Walking back from a rally for President George W. Bush at the Omni Parker hotel Thursday morning, three members of the Northeastern University College Republicans were met with unhappy calls and gestures. Carrying their Bush/Cheney signs, the three watched people yell at them...

Not even a hug from Jerry Springer could console Heidi Buchanan's disappointment when, at 2:15 a.m. Monday morning, Bill failed to show. Visibly tired, Buchanan recounts her trip to the Rock the Vote event at Avalon, where former President Bill Clinton was scheduled to appear....

By C.G. Lynch With the skyrocketing price of tuition, education policy may become an integral issue for collegiate voters in the final months of the campaign season as they assess the contrasting strategies of President George W. Bush and democratic presidential nominee John...

As far as he can see sitting in the second row of the chairs in ballroom in the Sheraton Hotel, Kevin Furey is the only veteran of the Iraq war. When a speaker asks how many veterans in the room are going to run for state legislature, Furey is one of few who raises his hand....

Chants like, "stop the killing, stop the war," and "bring home the troops," rang through the streets around Boston Common Sunday, a day before the Democratic Party would gather to nominate its candidate for president. Nominee John Kerry, in his acceptance speech Thursday night,...

By Marisa Michaud Born the daughter of a sharecropper in rural Mississippi in 1917, Fannie Lou Hamer rose to national prominence during the 1964 Democratic National Convention, while a delegate for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. At a day-long conference in Blackman...

By C.G. Lynch In 1988, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis accepted the presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, Ga. Months later, in the general election against George H.W. Bush, he suffered a defeat. Sixteen years later, with the DNC...

As outreach coordinator for the Democratic National Convention Committee, part of Neath Cardenas' job is to help seat the thousands of delegates backstage at the convention. The FleetCenter looks different to her now after the months of renovations it has received since her May...

This summer's movie bonanza has brought us two films moviegoers should pay attention to because they not only aim to entertain, but to inform. The two must-sees are Super Size Me and Fahrenheit 9/11. I saw both movies and it's not hard to understand the concepts brought by...

By Bessie King Kelly Larson graduated this year from Magnificat High School in Ohio. The soon-to-be freshman was a member of the National Honor Society, ran for her school track team and is also a gymnast, besides having a 4.2 high school GPA and SAT scores above 1100. She was...

By Justin Rebello is a middler journalism major In early May, I received a letter from Northeastern claiming I had to move out of my campus apartment in less than a week. One week later, I resided across the quad from my old home, West Village A Tower, and now live in West C...

By Bessie King For weeks, visitors of the Student Center have heard someone at the keys, playing away. Eyes drift to the second floor landing of the Curry Student Center to the grand piano that used to be locked away in the Ballroom. Students stop and listen while untapped...