The NEIU Police Department (NEIUPD) arrested 53-year old Scott McClendon on March 5 outside the Ronald Williams Library after he was caught on surveillance stealing wallets from students’ bags. The NEIUPD turned McClendon over to the Northwestern University Police where he had an outstanding warrant for similar activity. McClendon was […]

  As the Rubber Man stalks through the ominous mansion, he is avoiding comparisons but still conjuring up images of Green Man. The audience of the new TV series “American Horror Story” is bewildered in their realization that ghosts possess the ability to work themselves tangibly against and interact with […]

  Kony 2012, the viral video directed by the Invisible Children Inc. co-founder Jason Russell, is getting a lot of attention nowadays, and thanks to social networking and video sharing sites, Joseph Kony, the leader of Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has become a reviled household name. The video showcases the […]

Northeastern Illinois University boasts an organization that has been promoting green-mindedness, known on campus as the Green Cycle Group (GCG). They have done some noteworthy things like implementing the changeover to more energy saving campus lighting systems, and getting the grounds department to drive around in energy efficient and less […]

  Nergal Malham is a second-year student and the president of the Feminist Collective. She has been active in the club since her first year at Northeastern. She also works on campus as a First Year Experience Peer Mentor. She spends most of her time sleeping, filing paperwork, and insisting […]

Independent staff members visited Seattle, WA for the 28th Annual ACP conference during the first weekend in March 2012. Staffers had an opportunity to meet and greet hundreds of other college writers, and professionals in the field of journalism, such as, Cheryl Phillips of The Seattle Times and Meredith Birkett […]

The opening scene of Real Women Have Curves depicts a diligent young Ana Garcia, played by actress America Ferrero, hard at work before school, washing her windows. We get views of Latino laborers loading trucks to leave for work and many of the Latinas doing the same while caring […]

Katrina Bell-Jordan is currently the Department Chair for the CMT department at NEIU. She has been at NEIU for almost 15 years and has taught numerous courses in the CMT department ranging from the 100 to 400 level. However, when asked about her career, Bell-Jordan will smile warmly and tell […]

The term “image” is kind of broad and almost specific term at the same time, of course that all depends on how you look at it. “Image” is something you always hear about, like “Oh, don’t they know that doing this will give them a bad image,” but what […]

Many of us have classes, work and other responsibilities to attend to, but it is important to schedule some quality work out time. A regular workout routine may be nice but the monotony of typical cardio or the treadmill may decrease a person’s motivation to work out over time. If […]