This past weekend thousands of 18- year-olds crammed their families and most of their possessions into vehicles and prepared to start a new chapter in their lives. The joy on their faces was evident as they looked around the sprawling campus and breathed in the fresh aroma...

If you didn't know any better, you might think the Northeastern football team has it out for the school's cheerleaders. Remember, they're the ones who pump out pushup after pushup for every point the Husky score. After NU's 51-0 pasting of Division I-AA Albany, that makes for...

BROOKLINE - If any of the scattered attendees at Northeastern football's opening day learned anything Saturday, it was this: Stonehill College has a SWEET punter. That, or Shawnn Gyles can run ... and run ... and run. Joe Crowley, the Chieftain kicker, booted the ball 10...

By Cindy Em I attend Northeastern and am writing in response to the article "Girls Gone Wild" (7/23) written by Najila Moussa. I would like to say that I attended that audition as a volunteer to help my friend (who is a bouncer) pick the girls for Coyote Ugly's Saloon. I was...

By Ari Strait The Northeastern University volleyball team, America East semifinalists last year, are bringing five new members onto a squad that head coach Ken Nichols claims has "the most depth ever" for a program he's been a part of. Freshman recruits Whitney Turner and...

So many times as a sports fan, people become caught up in "what ifs;" you know those hypothetical situations that could have happened but did not, or vice versa. Some of these predicaments are more outlandish than others. Around here, some of the biggest "what ifs" range anywhere...

For 17 years, NU baseball skipper Neil McPhee has been watching his athletes head to play in the college baseball summer standby Cape Cod Baseball League. For both him and them, it's an institution of the season. Northeastern's Devin Monds, Jordan Thomson, Justin Hedrick, Chris...

Last Thursday the Northeastern football team was selected as the favorite to repeat as Atlantic-10 champions by coaches and selected media during the conference's annual Media Day held in Philadelphia, Pa. NU garnered nine first place votes, followed closely by Delaware (8),...

The wild west is ready for another appearance on the big screen and this time Kevin Costner is spearheading the campaign to bring back traditional western films. Armed with gun fights, saloon brawls and simplistic dialogue, Costner opens our eyes to what it's like to live on...

By Najla Moussa Tourists and Bostonians received a historical lesson in the Shakespearean arts in an unlikely arena. Over 200 people gathered at the Parkman Bandstand at the Boston Common for Shakespeare on the Common on a Thursday evening. Beach chairs and blankets were on...

Co-op vs. The Classroom There is nothing I love more than money. Sure, my family and friends are important, but what can you do without mucho dinero? Like the song says, "For the love of money/ People will steal from their mother/ For the love of money/People will rob...

Due to a reporting error in the story, "Girls Gone Wild" in the July 23 issue of The Northeastern News, Cindy Em was misquoted as applying for a position at the bar Coyote Ugly, when she was not. The tryouts also were not held at McGann's bar, but instead at another location...