I really love football. It's easy for me to get excited about baseball, but the NFL football draft is coming up. You know what else is coming up? Semester Conversion! And though I won't be here for that transformation of sorts, I have learned a lot through my colleague, Heather...

By Alana B. Salzberg For most adolescents, college is a time to be on their own, form an identity separate from their parents and experience new things such as relationships. Living away from home allows dating to become more intimate while maturity permits couples to plan...

Every day that goes by, Northeastern University's students are identifying both positives and negatives of their academic home. Every week that goes by various student groups attempt to tackle the negative issues and bolster those that are positive. Unfortunately, every year...

As part of a campaign to raise awareness about sexual violence on campus, Harvard University Professor Diane Rosenfeld spoke to students Tuesday about coming together and taking action. Rosenfeld, who previously served as the senior counsel to the Violence Against Women Office...

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...