Northeastern University filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court last week in support of the University of Michigan and its affirmative action policy. The University of Michigan's case is due to appear before the nation's highest court this spring. The university...

Recently, I've read an article in The Boston Globe, another in The Boston Herald, and one in the BU Daily Free Press regarding Northeastern's possible move to the Colonial Athletic Conference, and I'm not sure how to react. I like the idea that NU is looking to move in the...

In the past 48 hours my brain has been dominated by two things: The war in Iraq, and Eminem's Haley's Song on never-ending repeat coming from some unknown cognitive stereo in my brain. The result -- France's Song comes in the voice of Saddam Hussein. (To the tune of Eminem's...

By Stephanie Vosk "The Sopranos" actress Jamie-Lynn Sigler joined other female professionals in the Harvard University Graduate School of Education on Monday to speak about her experience struggling with an eating disorder. Her presentation was part of an annual public forum...

By Max Lederman The Northeastern men's basketball team arrived in Vestal, N.Y. Sunday afternoon, just in time for what turned out to be a block party. In front of a sellout crowd, the Binghamton Bearcats (14-11, 9-6 America East) swatted away 13 of the Huskies shots on their...

I partly agree with Kathleen Waterhouse's commentary on MBTA E line service ("Out in the cold," Feb. 12). The E line has for many years been slow and inefficient. One can look back to the 1979 Cauldron Yearbook to read an article complaining about the E Line and calling it the...

By Steven Stites The familiar face on the south side of the Curry Student Center isn't only overlooking the Robinson Lot. It's also gazing over I-95 in Philadelphia and New Jersey, the Southeast Expressway at Massachusetts Avenue in Boston, and in smaller versions at assorted...

By Briyah Paley Vagina is a word that some people are uncomfortable saying. However, the twelve young women performing in Northeastern's production of "The Vagina Monologues" at the Blackman Auditorium on Monday and Tuesday night said it so many times, that it wasn't embarassing...

On Friday morning, Rhode Island state attorney general Patrick Lynch stepped to the podium of a news conference and declared: "They say that in the world there's six degrees of separation. In Rhode Island, it's more like one and a half degrees." He wasn't lying. Those...

By Kaitlin Thaney Crime Log Entry of the Week Friday, Feb. 21 12:30 a.m. An 18-year-old male resident of White Hall called NUPD to report he was not feeling well. Officers arrived and examined the student. The resident admitted to smoking an entire bag of marijuana, taking...

By Briyah Paley Fresh from presenting at the Grammy Awards, Jamie-Lynn Sigler was on hand to talk about her experience with eating disorders at Harvard University on Monday night for the Harvard Eating Disorders Center Public Forum. The star, made famous by her role as Meadow...

By Trina Bryant The editor of the Journal of Origins ' Design, Dr. Paul Nelson, spoke to a crowd of about 115 students last Thursday on the importance of reclaiming openness in science that he says has been lost. Dr. Nelson, who is also a philosopher of Biology at the University...