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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

Breaking News: Outage causes evacuation, blackouts on Columbus

July 11, 2007

The Fourth of July holiday started early for President Joseph Aoun and other senior executives at Columbus Place today, as an electrical malfunction initially caused the building to be evacuated for about an hour before it was later evacuated for the remainder of the workday...

St. Botolph building mimics GrandMarcs

July 10, 2007

By Derek Hawkins GrandMarc at St. Botolph Street, the proposed 34-story privately owned residence hall that may tower behind the Huntington Avenue YMCA, is the largest, but is not the only facility of its kind. Three other GrandMarc complexes, designed and constructed by Phoenix...

Northeastern Crime Log

July 2, 2007

By Nick Mendez Crime log entries are selected from Northeastern's Division of Public Safety reports. Crime Log Entry of the Week Friday, June 29 8:30 a.m. A caller reported witnessing a man tampering with a car in the Camden parking lot. Officers responded and pursued the...

Husky Happenings

July 2, 2007

UPenn prof named Dean of College of Engineering David Luzzi, a professor from the University of Pennsylvania and an expert in nanotechnology, has been tapped by Northeastern to become the dean of the College of Engineering. Luzzi is credited with discovering the "peapod" class...

MEISA, chapter of the year

July 2, 2007

It was like music to their ears. A year-long commitment to planning, programming and otherwise entertaining the campus paid off when Northeastern's chapter of theMusic and Entertainment Industry Student Association (MEISA) won the national award for Chapter of the Year. ...

FBI contacts local schools

July 2, 2007

By Kate Augusto Universities are on the front line of the FBI's top priorities in protecting the United States against foreign threats, said FBI officials. The FBI recently warned local schools to protect their research from information theft that poses a threat to national...

Media groups denied funds

July 2, 2007

By Marc Larocque To the dismay of two new student media groups, the Budget Review Committee (BRC) denied them capital equipment funding earlier this week. Both groups wanted one thing: a computer to centralize their publication operations. The Northeastern Patriot, a student-run...

Violence strikes Ruggles

July 2, 2007

A 19-year-old male was shot Thursday at the Ruggles T station around 1 p.m. The male suffered bullet wounds in his arms and legs, according to local media reports, and was taken to Boston Medical Center where he was treated for non-life threatening injuries. The male was...

Harking back to harder times

July 2, 2007

By Derek Hawkins and Marc Larocque The Fenway Victory Gardens are a seven-acre swatch of cultivated swampland, less than a half-mile from Northeastern's campus, where community and plant life thrive and a piece of American history lives on. Many of the 300 gardeners who own...

Letter to the Editor: GrandMarc: big, but not so grand

July 2, 2007

In response to The News article, "Proposed 34-story dorm to tower behind YMCA" (June 20), Symphony United Neighbors and the Gainsborough Neighborhood Association, representing more than 300 homeowners - which comprise of Northeastern's immediate neighbors in the East Fenway...

Commentary: The News needs space for learning

July 2, 2007

Northeastern claims to be a leader in urban engagement and integrating classroom learning with real-world experience. That philosophy has taken a back seat for administrators in Student Affairs who are set on taking away the office in which student journalists have worked hard...

Editorial: The Convenience of Complacence Proclamation

July 2, 2007

We are Americans. And ever since our eponymous scion, Amerigo Vespucci, arrived here at the beginning of the 15th century, we have been plundering this land for all it is worth. We are Americans; indulging is what we do. It started when we liberated this sumptuous land from...