By Elizabeth Dudek and Jennifer Nelson As Patrick Graham lay sleeping in his West Village G apartment, he was unaware of the water seeping in and surrounding him. When the fire alarm sounded around 11:30 a.m., he woke up to a layer of fog hovering through his room. He stepped...

Walking into a house in Southern California, about eight girls sit down on an overstuffed couch drinking cocktails and snacking on chips and chocolates. Within minutes, a woman comes in with some Tupperware bins and starts setting up shop for a demonstration. What seems like...

By Gayle Simone The Lady Huskies returned to the ice last weekend in a home-and-home series with cross-town Hockey East rival Boston College, looking to end an eight-game losing skid dating back to Nov. 19. Unfortunately, NU lost their ninth straight game before putting one...

If I were to wear a Nazi costume to a party, there's a good chance I might get punched in the face. But I can say with a fair amount of certainty that it would not appear on the cover of the New York Post. However, if I were third in line for the English throne, things would...

By Hilary McMurray In America, our government guarantees us certain freedoms and rights. We have the right to free speech and the right to remain silent. We have the right to bear arms and the right not to be a victim of someone else's arms. We have the right to practice...

By Joshua M. Pratt First off, I love your newspaper. I have read it for the past four years and enjoyed every issue. That was until last week. After reading your article about the two musicians who left afterHOURS to find an alternate space to play ("Student musicians create...

Any time a tragedy occurs, there is an outcry of people saying, "What could we have done to prevent this?" or "How can we make sure this never happens again?" The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, better known as the MBTA, is proposing to leave 2,000 people without...

By Thomas Chen Scholarships are a big deal in the world of a financially-strapped college student. I am one of the many Northeasterners who applied for the Presidential Scholarship last fall, an award that gives the winner a free ride until graduation. I am also one of the many...

By Jason Kornwitz Listen, I don't sit in front of my TV all day. I also don't stare blankly at my computer screen for hours refreshing the Web site for videogames.com in an attempt to be the first one world over to see the exclusive new screenshots for Final Fantasy XII. But...

I learned this weekend that hope is one of the cruelest emotions Mother Nature ever conjured up. As an avid sports fan, I am ashamed to admit I have never seen the sport of football played live, minus a few backyard barbecue attempts at a pickup game. (Whether you can actually...

You really need to take down the old crime logs off the net. They are really hurting people way after the fact because the info is out there and potential employers, family, friends anyone is able to see it. The herald nor the globe holds on to stuff 2years old. You really need...

By Carleton Atwater 2004 has proven to be a major year for music. In the last 12 months we have seen releases from what seems like countless important artists: Beastie Boys, Elliott Smith, P.J. Harvey, Pinback, Interpol, Modest Mouse, Tom Waits, Sonic Youth, Blonde Redhead,...