Sara Sajjad, news correspondent
• October 18, 2024
Applause erupted in Centennial Common Oct. 11 as a pride flag was hoisted up the flagpole at the center of the Common.
The flag raising is an annual event put on by Northeastern’s LGBTQA Resource Center marking National Coming Out Day and the start of OUTober, a month dedicated...
Austin Omala and Kobena Idun clicked immediately when they met by chance in the Curry Student Center their first year at Northeastern.
Now fourth-years, Omala and Idun — a business administration major and computer science major, respectively — are inseparable after...
A fire alarm was triggered at the Marino Recreation Center just after 11:30 a.m. Oct. 17, prompting the evacuation of the recreation center, the adjacent Wollaston’s Market, B.GOOD, Tatte Bakery & Cafe and the Marino Mail Center.
A university spokesperson told The...
Professor Régine Michelle Jean-Charles, director of the Africana Studies program and Dean’s Professor of Culture and Social Justice, was attending a talk by the first Black female Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson when one of her students sent her an email containing...
On Sept. 12, Reddit user AgreeableReception22 posted on Northeastern’s main Reddit forum, “Is NUWorks only allowing 100 co-op applications this time?”
The post received over 20 replies from various Reddit users, who expressed confusion and disappointment about the...
In 2008, Northeastern law professor Margaret Burnham was an attorney representing the families of the victims of a crime more than four decades old. The case, which involved two Black men who were brutally murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in May 1964, changed Burnham’s career and...
Dozens of people marched from the Christian Science Plaza to the Cabot Center Oct. 9 in protest of Northeastern’s all-day career fair, which featured several companies that manufacture military equipment and supply it to Israel.
The rally, organized by unofficial student...
In February, AerospaceNU members braced the frigid New England winter and bundled up to launch two rockets in Saint Albans City, Vermont. That day, the Teapot, a 78-inch dual deployment rocket, and the Rubber Ducky, a 96-inch bright yellow Bulkhead innovations rocket, both successfully...
Hundreds of students gathered on Krentzman Quad Oct. 7 to commemorate the one-year anniversary of Hamas’ attacks on Israel that left approximately 1,200 people dead and more than 250 held hostage by the Islamic, Palestinian nationalist militant group.
The tone of the...
Members of the Graduate Employees of Northeastern University rallied on Centennial Common Oct. 2 to mark the one-year anniversary of their union election and 10 months since contract negotiations began. About 100 demonstrators were in attendance throughout the rally, organizing...
On Oct. 7, 2023, Mady Most was in the middle of giving a campus tour when her family and friends began calling her repeatedly.
“I had to stop the tour early because I thought there was an emergency,” said Most, a fourth-year health science major and Husky Ambassador. “My...
Northeastern isn’t typically considered a university that’s big on Greek Life, but that reputation may be changing. This fall, a record number of women-identifying students rushed sororities, citing the community and sisterhood Northeastern’s Panhellenic organizations provide.
Just...
