By Derek Hawkins The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a non-profit organization that advocates for civil liberties in academia, recently placed Northeastern on its watch list and has argued that several of Northeastern's policies restrict free speech on...

By Veronica Schiebold Last Monday, Senators John Kerry and Edward Kennedy announced the Northeastern's Middle East studies program will receive an $85,000 grant from the Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language program. The money will be used to enhance the...

Stipends for SGA e-board decrease this year The Student Government Association (SGA) executive board will see a decrease in stipend payments this year. In accordance with an agreement last year between the Office of Student Affairs and SGA, Student Affairs pledged $60,000...

By Nick Mendez Crime log entries are selected from Northeastern's Division of Public Safety reports. Crime Log Entry of the Week Sunday, May 13 1 a.m. A 22-year-old male student walking on the corner of Hemenway and Gainsborough streets reported a passing car stopped...

A warm spring evening crept over Centennial Commons as students adorning blue and red T-shirts convened. Some talked strategy while others briefly caught their breath. Junior civil engineering major Filipe Vieira lifted his shirt and displayed his "battle wounds" - small...

The Peer Tutoring Center is set to close by July, with each department assuming responsibility for providing individual students, with academic support Provost Ahmed Abdelal announced recently. The move is intended to increase the role that faculty and graduate assistants play...

By Mary Ann Georgantopoulos and Derek Hawkins A pair of lecturers from the School of Journalism have followed the fate of four others from the College of Arts and Sciences whose contracts were not renewed by the university last month for not having the highest academic degrees...

After several months of watching their dirty dishes pile up, some West Village residents started clearing their plates last week as the university began installing new dishwashers. On March 14, residents of West Village A, B, C and E and Willis Hall were informed through...

The Northeastern Patriot report on the Ujima Scholars Program and subsequent letter ("The Patriot fires back," May 9), by Dave Moberg, was grossly misguided to say the least - overtly prejudice to say the most. Not only was the original article that sparked this discourse completely...

Like many Northeastern students, I have had some of my best college memories during last call at Our House. I actually liked Our House more then most other bars; I would go there even before last call. I went there for my 21st birthday, and I would bring my parents there when...

Two events during the spring semester at the university lead me to write this. First was the attention given by the administration to the greening of the campus, to the threat of global warming and to the need to take appropriate action. Second was the death of a cyclist on Huntington...

With the Peer Tutoring Center set to become part of the past, students will miss out on the time-tested opportunity to gain an understanding of course material using techniques helpful enough to be passed from one person to the next. The strange thing: this is the rationale...