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For the students, by the students since 1926 February 18, 2016
NU men’s ice hockey sweeps weekend games
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Northeastern University junior forward John Stevens awaits puckdrop on a faceoff against University of Massachusetts Amherst sophomore forward Anthony Petrella at Matthews Arena. By Gordon Weigers staff writer
The Northeastern University (NU) men’s hockey team picked up a weekend sweep over the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Minutemen with 5-0 and 4-2 wins
on Friday and Saturday, respectively. Freshman goalie Ryan Ruck posted his second career shutout on Friday as he turned away all 16 UMass shots. The Minutemen gave Ruck more of a test on Saturday, sending 30 shots his way. Ruck
made 28 saves for the victory and now owns a record of 10-10-4 with a .913 save percentage. Once again, Northeastern enjoyed a strong offensive output from the line of sophomore Nolan Stevens and juniors John Stevens and Zach Aston-Reese. The trio
combined for 12 points over the action-packed weekend. “They read off each other well,” head coach Jim Madigan said. “They’re smart players, they’ve got good puck skills, they move their feet and they get to open ice.” “I think we did a good job of be-
ing patient and waiting for seams to open up,” Stevens said after Saturday night’s win. Nolan Stevens added to his team lead in goals, now setting the pace for the Huskies with 13 tallies. The
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puter engineering major Trenton Couture. “It will travel at roughly the speed of sound and run completely on solar energy,” Couture said of the hyperloop. “These will be the
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Hyperloop team en route to finals A coalition of six universities is unveiling a model this June for billionaire Elon Musk’s transportation system brainchild, the hyperloop. If successful, these high-speed, air-powered vehicles will be the team leader and third-year com-
actual companies that are building them for industrial use won’t be done for another few years.” OpenLoop, a partnership beoPeNlooP, PaGe 2
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Adam Maine, lead singer of Porches, serenades the afterHOURS crowd on Thursday, Feb. 11 at Northeastern.
Porches plays afterHOURS By Alejandro Serrano DePuty News eDitor
Laced with lightly distorted guitar chords, bass lines played in an echoed round with synthesizers at afterHOURS last Thursday night. “You can loosen up,” Aaron Maine, lead singer of Porches, said to a full audience as the band began their opening number “Glow.” “It’s a bit cold (outside), but it is warm in here.” student-run record label, organized the concert on Feb. 11, present-
ing Porches with New York punk Line’s own Boston artist Victoria Rose performing under stage name Brittle Brian. “Porches [is] sick; I’ve been trying to book them for a while,” Carly Goldberg, senior communications major and event coordinator, said. “They are a different type of genre than Green Line has been doing lately, being that they are electric pop-like. I’m not only excited to see them but also that I booked them.” The show was one of Porches’
newest album “Pool” on Feb. 5. Their set list consisted of new material from “Pool” as well as older songs like the intimate “Headsgiving,” off the band’s 2013 album “Slow Dance in the Cosmos.” “I thought it was a really good turnout, even from non-Northeastern students, which means word got out,” said junior Northeastern health science major Allie Hlaing. “I love Pool. I like that it is sad music that I can dance to.” After “Headsgiving,” Maine Music, PaGe 7
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