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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

Opinion

Letter: SJP calls to divest

Letter: SJP calls to divest

March 19, 2015
While we welcome his concerns, we believe it is necessary to clarify the legislation given some of his published opinions.
Your child is our business

Your child is our business

March 19, 2015
The vaccine debate is a waste of breath. It is unfounded, unsupported and horrifyingly present in the lives of anyone who comes in contact with a child. The debate lacks sanity and, more importantly, brings to light a jarring number of massive critical thinking issues.
Column: Issues to split student vote

Column: Issues to split student vote

March 19, 2015
Student government election season is coming, and that means voting not just for student body president and executive vice president but also voting on various referenda.
Illustration by David London

Cartoon: US over-involved internationally

March 5, 2015

News illustration by David London. 

Reading fading as favorite pastime

Reading fading as favorite pastime

March 5, 2015
We are all guilty of it at one point or another. At least once a day we all find ourselves lying in bed in the dark scrolling through Instagram instead of flipping through pages, hanging on to the every word of Frank Underwood rather than Emily Dickinson or typing up our haphazard thoughts instead of highlighting our favorite passages.
Unpaid internships unrealistic, immoral

Unpaid internships unrealistic, immoral

March 5, 2015
America, America. The land of opportunity. That is, the land of unpaid opportunity. From high school to graduate school, young adults of all ages are trying desperately to get their feet in the door and secure the American dream, which more or less has come to mean “a job that pays the bills.” And how do they do this? Through internships, of course.

Letter: SGA to vote on SJP divestment referendum

March 5, 2015

Recently, the Student Government Association (SGA) allowed a referendum to proceed from Northeastern University’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) that called on Northeastern to divest from several corporations due to their commerce with the Israel Defense Forces. The...

Illustration by David London

Cartoon: Veto-man holds congressional power

February 26, 2015

News illustration by David London

Column: SJP hides true intentions

Column: SJP hides true intentions

February 26, 2015
Next week, our campus will be hosting Israel Apartheid Week (IAW), a series of events hosted by Students For Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapters across the country. It is time that this event and this group are exposed for what they truly are. SJP does not stand for justice, instead they are a hate group and a more fitting definition of the acronym would be, “Students for Jewish Persecution.”

Letter: Housing inequities unfair

February 26, 2015

As a freshman, I wasn’t expecting much when it came to dorms. Being at the bottom of the totem pole in most cases means living in lesser-quality housing than the upperclassmen. Needless to say, I was blown away when I walked into International Village this past September. It...

Column: Teacher-student relationships difficult to navigate

Column: Teacher-student relationships difficult to navigate

February 19, 2015

By Kenny Sokan, editorial columnist Have you ever had a crush on a teacher? Their class is your favorite; you work a little harder in that one to impress said professor. In a sea of dozens of students, a quick glance from them seems like an intimate acknowledgement. Nearly...

Illustration by David London

Cartoon: MBTA recovery a slow process

February 19, 2015

News illustration by David London.