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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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Freaky Flicks ‘ Daring Dates

October 26, 2004

By Elizabeth Normandin The Slashers! Horror Movie Marathon Coolidge Corner Theatre (290 Harvard St., in Brookline) is screening 13 straight hours of classic scary cinema starting at midnight on Saturday. Tickets are $20; call (617) 734-2500. Murder mystery dinner show Foul...

Letter to the Editor: Sexual assault services not lacking

October 26, 2004

By Laura Weiss The Oct. 6 edition of The Northeastern News featured an article about two recent sexual assaults in the Jamaica Plain/Mission Hill area being the cause for Northeastern to take action and inform students about sexual assault. The yellow SAFEnet Advisory postings...

BU steals AE crown from NU field hockey with 2-0 win

October 26, 2004

On a cloudy day at Jack Berry Field in Cambridge, Northeastern field hockey faced a hurricane of offense unlike any it had faced in the past. Northeastern needed one victory to clinch the America East regular season title on Sunday but despite the brilliant play of senior...

Veggie tales

October 26, 2004

On Saturdays, the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center in Roxbury is usually filled with athletes. But last Saturday, a few steps from the locker rooms, it was filled with curried tofu, toasted garlic pita bread and animal rights activists for the ninth annual Vegetarian...

Column: Speak to the Beat

October 26, 2004

Next week Kerry and Bush will duke it out at the polls but what I'm particularly excited for will take place Thursday at 8 p.m. It's the battle for Thursday night TV when the new season of "The OC" premiers against "Survivor" and "Friends" spin-off "Joey." I tried very hard...

Commentary: Boston Police to blame for Sox tragedy

October 26, 2004

By Peter Shanley Exuberance rippled throughout our great city last Wednesday night after the Boston Red Sox beat the New York Yankees, 10-3, sending the Sox to the World Series. As tens of thousands of fans swarmed the surrounding Fenway area, the celebration began with chants...

Alums take campaign through final hours

October 26, 2004

On a Denver college campus, former Husky Joe Goldberg was promoting presidential candidate Sen. John F. Kerry and signing up volunteers when someone decided his soul needed to be saved. The person approached him and insisted on preaching religion in his face, and Goldberg eventually...

Sports Briefs

October 26, 2004

Volleyball frosh shines again Freshman outsider hitter Kira Batura was named the America East Rookie of the Week for the second straight week on Monday. Batura recorded a team-leading tenth double-double (10 kills, 14 digs) against two-time defending AE champions New Hampshire...

Former president’s accomplishments seen through student center

October 26, 2004

By Hailey Heinz The second in a four-part series detailing the background of buildings on Northeastern's campus. In the "recreational reading" section of Snell Library, alongside Harry Potter books and Nora Roberts novels, there are two mystery stories by a man named John...

Football loses 2nd straight to Maine, 34-26

October 26, 2004

By Conor Nevins The Northeastern University football team (3-4, 2-2) dropped its second consecutive game Saturday afternoon, 35-26, against the No. 19 University of Maine Black Bears (4-3, 2-2) in a pivotal Atlantic 10 matchup. Both teams entered the game with 3-3 records, hoping...

Men’s hockey wins overtime thriller

October 26, 2004

It was not a case of deja vu for the Northeastern men's hockey team. Against Colgate University in their opener last year, the Huskies skated to a 3-3 tie, the first contest in an 11-game streak of futility (0-9-2). On Saturday in Hamilton, N.Y., against Colgate, the Huskies...

University reacts to riots, death

October 26, 2004

Students in and around the Fenway area woke up last Thursday to scattered newspapers, cracked windows and the news of an Emerson College student's death. On Friday morning some grabbed the Boston Herald on the way to class and saw close-up images of Victoria Snelgrove's last...