There is an age-old question, “If a tree falls in the forest, and no one hears it, did it make a sound?” The more important question here is if a protester yells at state and no one is around to hear it, did it matter? In a recent issue of […]

The following time line details the horrifying events of April 16 surrounding the worst mass shooting in US history. This time line is courtesy of the Collegiate Times [CT] of Virginia Tech who provided it to the Independent. These excerpts were originally published on Mon April 16, 2007 on CT’s, […]

Students and faculty marched to President Sharon Hahs’ office following a rally in support of Matt Larson and Kenneth Barrios who were arrested at a protest of CIA recruiting last month in the P.E. Building. The rally was in protest of a disciplinary hearing that was scheduled for April 9, […]

Chicago Opera Theatre (COT) presented its opening spring performance of Monteverdi’s The Return of Ulysses (Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria). The Return of Ulysses, as the title suggests is based on Homer’s epic poem: The Odyssey. It was sung in its original Italian, with English superscripts. One theatre patron described […]

Egnaro is about the only creative thing to come out of this “music” is the band name itself … simply the word orange in reverse, as the Album title “The Panties Your Mother Laid Out For You” was put out locally by a studio named Reverse Orange Music, probably the […]

HPV is a very common sexually transmitted infection that is caused by the human papilloma virus (HPV). There are about 100 strains of the virus and about 30 of these strains are transmittable through sexual contact. According to the Center for Disease Control, approximately 20 million people are currently infected […]

Phil Cousineau was the keynote speaker for the First Annual Creativity Conference at NEIU March 28-30. In his lecture, “Stoking the Creative Fire” Cousineau discussed the human need to go through creative cycles. Cousineau presented a circular cycle of creativity, as well as clips of films about creativity. Cousineau is […]

A no-show at the candidate debates, Keenan Arnold was elected SGA president beating out current Student Trustee Peter Michalczyk by a slim margin in a vote of 236 to 204. The first online Student Government voter turnout was extremely low as in previous years at El Centro and Carruthers Center […]

Should a slight breeze have slid past the doors of El Centro’s reception lobby, it would have glided past the doors and fluttered the T-Shirts hanging near the offices, releasing the tension of the usually still fabric…perhaps drowning the evil that has been sketched and painted upon their cloth surfaces. […]

What does every student at NEIU have in common? They all want to graduate. It is well known that Northeastern has a low graduation rate, so how are students ever to get out of here? There are a few things that might help expedite the process. Go see your advisor […]