People throughout Pakistan mourned the loss of Benazir Bhutto, the opposition leader in Pakistan, after she was assassinated December 27, 2007. Her death marks a huge increase in violence in a nation where the pro-U.S. government is already in turmoil for having supported the United States in its War on […]