Tiny, colorful handprints decorate a patient room wall at Northwestern Medicine Chicago Proton Center in Warrenville. Each one signed by a child whose life was saved through proton beam cancer therapy. “When...

If you threw an encyclopedia to be devoured by a black hole, could you ever retrieve its information back again? Even with today’s most powerful supercomputers, there are limitations to the complexity...

After releasing a video explaining why she turned down corporate money to aid her election hopes for the Cook County Board, then 19-year-old Bushra Amiwala was surprised to receive messages saying, “I...

What is a living wage? Is higher pay for lower-end workers an entitlement or a fundamental right? The College of DuPage pays student workers $8.50/hour and limits them to a 20-hour workweek. Students...

Gray asexual, demi-sexual, agender, bigender, trigender, cisgender, otherkin, heteroromantic, homoromantic, akoisexual, panalterous, polyalterous, quoiromantic, quoisexual. At what point in the alphabet...

For my eighteenth birthday, my parents bought me a used acoustic guitar and hiking boots. Bruce Isackson, president of a Californian real estate firm, spent $350,000 to buy his daughter into the University...

Are the first children of a new generation, free from inheritable and genetic disease, already born? Do we already possess the technology to eradicate muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis, edit out...

Secrecy. Sudden and undemocratically lacking public input. That’s how Dan Bailey, candidate for College of DuPage’s Board of Trustees in the April election, characterized the board’s process to...

“It’s an amazing thing to see, this big, round, blue planet in the blackness of space. The first time I saw this, it really hit me: all 7.5 billion of us live on an island in our solar system. We really...

Desperate voter, longing to be satisfied. Republicans fall in line, but Democrats fall in love. O the field is many, but my heart is just one. Which candidate shall sweep me off my feet? Whose progressive...

NEWS COLUMN: Imperialism is how Americans learn geography. As President Donald Trump prepares a national emergency declaration to appropriate border wall funds, the real migration crisis in the Americas...

My penis was chiseled out of marble by the hand of God himself. When I bleed, I don’t cry. I’m no sissy. Women are conquests. Men are threats. There’s power in my stride, intensity in my stare...

There is a difference between doing what is easy, and what is right. It is easy to submit to revenge. It is easy to seek out retribution over upholding the ethics of justice. The death penalty is...

(12/12/18) “There is not a smoking gun – there is a smoking saw.” No, Senator Graham, there is a smoking bomb – and it’s American made. Three years into the brutal war in Yemen and Congress...

The three mighty arms swing in precarious balance. If one becomes too heavy, the others have responsibility to level our democracy and safeguard the constitution. President Donald Trump has signed...

My grandmother is a resolve to a dominant seventh chord. I only vaguely remember her laugh. But when the subtle strings raise the elegant opening melody of Aaron Copland’s “Our Town Suite,” I once...

As feds arrested a deranged Trump acolyte for mailing packaged bombs to prominent Democrats and vocal Trump dissidents, pundits like Fox Business’ Lou Dobbs joined the battle to control the public narrative. “Fake...

Turning his back to the laughter, Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef stepped into darkness. Positioned behind a solitary table, the stage was dimly lit to mimic the room where former Egyptian President Mohamed...

“I’m just a sweet transvestite, from Transsexual, Transylvania.” Life is too short to be straight. And in the age of President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, life is too long...

Poised to riot, poised to protest, the city released a collective breath as the verdict was announced. Former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke was found guilty of second-degree murder in the Oct....

“Physics was invented and built by men.” CERN physicist Alessandro Strumia shocked an audience of young female scientists attending a Sept. 28 lecture meant to highlight gender and diversity challenges...

President Trump, is this the way America’s global dominance ends; not with a bang, not with a whimper, but in laughter? President Donald Trump pontificated before the 73rd session of the United Nations...

History doesn’t repeat itself, but unfortunately, it rhymes. Twenty-seven years removed from Anita Hill testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Christine Blasey Ford has accused Supreme...

When you walk into an interview with the athletic director, and a public relations coordinator is coaching answers from the corner, you come to a sudden realization: President Rondeau’s official policy...

To stand before the darkening clouds, the low rumble of nature’s ferocity, is to feel the immensity of existence raining down upon you. Few moments can ignite wonder, like the strike of lightning reflecting...

In times of gross injustice and mass oppression of human rights, the most culpable sin one can be guilty of is silence. Complicity comes not only in the perpetration of heinous acts, but in the surrender...

I picture myself, staring up, from down inside my satin-lined, stainless steel casket. Eyes sewn shut. Yet somehow, I can still see the silhouettes of those who loved me gathered above my bloodless body....

In times of darkness we turn to figures of light. As I see hysterical children being taken away from their parents, desperate people fleeing violence and persecution only to be deported back to their...

The word “love” is affectionately used 613 times across the revolutionary canon that makes up The Beatles’ career. This love transcended boundaries, shaking the world unlike any popular movement...

Sending shockwaves throughout the nation, in a decision that could re-define American policy for the next several decades, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, 81, announced he will retire July 31 after...

Shove your fist down your throat. Rip out your aching heart. Place it down, bleating in the tragic light before you. And watch the shadows befall it as you turn your back to forever walk away. Darkness,...

I found myself crying harder than I had in years. Anguish welling in my eyes, an inescapable depression streaming down my face. How could Bowie be gone? Close people in my life, even family members,...

The Chaparrals Outdoor Track and Field team’s season-long efforts resulted in, 25 NJCAA Division I National Qualifiers, and 9 NJCAA Division I All-Americans. Under head coach Robert Cervenka,...

You almost forget to feel the pain. Almost. A dash of silver, a flash of gold. Reverberations, “It could never happen to me,” echo throughout my paling frame. The warmth sizzles as it hits...

This time the bombs looked different. A noxious gas released into the night air, choked, burned and suffocated any poor soul trapped in its pitiless sting. As light broke on the April 7th attack in...

Stan Mikita was endowed my grandfather’s flamboyant “puke-coloured” trousers. An avid golfer, hockey legend Mikita was once a high-profile member at Medinah Country Club coinciding with my grandfather...

If you hold up your hand towards the light of the sun, every second, 65 billion subatomic particles called neutrinos pass through the fingernail on your thumb and continue on their near-speed of light...

Amidst silver-dollar sized snowflakes pummeling in a relentless sideways howl, the resounding echo of singing players rang out across the College of DuPage’s chilled softball stadium. As winter’s lingering...

“Why don’t we just bomb the sh*t outta ‘em. Just drop a nuke on their whole country.” The disdainful echo of my eye-roll at this casual mention of genocide falls on deaf ears. “Man this kid...

Smothered in a sea of testosterone, somewhere between salaciously, sultry, half-clothed, stereotypical women selling everything from GoDaddy to beer to Hardees burgers came an estrogenic emanated epiphany...

Exploding and radiating existence forth into vivacious creation, the entirety of the expansive cosmos can be pinpointed to a singularity 13.82 billion years ago from which the Universe and all its life...

(published 3/21/18) Stephen Hawking’s life proved even the darkest places in the universe radiate forth with light. Hawking’s radiation emanated from the magnetism of his charisma and the gravity...

Integral to being a Chaparral is the demanding of excellence and the innate drive to always push yourself forward beyond the limits of expectations. We must strive to push through every barrier of resistance...

(published 2/28/18) Crescendoing into an ultimate test of their season’s hard-fought efforts, College of DuPage’s Men’s and Women’s Indoor Track and Field teams will compete in the 2018 NJCAA...

Exemplifying the lack of mental concentration which has dodged them all season, the Chaparrals won the opening tip-off against the visiting Madison College Wolf Pack (16-9) only to immediately lose the...

Capitulating to a more amicable diplomatic position, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence transitioned from his hard-line isolation policy against nuclear-ambitioned North Korea to being open to diplomatic meetings...

Precariously traversing a diplomatic duality, autocratic North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has extended an “olive branch” of reconciliation towards South Korea while simultaneously displaying the pomp...

Defiantly trying to turn around their lackadaisical season (4-15) and end their final games with a momentum to build into the next year, the Chaparrals at home faced the seemingly hapless cross-county-line...

The wounds of cultural genocide are not easily healed. Luckily, as the writers of history, the dominant culture, we have the privilege to bestow upon our victims our greatest honour, naming our athletic...