It was barely seven hours before when Jennifer Pflug, indifferent to the mid-April chill, left her sweatshirt near the starting line. She knew it would be donated to Big Brother and Big Sister.
Her Team Perkins singlet, worn with pride, proved she was no stranger to acts of charitable kindness. She knew, too, that she had supporters flanking checkpoints along the Marathon route: a man from Perkins School for the Blind cheering on his team at mile 19, cousins at the halfway mark and more family and friends at the finish line.
It was April 15, 2013, and the warmth of spring was beginning to win its final fight against the harsh New England winter. Families from Hopkinton to Copley Square rejoiced, held cookouts and celebrated the 117-year-old tradition. Children darted through the crowd, reaching out small hands for high-fives. Perfect strangers cheered for her.
Meanwhile, unknown to the world, two men were hiding in the crowd on Boylston Street. To them, the first runners’ strides began a malevolent countdown, and the 2013 Boston Marathon would end before Pflug ever made it to the finish line.
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) representatives met Tuesday with Laura A. Wankel, vice president of student affairs, and Robert O. Jose, associate dean for cultural and residential life, to discuss the reinstatement of the club for next semester.
Undergraduate tuition costs at Northeastern will rise by 4.3 percent next year, up to $42,534, according to an email sent to the university community on Monday.
Six months into the Northeastern adjunct professors’ campaign to unionize, the effort has gained momentum as the Boston City Council unanimously passed a resolution April 4, urging Northeastern and other universities to support adjuncts and remain neutral in the election process. Northeastern adjunct Anne Fleche received the resolution alongside part-time professors from Boston University in the City Hall chamber.
Growing up, Rose DeMaio, a fourth year computer science and communications dual major, knew she wanted to become fluent in different coding languages like Python, just as her parents did. It was natural for her to get into the technical field like her parents, who are engineers, and enroll in Northeastern’s College of Computer and Information Science (CCIS). Coming to Northeastern, though, DeMaio realized she was one of the small population of female students studying in CCIS at Northeastern and nationally.
Students looking for a nighttime snack will now have more on-campus options as a fleet of late-night food trucks cruised to the Northeastern area earlier this month.
Entry of the week: Saturday, March 29, 12:03 a.m.
A student reported men burning jerseys in the alleyway behind 27 Symphony Rd. Officers responded and spoke to the subject, who was disgruntled over a sports team draft. No fire or smoke was in the area upon the officers’ arrival.
Looking to make the once modest, commuter school an internationally recognized name, Northeastern has recently announced plans for three new satellite campuses across the globe. Currently, the university boasts two graduate campuses outside of Boston, one in Charlotte, N.C. and one in Seattle, Wash., but according to the office of the president, Northeastern has three additional campuses in development.
Kayla Hazel was sitting on a New York City subway with her mother, traveling between two doctor offices, when she finally decided to look at the slip of paper in her hands. It was meant for the second doctor, and she wasn’t supposed to peek at it.
Entry of the week: Saturday, March 29, 12:17 a.m.
The word “help” was written on a wall in White Hall. Officers determined the word was written in either blood or chocolate, and that there was no one in the area.
Northeastern University’s adjunct faculty filed a petition to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for a union election on March 14, making another step in the legal process of forming a union.
The Northeastern Adjunct Faculty Organizing Committee announced on nuadjuncts.org that the ballot for the union election will be mailed to eligible voters’ home addresses by the NLRB on April 25. As part of the legal process, the university is required to provide the Board with a complete list of the eligible adjuncts’ names and home addresses. The deadline to mail those confidential ballots to the NLRB is May 14.
The number of undergraduate applicants for Northeastern’s 2014-2015 academic year surpassed all previous years; those who applied are more geographically diverse, and their academic scores are higher than ever.
