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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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Career Fair displays future options for students

March 30, 2004

By Sarah Metcalf For graduating seniors, finding promising leads for careers with companies in the "real world" can be a daunting task. Northeastern attempts to provide several opportunities to aid seniors in their quest to begin a career outside the world of co-op, and the...

Looking the part

March 30, 2004

By Kathryn Romeyn Northeastern's co-op program ranks number one in the country, according to U.S. News and World Report, and the program attracts thousands of students to NU. For a successful co-op, students must rely partly on interviews to secure the perfect job. Interviews...

Comm. studies seeks larger speaker budget

March 30, 2004

Students lined the walls of a Shillman Hall classroom last Wednesday to hear a columnist from Newsday comment on today's media. Despite a lack of program funding, the communication studies department was able to bring Ellis Henican to campus free of charge. "One of the purposes...

Northeastern Crime Log

March 30, 2004

Wednesday, March 24 Two 18-year-old male students and one 18-year-old female student reported they had been robbed in The Fenway by three or four males. Three cell phones, a digital camera and over $900 were stolen. The students claimed they had gone into the park to smoke "cigarettes"...

Hit-and-run leaves 2 injured

March 30, 2004

With his back turned to his two friends, he couldn't have seen it coming. Sunday morning at approximately 2 a.m., three students were walking back from a party near Columbus Avenue. When they crossed Tremont and Northampton Streets, two of them were hit by a turquoise Mercury...

SAC clears Lane’s name in misdiagnosis

March 30, 2004

The State appeals court overturned a February 2000 verdict yesterday, ruling Northeastern's Lane Health Center was not negligent for improperly diagnosing a student in 1993. The student, freshman Michel Goldberg, 18, visited the health center several times in the winter of...

Baseball springs to life

March 30, 2004

The Northeastern baseball team used a four-run, two-out rally to defeat crosstown rival Boston College, 4-3, yesterday at frigid (40 degrees) Friedman Diamond yesterday. Senior captain Brad Czarnowski keyed the rally, drilling a full-count changeup from Joe Martinez into...

Former SNL star takes

March 30, 2004

By Jeff Powalisz Tracy Morgan performed Monday night at Blackman Auditorium, but the former "Saturday Night Live" cast member did not appear as Brian Fellow, the Rev. Al Sharpton, or any other of the popular characters he portrayed on the weekly show. Instead Morgan treated...

Does America love conspiracies?

March 30, 2004

Americans love mysteries on television, in movies and in politics. Seven of the top 10 hard cover books on the March 2004 New York Times best-sellers list are about secret crimes and conspiracies. Our televisions and movies are full of secret agents, undercover agents, double...

Track begins hopeful spring season

March 30, 2004

By Jeff Powalisz While Saturday's Snowflake Classic only acted as a conditioning meet for the Northeastern men's track team, thrower Derek Anderson continued to stay in top form. The junior threw in three events, placing first in the discus (182-01), second in the shot put...

‘Walking Tall’ no small matter

March 30, 2004

By Jeff Powalisz The Rock has returned to the big screen, and as one might expect, he plays a man in control. In "Walking Tall," a remake of the 1973 film by the same name, The Rock plays Chris Vaughn, a retired U.S. Special Forces soldier returning to his hometown in the...

NUCAWR protests Bush visit

March 30, 2004

By C.G. Lynch On the corner of Park Street and Hadassah Way, bongos and drums sounded amidst chants, with signs supporting a U.S. withdrawal from Haiti. People of various oppositions held their signs high - "Iraq is a Rich Man's War!" "Bush Lies! Free Palestine!" "No Bio-Terror...