Northeastern Illinois University's student-run newspaper

NEIU Independent
Northeastern Illinois University's student-run newspaper

NEIU Independent
Northeastern Illinois University's student-run newspaper

NEIU Independent
Monty Stites

Monty Stites, Editor In Chief

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Student Journalist Files Ethics Complaint Against NEIU Administrator

Monty Stites and Dan Maurer
April 21, 2023
NEIU Faculty Senate Passes Motion For a Vote of No Confidence on President Gibson’s Job Performance

NEIU Faculty Senate Passes Motion For a Vote of No Confidence on President Gibson’s Job Performance

Dan Maurer and Monty Stites
October 18, 2022

Michael Pollan Demonstrates Humanity’s Love for Psychoactive Plants

Monty Stites, Editor In Chief
April 29, 2022
Old Irving Co. is one of the Breweries participating in the event. "Old Irving Brewing Co." by howderfamily.com is marked with CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

News Nuggets No. 2

Erwin Lopez Rada and Monty Stites
April 27, 2022
Unsplash- Anna Shvets.

NEIU Frustratingly Persists in On-Campus Mask Requirements

Monty Stites, Editor In Chief
March 12, 2022
Anti-Vaccine Mandate Letter Should Not Have Been Reported to NEIU Police

Anti-Vaccine Mandate Letter Should Not Have Been Reported to NEIU Police

Monty Stites, Editor In Chief
March 1, 2022
Northeastern Illinois University Police File Station Information Report on Anonymous Letter Demanding End to Mandates

Northeastern Illinois University Police File Station Information Report on Anonymous Letter Demanding End to Mandates

Monty Stites, Editor In Chief
March 1, 2022
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life Book Review

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life Book Review

Monty Stites, Editor In Chief
March 1, 2022
University Mask Mandate's End Is Up in the Air

University Mask Mandate’s End Is Up in the Air

Monty Stites, Editor In Chief
February 16, 2022
Woke Racism Book Review

Woke Racism Book Review

Monty Stites, Editor In Chief
February 15, 2022
Return to Campus Interim Policy Highlights

Return to Campus Interim Policy Highlights

Monty Stites, Editor In Chief
February 4, 2022
Return To Campus Update Reports Above National Average Vaccination Rate

Return To Campus Update Reports Above National Average Vaccination Rate

Monty Stites, Editor In Chief
November 3, 2021

Chappelle Is Not Transphobic

Monty Stites, Editor In Chief
October 28, 2021
A Book Worth a Read: “The Anarchist Handbook” by Michael Malice

A Book Worth a Read: “The Anarchist Handbook” by Michael Malice

Monty Stites, Editor In Chief
October 28, 2021

Northeastern Illinois University’s 2020-2021 Finance & Administration Report Released

Monty Stites, Editor In Chief
October 22, 2021
The Closer: Dave Chappelle Shuts the Door on LGBTQ

The Closer: Dave Chappelle Shuts the Door on LGBTQ

Monty Stites, Editor In Chief
October 21, 2021
Paramedics Respond to Resident in Distress at The Nest

Paramedics Respond to Resident in Distress at The Nest

Monty Stites, Erwin Lopez Rada, and Jack Poskus
September 28, 2021
The Student Health Services is open Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m.

Interim Campus Covid and Contact Tracing Policy

Monty Stites, Editor In Chief
September 25, 2021
An Overly Cautious Return

An Overly Cautious Return

Monty Stites, Editor In Chief
August 26, 2021
Photo by Monty Stites

Increasing the Firearm Purchase Age Could Increase Other Adulthood Milestones

Monty Stites, Editor In Chief
April 20, 2021
Rowland Scherman, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Character Focused Instead of Color Blind

Monty Stites, Editor In Chief
April 20, 2021
Image via The White House/Wikimedia Commons

President Biden, Setting The Stage For Limiting Rights

Monty Stites, Editor In Chief
April 20, 2021
Breathing Better in a Respiratory Crisis

Breathing Better in a Respiratory Crisis

Monty Stites, Editor In Chief
April 6, 2021
"I Voted!" by Vox Efx is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Opinion: Proportionality, Not Popularity, is the Path to Reform

Monty Stites, Editor In Chief
February 26, 2021
NEIU opens emergency fund for students amid coronavirus concerns

NEIU opens emergency fund for students amid coronavirus concerns

Monty Stites, Editor In Chief
March 29, 2020

OPINION | America should retain and reform the electoral college

Montgomery Blair
March 10, 2020
Florentine Flogging Demonstration by Dom Scott

‘Wild & Sublime’ sex positivity in Chicago

Monty Stites, Editor In Chief
March 10, 2020
RIP to The Nude Organist

Remembering Terry Jones of Monty Python

Montgomery Blair
February 11, 2020

Field Museum’s night of the great ideas

Montgomery Blair
February 11, 2020
Chief Escalante with officers Paul Whitfield, Sebastian Czerech and Dexter Johnson.

Campus police services for NEIU community

Earnest Beeson and Montgomery Blair
February 11, 2020

Alumni speak in series of Hindsight

Montgomery Blair, Writer
February 11, 2020

A Blizzard of Information

Monty Stites, Editor In Chief
January 28, 2020
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Opinion | Trump impeachment at a standstill.

Monty Stites, Editor In Chief
January 28, 2020
"Sports Pictogram" by Darren Booth is licenced under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

An Inquiry into Trans in Sports

Monty Stites, Editor In Chief
January 14, 2020

Welcoming Weed With a Winding Wait

Monty Stites, Editor In Chief
January 14, 2020

The aftermath of a missile mayhem

Monty Stites, Editor In Chief
January 14, 2020

Jojo Rabbit Starts to Question His World

Monty Stites, Editor In Chief
December 3, 2019
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