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.”
The News sat down with Northeastern President Joseph E. Aoun this week for a 45-minute interview, marking the first time reporters from the newspaper have met with the president on-the-record since 2010. Questions ranged from research funding to the Beanpot drought to tuition costs.
The price of all Dialogue of Civilizations programs will rise by at least $2,000 next summer as the university attempts to reconfigure the program, multiple Dialogue directors said, adding that the offering was unsustainable in its previous form.
At a large school like Northeastern where dining halls accommodate thousands of students each day, composting is an integral part of the effort to promote sustainability. At Rebecca’s Café, however, some members of Northeastern’s environmental club said, composting has stopped because students are unable to properly differentiate the materials and place them in proper bins.
For the Greater Good, also known as the Hungry Hungry Hippogriffs, defeated Granger Danger in a display of what could be described as expert wizardry last Saturday during a Northeastern intramural quidditch match.
Northeastern needs to do more to distinguish itself from other universities during a “critical tipping point” in the future of higher education, President Joseph E. Aoun told the Faculty Senate on Wednesday.
The annual public safety report for Northeastern in 2012-13 was released last week. Above is a graphic representing some on- and off-campus crime statistics in the last couple years.
With the presidential election entering the final stretch, the Northeastern Student Government Association (SGA) has seized the occasion to launch NUVotes, an initiative comprised of various campus organizations designed to register students to vote and spark a greater interest in politics on campus.
Northeastern police take unlocked or abandoned bikes found on campus and hold them for months at headquarters on Columbus Avenue. Each spring, the department donates unclaimed bikes to local charities.
Northeastern administrators and neighbors of the school renewed last Thursday the persistent debate about student housing, an issue that has proven critical as the university expands with little open space to move into. University general counsel Ralph Martin said Northeastern currently has enough beds for about 60 percent of the undergraduates living in Boston. He said school officials hope to one day accommodate 75 percent of Boston-dwelling undergraduates in student housing.
