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Hockey fans foiled in T-shirt fail

Published: Thursday, October 22, 2009

Updated: Thursday, October 22, 2009 02:10

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The Huntington News

News staff photo/Nathan Vaughan

As part of a heavily-advertised promotion for the first men’s hockey home game of the season, the Athletics Department distributed 1,000 free T-shirts with a grammar error at Friday’s game. The shirts, replica men’s hockey jerseys, had the phrase “Who’s house is this?” on the back, using the contraction for “who is” or “who has” instead of the possessive “whose.” The school will print more shirts, said Renata Nyul, Northeastern’s director of public relations. “We are not reprinting the same T-shirts, we are printing more T-shirts, different ones,” she said. Nyul could not immediately identify how much the shirts cost, where the funding came from or how many people approved the design before the shirts were printed. In the meantime, she said, “The shirts that were printed will be worth something on eBay.”

– Gal Tziperman Lotan, News Staff

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corporatethuggin.com
Thu Oct 22 2009 10:17
NU turns off alumni from donating before they even graduate. Of course there is a place for NUPD and the OSCCR system, but when I am 23 years old and still being harassed by NUPD for ID when I am walking down the street with beer and later that night receiving a phone call for donations from NU, its not happening. I'm not calling for anarchy, but the system needs to loosen up. If students are left with a bad taste in their mouth they will not donate. Undergraduate fun = alumni donations. Sure, break up parties, keep kids safe, but don't do things like put 20 year old undergrads on suspension for drinking. NU needs to take a page out of the books of BC, MIT and even BU on this subject. Take a look at their endowments.
Steph
Thu Oct 22 2009 09:55
Maybe if NU spent our tuition money hiring people who actually understand the difference between who's and whose... problem solved.
Was Mike Bishop ever a student?
Thu Oct 22 2009 09:52
I don't think students realize that they are actually paying hundreds of dollars for these sporting events. The last figure I was told was around $500. Another thing, where were our Alumni last week? As a student who already pays for seats in the arena and who attends almost every game, I find it absolutely ridiculous that I had to pay $18 to for a seat, even when almost a quarter of the seats on the lower level were empty. Faculty and Staff, whom receive salary from my tuition dollars got in for even cheaper.
corporatethuggin.com
Thu Oct 22 2009 09:38
Fire someone
Nick
Thu Oct 22 2009 09:33
Does NU still give out athletic scholarships?
fan
Thu Oct 22 2009 08:57
It is costly, but grammatically correct shirts must be printed. Other schools don't need any more ammo when coming up with attacks on our reputation, both academic and athletic.
James
Thu Oct 22 2009 08:03
Who paid for the shirts... the students did. It's called OUR TUITION MONEY.
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