Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) boasts its diversity as a means of attracting potential students, and with events such as Garba Night, it may have a good reason to.   NEIU’s Indian Students Association (ISA) held its first Garba night, filled with traditional Indian food, music and dancing. Students from […]

  The excitement in the gym was heard throughout the entire P.E. complex for NEIU’s men’s and women’s soccer clubs. On Saturday night, October 20, campus was empty except for the P.E complex that was full of loud fans cheering on the Golden Eagles as they played other clubs from […]

  The San Francisco Giants did something that would “knock the guts out of a baseball”. Like the Boston Red Sox in 2006, the Giants beat the odds and won a spot to compete in the 2012 World Series. The Giants came from behind in a game that was for […]

  Peggy Valdes is an exemplary undergraduate student and scholar, but returning to college as an adult presented her with a number of challenges.  It was the Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies (BAIS) Program and Nontraditional Degree Programs that provided her with a path forward. It would have been […]

  Returned student Israel Gonzalez’s 16 years of experience in boxing and seven years of self-defense  kickboxing started with self-determination. It began in his basement when he started training himself by watching videos of his favorite fighters and following their movements. In his twenties, he stepped into a gym and […]

  “Are you hurt or are you injured?” Anyone who has ever played a sport, any sport, has probably heard this at one time or another. It is simple, injured means medically unable to continue playing, while hurt means rub some dirt on it and get that butt back in […]

    You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown jumpstarted the 2012-13 theatre season at the Stage Center Theatre earlier this month at Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU).  Five shows ran over four days, from October 10 to 13.                                                                                                                                 The set was simple with Snoopy’s doghouse, Charlie’s mailbox, Schroeder’s piano, four […]

  Around the world, multiple books have documented different myths about relatively unknown monsters. This Halloween season, as one gets ready to share scary stories around the campfire, here are some weird and sometimes funny stories about some ghouls, goblins and spirits unfamiliar to many. A work entitled “Yaokai Attack! […]

  There are few things more overwhelming than being a teenager living in our current era. Pre-adults are thrown headfirst and disoriented into an adult world weathered with age and experience. Their only hope is desperately clinging to the life raft of anything that passes by in television or magazines, […]

  Alpha-males spitting venom at each other dominated the presidential debates this year.  President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney went for each other’s throats in the second and third presidential debates on Oct. 16 and 22.  Mounting pressure for President Obama to actually show up to the second […]