The Office of Prevention and Education at Northeastern (OPEN) will begin its annual Alcohol Week Saturday. The week will run through Oct. 21 with events promoting alcohol awareness, including a bartending challenge and a date auction. The purpose of alcohol week is to increase awareness on campus,” said Ana Mascagni, an OPEN social work intern and Boston College social work graduate student. “Alcohol is so heavily used in college, we want students to not think drinking is bad; we just want them to think critically about it.”
Sweatshirts, tote bags and T-shirts donning large Greek letters are becoming more visible on campus as fraternities and sororities continue their blossoming presence on campus through pledge weeks. In the past two years, two sororities and one fraternity opened chapters on campus, and another fraternity will be added in the spring.
Student government financial officers at some Massachusetts universities, including Tufts University and University of Massachusetts (UMass)-Amherst, said they felt managing students’ money should be a transparent and open process.
Northeastern’s Information Systems (IS) Department is rolling out a new way of printing in the university’s computer labs, aiming to put an end to long waits in front of the machines. Starting next week, the existing free print quota system will be supplemented by a self-service free print allowance at InfoCommons 1 and 2, Dodge Hall labs, Snell Library labs and Behrakis Health Sciences Center.
Northeastern’s rivalry with Boston University is embedded in both schools’ sport culture, even if it doesn’t have an outlet, save for a Facebook fan page. But one student wants to reinvigorate the tradition of the competition by selling shirts and starting a website, ensuring its legacy. Senior political science major Rocky Slaughter said he sees “an established, year-after-year demand” for the shirts as a business opportunity.
A decision to make Northeastern’s sophomore students live on campus, discussed for years by university officials, has been put into effect starting with the class of 2016. Housing officials are touting this move as a encouraging step as Northeastern tries to improve relations with surrounding communities.
Living off campus provides a certain type of freedom on-campus living doesn’t – no resident assistants (RAs), no signing in and fewer restrictions. But it also comes with certain liabilities and responsibilities on-campus students don’t need to worry about. University officials are urging students living off campus to be good neighbors and to respect surrounding communities, as emphasized in the new Northeastern University P.L.E.D.G.E.
There are still jobs out there for students getting a college degree, despite a tough economic environment, President Barack Obama told The News during a conference call Monday. The president, in a conference call with more than 100 other college media outlets, discussed the steps his administration has taken to address the concerns of young Americans.
Northeastern University was recently ranked the 30th most dangerous college campus in America by The Daily Beast, an online news and culture publication, in its second annual survey of college campuses. Northeastern did not appear on last year's rankings, which covered the 25 most dangerous campuses. Boston schools ranked poorly on this year’s expanded list, released Sept. 14, with five landing spots.
The Office of Sustainability and Energy Management will host a sustainability panel to discuss sustainability research, education and outreach going on at Northeastern. The panel will take place today from 2:50 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Snell Library room 90. For more information, call Sustainability Manager Carol Rosskam at 617-373-8730.
Two and a half weeks into the first semester of the Northeastern University P.L.E.D.G.E. – a message from the administration urging students to be good neighbors in the Mission Hill and Fenway areas – students and long-time residents find themselves in an ideological battle over acceptable behavior on Mission Hill. This struggle is nothing new.
The Student Government Association (SGA) Finance Board, formerly named Budget Review Committee (BRC), which handles the Student Activities Fee (SAF) every student pays to the university, will operate behind closed doors for the 2010-2011 academic year, Student Body President Ryan Fox and SGA Comptroller Andrew Phenix said.
