Do you know that men speak an average of 7,000 words per day compared to women who speak 25,000 words a day? A male brain is compartmentalized like a computer processor, while a female brain is much more integrated closely resembling a circuit board? These interesting statistics were revealed by […]

The Feminist Collective hosted their second annual “Take Back the Night” event on Thursday, Nov. 5.  “Take Back the Night” represents the efforts of women taking back the power to control their own lives despite past incidents of violence inflicted upon them.  “Take Back the Night” is also about creating […]

I have been standing at the bus stop since 6:00 p.m. and its 6:55 p.m. now. I am supposed to be at the Fine Arts building at 7:05 pm. Oh there’s a bus coming this way. Don’t get excited, it’s going to the North Park Garage. Another ray of hope, […]

What started out as an expansion pack, “Halo 3: ODST” for the Xbox-360 has undergone a name change and promotion to a full fledged game. Seeing as it is the first Halo game in over two years, it is interesting to see Bungie take the unorthodox route of stripping the […]

It’s really interesting how an entire series could be built on visions of Hell, torture, bondage and necrophilic imagery. Then again, when entering the worlds of Clive Barker, you could never really know what to expect to see or read. Barker, a multi-faceted artist, started getting published as a writer […]

The “Halloween” franchise has a lot of really good and really bad movies. How does it stand up as a franchise despite its flaws, though? It actually stands its ground fairly well. In 1978, John Carpenter did something absolutely incredible that not only changed the face and presentation of horror, […]

By Sergio Guzman News Editor   A group of 26 NEIU students traveled to Springfield, Ill. on Oct. 15 to join over 2,000 students from other Illinois colleges and universities to meet with state legislators in an effort to restore MAP funding.  The funding for the Illinois Monetary Award Program (MAP) […]

If writing an academic paper makes you break into a cold sweat that has you text messaging friends for help, never fear! The Center for Academic Writing has opened its doors for the first time this semester, just in time to help students achieve their goals of academic excellence in […]

The Latino Coalition of Awareness and Protection (EL CAP) decorated half of Alumni Hall on Oct. 13 and 14 with two themes in mind: giving out information on drinking and driving, and Halloween. Committee members of EL CAP, known as peer leaders and peer educators, set up various poster boards […]

Most students that drive to NEIU complain about parking in one way or another.  This complaining pertains to either the students that pay for and park at the NEIU premises or to those “smart” individuals that choose not to pay for NEIU parking and fight tooth and nail for parking […]