The independent student newspaper of Northeastern University

The Huntington News

The independent student newspaper of Northeastern University

The Huntington News

The independent student newspaper of Northeastern University

The Huntington News

Edith Olmsted

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Northeastern has a health and moral imperative to expand COVID-19 testing resources to local communities.

Op-ed: Northeastern must provide free COVID-19 testing resources to residents of its surrounding communities

Edith Olmsted, contributor
February 19, 2021

Northeastern’s Cabot Testing Center is an amazing facility. Signing up for a test is easy, the process of getting tested runs smoothly and the results come back to students within 36 hours. Many Bostonians...

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Ornaments adorn a Christmas tree.

Review: ‘Dash & Lily’ is super sweet, but not to all of its characters

Edith Olmsted, news correspondent
December 4, 2020

“Dash & Lily” is one of the newest additions to the Rolodex of Netflix Christmas content. The series follows two teens, the persnickety pessimist Dash (Austin Abrams) who comes across a notebook...

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The Northeastern administration has not implemented a pass/fail system this semester.

Op-ed: Northeastern should implement universal pass/fail

Edith Olmsted, contributor
December 3, 2020

Universal opt-in pass/fail is the correction to NUflex’s failures.  Pass/fail, the system by which students can forgo a formal letter grade and either pass or fail a class, is just as necessary now...

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The newest Borat film is now on Amazon Prime.

Review: ‘Borat Subsequent Movie Film’ designed to offend, not teach

Edith Olmsted, news correspondent
November 11, 2020

The newest installment of the Borat saga, “Borat Subsequent Movie Film,” centers around a disgraced Borat Sagdiyev (Sacha Baron Cohen), who attempts to restore the good name of Kazakhstan in the United...

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