BROOKLINE - Although the football game this last weekend wasn't the official homecoming game, it was indeed a return of sorts. For the first time since resigning as NU's Athletic Director and taking over the same position at UMass-Amherst, Ian McCaw returned to NU. While...

By Amanda Murphy and Jess Beers A goal for most radio stations is to increase the number of listeners that tune in daily. However, due to recent discussions concerning fees for webcasters and broadcasters, many university and college radio stations are finding that less is more....

This letter is in response to the very uninformed commentary included in the August 21 edition of Northeastern News. The author, Carla Molina (a philosophy major) took it upon herself to "educate" the Northeastern community regarding the wonders of emergency contraception (EC)....

By Ari Strait The defending America East champion Northeastern volleyball team continued its preseason struggles over the weekend, dropping all three matches the team played during the Valparaiso Invitational in Valparaiso, Indiana. The string of losses against Valparaiso...

By Bradley Rosenberg Wendy herself attended the ribbon cutting ceremony at the Curry Student Center on Sept. 20. The red-haired, freckle faced youngster was happy to attend the event. "It's Wendy-ful!" Northeastern student are also optimistic about the change. "When I...

By Afsha Bawany It's not called political activism anymore. It's called American Idolisim. This summer, I heard numerous in-depth conversations, critiques, and up to the minute analysis not about the impending war on Iraq, the "new war" currently being fought in Afghanistan,...

The speeches delivered to the freshman class on September 17th seemed to foreshadow things to come in Northeastern's future. The Student Government President, Provost, two Presidential Scholars and the President himself addressed the class of '07 at the President's Convocation....

Close your eyes and imagine a place where the traditions are rich, where people actually attend sporting events, where the emotions of school spirit are worn on the sleeves of students and not lamented by school officials. Now open your eyes and gasp could it be? Is that Northeastern...

By Chirag Rabari An estimated nine million people aged 12 and over used prescription drugs nonmedically in 1999, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. About four million of those could be considered current users, meaning they had used prescription drugs for nonmedical...

On October 4, 2002 full-time undergraduate students in the state of Massachusetts could be forced to pay $1,089. Beginning this year all students must waive health insurance offered by the state. This waiver was always required, but Northeastern only asked students to waive...

I am a New Yorker, which makes me by natural law, a New York Yankees fan. When I read Joe Goldberg's typical bitter Yankee-hater rant, I adjusted my Yankee's hat that I was wearing so all Bostonian's could cringe at the blue and white logo. (It is in fact, blue and white, not...

We are supposedly living in the age of technology. Soon the phrase "clothes make the man" will apply to how we live our lives as well. The Levi Strauss company will be introducing pants with an "anti-radiation" cell phone pocket to the European market, according to Carrie...