Answers to this week's crossword puzzle

By Hailey Heinz As Northeastern climbs the ranks toward the U.S. News and World Report's top 100, many of the university's statistics have climbed right along with it. But while admissions selectivity and sophomore retention improve, the rate of alumni donations has steadily...

By Conor Nevins Coming into the final three games of the regular season, the Northeastern men's soccer team knew they had their work cut out for them if they hoped to qualify for postseason play in the Colonial Athletic Association. For weeks, the Huskies' hopes of extending...

By Emily Robbins With the season's first snow already in the past, winter is not far away. While enjoying the last few days of sunshine and mild temperatures is important, a study from the National Institute for Mental Health reports it's equally vital to brace for the impending...

Whitney Shean spent her weekend at Virginia Beach, but she didn't come back with a tan or any boardwalk souvenirs. She came back with a swollen ankle and second place. Shean and the field hockey team traveled to Norfolk, Va., to play in the Colonial Athletic Association...

Every week, I do my laundry. It doesn't sound like anything important, right? We all do it to keep ourselves handsome and beautiful or, at the very least, from looking like a slob. It's a basic chore every college student does, one that goes along with buying groceries,...

By Kimmy Nevas As the temperature falls and oil prices remain high, Northeastern is feeling the chill. With classrooms, offices and residence halls to heat this winter, high gas prices are adding up, and the price of crude oil, hovering at more than $60 per barrel, is not falling...

By Jack Weiland BROOKLINE - Its last-minute, last-ditch effort having fallen just short, the Northeastern football team entered the postgame press conference with sullen faces for the fifth time in a row Saturday. "Growing pains are damn painful," coach Rocky Hager said after...

From what I can tell, the Weekly Dig continues to "spin" the stories. First of all, to say the author, Paul McMorrow, went to NU, is a bit of a strech. Perhaps he came to Grad School or something here, but his undergrad was completed at BU, "When my brother came to visit me at...

By Chris Estrada With the Middle East continually in the news and China gaining economic clout, Arabic and Chinese language courses are now in high demand at Northeastern and at colleges across the country. As some classes for the two languages reach Northeastern's 18-student...

DURHAM, N.H. - A word to the wise, or more specifically, the underclassmen of the Northeastern men's hockey team: Listen to your veteran teammates. "I haven't been in [New Hampshire's Whittemore Center] for 10 years but one of the things I've been finding out is that we've...

Dear SGA of Northeastern, Thank you for your courageous stand against all forms of Predjudice. Dr Robin Chandler must learn that discrimination is a two-way street. If the excluded inidividuals had been from any other ethnic group, there would have been a deafening outcry....