Being a student involves many consequences including financial and tax ramifications. I will touch on some points that the student status affects. Being a student usually means you are in a position that you have taken out student loans, received scholarships, grants or other forms of monetary assistance or you […]

On Wednesday, October 12, Mayor Rahm Emanuel unveiled the proposed 2012 City of Chicago budget during a special City Council meeting. The budget included municipal service cuts and consolidations, increases in fees and fines, and the restructuring of several long-running city programs. The proposal represents the first stage in the […]

CMENC NEIU Has the Beat: By Saving the World of Music and Music Education Written By: Jacklyn Nowotnik   College Music Educators National Conference (CMENC) is a national program taking place throughout the country in schools of music, as well as in schools that have an established department of music. […]

Understanding Plagiarism and Avoiding It At All Costs By Janean L. Watkins, Editor in Chief   In the midst of the academic semester, students find themselves study-weary and in need of a respite from the pressures. One way to find solace and simultaneously destroy a student’s hard work is to […]

A press release by Dana Navarro, Acting Director of Public Relations for NEIU states that the university has held U.S. News and World Report’s “most ethnically diverse university in the Midwest” ranking since 1997. The ranking is based on the institution’s enrollment numbers, and not any specific diversity initiatives of […]

Occupy Wall Street is a people-powered movement, that the official website, occupywallst.org, says “began on Sept. 17 in Liberty Square in Manhattan’s Financial District, and has spread to over 100 cities in the United States and actions in over 1,500 cities globally. OWS is fighting back against the corrosive power […]

The hallway outside of Northeastern Illinois University’s Recital Hall was bustling and crowded on Oct. 6 as audience members entered the Hall and filled seats to watch the original and inspirational play, De Camino al Ahorita; although the play was in Spanish, the screen above the stage displayed English supertitles. […]

It started in an effort to create a community of artists of all mediums from on and off campus. From the start, visual artists have had a solo expository every other week. On Wednesday, Sept. 28, Alison Greer and Talie Zrihen celebrated the one year anniversary of Black and […]

Undocumented students have to pay for school themselves, because, in order to receive financial aid, one must have a social security number. However, there are some scholarships that do not require the recipient to provide a social security number. Theoretically, without a green card, undocumented students can’t even make […]

When Google Plus was first announced, it was really exciting to imagine the veritable nirvana of virtual happiness people were going to have using this radically new social network site designed by the saviors of the internet themselves, Google. Many were up in arms over Facebook’s irritating and frequent […]