No hoverboards. No self-tying laces, flying cars, dehydrated pizzas or even holographic movie displays propagate our lives like it did for those living the futuristic Hill Valley featured in "Back to the...
On Sept. 28, California governor Jerry Brown signed into law the “Yes Means Yes” bill. The new law is aimed at reducing sexual assault on California’s college campuses by requiring affirmative consent...
The image candidate Bruce Rauner has cultivated is somewhat unique: A Midwestern cowboy-businessman; a common man who rides Harley and wears plaid, whose morning alarm is an $18 Timex watch, whose first...
On Oct. 4, for the first time in 50 years, there was not a single cartoon on Saturday morning. The old glory days of getting up at 7 o’clock in the morning, eating breakfast, setting the popcorn ready...
The phantom ring: it’s that feeling when you just know your phone vibrated in your pocket. You know it was real, you can sense it, that someone is trying to contact you. But when you take a look,...
The U-Pass is a devious point of contention; on the one hand, it allows carless commuters an affordable option for traversing the city. On the other, it is enforced on all full time students—regardless...
Last week, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced a proposal to lower drug possession penalties from felonies to misdemeanors. Police officers in the suburbs responded vehemently against the proposal—they would...
The Federal Government of the Unites States has dropped the ball once again. On Sept. 30, the Centers for Disease Control announced that a critically ill person who traveled to and from Liberia is infected...
One of the greatest disappointments since America’s involvement in Vietnam, lasting from the 1940’s until 1975 (when the United States left defeated), is America’s involvement in Iraq.
Both...
A wave of controversy has surrounded the salad bar in the NEIU cafeteria—the flat prices are gone, and in their stead is a new weight system; 39 cents per ounce of ingredients. The new system has been...
