Tom Clancy, best-selling novelist and mastermind of various video games, has hit gold with yet another game/novel combo. EndWar hopes to be the future of real-time strategy (RTS) games. The book is a chilling play-by-play based off of an entirely possible scenario. The game is going to be like one […]

Every so often, the country debates sexual orientation discrimination, same-sex marriages and the like. In 1971, psychologist George Weinberg coined the term ‘homophobia.’ He used the Greek words ‘homo’ for ‘same,’ and ‘phobia,’ meaning ‘fear.’ Therefore, humans who suffer homophobia are ‘afraid of the same.’ Though most individuals will agree […]

There are many benefits to starting a running program. Running is relatively inexpensive and can be done almost anywhere. It is a great way to enhance your cardiovascular health and it can be fun. For the true beginner, someone that has never run for exercise or has not run consistently […]

A year ago, March 30, 2007, Ely Liebow passed away. Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) faculty, staff and students joined the family in mourning his passing, as he touched many lives and enriched them all. Ely Liebow’s wife of 57 years, three daughters and two granddaughters will miss him most of […]

They stare vacantly at us from the sidewalk in the cold with cups in their hands as we drive by in our nice warm vehicles. As we leave the grocery store or the bank with cash in our pockets, we try to ignore them, but it’s difficult because something inside […]

NEIU’s Running Club is hosting the first ever Golden Eagle 5K Run on Sunday, April 13. Runners of all levels are encouraged to participate. With the spring semester coming to an end, Running Club wants to get the NEIU community together for one last event. The 3.1-mile race will kick-off […]

With bus fares starting as low as $1, Megabus is one way to travel on a budget. Megabus.com describes its company as “a non-stop inter-city express bus company that offers fares to travelers as low as $1, via the internet.” The Megabus makes daily trips to and from Chicago to […]

Atlas Sound is the brand new, entirely solo debut of Deerhunter frontman/musical rebel Bradford Cox. In Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See but Cannot Feel, listeners get an auditory meditation of ambient, memory-evoking soundscapes. For essentially a homespun, Atlanta bedroom album, this is one of the most subtlety […]

First we smashed, then we melee’d and now we get to brawl. Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the Wii is Nintendo’s latest incarnation of the popular series. Super Smash Bros. Melee was the Gamecube’s best selling game, so Brawl had a lot of hype to live up to. Thankfully, it […]

GreenSugar knows how to rock the house. On Feb. 23, at Reggie’s, on the south side of Chicago, all eyes were on them. The bar was filled to the brim with GreenSugar fans; some drove, but most were shuttled giddily back and forth by the bar’s party bus, which was […]