Let’s check the receipts. Marvel’s The Avengers (2012) had an overall box office take of1.5 Billion Dollars; DC Comics’ film entry The Dark Knight Rises (2012) has tickets totaling around1.08 Billion Dollars. With their intellectual properties thriving in the cinema and other media venues, comics, originally an industry found solely […]
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In the fall of 2010, the average age of students attending Governors State University was 34. Though we can assume that the average age at the university will drop once we accept freshmen on our campus in 2014, we still currently have a large number of adult students enrolled in […]
Technology hype is overrated
I am a consumer. Odds are if you are reading this you are also a consumer. Something that has recently occurred to me is how heavily influenced we all are by print media and digital media. Actually, take anything and throw media behind it and we are probably influenced by […]
Gun control at the center of Second Congressional District Debate
Democratic candidates for Illinois’ vacant Second District Congressional seat participated in a forum at GSU’s Center for Performing Arts on February 7. Fox 32’s Political Analyst, Mike Flannery moderated the event and was joined by Alderman Anthony Beale (Chicago), Robin Kelly (Matteson), Anthony Williams (Dolton), Gregory Haynes (Lynwood), Charles Rayburn […]
A message from the Editor-in-Chief
Welcome back to another semester at GSU! It seems like only yesterday the Fall semester was ending, yet here we are, already three weeks into the Spring semester. Time is flying by! On behalf of the Phoenix staff, I’d like to say that we are all excited for another semester […]
Letter to the Editor
For many of us, the recent winter holidays bring joy, excitement, special time and special memories with family members. But for many others, it is a time of anxiety, stress, fear. Consider these statistics: -1 in 4 women in the United States has experienced severe physical violence by an intimate […]
GSU hosts campus crawl
Governors State University kicked off the spring semester with a Campus Crawl during the first week. The event welcomed both new and returning students with an event that provided gifts, a raffle for an I-Pod, and plenty of information about services and departments across campus. The purpose of the Campus […]
Become a Student Voice of GSU
On December 12, 2012, Christopher Otten, a GSU’s student senator, attended a roundtable discussion at DePaul University about the Illinois Monetary Award Program (MAP). The Illinois MAP is a grant that is distributed to eligible students of need in higher education. Every year, the amount allotted for the MAP Grant […]
Workshop helps students deal with stress
To kick off the semester, the Academic Resource Center (ARC) held the “Dealing with College Stress” workshop to inform students about various ways to manage stress. The workshops were offered on January 29 and January 30, and all GSU students were welcome to attend. The workshop offered insightful information into […]
GSU mourns death of second president
The Governors State University community is mourning the loss of the school’s second president, Dr. Leo Goodman-Malamuth. Goodman-Malamuth passed away at his home in Laquinta, California on January 20 at the age of 88. Goodman-Malamuth held the top post at GSU from October 1977 through July 1992, and was […]