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Event to promote sustainability

September 23, 2010
Student groups are coming together Wednesday for this year’s Campus Sustainability Day to continue promoting green practices in everyday student life. “The goal of the day is to showcase and demonstrate what Northeastern is doing, what individuals can do, and what student groups are doing regarding sustainability on and off campus,” said Carol Rosskam, sustainability manager. “We want to provide resources and have a little bit of fun with it.”

Review of lab procedures to last all semester

September 23, 2010
Director of Communications Renata Nyul announced today that a university-wide review of laboratory safety procedures and protocols will be completed by the end of the semester. “This is a big, elaborate review,” said Nyul. “It’s a pretty ambitious undertaking … it’s an appropriate time right now to do this and we have the perfect person to oversee it all.”

Faculty Senate’s new chair sets agenda

September 23, 2010
The Faculty Senate convened Wednesday to discuss changes to their policies, as well as Northeastern’s facilities and admissions processes. Louis Kruger, the chair of the Senate Agenda Committee for this academic year as elected this past spring, said he hopes this year can further the progress Northeastern has made as a university in recent years, like the rise in the U.S. News and World Report rankings, and the Faculty Senate is the force that will drive these improvements.

NU enacts P.L.E.D.G.E

September 16, 2010
There’s a new acronym on campus: The Northeastern University P.L.E.D.G.E. For the Fall Semester, first year students had to read the P.L.E.D.G.E handout, watch a video and sign off in order to access their myNEU accounts. Others had it handed to them in flier form while moving into their new digs on Mission Hill or the Fenway. The Office of Student Affairs created the P.L.E.D.G.E. in an effort to make Northeastern students better neighbors.

Nike challenges “Just NU It” shirts

September 16, 2010
Most people can recognize Nike products by the brand's iconic swoosh and the "Just Do It” slogan. Attorneys working for Nike are especially adept at doing so. So when NUde Wear, a company founded by four Northeastern students, made shirts with the iconic Nike Swoosh and the slogan “Just NU It,” Nike attorneys quickly recognized the parallel.

Students’ new travel site reviews, suggest hot spots abroad

September 16, 2010
Two Northeastern students took advantage of their common love of traveling and living abroad to launch SANEtraveler.com earlier this month, a website dedicated to helping other students make the most of their time abroad. Seniors Nora Drago and Stephanie Filipek officially launched their website Sept. 1. SANEtraveler.com, which comes from the phrase “Study Abroad Naked and Exposed,” provides user-contributed reviews of restaurants, hostels, bars and hangouts that are a bit off the beaten path in hopes of giving students a less “touristy” experience abroad.

Obituary: Emily Staupe, researcher

September 16, 2010
Emily Staupe, a Northeastern alumna, employee and researcher, died unexpectedly in her Milford home last Sunday. She was 30. “We were always kind of a family in the lab,” said senior behavioral neuroscience major Tehya Johnson. “Out of everyone, Emily was by far the most supportive person I have ever known. She was there for all of us.”

Husky Happenings

September 16, 2010
Today, Gallery 360 will hold a reception for its Double Vision Art Exhibition from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in Gallery 360. The exhibition premiered Aug. 27 and will run until Oct. 6. The event is free and open to the public. For more information call Yan Zheng at 617-373-5429.

Editorial Cartoon

September 16, 2010

Aoun orders review after lab worker’s death

September 12, 2010
Police found Emily Staupe, a Northeastern research assistant, 30, dead Sunday after she ingested crystallized cyanide in her Milford home, according to multiple reports. A member of Staupe’s family contacted authorities early in the morning for help. A sandwich bag labeled ‘cyanide’ was found next to her body.

Burlington expansion donor identified

September 9, 2010
Renovations to Northeastern’s Burlington campus, first announced in the spring, will be funded by a $12 million grant from George J. Kostas, a 1943 College of Engineering graduate. The grant for the George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security will be the largest gift for a capital project in the university’s history.