Editorial: The hidden exclusivity of internships
March 28, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinion
There are a few concepts that are inherently Northeastern-esque. Entrepreneurial spirit. Innovation. Robot-proof. And, above all, co-op. It is not only one of the defining characteristics of Northeastern University, but also what most of us say when people ask why we chose Northeastern. When we think ...
Column: ‘Diversity in leadership’ needs to be more nuanced
March 28, 2018
When the student body elected President Suchira Sharma and Executive Vice President Paulina Ruiz, it was historic. Both Sharma and Ruiz are women of color, and their election broke Northeastern’s “glass ceiling.” It’d be easy to say the election of Nathan Hostert and Dylan Balcom, two white...
Op-Ed: SGA and Leadership Development
March 28, 2018
As I come to the end of my fourth year in the Student Government Association, as well as the end of my term as vice president for academic affairs, I have gotten a chance to reflect on my tenure in the association. The core mission of SGA is to have a positive impact on our fellow students, which is o...
Editorial: Students need to say #NeverAgain
March 22, 2018
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Northeastern students have yet to say #NeverAgain. This hashtag began after the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, and has spread to schools nationwide as they take a stand against gun violence. But here at Northeastern, despite many students’ individual efforts toward the movement, there has ...
Column: Where is your personal data going?
March 22, 2018
Ever since I made my first email account, I have routinely clicked “accept” to online terms and conditions without fully reading them first. While many people do this without question, the Facebook data leak forces us to reconsider how websites and online programs are using our personal data. Ca...
Column: SGA elections depend more on personality
March 15, 2018
Last year, student body elections were defined by huge gaps in each slate’s platform. The ReNUal team didn’t mention Title IX, even though the Sexual Assault Response Coalition is perhaps the student group most engaged with the Student Government Association, and Suchira + Paulina received two de...
Editorial: A new approach to campus sustainability
March 14, 2018
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Half a bowl of rice here. A quarter of an orange there. Most of a waffle you decided you didn’t want to eat because you suddenly remembered three bites into it that you were trying to eat less sugar. The amount of food we throw away on campus doesn’t seem like a lot when we look at it as an indivi...
Op-ed: Northeastern deserves uniteNU
March 14, 2018
Suchira Sharma still remembers the day Collin Walter joined SGA three years ago. She was running the first Senator education workshop, and Collin walked up to her afterward. He had a dozen questions on how the organization worked. But she will always remember his last question: “How do I make a di...
Op-ed: NU grad union is fighting back
March 12, 2018
I am a graduate student employee in the College of Computer and Information Science. For the past year, I have been helping organize a union because we deserve to have a say in our working conditions. Though we are certainly students, we are also employed as instructors, graders, research assistants an...
