Several Resident Assistants (RAs) expressed disgust this week after university administration changed a provision in their contracts. The RAs complained the changes were made without their consent, exposing a deeper anger over what they described as the university's tendency...

By Stephen Babcock and Ricky Thompson After a summer transition period that left University Health and Counseling Services (UHCS) largely short-staffed, the center responded this fall by hiring at least 15 new staff members, said UHCS Executive Director Roberta Berrien. The...

Regarding your article ("Former ambassador speaks on Iraq, CIA leak investigation," Nov. 30), my question is: Why is anyone giving this person a forum from which to spread more lies? You realize, of course, Wil-son was thoroughly discredited by the Senate Intelligence Committee...

By Jeff Swoboda Over 200 students counted down along with President Richard Freeland: "5

There are three things I always promise to myself and try to stick to every year when the month of December and the holidays roll around, and they are (in no particular order): 1) I will stop shopping for myself and will only shop for others until after the holidays are over,...

Thanks to the administration, Resident Assistants could be moving out of their luxurious Speare singles to a new location: The picket line. The administration recently announced to its RAs it will institute minor changes to the current RA contract. RAs working the front desk...

By Allison Mudge December, with its finals, holiday shopping and last-minute travel arrangements, is a busy month for college students. While most Northeastern students are packing their bags and making plans about what to do and who to see while home during the winter break,...

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By Stephen Babcock and Ricky Thompson After a summer transition period that left University Health and Counseling Services (UHCS) largely short-staffed, the center responded this fall by hiring at least 15 new staff members, said UHCS Executive Director Roberta Berrien. The...

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Sooner or later, the time would come. The time to leave behind the wasted days of TV watching, Madden playing and not going to parties and enter the real world. As my co-op at a local newspaper winds down, this realization has slowly come to me. While I may shop for cheap...