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.”
Timmons, who has served as director for 18 years, started her presentation by talking about the newest of form of Northeastern dining: The food truck, otherwise known as the The Hungry, Hungry Husky. The truck parks in the Snell Library Quad Monday through Friday for lunch and for late-night meals Thursday through Saturday.
The US Army’s Cadet Command awarded Northeastern’s Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program the MacArthur Award this week. The award is based on the ideals of “duty, honor and country,” as well as the cadets’ achievements, performance and retention rate. The Army gave the award to eight schools, and Northeastern was recognized as the best of the second brigade, which includes the 41 senior Army ROTC programs in the Northeast.
Even as Northeastern’s Department of Housing and Residential Life this week put hundreds of students on a wait list for housing next year, construction has yet to begin on a dormitory behind the YMCA, which was set to begin in June 2011.
Northeastern University’s sports fitness and strength and conditioning facilities have combined to form the alumni-funded Gries Center for Sports Medicine and Performance.
Throughout the event, which lasted almost two hours, Nader continually returned to the same point: Get involved in politics. “Nothing changes if you don’t have fire in your belly,” Nader said. “You are a generation without even embers in your belly.”
The protest comes after a week of intense debate between members of the Northeastern group Knockout Barstool, and supporters of Portnoy’s blog, which is targeted to college-aged men and often features photos of scantily clad women. The protesters have taken an issue with jokes published on the website about rape.
