By Jackie Pearce Rajesh Punjabi usually spends the holidays in New Jersey with his family and girlfriend. But instead of trekking home this December, Punjabi and other members of Northeastern's Engineers Without Borders (EWB) flew to Central America, where they designed and...

Northeastern is screaming for a film festival. Or rather, Boston's colleges need a film festival and Northeastern needs to be part of it. Of course, I realize Northeastern already has film festivals, and other related events. Screenings of films by students who are cinema studies...

By Pat Tarantino By the morning of Nov. 29, 2008, news reports had painted Mumbai, India as a war zone. The streets of India's financial capital were littered with blood, smoke and debris as wounded civilians were rushed to hospitals. Those left standing struggled to piece together...

Northeastern may be a tax exempt institution, but a political endeavor by Mayor Thomas M. Menino may drive the school to contribute more financially after years of donating substantially smaller amounts than other local universities and colleges. Menino announced an initiative...

Hold the champagne, the midnight kisses and the resolutions. The long anticipated "New Year" actually begins Jan. 20, and I am certain I will not be the only one to celebrate its arrival. Although there will be no ball drop in New York's Times Square, the evening has the potential...

By Jeanine Budd Since 1999, when former Northeastern student Shawn Fanning ignited popular peer-to-peer file sharing by developing Napster in his residence hall, the phenomenon has spread from the NU campus outward like an unstoppable epidemic. Consequently, the Recording...

George Bluth had a saying: "There's always money in the banana stand." And Mitch Hurwitz, creator of "Arrested Development" - the Fox sitcom that was canceled before its time but was resurrected on DVD - realizes there's probably some money in the multiplex, too. According...

By Jared Shafran A clash between two of the top ten teams in the country saw the No. 6 men's hockey team emerge with a tough 3-2 overtime loss to No. 4 Minnesota in the championship game of the Dodge Holiday Classic Saturday at the Mariccui Arena in Minneapolis. The loss came...

By Andrew Parente With four games during the next seven days, it was important for the men's basketball team to get off to a good start in the New Year. The Huskies were able to do just that as they posted a 60-44 win over William ' Mary at Matthews Arena Saturday afternoon....

By Rob Tokanel While police departments in Boston and throughout Massachusetts are still hammering out specific guidelines to enforce the new law regarding marijuana possession passed Nov. 4, Northeastern officials maintain the university drug policy will not change. Possession...

Law professor to speak on gender identity law Dean Spade, assistant professor of law at the Seattle University School of Law, will speak on Trans Politics in a Neoliberal Landscape Tuesday, Jan. 6, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in 230 Dockser Hall as part of the "Producing Sex:...

Like White Castle burgers and cheap beer, these television shows are best enjoyed in bulk. Thankfully, they've all graduated to DVD. They've all breached Amazon.com's list of the 100 most purchased TV series, too. There's no excuse not to be watching - for hours on end. "BATTLESTAR...