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Petrin, Naraghi elected SGA Pres., EVP

April 5, 2012
Elections Chair Taylor Cotter said the 3,270-vote requirement, 20 percent of the student body, was met at 2:45 p.m. Tuesday, less than 10 hours before the midnight deadline. The SGA had already voted to extend the deadline on Thursday when the minimum hadn’t been met. They had to decide on Thursday so Information Services could set up the extension before the weekend. If the requirement was not met at the end of the two-day extension, the election would have been decided by the senate.

Ear to the tweets

April 5, 2012
Northeastern tweeters on the issues of the week.

Ear to the tweets

March 29, 2012
What Northeastern tweeters are talking about.

Husky Happenings

March 29, 2012
Jon Gillies, an incoming freshman goaltender and the men’s hockey team’s top recruit, has been released from his national letter of intent (NLOI) by the university and will not play for Northeastern.

Popeyes selected for CSC location

March 29, 2012
Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen beat Bojangles’ Famous Chicken n’ Biscuits and Raising Canes Chicken Fingers in the student survey for a new vendor in the Curry Student Center.

Finance board cuts SGA executive pay

March 29, 2012
SGA originally requested a total budget of $52,967 and the board released its decision Monday to allocate $23,616, with no money for stipends. Previously, 11 members of SGA received stipends. The president’s payroll was the largest, at $4,200 a year.

Chartwells workers speak out against managers

March 29, 2012
“You guys are the reason that I love my job,” Chartwells employee Angela Bello said in front of an audience of more than 100 in a classroom in the Behrakis Health Sciences Center. More students watched a live stream of the meeting from two upstairs classrooms. The meeting was also streamed online to two full classrooms on the third floor of the building.

Associate director of NUPD retires Friday

March 29, 2012
After a 37-year career working with the Northeastern University Division of Public Safety (NUPD), James Ferrier, 63, is retiring from his role as the university’s associate director of public safety.

Baseball unravels the Richmond Spiders’ web

March 28, 2012
After a win in the series opener and a rained out game Saturday, Northeastern defeated Richmond 8-2 the next day to complete the shortened series sweep. “Obviously, Richmond has an incredible offense this year, they lead the nation in homeruns,” junior pitcher Kevin Ferguson said. “However, our pitching coach, Kevin Cobb, set a good scouting report on them. We got them early with off speed and made good pitches when it counted.”

Husky Happenings

March 22, 2012
Bloomberg Businessweek ranked Northeastern the 27th-best undergraduate business school in the nation in a report released this week. Up from rank 38 last year, Businessweek said the school boasts an 83 percent job placement rate and with a median starting salary of $55,20o.

Northeastern’s cafeteria workers rally at 7 tonight

March 22, 2012
Northeastern’s dining hall workers will hold a Speak Out session tonight to raise awareness of their plan to form a union and advocate for fair treatment. Last Wednesday, workers and supporting students marched to deliver a petition to university administrators outlining their plan to unionize.

NU seniors teach Ugandan refugees over spring break

March 22, 2012
Sabella and Jarvis, who went with two other people who have no Northeastern affiliation, said they brought 200 pounds of shoes and clothes with them for the Acholi women to open a second-hand shop. The women paid for the goods to be shipped with money from a microloan. Sabella said the store sold over 150 pairs of shoes within three days.