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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

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Letter to the Editor: Campus communication via bulletin boards

July 14, 2009

Northeastern is a school in transition. It is shrugging off the appearance as a commuter school it had for so long and it is reinventing itself. All around campus you see a school trying to build a sense of community and connection between the students, yet when you show up at...

Editorial: A call to end apathy

July 14, 2009

As of yesterday, most of the Northeastern community knew the cornice of a residence hall at 337 Huntington Ave. collapsed at 8:30 a.m. Monday, sending several tons of stone falling five stories down to the sidewalk without hitting a single person. But unless you were full-time...

Into the blogosphere

July 14, 2009

By By Eric Allen, News Staff Jessica Wilcock's fingers, primed on the keyboard of her MacBook, are as relentless as the wind outside. It's cold out, so Wilcock, a middler architecture major, is tucked away at afterHOURS:' with dim lighting made dimmer by the black walls; soft...

Student aims for dream job

July 14, 2009

By Lucia Allen, News Correspondent ' ' Senior political science major Rocky Slaughter never thought there was only one way to success. Slaughter competed in January for 'The Best Job in the World,' where he would have been paid $120,000 to live on an Australian island and...

SGA President Fox uses technology to connect with students

July 14, 2009

By Chelsea Reil, News Staff ' Just a few days shy of his first full month in office, Student Government Association (SGA) President Ryan Fox is already making changes, he said. 'In the past, it was a lot of SGA expecting students to approach us. But we should approach them,'...

Roof union pickets at White Hall

July 14, 2009

By Rob Tokanel, News Staff ' Since last Tuesday, a small group of members of Local Union 33 of the United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers, and Allied Workers have been picketing in front of White Hall in response to the school's decision to hire a non-union company to perform...

Tons of stone fall from residence hall roof

July 14, 2009

By Maggie Cassidy and Gal Tziperman Lotan, News Staff ' Click here for Monday and Tuesday's coverage. For photos from the scene on The News' Flickr page, click here. ' He said it felt like a bomb. Glenn Goldey was in his room at 337 Huntington Ave., a...

Husky Happenings

July 14, 2009

' Northeastern develops new hate crime protocol In an effort to provide students with a better outlet to report hate crimes, Northeastern implemented a Bias Incident Protocol in early June. Donnie Perkins, dean and director of Diversity and Affirmative Action and head of the...

Column: Change could do our team some good

July 13, 2009

By By Jared Sugerman, News Staff Finally, a wish might be fulfilled and the Northeastern football program could be moved to a new facility. Perhaps our team will finally be able to compete with conference rivals that can accommodate more than 10,000 people on Saturday afternoons. ...

Huskies seek return to NCAA Tournament

July 13, 2009

By By Jonathan Raymond, News Staff The women's soccer team last year accomplished something that had only been done once before by a Northeastern athletics squad:' winning a Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) title. The Huskies finished with their best record in program history,...

Athletics debuts Coaches Caravan

July 13, 2009

By By Patrick McHugh, News Staff In an effort to broaden support and attention for Northeastern athletics outside of Boston, various coaches will travel to three major U.S. cities during the first Northeastern Huskies Coaches Caravan, which will begin in August. Athletics Director...

Fashion, Boston style

July 13, 2009

By Anna Rice, News Staff The couture shows in Paris '- the height of high fashion '- ended July 8. The City of Lights was lit with editors, models and every important person in fashion. Meanwhile, in Boston, life went on as usual. The world's most fashionable cities (arguably...