Dining services offers kosher meal plan NU Dining Services has introduced a new kosher meal plan targeted at students whose dining options are limited due to religious or personal beliefs, said Director of Spiritual Life Shelli Jankowski. "The focus is on Jewish and Muslim...

One thing we can all surely agree upon is this year's election will define America for the foreseeable future. I can honestly say that in my lifetime, I have never seen our nation this divided. Why is it, then, in the past few elections we have had two candidates that no one...

By Jennifer Nelson In anticipation of inclement weather caused by remnants of Hurricane Frances, the Office of New Student Orientation, Student Center and Student Activities and the Welcome Week Coordinating Committee have postponed or relocated outdoor Welcome Week activities...

A few months ago, an eager friend and I headed off to a psychic in Revere. Five minutes and $35 later I was left feeling unsatisfied and stupid. The man of my future, Mary the Psychic said, would be Rick, Nick or Chip. Great. Instead of just writing off the possible or...

In front of South Station, things are quite uniform. Skyscrapers and office buildings rise above the streets, while men and women in suits dominate the landscape of pavement. Like any location, though, there are certain places that add flair and pizazz to the area. They have...

Perhaps it's exactly what the Northeastern University Athletics Department had in mind when it pursued and hired Rocky Hager for this season as its 10th football coach. After two of its strongest seasons ever, including an 8-4 finish last year, Hager, the former North Dakota...

Wearing a sign on his back that reads "The Psychic Ceramic Pirate Presents Mystifying Mind Tricks," the Pirate claims the ability to tell the name, telephone number, hometown, exact amount of change and favorite number of his subjects. When street performing, the Pirate -...

The Northeastern community suffered two student losses in the past month, losing sophomore Matthew Tasker to a car crash and former student Ashmead Arjune in an alleged homicide. While home on summer break in Tully, N.Y., the 19-year-old Tasker, an engineering major, was spending...

Northeastern moved one step closer to President Richard Freeland's ultimate goal last week when the university bumped up seven places on U.S. News and World Report's list of best colleges. The university moved from the bottom group of the 249 nationally-recognized universities...

Students who utilize the library's research area will have to start paying for printed materials, Snell Library officials announced recently. The InfoCommoms area printers will remain free of charge. Maria Carpenter, the library's advancement program manager, said library officials...

With consecutive 2-0 losses to Virginia Tech and James Madison University at last weekend's JMU/Comfort Inn Invitational, the Northeastern University men's soccer team now finds itself 0-2 on the young season. Although they have zero goals to go along with their zero wins,...

By Jennifer Nelson and Glenn Yoder When it came time for David Brodsky-Porges to choose a college, he knew Boston was where he wanted to be. "My sister is a senior at Simmons College," the communications major said. "I guess I kind of followed her out here, but I bet she'll...