The independent student newspaper of Northeastern University

The Huntington News
The independent student newspaper of Northeastern University

The Huntington News
The independent student newspaper of Northeastern University

The Huntington News

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Northeastern, Northwestern and constant confusion

June 7, 2012
On May 21, the Associated Press ran a correction. It appeared across several major news outlets, from Salon to Fox News. “CAIRO — In a May 20 story about the Egyptian elections, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Egypt expert Denis Sullivan was with Northeastern University in Illinois. The university is in Massachusetts.” Yes, Illinois. Home to that other school -- the one in Evanston with a similar name that begins and ends with “N.” Northwestern. Whether or not the AP made the same mistake that is all-too-familiar to many Northeastern students is unknown. But the correction certainly seems like an example of the age-old mix-up of the two universities.

NSA chooses Northeastern for cybersecurity initiative

June 7, 2012
The National Security Agency (NSA) selected Northeastern to be one of four universities to participate in a new cybersecurity initiative, the agency announced. The NSA named Northeastern a National Center of Academic Excellence (CAE) in Cyber Operations on May 25. The program was launched as a part of President Barack Obama’s National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education to “broaden the pool of skilled workers capable of supporting a cyber-secure nation,” according to the NSA’s website. As part of the program, undergraduate computer science students can now focus their studies in a new cyber operations concentration, according to a university press release.

Husky Happenings

June 7, 2012
A cyclist died after a crash on Huntington Avenue near the Northeastern campus Friday night, police said. The Boston Globe reported that Kelsey Rennebohm, a 28-year old Boston College graduate student, was involved in an accident shortly before 10:30 p.m. near the intersection of Forsyth Street and Huntington Avenue. The Boston Police Department said in a statement on its website that detectives from an accident reconstruction team were working with Transit Police to investigate the incident.

Supporters honor Rebecca Payne with march for peace

May 24, 2012
Steps away from a brick building on Parker Hill Avenue, Virginia Payne stood in a parking lot Sunday and showed a crowd of onlookers the apartment where her daughter, Rebecca, was killed four years ago. She and Nick Payne, Rebecca’s father, gathered at 170 Parker Hill Ave. shortly before 1 p.m. with about 50 supporters on the fourth anniversary of their daughter’s death for a peace march to City Hall Plaza. Several people traveled by bus from Connecticut — where the Paynes live in New Milford — and joined supporters, young and old, from the Boston area.

Students look forward to new entrepreneurship center

May 24, 2012
Northeastern announced this week a plan for a new Center for Entrepreneurship Edu­ca­tion that will combine the university’s existing offerings with new initiatives to centralize the school’s growing entrepreneurship program. Trustee Alan S. McKim, who received his master’s in business administration from Northeastern in 1988, made a $5 mil­lion invest­ment to support the center, according to the university website. Students already involved in entrepreneurship at Northeastern praised the plan, saying it shows the school cares about the subject and that it will open up the university’s programs to more people.

University plans renovations, upgrades for summer

May 24, 2012
Construction workers will renovate and upgrade several key spaces at Northeastern this summer, including Speare Hall and the Curry Student Center. In Speare, crews will remodel restrooms and lounges and bring in new furniture, university spokeswoman Renata Nyul said in an email to The News. The dining area of CSC will see new food vendors and upgrades this summer too, Nyul said

Northeastern announces plans for satellite graduate campus in Seattle

May 10, 2012
Northeastern said Tuesday it plans to enhance its satellite campus program this September by offering graduate classes in Seattle, where the university hopes to capitalize on the Puget Sound technology sector. The Seattle branch will offer 16 graduate degree programs, according to a statement posted on the Northeastern website Tuesday. The offerings “will range from cybersecurity and computer science to health informatics and engineering.” Northeastern launched its satellite program last fall with a graduate campus in Charlotte, N.C.

Northeastern student prepping for galactic voyage

May 10, 2012
Northeastern junior Justin Dowd is ready to take the university’s global learning theme even further -- to outer space. Dowd, a physics major, won the Metro newspaper chain’s Race for Space competition for his chalk-drawn animation “Einstein’s discovery about time,” and an excursion aboard the private spacecraft Lynx, which will travel 120 kilometers above the surface of the Earth. As the initial hype dwindles, Dowd said reality is starting to set in and he is left with the question of how, exactly, a college student prepares for outer space.

Rebecca Payne’s parents, friends react to indictment

May 10, 2012
For four years, Nick Payne never lost hope that the people responsible for his daughter’s death would be brought to justice. Now that day may be approaching. After a lengthy investigation, prosecutors have said two men will face charges related to the 2008 murder of Northeastern student Rebecca Payne, a crime that students said shocked the university community at the time

Graduates urged to take risks and seek satisfying work

May 10, 2012
Northeastern’s Class of 2012 gathered for the final time as students Friday at a commencement ceremony in TD Garden led by a rousing speech from former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. The undergraduate Class of 2012 consisted of 3,200 students, according to a statement from the university.

Man charged for 2008 murder of Northeastern student Rebecca Payne

April 29, 2012
Nearly four years after Rebecca Payne was fatally shot in her Mission Hill apartment in 2008, Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley announced an indictment Sunday charging a man with first-degree murder in her death. Cornell Smith, 30, who is now serving a 12-year prison sentence for a drug charge out of state, is accused of killing Payne in a home on Parker Hill Avenue in May 2008, Conley’s office said in a statement.

Ear to the tweets

April 19, 2012
Northeastern tweeters on the issues of the week.
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