On Sunday the phrase "step up" got a new meaning. Sure, the Northeastern women's soccer team, in first place, was playing the last place Albany Great Danes, but Sunday's game was for more than just a better chance of home field advantage. It was senior day for the Huskies and...

Former Gov. Michael Dukakis is looking for two wins over the next week: the Red Sox clinching the World Series and Sen. John F. Kerry winning the presidential election. Dukakis, who ran for president on the democratic ticket in 1988 and is now a distinguished professor of...

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Crime Log entries are selected from Northeastern's Division of Public Safety reports.

By Megan Fraser It was around 7 p.m. Monday when middler athletic training major Kyle Butler and his classmates arrived for their lab in the Behrakis Health Science Center. At the door, they were greeted by members of the Northeastern Police Department who moved the class to...

By Elizabeth Normandin The Slashers! Horror Movie Marathon Coolidge Corner Theatre (290 Harvard St., in Brookline) is screening 13 straight hours of classic scary cinema starting at midnight on Saturday. Tickets are $20; call (617) 734-2500. Murder mystery dinner show Foul...

By Laura Weiss The Oct. 6 edition of The Northeastern News featured an article about two recent sexual assaults in the Jamaica Plain/Mission Hill area being the cause for Northeastern to take action and inform students about sexual assault. The yellow SAFEnet Advisory postings...

On a cloudy day at Jack Berry Field in Cambridge, Northeastern field hockey faced a hurricane of offense unlike any it had faced in the past. Northeastern needed one victory to clinch the America East regular season title on Sunday but despite the brilliant play of senior...

On Saturdays, the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center in Roxbury is usually filled with athletes. But last Saturday, a few steps from the locker rooms, it was filled with curried tofu, toasted garlic pita bread and animal rights activists for the ninth annual Vegetarian...

Next week Kerry and Bush will duke it out at the polls but what I'm particularly excited for will take place Thursday at 8 p.m. It's the battle for Thursday night TV when the new season of "The OC" premiers against "Survivor" and "Friends" spin-off "Joey." I tried very hard...

By Peter Shanley Exuberance rippled throughout our great city last Wednesday night after the Boston Red Sox beat the New York Yankees, 10-3, sending the Sox to the World Series. As tens of thousands of fans swarmed the surrounding Fenway area, the celebration began with chants...

On a Denver college campus, former Husky Joe Goldberg was promoting presidential candidate Sen. John F. Kerry and signing up volunteers when someone decided his soul needed to be saved. The person approached him and insisted on preaching religion in his face, and Goldberg eventually...