“They go on about their daily work, they come, they go, they do what they’ve got to do and nobody stops to say thank you. And it’s our opportunity to be able to say thank you to them for their many years of service, not just to the university, but to the Institute and to the students,” O’Bryant said.
Students, along with Student Government Association (SGA) President Michael Sabo, got a chance to drink beer on the university’s dime Tuesday night as part of “Pint with the President,” an event designed to encourage responsible drinking and student feedback.
“I am not in favor of tuition freezes, I am in favor of financial aid increases,” Aoun said in response to a question from Senator Joshua Harris, a business administration major. “Over the last five years tuition on average has risen around 3.8 to 3.9 percent, but [the increase] in financial aid has doubled.”
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A resident of 1049 Tremont St., near International Village (INV), found a 50-year-old neighbor found fatally wounded Thursday, Feb. 9, according to reports from the Boston Police Department (BPD). Initial reports based on police radio transcripts indicated the victim was killed with a baseball bat, but BPD officials declined to confirm the weapon.
Northeastern Director of Communications Renata Nyul confirmed no one involved in the crime had university affiliations.
“Other than the close proximity of the location, there is absolutely no affiliation between the incident and Northeastern,” Nyul said in a statement.
Northeastern’s number of applications climbed again this year, from last year’s record-setting 43,948 to 44,189, topping the university’s all-time high for the second year in a row, officials said. As the number of applications to Northeastern increases, so does the percentage of students it must deny admission because of limited enrollment space, Jane Brown, vice president for enrollment management, said.
Food vendors Sweet Tomatoes Neapolitan Pizza, Kigo Kitchen, UBurger and Chick-fil-A are in negotiations with the university to install locations in the Curry Student Center this summer, Dr. Laura Wankel, Northeastern’s vice president of student affairs announced last night. These additions to the Curry Student Center could push out some current vendors, including Wendy’s and D’Angelo Grilled Sandwiches.
When he returned for the second time in 2008 as a Fulbright scholar studying child labor as it relates to public health, Jawaid Stationwala decided to make a documentary about the struggle of Bangladesh’s Urdu-speaking community, which faces prejudicial treatment from Bengali speakers in the country.
“All students will have the opportunity to publish something and imagine themselves as writers,” said Michael Dedek, an assistant to the writing program overseeing the formation the journal.
A transcript of police radio transmission indicates a baseball bat was used, but BPD has declined to confirm that fact. The officials confirmed he was “suffering from an unknown trauma and pronounced [dead] at the scene.”
