The Student Government Association (SGA) called the student body to action with boycott against Sodexho on Tuesday, September 25. The SGA wanted to find an issue that everyone could relate to, and elicit a student response, with increased prices of food and low levels of student involvement in matters of […]

Although the CTA has a long history of financial struggles, they have always shown resilience against true economic fallout. Their current predicament, though, has the Chicagoland area more worried than usual. With massive debt accumulating the agency has announced their plan for a series of drastic service cuts, a plan […]

After much strife, the 2008 State of Illinois budget has been passed. Included in the budget is an increase in funds from last year for NEIU. Tuition increases also brought in additional funds. Even with all the extra money awarded to the school it is still not enough to cover […]

As of the week of September 23, construction was completed on the Foster Avenue Bridge over I-94 (Edens Expressway). For many coming to Northeastern from the west, Foster Ave plays a central role. Whether driving or taking the bus, travelers had been circumventing the bridge area since June. This caused […]

In October 2007 the Homeland Security department will be opening the National Applications Office (NAO). The new department will make use of new tools that the government can use to keep tabs on us, the populace of the United States of America. The order to implement the NAO was conceived […]

There are some parts of this country where tension between the races still exists-or at least they aren’t hidden. Places where, for the most part, white children will not play with black children, or vice versa. The small town of Jena, Louisiana is one example of a place in the […]

By the time this comes to press, the Student Government Association, (SGA) citing a lack of student particpation in administrative decisions is executing a boycott on food service provider Sodexho, the food services contractor for NEIU. The company sent a representative to the SGA’s last meeting on September 13 to […]

On Monday, September 17, 2007 a University of Florida student named Andrew Meyer, age 21, barged to the front of a line of students waiting to ask questions to U.S. Senator John Kerry. He then proceeded to barrage Kerry with a flurry of questions before his microphone was cut off. […]

Governor Blagojevich’s new state budget mandates a 30% cut in funding for the Illinois Arts Council. While this decrease of an already small pittance may prove devastating to a small, ever-dwindling number of grant recipients, the cut does not come as a surprise. Nor should it stand as a new […]

The Arctic Monkeys have done it again. Their 2007 release Favourite Worst Nightmare is out now under the Warner Brothers piggyback label Domino Recording Company. And as much as this is a very much commercial type of slick product, the music on this album does carry a few noteworthy elements-albeit […]