Brad Czarnowski of the baseball team has been named The Northeastern News Player of the Week after going 4-for-11 with two homeruns and three RBI in a three game series with North Carolina State, the 20th ranked team in the nation. Each of the senior outfielder's round-trippers...

By Stephen Sears "Only in America," an e-mail I received read, "do people order a double cheeseburger and large fries with a Diet Coke." There lies the quandary where our ever self-indulgent populace exists. We want the sweets. We do not want to get fat. Can we have both?...

By Dolly Goyal The Latin American Student Organization (LASO) is in the process of planning a banquet to honor Northeastern's service workers. However, while the preliminary details for the banquet are set, LASO President Gilberto Osorio said the group is having problems getting...

By Kaitlin Thaney he end of the world is upon us. Apocalypse now. I'm starting to hyperventilate. Why, you might ask? The water has stopped running. Yes, you heard me, the water has officially stopped. For the first time since I stepped onto this campus, the sculpture...

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...