Is Northeastern cursed? I kept hearing people say it, often as a half-joke, but over and over. And then, there it was in the Boston Globe, the quote from an NU student: "I'm starting to believe that Northeastern is cursed." That's a strong and scary thing to say, a horrifying...

By Heather Allen and Bessie King The date has been announced, the venue has been announced and, now, the name of the 2004 keynote commencement speaker has been announced - but some students are in no hurry to toss their caps in anticipation. Dr. Richard H. Carmona, the Surgeon...

By Glenn Yoder Citing "financial strain" as a key factor, Provost Ahmed Abdelal announced this week that the university will stop subsidizing the Northeastern University Press at the end of 2004. In the past two years, the publishing community has seen a downward trend in...

After all the troubling events of the past year, it is time we recognized something positive happening on campus. This year there was an athletic team on campus -- yes, this campus -- that struggled through adversity and proved they could overcome it: the women's hockey team....

If you haven't heard by now, "The Da Vinci Code" is the best selling book since the Bible went King James style. The book tells a half fiction-half fact story of the link between some of the most famous people in the history of the modern world. The link, of course, is proved...

By Jeff Powalisz For Laura Chmielewski, the season and temperature does not matter. She's just going to keep breaking records. The junior set another record in the pole vault with the first-place finish of 12-11.50 at last Saturday's Hurricane Invitational in Coral Gables,...

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...

Walking onto the stage in Blackman Auditorium as though he had accidentally found it, cartoonist Art Spiegelman was presented with an ashtray from Del Lewis, director of the Center for the Arts at Northeastern University. Within minutes, Spiegel-man, a notorious smoker,...