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Author draws crowd

April 5, 2009

By By Erin Kelly, News Staff A hopeful line of eager students who arrived a little too late formed outside the closed doors of the packed ballroom in Curry Student Center, and inside, a slow clap ensued. Students who left to grab a quick bite to eat or run to the bathroom with...

Jimmy rocks world

April 5, 2009

By Danielle Capalbo, News staff Correction appended Pioneering power-pop outfit Jimmy Eat World paid high honors to nostalgia Saturday night, eschewing recent releases to tap into the heart-on-sleeve veins of Clarity and its 2001 follow-up, Bleed American. After club-ready...

Week highlights social justice

April 5, 2009

By By Kitt Wolfenden, News Staff With just a few weeks of school left, the Progressive Student Alliance (PSA) aims to get out the word on campus about social justice issues. Last week, the group kicked off Spring Forward, a week-long event series that aimed to draw the attention...

Hooked on “hooking up”

April 5, 2009

By Rebecca Fenton, News Staff It was a Monday afternoon and Espresso Royale Cafe, a popular coffee shop full of Northeastern students, bustled, despite the dreary overcast. Maggie Kowalski, who graduated in December, was discussing her adventures and misadventures in dating,...

Husky Happenings

April 5, 2009

By By: Jenna Duncan, News Staff Sorority to host kick off event for Relay for Life ' ' Colleges Against Cancer and Sigma Phi Epsilon will host 'Painting the Campus Purple' to kick off a Relay for Life event, Alicia Jones from Colleges Against Cancer said in an e-mail to The...

Local fest ups the punks

April 5, 2009

By Jeanine Budd, News staff It's a statement we should all agree on:' 'Boston Rules, OK?' It's also the name of an annual two-day, four-show festival that celebrates one of the nation's finest punk scenes. This year's festival, with over 100 people in attendance on the first...

JP art show devoted to desires

April 5, 2009

By Lauren Sheffer, News correspondent For new Bostonians, a T stop is a T stop is a T stop. That is, until their individual quirks are discovered. In Ruggles, enormous paddles hang overhead. At Government Center, 'The Candy Man' can nearly always be heard. And then there's The...

Baseball: Pesanello powers Huskies

April 5, 2009

By Nate Owen, News Staff ' In a weekend featuring some unusual small ball plays by the Huskies, it was the big bat of Frank Pesanello that powered the baseball team to a winning weekend in their first conference series of the year at Friedman Diamond. The senior catcher roped...

Football: Huskies spring into action

April 5, 2009

By Patrick McHugh, News Staff The first look at the 2009 football team came Saturday with the annual spring game at Parsons Field. ' Teammates lined up against one another and simulated game situations as the team culminated its spring practices with the intrasquad scrimmage....

Column: Thanks for the memories, 39

April 5, 2009

' The end of an era has come. Rather than wearing the red and black No. 39 for Northeastern next year, Brad Thiessen will be wearing No. 1 in the NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins organization. The number is fitting for a man who was the No. 1 goaltender and even the No. 1 player in...

Editorial: SGA senators should take power seriously

April 4, 2009

Students should not be expected to trust members of the Student Government Association (SGA) to represent them properly and advocate on their behalves if the senators don't take their own potential to make a difference on campus seriously. What has happened during this year's...

Letter to the Editor: Athletes should pay for leaving school early

April 4, 2009

At almost every NCAA school in the country, there are athletes on full scholarships. Athletic scholarships have become a way of life in this country, as have scholarship players staying for a year or two and then leaving. These players are leaving to sign lucrative contracts...