By Rachel Zarrell The Curry Student Center Ballroom got a taste of Haiti Saturday night when the Haitian Student Unity (HSU) hosted the band Carimi as part of its efforts to collect school supplies for charity. The predominantly Haitian audience came en masse from schools...

By Michael Devine A newly introduced bill in Massachusetts Congress could require all colleges and universities to use fire-resistant paint in residence halls. The high density of students and the amount of electronics in residence halls makes them, as opposed to other buildings,...

By Kate Augusto Within a day of accepting a nomination to be a candidate in the race for next year's Student Government Association (SGA) president, Dan Kamyck, current SGA director of outreach under administration and public relations, may be out of the race. Nominations...

All college students deal with certain, individual burdens. Aside from the inherent pressures we face in the classroom every semester, we also have to focus on other matters - our family, our friends, our bills, our part-time jobs - basically, our regular lives. We are an on-the-go...

By Jeanine Budd Students walked the red carpet last night into a full Curry Student Center Ballroom to watch 16 movies for Campus MovieFest's Northeastern finale. The films shown ranged from dramatic to funny, action-packed to educational. The Campus MovieFest was sponsored...

By Chelsea Reil Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer-prize winning author of "The Hours," spoke to an audience of about 45 students at Blackman Auditorium Wednesday night. Writers Rambling, a group of student writers on campus, and Spectrum, Northeastern's literary magazine, sponsored...

By Michael Napolitano About one quarter of Northeastern students have said they are unsatisfied with Northeastern's myNEU e-mail program, according to a recent community satisfaction survey on the site. The survey, which collected people's opinions on a variety of myNEU features,...

By Andrew Parente Thomas Murphy, associate head coach of the men's basketball team, was recognized earlier this week by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) for his community work during his time spent at Hamilton College in New York. Murphy received the Division...

By Elizabeth LeBlanc The staff and students at Berklee College of Music have been dreaming about a coffee shop performance venue for years, but weren't able to make their dream a reality until this past winter. Last night's kick-off event at Cafe 939 was the fruition of months...

The volleyball team will make an addition to its coaching staff for the 2008 season. Head coach Ken Nichols announced last week that he will be adding Resa Forsythe as an assistant coach. Forsythe comes by way of the University of Alabama-Birmingham (UAB), where she was part...

By Marc Larocque Boston Parks commissioner Antonia Pollak suggested last week that large grass-trampling gatherings should no longer be allowed on Boston Common, but should instead be held on the concrete-clad City Hall Plaza. This came during a public hearing March 19, the...

By Garrett Shaw Mission Hill Main Streets (MHMS), a local grassroots consortium of businesses, organizations and residents, has recently announced its "Racks of Art" competition. The competition is open to all college students interested in designing a multi-unit bike rack...