By Jared Spinelli Students at Northeastern live in the heart of Boston -- where there is so much to do and so much to see. With so many neighborhoods within a short walk of campus, many times the Back Bay section of Boston gets overlooked. The truth is, however, Back Bay has...

Police justified in arrests on Hill In the Sept. 17 issue of The News ("Police Priorities skewed?"), Justin Rebello questions the priorities of the police, who broke up several parties on Mission Hill early this month. Rebello's commentary is quick to paint the Boston Police...

By Samantha Fodrowski Cheer up emo kid. Emotional rock band Saves the Day made an in-store appearance at Newbury Comics in Cambridge last Wednesday. Saves the Day was there to promote their new album, "In Reverie," which was released on Sept. 16. The band performed a short...

Northeastern's men's and women's Cross-Country teams opened the 2003-04 season a few weeks back looking to improve upon disappointing seasons in the previous year. Both teams placed eighth in the America East Championships in 2002, but with top runners like Jon Litchfield and...

By Jenel Ronn While Hostelling Intern -ational Boston is considered campus housing, the 61 students living at the end of Hemenway Street do not have access to the ResNet services offered to other on-campus students. Though the university provides the students with a dial-up...

By Alee Hoffman While Speare Cafeteria may be best known as the place to go to set up cable for dorm rooms or pick out housing for the upcoming year, it served a rather different purpose Saturday afternoon when the Council for University Programs (CUP) held its "Rocking Back...

By Zach Hosseini It's 14 months away and some of us are still trying to figure out what the hell an "Iowa Caucus" is. But the 2004 Presidential Election will be interesting. It is a litmus test for Americans following September 11. Are we still as patriotic as we were two years...

I was feeling homesick one day, so I took a trip over to the Wendy's at the Curry Student Center, in hopes of forgetting about home while I gorged on fast food. Back at home, I would usually stop by the local Wendy's, the only fast food place I will eat at for a lovely Chicken...

Wed. 24 Womens Soccer vs. Holy Cross Parsons Field 3 p.m. Fri. 26 Volleyball vs. Long Island Solomon Court 4 p.m. Football at Villanova Villanova Stadium Sat. Sept. 27 at 12:30 p.m. Sun. 28 Mens Soccer vs. UMBC 1 p.m. 3:30 Sun. 28 Field Hockey vs. Dartmouth...

By Stephen Sears Howard Dean is all the buzz right now. At one time this summer, he graced both the covers of Time and Newsweek. You would think Democrats would be excited that, at long last, a candidate has come along to energize the party. But come to find out they are all...

I used to think that people who were arrested were inherently bad, that police officers were meant to protect the innocent and maintain a society of security and well-being for all its inhabitants. That was until last Saturday, when I witnessed the Gestapo-like raids of Mission...

911. Nine, One, One. A mere two years ago, those three numbers were all Arabic. Not only that, but the connotation they had was completely different. Those three numbers were what we were to dial in an emergency. We were all taught this as children and none of us have forgotten...