Northeastern University senior cornerback Art Smith signed a free agent contract with the Baltimore Ravens last week. Smith, a first team All-Atlantic-10 selection at cornerback last season, was arguably the best secondary defender in the league last year, and one of the driving...

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree for Jake Busey's interest in acting. With a striking resemblance to his father, actor Gary Busey, he says he understands how the media easily makes comparisons of the father/son duo. "There's a lot of guys out there that are father and...

So, I'm writing this at 10 p.m. Tuesday night (I know, I know, I procrastinated again on this one). But let me start off this week by saying, I'm tired, I'm stressed out and I hate numbers, and this week I am forced to talk about numbers. You have been forewarned, buckle up,...

Dear Editor, My name is Moshahida Sultana. I am the Vice President for social and cultural affairs of Graduate and Professional Student Association at Northeastern. We have a president's forum tomorrow, Thursday,May 1, 5:00-6:00 pm at 318 Curry Student Center. This will be...

I was dismayed to read that Christine Todd Whitman, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, has been chosen as commencement speaker. To be asked to speak at commencement is an honor Whitman does not deserve. Under the current administration the EPA has become a...

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...