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The independent student newspaper of Northeastern University

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The independent student newspaper of Northeastern University

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Elizabeth Hudson speaks at Northeastern's 2024 convocation ceremony. Hudson joined Northeastern as Dean of the College of Arts, Media and Design in July 2015, and will be stepping down from the role June 30, 2025.

CAMD Dean Elizabeth Hudson reflects on time at Northeastern after announcing resignation

Caroline Baker Dimock, news staff October 17, 2024

Elizabeth Hudson, dean of Northeastern’s College of Arts, Media and Design, will resign from the position effective June 30, 2025, according to an email to the college’s students and staff from the Office of the Provost sent Oct. 16.  Hudson assumed her role July 20,...

Courtney Cade stands on the steps of the John D. O'Bryant African American Institute. Cade shared how she believes diversity benefits whole communities.

‘It feels more isolating’: Northeastern Black students and staff express concerns amid drop in Black first-year enrollment

Nikkia Jean-Charles and Heidi Ho October 15, 2024

Professor Régine Michelle Jean-Charles, director of the Africana Studies program and Dean’s Professor of Culture and Social Justice, was attending a talk by the first Black female Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson when one of her students sent her an email containing...

Northeastern implements a 100 co-op application limit on NUWorks

Northeastern implements a 100 co-op application limit on NUWorks

Meghan Hirsch, news staff October 14, 2024

On Sept. 12,  Reddit user AgreeableReception22 posted on Northeastern’s main Reddit forum, “Is NUWorks only allowing 100 co-op applications this time?” The post received over 20 replies from various Reddit users, who expressed confusion and disappointment about the...

An NUPD officer sits in a car outside the Ruggles T stop. Northeastern recently released its 2024 ASR, revealing crime statistics for all Northeastern campuses.

Northeastern released its 2024 annual security report. Here’s what you need to know.

Alexa Coultoff, Chloe Craft, and Elli Einset October 13, 2024

Overall crime on the Boston campus has decreased over the last year while reports of dating violence increased, according to recently-released security reports covering crime statistics at Northeastern’s campuses through the 2023 calendar year. Northeastern is federally...

The CRRJ office in Dockser Hall. The project was founded in 2007.

‘We now have the facts’: The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project tells victims’ stories, decades later

Frances Klemm, news staff October 11, 2024

In 2008, Northeastern law professor Margaret Burnham was an attorney representing the families of the victims of a crime more than four decades old. The case, which involved two Black men who were brutally murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in May 1964, changed Burnham’s career and...

Joseph E. Aoun stands behind a podium at the 2022 President’s Convocation. Aoun only made one statement about the Israel-Hamas war one year ago. File photo by Marta Hill.

One year passes since Northeastern President Joseph E. Aoun’s last statement on Israel-Hamas war

Emily Spatz, campus editor October 10, 2024

It’s been one year since Northeastern President Joseph E. Aoun made a statement about the Israel-Hamas war, an international conflict that has roiled the campus community and colleges around the country.  Aoun, in a letter cosigned by Provost and Senior Vice President for...

Rally participants march down Huntington Avenue Oct. 9. The rally took place two days after the one-year anniversary of Hamas’ attack on Israel.

Pro-Palestine demonstrators protest military industrial companies at Northeastern’s career fair

Alexis Algazy, Sarah Mesdjian, Elli Einset, and Lily Cooper October 10, 2024

Dozens of people marched from the Christian Science Plaza to the Cabot Center Oct. 9 in protest of Northeastern’s all-day career fair, which featured several companies that manufacture military equipment and supply it to Israel.  The rally, organized by unofficial student...

A member of the AerospaceNU e-board speaks about the Intro to Avionics program. The e-board outlined the structure of the club, which is split into five projects, each building a different aerodynamic object.

Students in AerospaceNU launch into hands-on learning

Madison Evangelist, news correspondent October 9, 2024

In February, AerospaceNU members braced the frigid New England winter and bundled up to launch two rockets in Saint Albans City, Vermont. That day, the Teapot, a 78-inch dual deployment rocket, and the Rubber Ducky, a 96-inch bright yellow Bulkhead innovations rocket, both successfully...

Students partake in a vigil commemorating the one-year anniversary of Hamas’ attacks on Israel. The vigil was hosted by Northeastern Hillel.

Northeastern Hillel, community gathers for vigil one year after Oct. 7 attacks

Frances Klemm, news staff October 9, 2024

Hundreds of students gathered on Krentzman Quad Oct. 7 to commemorate the one-year anniversary of Hamas’ attacks on Israel that left approximately 1,200 people dead and more than 250 held hostage by the Islamic, Palestinian nationalist militant group.   The tone of the...

Crime Log: Sunday, Sept. 15 to Monday, Sept. 30

Crime Log: Sunday, Sept. 15 to Monday, Sept. 30

Christina McCabe, news staff October 8, 2024

This crime log is compiled using publicly-available police logs from the Northeastern University Police Department, or NUPD. The NUPD is required to make this information public, pursuant to the Clery Act, and The News will publish updated logs as they become available.  Sunday,...

Protesters listen as Karl Klare talks into a microphone on Centennial Common. GENU-UAW held a rally Oct. 2 to voice their demands amid contract negotiations with the univerity.

‘GENU-UAW does not give up’: Grad workers rally amid negotiations for their first contract

Devyn Rudnick, Siera Qosaj, and Zoe MacDiarmid October 8, 2024

Members of the Graduate Employees of Northeastern University rallied on Centennial Common Oct. 2 to mark the one-year anniversary of their union election and 10 months since contract negotiations began. About 100 demonstrators were in attendance throughout the rally, organizing...

Two Israeli flags and one Palestinian flag hang from the Centennial Common ledge. Numerous protests calling for a ceasefire of the Israel-Palestine war were held on campus in the past year following Hamas' attack on Israel Oct. 7, 2023.

Northeastern community reflects on Israel-Hamas war, campus climate one year after Oct. 7 attacks

Emily Spatz, campus editor October 7, 2024

On Oct. 7, 2023, Mady Most was in the middle of giving a campus tour when her family and friends began calling her repeatedly. “I had to stop the tour early because I thought there was an emergency,” said Most, a fourth-year health science major and Husky Ambassador. “My...