December Graduates to be Saluted                 The Office of Alumni Relations will be hosting a “Salute to Graduates of December 2011” event on Wednesday, Nov. 16 in Village Square at the main campus from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. The featured services provided to graduates at this event will include […]

While next year’s city budget has dominated city politics over the past few weeks, another, equally important, controversy is brewing in the background. According to municipal law, every city ward must have the same number of people, so every ten years the Chicago City Council redraws the ward boundaries to […]

Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) held a tabling event in the Student Union to raise awareness about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. They hope that students take the knowledge of what’s happening on the other side of the world to broaden their horizons on a global level.

Recently, the Michigan Senate—led by the majority of Republicans—passed Matt’s Safe School Law, a bill that aims to ban harassment in schools and requires every district to have an anti-bullying policy. Though the bill is named after Matt Epling, a Michigan teen who killed himself after being the victim […]

Until the recent drought and famine hit the news, very little was being discussed in the United States regarding Somalia beyond the occasional pirate attack. Few people had ever heard about or understood the depth of violence and poverty that the country had been enduring for decades. Even now it […]

Charlie Hebdo (Charlie Weekly), a French satirical magazine, joined the ranks of Danish newspaper, Dutch filmmakers, Swedish artist, US Facebook cartoonist, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, by placing the prophet Mohammad on the front cover as a ‘guest editor’ of its November 2011 issue with a caption reading ‘100 lashes […]

Things are looking up for North Africa. With the capture and near-immediate death of Libya’s former dictator, Muammar Ghaddafi, Libya is now free to remake its political and governmental infrastructure in the image of more liberal and successful countries. Tunisia held its first democratic election on Oct. 23 during which […]

Hello to all, my name is Jorge Vargas, current president of the GLBTQA club. What is GLBTQA and what does it represent, one might ask. Well, to start off, GLBTQA stands for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning. The mission statement of our club is simple “Working to ensure all voices […]

For the past five weeks, Chicagoans have taken to the streets to be a part of the recent “Occupy” movement. Participants come from a wide range of backgrounds; from housewives, to small business owners. As with many of the groups of “occupiers” across the country, this group also contains a […]

The Odd Couple’s Magic   By Shantez Tolbut, Staff Writer   The NEIU Stage Center offered students and staff a chance to see another classic Neil Simon play, “The Odd Couple” directed by Lisa Cantwell. This cute, hilarious and grungy comedy had the audience tickling with laughter during Oct. 20-22, […]