By Max Lederman The men's basketball team got just what the doctor ordered last weekend: a home game against a weak New Hampshire team. "We needed to win," said freshman guard Jose Juan Barea. "We need to keep winning," he added. They not only beat New Hampshire (3-13, 1-4...

By Lea Schmidt Boston is an amazing city. It's the ideal place to go to school. Well, almost ideal. If there's one thing the city lacks, it's 24-hour diners -- or 24-hour anything for that matter. For those students from Long Island and New Jersey, the thing missed most, next...

By Bradley Rosenberg Last Sunday, at the New York Armory track, Northeastern beat nine other teams to win the Great Dane Classic. While the outcome was in doubt midway through the meet, the Huskies came back in the final two events to garner a score of 118.5 and the win. "The...

I went to the local "Bed, Bath, and Beyond" the other day. I didn't really care about the Bed or the Bath, but, man, did I ever want to see that Beyond. Turns out it was just a Starbucks. I had a dream the other day. Starbucks was there, as well (and, of course, Denise Richards,...

Last Sunday's Golden Globes ceremony was taken very seriously by some peers. I met this boy through a friend the night before the Golden Globes who said, "some people have beer and pizza for the Super Bowl, I get the beer and pizza for the Golden Globes. I take those things...

She has been likened to caffeine, a southern belle and a southern spitfire, but to some of her colleagues, "She's just Karen." Vice President of Student Affairs Karen Rigg announced last Friday that she will be leaving the university and entering early retirement effective...

Men's track sophomore sprinter Idris Payne has been selected as this week's NU News Player of the Week. It is the second week in a row Payne has been selected. At last weekend's Great Dane Classic in New York City, Payne tied a 23-year-old record in the 400 with his time of...

After reading Joe Goldberg's commentaries of past weeks, I am thoroughly insulted, both as a Jew and as an avid supporter of Israel. His irresponsible journalistic style, as exemplified by last week's "fictional conversation" between him and one of his critics, is nothing more...

By Steve Babcock The Student Government Association elected Andres Vargas as the new vice president of Academic Affairs Tuesday in a Joint Senate session. Vargas, who had been the interm vice president in the fall, ran unopposed. As the VP of Acadmeic Affairs, Vargas will...

By Amanda Lowe Former Polaroid Corporation executive Marian Stanley settled into her newly created position at Northeastern last week as Vice President of Corporate Relations. Stanley, who for the past 29 years held the position of vice president of Polaroid Corp. Eurasia/Africa,...

Dedicated to all my twenty-something friends who have no idea where they are going and are enjoying every minute of "not knowing." "So what are the costs of stamps these days?" I asked a friend of mine at work. She started to laugh in my face. "Why, how old are you? Fifty?"...

They were two games that the Huskies would have no excuses for losing. The other teams weren't higher ranked, and they weren't necessarily more talented. The Huskies knew they had to win, and on Sunday and Tuesday they buried fellow Hockey East rivals Boston College and Maine,...