While the sidewalks would normally be busy with students lugging their packs around, either getting ready to turn this week’s term paper or getting ready for midterms, today was not business as usual. Today, the streets are filled with news vans and journalists across the country to get the story […]

Shortly before his oceanography class let out, geography student George Gaynor, 23, leapt out of the room as the gunman opened fire. Gaynor was sitting in the back of the lecture hall, closest to the door. “I never ran so fast in my life,” said Gaynor, as he recounted leaving […]

Professor Timothy Libretti has been teaching at NEIU since January 1996. He was originally hired as a part-time instructor and in the fall of 1996 became a full-time instructor of American literature. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, which he described as an “extraordinary […]

The NEIU Student Health Service Office wants you to love your body and get tested for sexually transmitted diseases. Focusing on sexual health this month, the Student Health Service Office co-sponsors the Love Your Body seminar on Feb. 19 at 1:40 p.m. in room FA203. The Student Health Service Office […]

#8220;Mom, that was freaking awesome!” So said my son after I took him to see Blue Man Group for his 20th birthday. I was amazed to find that the concept of the group is older than him. Three friends, Matt Goldman, Phil Stanton and Christ Wink, came up with a […]

When music is created from experience and the heart, it becomes something soft and touching, such as Missy Higgins’ On a Clear Night. Her clear and residual voice relays an emotional journey through heartache and maturing. At age 23, the Melbourne-born Higgins is full of energy and self-motivation. As a […]

Surfing the internet, I suddenly heard loud cursing coming from the dorm across from me. It was one of my suitemates yelling at something called a Bonerdagon. This was my first encounter with Kingdom of Loathing. Kingdom of Loathing (www.kingdomofloathing.com), or KOL as most users like to call it, is […]

The year is roughly 1600. The place is Rome. These were not the most peaceful times in human history, and the art world was not exempt from this experience. Titania Produzioni/RAI Fiction and RAI Trade bring us the biopic Caravaggio about the Baroque-era Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi, better known as […]

On Fri. Jan. 25, NEIU’s Student Government Association (SGA) conducted a Mardi Gras-themed back to school party, to kick off the spring 2008 semester. The Physical Education Complex’s main gymnasium closed at 4 p.m. in order for SGA members to embellish the facility with bright gold, green and purple party […]

After the tragedy at our sister school, and with the first anniversary of the Virginia Tech shootings only two months away, questions arise concerning campus safety at home. The shootings at Northern Illinois University (NIU) in DeKalb left six people dead, including the shooter, and several others injured. At a […]