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Sexual Healing

The NEIU Student Health Service Office wants you to love your body and get tested for sexually transmitted diseases. Focusing on sexual health this month, the Student Health Service Office co-sponsors the Love Your Body seminar on Feb. 19 at 1:40 p.m. in room FA203. The Student Health Service Office […]

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Faculty Profile: Timothy Libretti

Professor Timothy Libretti has been teaching at NEIU since January 1996. He was originally hired as a part-time instructor and in the fall of 1996 became a full-time instructor of American literature. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, which he described as an “extraordinary […]

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NIU student recounts tragedy

Shortly before his oceanography class let out, geography student George Gaynor, 23, leapt out of the room as the gunman opened fire. Gaynor was sitting in the back of the lecture hall, closest to the door. “I never ran so fast in my life,” said Gaynor, as he recounted leaving […]

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‘Always there for her friends’

While the sidewalks would normally be busy with students lugging their packs around, either getting ready to turn this week’s term paper or getting ready for midterms, today was not business as usual. Today, the streets are filled with news vans and journalists across the country to get the story […]

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Students’ discounts to help offset tuition increase

There is something that can help offset the cost of tuition increases; your student ID. You have had to use it to access your financial aid and check out library books. It has made itself a home behind your driver’s license. Beside the discount on movie theatre prices, your student […]

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Age as an inhibitor

Ageism is loosely defined as a form of discrimination based on age. It can come in all shapes and sizes. It can be created by an age-specific environment or, in discrete and singular instances, based on political, cultural and monetary motivations and institutions. The most cited reasons for age discrimination […]

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Lethal injection: it makes us feel better

#8220;Killing people to teach people not to kill doesn’t work.” I remember seeing that slogan on a sign that a death penalty protester was carrying while protesting the execution of a person sentenced to death and thinking, they’ve got a point … Why do we kill killers? Think about it: […]

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Verizon proposal approved

NEIU has been working with Verizon Wireless in negotiating a contract for the construction of a cell antenna on top of the Ronald Williams Library. The final draft was submitted to the Board of Trustees at the Feb. 7 meeting, and was approved unanimously 8-0. NEIU approached Verizon with the […]

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Turmoil in the SGA

The Student Welfare Committee was created by SGA members to promote greater student unity. About half of the senators in the SGA are members of the Student Welfare Committee, but ideally, all senators should support chartered committees and be involved with them to some extent. There is a rift between […]

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NEIU awarded preventative health issues grant

On Thu, Jan. 31, NEIU received a grant from the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSA) to prevent substance abuse, HIV and Hepatitis among Latinos. The organization chose institutions by a nationwide applicant pool. A total of seven universities across the country received the funding in order to create […]