The Illinois Tech Student Government Association (SGA) held its fourth senate hearing of the fall 2018 semester on Wednesday, October 24 at 9:15 p.m. in Stuart Building 113. All Illinois Tech students are invited to these biweekly meetings held with the purpose of approving or denying new student organizations, giving and receiving updates on projects and staff meetings from executive board members, and learning about the developments senators have made on their projects. 

With The Wealth Pool (TWP), Lamark is looking to help individuals of various financial statuses with an app that will allow them to see “how they stack up financially with their peers” in “an anonymous pool of shared financial data [that] gives you greater clarity on your finances and helps improve your financial well-being.”

"Written in Red" is an urban fantasy novel by Anne Bishop. The story takes place in a world where humans grow into a world along side a race of…Others. The Others, terre indigene,or earth natives. The title isn’t important. Among the humans also live the cassandra sangue,or blood prophets, who hold the power to see into the future when their skin is cut. Meg Corbyn is one of these cassandra sangue.

A few days before Halloween sets in, the Bog at Illinois Tech witnessed the trailer of how the upcoming days of Halloween would look like. October 25 was a night of celebrating the famous spooky dance of Michael Jackson, “Thriller."

Wednesday, October 17 marked the release of "Jackbox Party Pack 5." For anyone who hasn't played any "Jackbox" game before, all you need to know that it is a collection of party games meant to be played in group settings for the simple sake of having some fun. With this release, there are some fascinating new installments to this already amazing franchise:

It is in office number 146A of the Pritzker Science Center that I first met Professor Bryce Littlejohn, an experimental neutrino physicist. The word "neutrino" might sound intimidating, even for a physics major such as myself, but it can be generally described simply as a fundamental particle - or, in Littlejohn's words, "an electron without charge." 

They say it is never a good idea to go down a rabbit hole, either metaphorically or literally, but I believe a venture down one of those metaphorical holes (definitely not the real ones as I have written about before) may be worth the time and effort.

To better promote themselves and the valuable (as well as downright interesting, in the opinion of this TechNews writer) work they do for the university, the University Archives and Special Collections held its first open house on the afternoon of Thursday, October 18.

“Fallout 76” holds the distinction of being Bethesda Game Studios’ first online multiplayer game. For the first time in the developer’s history, they are developing an open-world experience that players will explore in real-time with others in a dynamic online experience. Whether to team up in a party of four and explore together or to pick fights with each other in hostile shootouts, “Fallout 76” will be a very experimental foray by the developer, combining their tried and true open-world formula with the unpredictable and chaotic nature of online player interaction.