That's correct; I create a page, add the events module, enable syndication. Create a few sample events, click the xml icon. Select the url, copy it.
Then I go to the page with the news module, go to edit newsfeed, select URL (though it seems to me the link is internal, but I need to paste a url somewhere), paste the url.
Nothing ever happens though. Well, nothing, it actually worked once, with the exact same steps, but an update to the events ruined it.
I do not want to use the What's New, because I want to incorporate different feeds and fine tune what and what not...