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Concert ends Geek Week

April 6, 2008

By Nathan Vaughan Northeastern's Association for Computing Machinery (nuACM) made an attempt to represent "nerdy music" at an afterHOURS concert Saturday night featuring folk singer Jonathan Coulton and two video game cover bands, The Power Glove and The Konami Kode. The past...

Commentary: Mourning ‘Puck’ unites Greek community

April 6, 2008

Wednesday night, a memorial service for Jake Freeman was held in Centennial Quad. Jake was a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, and Wednesday marked the one year anniversary of his death. Watching the candlelight reflect off the tears streaming down the faces of the...

Column: In changing media, ‘new’ still needs ‘old’

April 6, 2008

"Get out of this business while you still can." Those were the wise words of encouragement from a Boston Globe staff reporter during my stint as a co-op employee there last semester. To be fair, his melancholy tone seems justified. It's well-documented that The Globe, and newspapers...

Choral Society takes road less traveled

April 6, 2008

By Sean Leviashvili The 12 stained glass windows in the Fenway Center project colored light into the church every afternoon. But last night, the lights were on the NU Choral Society - stagelights, that is. Preparing for their Spring Concert since the beginning of the semester,...

Ted Leo sweats it out

April 6, 2008

From five rows back, Ted Leo's skinny silhouette looks cut off at the waist. Between here and there, where he's standing on-stage at afterHOURS, a fraction of the large crowd - about 200 Northeastern students - is dancing, blocking any clear view of the singer-songwriter and...

Men’s Rowing: Performance has some taking notice

April 6, 2008

By Peter A. Martin The men's rowing team has thrust its name into the discussion of best heavyweight men's crew with an impressive fifth-place finish in the Grand Final at the San Diego Crew Classic Regatta yesterday. "This was definitely a good start to the season," said...

Concert Band takes on Zeus, ‘West Side Story’

April 6, 2008

By Mike Devine Northeastern's Concert Band presented works ranging from Handel to Gershwin at its 2008 spring concert Saturday afternoon. The concert, which was held at the Fenway Center, featured world-renowned euphonium player Adam Frey and two divisions of the Concert Band,...

Club Sports: 2008 brings team revival

April 6, 2008

By Amara Grautski In 2006, Northeastern's club tennis team had fallen apart. It was hard enough getting players to commit to a match - forget about winning. But 2008 is a new year, and the latest breed of Huskies has ambition in its blood. Eight men and women from the club...

Husky Happenings

April 6, 2008

NUBiLAGA sponsors Day of Silence Northeastern's Day of Silence is an invitation for students, faculty and staff to take a vow of silence on Tuesday, April 8 to protest the silence faced by victims of hate crimes. Participants wear Day of Silence T-shirts and remain silent...

Track and Field: Another good meet paves the way to champs

April 6, 2008

By James Eddy II The men's and women's track team made its presence known in both meets they competed in this weekend, with three women closing in on Husky records. The Huskies had most of their team compete in Florida at the Pepsi Florida Relays, while the remainder of the...

Professors’ plagiarism plan at a standstill

April 6, 2008

By Daniel Deza Despite debates last fall about how to create new standards to deal with academic dishonesty, faculty proponents of such measures have yet to debut a proposed plan. During a Faculty Senate meeting in October, faculty members discussed the issue of creating a...

Women’s Crew: Outraced all in first regatta

April 6, 2008

By Peter Lorenz The women's rowing team started the 2008 spring racing season on a positive note with a victory over Dartmouth, Rhode Island and Boston College Saturday. The Huskies beat Dartmouth by 1.9 seconds with a time of 6:36.1. Dartmouth finished second, followed by...