It’s a commonly heard complaint for would-be urban star-gazers: with the amount of light pollution in a big metropolitan area, especially one the size of Chicago, it’s impossible to see any stars. While it is true that most stars get overwhelmed by the amount of light that is in an […]

When you think of the phrase “starting off the new year with a bang,” you think of it as an expression of doing something unique, different or crazy. You don’t really expect something to actually explode, at least you hope not. At the beginning of the Spring ’09 semester, a […]

What is freedom of speech? Is it the freedom to focus only on your own point of view, or to manipulate a body of data to suit your own purposes? The press coverage of the situation in Palestine has seen too much of the terrible extremes of bias, prejudice and […]

It isn’t rare to see Chad Codak, a senior finance major, sitting in the Student Union cafeteria using his laptop or greeting friends in the halls of Northeastern Illinois University on any given day.      As the Chair of the International Business Conference, he has been on campus a lot […]

We’re in trouble when it comes to our economy. The Democrats blame the Republicans. The Republicans blame the Democrats. The progressive-minded people, like me, would rather take a more realistic approach. It’s all of our faults. Certain choices led us to the economic woes we’re in now. It ties into […]

It’s a few minutes before class and you find yourself dozing off. So what do you do? You buy a soda pop that contains caffeine. According to Answers.com, caffeine is defined as a drug that affects the central nervous system. Besides soft drinks, caffeine is also found in energy drinks, […]

Politically, I consider myself to be a liberal leaning moderate. However, while my political views may lean toward the left, I am still nauseated by the extremes of both sides of the political spectrum. Both believe in narrow ideologies that smack of elitism. Ultra-conservatives, who don’t believe women have the […]

Year after year, thousands of college students flock to the same hotspots in search of the “ultimate spring break,” a concept that seems restricted to boozing in the sun until a mild form of amnesia manifests. Las Vegas, south Florida and Cancun all conjure up images of endless parties and […]

Albert Einstein said, “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” Einstein’s questionable knowledge of neoclassical French theater notwithstanding, this is precisely the theme of Pierre Corneille’s “L’Illusion Comique,” written two and a half centuries before Einstein was born. Stage Center Theatre is tackling the relationship between reality […]

Comedies, especially feel-good comedies, have the purpose of making you feel good and getting you to laugh. That’s pretty obvious, right? They part the clouds of a bad day to let the light of satisfaction shine through. One could say watching one of these movies has a feeling equal to […]