My first faculty senate meeting was interesting, to say the least. This meeting seemed like a mild SNL skit. The meeting seemed normal, from glasses being thrown and tantrums being...

  The ‘fiction’ that is being discussed in Cord Jefferson’s (“Watchmen”, “The Good Place”) adaptation of Percival Everrett’s, “Erasure'' and feature directorial debut, “American...

“A Place to Achor: Journalism, Cancer, and Rewriting Mi Vida as a Latina on the Border” is an autobiography written by Estela Casas, that affords the reader the opportunity to see inside this woman’s...

  CASEP Leadership LLC (CLLLC) was invited to see James M. Nederlander Theatre’s production of “Hamilton”, a musical written by Lin-Manuel Miranda about the life of our founding father, Alexander...

Music, a murder mystery, and a meeting with an Ancient Greek Muse. This is the backdrop for the story told by Summerfall Studios' most recent title, “Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical”. You begin...

If you are familiar with the names Bonnie, Chica, Foxy and Freddy Fazbear from the video game “Five Nights at Freddy’s” (FNAF) which spawned several games in the 2010s, then you will love the live...

Last year’s article in The Independent on rock climbing compared the climbing sport to video games as a way to encourage more novices to play the game of climbing. Like in video game design, when newcomers...

The long-awaited video game, “Super Mario Bros. Wonder” (SMBW) was finally released in retail stores on Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. It is the newest 2D scrolling platformer sequel to the Super Mario Bros....

Since the release of the Lech Walesa Hall (LWH) article from the last issue of the Independent, students have been taking action around NEIU. You might have noticed posters titled “RENAME LECH WALESA...

Here I was at Stateville’s Health Care Unity (Hereinafter HCU), on Friday August 18, 2023… I felt sick but not totally out of it. I had been there since 9:30 in the morning, waiting to see Dr. Perez....