By Anne Baker Newspapers, with their sticky newsprint and classy typeface, tend to illicit a heavy sigh from the kids of the iGeneration. Too preoccupied to look up from our cell phones, PDAs or gleaming white laptops, we often forgo newspapers to get the day's news from Matt...

Last weekend the women's crew opened its season with its varsity eight boat defeating Dartmouth, Rhode Island and Boston College. The Huskies beat the Big Green by 1.9 seconds and beat URI and BC by much larger margins - about 18 seconds before URI and 23 seconds before BC. Captain...

By Patrick McHugh Huskies pitcher Kris Dabrowiecki is a challenge for opposing batters to face. Standing on the mound at 6-feet-4-inches tall, the senior has a variety of pitches in his arsenal he can use to get hitters out. He can choose what he wants to throw at a particular...

By Alex Faust "This has been the most positive weekend that we have had," said Northeastern head coach Neil McPhee following the Huskies' split of a weekend series with nationally ranked UNC-Wilmington, noting the confidence boost the team received with the win and tie against...

There's an old Beatles song that goes, "You say goodbye and I say hello." I could easily say that about myself and the spring season, but in reverse - I'm saying goodbye as spring says hello. As we see the baseball, track and crew teams get into full swing, I'm handing the...

The legendary Alabama football coach Bear Bryant once yelled, "a tie is like kissing your sister." I could not agree with Bryant more, and that is one of the many things that makes baseball great, outside of one rouge all-star game - there is no tying (or for that matter crying)...

By Lily Sussman Edwin Urrutia stands shirtless in his kitchen and pours 14 ounces of whole milk into a blender. It's a few minutes after 6 p.m. on a cold Monday, and the sophomore finance major is sipping a protein shake while preparing another for his roommate, Joseph Cappellino....

The myNEU portal: We can't live with it, but we can't live without it. It provides students access to some of the most important information they need, but is impractical, inefficient and often impossible to use. The e-mail client is antiquated, driving many students to seek...

With the Student Government Association (SGA) president and upcoming executive board elections coming into focus, I am reminded of where I was this time last year and exactly why I quit SGA. I was on co-op in Washington, D.C. and wanted to run for executive board, having become...

This year's Student Government Association (SGA) presidential election started as a contest between Robert Ranley and Marines Piney. Two weeks after she accepted her nomination, Piney withdrew from the race. I had supported Piney and agreed with her campaign's focus on academic...

By Erin Kelly Correction: A previous version of this article contained incorrect information about the start date for the new system and listed an incorrect spelling for Charles Price, senior associate registrar. Students have customarily complained about accessing the course...

In 1924, the Student Government Association (SGA) was founded to serve as the united voice of the undergraduate student body at Northeastern. SGA, on its very own website, claims that "every undergraduate student is considered a part of SGA," and students are encouraged to participate...