Weeks before online registration was available to all students and faculty, groups of curious students and staff were invited to a mock registration to try out the new system. It was conducted in the Building B computer lab. The students and staff watched a brief tutorial on how to use […]

On Feb. 25, Dr. Eric Hilton began the position of admissions director to NEIU. Hilton has 18 years of college admissions experience and joined the NEIU community because he believes it is the next step in his professional career. “I really like the university community, it is a great fit […]

In 2004, the teachers’ union at NEIU went on strike for 19 days. This was after contract negotiations failed. Earlier that year, the budget was decreased 8.2 percent from fiscal year (FY) 2003 to FY 2004. The governor’s proposed FY 2009 budget is about $2.2 million less than the FY […]

Northeastern Illinois University is ready to distinguish itself among Chicago’s higher educational frontier. The university has recently placed print advertisements in several local news publications. Advertisements have run in the Chicago Sun-Times, Hoy, Chicago Defender, Red Eye and Diverse Issues in Higher Education, to name a few. The push for […]

As of late, I’ve developed an overwhelming frustration with humanity as a whole. I’ve even developed an aversion to any type of media: the loss of what could have been one of our generation’s greatest talents (Heath Ledger) riddled by scandal in the media before his corpse was cold, and […]

Tom Dalof, 26, was starting his spring break just like all Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) students. He was out with friends on the night of Friday, March 14, when his school break ended abruptly and tragically. He was killed by a hit and run driver. Dalof was a business major […]

Local Chicago artist Claire Ashley has an ongoing art exhibit at NEIU’s Fine Arts Center Gallery, through March 28. Currently, Ashley teaches first year art students at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, while balancing both her family and artistic life. And while she makes Chicago her home, her […]

You’ve heard of vegans, but what about freegans? The concept of freeganism has been widely talked about in the news lately on such programs as Oprah and The Colbert Report, but how much do you really know about it? The term freegan is devised from the words ‘free’ and ‘vegan.’ […]

Beyond the passable acting, there is little to recommend in Bachelor Party 2: The Last Temptation, which takes its name from the 1984 Tom Hanks vehicle. The uneven, low-brow script (with a fair amount of improvisation, according to first-time director/writer James Ryan) is predictable and not as humorous as it […]

If 10,000 B.C. is a movie you have your heart set on seeing, then there is no doubt you will want to see it on the big screen. In fact, if fantastical movies are your standard fare, or spectacular CGI effects are a must-see, then this movie should be on […]