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The Huntington News

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Column: The other fall sport played at Parsons

July 17, 2007

I know most Husky fans are counting down the days to the start of football season, and even more anxiously awaiting the beginning of basketball and hockey. After a 5-6 (4-4 Atlantic 10) season in 2006 the football team is poised to have a great season and head coach Rocky Hager...

Summer concert series keeps it classy

July 17, 2007

The sun set over Cambridge as thousands of spectators clustered on the Esplanade. Families marked their territory with lawn chairs and blankets. College students sprawled on the grass and munched on nachos and fruit salads. One couple sipped wine: he with white, she with...

Sports Briefs

July 17, 2007

Wiseman named Faculty Representative Northeastern announced last Monday that Dr. Fred Wiseman has been appointed Faculty Athletics Representative, replacing Dr. Arvin Gabel, who held the position since the 1998-99 season. Wiseman has been a faculty member in the College of...

Toxin-free sex toys – for a price

July 17, 2007

By Danielle Capalbo The presence of a set of potentially harmful, but common chemical compounds in dildos and other sex toys has prompted some sex retailers to make their products "greener." The compounds, called phthalates, are a family of polyvinyl compounds found in many...

Women’s Soccer: Experienced core return for CAA Finals

July 17, 2007

After posting a 6-12-1 record (3-8 Colonial Athletic Association) in its first year in the CAA in 2005, the Northeastern women's soccer team made great progress in 2006, finishing the season with a 9-6-4 (5-3-3 CAA) record and finished fifth in the conference. "It was a...

Forks and Spoons: Living with an STD: a shared struggle

July 17, 2007

"I have herpes," he told me, as we were lying together in his bed fully clothed, only a few days after we had started dating and before we had slept together for the first time. "I got it from my ex-girlfriend. She cheated on me, and didn't use a condom. And well, now I have...

Breaking News: Outage causes evacuation, blackouts on Columbus

July 11, 2007

The Fourth of July holiday started early for President Joseph Aoun and other senior executives at Columbus Place today, as an electrical malfunction initially caused the building to be evacuated for about an hour before it was later evacuated for the remainder of the workday...

Breaking News: Community outcries at Northeastern

July 11, 2007

By Marc Larocque A group of community members joined with a Boston city councilor to protest outside Columbus Place Monday morning in response to what they say is Northeastern's "illegal, unethical and unjust" development practices. City Councilor Chuck Turner and the group...

St. Botolph building mimics GrandMarcs

July 10, 2007

By Derek Hawkins GrandMarc at St. Botolph Street, the proposed 34-story privately owned residence hall that may tower behind the Huntington Avenue YMCA, is the largest, but is not the only facility of its kind. Three other GrandMarc complexes, designed and constructed by Phoenix...

MEISA, chapter of the year

July 2, 2007

It was like music to their ears. A year-long commitment to planning, programming and otherwise entertaining the campus paid off when Northeastern's chapter of theMusic and Entertainment Industry Student Association (MEISA) won the national award for Chapter of the Year. ...

Editorial: The Convenience of Complacence Proclamation

July 2, 2007

We are Americans. And ever since our eponymous scion, Amerigo Vespucci, arrived here at the beginning of the 15th century, we have been plundering this land for all it is worth. We are Americans; indulging is what we do. It started when we liberated this sumptuous land from...

Ready for Moore?

July 2, 2007

By Marc Larocque "Sicko," the new documentary directed by the contentious social justice advocate Michael Moore, arrived in theatres this weekend. But with a mundane topic like health care, what type of reaction could the film cause? "Many theaters have been selling out,"...