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...

Tuesday, June 3 1 p.m. A 39-year-old male student reported his book bag stolen after he left it unattended in Snell Library for an hour. It contained several books and his passport. 4 p.m. An undergraduate student reported his cell phone missing after leaving it unattended...

Nathan Travis Unruh Nathan Travis Unruh, a senior electrical engineering major at Northeastern University, died Friday, June 20 due to an obstruction of the windpipe. He was 21 years old. Mr. Unruh, from Milford, was just 10 days shy of his 22nd birthday. He graduated from...

It's sad that perhaps Martin Luther King's most well known line that one day people will be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character, has become so clich

By Zach Hosseini Porno. Doesn't it seem like it's everywhere? Isn't it perfectly acceptable? Pornography is mass produced from the hardcore kind, spewing out from hills in various valleys in California to the softer, gentler variety which MTV loves to lend. Porno lives in a...

By Joe Bigda Each and every Wednesday I look forward to reading The Northeastern News in order to see exactly what kind of garbage is going to be printed. I must say often I find meaningless stories that students frankly could care less to read about, and this week's edition...

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...