Stage Center Main Stage: Private Eyes by Steven Dietz Feb. 14-16, 21-23, 28-March 1 Director: Bill McIntosh Arcadia by Tom Stoppard April 10-12, 17-19, 24-26 Director: Anna Antaramian Studio Series: Oedi by Rich Orloff February 5 & 7 Director: Alum Christopher Leonard New Play: winner of playwright competition March 11 […]

In today’s technologically advanced society of big screens, high definition televisions and computers, many young people haven’t experienced live theatre. I may never have been interested in theatre if it wasn’t for my 6th grade English teacher, Ms. Frisch. She gave my class the opportunity to see a production of […]

Isolated from the rest of the campus, the Physical Education Complex (PE Complex) stands like a fortress. Many new students, and some not-so-new ones, do not even know that Northeastern has a recreational facility. Use of the PE Complex is covered by student tuition but few students actually know what […]

Each spring nearly 300 students from over 20 colleges and universities meet at the Illinois State Capitol to participate in one of the nation’s top intercollegiate government simulations. Model Illinois Government (MIG) is a state-wide, student operated organization which coordinates and manages the annual governmental simulation. 2008 will mark the […]

It’s a secret that companies do not advertise and one that could save the Northeastern Illinois University students a significant amount of money. Wondering what secret I’m referring to? NEIU students can purchase various computer software, hardware and supplies such as laptops, mice and even software from Adobe and Microsoft […]

One looks at the exterior face of the Science Building at NEIU and its unusual interior and the classic drawing Relativity, by M. C. Escher, is called to mind. In 1972, one year after Northeastern Illinois State College became Northeastern Illinois University, the NEIU Science Building was completed. Since that […]

2007 was the year of sensational news journalism. Paris Hilton glamorized the institution of incarceration, Anna Nicole Smith died tragically fitting the prototype of Hollywood beauties gone too soon, and Britney Spears suffered several personal crises publicly. Unbeknownst to many, a Haitian mother was sodomized in her Florida apartment while […]

People throughout Pakistan mourned the loss of Benazir Bhutto, the opposition leader in Pakistan, after she was assassinated December 27, 2007. Her death marks a huge increase in violence in a nation where the pro-U.S. government is already in turmoil for having supported the United States in its War on […]

Let’s not mince words to open this up. The “war on terror” is a buzz topic that is largely ignored by the administration that started it unless there is a convenient time to bring it up. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, which are described to be a part of […]

The beginning of a new semester can be dreadful experience for Northeastern Illinois University students. The overdue release of book lists from the bookstore is not any consolation for students. Beck’s releases book lists for classes two weeks before classes begin. The sluggish turn around for the release of book […]