Ahndraea Allen has been named The Northeastern News Player of the Week after she collected 30 points for the women's track team, winning the 55, 200 and 400 meters and helped the Huskies bring home their sixth America East championship in the past 11 years. She was named...

By Bobby Hankinson After delivering the one-two punch to the boxing world, the "First Lady of Boxing" Jackie Kallen is ready to knockout flm audiences across the country. The story of her life as a boxing manager is being portrayed in the film "Against the Ropes." Kallen,...

Pete Bandel is a junior political science major. He is also ridiculous. Freshman year, within a week of arriving here, I'd downloaded and viewed the video of the Patriots riots from last time we won the super bowl. I've been excited to see what would happen each following year....

By Michael Naughton With tuition for the 2004-05 academic year set to go up 4.5 percent, according to a senior administration official, some students voiced their concerns over the additional $576 they will be forced to pay each semester. The tuition increase is one portion...

By Glenn Yoder and Bobby Hankinson Northeastern lost another member of its community Saturday when Joseph Gazzola, a senior sociology major and former Husky linebacker, died unexpectedly on campus. Gazzola was a vital part of the football team, leading the Huskies to the school's...

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...