Northeastern's international student community is facing a period of uncertainty as the university is now required to use the federal government's new electronic system for tracking and monitoring students from foreign countries. The Student and Exchange Visitor Information...

By Stephanie Vosk For former high school quarterback Kevin Mellen, leaving Northeastern in the middle of his sophomore year for a temporary home across the globe was his only choice. Just a few weeks into the winter quarter, Mellen, who had completed his Marine Corps Reserves...

By Stephanie Vosk After a six-month search, Northeastern University has appointed Daniel F. Bourque as the new vice president of facilities at NU. Bourque will now oversee the construction of West Buildings G and H and the new computer science building in progress, as well...

By Nicole Haley As news of the first American prisoners of war spreads throughout the country, families and friends of soldiers fighting overseas live with the fear that one of their loved ones may be next. One Northeastern journalism professor knows exactly what it is like...

More than three dozen Northeastern students piled into vans and drove to Washington, D.C. Monday afternoon for rallies in support of affirmative action and the University of Michigan. Northeastern Dean of Affirmative Action and Diversity Donnie J. Perkins joined the students,...

By Rachael Wang Some students on campus are trading in their JanSport back packs for more trendy and expensive designer totebags. Nineteen fifties inspired Louis Vuitton bags top spring lust-lists of the NU fashion elite. Creative director Marc Jacobs teamed up with Japanese...

By Kaitlin Thaney Crime Log Entry of the Week Monday, March 24 4 p.m. NUPD confiscated 90 cans of beer and 12 bottles of liquor from three 19-year-old male students from Stetson East. A student notified an RA in the building after seeing the students getting out of a car...

By Briyah Paley The following is a firsthand account of spring break spent abroad. A few months before spring break, I found myself anxious to go away. Not to Cancun or Florida, I wanted to go somewhere far away and full of culture. My cousin, a junior in high school from...

Since the tragic nightclub fire in West Warwick, R.I. that claimed the lives of 99 people at The Station, fire safety has come under scrutiny in clubs, restaurants and several other types of establishments. Northeastern University is no exception. Two fire safety bills filed...

By Alyson St. Amand Sara Wadia-Fascetti, assistant professor of civil engineering, was presented the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring on March 18. A Northeastern employee since 1994, Wadia-Fascetti was honored at a ceremony...

By Steve Babcock After controversy and debates spanning several weeks, the newly created Committee to Examine Northeastern University Student Fees (CENUSF) was dissolved by Student Government Association President Richard Schwabacher shortly after its inception. Schwabacher...

By Stephanie Vosk Northeastern's $400 million budget and subsequent 5.5 percent tuition increase for next year has moved from the realm of the possible and into reality as the university approved the proposal March 7. The new budget and tuition is set to go into effect next...