Op-ed: NU students living on campus: If you can leave, you should
Katie McCreedy, contributor
March 13, 2020
In a whirlwind few days, Northeastern and many other colleges across the country moved to remote, online learning in the wake of the growing COVID-19 outbreak. While universities like Harvard and Tufts forced students to leave campus, Northeastern took a more flexible approach, leaving students to d...
Column: Consent matters, even if you’re a doctor
Maya Homan, Opinion Editor
February 27, 2020
Earlier this month, the New York Times published an article from researcher Emma Goldberg, who had uncovered a startling medical practice: Doctors in certain hospitals across the U.S. routinely perform pelvic exams on women who are undergoing surgery without any medical necessity and without asking f...
Column: Don’t judge the economy by Trump’s Tweets
Adrian Tolstoy, columnist
February 27, 2020
You have most likely heard President Donald Trump bragging about how well the economy has been doing under his leadership. Only recently Trump tweeted, “BEST USA ECONOMY IN HISTORY!” And sure, there has been a steady stock market rise, with constant record-breaking performances. It is fair to say that if ...
Column: Despite historic ‘Parasite’ Oscar win, the Academy remains biased against foreign films
Poon Singhatiraj, columnist
February 25, 2020
Bong Joon Ho’s cinematic masterpiece “Parasite” won Best Picture at the 92nd Academy Awards ceremony on Feb. 10, which marks the first movie not in the English language to win the coveted award. The film follows a poor family that plots to become employed by a wealthy family by posing as unrelate...
Op-Ed: TMZ exploits celebrities in its news coverage
Elena Plumb, contributor
February 13, 2020
Celebrities understand their public role and the extent to which the media can comment on their personal lives. They grow accustomed to the bright flashes of paparazzi cameras, the barrages of fans outside their apartments and their names in headlines whenever they do something as insignificant as c...
Op-Ed: Unpaid co-ops available on NUCareers cause internal conflicts
Riana Buchman, contributor
February 13, 2020
I’ve known from a young age that I wanted to pursue writing as a career. Since I was about 8 years old, it’s one of the things I can remember being good at and excited about. However, I feel like it’s a running joke among journalists and authors that unless someone is highly skilled or successful...
Column: Trump’s immigrant wealth test will harm US economy
Poon Singhatiraj, columnist
February 12, 2020
On Jan. 27, while the nation was distracted by the debacle of President Donald J. Trump’s impeachment trial, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to impose stricter, more draconian restrictions on immigrants looking to become permanent residents. The “public charge” immigration provisio...
Op-ed: Do not let coronavirus misinformation lead you to xenophobia
Katie McCreedy, contributor
February 10, 2020
On Saturday, Feb. 1, the Boston Public Health Commission confirmed that a University of Massachusetts Boston student tested positive for the novel coronavirus. This is now the eighth case in the U.S. The student sought medical care upon returning to Boston from Wuhan, China last week and is currentl...
Op-Ed: Exchange Students Can Be More Integrated Into Campus
Yuki Takahashi, contributor
January 31, 2020
NU promotes its global campus as one of its strengths. It provides numerous study abroad programs, such as N.U.in, and satellite campuses in Seattle, Toronto, London and San Francisco. In addition to having a high proportion of international students, NU hosts over 100 exchange students enhancing campus diversity. However, as a current exchange studen...
Column: World War III memes dismiss the severity of war
Poon Singhatiraj, columnist
January 31, 2020
In the early hours of the morning Jan. 3, an American drone strike killed Qassim Suleimani, a prominent Iranian military general. Suleimani was head of the Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Forces, a military unit that oversees Iran’s foreign operations. He was widely seen as one of the most powerful figure...
Column: Deportation of NU Student Undermines American Integrity
Maya Homan, Opinion Editor
January 30, 2020
On Sunday, Jan. 19, Northeastern economics student Mohammad Shahab Dehghani Hossein Abadi arrived at Logan International Airport in Boston to begin his spring semester. He was greeted instead by agents from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, or CBP, who detained him overnight and questioned him, despite the fact that he had obtained a valid F1 student visa prior to arriving in the United States. His lawy...
Column: Look at Sweden’s reality, not Bernie Sanders’ version
Adrian Tolstoy, columnist
January 24, 2020
You have most likely heard that the United States has a presidential election coming up this year. One of the most enthusiastic front-runners for the Democratic Party is Bernie Sanders. His political platform promises solutions to complex societal problems, and many of these proposals involve expandi...
The loss of a possible national title, two iconic NU leaders
March 23, 2020
Column: A tragic end to a historic Husky year
March 14, 2020
Northeastern moves classes online due to COVID-19 outbreak
March 11, 2020
