By Nicole Haley It is the most widely used drug in the nation, consumed by 85 percent of adults in the United States. Most have some at breakfast to kick-start the day. Others, particularly students, take it at night to study for a morning's midterm or aid in completion of that...

The College Board, which is comprised of more than 4,200 schools, colleges, universities, and other education organizations, has released information stating that college tuition prices are on the rise. The College Board in its yearly survey on the cost for higher education...

By Dwayne Dahlbeck Before Friday's 36th Albany Invitational, cross country coordinator Richard Hart said he thought it would be a good preview of next week's America East Championship. Apparently no one told that to the other teams in the America East. In a meet that featured...

By Bradley Rosenberg In 1979, disco band Lipps Inc. posed a question that to this day goes unanswered: "Won't you take me to Funky Town?" Sadly, the world could only answer with a shrug. Much progress has been made towards that goal since then. With the emergence of such...

As a journalism major, I am appalled at the manner in which the Northeastern News covered the Panhellenic Recruitment. On page three of the last issue, the staff masked news commentaries as actual news stories. The two reporters obviously ignored the fundamental principal of...

By Jessica Legnos Do Northeastern students ever wonder if they would have been happier at the University of Miami? What about the University of Hawaii? For some, these tropical temptations could not only alleviate the need for thermal underwear, but possibly prevent seasonal...

Northeastern President Richard Freeland greeted assembled members of the Progressive Student Alliance (PSA) on Friday morning after the group camped out in front of Churchill Hall to show their support for the "Justice for Janitors" rally which has been ongoing for nearly a...

By Bennett Johnson The Northeastern Commencement Committee can plan every detail down to the floral arrangements on stage, but there is one thing the university can't bank on

By Ari Strait The Huskies' winning ways continued over the weekend, catapulting them into an America East first-place tie with the University of New Hampshire. NU accomplished this feat with a 3-0 sweep of the University of Maine on the Bears' home court last Sunday in Orono,...

By Margarita Neplokh Current trends are nothing new. The things in style now are replicas of what our parents used to wear in the 1970s. All trends repeat themselves. The best thing about those trends is that they adapt to the new age and the individual who is wearing them....

I recently received an email from the Northeastern News, informing me that another edition was out. While I usually skim through the topics, two stood out particularly and I decided to read further. If you had seen my face after those two articles, it would have looked like I...

By lana Guttin It seems like every college student is affected by the same abominable demon: stress. The American Institute of Stress (AIS) calls stress "America's number one health problem" (www.stress.org). It explains that stress used to be beneficial for humans faced with...