After months of anxiously waiting, the second installment of "Making the Band" has finally worked its way onto prime time television. The second season follows the six members that were chosen to form "Da Band," a new group on media mogul P. Diddy's Bad Boy Records. This band...

By Reid Cargan Arnold Schwarzenegger was right, he would be back, it only took him 12 years. The movies that Schwarzenegger is arguably best known for, came back for its third installment, "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines." Almost two decades since the original premiered...

Traveling in a pack of coordinated T-shirts, orientation leaders are easy to spot. For the class of 2008, these students will be the first faces of Northeastern. "We are students here and most of us recently went through an identical process," said Jessica Arthur, a freshman...

A mixture of cigarette smoke and herbal essences filled the air in a dive bar on Westminster Street in Providence, R.I. Women in Erica Badu-inspired head wraps and flowing skirts filled the building as they waited for their she-roes to take the stage. They were waiting for the...

By Briyah Paley Summer in the city Living in Manhattan there is all kinds of excitement. From the moment I got home from my first year in college, I expected that it would be interesting. While covering a story for The Northeastern News, I met the beauty director for YM magazine....

The Northeastern track program placed two competitors at the NCAA championship meet June 11-14, giving coach Sherman Hart a tangible sign that the team is gaining steam as a national force. "We've definitely arrived as an eastern power," he said. "We're headed in the right...

Hey, here's an idea: Northeastern joins the Big East athletic conference. OK, now hold on. Before you get that lighter going in a fit of rage at my latest pipe dream (Huskies win Beanpot, etc.) and torch The News in a pseudo-sadistic ritual over your toilet ... listen to this....

In June, the men's hockey team unveiled a vastly different 2003-04 schedule than the one they played last season. Instead of home dates against powers like Denver, Wisconsin, Maine, Boston University, Providence and UNH within the first month, NU is slated to face only Colgate,...

The first question Gilbert Owuor encountered when he traveled from Kenya to Northeastern University was, "So ... you're from Kenya, huh? You speak English?" But dealing with other people's perceptions wasn't the hardest lesson Owuor learned during his five years at Northeastern....

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Christine Todd Whitman, who will end her tenure this month, was recently called a liberal Republican in an editorial that appeared in the Washington Post, for her social views on abortion, gay rights and religion in public schools....

After a search committee interviewed three candidates interested in the Vice President of Student Affairs position, it was determined that more time was necessary to satisfy the university's need for a candidate worthy of replacing retiring VP Karen Rigg. As the search committee...

It was only when the first book hit the bottom of a cardboard box that he realized -- "this is it." June 30 will mark the end of Dean James Keith Motley's 30-year term at Northeastern University as a former undergraduate student and administrator. Motley is moving on to become...