Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the famous leader of the civil rights movement. He was remembered by holding a program in his honor. On Tuesday, Jan. 17, the Academic Development Department sponsored the Dream Alive Program. The event was held from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in the auditorium. […]

In a bulletin released by Facilities Management, several projects were announced. CCICS façade and roof repairsDamage to a penthouse roof at the Carruthers Center, which occurred during a storm last spring, has been repaired. Additional work will be done on the parapet and façade in the summer of this year. […]

WZRD 88.3 FM, NEIU’s radio station, was knocked off the air by an equipment failure last week and is tentatively scheduled to be back on the air today. WZRD’s Technical Advisor Rick Senne said in an e-mail to WZRD members that there was a leak in a nitrogen tank which […]

Linguistics professor Dr. Edward Odisho’s office on the third floor of the Classroom Building is typical: small, cramped and overflowing with books and papers. Among these are a greeting card from the Iraqi Ambassador to the United States and a picture of his son, U.S. Army Capt. Fred Odisho, veteran […]

Last Sunday, my family got a new puppy. We’ve had him a week and believe me, I could bore you to tears with stories already, but that’s not the purpose of this article. When we picked out little Bosco at the pet store, we were shown how, if he is […]

#8220;Since the late 1800s, researchers have suspected that cervical cancer was sexually transmitted.” Planned Parenthood continues in their publication HPV 5 The Most Common Sexually Transmitted Virus: “Medical reports [back then] noted that nuns and virgins were not likely to have cervical cancer, and that women who were married to […]

#8220;Rendition,” a practice of the CIA, is when a captured terrorist suspect is sent to other countries for interrogation.  As reported by David Ignatius in the Washington Post, the reason for this practice is that the nations these suspects are sent to have torture as a readily available option. A […]

When Antonio Champion and Desiree Borishade were elected as SGA senators in spring 2006, one of the ideas they ran on was to reevaluate the English Competency Exam (ECE), which is a baccalaureate degree requirement. Unfortunately, both resigned not long after being sworn in. Certainly it’s important for NEIU students […]

A mere seven years into the new millennium, President Steinberg decided to organize the Presidential Task Force on the Millennium Student. The task force is charged with finding the “best practices and action steps … [for] overall excellence across the University,” according to an announcement for the task force’s kick-off […]

YouTube killed the video that killed the radio star. A few weeks ago, I sat in my friend’s basement on a futon that had three legs and a stack of moldy books holding it up. “You’ve gotta see this,” she said with a smirk, and whipped out a laptop that […]