By Juliana Schatz Despite the city's endless offerings, many Boston residents are either too young or too broke to fill their social schedules without assistance. Three Massachusetts Institute of Technology students, Roy Rodenstein, Rebecca Xiong and Geoff Menegay, started...

By Marc Larocque There are elliptical symbols scrawled on surfaces around the city: on pillars, under overpasses, low walls atop apartment buildings, the side of buildings like the Hollywood Nail Salon and in alleys alongside Hemenway Street. While it is a felony to tag a...

By Danielle Capalbo Four-year-old Lyonersay points to a drawing in one of his favorite books, "My Robot." "That's me," he says, his finger planted firmly on the cartoon likeness of a little boy. He moves his finger and points at the little boy's robot. To Michael Baulier,...

By Danielle Capalbo Seated with their backs and necks straight, participants can tuck their chins in slightly. Or, walking, they can take short, thoughtful steps, the heel of one foot just ahead of the toes of the other. These are two of four meditative postures described...

Delivering a message of collaborative community leadership, Gov. Deval Patrick addressed about 100 local municipal officials and business owners in the Curry Student Center Ballroom June 14. Gov. Patrick was the inaugural speaker for the Leadership Lecture Series, an event...

Following heavy outcry from students after the ` of the closing of the Peer Tutoring Center earlier this month, several meetings were held to address concerns and reveal a pilot plan for new tutoring services. This plan would be a smaller scale version of the upcoming tutoring...

By Derek Hawkins As the first summer semester comes to an end, so will the first phase of a sweeping space reallocation in the Curry Student Center (CSC). Designed to accommodate incoming student groups and new administrative offices, the project will involve a reshuffling...

By Casey Ramsdell The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has decided to try a new method to put an end to the problem of illegal downloading and Northeastern is one in the latest series of universities targeted. The university received 10 pre-litigation settlement...

Former university president chairs task force Former Northeastern President Richard Freeland has been tapped to chair a task force in charge of evaluating governance models for the five-campus University of Massachusetts system. The task force will include the governor and representatives...

For the second time this month, the Student Government Association (SGA) lost and gained a member of its elected executive board Monday due to personal reasons. Chris Kelley, who was entering his second termas vice president for financial affairs, had run for re-election...

I began riding a bicycle to and from campus when I moved to an off-campus apartment in '05 and now commute to Arlington and back every day. I read the op-ed (Northeastern needs bike know-how, May 23) this morning just after an incident I had on my way here that raises an important...

About 15 faculty members attended the first open forum to discuss the university's new Academic Initiative plan and mission statement Friday afternoon. The modest crowd questioned a few points of the plan, but were relatively mute throughout the hour-long presentation. The...