Globe and New York Times free on campus for summer Free issues of The Boston Globe and The New York Times will be available on campus throughout the summer, the Student Government Association announced in Senate last week. During the fall semester, the Boston Herald was provided in several buildings on campus, including Shillman Hall, as was the Globe in the spring semester. However, the Herald was removed from campus after a controversial photo ran involving Victoria Snelgrove, the Emerson College student who died in riots following the Red Sox’ clinching Game 7 victory over the New York Yankees. Since the beginning of the first “summester” neither the Globe, Herald or Times has been provided on campus, but SGA President Bill Durkin said a deal has been struck so both the Globe and the Times will be present on campus for the duration of the summer.
Students take 3d in national software competition Northeastern students placed third in the U.S. National Finals for Microsoft’s Imagine Cup 2005 Software Design Invitational, according to a Microsoft release. Jorel Fermin, Churk Leung and Maurice Peltier won first place and $1,000 in the regional competition before advancing to the national round where they won $2,000 for coming in third. They developed eVt, a software application designed to allow the use of technologies such as speech to text, text to speech and language translation to help break down language boundaries, according to the release. Students from Virginia Commonwealth University and Carnegie-Mellon University placed first and second in the competition, respectively.
Dining services to host chef in Xhibition KitchenNortheastern University Dining Services will host Michael Schlow, executive chef and co-owner of Boston’s Radius, Via Matta and Great Bay restaurants and author of “It’s About Time” Thursday at noon in the Xhibition Kitchen in Stetson West dining hall. Schlow will be cooking sample recipes from his new cookbook and signing books for students, according to a myNEU announcement. The event is free to Northeastern students with their Husky card. All students who attend will be entered into a raffle to win a signed cookbook or a gift certificate to Schlow’s Via Matta Restaurant.
— Compiled by staff writers Sarah Metcalf and Jennifer Nelson.
