Some smart and passionate faculty members and students have been engaged in a spirited debate about the future destination of the Communication Studies Department in college restructuring. I believe the right choice is Arts, Media and Design (AMD), where the School of Journalism...

By Jared Shafran, News Staff Maybe it was a Thanksgiving hangover. Despite a late push, the men's hockey team could not complete a comeback, losing to visiting Vermont 3-2 Friday. Matthews Arena did not include the usual Huskies faithful, as the game was played over break,...

By Anne Baker Criticism is a bit of a rough job. Sometimes we say things we know will hurt, not out of anger or spite, but out of love. The most valuable service anyone can do for this university is to stand up and call it like he sees it. And many of us do. On the pages of...

By Jason Mastrodonato, News Correspondent The No. 8 Northeastern women's ice hockey team solidified its position in first place in Hockey East after going 2-1 in three conference games over the holiday week. The Huskies (10-3-2, 6-2-2-1 Hockey East) won a pair of one-goal thrillers,...

There's no delicate way to say this, so we'll be blunt:' The football program should have been cut, and it should have been cut two years ago. The facilities are poor, the costs are high, the profit is low and attendance at games was embarrassingly low. That said, the way it...

By Andrew Parente, News Staff Husky fans who struggle with keeping their nerves in check are going to have a tough time watching the men's basketball team this year. In five contests this year, each one has come down to the game's last few possessions and hasn't been decided...

By Gal Tziperman Lotan, News Staff When Jonathan Mark attended Northeastern in the early 1970s, he would visit his father, Dr. Melvin Mark's, office in the College of Engineering on a daily basis. 'He was very funny,' said Jonathan Mark, who graduated Northeastern with a civil...

By Patrick McHugh, News Staff Players raised helmets to the sky as the clock ticked down on the Parsons Field scoreboard. The Northeastern football team would soon rush the field in celebration as fans cheered, some even uncorking champagne bottles in the stands. On Nov. 23,...

At 7:48 p.m. Sunday, I found myself answering a phone call that knocked the wind out of me. My best friend of three years, a football team member, could barely get out this one, seemingly simple sentence; 'Amanda, they cut the team.' I'm a journalism major, and we do pride ourselves...

I can only imagine what it must feel like to have your entire world ripped out from under you in less than 10 seconds. How it must feel to realize that everything you have worked so hard for is no longer valid and what you thought was your future has been completely compromised....

By Patrick McHugh, News Staff The football team finished its fifth consecutive losing season in 2008, garnering only two wins in 10 games. Still, in December that year, it appeared the program had a place at Northeastern, according to a newsletter distributed by alumni group...

I woke up this morning to the discouraging news that Northeastern Athletics Director Peter Roby made the difficult decision to cut the football program. While not considered the apple of the university's eye the last few seasons, and amid the turmoil left in the wake of former...