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Northeastern professor, former foreign correspondent, Nick Daniloff discusses WikiLeaks
Dec. 22, 2010 Leave a Comment
NU’s Kappa Sigma chapter hosts comedian Kevin Hart
Oct. 20, 2010 Leave a Comment
Eighth annual comedy event sold out all eight times
Northeastern student killed in car accident
Jan. 2, 2010 1 Comment
An 18-year-old Northeastern University student was killed in an early-morning New Year’s Day car crash in upstate New York, according to WIVB-TV and the student-run Huntington News. Scott Herr, identified by the student newspaper as a freshman engineering major, was killed in a 1:15 a.m. crash on Friday in Elma, N.Y. WIVB reported that speed [...]
Northeastern University cuts football
Nov. 23, 2009 1 Comment
Northeastern University entered the 2003 season ranked No. 1 in the nation in what was then Division 1-AA. A few weeks into the season, the school wasn’t ranked at anymore. It’s been a steady stream downhill ever since. In an unsurprising move that’s no less depressing for students and alumni, Northeastern University is cutting its [...]
Mumps outbreak confirmed at NU
April 25, 2009 1 Comment
The Boston Public Health Commission has confirmed that there are two definite cases and 10 probably cases of mumps in Boston. Of the 12 total cases, 11 patients attend Northeastern University. According to the Health Commission, mumps illness is caused by a virus that lives in a person’s nose, mouth, and throat. It can spread [...]
NU Fraternity raises $2,000 for Relay for Life
April 23, 2009 Leave a Comment
Twenty-seven brothers of the Xi-Beta chapter of the Kappa ‚ Sigma ‚ Fraternity ‚ recently participated in the all-night Relay for Life, benefiting the American Cancer Society. Traveling ‚ to the Gordon Indoor Track at Harvard University, Xi-Beta’s team was ‚ able ‚ to raise ‚ $2,000 ‚ for cancer research, and logged more than 500 hours ‚ in ‚ service. ‚ Relay for Life is [...]
Doin it and doin it and doin it in public
March 1, 2009 4 Comments
The names of subjects have been changed to protect their privacy and safety. It was mid-day. Northeastern University student Sarah Alverston was sitting in the library staring blankly into a textbook that she couldn’t seem to focus on. She just had a fight with her boyfriend, and she knew she wouldn’t get anything done until [...]
NU football star Brian Mandeville told to retire
Feb. 23, 2009 3 Comments
Northeastern University football player Brian Mandeville received devastating news on Friday at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis during routine physical examinations. The star tight end, who missed a third of his senior season with knee injuries and even survived a brain tumor while in college, was told by Combine doctors that he has a heart [...]
Gallery: Blast Magazine photography at the Beanpot
Feb. 10, 2009 1 Comment
With our sports editor hailing from Boston University so many years ago and our editor in chief graduating from Northeastern a bit more recently, Monday’s Beanpot championship game had special meaning for the Blast Magazine family. Whether it had the intended result or not, Blast had a reporter at the TD Banknorth Garden and worked [...]
Another Beanpot for BU
Feb. 9, 2009 Leave a Comment
Reported live from the TD Banknorth Garden Fans trickled out of the Garden. They were either elated or in the dumps — justified or mortified. A Boston University 5-2 win over Northeastern left many frustrated that the game — pitting No. 1 versus No. 3 in the country — really wasn’t even close. At the [...]
Live from the Beanpot!
Feb. 9, 2009 Leave a Comment
Reporting from the TD Banknorth Garden The players are warming up and the fans are crowding the Garden for the 57th annual Beanpot Championship. “Execute our game plan and come up high, there’s no more pressure than any other game,” said‚ Albie O’Connell Northeastern assistant coach. After a decisive win against Boston College, the third-ranked Huskies [...]
A Boston hockey tradition pins BU against Northeastern
Feb. 3, 2009 3 Comments
Next Monday, Boston University and Northeastern will face off in the Beanpot hockey finals. No, that isn’t a mistake. Northeastern. The Huskies haven’t won the Beanpot since 1988, but don’t be fooled; this is a much different NU team. Last night the Huskies pulled off a 6-1 beating of Boston College, the defending national champions, [...]
Entrepreneurial trends
Feb. 1, 2009 Leave a Comment
The results of a 2008 Northeastern University study of small business owners.
