Northeastern has ways of holding students accountable. Our schoolwork is graded, and our weekend decorum is subject to punishment if we step out of line. These things are held up to scrutiny, forcing us to take responsibility for the choices we make. We ask the board of trustees...

Unsure of what you need to do to qualify for financial aid? Although this year's deadlines have passed, the Office of Student FInancial Services has provided all the info students need to ensure they are properly considered for financial aid every year. First-year students...

A senior associate dean at the University of Southern California (USC) was appointed the new Northeastern senior vice president for advancement, the university announced yesterday. Diane Nishigaya MacGillivray will work to develop and execute fund-raising strategies and manage...

The data, presented by Bessie King in "Illegal Immigrants Deserve Consideration" (April 4) is either severely misinterpreted or intentionally misleading. King's first argument pertains to jobs. She cites that 65 percent of Americans don't believe illegal immigrants are taking...

By Jewel Della Valle The skies were overcast and gray that Saturday morning in June 1965, and the 10,000 fans who lined the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia were completely unaware of the rowing history they were about to witness. In 27 years, no school had ever swept the...

By Erin Semagin Damio Two years ago, Sunish Oturkar hardly knew anything about the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan. Today, Oturkar has founded a student activist group opposing the genocide, and is working to get 10,000 signatures on a petition to help ease the situation....

As a faithful reader of The News, I picked up a copy of last week's paper and read it, cover to cover, as I do every week. When I got to Rachel Slajda's column, "A Girl's Right to Swear," I was not only extremely disappointed, I was appalled. As a journalism major, I understand...

By Nate Owen and Chris Estrada Four was the Huskies' magic number this past week. With a 9-2 win over Holy Cross yesterday at Friedman Diamond, the Huskies pushed their winning streak to four games. Four was also the number of times senior catcher and tri-captain Dan Milano...

By Maggie Cassidy American individuals need to form their own personal identities, Dr. Cornel West said in a lecture at Blackman Auditorium Thursday night. "There's no future of American democracy without raising those questions about what it is to be human," said West, a...

A quick search of the Internet leads to a common quotation posted by many sorority and fraternity members across the country: "From the outside looking in, you could never understand it; from the inside looking out, you could never explain it." However, after the events of the...

By Adam Riglian The weather finally cooperated with the men's track ' field team, which caught some rays at the highly competitive Pepsi Florida Relays in Gainesville. The soda company-sponsored event featured runners from top universities like South Carolina, Florida and...

New fine arts majors to be offered with MFA Partnering with the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA), Northeastern will offer a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art joint-degree program beginning fall 2007. The program will combine classroom learning...