By Derek Hawkins and Marc Larocque More than three-dozen Northeastern janitors were barred from participating in a rally scheduled for the library quad Wednesday on the grounds that the university does not consider them employees. The rally, which had previously been approved...

By Editor's Note After more than 80 years of chronicling student life at Northeastern, The News will begin publishing twice a week starting this fall. By replacing its traditional mid-week production schedule and instead hitting newstands on Mondays and Thursdays, the paper...

By Marc Larocque After the U.S. military invaded Iraq, its academic infrastructure there was ravaged. But one British bookworm stepped up to help. And he has stepped up again to help students and teachers at Northeastern obtain all the knowledge they need. William Wakeling,...

By Derek Hawkins Former Northeastern President Richard Freeland has been cited among the top candidates to become interim chancellor of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst this fall, sources within the university said. Freeland and another candidate, Evan Dobelle, president...

Amid the antiques, entertainment systems and vintage jerseys cluttering eBay, one unusual item stood out: Northeastern student Josh Minney. Minney and recent graduate Smith Anderson spent the past two months traveling the world. The pair visited three continents and 17 countries...

It's 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday and I'm walking through campus and have become thirsty. I think about how refreshing it would be to have a cold drink, like an iced Passion tea from Starbucks, and head into the Curry Student Center, only to be greeted by a set of closed doors. This...

I'm a firm believer in diversity and cultural awareness. Growing up in New York City and going to school in the Brooklyn public school system, I only rarely thought about differences in skin tone, religion or what have you; instead, people were just people. We had history classes...

The News has wrapped up its production schedule for the summer. Besides freeing both of us from the grips of our paper edition for a few weeks, from now until Labor Day students throughout Huntington Avenue have a chance to catch up on other reading. Perhaps we should start...

Women's Soccer Team Names New Assistant Coach Women's soccer head coach Ed Matz announced that Kristin Slater will join the Husky staff as a goalkeeper coach. Slater comes to Northeastern after two years as a volunteer coach at Tufts University and a playing career with the Women's...

Doctor: Congratulations! You've just awoken from a nine-year coma. I imagine you'll want to catch up on the news. Patient: To be honest, Doc, I just want to know how the world of sports is doing. Fill me in on everything. The last I remember Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire...

Keynote speaker for fall commencement announced Jessie Gruman will be the keynote speaker for the fall commencement ceremony. Gruman is the founder and president of the Center for Advancement of Health, an independent, nonpartisian, Washington-based policy institute devoted to...

By Nick Mendez Crime log entries are selected from Northeastern's Division of Public Safety reports. Crime Log Entry of the Week Monday, July 23 6 p.m. On July 10, a 20-year-old visiting scholar reported her cell phone stolen from the first floor of Snell Library after she...