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The independent student newspaper of Northeastern University

The Huntington News

The independent student newspaper of Northeastern University

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The exterior of the Museum of Fine Arts Jan. 31. The MFA offered select university students free admission, allowing students to find a space to relax, learn and admire art in.

At the MFA, Boston’s college students disconnect to reconnect

Tanvi Saxena, news staff March 18, 2026

While Generation Z — those born roughly between the years 1997 to 2012 — is known for participating in phenomena such as “bed-rotting” and “doomscrolling,” where they sit on their beds and scroll for hours, many of Boston’s college students are ditching their phones...

A graphic featuring a student running to a soon-departing green line train from a Mission Hill station. Nearly 163,000 students enrolled in a Boston-area undergraduate program, leading to a student housing crisis. Photo courtesy FASTILY, Wikimedia Commons. Photos by Margot Murphy. Graphic by Margot Murphy.

As Boston rent rises, students feel the pressure

Chloe Mondi, news staff March 15, 2026

James Tlelo could tell you exactly how long it takes to sprint down Calumet Street and through Mission Hill toward campus at 9 a.m. On most days, the second-year business administration major at Northeastern University wakes up later than he intends to. The sun hits his bedroom...

Bostonians travel across the crosswalk at Clarendon Street and Boylston Street during a snowstorm Jan. 27. Nearly a month later, a second blizzard hit the New England area.

Bostonians hunker down for ‘snow emergency’  

Laila Guzman Griffin, news staff February 24, 2026

Severe blizzard conditions are slamming the Northeast between Feb. 22 and 24, with forecasters warning that the storm could become one of the most powerful this season.  Meteorologists estimate that Boston can expect between one to two feet of snow, with other New England...

Adri Pray sits on the couch in her apartment in Westborough, Mass. Jan. 17. Pray framed several of her articles from The Berkeley Beacon and The Boston Globe.

Trump attacked their universities. These students reported on it.

Zoe MacDiarmid, senior reporter February 20, 2026

In late March 2025, Adri Pray, who was then editor-in-chief of Emerson College’s student newspaper, The Berkeley Beacon, stood in front of a room of around 40 staffers. Immigration agents had just detained Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University graduate student, in Medford after...