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.
After leaving his position as Massachusetts’ Public Health Commissioner amid a scandal involving the mishandling of evidence at a state laboratory, John Auerbach has joined Northeastern as the new head of the Institute on Urban Health Research.
While visiting a poverty stricken region of the Dominican Republic during a 2011 Social Enterprise Institute trip, Naman Shah stopped when he came across a shirtless boy. The Northeastern student, known to friends for his many acts of quiet charity, did not hesitate in taking the shirt off his back and giving it to the child.
A rally at the Fenway Center last weekend brought a political hopeful and a Hollywood veteran to Northeastern in an effort to encourage students to vote. U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren and actor Zach Braff headlined the event, which was hosted by the Northeastern University College Democrats on Saturday, Oct. 13.
Earlier this month, to celebrate one-billion users, the social media powerhouse Facebook premiered its first-ever television commercial using the tagline “Chairs are like Facebook.” Seeing an opportunity for satire, Andrew Zenn, a fourth-year marketing major at Northeastern, made his own commercial, “Toilets are Like Facebook.”
