Athletic Director Peter Roby released the 2011-12 student-athlete cumulative GPA and highlighted the department’s successes in his semesterly update at Wednesday’s meeting of the Faculty Senate.
At 3.115 for the 2011-12 academic year, the Huskies’ cumulative GPA has been steadily rising since the 2007-08 season’s 3.041, when Roby was appointed director.
The Boston Police Department (BPD) has been conducting unlawful surveillance on peaceful protesters, according to reports.
“Policing Dissent,” a recent study by the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts (ACLUM) and the National Lawyers Guild, Massachusetts Chapter (NLG) provides a detailed account of BPD and its fusion center, the Boston Regional Intelligence Center (BRIC), illegally gathering information about Boston activists.
Kenneth G. Ryder, who served as president of Northeastern University from 1975 until 1989, died earlier this week. His passing was announced in an email from President Joseph E. Aoun on Tuesday afternoon. The Huntington News will have more coverage of Ryder's passing in the days ahead.
Feature Photo: The Northeastern men’s and women’s rowing teams competed in the world-renowned Head of the Charles Regatta last weekend. The men’s squad finished sixth in the Champion Eight race.
Little progress was made on Northeastern’s Institutional Master Plan (IMP) at the most recent Community Task Force meeting, as some community members loudly opposed the university’s plan to focus on constructing academic buildings over the next five years in favor of a plan that would center around more residence halls.
As part of the annual Do it in the Dark competition, on-campus residents are encouraged to save energy by turning off their lights and unplugging appliances when not in use from Oct. 16 to Nov. 9.
The website torrentfreak.com calculated a list of the most active US universities on networks of the file-sharing platform BitTorrent this year and identified Northeastern as No. 12 in terms of downloads.
Someone reported that his niece, a former student, forged his name on student loan applications and that the American Student Assistance Program was trying to collect $28,035.29 by garnishing his wages.
The Northeastern College Republicans and College Democrats clashed Friday, Oct. 19 in Blackman Auditorium in a debate on President Obama’s 2009 stimulus package, hosted by Northeastern’s Economics Society.
Launched on Sept. 27, FreeFeedNU is the brainchild of Devon Grodkiewicz, a sophomore double majoring in environmental studies and business. The account serves as an alert system to let students know about free food events happening on and around campus.
In a rematch of last weekend’s Homecoming showcase, No. 3 Boston College romped the 14th-ranked men’s hockey team, 3-0, in front of a sold-out Conte Forum in Chestnut Hill
Both teams now sit at 2-1 and are tied atop the Hockey East standings.
Mayor Thomas M. Menino announced Wednesday that Northeastern purchased 320 Huntington Ave. from the Greater Boston YMCA, and signed a 20-year lease allowing 67 units of transitional housing to continue to operate in the Hastings Wing of the building.
