Crime Log: Monday, September 3 – Monday, September 9
September 20, 2018
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Compiled by Jill Sojourner, news staff Monday, Sept. 3 10:08 a.m. NUPD reported the Wentworth Police Department arrested an individual who was unaffiliated with NU for assaulting an NU student’s parent in front of 607 Huntington Ave. A report was filed. 11:43 a.m. An NU student reported h...
Non-profit promotes global literacy
September 20, 2018
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By Elizabeth Klemm, news correspondent A nonprofit started by two Northeastern students has donated thousands of books, dozens of computers and hundreds of notebooks across three continents to promote literacy around the world. Second-year students Seema and Suraj Korumilli from Plainsboro, New ...
SGA collaborates with local transit
September 19, 2018
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By Alison Booth, news correspondent The Student Government Association, or SGA, recently partnered with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, or MBTA, and Zipcar to provide incoming Northeastern first-year and transfer students with CharlieCards, a Zipcar discount and detailed transportation in...
10 Coventry fire prompts relocation of students
Chris Butler and Nicholas Hirano
September 18, 2018
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Residents of the apartment building at 10 Coventry St. evacuated Monday evening when a small kitchen fire broke out in a first floor apartment. At 6:07 p.m., the stove fire started in room 108, setting off all of the building’s fire alarms and first floor sprinklers, according to a Boston Fire Dep...
LightView event promotes new student apartments
Chris Butler and Nicholas Hirano
September 12, 2018
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Hundreds of students lined up along Columbus Avenue Saturday to celebrate the opening of the new LightView Apartments leasing office. The kickoff event included live music, free food and a $10,000 scholarship raffle to encourage students to sign leases for the new building and walk through the mode...
Northeastern faces student backlash over ICE contract
July 23, 2018
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By Christian Triunfo, news staff Student activists are currently pressuring the NU administration to end a $7.8 million contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a government agency that is facing significant criticism from the public after President Donald J. Trump’s immigration ...
Grad students demand election agreement
April 22, 2018
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By Alyssa Lukpat, news staff Northeastern’s graduate students demanded the university administration accept their right to form a union at a rally in Krentzman Quad Tuesday. More than 100 students from the Graduate Employees of Northeastern University – United Auto Workers, or GENU-UAW, att...
Student activism meets dead ends
April 19, 2018
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By Glenn Billman and Derek Schuster, news staff Inside President Joseph E. Aoun’s Beacon Street brownstone, board members, donors and senior administrators celebrate 2016 with a holiday party. Outside, 11 students are bundled up against the December cold, singing traditional Christmas carols with unco...
Nahant residents protest Marine Science Center expansion
April 19, 2018
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Residents of Nahant, Massachusetts, traveled to Boston April 10 to deliver an open letter to Northeastern President Joseph E. Aoun, urging him to rethink the university's proposed expansion of the Marine Science Center in the town’s East Point area. More than 30 Nahant residents protested the expansion by pacing ...
Crime Log: Monday, April 9 — Monday, April 16
April 18, 2018
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Compiled by Jill Sojourner, news staff Monday, April 9 12:35 p.m. An NUPD officer reported finding an NU student’s fake I.D. A report was filed. 8:27 p.m. An individual reported a man sleeping in a restroom in International Village. NUPD responded and reported escorting the man, who was...
Prison experts explore mass incarceration at NU conference
April 18, 2018
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By Patrick Burgard, interim managing editor Scholars, policymakers and correctional officers from across Massachusetts convened at Northeastern on March 23 to brainstorm solutions to end mass incarceration in the state and throughout the country. The event, titled “MASS Incarceration: A Symposium on t...
Students fight for more accessible UHCS
April 14, 2018
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By Kaitlyn Budion, news staff A new coalition of students hopes to quicken the pace of change within Northeastern’s health center, gathering data on students’ dissatisfaction with services the center provides. Students Working for an Accessible Northeastern, or SWAN, is a group of Northeas...
