For a college student with many trivial and not-so-trivial things to pay for, such as tuition, books, food, transportation, clothes and the interest-sucking credit card bill, one thing is inevitable: the part-time job. Most part time jobs that fit in with crazy college schedules are at places that involve some […]

#8220;Malaria kills more than 1 million kids a year,” says the lead on the nothingbutnets.net website. One would think in this day and age that such a thing is unthinkable, but there we are. It’s a statistic, big, rude and scary. As students we can often feel that such things, […]

With growing consciousness toward the environment, people are wondering how they can go about being more ecologically friendly. There are plenty of places where one can look for information on how to be greener. The story is that green technology has been shifting into the mainstream. To be frank, green […]

With the election looming in the near future, there will be a lot of coverage of the two major parties, the Democrats and Republicans. There will be attacks on the character of candidates on both sides, attempted assassinations of the legitimacy of their attempts at office. Another thing that you’ll […]

Board of Trustees members Carlos Azcoitia and Grace Dawson pushed for a discussion for a possible implementation of a doctoral program. The issue was pursued during the Sept.18 Board meeting and a motion was set to ask University President Sharon K. Hahs to give feedback to the feasibility of implementation […]

var uslide_show_id = “e36c914d-e193-4154-8842-3d2d44a3ad7d”;var slideshowwidth = “468”;var linktext = “”; A rain storm dumped more than 12 inches in three days on the city and surrounding areas two weekends ago, flooding the Albany Park neighborhood and causing leaks in some buildings around Northeastern Illinois University’s main campus. The Independent was […]

The Freshman Leadership Institute (FLI) allows the freshman to engage in leadership development as they begin to navigate the university and become involved in their collegiate experience. The provision of establishing long term relationships with fellow students and the administration is also provided. Claudia Mercado, the Assistant Director of the […]

The school received $2.6 million more in state general revenue fund appropriation, Despite Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s cuts in the state budget. This will bring the total state general revenue fund appropriations to $43.4 million in the operating budget, which was approved by the Board of Trustees on Sept. 18. On […]

Printing services and vending have been closed and outsourced to other companies. It was brought to the attention of the Independent in a letter to the editor printed on Aug. 12, that said printing services closed on July 31. Unrelated to the letter, vending closed shortly after. This resulted in […]

President Sharon Hahs has implemented an across the board pay increase for about 450 non-negotiated employees. This salary increase will cost the university $1.9 million dollars in pay raises for the year. Non-negotiated employees are employees that do not belong to one of the five unions of the university. “There […]