By Kaitlin Thaney For one day of the year, green is not the color of envy but instead, pride -- Irish pride. What was once a Catholic holiday has now become a secular day associated with drunken debauchery and bag pipes. Those who are Irish, and those who wish they were, all...

By Bobby Hankinson The recent revival of everything '80s, from leg warmers to VH1 specials, has also led to a musical return to the roots of new wave. Stellastarr, formed in 2000 in Brooklyn, N.Y., is one such band to combine the dance hooks of new wave with guitar-driven indie...

Don Brown's promises were lies -- at least in the eyes of the Suffolk Superior Court. The former Husky coach who broke his contract with Northeastern in order to coach at the University of Massachusetts was blocked from doing so after a Suffolk Superior Court judge ruled...

By Glenn Yoder When Boston Police Comm-issioner Kathleen O'Toole stepped behind the podium Thursday to issue her thoughts on the report of the Feb. 1 Super Bowl riots, she said she intended to make her message clear: both the police and universities are to blame for what occurred....

By Sarah Metcalf Though her voice was raspy from over 16 hours of lobbying outside the Massachusetts State Courthouse the day before, Vicky Steinberg didn't let that stop her from sharing her experiences with the students in Professor Eileen McDonagh's gender and politics class...

Though I doubt Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" will create a violent anti-Semitic backlash, Jay Barnes ("The Passion pro-Jesus, not anti-Semitic," March 10) showed remarkable insensitivity and ignorance in his commentary on the film. His dismissal of the Jewish community's...

I was outraged to read in the March 10 edition of The Northeastern News that Boston area residents are attempting to push the student populations back onto campuses. The Boston area residents do not even realize the benefits we bring to the city. For example, the Roxbury and...

By Peter Conroy The bad news for the Northeastern baseball team is that this will be the first season since 1997 without a member of the Pena clan, having graduated Omar last year, who followed in the footsteps of older brothers Pedro and Carlos (who is now the starting first...

By Sarah Metcalf No one expected them to be there, except themselves. The No. 7 seed Northeastern women's basketball team made a terrific run in the America East Tournament last week, taking down No. 10 seed University of Maryland-Baltimore County 55-30, upsetting No. 2 seed...

It was almost like something out of a movie -- the hiring of new Northeastern football coach Ralph Earl Hager III. Better known as "Rocky," the former Temple University assistant assumed control of NU's program last Wednesday. "We wanted a fighter," said NU Athletics Director...

By Sarah Metcalf Alcohol is known to have a notoriously common presence on college campuses across the nation. Students who violate their campus policies, however, face penalties as sanctioned by their university. Northeastern chooses to offer an online alcohol course called...

By Jeff Powalisz Acutely aware of Johnny Depp's current standing in Hollywood, movie executives have given the actor a role that will undoubtedly add to his star power. "Secret Window" has all of the right ingredients for a memorable thriller. Based on the Stephen King novella...