Local Chicago artist Claire Ashley has an ongoing art exhibit at NEIU’s Fine Arts Center Gallery, through March 28. Currently, Ashley teaches first year art students at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, while balancing both her family and artistic life. And while she makes Chicago her home, her […]

Tom Dalof, 26, was starting his spring break just like all Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) students. He was out with friends on the night of Friday, March 14, when his school break ended abruptly and tragically. He was killed by a hit and run driver. Dalof was a business major […]

As of late, I’ve developed an overwhelming frustration with humanity as a whole. I’ve even developed an aversion to any type of media: the loss of what could have been one of our generation’s greatest talents (Heath Ledger) riddled by scandal in the media before his corpse was cold, and […]

I-Robot, Minority Report, Back to the Future and even the 90s Stallone flick Demolition Man had something in common, besides being bad movies: they featured futuristic-style cars. In spite of the promise of cars that fly and that do not require a driver, car companies have not developed this type […]

Professor Thomas Joseph Hoberg of the English department simply prefers to be called Tom. A native Chicagoan, Tom maintains an earnest open-door policy with the diverse people that make up the NEUI. “I really enjoy the fact that there are a variety of people from different ethnic backgrounds and ages, […]

The Spring II group exercise schedule is now available. NEIU Campus Recreation has posted the new classes scheduled for Feb. 25 through May 1. Group exercise classes include Spin, Hard Core Abs, muscle sculpting and conditioning, and several cardio-dance sessions. They all promise to get your heart pumping and make […]

Brainy British comedian Eddie Izzard, in his show Dress to Kill, expresses my gun control sentiments exactly: “The National Rifle Association says that ‘Guns don’t kill people, people do.’ But I think, I think the gun helps, ya know? I think it helps. I just think that just standing there […]

Maria Bevacqua, Assistant Professor for the Department of Women’s Studies at Minnesota State University, states in her definition of “rape culture,” that “images of rape and other forms of violence against women abound” in our culture, and that “images of sex and violence are intertwined.” Bevacqua argues that our culture […]

Combine Jack Ass: The Movie and the show Nature and you might think, “This is stupid,” but it works out to be hilarious. The new lowbrow humor flick from Happy Madison Productions, Strange Wilderness, encompasses the whole, so-wrong-it’s-so-funny” type of filmmaking. Steve Zahn plays the son of a beloved nature […]

Multiple students’ safety was threatened on their way to the cafeteria on Tuesday, Feb. 26. On the stairs leading to the Peace Garden, one student slipped and another fell on the ice and snow that accumulated Monday night and that day. Ryan Trauger, the student who fell, said that he […]