news staff graphic/dayin chen Show your Irish pride at the 104th St. Patrick's Day Parade in South Boston. The parade begins at 1 p.m. on Sunday, March 21 at the Broadway T station. The three-hour parade will feature marching bands, pipe bands and floats. Call (617) 268-7955...

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...

The cancellation of the Springfest concert was not what Northeastern or its students needed. This is not to say that nothing should come of these riots. But as I see it, you can either take something away from students, as a punishment, add something to students' lives, to enrich...

By Sarah Metcalf After its second five-game losing streak of the season, the Northeastern women's basketball team ended the regular season on a high note, showing what they are made of by picking up two big wins before the start of the America East tournament. The Huskies landed...

The Council for University Programs (CUP) will be hosting a screening of "Kill Bill - Volume 1" in afterHOURS on Wednesday, March 10. Admission is free with a NU ID. The screening begins at 9 p.m. For more information, call ext. 4336. March 11 Thursday The film, "The Way...

By Bobby Hankinson Women continue to strive for equality in a world overrun by men. In an effort to overcome the double standards presented by society, the month of March has been set aside for women to celebrate who they are and diminish stereotypes that have been placed...

From the earliest days of my public education, I heard about a paradise called "the land of the free." There is a well-documented rumor that the word "freedom," a noun describing the condition of being free, implies things like: "exemption from the arbitrary exercise of authority...

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...

What's rolled in seaweed and sometimes hot and raw? Not your Friday night. It's sushi. In its beginnings, sushi used to be a way to preserve fish. Fishermen would clean and gut a fish, placing it in rice as a way to naturally ferment their catch. This type of sushi is called...

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...