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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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Prof KRS-ONE schools NU

April 15, 2003

The teacher came prepared with his lesson and his pupils listened intently as he filled their minds with an overwhelming amount of knowledge ... on hip hop. After an hour and a half wait in Blackman Auditorium, the ansty crowd was filled with excitement when they saw one...

Rallying for resources

April 15, 2003

Last quarter, the Student Government Association and the Resident Student Association were able to put their differences aside and work together. Though the two student organizations have made headlines with disagreements over funding for student groups, both agreed that the...

Applications, NU on the rise

April 15, 2003

By Amy Sullivan Northeastern officials are saying the university has become more selective in choosing which students to accept because of the increase in applications over recent years, and next year's freshman class will be no different. In fact, Northeastern's admissions...

Men save effort for rainy day

April 15, 2003

By Dan Canastra The Huskies ran in what must of felt like a monsoon last weekend at the Brown Invitational. Northeastern finished fifth in the field of nine teams Saturday on the soggy track at Brown University. The rain was relentless most of the day, with the sun only peaking...

Hip to be square – part 1

April 15, 2003

By Margarita Neplokh "There is nothing like the thrill of finding a great vintage shirt," says John Foster-Keddie, the founder of Vintage Vantage, a clothing company which he runs over the Web, eBay and at Urban Outfitters. Finding that unique something has plagued shoppers...

Following through in Iraq

April 15, 2003

Last week I was bombarded with images of Baghdad. The Iraqi people slapped Saddam's stone cold likeness with slippers yanked from their feet. They threw a noose around his neck and attempted to rid Firdos Square of his image. They danced through the streets with the decapitated...

Bouv

April 15, 2003

By Bradley Rosenberg Harvard University professor John H. Gardner came to Northeastern's Behrakis Health Sciences Center Monday to explain why he believes that people can have multiple intelligences. Gardner, winner of the MacArthur Prize Fellowship and the Claude Bernard...

Rested women set for championship run

April 15, 2003

In what NU coach Sherman Hart deemed "a week off" for the track team, the Huskies sent a partial squad to drizzly Brown University last weekend, and came out finishing ninth out of nine teams. "We've been running the girls pretty hard for a few weeks in a row now," Hart said....

Hip to be square – part 2

April 15, 2003

By Briyah Paley Are you deck or fin? "The Hipster Handbook," by Robert Lanham, will tell you. Deck is described as "a key word for most hipsters, similar in meaning to the antiquated 'fresh.' To be deck is to be up on the latest trends, cutting edge and/or hip. Fin is the...

Protesting to belong

April 15, 2003

Regarding Afsha Bawany's column titled "It's a wonderful life," it was a good article. But she misses big; "My argument is that protesters are trying to stop the war to bring back the troops to their families." I seriously hope that isn't her reasoning. Because any knowledgeable...

Hall fires lead to investigation

April 15, 2003

Two fires in the past four days have sparked Northeastern University's Public Safety division to start an investigation into potential cases of arson. "The investigation is intense today and our detectives are making some progress," said Associate Director of Public Safety...

New group reaches out to community

April 15, 2003

By Nicole Haley Student apathy at Northeastern has been an issue raised by several groups and individual students throughout recent years and now, a group of students is coming together to change that. Brothers About Change (BAC) was officially recognized as a student group...