Students, faculty, staff, and community members filled the Student Union for the first annual Nest Fest, music and arts festival on April 14. With a plethora of activities from live art being made right before your eyes, to a multitude of bands, poets, emcees and musicians who played various […]

  Listening to music for a career has provided Chuck Klosterman with a sense of reality interwoven with pop culture. After so many years critiquing various mediums-music, film, the effects of Saved by the Bell reruns on society-a prominent question arises from his fiction: What is reality? In his second […]

  La Fleur de Lis, located at 301 E. 43rd street is a quaint and unassuming Creole style restaurant in the heart of Bronzeville. Since its inception in October of 2010, New Orleans native Allen J. Rochelle Jr., has given Chicagoans leisurely southern style cooking from NOLA to satisfy the […]

  I left Chicago on a rainy day and was welcomed in Washington D.C. with a bright and sunny 81 degree day. It was also the first day of the National Cherry Blossom Festival. Fortunately, I had time to visit the Korean War Veterans Memorial Park and pay respect to […]

  Oxfam is an international confederation of 15 organizations working together in over 90 countries and with partners and allies around the world to find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice. According to the organization’s official website, Oxfam, ‘work directly with communities and seeks to influence the powerful to ensure […]

  President’s Pen For URO Undocumented Resilient and Organized (URO) is a new club at NEIU. Visions for this club began in the Fall 2011 semester, where a group of students concerned about the immigrant struggle met to talk about their concerns and dreams. The group of students went ahead […]

  Within the last 10 years, MTV has successfully turned many reality TV shows such as “The Real World” and “16 and Pregnant” into spin offs. Our loveable fist pumping cast of the “Jersey Shore” is no stranger to the spin off world. As a matter of fact, on March […]

  Rodsyln Brown-King is an innovator. Instead of merely watching the demise of our youth through gang violence, drug and alcohol addiction, increased drop-out rates, and other behaviors that can steer youth in the wrong direction, she has decided to do something about it by starting Project A. She has […]

  Some people are born to write, jotting down their thoughts and facts onto paper, informing others of the unknown and the impossible. Some people are born to act, incorporating raw and in-your-face energy into their character on theatrical stages or on the big screen. Other people are born to […]

  This year, a group of twelve students attended the alternative Spring break trip to Arizona. We met many organizations throughout the state of Arizona through an organization called Borderlinks. We learned about immigration issues and how they are impacting states, schools and communities. We also learned about justice issues, […]