By Maggie Cassidy Does getting flipped vertically over somebody's shoulder and landing flat on your back sound appealing? It's called an ippon seoi-nage, and several students can pull such a move; however, as members of the NU Judo team, they reserve the technique for competition....

As a part of their duty, Resident Assistants (RAs) must serve a four hour proctor shift every week. It's nice for residents to see a familiar face sitting at the proctor station - someone to say hello to and shoot the breeze with. This year, however, the Residential Safety...

By Jewel Della Valle The women's hockey team achieved something this weekend it had been searching for all season: back-to-back wins. The Huskies (5-25-2, 4-13-2 Hockey East) overtook last-place Vermont (3-25-2, 1-17-1 HE) twice last weekend, winning 4-1 Saturday and 2-1...

We read with interest Liz Ratto's article "Kiosk to rent new movies in CSC" in last week's issue of The News. Students, you can also get thousands of free movies from Snell Library. You can check out up to four movies at a time for two nights at a time. You can see what is available...

By Matt Nielsen The men's hockey team (12-14-5, 8-11-5 Hockey East) inched closer to the postseason this weekend, picking up three points in the Hockey East conference with a win and a tie in a home-and-home series with the Providence College Friars (7-20-3, 6-14-3 HE). The...

By Casey Ramsdell Prince Cedza Dlamini, founder and executive director of the Ubuntu Institute for Young Social Entrepreneurs and grandson of former South African President Nelson Mandela, talked about his vision of a world focused on peace and reform driven by young people...

As we head into the last half of the spring semester, we all know that one day just before finals our professors will open sealed envelopes of Scantron forms with questions along the lines of "How much do you feel you have learned in this course?" The professor will appoint a...

As a new coach evaluating her stock of players last spring, Daynia La-Force Mann could have been excused for overlooking Lucia Pablos. After all, the 5-foot, 5-inch junior guard had missed the first eight games of the 2005-06 season with an injury. When healthy, she only...

By Christina Prignano Students, volunteers and community leaders gathered to discuss early education access and success Thursday. The event was February's Forming Opportunities for Collaboration, Understanding and Service (FOCUS) Forum, hosted by the Northeastern Center of Community...

The Democratic Party in Capitol Hill needs to grow a pair. They've been against the War in Iraq from the day it started

Mike Costa had been sick two weeks before the accident, senior Rob Fox, of Northeastern's men's slalom team, remembers. "He was really sick," Fox said. "But he still came up every weekend." As a first-year member of the downhill ski team, Costa had already earned a reputation...

By Marc Larocque Two student groups that don't typically interact found a common bond at a recent event. Matt Lebovic, a graduate student at Hebrew University in Israel and a gay rights activist, spoke to about 30 students from Students for Israel at Northeastern and the Bisexual,...