Though Boston was largely spared by Hurricane Sandy, a number of Northeastern students with roots in the mid-Atlantic region are working hard to help people in areas severely damaged by the storm.
Most Northeastern students will recall Anthony Bitetto from his days on the Matthews Arena ice. As a philanthropist? Not so much. But when Hurricane Sandy hit Bitetto’s hometown, the Northeastern alumnus set up his own fund to raise money for his community.
It’s tempting to think what we might do if we had been elected in Barack Obama’s place. It’s also the question behind If I Were President, a platform for the proposal and development of such ideas, created a Northeastern student entrepreneur.
The men's soccer team earned an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament after winning the Colonial Athletic Association Championship 1-0 over Hofstra University in double overtime on Sunday. The Huskies will take on the Boston College Eagles at Parsons Field tonight at 7 p.m. in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
Northeastern’s Student Veterans Organization (SVO) advocates for more than 300 veterans who finished their time in the armed services and came to Northeastern. Across the nation, almost a million veterans are doing the same thing, and with the US finishing two wars in the Middle East, that number has grown.
Obituary: Kenneth Gilmore Ryder, former president of Northeastern University, died Oct. 29, 2012 at the age of 88. Ryder was the fourth president of Northeastern, serving the university for 14 years between 1975 and 1989.
A federal judge last week sentenced Rezwan Ferdaus, a 2008 Northeastern graduate, to 17 years in prison for planning a terrorist attack on buildings in Washington, D.C.
The Student Government Association’s (SGA) full-body senate meeting on Nov. 5 was brief, just 28 minutes. An amendment to extend representation within SGA to undeclared students was approved unanimously.
Politics aside, members of the Northeastern community can celebrate Maggie Hassan’s victory in the New Hampshire gubernatorial race Nov. 6, as the Northeastern alumna will become the second ever female governor in the state’s history.
A federal judge today sentenced Rezwan Ferdaus, the Northeastern graduate who devised a terror plot that included planned attacks on the US Capitol and Pentagon buildings, to 17 years in prison, according to the office of US Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz.
