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The Huntington News

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An alternative workout

February 3, 2004

By Taryn Kelly The Back Bay Yoga Studio provides a quiet and peaceful retreat for the busy people of Boston to relax. Patrons escape their hectic schedules for a couple of hours to enjoy the calming and meditative effects of yoga. The yoga practice comes from an ancient system...

Williams-Judge races two-time Olympic champ

February 3, 2004

Northeastern sprinter Aquilla Williams-Judge doesn't intimidate easily, but when the Wheaton College transfer showed up at the Reggie Lewis Center for her 60-meter hurdle race in the Adidas Boston Indoor Games Saturday, she was shaking in her proverbial boots. The reason?...

Importance of being “Top 100” is real

February 3, 2004

The importance of annual college rankings to high school students and their parents in evaluating colleges and universities should not be ridiculed, or dismissed as just another way to claim superiority by one who has been accepted by a "highly selective" school.

Northeastern Crime Log

February 3, 2004

By Jen Nelson Crime Log entries are selected from Northeastern's Division of Public Safety reports. Tuesday, January 27 3:30 p.m. Officers responded to evidence found in Speare Hall that an 18-year-old male resident had fired a paintball at the door of another 18-year-old...

From ‘Behind the Barn’ to MTV

February 3, 2004

By Bobby Hankinson Not since Donnie and Marie Osmond sang, "I'm a little bit country/I'm a little bit rock 'n roll," has a musical act strived harder to bridge the gap between those two genres than Northeastern's own Three Day Threshold. The band, compromised of Kier Byrnes...

NU takes pair in AE

February 3, 2004

Maybe it was the contrast between the red blood and the red on the Huskies' jerseys that made the blood streaming down Javorie Wilson's face look fake; or maybe it was the fact that he didn't seem to be affected by the gaping wound above his eye. Either way, when the referees...

Improper tone set by knobhead

February 3, 2004

By Zach Hosseini Well, I promised myself that I wasn't gonna go negative. But like all the Democratic candidates, the gettin' just got too good. However, before we get into my lambasting of certain, shall we say less-than-worthless Northeastern authoritative perpetrators, let...

Money-making college majors

February 3, 2004

By Kaitlin Keane In today's cut-throat job market, students graduating with humanities degrees tend to have a more difficult time finding a high-paying job than their peers with technology degrees, according to a recent CNN report. Students that are reported to get the most...

Get your freak on

February 3, 2004

By Andrea Smith As children, many students were forced into having the inevitable "sex talk" with their parents. Red-faced and uncomfortable, they listened to their parents explain the mechanics of having sex. Fortunately, for those who had to suffer, Northeastern University...

Riots senseless form of celebration

February 3, 2004

Yesterday, numerous well-wishers greeted the World Champion New England Patriots at Boston City Hall to celebrate the franchise's second Super Bowl victory in three years. New England players credited the support of the Boston-area fans as the reason for their success; after...

Hey Democrats, try and be a bit more creative

February 3, 2004

All of the press on the Democratic candidacies frankly is starting to make my head hurt. In the beginning, actual points seemed to be made, sentences were actually making sense without pretzels in the way and the squabbles between candidates weren't as childish as some have been...

NU students arrested during riots

February 3, 2004

As excited fans lit fireworks off of rooftops and danced in the streets after the New England Patriots won the Super Bowl Sunday night, what was supposed to be a celebration soon turned to destruction. Three Northeastern students were arrested on the scene and the Northeastern...