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Letter to the Community

April 27, 2012

  NEIU students and faculty will soon receive a new Learning Management System (LMS) to support their academic courses. Our current LMS, Blackboard version 8, will be phased out gradually and be...

Gluten-Free – The Way To Be?

Joseph Daddario, Staff Writer April 27, 2012

  Celiac disease and the lesser-known non-celiac gluten sensitivity are buzzwords in the world of celebrity diets. Miley Cyrus recently touted having celiac disease and attributed her recent weight...

Debts vs. Students; Will Our Miseries Ever End?

Syed Ahad Hussain, Opinions Editor April 27, 2012

  Will this nation ever produce an affordable education to us students? US student loan debt has surpassed $1 trillion this year, exceeding both credit card and auto loan debts. Business Week says...

Oxfam Comes to NEIU

Syed Ahad Hussain, Opinions Editor April 17, 2012

        Oxfam is an international confederation of 15 organizations working together in over 90 countries and with partners and allies around the world to find...

NEIU Alumni Association Reception and HACU 17th Annual National Capitol Forum

April 17, 2012

                                  I left Chicago...

More Than a Month Later and Still No Justice for Trayvon Martin

Lakeeesha J. Harris, Staff Writer April 17, 2012

  Who hasn’t heard of the case of Trayvon Martin? Virtually everyone knows his name now. More importantly, we know the name of the man who took his life, George Zimmerman. So often the killers...

Letters to the Community Part 2

April 17, 2012

By NEIU Roger That wit Mo Information, is a new Student Union Podcast Series, hosted by Roger Byrd and Mo Partowie. It is a live podcast that is regularly scheduled on Tuesdays from 11am to 1pm. The...

Letters to the Community

April 17, 2012

  Attn: NEIU Community! Congratulations to the Asian American Heritage Committee (AAHC) Award Recipients We are pleased to announce the following recipients of the 2012 Asian American Heritage...

May Looking Messy For Chicago

Ryan Tolley, Staff Writer March 5, 2012

  May is right around the corner and Chicago will be welcoming the G8 and NATO summits May 19-21 but the question that lingers will be, is everyone going to welcome this as a great monumental...

Mandatory Contraceptives – Religious Liberties or Women’s Rights?

Ryan Tolley, Staff Writer March 5, 2012

Contraception has become the most recent hot button bipartisan issue. This leads us to wonder why President Obama believes now is a good time for America to fight over this battle. This issue that...

Submission

Syed Ahad Hussain, Opinions Editor March 5, 2012

"Having been so blessed in life, I often think of the things that I should be grateful for. The list al- ways seems to be never ending, but invariably it ends at one thing, that I was born as a MAN. Nothing...

Human Rights vs. Civil Rights

Iris Jackson, CCICS Correspondent Writer March 5, 2012

Ironically, human rights" and "civil rights" are often times mistaken for having the same meaning and are used interchangeably. Usually, the term "civil rights" is associated with the Black Power Movement...

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