By Catherine DeFuria At a large university like Northeastern, everyday interaction with fellow students is the norm. According to Director of the Disabilities Resource Center Ruth Bork, for at least 600 of the schools 14,144 students, this may not be so normal. Nancy Sharby,...

The New York Times called the massive amount of snow that hit the Northeast inspiring and tranquil, enabling we humans to marvel at Mother Nature's grandeur. Inspiring, nope. Grand, I think not. Picturesque, not when you are trudging through it at one in the morning. So,...

By Ari Strait The Northeastern women's swimming and diving team retained the title of America East champions this past weekend, bringing home a fourth straight conference championship from the three day tournament in Orono, Maine. The Huskies, who dropped three of the last...

The resignation of Vice President Richard Porter from NU's co-op department may pull the chair out from underneath the students at the university. The unexpected announcement comes at an unfortunate time of complete transition throughout all administrative offices, due to the...

There's just something about Matthew's Arena, isn't there? After all, it seems every time a top-ranked and highly touted team enters the building, they run into trouble. Last Saturday, against sixth ranked New Hampshire was no different. For the sixth consecutive time (dating...

In the Jan. 29 issue of The News a student named Mohammad Junaid Alam made some harsh accusations in his piece "Freedom for Palestine" against my country, Israel, and its people. Alam's piece is a shameless collection of lies and distortions designed to demonize Jews while...

By Bradley Rosenberg The Northeastern women's hockey team traded wins with the Maine Black Bears over the weekend with a 3-2 victory on Saturday and a 2-1 overtime loss on Sunday. The games, which both took place at the Matthews Arena, were critical as the squad approaches the...

Northeastern was undoubtedly the best school that I got accepted to. Boston had always been a dream for me ever since I was young. It was just one visit with my parents that made me see the beauty of this admittedly great city. Here I am now in Boston, a cold, cold, city this...

By Joseph Rubin Traveling to Burlington, Vt. last Saturday, the women's basketball team learned about what winter was, and how to handle a storm, being thrown into the middle of one, and struggling to get out. The Huskies fell to Vermont, 76-65. The Catamounts took an astounding...

You'd think we would be terrified. Yet, some of us are immune to it. Some of us are running to create bomb shelters while others read the papers figuring it's all a hoax. It doesn't matter where we are, east or west coast. The United States or England. We're more annoyed than...

By Max Lederman Instead of the Northeastern men's basketball team folding under the pressure of playing the America East's second place team without their star point guard and leading scorer Jose Juan Barea, they handed the Vermont Catamounts a 76-59 thrashing. Senior guard...

I am writing to the NU community to raise some questions about the possible war on Iraq. I hope through this to incite some reasoning among readers, as well as to establish some of my personal views. Moreover, I hope to begin a debate over this issue - one which would bring further...