By Daniel Wood It was a week of education, a week of prayer and more importantly, a week of understanding. The Islamic Society of Northeastern University launched their "Islam Awareness Week" on March 15 with a variety of panel discussions, prayer services and documentaries...

I am an alumni from the Class of 1989. I was also a Resident Assistant on campus for three years. I'm sorry that your fees went up to attract bigger acts to your Springfest. But you acted like small little children and now you are getting punished for it. Even if you weren't...

By Evans Erilus No one ever likes to hear the phrase "things aren't the way they used to be," especially when that comment is followed by an incessant rant about everything that is wrong in today's society. Most of the time, the complaining is a waste of time by some senile...

By Jack Weiland Never in my life have I seen as many middle fingers as I did on the night of Feb. 28 -- and I've seen my share of obscene gestures. The subject of the ire? Northeastern men's hockey winger Brian Swiniarski, who, coincidently, just buried the go-ahead goal on...

By Bobby Hankinson Dr. Robin Chandler, the keynote speaker for this year's Women in Leadership Conference hosted by the Leadership Education Growth Opportunities (LEGO) Office, began this Sunday's activities with an opening speech hotter than the sternos warming the provided...

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...