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The Huntington News

The independent student newspaper of Northeastern University

The Huntington News

The independent student newspaper of Northeastern University

The Huntington News

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Women take care of business with crosstown BC, 3-1

January 20, 2004

By Gayle Simone Freshman Marie Desrosiers scored the winning goal with 2:18 left in regulation to lift the Northeastern women's hockey team to a 3-1 victory over Boston College at Kelley Rink Sunday afternoon. In the final minutes of the third period, the Eagles were pressuring...

Alumni communities grow among universities

January 20, 2004

By Bessie King Imagine retirement: waking up in a four bedroom home, going to the kitchen to get coffee, opening the front door to pick up the paper and suddenly seeing someone who was in your freshman English class 20 years ago passing by your house saying "Hello neighbor!"...

Ridiculous fears plague Middle America

January 20, 2004

(U-WIRE) LOS ANGELES -- Nearly two and a half years after the Twin Towers in New York City were leveled by jet airliners, there are some things that I still fail to understand about our national reaction to the attacks. This, for example: Why is it that the residents of big...

Time ticking for hockey

January 20, 2004

PROVIDENCE - Before last weekend, when most figured the Hockey East playoff picture would become considerably less cloudy, the Northeastern men's hockey team sat within striking distance of eighth place Providence College. However, after two ties, the second and third of...

Grammy Nominations

January 20, 2004

~Grammy Nominees~ Record Of The Year *Crazy In Love Beyonce Featuring Jay-Z Rich Harrison ' Beyonce Knowles, producers; Jim Caruana ' Tony Maserati, engineers/mixers Track from: Dangerously In Love *Where Is The Love The Black Eyed Peas ' Justin Timberlake Ron Fair '...

Light it up

January 20, 2004

By Paul Mann The walls are a dark wood. The couches are leather. Light bulbs are dimmed and candles are burning. The air is thick with smoke. Cigar Masters is one of only a few Boston bars to survive the smoking ban. Cigar Masters has been in business since 1996 and has recently...

STUDENT ATHLETES

January 20, 2004

With all the bad press about college athletes being suspended, team violations, drugs, rape, theft, and run-ins' with police, where is our reporting about athletes who are true student athletes. I mean athletes who earn good grades and do the right things in life to make our...

Bush’s post-caucus calendar

January 20, 2004

By Zach Hosseini Figured out what a caucus is yet? Me neither. I know what a Dukakis is though; but that's neither here nor there. But anyway, my "Get Fuzzy" calendar tells me it's 2004. This tells me that those "slimy Democrats" will be infesting our fair city when the Democratic...

Liquor stores open doors on Sundays

January 20, 2004

While the Pats battled the Colts for a chance to be one of the teams on the Superbowl ticket, students lined up inside Huntington Liquors to buy cases of beer to kick off their celebration. As of Jan. 14 Sundays will never be the same. Since the 1700s Puritan-enforced blue...

World of sports a paradox

January 20, 2004

The realm of sports is a great paradox, and on so many different levels. Sports bring people closer together, only so one group can fight with another; one need go only to Fenway Park during a Red Sox-Yankees weekend series to witness this. Lifelong friendships are born,...

Bush targets terrorism in State of the Union

January 20, 2004

By Nicole Haley As President George W. Bush made the entrance for his State of the Union Address, many Northeastern students watching in after-HOURS greeted him with loud booing. Members of Northeastern University Campus Against War and Racism (NUCAWR), the Progressive Student...

Parking hassles at “commuter” school?

January 20, 2004

Commuting to NU can be quite the hassle. The drive is almost enough to push a man to the brink of madness. With bumper-to-bumper traffic jams and endless stretches of idling in lines that measure movement in car-lengths, the daily commute can sometimes resemble a parking lot....