In last year’s State of the City address, Mayor Martin J. Walsh stood up in front of 2,500 Bostonians and vowed to champion improvements to the city’s schools.
I wrote my first blog post when I was 14 years old and just beginning to explore my career interests. I was excited to develop my writing skills and to “document my steps into adult life,” as I put it then. After starting, I continued to post for the next year or so. I remember how amazing it felt to know that I could publish information online that anyone could see. Even though I was only in middle school, I had an opportunity to share my thoughts with millions of people – not that I had more than 20 regular readers. Still, it was incredibly exciting. I wasn’t yet familiar with the term “citizen journalism,” but I was already a big fan.
“Hurt me with the truth, but never confront me with a lie,” read a poster held by a 20-something-year-old college student. The March for Truth on Sunday, Nov. 15 began at Harvard Science Commons and dropped a mass of passionate ralliers at the British Consulate in Cambridge. Students from Brandeis University, Clark University, Boston University, Northeastern University, Suffolk University, Harvard University, Boston College and Wellesley College came together to take a stand against the ever-present bias in reporting on Israel’s politics.
As students attending Northeastern University, we are incredibly privileged to be able to receive a world-class education and advance our lives through the pursuit of knowledge and subsequent job opportunities and careers. As many of us know but may not often think about, a large proportion of people in this country do not have the same opportunities for education and careers that are afforded us by a university education.
Affirmative action programs have been the topic of harsh debate since their institution in the early 1960s. Different affirmative action programs have been brought to the Supreme Court multiple times, including the recent case of Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin. Opinions over affirmative action programs remain largely divided.
By Gwen Schanker, Editorial Columnist
The world is in a state of tumult. With the combination of the impending presidential election, the recent attacks in Paris, Kenya and Lebanon, the Syrian refugee crisis and the Planned Parenthood shooting in Colorado Springs – it’s...
By Sean Connolly, Editorial Section Editor
On Wednesday, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and Greater Birmingham Ministries filed a federal lawsuit against the state of Alabama concerning the state’s voter identification laws. The current...
A strong leader is willing to partner with other organizations for the sake of making a difference on our campus. A strong leader takes the time to understand that group’s point of view, and learns to acknowledge it as the other’s view, even when it stands in opposition....
On Nov. 10, we, Northeastern students from the Empower Adjuncts Community Coalition (EACC), along with other community activists, blocked the Green Line at the Northeastern stop. Aiming to raise awareness about what is happening to adjuncts on our campus and in solidarity with...
They don’t know.
Them, the vile, medieval terrorists, unjustly killing in the name of Islam. They don’t know better but to dare try and take away our liberty. They don’t know that we stand together, strong and tall. That we have long before them fought for our ideals,...
By Sean Connolly, Editorial Section Editor
On Friday, Nov. 6, President Barack Obama announced his opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline. He claimed the pipeline would not have a significant impact on the US economy. In the spirit of new efforts by his administration to fight...
