Huntington News: What is Student Government Association’s (SGA) role on campus?
Michael Sabo: SGA’s role is really being the primary advocacy body on campus. Every student, by default, as an undergraduate is a member of our association. There’s a difference between being a senator, being a board member – those are more active roles. We work in the areas of academics, student groups, student services, finance boards, student group money and other areas to work on the students’ behalf.
Huntington News: What are the Resident Student Association's responsibilities at Northeastern?
Tina Sherman: RSA's primary responsibility is to improve the on-campus living experience for Northeastern residents. We do this through two main means: Programming and advocacy. Throughout the year we put on various large-scale events to engage students. These range from speakers and comedians to trivia nights, barbecues or our famous 24-hour scavenger hunt, Husky Hunt. We also work on various advocacy initiatives including sending representatives to the Food Advisory Board to suggest dining hall improvements, or working to fix broken laundry machines in the halls.
Huntington News: What is the Husky Energy Action Team’s role on campus?
Andrew Farnitano: HEAT’s role on campus is sort of an all-encompassing environmental group. We run events, we work a lot with the administration. We’re really focused on the “action” part of our name. We work with food services, work with the facilities team, work with the academic side of the administration on helping, encouraging and pushing the school to be more environmentally conscious.
Boston Fire Department officials cite a faulty heating and ventilation unit as the cause of a a three-alarm fire Monday morning that ripped through a Westland Avenue building, displacing a dozen Northeastern University students. No one was injured in the fire, but BFD Spokesman Steve MacDonald said in a news release issued Tuesday damages were around $400,000 and are expected to rise. It could be weeks before any of the 40-45 apartment residents are allowed to move back in.
Fall is officially under way at Northeastern after thousands of students filed into classes yesterday, but some summer renovation projects are still pending. As of yesterday, crews were still finishing up work in Blackman Auditorium and Rebecca’s Café in Churchill Hall remained closed as workers continued to overhaul the restaurant’s interior.
By Zac Estrada, News Staff
About a dozen Northeastern students were displaced early Monday morning when a three-alarm fire ripped through a mixed-use building on Westland Avenue.
Boston Fire Department Spokesman Steve MacDonald said about 75 firefighters responded to a...
A 22-year-old Northeastern student was arrested today in Meserve Hall, a Boston Police Department (BPD) spokesman told The News. Colin Gillis is charged with larceny by scheme.
Police said they were contacted by a loss prevention manager from the CVS pharmacy at 400 Tremont St. who informed them of the alleged crime. Gillis, a former CVS employee, allegedly twice gained unauthorized access to the pharmacy, donned a white pharmacist lab coat and stole a 100 count bottle of hydrocodone pills. Hydrocodone, a semi-synthetic opiod, is a major element in the painkiller Vicodin
Former Brown University assistant coach Jerry Keefe and former Harvard University assistant coach Patrick Foley will serve as assistants to the men’s hockey team, new head coach Jim Madigan announced Wednesday.
Keefe and Foley will round out an entirely new coaching staff that hopes to improve on last year’s 14-16-8 record under head coach Greg Cronin and assistants Sebastien Laplante and Albie O’Connell.
After most students departed campus for the summer, construction crews entered to renovate several university buildings, providing classroom space and technological upgrades.
Some of the larger renovation projects took place in Richards Hall and Blackman Auditorium, Lucy Warsh, a university spokesperson, said in an email to The News. Warsh said all work is expected to be completed by the start of fall semester, providing no obstacle for students.
Approval for a Northeastern University satellite campus in Charlotte, N.C. is expected to come this fall. The university hopes to offer a doctorate in education and eight master’s-level programs at the campus starting next year.
Officials in the Bouvé College School of Nursing plan to expand the school’s bachelor’s and master’s programs nationwide next year through online offerings as part of a partnership with Orbis Education. The partnership intends to target what an Orbis press release called a “nursing shortage.”
By Jon Palmer, News Correspondent
The Student Goverment Association (SGA) and WRBB 104.9 FM, Northeastern’s student-run radio station, have reached an agreement after the station appealed the Finance Board’s decision that the funds WRBB earned from underwriting should...
