#8220;They would come up to me on the street and whisper, ‘tell the truth.’ In a career filled with encounters with war, violence and bloodshed across the globe, American journalist and author Barbara Victor spoke from experience about the fear and repression she saw in her visit to Burma. Burma […]

If you’re in a slump, writers block or just feeling flat, be creative. This was the overriding theme at the “Creativity Conference” sponsored by the Honors Program and Honors Society, and organized by Dana Cooley. This three-day conference focused primarily on creative methods to “stoke or spark one’s creative fire, […]

President Hahs attended her first Board of Trustees meeting since her election as university president last week. Hahs laid out some of her new initiates including a statement of values for the university and a set of peer institutions NEIU will use as bench marks to measure against. Other items […]

Free speech, access to classes and money were the overriding themes discussed in sometimes fierce and sometimes tepid debates for Student Government Association (SGA) elections held last week. Only a third of the candidates came out to “Debate day” April 5 in the cafeteria answering questions from the students written […]

Students, Matt Larson and Kenneth Barrios, appeared in court for a second time on March 28. Barrios’ charges were reduced to a “2A battery” a less severe charge of battery. In this procedural hearing the university offered to drop their charges of interfering with a public institution if Larson and […]

The Governor’s office has released its Fiscal Year (FY) 2008 Budget and is well on the way to having it considered by the Illinois General Assembly. The General Assembly is set to vote on the budget in May. The process started in June 2006. FY 2008 starts July 1, 2007. […]

Instead of relaxing during spring break, a group of ten NEIU students helped victims of Hurricane Katrina rebuild their homes and their lives. “You don’t see it on the news now, how it really is down there,” says Politics Club President and trip organizer Jonathon Winkler, who led the group […]

Every other Friday night, at a nice little pub called the Green Door Tavern, you can catch a great improvisational group called Liquid. Liquid is a group of several improvers who do political and social satire. Improv is basically like watching a play that is made up on the spot, […]

A sad and unlikely friendship between two lost men and their very different struggles with themselves is the main theme of Columbia Pictures’ Reign Over Me. Charlie Fineman (Adam Sandler) and Alan Johnson (Don Cheadle) were college roommates in dental school over a decade ago. Since then, Alan has gone […]

Chicago’s “Window to the World,” PBS station WTTW launched a Spanish language channel March 5, 2007. According to a press release dated February 7, 2007, WTTW joined eighteen other PBS stations across the country in presenting V-Me. V-Me (pronounced veh-meh) is a fresh Spanish language network that provides quality broadcasting […]