New SGA committee to evaluate technology resources The Student Government Association (SGA) voted last week to create a committee responsible for evaluating the technical resources used throughout the university. The committee, called the Academic Technological Resource Committee,...

West Village F looks nice, that's certain, but don't let the well-placed brick and mortar fool you if you're an honors student at Northeastern. The addition of West Village F gave freshman honors students premier housing, but there are still some serious kinks in the workings...

Ryan Luks' letter to The News ("No sign of university learning to spend logically," Oct. 18) raises the question of how Northeastern spends its money, which certainly includes tuition money. It's an important issue and deserves discussion. Where an institution puts its money...

In his letter two weeks ago defending Pope Benedict XVI's remarks about Islam, Irving Levine criticized an earlier letter by a student, which criticized the Pope. Levine writes, "It bothers me that our young people don't think about what is truly happening in this world. For...

I really do not see the need for all the uproar over the supposedly "new" NUJOBs system. Actually, I think it is quite arguable that the system isn't new at all; it is simply renamed. I am a seasoned veteran of many of the non work-study positions available to students here...

When the Student Government Association claimed they had modeled the new "Diehard Dog" shirts after Boston College's Superfan shirts, they obviously lost a couple key points in translation. The entire purpose of the Superfan shirt is to create a large crowd which is unified...

The New York Times has published a wealth of articles this week on the sexualization of Halloween. The thrust of the articles is that women are embracing bitty little costumes rather than traditional fat pumpkins, goofy animals or hideous witches. These days, as women parade...

In his letter to the editor on Oct. 11, John Kent deems Republican strategy "scare tactics." John, a more fitting term could be called: "factual history that dictates a candidate's agenda." In Democratic candidate Deval Patrick's universe, rapists are not bad people. This...

Quackers! by Ricky Thompson Paul 'n' Lil by Lily Ko and Paul Cheung Angry Lemon by Hannah Flaherty and Ambria Klingle

By Jessica Torrez-Riley and Jenna Jones The U.S. Department of Justice granted $200,000 to Northeastern's Human Services Program in the College of Arts and Science in order to open a new Campus Center on Violence Against Women. The Center will serve as a hub of information,...

By now most of us are aware of the situation in the Darfur region of Sudan. Over 400,000 people have been murdered, 2.5 million have been displaced and it is still ongoing. Northeastern University strives to be among the very top colleges in America, yet fails to act decisively...