By Alyson St. Amand In an effort to eliminate the "NU shuffle" by consolidating student services in one location, "Speare Commons," set to open in the fall, will house all the offices essential to student life. The project will convert the Speare Hall basement to a "one stop...

So, it's over. Done. Final. Kaput. A year after the Colonial Athletic Association's first contact with Northeastern Director of Athletics Dave O'Brien, and after even longer speculation, NU officially accepted a spot in the mid-major conference in June. "When President...

Northeastern junior point guard Jose Juan Barea had another impressive summer playing for his native Puerto Rico in The Coca-Cola Global Games in June. The 2003-04 All-America East guard led all players in scoring by dropping 28.5 points per game including 35 against the USA...

Northeastern will receive $150,000 in compensation from the University of Massachusetts - Amherst as part of a settlement reached between the universities and former Northeastern head football coach Don Brown. UMass Chancellor John Lombardi will also issue a public apology...

By C.G. Lynch After a highly secretive selection process that lasted months, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry chose Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina as his vice presidential candidate Tuesday, a move expected to give the Massachusetts senator a spike in polls...

Crime log entries are selected from Northeastern's Division of Public Safety reports. Monday, June 14 11:30 a.m. A 23-year-old female student reported someone attempted to steal her purse while she was exiting the Massachusetts Avenue T stop. Her wallet contained $65. The...

Let's face it; pop songs all tend to sound the same. There's only so many ways you can vary how much you love someone or how mad at him or her you are. At times, maybe the lyrics can be irrelevant if the melodies and songs are good enough so one can just get lost. In those...

When the Student Activity Fee (SAF) was raised to $100 a year, a promise was made that the students would be able to have the programming and concerts they always wanted. The problem is, when the Student Government Association (SGA), in conjunction with a 15 percent approval...

Music, barbeques and American flags were spread through Boston streets Sunday for the city's annual Fourth of July celebration. The event, which is nationally televised, commemorated its 228th year. The Boston Pops kept with tradition this year, performing at the Charles...

Students and professors who commute to Northeastern will have to find a way into the city during the Democratic National Convention, Provost Ahmed Abdelal said, because classes will remain as scheduled. "You don't want to be trigger happy when it comes to canceling classes,"...

After seven years as director of student activities, Todd Shaver has decided to leave his post at Northeastern to return to his home state of Ohio for a similar position at Capital University. While both students and colleagues said they were going to miss the man who worked...

In a historic move set to permanently change the course of Northeastern athletics, the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) announced on June 23 that the Huskies had joined the southern-based conference, effective July 1, 2006. The CAA, which formed from the ECAC South in 1985,...