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Getting into the credit card craze

We’ve all gotten those pre-approved credit cards in the mail or been approached at the mall for one. They tend to emphasize the fact that they have low introductory rates and other great incentives that urge you to buy before the offer expires. With the holidays approaching, credit card issuers […]

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Scaring up a Halloween costume

Halloween only come once a year, and you only have one day to show the world, or a select group of friends, how creative you are, or how boring. It was easier when you were little to buy a costume. All you had to do was go to Wal-Mart and […]

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Living up to the hype

#8220;Diversity, Community, Excellence and Access.” This mantra appears on banners all over campus. These are goals of the university, but both recent events and long-standing bureaucratic procedures put into question the real commitment to these goals by the administration. Last month, Student Activities Director Sharron Evans declared 26 campus organizations […]

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Come prepared – please!

Despite constant grumbling amongst many students, others have had no problems with the financial aid office. Actually, the personnel are always friendly, calls are returned, and questions are answered within a matter of (at most) 24 hours. Of course there was a slight problem with wait time this semester. But […]

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Making sense of shootings

There has been a recent rash of school shootings, both successful and unsuccessful, in this country. On Aug. 24, Christopher Williams walked into a Vermont elementary school looking for his ex-girlfriend who was a teacher there. When he failed to find her, he fatally shot one teacher and wounded a […]

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How to outwit a FOX

For years, the right wing has spread the myth that the news media has a “liberal bias” when it comes to covering stories. It’s a myth that has more or less been accepted by many Americans. However, the myth is just that, and its fallacy was proven when former President […]

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Another nail in the Republican coffin

A war with dwindling support, a lame duck president, and scandal after scandal show that things are not going very well for the Republican Party. And now, one of their foremost opponents of pedophilia has just been discovered to be something of a pedophile himself. Representative Mark Foley of Florida […]

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Republican offers citizenship workshop at NEIU

On Wednesday, Oct. 4, the office of Judy Baar Topinka, Illinois state treasure and Republican gubernatorial candidate, sponsored a free citizenship workshop in the Student Union Building. With Chicago’s large immigrant communities, it’s more than appropriate to have a free citizenship workshop at NEIU, the most diverse campus in the […]

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Administrators and other cruel jokes

As an SGA senator in the Spring of 2006, I had the chance to meet two professional consultants hired for the new presidential search. Needless to say, it seems they knew very little about NEIU except that it is located in Chicago. One would expect that a highly qualified and […]

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Godzilla vs. Gojira

Sony recently released a fully revised version of the 1954 Godzilla movie featuring both the original Japanese and the re-cut American versions. This deluxe set also includes commentaries and documentaries on the now-classic movie. American viewers can finally see in high-quality DVD both versions of this film in what has […]