President Hahs attended her first Board of Trustees meeting since her election as university president last week. Hahs laid out some of her new initiates including a statement of values for the university and a set of peer institutions NEIU will use as bench marks to measure against. Other items […]

If you’re in a slump, writers block or just feeling flat, be creative. This was the overriding theme at the “Creativity Conference” sponsored by the Honors Program and Honors Society, and organized by Dana Cooley. This three-day conference focused primarily on creative methods to “stoke or spark one’s creative fire, […]

#8220;They would come up to me on the street and whisper, ‘tell the truth.’ In a career filled with encounters with war, violence and bloodshed across the globe, American journalist and author Barbara Victor spoke from experience about the fear and repression she saw in her visit to Burma. Burma […]

What does every student at NEIU have in common? They all want to graduate. It is well known that Northeastern has a low graduation rate, so how are students ever to get out of here? There are a few things that might help expedite the process. Go see your advisor […]

Should a slight breeze have slid past the doors of El Centro’s reception lobby, it would have glided past the doors and fluttered the T-Shirts hanging near the offices, releasing the tension of the usually still fabric…perhaps drowning the evil that has been sketched and painted upon their cloth surfaces. […]

A no-show at the candidate debates, Keenan Arnold was elected SGA president beating out current Student Trustee Peter Michalczyk by a slim margin in a vote of 236 to 204. The first online Student Government voter turnout was extremely low as in previous years at El Centro and Carruthers Center […]

Phil Cousineau was the keynote speaker for the First Annual Creativity Conference at NEIU March 28-30. In his lecture, “Stoking the Creative Fire” Cousineau discussed the human need to go through creative cycles. Cousineau presented a circular cycle of creativity, as well as clips of films about creativity. Cousineau is […]

HPV is a very common sexually transmitted infection that is caused by the human papilloma virus (HPV). There are about 100 strains of the virus and about 30 of these strains are transmittable through sexual contact. According to the Center for Disease Control, approximately 20 million people are currently infected […]

Egnaro is about the only creative thing to come out of this “music” is the band name itself … simply the word orange in reverse, as the Album title “The Panties Your Mother Laid Out For You” was put out locally by a studio named Reverse Orange Music, probably the […]

Chicago Opera Theatre (COT) presented its opening spring performance of Monteverdi’s The Return of Ulysses (Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria). The Return of Ulysses, as the title suggests is based on Homer’s epic poem: The Odyssey. It was sung in its original Italian, with English superscripts. One theatre patron described […]