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Interfaith Conference: A Dialog on Forgiveness

In today’s current climate where religion divides people and is the source of turmoil for many, the “Interfaith Conference” brought together various religious leaders to show the great similarities of religions to bring us together, as opposed to the minute details that tear people apart.     A Dialog on Forgiveness […]

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Food for Thought: Hunger/Homelessness Awareness Week:

Food for thought: hunger/homelessness awareness week, November 15-20 is a new annual tradition at Northeastern Illinois University.  During this unique charitable event, three cans of food knocked off $5. worth of library fines with donations benefiting the Greater Chicago Food Depository. Custom bowls created by faculty artisans and painted by […]

Arts

127 Hours Review

By Ivan Favelevic Editor-in-Chief As far as survival movies go, Hollywood has shown us nearly every exploitation of the formula. From “Castaway” to “Alive,” the premise is simple: leave a survivor in a remote location and have them fight to survive. However, “127 Hours” does something refreshingly different. It repeats […]

Sports

Mixed Martial Arts: The New Fight Club

Punching, kicking, striking, grappling, elbowing, kneeing, clinching and throwing. No, it’s not your uncles fighting over the last Thanksgiving turkey leg; they’re all legal moves in Mixed Martial Arts, a sport that’s been taking over the world as it gains notoriety as each month goes on. Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) […]

Arts

Due Date Movie Review

Driving across the country with Zach Galifianakis would be an utter nightmare if he was anything like the character he plays in “Due Date,” Ethan Tremblay. Peter Highman, played by costar Robert Downey Jr., probably should have even received an award after being in a car with Ethan from Atlanta […]

Opinion

Bipartisanship Failure in America

At the beginning of this month, something great happened.  The annoying political advertisements, that seemed to run every two minutes on every single television station, finally ceased.  This happened, of course, because the 2010 mid-term elections came and went.  There are still races that have not been decided, but as […]

Opinion

Educate Yourself About Politics: Don’t Cast a Blind Vote

The power to cast a vote in to elect an official is exceptionally powerful. When the United States was founded in 1776, the founding fathers of this country restricted the ability to vote. Only wealthy white landowners were afforded the right to vote initially. For nearly two hundred years, those […]

Opinion

McDonald’s Gets a Price Hike

#8220;Mom!  I’m hungry!”  This refrain greets me every day when I pick up my children from school.  While I try to pack healthy food and be prepared with after-school snacks, I am not perfect, especially in times of stress.  Occasionally, we go through the drive-through at McDonald’s and attempt to […]

Arts

Interview with hip hop artist Rubén Borrero

Do you remember the first time you heard hip-hop? The first time you ever heard “A Tribe Called Quest”, “Common”, “Big Pun” or “Immortal Technique”, and felt the originality that spoke to your soul and made you bob your head to the beat?    That’s exactly what Rubén Borrero’s “The […]