The Animal Rights Club, a new NEIU student group, is maintaining their momentum, as evidenced by their second bake sale and fundraiser held on Nov. 19, 2008 in Village Square. For sale or donation were healthful vegetarian samosas from the Indian Student Association, taffy apples donated from the Anthropos club, […]

It appears there will soon be a Latino(a) Cultural and Resource Center on or nearby the NEIU campus. “After 20 years, the cultural center is becoming a reality,” according to Xavier Luis Burgos, Chief Editor & Designer of ‘Que Ondee Sola’ magazine. Union for Puerto Rican Students (UPRS) and ‘Que […]

Bah humbug. Go on, say it out loud. Try it out in a few different voices and inflections. It’s fun. Bah humbug is a fun phrase, no matter how you say it. It might even make you feel better. You don’t have to mean it in the classic way, as […]

Oliver Sacks, a practicing physician and professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia University’s medical school, recently released his newest book. Musicophilia is a study into why people love music, or why they can’t seem to understand it. Sacks follows his standard style of writing, putting case studies in a […]

The Stir of Echoes franchise is an incredibly well-thought-out and well-researched set with a book and two movies. The film takes the sixth sense, and puts it into a universally personal view. The original Stir of Echoes film is based off of, what is arguably one of Richard Matheson’s finest […]

Winter wear can be tricky. With all the necessities involved in keeping warm it can be hard to maintain a healthy level of personal style. But it is possible, folks! The key to maintaining your personality from underneath that puffy, fluffy (but warm) monstrosity is to accessorize! Gloves, scarves and […]

The Grammy-nominated R&B singer Eric Benet has been around for almost a decade now, and his recently released fourth solo album is the work of a maturing artist. Love & Life is advertised as a comeback to his Wisconsin roots, a tried and tested production team, and the sounds of […]

This semester is almost at an end. I, for one, am happy that it is and I bet many of you are happy as well. Classes are now about to try to cram a semester worth of knowledge into an almost-two-hour exam period. I hope that many of you have […]

Many pieces of student artwork, including a piece ironically titled “Vanishing”, have been stolen from the Salme Harju Steinberg Fine Arts Building. Incidents of theft were reported to the NEIU police on Oct. 9 and Oct. 15, where art pieces were stolen from the hallway display. The pieces were valued […]

Facilities management has been working throughout the fall and will continue through spring to complete necessary campus roof repairs, relying on operating funds instead of capital renewal money that was appropriated four fiscal years ago. A roofing firm evaluated the roofs in 2007 to determine which ones needed the most […]