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NEIU Independent

Northeastern Illinois University's student-run newspaper

NEIU Independent

Northeastern Illinois University's student-run newspaper

NEIU Independent

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Police Blotter

January 13, 2015

The following offenses occurred on NEIU’s campuses from Nov. 26 to Dec. 16 of 2014: 1. Fine Arts Building, Nov. 26, an unknown offender wrote graffiti on a toilet paper dispenser in the handicap stall...

PSA: Student Leaders in Election

Emmanuel Gonzalez, Managing Editor January 13, 2015

Be civically engaged, and earn $170 at the same time as a student election judge on Feb. 24. Becoming an election judge simply requires the submission of an application form which can be found at...

The Poll Booths are Coming

The Poll Booths are Coming

Rut Ortiz, News Editor October 21, 2014

If you don’t know who the judicial candidates are for the upcoming election in November, now is the time to find out. There will be a vote as to which candidates will sit in open slots within the...

Police Blotter

Police Blotter

October 21, 2014

The following offenses occurred on NEIU’s main campus between Sept. 18 and Oct. 8. 1. E-Building, Sept. 18, an unknown offender wrote graffiti on bathroom walls in men’s bathroom. 2. P.E. Building,...

Where Has All the Club Money Gone?

Where Has All the Club Money Gone?

Steven Villa, News Editor October 21, 2014

Though the main attraction of any university is academics, life at NEIU would not be the same without its 100 or so student-led organizations. Student media (such as WZRD, or the Independent), student...

Protesters choose rhetoric as the image of their discontent.

University Daze at University Day

Luis Badillo, Writer October 21, 2014

Just outside Alumni Hall where professors, staff and administration discussed the future of NEIU was a gathering of a different type. Forty to 50 students and professors collected in the Student Union...

Hahs speaks of NEIU’s future plans to improve enrollment.

State of the University Address

Paloma Porte October 7, 2014

Each year, NEIU President Sharon Hahs addresses students, faculty, and administration with the state of the university address; the purpose of which is to highlight the mission of NEIU along with values,...

Kay McCorker from Illinois State University (left) and NEIU’s own Rifka Joly (right) giving a presentation on shared research.

50% Science, 50% Students, 100% Symposium

Maya Wagner October 7, 2014

Though NEIU is home to many English, Art, Music or other majors from liberal arts programs, every year is a chance for the students of the Science programs to flex their science muscles and show them...

A field of 9,000 poppies, each representing 1,000 war com- batant deaths at The National World War One Museum of America.

Can a Socialist Revolution Lead to Peace?

Rut Ortiz, News Editor October 7, 2014

  Picture this woeful past: the dying groans of men waft in the air amid gunfire. Pain basks in its ill obtained glory as to the chilly reality that is war. War gives birth to death and death...

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