By Meghan McVeigh, News Staff
Stocks go up, stocks go down. But a new student organization for aspiring financiers is here to stay.
Josh Miller-Frankel, a sophomore finance and insurance major who formed the NEU Traders club in March, said he hopes to expand its membership...
Three students went to Senior Vice President of Enrollment Management Philomena Mantella’s office yesterday afternoon to address the resignation of Associate Vice President for Student and Scholarship Services Scott Quint. Quint resigned in mid-March, according to a university administrator.
The Student Government Association (SGA) elected the remainder of its executive board and other officials at the senate meeting last Thursday. An internal restructure earlier this year bumped the amount of elected positions outside the president to the seven following positions: executive vice president, vice president for student affairs, vice president for student involvement, vice president for student services, vice president for academic affairs, the comptroller – the position that handles finances – and the chair of Elections Committee.
This past weekend Northeastern’s team took first place in the 2010 National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition in San Antonio, Texas. The competition is premised on the goal of defending against cyber attacks. Each team essentially acts as newly hired information technology staff at a company. There is an opposing team who is trying to infiltrate the new staff’s system, and it is the team’s goal to ward off the hackers. This is the fifth year of the competition. It took place April 16-18 and is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Eight teams of Northeastern students from a variety of majors presented their final business plans to an estimated crowd of 100 people as part of the Husky Innovation Challenge on Friday. At the end of the Demo Day, which was held in Curry Student Center, five teams of one or two students were awarded $1,000 prizes in different categories.
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Both Student Government Association (SGA) Presidential Candidate Amanda Sabia and current Vice President for Student Affairs Derek Miller have declined to seek a position on next year’s SGA executive board after President Ryan Fox’s re-election Thursday. Miller, who supported Sabia for president, said minutes after the election result was announced he would not seek a position. He said part of the reason he did not seek re-election was his working relationship with Fox.
The Tea Party rally was in full swing in the middle of Boston Common as former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin spoke Wednesday morning. People with Tea Party merchandise paraded the streets and sidewalks surrounding the park and “Fox News Fan” T-shirts were selling like hot cakes.
After the election of Katie Kerber to Senior Resident Assistant Representative last night, the Resident Student Association (RSA) completed its nearly month-long election process for next year’s executive board. Kerber will act as a liaison between tenured resident assistants (RAs) known as Senior Resident Assistants (SRA), and RSA. She ran uncontested after her opponent, Aliah Qatarneh, stepped down due to a personal commitment that would interfere with the position. On March 24, Pearl Rimon was elected to vice president for programming and Harlan Kaine was elected to alumni affairs coordinator.
Michael Paradiso, a senior international business major and past member of Student Government Association (SGA) among other student groups, was chosen as this year’s student commencement speaker. Twenty-three students submitted speeches to the selection committee, and after narrowing the pool down to five finalists, the committee chose Paradiso, said Vice President and Dean of Student Affairs Ed Klotzbier.
Snell Library will host “Meet the Author: Peter Fox-Penner.” Fox-Penner will discuss his new book, Smart Power, a look at climate change and electric utilities today from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in 90 Snell Library. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call Maria Carpenter at 617-373-2821 or e-mail her at [email protected].
Northeastern’s United Nations Association placed first at the National University Model Arab League (NUMAL), beating out teams from 23 other colleges in the nation. Model Arab League, a subsection of the Model United Nations (UN), where each university is assigned a Middle Eastern country and students learn about different aspects of the country ranging from economics, defense and culture. Students then go to conferences where they are broken up into committees with students from other schools to debate about these issues, simulating roles of diplomats on the actual United Nations.
