Stage Center Studio Theatre presented Wine in the Wilderness, a play by Alice Childress. Although written by and mostly for African-Americans in 1969, this play tackles universal social and personal problems. The play’s lead characters are an artist and his future model. Bill (Olumide Said) is working on his triptych, […]
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Despite a rough start, Muslim Comedy Night, a huge success
On Friday, Feb. 26 the Pakistani Student Association at NEIU sponsored Muslim Comedy Night. The doors were set to open at 6 p.m. and the show was supposed to start at 7:30. p.m. Despite a ten minute delay, it started very smoothly. A girls’ group named SoundRight opened the show […]
Students plead for say in Activity Hour change
Student leaders voiced their opposition to the proposed change in Activity Hour at the Board of Trustees meeting on Feb. 11 and urged the board to consider giving the student body an opportunity to vote on the change. Provost Lawrence Frank announced in a Student Government Association meeting on Jan. […]
NEIU experiences first snow day for 2010
On Tuesday, Feb. 9, at 2:25 p.m., an alert sounded through the hallways. A male voice boomed from speakers in classrooms and hallways informing people that due to weather conditions, evening classes were canceled after 4 p.m. Fifteen minutes later, the alert system repeated the message again, this time adding […]
LEAD through social justice
NEIU kicked off Black History Month with Keynote speaker Rev. Albert Mosley, Chaplain of Johns Hopkins University, on Thursday, Feb. 2. Mosley spoke about how individuals can become ethical and social justice-minded leaders. Mosley discussed the harmfulness of neutrality, and how silence is the worst form of neutrality, because remaining […]
Evolution of Black History Month
February is known for Valentine’s Day and being the shortest month of the year, but February also represents a history that is usually not given much attention in the textbooks, Black History. According to History.com, Black History Month was started by Dr. Carter G. Woodson, the second Black American to […]
WZRD Hosts Haiti Benefit Concert
WZRD hosted a benefit concert for Haiti in the school cafeteria on Thursday Jan. 28. The concert was the brainchild of WZRD members Michael Robin and Avi Steinberg, the former presented at the concert. The concert presented live music from various genres by artists such as DJ Demchuk, Kelsey Montanez, […]
We the people, aren’t buying it
My uncle always taught me “with great power comes great responsibility.” Ok, technically he wasn’t my uncle, and he never existed in the first place. Either way, on Feb. 11, Provost Frank taught me otherwise. At the board of trustees meeting, the topic of the evening was clearly the open […]
Screw Fox, I get all of my news from Perez!
You’re having a horrible day. You get to class and the test you crammed for last night has nothing on it that you studied. You get to work ten minutes late because Chicago drivers are out to kill you when there’s ice on the road, and your boss is livid. […]
Democracy broke down
The recent Supreme Court ruling has been one of the most serious and direct assaults on American democracy. Unlike the Patriot Act, which limited a fundamental freedom, the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission was a direct attack on the core of democratic procedures. In the […]