By Briyah Paley Are you deck or fin? "The Hipster Handbook," by Robert Lanham, will tell you. Deck is described as "a key word for most hipsters, similar in meaning to the antiquated 'fresh.' To be deck is to be up on the latest trends, cutting edge and/or hip. Fin is the...

Regarding Afsha Bawany's column titled "It's a wonderful life," it was a good article. But she misses big; "My argument is that protesters are trying to stop the war to bring back the troops to their families." I seriously hope that isn't her reasoning. Because any knowledgeable...

Two fires in the past four days have sparked Northeastern University's Public Safety division to start an investigation into potential cases of arson. "The investigation is intense today and our detectives are making some progress," said Associate Director of Public Safety...

By Nicole Haley Student apathy at Northeastern has been an issue raised by several groups and individual students throughout recent years and now, a group of students is coming together to change that. Brothers About Change (BAC) was officially recognized as a student group...

By Bradley Rosenberg The Huskies' hopes of winning the Orange Cup were blown out of the water Saturday by a dominant Syracuse crew and an assertive U. of Penn. team, leaving the NU women's crew team with a third place finish and a boat-load of disappointment. Syracuse finished...

Cancel all plans for the weekend. The fourth annual Iodine Fest has arrived to provide two full days of music, at two different venues, with two stages each featuring a total of 31 bands. The festival of music is to be held on April 18 and 19. Doors open at 4 p.m. on Friday...

By Justiniano Rodrigues Hundreds of people came together on April 12 to experience the splendors of South Asia's cultures in UTSAV's annual culture show, Nataraj. UTSAV means "festival" in Sanskriti and is a group that has served as Northeastern's South Asian Student Organization...

Last Sunday I had a chance to address a panel that included United States Congressmen Michael Capuano and Barney Frank. Capuano's district includes the Boston campus of NU, meaning he represents most of our students. The event took place at Newton City Hall, and was organized...

By Stephanie Vosk The speakers for this year's commencement ceremonies were announced by the university Monday. Christine Todd Whitman, who will be the keynote speaker at the undergraduates' ceremony, June 14, served as governor of New Jersey from 1993 to 2000 before being...

By Nicole Haley Academicians from various fields of study and locations throughout the world met at Northeastern last Thursday for the first of a three-day Practice-Oriented Education (POE) Conference to reinforce the importance of programs like co-op. The conference was hosted...

By Max Lederman After splitting two games last Wednesday against cross-town rival Boston College, the Northeastern baseball team went into two more double-headers on Sunday and Monday against Albany looking to start their conference schedule with a splash. The splash ended...

As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to visit anew the incendiary issue of affirmative action on American campuses, attention is simultaneously being refocused on the collateral, and equally thorny,