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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: SSDP opposes smoke-free NU

January 17, 2013
The law students who comprise our chapter oppose a completely smoke-free policy, and urge Northeastern decision-makers to consider alternative methods, such as designating smoking areas, providing cessation support and reducing the harms associated with smoking in the university community.
Illustration by Young Kim

Editorial Cartoon

January 17, 2013

Editorial: Well Deserved Recognition for NU Veterans

January 9, 2013
Congratulations are in order to Northeastern’s Student Veteran’s Organization (SVO) for recently being recognized as the top chapter of Student Veterans of America, a well-deserved honor for the organization that advocates and supports the university’s 300-plus veterans.

Column: The Impending Dread of Graduation

January 9, 2013
The winter slump can be attributed to more than just seasonal depression. For the lucky few on co-op: Congratulations, six months off from classes. You’ll be back. For me, I am looking down the barrel of actually having time off – for the rest of my life if I’m not lucky. That’s right, I’m a senior.

Editorial Cartoon

December 6, 2012

Editorial: Aoun at forefront of higher ed reform

November 29, 2012
This week, results of a study commissioned by Northeastern on public perception of higher education were published.

Column: Tryptophangover

November 29, 2012
Here we are again. The twilight of the fall semester. If you’re like me, you stopped genuinely caring about school sometime around Oct. 1 and faked it with flying colors up until Thanksgiving break. But then, well, Thanksgiving.

Letter to the Editor: US involvement in Gaza strip should be stopped

November 29, 2012
Last week in this page, Adam Sapers wrote a letter to the editor: “US, Israel relations should not be forgotten, diminished” where he emphasized the mutual relationship the two countries had. Having gone into depth about the benefits America gets from Israeli’s military technology, it was surprising that he never mentioned Israel’s human rights violations of the Palestinians.

Column: Sandy brings down trees, motivation in students

November 7, 2012

By Taylor Dobbs Fellow students, I am so very glad to see you exercising your First Amendment rights.  After Hurricane Sandy hit, washing away homes, families and livelihoods, you did a courageous thing: petitioning the university administration to cancel classes for a second...

Editorial: Thanking vets for their service this Mon.

November 7, 2012

As another long weekend approaches, it would be foolish of students to look upon this one as just another chance to catch up on work, sleep or a social life. This weekend, and Monday in particular, is not about trying to get something extra out of the class-free day. It is about...

Letter to the Editor: Government response to global warming leaves much to be desired

November 7, 2012

In the 1988 vice presidential debate, both candidates agreed that the Greenhouse Effect was real, man-made, and posed a serious threat that needed to be addressed. Global warming was addressed in the VP debates of 1992 and 1996. It was discussed by Bush and Gore in the 2000 presidential...