Northeastern University women’s volleyball team began its season on Friday with a three-game tournament in Orlando, Fla., resulting in Radisson UCF Invitational was the Huskies’ first opportunity to put their squad to the test in the 2014 season. Last year, the team finished with a 19-11 overall record that included a CAA tournament victory against the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
It's Friday night at Jacques Underground and Sam Coren, the guitarist of local band Sleep Crimes, is shredding on her yellow Gibson SG special. But Coren is not an anomaly — she is one of the many talented female musicians to grace the stage at the Yes All Women Boston (YAWB) inaugural rock show.
In a softly-lit building with exposed brick, local film producer Nuria Ballmer watched the actors simulate self-defense techniques on set. These are easy moves, Ballmer said, that even her children learned in karate lessons, but she never had the opportunity to learn. Ballmer said that women’s education hasn’t changed much, in the sense that women are still not taught how to handle dangerous situations.
Entry of the week: Monday, July 21, 2:03 p.m.
A female not affiliated with the university reported parking her car on Speare Place behind the Marino Center and leaving it unattended with the windows down for ten minutes. When she returned at 2 p.m., her wallet containing $2,500 in addition to 3 ATM cards and 3 credit cards had been stolen.
The flags along Forsyth whip lazily back and forth in the late afternoon breeze from the harbor while the summer sun slides down the sky, like the ice cream slowly dripping down the side of a little girl’s waffle cone. She’s standing next to the reflecting pool with her dad, watching her reflection ripple and giggling as he makes faces at her in the water. She wants to hold his hand, but hers is covered in vanilla ice cream. She licks a sprinkle off her pinky before it falls onto her pants and smiles up at her dad in triumph – it doesn't matter that a few drops have already made their way from her chin onto the collar of her pink polo.
Northeastern is joining eight other universities to enhance student abroad and exchange programs as part of President Barack Obama’s,“100,000 Strong in the Americas” initiative. The university was granted $25,000 by the US Department of State, sponsored by Santander Bank.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) recently awarded professor Gary Goshgarian with the Robert H. Goddard Award. Goshgarian, also known by his pen name Gary Braver, is the author of many science fiction novels (such as ‘Elixir’ and ‘Flashback’). At Northeastern, he became an English department pioneer by starting the science fiction novel class — the longest running and first such class in the nation. He continues to teach science fiction, along with horror fiction and the modern best-seller. The News spoke with Goshgarian about his unique career path.
Entry of the Week: Tuesday, June 24, 9:44 a.m.
A Northeastern staff member reported that someone used a blow torch on a public locker on the third floor of Behrakis Hall. The locker and its lock were destroyed, but entry to the locker was not gained. The damage was photographed and a report was filed.
Ever heard of the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company? How about the Greenway Carousel? Boston is chock full of historically and culturally rich sites that many people don’t even know exist, or think are too expensive to pay a visit. But thanks to the Free Fun Fridays program, these sites just became much more accessible.
Boston is known for its diverse and vibrant neighborhoods, each with a distinct flavor, both figuratively and literally. In a city with this much history, it’s not hard to find delicious foods to match any preference or reflect any ethnic background.
Timothy Ryan Faulkner, a financial analyst at Partners HealthCare and finance major at Northeastern, passed away on Friday, June 20 at the age of 21. The cause of his death remains unknown.
My parents split in 1996. At the age of two, I became that kid with the divorced parents who spent every other weekend with her dad. My family was concerned that my parents had “set me up for failure” or that my ideas about love and healthy relationships had been forever flawed. Divorce isn’t the greatest thing you can do for a kid, but I’m here to say that it’s really not the worst thing in the world either.
