USG, state senator want hearings
by Erin Vogel in News
Last Monday, while many UIC students were sleeping in and taking advantage of their day off from school, 150 faculty members and 50 students met at the State of Illinois Building to protest the state's troubling lack of financial support for higher public education.
The university's crisis in a microcosm
by Gregory Royal Pratt in News
The Department of Economics at UIC is a perfect example of all that has gone wrong for the university in the last half-year.
Econ began the fall semester with the expectation that it would be able to take positive steps forward as a program. But things did not quite work out that way as the university's budget crisis deepened.
by Inna Rubin in News
The university opened a new resource center for commuter students last week, located in the basement of Student Center East.
Run by James Stewart, Assistant Director for Commuter Resources, the Commuter Student Resource Center offers commuter students a home away from home.
by Sergio Socite in News
The Westboro Baptist Church came to campus last week and left not with a bang, but a whimper.
Gathered at the corner of Taylor and Morgan, the Westboro Baptist Church brought four members of their community to UIC Hillel with messages of hatred for Jews, Barack Obama and homosexuals.
