Agatha Christie died, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak formed the Apple Computer Company and Viking I and II both landed on Mars and sent back the first pictures of our nearest neighboring planet’s surface. Such were events in 1976, the year the Ronald Williams Library was first opened. The building […]

Distinguishing the man from mythology is a concern about famous political and theological leaders. Dr. King presented concerns in both arenas for a span of 13 years. On Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008, a tribute was held to discuss the impact and particular vision of this one man’s ephemeral life, which […]

On Jan. 11 President Sharon Hahs held the first Town Hall Meeting between administration and faculty. The meeting called “experiment 101” by President Hahs was the first of its kind for NEIU, with plans for another scheduled for later in the semester. The idea for the town meeting came from […]

NEIU’s facilities management and academic affairs departments are in the process of selecting desks for areas in the university that have the greatest need for new furniture. The planned purchase of the new desks is part of a continuing process to refurbish classrooms in the university. Academic Affairs displayed sample […]

It isn’t enough that CTA passengers have had to hold their breath through the holidays. That’s on and off since Halloween, by the way, not just through December and the New Year. But maybe it is a good thing that their breath was held. As reported by Dana Kozlov for […]

It was the week before Christmas and all the smokers in Illinois were getting apprehensive about their upcoming exile from public places on New Years Day. I was at a well-known local blues bar enjoying some live music when the bar owner came up to the stage to introduce the […]

For students enrolled in 2004, the Truth in Tuition plan locked in their tuition for four years. On Feb. 7, approval of proposed tuition increases for the ’08-’09 school year goes before the Board of Trustees. Students who have not graduated yet face a proposed 25 percent increase in tuition. […]

In April of 2000, the South Carolina legislature voted to remove the rectangular Confederate battle flag from atop the Capitol in favor of flying a more traditional square battle flag. The newer battle flag flies on a pole in front of the Capitol in a memorial to fallen Confederate soldiers. […]

La dolce vita is an Italian phrase that in translation means “the sweet life.” What exactly constitutes a “sweet” life? Is a sweet life a life led without hardships and excess amounts of wealth and fame? Is a sweet life, a life led with little material things but with the […]

I am by birth American. I can vote and I qualify for in-state tuition rates in my state of residence. However, the current controversies over immigration policies have made me curious about the process that has afforded me, and millions of other American-born children of immigrants, the privileges of citizenship. […]