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The Huntington News

The independent student newspaper of Northeastern University

The Huntington News

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Pulitzer-winning editor hired at NU

August 15, 2006

By John Guilfoil The School of Journalism, long known for bringing in veteran reporters to educate the next generation of the same, added Walter Robinson, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist behind the Boston Globe's investigation into abuse in the Catholic church, as a distinguished...

Tunes for the head

August 15, 2006

By John Guilfoil Ergonomics? Man and machine? A bit over the top? One thing is for sure, you will have plenty of questions when you see the new iSoundCap by a company of the same name. Music fans can now wear their music by tucking their iPod into the iSoundCap's protective...

Editorial Cartoon

August 15, 2006

Summer’s end

August 15, 2006

As Summer Session II winds down and the new school year approaches, Meghan Metivier (Left) and Amanda Mueller (Right), middler nursing majors - photographed above with a fisheye lens - sit on the stairs of Behrakis overlooking West Village and enjoy some final hours of sunshine.

Northeastern Crime Log

August 15, 2006

Crime Log entries are selected from Northeastern's Division of Public Safety reports. Tuesday, August 1 8 a.m. The manager at Wollaston's in the Marino Center reported seeing a juvenile in the store who he suspected of shoplifting. He didn't catch him, but was suspicious and...

Football focuses on fundamentals for 2006

August 15, 2006

Head coach Rocky Hager has one word on his mind entering his third season at the helm of Northeastern's football team: fundamentals. It is fundamentals, Hager contends, that bring victories instead of the late-game losses that plagued the Huskies last season. And it is fundamentals...

Husky Happenings

August 15, 2006

Football alumnus honored by Hellenic Hall of Fame Northeastern football alumnus and former athletic development director George Makris was honored last month when he was inducted into the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association Hall of Fame. It was the latest in...

Column: Behind the lines: It takes a real man to wear a kilt

August 15, 2006

It was me and 30 girls, all of us sweating and gasping for air. We were tired and worn out from the day. And boy, did my back hurt. But dudes, it's not at all what you think. The ladies in question were the Northeastern field hockey team, the most successful team on campus...

Sports Briefs

August 15, 2006

Freeland merges two departments on last day in office On his last day at the helm of the university, former President Richard Freeland announced the merger of the Center for the Study of Sport in Society with the Department of Athletics. The move, announced in a letter to the...

Fighting for her life

August 14, 2006

LAM is a fatal disease affecting thousands of women by attacking healthy lung tissue. Amy Farber, a former Northeastern student, is fighting back with research, knowledge and a passion for unearthing the mysteries of her condition. Society instills a life-sequence notion...

Out of this world

August 7, 2006

Dr. Gunther Von Hagens, inventor of plastination and creator of Body Worlds, stands in front of one of his creations while addressing the press. For more information about the exhibit, which opened this week at the Museum of Science. -->

SGA executive VP steps down

August 7, 2006

Student Government Association Executive Vice President for Student Affairs George Gottschalk IV resigned from his position at Senate yesterday, saying it has become unaffordable for him to attend Northeastern and hold office without an opportunity for gainful employment. "Pouring...