Faculty members addressed the recent suspension of the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at a Faculty Senate meeting Wednesday. The student organization, which distributed fake eviction notices in campus dorms, was told that it violated the school’s prohibition of unauthorized flyers.
The head of Northeastern’s alumni relations department resigned from the university last month, in the midst of the largest fundraising campaign in the school’s history.
Looking to give a voice to the voiceless, Northeastern associate professor Rupal Patel and collaborator Tim Bunnell have launched The Human Voicebank Initiative, a crowd-sourced project aimed at creating personalized synthetic voices for those with speech impairments.
In some Northeastern residence halls, fake eviction notices were slipped under the doors of unsuspecting students’ rooms, in late February. Each notice bore bolded words like “demolition,” a concept foreign to many students but one that drives fear into many Palestinian families. Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), a Northeastern student-run organization, distributed these flyers marked with “#BostonMockEviction” to bring this reality to students.
As a result of the action, SJP was suspended until December on March 7 by the Northeastern administration for repeated “disregard for university policies over an extended period of time,” according to a statement from the university sent to The News yesterday. The administration specified several violations: “vandalism of university property, distribution of flyers in residence halls without prior approval and disrupting the events of other student groups.” These policies, according to the administration, can be found in the Student Organization Resource Guide.
Entry of the week: Sunday, March 2, 1:28 p.m.
An officer reported a woman inside of an NU recycling truck attempting to collect bottles and cans. The officer asked the female to exit the truck but the woman would not. The woman was banned from all Northeastern property.
The Northeastern community turned the first sod on Columbus Avenue’s soon-to-be Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex. President Joseph E. Aoun, Mayor Martin J. Walsh and other city officials were present to celebrate the development of what will be Roxbury’s first private research development, according to news@Northeastern. The $225 million building is set to open in two years, as part of the Institutional Master Plan and provide resources to Northeastern’s College of Computer and Information Science, Bouvé College of Health Sciences, College of Science and College of Engineering.
After New Years, many find it difficult to stick to resolutions as motivation falls to the wayside. Lars King, creator of www.yearofmotivation.com, thinks he may have a solution to this problem.
On Wednesday, Northeastern’s faculty senate motioned to withhold the changes to the GPA requirements for graduating with Latin honors that were supposed to go into effect this semester. The vote to postpone the GPA requirement by one year was unanimous.
Entry of the week: Sunday, Feb. 23, 12:36 a.m.
A student living on Westland Avenue reported his downstairs neighbor, a tall male in his mid 20s, was attempting to gain access to his apartment. The neighbor was throwing garbage and water at the door to the apartment. The student reported that one of his roommates got into an argument with the man the night before, and that the man also tried to gain access to their apartment at that time. NUPD and BPD responded, and the residents of the apartment, all students, said they no longer felt safe in their apartment. Residential Life (ResLife) was unable to find a safe room for the students, but they were all able to find alternate places to stay for the night.
Patrick Barry, a former Northeastern student who was charged with two assaults last year and recently arraigned for indecent assault and battery on a 14 year-old, died in custody on Friday.
Landing Studio, an architectural design firm founded by a pair of Northeastern faculty members, has partnered with the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) to revive an almost abandoned piece of land under Interstate 93.
