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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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Mary Baker Eddy gets archival

February 20, 2003

By Bradley Rosenberg On Thursday, February 13 the Mary Baker Eddy Library celebrated its archive inauguration, and the event was marked with a panel discussion on the importance of archives led by the Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS) director and Northeastern alumnus William...

SemEstimator to go online next week

February 20, 2003

Beginning next week, the "SemEstimator" will go online to assist students and parents in the financial planning for obtaining an education. With semester conversion and a tuition increase of 5.5 percent looming head in the next fiscal year, beginning July 1, students are encouraged...

Students may unknowingly suffer from disabilities

February 20, 2003

By Catherine DeFuria At a large university like Northeastern, everyday interaction with fellow students is the norm. According to Director of the Disabilities Resource Center Ruth Bork, for at least 600 of the schools 14,144 students, this may not be so normal. Nancy Sharby,...

Thinking out loud

February 20, 2003

The New York Times called the massive amount of snow that hit the Northeast inspiring and tranquil, enabling we humans to marvel at Mother Nature's grandeur. Inspiring, nope. Grand, I think not. Picturesque, not when you are trudging through it at one in the morning. So,...

Swimming and diving team soaks up fourth straight America East crown

February 20, 2003

By Ari Strait The Northeastern women's swimming and diving team retained the title of America East champions this past weekend, bringing home a fourth straight conference championship from the three day tournament in Orono, Maine. The Huskies, who dropped three of the last...

Keeping co-op #1

February 20, 2003

The resignation of Vice President Richard Porter from NU's co-op department may pull the chair out from underneath the students at the university. The unexpected announcement comes at an unfortunate time of complete transition throughout all administrative offices, due to the...

Magical Matthews sparks NU upset again

February 20, 2003

There's just something about Matthew's Arena, isn't there? After all, it seems every time a top-ranked and highly touted team enters the building, they run into trouble. Last Saturday, against sixth ranked New Hampshire was no different. For the sixth consecutive time (dating...

Ethnic cleansing does exist

February 20, 2003

In the Jan. 29 issue of The News a student named Mohammad Junaid Alam made some harsh accusations in his piece "Freedom for Palestine" against my country, Israel, and its people. Alam's piece is a shameless collection of lies and distortions designed to demonize Jews while...

Women’s hockey bears all against Maine

February 20, 2003

By Bradley Rosenberg The Northeastern women's hockey team traded wins with the Maine Black Bears over the weekend with a 3-2 victory on Saturday and a 2-1 overtime loss on Sunday. The games, which both took place at the Matthews Arena, were critical as the squad approaches the...

A case of the NU shuffle

February 20, 2003

Northeastern was undoubtedly the best school that I got accepted to. Boston had always been a dream for me ever since I was young. It was just one visit with my parents that made me see the beauty of this admittedly great city. Here I am now in Boston, a cold, cold, city this...

Huskies drop two conference games on the road

February 20, 2003

By Joseph Rubin Traveling to Burlington, Vt. last Saturday, the women's basketball team learned about what winter was, and how to handle a storm, being thrown into the middle of one, and struggling to get out. The Huskies fell to Vermont, 76-65. The Catamounts took an astounding...

The color orange

February 20, 2003

You'd think we would be terrified. Yet, some of us are immune to it. Some of us are running to create bomb shelters while others read the papers figuring it's all a hoax. It doesn't matter where we are, east or west coast. The United States or England. We're more annoyed than...