Northeastern officially cut its ties with the athletic apparel and equipment company Adidas last week, following a campaign against sweatshops driven by the Progressive Student Alliance (PSA).
After bleak and frigid New England winters, Northeastern’s campus receives a facelift each year. When spring arrives, landscaping crews take to the areas on campus, planting flowers and laying new mulch – as much a sign of spring on campus as the impending final exams.
Couches were added to the Northeastern Student Veterans Organization (SVO) room in the Forsyth Building this week, finishing off a space that doubles as a lounge and office for the group.
An independent researcher at a community meeting last Thursday outlined her plans for a housing impact study in the neighborhoods around the Northeastern campus.
Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof will discuss his 2009 novel “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide” on April 15 in Blackman Auditorium.
Mayor Thomas M. Menino, the longtime stalwart of old-school politics who guided the city through a period of vast transformation, announced he would not seek a sixth term last Thursday.
The mayor delivered the televised speech at Faneuil Hall in characteristic Menino style – fondly reminiscing about the city’s neighborhoods, boldly declaring he could have won another election and charmingly botching parts of the English language.
Seven RAs from the FLYS complex were fired last week when the Department of Housing and Residential Life (ResLife) discovered the majority of the staff had failed to perform some or all of their nightly rounds between the beginning of spring semester and spring break.
The net cost of attending Northeastern will increase 2.9 percent next year, and university leaders said at a budget rollout presentation Wednesday that financial aid allocations will increase at double the rate of tuition.
Since Northeastern announced Jim Yong Kim, World Bank president, as this year’s commencement speaker last month, students and faculty have chimed in on the selection – some highly supportive of the choice, and others decidedly less so.
Hundreds of students packed Matthews Arena last Friday night to raise awareness and money for cancer research through the university’s fourth annual Relay for Life.
Cheers and laughter along with oohs and aahs filled Blackman Auditorium on Friday night as Northeastern kicked off its 16th annual, three-day ASL (American Sign Language) Festival.
