This week the United States enters into the sixth year of its occupation of Iraq. For the past five years, the United States has waged an aggressive war against the Iraqi people, all in the name of corporate profit. We have come to learn the pretext used to justify the war -...

By Michele Richinick After the Boston Zoning Commission (BZC) passed the new housing ordinance that will limit all off-campus housing to four undergraduate students per lease, students who have already signed leases with more than four people are left wondering what will happen...

President George W. Bush recently vetoed H.R. 2082, the Intelligence Authorization bill, which prevents the Central Intelligence Agency and other US agents from using waterboarding, sexual humiliation, dogs and other techniques that amount to torture and ill-treatment. I continue...

Rob Ranley Rob Ranley looks beyond the big picture, he said. The Student Government Association (SGA) presidential candidate prefers instead to look at a problem "backwards" by first deciding what result he wants and then deciding how to get it, he said in an interview with...

By Jeanine Budd If people say that Ben Folds "brought down the house" last night, they're not lying. During the alternative rock artist's 18-song set, an audience member close to the front could see small pieces of the ceiling falling to the stage, something seemingly unnoticed...

By Amara Grautski In the span of a few months, students at Northeastern have seen their free on-campus newspaper options go from the Boston Globe to USA Today to nonexistent. In January, the New York Times Company, which owns the Boston Globe, decided to stop funding its program...

By Erin Semagin Damio Throughout his performance Saturday night at Blackman Auditorium, Anthony Rapp referenced other singers, like Elvis Costello and Michael Stipes from R.E.M., and expressed his admiration for them. At Blackman, though, Rapp was the idol in his own right who...

By Danny Deza Despite a decline in the past several years in the number of high school aged smokers nationwide, college students continue to smoke cigarettes and other tobacco products at roughly the same rate, as before a recent study suggests. According to that study, performed...

By James Eddy II Despite limited practice, the men's and women's track and field teams had a surprisingly strong performance in the Seahawk Invitational this weekend. NU had unexpected results for its first outdoor performance of the year. The team just ended its indoor season...

To say that the NU Shuffle will be eradicated by July is a ridiculous statement. Don't worry, I know that. I'd like to clarify a few points that were discussed in the Feb. 28 article in The News, "Fiore: Shuffle to end by June." I perhaps was not clear enough when discussing...

For the first time since the 2002-03 season, two women's hockey players have been named to the Hockey East Mission All-Rookie team. Netminder Leah Sulyma and forward Kristi Kehoe were named to the team by the head coaches in Hockey East, with position on the ice not being...

Ladies, if your husband was caught with a prostitute (oh, excuse me, a call girl), would you stand next to him in front of the entire country as he apologized for his wrongdoing? Would you stay silent as Dr. Laura blames you for his cheating on national television? I don't...