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The Huntington News

The independent student newspaper of Northeastern University

The Huntington News

The independent student newspaper of Northeastern University

The Huntington News

No. 3 womens hockey clinches Hockey East with 3-2 OT win over UConn

No. 3 women’s hockey clinches Hockey East with 3-2 OT win over UConn

George Barker, sports editor January 31, 2020

While No. 3 Northeastern women’s hockey unofficially locked up the Hockey East a long time ago, with their 3-2 overtime win over visiting UConn this afternoon, women’s hockey is now officially the Hockey East regular season champion and will be the No. 1 seed in their postseason.  NU...

Demelis (and the puck) fly into the net for NUs second goal of the night.

No. 13 men’s hockey upsets Providence in primetime, 4-3

George Barker, sports editor January 31, 2020

In a game with major ramifications for playoff seeding, No. 13 men’s hockey picked up a big win over the visiting No. 8 Providence Friars, 4-3. “For us it was a gut-check win, we needed to get over the hump tonight. We lost our last two in the league in overtime,” said...

Op-ed: Exchange Students Can Be More Integrated Into Campus

Op-ed: Exchange Students Can Be More Integrated Into Campus

Yuki Takahashi, contributor January 31, 2020

NU promotes its global campus as one of its strengths. It provides numerous study abroad programs, such as N.U.in, and satellite campuses in Seattle, Toronto, London and San Francisco. In addition to having a high proportion of international students, NU hosts over 100 exchange...

Column: World War III memes dismiss the severity of war

Column: World War III memes dismiss the severity of war

Poon Singhatiraj, columnist January 31, 2020

In the early hours of the morning Jan. 3, an American drone strike killed Qassim Suleimani, a prominent Iranian military general. Suleimani was head of the Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Forces, a military unit that oversees Iran’s foreign operations. He was widely seen as one...

Column: Deportation of NU Student Undermines American Integrity

Column: Deportation of NU Student Undermines American Integrity

Maya Homan, Opinion Editor January 30, 2020

On Sunday, Jan. 19, Northeastern economics student Mohammad Shahab Dehghani Hossein Abadi arrived at Logan International Airport in Boston to begin his spring semester. He was greeted instead by agents from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, or CBP, who detained him overnight...

People attend the MFA for the Drawing in the Galleries event every Wednesday night.

MFA drawing event aims to increase art accessibility

Sasha Shrestha, news correspondent January 30, 2020

While 20 people silently sketched out the live model in the gallery of the Museum of Fine Arts, Elsa Zhao was not sketching hers as others were. Instead, she decided to sketch one of the Rococo-style portraits in the Ann and William Elfers Gallery. The gallery holds magnificent...

Bostonians gathered near the Common Jan 25. to condemn U.S. involvement in Iran and Iraq.

Hundreds in Boston protest US involvement in Middle East

Nicholas Stolte, news correspondent January 30, 2020

Over 400 people rallied in Boston Common Saturday as part of an event to denounce U.S. actions in Iran and Iraq, including an airstrike which killed Iranian Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani and sanctions against Iran.  Soleimani was "plotting sinister attacks on diplomats...

Costumers wait outside the NETA cannabis dispensary in Brookline.

Residents express concerns over Maverick Square cannabis dispensary

Sarah Olender, news staff January 30, 2020

“There’s more demand than supply right now,” said Jim Smith, attorney and former Massachusetts state representative, to a small group of East Boston residents. “There are 33 stores open at this moment, 36 [total soon], and I hope 100 by the end of the year.” Between...

Roland scored 42 points in the season opener against Harvard on 11/8.

Jordan Roland: Reaching record highs and keeping close ties

Valeria Vazquez, deputy sports editor January 29, 2020

The numbers don’t lie: 42 points in a single game (an NU record), 99 three-pointers in a single season (another NU record) and 1,000 points in his college career. Redshirt senior guard Jordan Roland is the type of player colleges see once a decade, and it’s his final season. His...

Fenway Park, just blocks from Northeastern, was home to the 2018 world champion Boston Red Sox.

In a sports-obsessed city, what’s life like for a Boston sports hater who goes to NU?

Jayden Khatib, news staff January 29, 2020

Boston is known for being a sports-obsessed city, but it also has numerous colleges that pull from all over the country and the world. As a result, there are bound to be fans of rival teams or students who specifically dislike Boston sports teams at any Boston college. For...

Ridesharing has become one of the main sources of transportation in the city — as well as the main reason for traffic.

Boston residents won’t stop Ubering everywhere

Julia Preszler, news correspondent January 29, 2020

Julianne Subia peered out of her window onto the street where she lives in Back Bay, and counted the rideshare drivers that she could see pulled over alongside the curb. “Two, three, four,” she counted. “Now, I see five.”  Since moving to Back Bay a few months ago,...

The Museum of Science is hosting a David Bowie space exhibit in the planetarium.

Review: Nightlife redefined: A Bowie experience that is out of this world

Mihiro Shimano, news correspondent January 29, 2020

With an unusual mix of science, technology and art, James Wetzel, producer of the adult programs at the Museum of Science, coordinated the David Bowie Experience at the Charles Hayden Planetarium. The audience, made up of many Bowie fans, were enchanted by the astronomy and...