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 class action lawsuit filed Oct. 7 against Northeastern and 39 other private universities alleges the institutions are overcharging students by requiring them to list the income of noncustodial parents in financial aid applications.
According to the lawsuit, brought by...
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...
Elizabeth Hudson, dean of Northeastern’s College of Arts, Media and Design, will resign from the position effective June 30, 2025, according to an email to the college’s students and staff from the Office of the Provost sent Oct. 16.
Hudson assumed her role July 20,...
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...
Overall crime on the Boston campus has decreased over the last year while reports of dating violence increased, according to recently-released security reports covering crime statistics at Northeastern’s campuses through the 2023 calendar year.
Northeastern is federally...
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...
It’s been one year since Northeastern President Joseph E. Aoun made a statement about the Israel-Hamas war, an international conflict that has roiled the campus community and colleges around the country.
Aoun, in a letter cosigned by Provost and Senior Vice President for...
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...
