By Bradley Rosenberg The crew team's record sank to 4-4 on Saturday after picking up third place at the Orchard Beach Lagoon in New Rochelle, N.Y. Columbia seized first place with a time of 6:38.4 and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst came in second with a time of 6:42.3,...

By Diana Dopfel Whether rock or punk, a company for artist development and management, it seems that Northeastern's music program, including concentrations in music industry and technology, has attracted some true talent. That's not to say that all musicians are music majors,...

Props to a NU student group called Up Till Dawn for their charity work and innovative style of recruiting volunteers. This organization - that works in universities nation-wide raises money to support St. Jude's Research Hospital, an institution for our nation's poorest, sick...

By Adam Smartschan Lior Krolewicz had walked past Israel's Park Hotel Restaurant in Netanya. It was natural that he would; the building stood near the boardwalk in the beach town where Krolewicz lived from the time he was five until he turned 13. Passing the hotel was just...

Remember in the opening scenes of "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," when the delectable River Phoenix made it his mission to get the cross back from the 1920s pirates because, "it belongs in a museum?" Unfortunately, that was a movie and Harrison Ford won't be going to...

By James Walton Listed at a generous 5-feet, 8-inches tall, Cassandra Brown is not the prototype for rowing that her times and accomplishments for the Northeastern University women's crew team might suggest. Brown, or "Cass," as friends and teammates call her, is the prototype...

In last week's opinion piece, "Mideast Visits Show Truth," Josh Parker illustrated his limitless capacity to produce rambling, hateful rhetoric masquerading as political commentary. In one stroke, Parker denigrated Islam, attacked Northeastern News columnist Joe Goldberg as a...

The Faculty Senate debated Monday about what the appropriate policy should be if faculty members abandon their positions, another aspect of the continuously contested faculty handbook. The issue is just one of many that the senate has been debating since early in the year to...

Although the boat fell behind by nearly a five-seat deficit, don't think that worried coach John Pojednic. The crew stormed back, eventually taking the victory by a full second (5:27.8 to 5:28.8) in the Dreissigacker Cup over Brown on the Seekonk River. "That was actually our...

By Lisa Kaczke Twenty students moved across the dance floor to the noise of clapping and shouting. "Slow, slow, quick, quick," instructor Peter Jetty shouts. They stop as Jetty explains, "The biggest thing is posture." There is no eye contact and the woman looks over the...

Following the debate that has been unfolding in the op-ed pages of The Northeastern News, I was reminded of the line in Thomas Friedman's "From Beirut to Jerusalem" where he quipped that when discussing the Arab-Israeli conflict people generally go insane. I have been following,...

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