On November 6, voters of the State of Illinois will be asked to vote on HJRCA49 (House Joint Resolution Constitutional Amendment 49) an amendment to the Illinois Constitution. Few voters know anything about this amendment, though the state has sent a brochure regarding the amendment to Illinois residents.   […]

  The public discourse on the role of religion in our daily lives too often lacks the voice of atheists, and mass media further silences atheists when it persistently upholds the tenet that an atheist would never be able to win the presidency in our country, in spite of the […]

  The controversy of corporate giving is not necessarily a new occurrence, but that does not mean it is a topic that deserves no attention. Big time corporations: Target, K-Mart and Starbucks, just to name a few, all donate to organizations or causes. Some of the donations may go to […]

  Alpha-males spitting venom at each other dominated the presidential debates this year.  President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney went for each other’s throats in the second and third presidential debates on Oct. 16 and 22.  Mounting pressure for President Obama to actually show up to the second […]

  There are few things more overwhelming than being a teenager living in our current era. Pre-adults are thrown headfirst and disoriented into an adult world weathered with age and experience. Their only hope is desperately clinging to the life raft of anything that passes by in television or magazines, […]

  Around the world, multiple books have documented different myths about relatively unknown monsters. This Halloween season, as one gets ready to share scary stories around the campfire, here are some weird and sometimes funny stories about some ghouls, goblins and spirits unfamiliar to many. A work entitled “Yaokai Attack! […]

    You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown jumpstarted the 2012-13 theatre season at the Stage Center Theatre earlier this month at Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU).  Five shows ran over four days, from October 10 to 13.                                                                                                                                 The set was simple with Snoopy’s doghouse, Charlie’s mailbox, Schroeder’s piano, four […]

  “Are you hurt or are you injured?” Anyone who has ever played a sport, any sport, has probably heard this at one time or another. It is simple, injured means medically unable to continue playing, while hurt means rub some dirt on it and get that butt back in […]

  Returned student Israel Gonzalez’s 16 years of experience in boxing and seven years of self-defense  kickboxing started with self-determination. It began in his basement when he started training himself by watching videos of his favorite fighters and following their movements. In his twenties, he stepped into a gym and […]

  Peggy Valdes is an exemplary undergraduate student and scholar, but returning to college as an adult presented her with a number of challenges.  It was the Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies (BAIS) Program and Nontraditional Degree Programs that provided her with a path forward. It would have been […]