By Nick Mendez Crime Log entries are selected from Northeastern's Division of Public Safety reports. Crime Log Entry of the week Thursday, February 22 Noon The manager of Wollaston's in the Marino Center reported a man in his 50s shoplifted a bottle of laundry detergent....

By Mike Devine Boston's initiative to "go wireless" made an appearance at Northeastern Thursday in a presentation by political science Professor Richard O'Bryant. O'Bryant discussed the benefits and risks of having Boston provide its population with cheap, wireless Internet...

By Derek Hawkins Robert Bruegmann defended suburban expansion in the United States and Europe against what he said were misleading and inaccurate criticisms in a lecture about his new book, "Sprawl: A Compact History." Suburban expansion, which he called "decentralization...

By Melissa Kenyon and Stephanie Moran When Ventz Petkov was traveling back and forth to his first co-op at Harvard University, he wished there was an easier way to commute. So he created one. Under the direction of engineering co-op coordinator Dr. Steven Kane, Petkov, a...

By Hailey Hudson President George W. Bush has a hard time learning from the past, Robert Robins told students and faculty at the 10th Annual President's Day Lecture last Wednesday in 20 West Village F. This year's lecture "The CIA under Kennedy and Johnson: Lessons from the...

By Marc Larocque The world is going to end. But it could come sooner than you thought. Fear was sparked after a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science focused on the possibility that the asteroid Apophis - named after the Ancient Egyptian god Apep,...

By Casey Ramsdell Tamar St. Julien, a senior psychology major, will not just be watching the Boston Red Sox take on the Oakland Athletics May 1 at "NU Day at Fenway." St. Julien will also be singing the national anthem at the game, after being named "NU Idol" during a senior...

Almost three weeks after the Matthews Arena renovation proposal first reached the President of the Student Government Association's (SGA) e-mail inbox, senators surveyed about 1,200 students and composed a resolution stating their approval, leaving some senators questioning why...

By Drew Bonifant On Sunday, "The Departed" won the Best Picture Oscar for its fictional depiction of mob violence in Boston. Three days earlier, Legacy 2000 showed a movie about the violence that actually happens in the city's neighborhoods. "Street Soldiers" is a film that...

When "Cosmo" Kramer caught a glimpse of Steve Gendason cleaning his ball on the 15th hole, the K-Man may have been down by a couple strokes, but he knew the rules were very clear about not picking up the ball unless it was on the green. "Hey, a rule is a rule," he told Jerry...

By Kate Augusto The Latin American Student Organization (LASO), along with other student groups, funded and hosted a Service Staff Appreciation Day yesterday, despite the Budget Review Committee's (BRC) decision to deny funding for the event. The BRC, a committee of the Student...

By Marc Larocque After a rash of recent incidents at on-campus dance parties, the administration revised the rules regarding admittance. Now, all non-Northeastern students must be accompanied by a Northeastern student to attend. Before this new policy, implemented the...