Cyndy Kenyon has been named The Northeastern News Player of the Week after she tallied a goal and an assist, propelling the women's hockey team to a 2-1 home victory against Providence on Sunday. The win also slid the Huskies past the Friars in the Hockey East standings;...

By Michael Naughton When Dan Quintal, a junior political science and international affairs major, called the North-eastern University Police Depart-ment (NUPD) from Louis Prang Street Thursday night asking for an escort ride to West Campus, he was surprised to hear the dispatcher...

I want to take a moment to express my concern over watching the State of the Union Address last Tuesday in afterHOURS. I was just concluding my weekly Kappa Sigma meetings in the Curry Student Center when I thought that afterHOURS would be the perfect place to watch the annual...

By Gayle Simon Two late third period goals from Amy Goodney and Cyndy Kenyon lifted the Northeastern women's hockey team to a 2-1 victory over Hockey East rival Providence on Sunday at Matthews Arena. Down 1-0, 13:22 in the third, freshman Amy Goodney rocketed a one-timer...

By Glenn Yoder Five days after Howard Dean's unexpected third-place finish in the Iowa caucuses, NU for Dean and Mass for Dean collaborated to send a school bus full of volunteers to Dean Headquarters in Nashua, N.H. From there, a full-fledged door-to-door effort was made...

Cyber-friendships -- we all have them, and don't be deceived by the title. You fuel these relationships subconsciously, without any hesitation or qualms. You don't even have to be a closet chatroom connoisseur or have any special high-tech gadgets. Well, maybe you do need one,...

Being the strong-willed kid that he is, his mother said, Zachary Haas wanted to return to campus just days after shattering his knee in a snowboarding accident this weekend. Instead, his doctors, family and friends convinced him it would be in his best interest to rest in...

By Paul Mann The walls are a dark wood. The couches are leather. Light bulbs are dimmed and candles are burning. The air is thick with smoke. Cigar Masters is one of only a few Boston bars to survive the smoking ban. Cigar Masters has been in business since 1996 and has recently...

With all the bad press about college athletes being suspended, team violations, drugs, rape, theft, and run-ins' with police, where is our reporting about athletes who are true student athletes. I mean athletes who earn good grades and do the right things in life to make our...

By Zach Hosseini Figured out what a caucus is yet? Me neither. I know what a Dukakis is though; but that's neither here nor there. But anyway, my "Get Fuzzy" calendar tells me it's 2004. This tells me that those "slimy Democrats" will be infesting our fair city when the Democratic...

While the Pats battled the Colts for a chance to be one of the teams on the Superbowl ticket, students lined up inside Huntington Liquors to buy cases of beer to kick off their celebration. As of Jan. 14 Sundays will never be the same. Since the 1700s Puritan-enforced blue...

The realm of sports is a great paradox, and on so many different levels. Sports bring people closer together, only so one group can fight with another; one need go only to Fenway Park during a Red Sox-Yankees weekend series to witness this. Lifelong friendships are born,...