By Megan Jicha With a continuously changing campus culture, students are always looking to be a part of something, and Greek life offers something for almost everyone, said Assistant Director of Student Leadership Laura Parillo. And with Northeastern's recent approval to add...

Head coach Ed Matz of the women's soccer team announced the initial 2007 recruiting class. Eight freshman and one transfer student will join the team, which finished last season with a 9-6-4 record. The nine new players will have to fill the holes left by the graduation of...

Young people in Massachusetts face a persistent risk for HIV infection, which leads to AIDS. In a 2004 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 7,761 young people (between ages of 13 and 24) in the United States were determined to have AIDS, a...

Two popular Lansdowne music venues may close their doors this summer. Avalon and Axis will be torn down to make way for a larger music venue at 15 Lansdowne St. On June 1, Patrick Lyons, a Boston nightclub figurehead who runs The Lyons Group, which develops real estate, won...

Some articles and e-mails have been written recently about the non-renewal of a few lecturers in the College of Arts and Sciences. We wanted to write this letter as the topic is important and deserves community conversation. The situation that is unfolding now began years ago...

By Cindy Retamazo The women's track team traveled to Princeton, N.J., to compete in the 26th annual Eastern Colonial Athletic Conference Championships (ECAC). Senior thrower Zara Northover won the shot put, throwing a distance of 16.78 meters, shattering the previous record...

With the Peer Tutoring Center set to become part of the past, students will miss out on the time-tested opportunity to gain an understanding of course material using techniques helpful enough to be passed from one person to the next. The strange thing: this is the rationale...

Stipends for SGA e-board decrease this year The Student Government Association (SGA) executive board will see a decrease in stipend payments this year. In accordance with an agreement last year between the Office of Student Affairs and SGA, Student Affairs pledged $60,000...

Hunter qualifies for NCAA A smaller Northeastern men's track team competed in the IC4A Championships at Princeton University May 11-13. Sophomore Nate Hunter had the Huskies' best performance at the meet, taking fifth in the shot put with a toss of 55-feet, 4.25-inches. He...

Two events during the spring semester at the university lead me to write this. First was the attention given by the administration to the greening of the campus, to the threat of global warming and to the need to take appropriate action. Second was the death of a cyclist on Huntington...

By Veronica Schiebold Last Monday, Senators John Kerry and Edward Kennedy announced the Northeastern's Middle East studies program will receive an $85,000 grant from the Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language program. The money will be used to enhance the...

By Marc Larocque Alieu Sheriff spends most of his free time working as a security guard or studying at the Snell Library. He is new here. Without family and an ocean away from his homeland of Liberia, Sheriff, 61, tries to make the best of his situation. Things could be...