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 Bradley Rosenberg There are very few things that men and women have in common. They don't think the same, they don't enjoy the same types of movies, they don't even have the same amount of ribs. What they do have in common, though, according to a recent study by Northeastern...

By Margarita Neplokh Now that the temperature is down to below zero temperatures, the thing to do is to stay in and watch television with friends. While you are shivering behind your covers and trying to flip from infomercial to infomercial, you may come across some old movies,...

By Kimberly Peterson Another weekend, another pair of devastating losses for Northeastern women's hockey team. The Huskies played 10th-ranked Providence College last weekend and were once again shut down by the Hockey East power house, 3-1 on Sunday preceded by an 2-0 shutout....

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...

By Steve Babcock As the weekly Student Government meeting moved into debate Thursday, Vice President of Academic Affairs Andres Vargas was asked to approach the podium. Just two days prior to the meeting, senators unified to elect Vargas to his new position. On this day, however,...

By Stephanie Vosk The controversial debate surrounding the University of Michigan's affirmative action policy and the pending Supreme Court decision have now reached Northeastern's campus. Professor Martha Davis, former legal director of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund...

By Max Lederman No matter what sport, the most delicious win for any NU team is to beat cross-town rival Boston University. It's about Bean Town pride, and bragging rights, and for the Northeastern men's Basketball team, Saturday's thrilling 72-69 road win over the BU Terriers...

In order to soar through the U.S. News and World Reports national rankings of universities, as well as maintain the number one ranking of internships and co-ops, Northeastern University must sell itself to the nation. Semester conversion plus the branding campaign and three...

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,...

By Lindsay Niegelberg WASHINGTON D.C. - Tens of thousands of protesters braved the 18 degree weather in Washington D.C. on Jan. 18 to tell President Bush that they do not support war in Iraq. "Injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere," read one protester's sign, quoting...

From their name alone you might not be able to distinguish Delta Lambda Phi from other fraternities. But there is a factor that uniquely separates them from the rest: Delta Lambda Phi is a gay fraternity. Delta was established in 1986 by three elderly gay men who left a trust...