By Marc Larocque Five months after Joseph Aoun became president of Northeastern, he proceeded to the nearby community to court several prominent religious leaders. Local media cast the meetings as a symbol of conciliation, in which President Aoun asked how the university could...

By Patrick McHugh The women's hockey team has been going through a rebuilding process during the last few years and has suffered through some rough seasons lately. During this time, one player who has done her best to to improve the team is senior captain Nikki Petrich. She...

By Michele Richinick Radical Islam poses the threat to the United States, not terrorism, Jewish American historian and Middle East specialist Daniel Pipes said in the Raytheon Amphitheatre last night. Pipes addressed a crowd of more than 50 people, including a dozen Northeastern...

At first glance, I was very excited that Northeastern students were so eco-friendly and proactive in doing their part to recycle ("Northeastern out-recycles the City of Boston," Feb. 25). As I read further into the article, though, I was upset to find that residents of the city...

Yesterday at noon, a delegation of students from the Justice for Janitors Coalition (JJC) delivered a petition with more than 1,900 signatures to Jack McCarthy, Northeastern's chief financial officer. These signatures came primarily from undergraduate and graduate students, but...

Recently, City Councilor Michael Ross pushed a petition to try to change zoning codes to limit residences so that no more than four students are allowed to live together. The Boston Zoning Commission will vote on the proposal next month and it has many potential points of harm...

By Jeanine Budd When the "ARTiculate" show started half an hour late Wednesday, there was little complaint from the crowd. It was an evening to unite under a banner of good music that just happened to associate itself with the Asian American identity. As part of Asian American...

SGA to propose opt-out energy fee, textbook control The Student Government Association (SGA) is set to propose two pieces of legislation at its meeting today. The first is a joint resolution with the Resident Student Association seeking the creation of a student-generated renewable...

Northeastern recycled more than twice the amount of waste the city of Boston did in 2006, the year the most recent data is available, according to figures provided by Peter Lembo, solid waste manager at Northeastern. In 2006, the university recycled 25 percent of its waste,...

By Jeanine Budd One year ago, Alison Owens went into a CVS pharmacy, like she did every month, to buy birth control pills. But this time, instead of paying the usual $15, Owens was charged nearly triple that - the price of her contraception had jumped to $40. She reluctantly...

By Daryl Velez After winning its last two games, the women's basketball team has achieved a mark it has not met since joining the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) two years ago. Now 5-10 in conference, Northeastern surpassed its high in CAA wins in a season this week with...

By Derek Hawkins Nearly three weeks after the first missing person report came in, the Boston Police Department (BPD) has asked for the public's help in finding Nicholas Sova, a former Northeastern student whose friends and family say they have not seen or heard from since Feb....