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Are Guns Safe in the Hands of all Citizens?

Ashley Hovde, Contributor January 25, 2011

    A year ago I discovered that I'm a great shot a natural with a 9mm. I emptied a clip into my first target – never missing the orange "person" and achieving five "kills." Although...

Graduate School: To Enroll or Not to Enroll Commentary

Agustin Flores January 25, 2011

As undergraduates entering our last semesters we may already feel the frigid and austere wind of the real world sneaking through the sheltered halls of academia here at NEIU. Short of an existential crisis,...

First things first…

Patrick O'Brien, Writer September 28, 2006

There were several NEIU presidential candidates on campus this past week to meet with students and staff, to press the flesh, so to speak, and answer questions about what they would do in the top job at...

All-time low attendance

Felicia Maxa, Staff writer September 26, 2006

During student activity hour on Sept. 19, the Free Speech Taskforce held an open forum. Only three students attended. It is this number, the number three, that brings to mind the searing question: do...

The obesity culprit: fast food

Jennifer Maciuba, Staff writer September 26, 2006

The perception of the number calories in fast food is skewed in the American mind, as found by a study recently published by the Annals of Internal Medicine and reported by msnbc.com. People, in general,...

Sizing up: vanity sizes

Martii Kuznicki, Staff writer September 26, 2006

Ladies, take a look in your closet. Okay, maybe you're reading this before class or in your office, but think about your closet. Think about the sizes of clothes in your closet. Chances are those sizes...

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