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.
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.”
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
