FORT MYERS, Fla. -- 36 pitches, 28 strikes. For all the excitement and anticipation surrounding Northeastern's 7-0 loss to the Boston Red Sox in an exhibition contest last Friday night, that figure may be the most telling. That is the pitch log for Red Sox hurler Curt Schilling,...

By Zack Hosseini "To proceed with the planned concert would be to ignore the challenges of this moment and to miss an opportunity to demonstrate our most important values." -- Richer(d) Freeland. Values? Please. By now you've probably all heard that Ludacris et. al will...

By Nick Romanow- Massachusetts Daily Collegian (U. Massachusetts Amherst) (U-WIRE) AMHERST, Mass. - The stigma of being the "next big thing" is something that haunts many bands. Bands from the mediocre to the deserving are, it seem, randomly singled out by the press and crowned...

By Jeff Powalisz At the annual showcase of track excellence, the IC4A Championships last weekend at Boston University, it's difficult for most to stand out in such a wide-open, star-studded field. However, Northeastern Huskies' Derek Anderson, Idris Payne and Tom Pratt did...

In a welcomed display of social decency, Northeastern University's president, Richard Freeland, informed students two weeks ago that he was postponing the visit of hip-hop star Ludacris, a costly event planned for the University's Springfest on April 2. His decision was based...

By David Auguste The month long conflict in Haiti has hit home with many Northeastern students; many of whom still have family members on the civil war-torn island. Even after Jean-Bertrand Aristide went into exhile, the country is still unstable and leaves students with...

By Jeff Powalisz Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson may just be the best duo in American comedies at the current moment. From an awkward discussion of stock market success in "Meet the Parents" to a male model face-off in "Zoolander," Stiller and Wilson, good friends in real life,...

By Jack Weiland AMHERST - For about five minutes, the men's hockey team was on top of the world, having just swept University of Massachusetts-Amherst to put themselves in position for the final Hockey East playoff spot. Then came the wait, followed by the press conference...

I have never been so compelled to write you until right now. I just read in the latest edition of The Northeastern News that President Richard Freeland has postponed the Springfest concert for 2004. His basis for doing so is punishment for the Super Bowl uprisings, which directly...

By Jeff Powalisz The Curry Student Center Ballroom will undergo major renovations this summer, with plans being mapped out to make the activities room more useful for students and visitors. Initial plans include dropping the ceiling, changing the current concrete on the inside...

By Emily McCarthy For Michael Sechrist, a senior political science major, working in the presidential personnel department at the White House is something he never could have imagined. But that is how Sechrist is spending his final co-op session. "I have the opportunity...

By Kaitlin Keane Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" opened on Ash Wednesday (Feb. 25), earning the highest opening-day ticket sales of any February film in Hollywood history, despite accusations of graphic violence and anti-Semitic sentiment. The film, Gibson's privately-funded...