By Bessie King Graduation has passed and new professionals now face the challenge of balancing work, social activities, relationships and bills. For women, the added stress of marriage and motherhood can make it especially difficult to remember to take time for themselves. ...

By Kristin Lusis On May 4, The News along with other college students from around the country spoke with Zach Braff, of "Garden State" and "Scrubs," about college, his influence on music and his role as a new parent in the romantic comedy "The Ex," to be released this Friday....

By Danielle Capalbo Tamika Gordon is soft-spoken. She is a middler computer engineering major, a McNair Mentor and a Resident Assistant. She is also the architect of a bridge she designed herself. It spans from the university's Black Engineering Student Society (BESS) to a high...

By Derek Hawkins Blackman Auditorium resonated with the bustle and chatter of a high school dance last Wednesday morning as more than 500 students from Massachusetts middle and high schools filed into the empty floor seats below the stage. The students, however, were not attending...

By Maggie Cassidy In a fitting tribute for Massachusetts College of Art graduate Gordon Riker, local rock bands played while audience members mingled, moshed and dove from the stage at a memorial show April 28. "It was a place you would see him," said Amita Basra, a junior...

Who wants Northeastern to join the ranks of Harvard, Dartmouth, Yale, Cornell, UPenn, Columbia and dozens of other prestigious universities across the country? I do. But I'm not talking about the U.S. News and World Report rankings. I'm talking about joining these institutions,...

Recently, the Northeastern Patriot published a report and an opinion article regarding the Ujima Scholars program. Many students affiliated with the program and the African-American Institute took offense to the notion that we called the program's validity into question. Our...

Stripes of color dashed across the screen and were replaced by water drops, green fuzz and white circles. The music matched the images: scratchy, digitized and unrecognizable. The short film, "Time Streams," was the first work shown at the Visual Music Marathon April 28....

The Ujima Scholars program recruits freshmen with academic potential, but who do not meet the traditional criteria for admission to Northeastern. It ceased to be an affirmative action program this year in order to avoid becoming the target of an anti-affirmative action lawsuit,...

By Jewel Della Valle The men's crew team took home its first win of the season after defeating Rutgers in the Congram Cup April 28, but remains at 1-3 for the year. The Huskies fell to Harvard, the nation's top-ranked crew, in the Smith Cup on the Charles River Saturday and...

By Adam Riglian With conference championships behind them, the top athletes on the Northeastern men's track team look ahead to the regional championship season. The next stop: Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America (IC4A) Championships May 11 to 13 at Princeton....

Although he wasn't one of the 255 college players selected in the NFL draft April 28 and 29, senior tight end Kendrick Ballantyne was contacted by eight teams immediately following the draft before signing as a free agent with the Baltimore Ravens. In addition to Baltimore,...