By Jessi Savino Jose Amaya, the new director of the Latino/a Student Cultural Center, settled into his office at Northeastern Nov. 27. He is filling the position left vacant last year when Elena Quiroz, the center's director of four years, resigned. Amaya said he came to...

Since the beginning of the semester, there have been a number of inquiries made by student organizations like the retention and recruitment of faculty/administrators of color, financial aid practices, the protocol for handling issues regarding race relations on campus and student...

By Jared Sugerman The swimming ' diving team defeated Massachusetts 160.5-139.5 Saturday at Barletta Natatorium. The win comes on the heels of the Huskies' first-place finish at the BU Invitational, where they bested both Boston College and Boston University. "It's great to...

By Drew Bonifant This is the third in a series of articles examining programs the university is bolstering through the Academic Investment Plan. Given Northeastern's position within the city of Boston, it would make sense that the school focuses much of its attention on issues...

By Jill Campbell Correction: Due to a reporting error, this story incorrectly reports that Jennifer Libertowski said textbook companies are to blame for high textbook prices. She did not say that. For sophomore Kara Pavone, the cost of textbooks was a hefty part of her educational...

I watched a video of Michael Richards' recent rant at the Laugh Factory that has been labeled as racist. I also watched his apology via satellite on the David Letterman show. Michael Richards has, as many of us do, a darker side. This darker side can cause us to generalize...

Freshman forward and The Northeastern News Player of the Week Chad Costello helped the men's hockey team add two wins to its record this weekend, and has a few stitches to prove it. The team beat Merrimack in a 4-1 victory, where Costello tallied an assist and a stitched...

By Kate Augusto Boston is about to take the first step toward becoming a city where the benefits of wireless Internet are available to all residents, according to Richard O'Bryant, a senior research fellow at the Northeastern Center for Urban and Regional Policy. The Boston...

As a devoted fan of the Northeastern University men's basketball team I could not help but wonder if reporter Matt Foster has attended a single game over the last four years after reading his Nov. 29 column, "The Rebuilding Rut." As a faithful reader of The News for the past...

I love Christmas. I really do. I can't wait to go home and turn on the Christmas songs, gather around the fire and decorate the house. But for some reason I've lost my Christmas spirit while at Northeastern. Maybe it's because of last week's unusually warm weather or the...

By Ashley Traupman Jim Stone became a photographer to run away from being an engineer. "At first photography was just something I had passion for. It took me eight or ten years for me to realize there was a way to make a life out of it," Stone said. Stone said he was first...

I was confused this week when the Mass. Bay Transit Authority and the news outlets in Boston began yammering about the new CharlieCard. Hasn't Charlie - the vaguely obnoxious two-dimensional man in a fedora - had his face on everything from here to Braintree for months? I've...