This year’s selection for the One Book Per Semester Program, The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies by Richard Heinberg is a part of the curriculum in the Department of Management and Marketing. Each semester, a book is picked from nominations turned in by the faculty. […]

Pollution has long been a burden to the health and wellbeing of humans worldwide, yet the NEIU Green Cycle Group (GCG) and Governor Rod Blagojevich believe there is hope for the future, at least at NEIU. The University Sustainability Compact (USC), which is being circulated to all Illinois state universities, […]

A report by two panels set up by Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich calls for the opening of welcome centers with the purpose of aiding immigrants with the naturalization process. The welcome centers would focus on English language acquisition, providing education, and orientating immigrants on health care resources available to them. […]

Idalia, an undergraduate student at Dominican University, has lived a good part of her life in the United States. She, like many other college students her age, hopes to graduate from college and find a good job. Idalia’s status as an undocumented immigrant has caused her many difficulties in achieving […]

As the fall semester ends and the spring session begins, NEIU draws closer to its accreditation. Every 10 years, the university is evaluated by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association (HLCNCA) to see if the university is meeting and following the standards that are required for any […]

With every diet imaginable out now, there is still no better solution to a healthy lifestyle than healthy eating. Even with the Atkins diet and Tae Bo classes, Americans are still getting fatter. New York City has come out with a new plan to help lower the calorie count of […]

Earlier this year, the new size “00” was introduced. Retailers argue the size was created in response to consumer demand. America is a country of women of all sizes, but one is left to ask whether there are enough women to make retailers create an entirely new size. Foxnews.com interviewed […]

The majority of the globe’s population will not remain abstinent until marriage. Being sexually uninhibited comes with a heavy price that some people pay with their lives. The simple building blocks of one’s existence may also be at risk as well. A lot of times students in abstinence classes have […]

You’re sitting in class after a long day at work. All you want to do is make it through this class. You start to leave all the chaos and noise from the day behind and focus in on the lecture. All of a sudden, the latest ring tone comes blaring […]

This university often likes to call itself a unique place, unlike other institutions of higher learning, and unlike many state institutions of any kind. In the pages of this newspaper that attribute is often called into question when graduation rates are published or other bad news is reported about NEIU. […]