By Marc Larocque Dancing to the heart "Happy Feet," a feel-good flick about penguins, is aimed at kids. But embedded in its ice of CGI magic and starry cast are whispers of environmental activism. The Boston Globe touched on this fact in early December ('Some happy that a...

By Jewel Della Valle Sarah Eckhoff isn't any typical college athlete. When she's not playing field hockey, she spends her time working at a girl's orphanage in Thailand and helping AIDS patients in Uganda and Rwanda. The midfielder has been playing field hockey since she was...

By Kristin Lusis The campaign for the 2008 presidency isn't just going to be fought with posters, T-shirts and buttons. The frontrunners are also taking advantage of websites like Facebook and MySpace to reach a wider - and younger - audience. From Sen. Barack Obama's Facebook...

By a margin as slim as a Hollywood starlet, Senator Joey Fiore received 47 percent of the student body votes last week, making him the first Northeastern University Direct Elections (NUDE) president. The 15 percent minimum number of student body votes was almost doubled,...

Sometimes, when I'm walking around campus and happen to pass by a tour group, I like to follow them around for a bit and eavesdrop. It's always interesting to hear the exciting information they're feeding prospective financiers - I mean, students. One day in particular,...

By Kate Augusto As universities around the nation take steps to divest from companies that do business in Sudan, Northeastern's board of trustees announced this week they will look into endowment investment procedures in the next several months. Forty-one universities,...

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Joseph Aoun has officially been inaugurated as the seventh president of Northeastern, but the remnants of the events still surround campus with "Northeastern Illuminated" flyers in the Curry Student Center, large banner on the Marino Center and Meserve Hall and students and...

It's inevitable - underage drinking at Northeastern happens. It's irrefutable that Northeastern is not alone in what society calls an "epidemic" of alcohol abuse. Campus regulations are at an all-time high, while universities nationwide attempt to decrease the number of students...

By Samantha Egan The Council for University Programming (CUP) announced yesterday an additional 750 tickets will go on sale today for Saturday's Springfest concert. The seats are in the balcony section of Matthews Arena. CUP was able to increase the number of seats after getting...

By Caitlin Coyle As the cost of attending college increases, students with laudable accomplishments from all across the world have high hopes of receiving a full academic scholarship. The situation is no different for students applying to Northeastern University. One thing...