By Stephanie Vosk When junior business major David Hough found out that his stepmother was diagnosed with breast cancer late last year, he felt helpless. Fortunately, as the president of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, he had a band of brothers to help him change that. Hough...

By Ari Strait The Northeastern swimming and diving team split their first and only weekend of back to back meets of the year, falling to the University of New Hampshire Wildcats Monday after defeating the University of Massachusetts Minutemen the day before. The 155-145 loss...

By Camila Crews Over 30 thousand young adults between the ages of 18 and 24 line up to audition in major cities across America for their chance to be watched by millions of people week after week for years to come. The question is, do people really look at the long-term effects...

The current events surrounding both the Gamma Phi Kappa and Alpha Kappa Sigma fraternities have shed a negative light on what Greek life is all about. In an age where the current generation is all about sex, drugs and rock n' roll, that is what the word "fraternity" has come...

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...