The closing moments of the State of the University Address came to a screeching halt when Senior Vice President for Administration and Finance Larry Mucciolo responded to a question posed by Student Government Association Senator Andres Vargas. Vargas asked Mucciolo to explain...

Funnyman Bobby Farrelly is a Republican. At least judging from his performance at the Leary Firefighters Foundation charity hockey game on Sunday, you could assume so. Farrelly, of "There's Something About Mary" fame, robbed Massachusetts Senator John Kerry -- a Presidential...

By Jen Nelson With the total cost of attending Northeastern reaching $35,356 this year, students are looking to the university to help cover the bill. Tuition, room and board, a meal plan and other expenses are all included in that lump sum. But how is the average student expected...

By Alana Woods With its one word title, STOMP warrants a one word reaction -- intense. From the moment the first man of the company graced the stage, until the last beats are drummed out of oversized aluminum trash cans, the audience can't pull their eyes away from the lively...

By Alyson St. Amand and Carleton Atwater Though Residential Life is designed to assist students with housing, one junior communications major recently discovered that when it comes to family housing, she said Northeastern can be less than accommodating. This student, who...

Commentary Between the recent lawsuits filed against Mp3 sharers and the (almost unreported) bill floating around Congress, threatening to make peer-to-peer network file trading illegal, these past few months have been less than encouraging for us fans of programs such as Kazaa....

The women's field hockey team ran the gamut of emotions last week, blowing out Amherst, 10-0, at home, losing a 3-0 heartbreaker to Duke in New Hampshire, and holding on for a tight, 2-1, home victory against Dartmouth. Mari Creatini notched her third hat trick of the season,...

By Jacey Fortin The 2002 report released by the Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) Higher Education Project entitled "At What Cost?" identifies the negative effects employment has on college students. Drawing from a survey of approximately 50,000 undergraduates, PIRG reports...

By Shaylene Silva Many remember Jack Black from "Orange County," or his role in "Shallow Hal." This time he has taken on the role of a private school teacher. Black has done it again in a new movie entitled "School of Rock" where he was given the chance to utilize his rocking...

By Steve Babcock An unusually large percentage of student groups could find themselves without access to funding from Student Activity Fee come Oct. 8. As of Friday, the number of student groups eligible to receive funding for programming from the BRC, who mandates the allocation...

By Stephen Sears Yield rate. Retention. Peer assessment. Third tier. Not phrases you thought you would hear too much, right? Now, they have joined "BU sucks," "co-op" and "tuition increase" as commonplace here on Huntington Avenue. The U.S. News and World Report, as you...

As a timid and relatively diffident freshman, I've not yet taken the time to get to know my professors nor have I been fed any embellished gossip that would lead me to be prepared for the cute, grotesque, or uncontrollable quirks or flaws that seem to flesh out so many professors...