After some senators voiced concern at Thursday's Student Government Association (SGA) senate meeting about plans to renovate Matthews Arena, the renovation sub-committee hosted a forum last night for students to ask questions. SGA senators spent the past 36 hours surveying...

By Stephanie Moran The Arborway Committee is suing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to restore E-line service beyond Heath Street to the Arborway at Forest Hills, aiming to reduce traffic flow and pollution. The extension could benefit students looking for off-campus housing,...

By Kate Augusto In an effort to curb the potentially negative consequences of rising college tuition, U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., held a hearing last Friday to address the affordability of higher education. As part of the reauthorization of the Higher Education...

By Hailey Hudson A proposal to replace the Teacher Course Evaluation Program (TCEP) with a new online rating system was presented to the Faculty Senate in the last few minutes of Wednesday's meeting. Thomas Sherman, chair of the special faculty development committee, gave...

By Liz Ratto A plan to renovate Matthews Arena and add an adjacent facility for club sports and other events is in the works and could cost about $25 million. The board of trustees will review and may approve a loan, at their March 1 meeting. The loan would largely pay for...

The chilling winds on Huntington Avenue haven't stopped junior guard Shaleyse Smallwood from heating up over the past month and a half. The Colonial Athletic Association's (CAA) seventh leading scorer has averaged 18.1 points the past 11 games, including her 1,000th career...

In a rare break from Colonial Athletic Association play, the men's basketball team beat former America East rival Maine, 71-61, Saturday in the ESPN Bracket Busters Tournament. "The familiarity with being an old America East rival helped them stay focused," said head coach...

By Jared Sugerman The swimming ' diving team finished sixth for the second straight year at the Colonial Athletic Association's (CAA) championship meet, held at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., from Feb. 14-17. "When we first set goals at the beginning of the season,...

Mike Costa had been sick two weeks before the accident, senior Rob Fox, of Northeastern's men's slalom team, remembers. "He was really sick," Fox said. "But he still came up every weekend." As a first-year member of the downhill ski team, Costa had already earned a reputation...

As a new coach evaluating her stock of players last spring, Daynia La-Force Mann could have been excused for overlooking Lucia Pablos. After all, the 5-foot, 5-inch junior guard had missed the first eight games of the 2005-06 season with an injury. When healthy, she only...

By Matt Nielsen The men's hockey team (12-14-5, 8-11-5 Hockey East) inched closer to the postseason this weekend, picking up three points in the Hockey East conference with a win and a tie in a home-and-home series with the Providence College Friars (7-20-3, 6-14-3 HE). The...

By Jewel Della Valle The women's hockey team achieved something this weekend it had been searching for all season: back-to-back wins. The Huskies (5-25-2, 4-13-2 Hockey East) overtook last-place Vermont (3-25-2, 1-17-1 HE) twice last weekend, winning 4-1 Saturday and 2-1...