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Campus’ new messengers

January 26, 2012

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.

Column: What’s in a label?

January 25, 2012

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. Also,...

Husky Happenings: Jan. 19

January 19, 2012

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.

NU faces growing pains

January 19, 2012

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.

Activists challenge MBTA service cuts

January 19, 2012

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).

Library adds security measures

January 19, 2012

At the Jan. 9 Student Government Association (SGA) meeting, John Tobin, Northeastern’s vice president for city and community affairs, addressed the recently installed system. Visitors, who used to be able to use the library after signing in with a valid ID, now must be signed into the library by a Northeastern student, faculty or staff member and issued a guest pass.