By Stephanie Vosk and Michael Naughton When four of Northeastern's top student advocates met for lunch yesterday, their focus was not on their plates or the ambiance of the Faculty Lounge. The noon meal for the presidents of the Student Govern-ment Association (SGA), the Council...

By Evans Erilus FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Everything about the spring season screams new beginnings: spring cleaning, spring break and most importantly, baseball. For the Northeastern baseball team, however, its hope is that this beginning will transform into a new tradition....

By Sarah Metcalf Thousands of high school seniors apply to Northeastern every year, each submitting essays and personal information to help them "stand out" from the crowd. With the immense number of applications coming in to university officials, however, it can be a daunting...

By By Lauren Bishop- Kansas Sate Collegian (Kansas State U.) (U-WIRE) MANHATTAN, Kan.- For those partial to the Super-Sized fry at McDonald's, now is the time to stock up. By the end of year, all McDonald's food chains will no longer offer Super-Sizing on the menu. According...

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 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...

Ahhh, President Freeland: our glorified principal. I hope he thinks that getting his picture in the paper and face on the news the past few weeks has been worth it for him. He must have hoped we'd all get so drunk during spring break that we'd forget what he did to us. Well,...

By Jen Nelson Tuesday, February 24 9:30 a.m. Residential Life staff found a beer ball in the 16 Westland Ave. apartment of a 19-year-old female student while conducting room inspections. She will be referred to the Office of Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution (OSCCR). Wednesday,...

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,...

After reading Freeland's pep-rally-letter concerning the "joyous culmination to Springfest," I can honestly say that I too was severely "dissapointed." Or maybe I can't because it's not even a word. One thing I'm sure of however is that Freeland's rash decision to cancel the...