The Boston Police Department (BPD), Northeastern University Division of Public Safety (NUPD), and the Department of Housing and Residential Life are joining forces Sunday night to ensure Super Bowl celebrations on campus are safe. Heightened police and Resident Assistant (RA) presences on campus Sunday night are the university’s answer to a 2004 riot in which a student’s brother, who was visiting campus, was killed when he was struck by a car.
Tickets to the 60th annual Beanpot Tournament went on sale Tuesday at the Matthews Arena box office. The Huskies will take on the Boston College Eagles Feb. 6 at 8 p.m. at TD Banknorth Garden. Tickets are $42 and good for admission to the first and second rounds of the tournament. The last chance to buy tickets before the event is tonight (Jan. 26) between 5 and 8 p.m. in the box office. Students must present a valid Husky ID to purchase tickets.
Northeastern’s Faculty Senate approved a new major in the School of Pharmacy yesterday, a bachelor’s degree in pharmaceutical sciences which will allow students interested in the growing field more options.
In 2011, Northeastern had 280 organizations, Foster said, which held a combined 900 events. He said he was most taken aback by the 22,000 space reservations made by the university’s faculty, staff and student groups for the 100 activity spaces available. Foster said this illustrates the shortage of space available for students groups and events.
“We really want to be an advocate for students to ask questions before they sign the lease, rather than after the fact,” said OCSS Community Ambassador Chris Geddes, a junior economics major and Mission Hill resident of two years. “We outline the questions students should be asking before they sign anything.”
Since the Northeastern branch of Students Against T Cuts was founded last week, members have appeared at a public meeting and joined the city-wide T Riders Union in a rally voicing their opposition to proposed service cuts by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA).
Founder Ross Donohue said he solidified the idea for UFetch, a campus messenger service providing delivery and errand runs for about a dollar apiece, by conducting surveys asking students if they would pay to have various items delivered to them around campus.
It finally snowed. Therefore, it’s finally winter.
In Boston, winter usually arrives in late October and brings with it hats and scarves, hot cocoa and apple cider, weekends spent in with roommates and T-rides from campus to the Prudential Center simply to avoid the wind.
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Northeastern’s student a capella groups are planning a joint concert in Blackman Auditorium tomorrow at 8:00 p.m. The UniSons, Distilled Harmony, Treble on Huntington, The Nor’easters and The Downbeats will sing at the show. Tickets are free through the myNEU portal.
More than 50 students attended a town hall meeting last night in Curry Student Center to give input on the latest Institutional Master Plan. Members of the Student Government Association (SGA) and architectural firm Chan Krieger and Associates, as well as Vice President of Student Affairs Laura Wankel and Assistant Vice President of Student Affairs Marina Macomber, listened to more than an hour of student feedback and recommendations ranging from more class and music rehearsal space to another on-campus grocery store.
More than a dozen Northeastern students began organizing this week alongside an Emerson College student to voice their concerns about proposed fee hikes and service cuts to the Green Line E branch by the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA).
A man who was struck by an Amtrak train near Ruggles Station Tuesday evening has died, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) spokesman Joe Pesaturo said. The MBTA has yet to identify the man. 
