“Roses are red, violets are blue, you have job security, our adjuncts should too,” students wrote on cards delivered to President Joseph E. Aoun’s office at 716 Columbus Ave. Student groups and campus workers led by the Empower Adjunct Community Coalition (EACC) came together on Valentine’s Day to support adjunct faculty’s job security and rights.
UPDATE: According to a statement by Arlington Police Chief Fredrick Ryan, the Middlesex Sheriff's Department informed the Arlington Police Department that Patrick Barry died the morning of Feb. 21 in a Boston hospital. His death is currently under investigation.
Entry of the week: Saturday, Feb. 15, 11:45 a.m.
Officers received a report about white paint over the mouth of the statue in front of Shillman Hall. Officers requested the camera footage from the front of the building.
Northeastern’s new associate vice president of Workforce Development and Employer Engagement brings with her an accomplished resume and a lingering controversy.
On Tuesday night, the Boston Fire Department (BFD) and the Boston Police Department (BPD) responded to a chemical accident in a lab at in the Egan Research Center at 120 Forsyth St.
Kelvin Thames, an 18-year-old of Roxbury, and 19-year-old Terrell Harris were arraigned on gun charges on Tuesday in Roxbury Municipal Court for shooting two individuals in the Ruggles station busway at 8:09 p.m. last Friday, according to a statement released by the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office.
Entry of the week: Friday, Feb. 7, 3:11 a.m.
A caller from Allied trash removal reported a man asleep inside his vehicle in the Ryder Lot. The vehicle was on and in drive, and was moving forward every time the man moved. Officers reported the driver was intoxicated and unresponsive, and had vomited in the car. Emergency Medical Services (EMS) were requested, and the man was woken and the car placed into park. The driver, a student, was transported to the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and the car was towed.
Ice shavings were flying every which way at Krentzman Quad as students worked vigorously at their carvings Saturday afternoon at the 19th Annual International Students Scholar Institute (ISSI) Ice Carving Competition.
Mayor Martin J. Walsh spoke at the Veterans Welcome Home Breakfast hosted by Northeastern University at Fenway Center, where he discussed the benefits available to veterans and emphasized their importance as citizens of Boston.
The News interviewed Sir Richard John Roberts, College of Science’s new distinguished professor. Roberts, originally from Derby, England, won a Nobel prize in physiology or medicine in 1993.
Roberts is the chief scientific officer at New England Biolabs; Donald Comb, board chairman at the Biolabs and creator of the Ocean Genome Legacy (OGL), a nonprofit marine science research organization that will now join Northeastern’s Marine Science Center. For the full Q&A, go to huntnewsnu.com
