By Leah Fielding Nobody typically sees the personal side of Homecoming Court candidates - they're hidden behind lists of activities, accomplishments and formalities. Yesterday in the Curry Student Center Ballroom from 8 to 9 p.m., students were able to discover amusing tidbits...

Student Government warns of misleading petition The Student Government Association (SGA) announced Thursday that a petition recently circulated on campus urging students to support the selling of wine at grocery stores in Massachusetts was actually a petition opposing gay marriage....

By Danielle Tarloff and C. Mae Waugh The campus seems a little more crowded than usual. There is an increase in parents, extra alumni milling about and even a Husky dog wandering all over the place. What's the deal? A quick glance at one of the many signs around campus...

I want you to do me a quick favor. I want you to take a look at the following list. Tell me who you can identify. Tell me who you can't. Joe Thornton. Ilya Kovalchuk. Joe Sakic. Mats Sundin. Rick Nash. Dominik Hasek. Nikolai Khabibulin. Any of these names ring a bell? They...

Discrimination Politics in Sports As fall moves toward the inevitable cold and snow of late autumn, college sports fans are faced with numerous new and interesting dilemmas. No, not what to do over the annual BCS debacle or how far our hockey team will make it, but serious...

Two central pillars supporting the case for war in Iraq long ago fell to pieces. There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, not until we dropped our own terrifying array of depleted-uranium weaponry. There was no al-Qaeda movement there, not until we launched the war...

Dear Editor: I give permission for the use of this letter in its entirety in the NU News. I would like to respond to the article entitled "Diagnosis Disarray". Some students may recognize that I was one of the former medical providers at the Health Center at NU. I remain...

Editor: I take it if white women were to have an event and exclude all other races, Dr. Chandler wouldn't insist on attending and showing a "lack of generosity of spirit" or a "lack of awareness of racial issues". If forced to let her in, I'm am sure she wouldn't find it...

Get Up, Syrup by Steven Stites Tuna by Evonne Davies It's funny 'cause it's true by Max Lederman

By Julia Gall Recording artists are constantly searching for new ways to draw an audience. Indie-rock group The Sun is the first to create a DVD album - a CD consisting of only music videos specifically made for DVD players. In conjunction with Warner Brothers, The Sun was...

This is the bi-weekly diary following the journey of a Northeastern student studying abroad in London. I should have brought the peanut butter. I should have brought a lot of things, but as I said, there just wasn't room. We were told there would be culture shock when we...