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The Huntington News

The independent student newspaper of Northeastern University

The Huntington News

The independent student newspaper of Northeastern University

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Breaking Bread–Forum

October 4, 2005

Dr. Robin Chandler is right on target, as Director and an obvious dumb bigot. All government agencies and Universities are not the place for practicing racial discrimination--especilly so blantantly. Fire the bigot--Thank you. Louis Calabro President European/American...

Column: The enemy without

October 4, 2005

By Stephen Sears Rivalries are always fun. They provide a nice excuse for people to spew profanities at each other without remorse because they attend the high school across town or wear an opposing jersey. Red Sox-Yankees. Capulets-Montagues. Bayside High-Valley High. Ninja...

Field Hockey: New league, same results

October 4, 2005

By Jason Richland The field hockey team is on a roll of historic proportions. After weeks of imperfect defense the Huskies showed consistency in a triplet of victories since last Wednesday over Brown, 3-2, Hofstra, 4-0, and Delaware, 5-1, extending their winning streak to...

Women of color program

October 4, 2005

Professor Robin Chandler should be fired for her statements on whites attending her program. Do you think by asking her to apologize will change her thinking on her left wing bias. It's like forcing a serial killer to apologize for what he did and let him go.Do you just think...

Diagnosis: disarray

October 4, 2005

Susan Brill worked as a psychiatric clinical nurse specialist at Northeastern's Lane Health Center from 1995 until this past summer. By all accounts, she was a happy employee. She enjoyed her work, was allowed to head up a committee that drafted ideas for improvements and liked...

Letter to the Editor: Readers speak out against discrimination – Michael Morin

October 4, 2005

As reported in last week's issue of the News, a university forum originally intended for women of color only was opened to all students after protest from the Student Government Association. Dr. Robin Chandler, director of women's studies and one of the organizers of the event,...

Ezekiel makes pro debut

October 4, 2005

Will Liam Ezekiel play in the NFL? Factually-speaking, the question on the minds of everyone with even a slight interest in Northeastern football over the years, has been answered. Ezekiel, the former Husky linebacker and all-time leading tackler in Northeastern football...

Freeland lays out goals for final year

October 4, 2005

By Barry Levites In his State of the University address last Wednesday, President Richard Freeland outlined a plan to create additional research centers, increase graduate programs and add 100 tenured faculty positions before he steps down in August 2006. "This has been an...

Letter to the Editor: Readers speak out against discrimination – Grant S. Oberg

October 4, 2005

After a discussion with a few friends, I realized Chandler's rationale for making the first part of Breaking Bread dialogue for Women of Color only. You wanted to create a safe space for them, so they could voice their concerns without fear of retribution or, as the Northeastern...

Column: Fall is the premier sports season

October 4, 2005

Life is good. It's October, the weather is in the high 70s, and according to www.weather.com, it will be all week. Although the Red Sox played a key series against the Yankees last weekend, the baseball playoffs are beginning right now, just when I was starting to get sick...

Letter to the Editor: Readers speak out against discrimination – Cristin O’Leary

October 4, 2005

After reading Alex Pauline's article, "Forum opened to all after discrimination complaints," I am left extremely disappointed by the statements of Professor Robin Chandler. Having had Professor Chandler in her Introduction to Women's Studies class in Spring 2005, I am especially...

Women’s Soccer: Losses continue to pile up for Huskies

October 4, 2005

By Jason Kornwitz Coming into the season, women's soccer coach Ed Matz said that offense would be his team's greatest strength. Now, eleven games into the schedule, the Huskies find themselves winless in their last six games and shut out in four of those contests. NU fell...