By Steve Babcock Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney made his first appearance on campus Tuesday in Blackman Auditorium to lay out his plan to increase the availability of affordable housing in the Commonwealth. The lack of affordable housing, which Romney said was equal with...

The men's crew team walked directly into the fire last weekend, competing against the University of Washington on the Montlake Cut in Seattle, on the school's 100th anniversary of rowing. With sunny skies and tens of thousands of people there to soak in the festivities, NU...

With cabin fever and senoritis spreading around campus, it is only fair that we have a pre-final exam stress reliever. This form of medication will be brought to us by WRBB via their Spring Music Concert. On Saturday, May 10, NU's campus will be overtaken by the banging beats...

We've become a nation with too many Jay Gatsbys. It's really sad. Certain elements of American society desire wealth, power, and glamour so much that they resemble the depraved antihero of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, "The Great Gatsby." As I will explain, I blame Bush, not the...

By Bradley Rosenberg Three NU graduate students placed fifth in the Carrot Capital Business Plan Challenge (CCBPC) Saturday with their plan for the "East Bay Brewing Company," a beer manufacturing business venture. While the placing in the competition did not gain them any prize...

When the bricks of the John D. O'Bryant African American Institute fall in what will probably be late 2004, students won't be able to measure the effects in costs or structural damage. According to a junior nursing major active in the institute, their programs and their community...

By Bradley Rosenberg The varsity boat of the women's crew got tripped up by Ivy Leaguers Brown and Yale this weekend, coming in third. Racing on the Housatonic River in Derby, Connecticut, Brown bagged first with a time of 6:22.1, Yale came in behind them with a time of 6.27.3,...

Comic book heroes have often had a hard time making the transition to the silver screen. Fortunately, "X2: X-Men United" meets and overcomes those challenges with ease. The sequel to the 2000 blockbuster hit "X-Men" is the perfect blend of new and old. Historically, movies...

A few weeks ago I read one of Joe Goldberg's columns. ("A political last resort," April 16) At first, I was inspired by his analysis of the current world situation. He stated, "The current administration has dug us into a unilateralist hole, and today I ask Mr. Frank and Mr....

By Steve Babcock The Student Government Association's Senate Restructuring Committee laid out plans at a relatively calm and sparsely-attended Joint Senate in Snell Library's basement Monday to reformat some of the ways Student Government operates through changes to the organization's...

By Renee Wright With the amount of international programs at Northeastern, it was only a matter of time before SARS became an issue of concern. One Northeastern student was forced to cut a study abroad experience short because of the increased threat in Beijing. According...

Best known for writing the column "Sex and the City" in the New York Observer, which spawned the hit HBO series with the same name, author Candace Bushnell visited Northeastern's ballroom in the Curry Student Center on Monday to sign books, meet fans, and discuss the creation...