Are you undecided and feel like choosing a major is a far more difficult than what you initially thought? Are you bombarded with student loans and don’t know when you’ll get out of debt? Is registering for classes each semester a splitting headache and a half? How can you […]

The Jacob H. Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies (CCICS) is located in the historic Bronzeville community at 700 East Oakwood Blvd. The center offers both a Bachelors and Masters of Arts in Inner City Studies. The program was originally designed to train teachers to communicate effectively with underprivileged minority […]

As part of the tenth annual South Asian Progressive Action Collective’s (SAPAC) month-long exhibit commemorating the Sept. 11 attacks, it held a performance entitled “Voices of Resistance: Revision” (VOR) on Oct. 15 at Marwen. Dr. Ahalya Satkunaratnam, NEIU professor of the Women’s Studies Program and Political Science, was one […]

When I first started at Northeastern, a little over two years ago, I was elated that there was a venue to publish some of my creative work. As a poet and essayist, I was looking for a place to display my art as well as gather with other students who […]

Yes it’s true, to my delight Independent is in the pink for breast cancer awareness month. The pink ribbon within our header is in celebration of the many battles won and the beautiful l lives lived in spite of this deadly disease. Yet, this pink ribbon is also in […]

While “terrorist watch cause group” may not be the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks of Food Not Bombs (FNB), a non-violent group that uses creative outlets to protest war, poverty and the destruction of the environment, its radical tendencies might still be what has helped […]

With the iPhone 5’s imminent arrival, “app” developers have been testing the new device’s technical limits In order to see how much more complex their new applications can be. This is definitively true when comes to touch screen game developers. The iPhone (and iPod Touch) becomes much faster and […]

Over the past few years, we have seen several television shows that used Chicago as a setting. With our city depicted more often now, this raises a question do those shows accurately represent Chicago? Or do they merely name check the city, without giving any thought to the […]

In the heady days of the Sexual Revolution of the 60s and 70s, when women gained agency over their own sexuality, when the Pill and legalized abortions reduced the risks of pregnancy, and gonorrhea and syphilis had medical cures, most of us did not bother with practicing safe sex. […]