Americans love mysteries on television, in movies and in politics. Seven of the top 10 hard cover books on the March 2004 New York Times best-sellers list are about secret crimes and conspiracies. Our televisions and movies are full of secret agents, undercover agents, double...

With his back turned to his two friends, he couldn't have seen it coming. Sunday morning at approximately 2 a.m., three students were walking back from a party near Columbus Avenue. When they crossed Tremont and Northampton Streets, two of them were hit by a turquoise Mercury...

By Jeff Powalisz While Saturday's Snowflake Classic only acted as a conditioning meet for the Northeastern men's track team, thrower Derek Anderson continued to stay in top form. The junior threw in three events, placing first in the discus (182-01), second in the shot put...

By Jeff Powalisz The Rock has returned to the big screen, and as one might expect, he plays a man in control. In "Walking Tall," a remake of the 1973 film by the same name, The Rock plays Chris Vaughn, a retired U.S. Special Forces soldier returning to his hometown in the...

By C.G. Lynch On the corner of Park Street and Hadassah Way, bongos and drums sounded amidst chants, with signs supporting a U.S. withdrawal from Haiti. People of various oppositions held their signs high - "Iraq is a Rich Man's War!" "Bush Lies! Free Palestine!" "No Bio-Terror...

By Stephan Sears I always thought March Madness referred to the NCAA basketball tournament. One look at the papers proved me wrong. In the past few weeks, we have had the September 11 Commission, Richard Clarke, the true beginning of the presidential season, a terrorist attack...

NU's Theatre Department will present "Dr. Caligari and All the Rest," a new play adapted for the stage by Dmitry Troyanovsky and Gave Geltzer. The show will run from March 24 -27 and March 31 to April 3. Performances will be at The Studio Theatre in the Curry Student Center and...

He was always a proud Husky. Whether it was a glass, a coffee mug or a hat, it had to have a Northeastern emblem on it; he just loved his school that much. Walter Eugene Dedrick was so proud to be a Northeastern student that he even argued with an Ivy Leaguer over which school...

By Samantha Fodrowski As spring break abruptly came to an end, many students returned to Northeastern with a golden glow. Just where had all of the students gone? Florida? Cancun? The Caribbean? Or, maybe they just visited the tanning salon. Visiting tanning salons is...

By Brian Pivonka The first score of the 2004 Northeastern Huskies football team wasn't a touchdown, field goal or safety. It wasn't even in an actual game, it was in the recruiting battle. The Huskies scored blue chip quarterback prospect Brett Weyman from the grasp of numerous...

Women's pole vaulter Laura Chmielewski continued her tear through the Northeastern record books; she has been named The Northeastern News Player of the Week after claiming the outdoor record with a 14-11.5 vault. The record was set during the 2002 season by Joanelle Bailey-Chandler....

By Sarah Metcalf CUP's hand has finally folded. In a breach of policy intended for the good of the student body, the Budget Review Committee reallocated money to the Council for University Programs (CUP) in a last-ditch effort to replace the canceled Ludacris concert. CUP...