Carrie Bradshaw is my hero. And I think it's safe to say, I'm not alone. It's the end of an era. On Feb. 22, this coming Sunday, HBO will air its last episode of "Sex and the City." For six seasons we have followed Carrie, a sex columnist for a New York newspaper, and her three...

Friday night, the last night of Mike Costa's short life, was the first time I realized just how much Mike brought to the Northeastern ski team. Mike was having what he described as one of the worst weeks of his life. You never would have guessed that, though. His eyes were...

By Kathryn Romeyn Responding to the Chicago nightclub stampede that killed 21 people four days earlier, the special report would have shown safety precautions for clubs and other crowded public places. The reporter did not get to write his story, but did film the tragic fire...

Jeffrey Marzello got it half right in his commentary ("Seven steps to cohesive campus," Feb. 11). But he ignores the largest existing community at NU. We are the Greek community, the 11 fraternities and six sororities that call Northeastern home. Most of the action items on Mr....

By Steve Babcock After the Academic Investment Plan was presented last Wednesday, promising to pump $75 million into the classroom, students and administrators spent the week questioning how the initiative would play out. Provost Ahmed Abdelal said while the full 100 professors...

By Sarah Metcalf In an effort to cut down on underage drinking in residence halls, Housing Services will make changes to its policy next year. Some residence halls on campus will be designated as "21-plus," while others will only allow for underage students. West Campus...

V-Day Northeastern 2004 Benefit will present Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monolgues" in Blackman Auditorium. The two performances, are Monday, February 23 at 8 p.m. and Tuesday, February 24 at 6 p.m. Admission is $12 and tickets can be purchased at the box office on the first floor...

By Gayle Simone A week after dropping two points in the Hockey East standings, the Northeastern women's hockey team earned four points back as they defeated Boston College in the home-and-home series last week. The Eagles took the lead in both games, but the Huskies rallied...

By Caitlin Woodstock The Northeastern University Theatre Department took the audience back in time to the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s; to a small intimate hotel room with Venetian blinds and a luxurious double bed of two hopeless drifters. The production of Tennessee Williams'...

Incoming students in the late 1970s and early '80s were easily identifiable during orientation; not by their lanyards as they are now, but instead by their bloodshot eyes and drunken stupor. "Alcohol was the center of social activity," said James Ferrier, the associate director...

By Sarah Metcalf In addition to other changes in store for Housing Services next year, the squatter policy will no longer be available to upperclassmen on campus. The policy stated if a person received a lottery number and would be in residence for the spring quarter, summer...

By Jack Weiland They don't get fazed by numbers, they don't get fazed by an apparent lack of funding, and, these days, they don't get fazed by much of anything else. Why would they? The Northeastern women's track team headed to the New Balance Armory Collegiate Invitational...