After sitting in my bed Saturday morning, I realized that my parents had their priorities all wrong. What were they thinking, not allowing me to have a television in my room and encouraging me to read, so I would be able to expand my vocabulary? What they should have been doing...

The News continues its in-depth look into athletic funding with this, the third of a four-part series: Nate Houghton loves soccer, but not on this day. It is cold and rainy, and a foot injury that has pained him all season is especially cranky today. Granted, the captain...

By Kaitlin Thaney Crime Log Entry of the Week Tuesday, April 11 2 a.m. Campus Police from Lasell College arrested a 19-year-old male Northeastern student. He was initially encountered on Lasell's campus with mass quantities of alcohol in his possession. Confiscated from...

*Questions and answers provided by the Office of Semester Conversion. Situation 1 A student is scheduled for a January-June co-op, but decides to change to a July-December co-op. What does he need to do? 1) Meet with his co-op advisor to determine if this is feasible. 2)...

By Margarita Neplokh Ayoola Somolu walks into her Literature of the Don Juan-era class with a head wrap fit for a queen, she sits and listens to the lecture. The Northeastern News has found its new featured fashion star of the week. With the style and elegance of Erykah Badu...

By Max Lederman With a cold steady drizzle that made each ping of their aluminum bats feel more like a hammer smashing their cold fingers, the Northeastern baseball team lost a close contest to Holy Cross in their home opener last Wednesday, 6-4. The game was stopped once...

By Stephanie Vosk Wedding bells were ringing for Kristin Stanley, but she could only capture the sound for a moment before "Operation Iraqi Freedom" intervened. With tentative plans to marry in October 2004, the coordinator of public relations and special projects for the...

He maxed out all 10 of his credit cards and held his breath to make his newest film. Now, two years later, Justin Lin can exhale. At 26-years-old, the director is living his dream and taking it all in very slowly. Lin is the director of "Better Luck Tomorrow," a film about a...

Where were you the day the Gulf War: Part 2 was declared? I was on my way to a Celine Dion concert at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. The show began at 8:30, war began around 7:15 after President Bush's address to the nation two weeks ago. Before the show began, Dion knew what...

By Steve Babcock Student Government representatives from Northeastern and other area colleges came together at City Hall with Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino Wednesday morning to discuss current issues facing collegiate governments. Another meeting and formal dinner at Boston...

I usually defend my journalistic brethren when someone around society wants to take a dig at them. But recently, I've noticed that our particular field is taking a lot of heat. Last night cinched it for me. While watching the postgame interview of Kansas coach Roy Williams,...

It's very easy to find the commercials for various armed forces enticing. They should be, they're put together by the best minds of propaganda our country has to offer. But before any of you, especially all you young men over the age of 18, get it into your head that being a...