Edward Snowden’s dispersal of classified National Security Agency (NSA) documents last year raised numerous questions about how much of our lives the government actually sees. Since the release of this information, the public has thrown around words like “big brother” and “spying” to describe the NSA’s information gathering methods. The public outcry has seemed, at times, near-universal – this was a serious breach of trust.
The notices began by telling students that their dorm was scheduled for demolition, and continued on to explain that every year thousands of Palestinians have demolition orders applied to their homes solely because of their ethnicity.
What did you do to pay for college? Perhaps you broke the piggy bank or hoped Grandma would be generous with your graduation gift. Maybe you found a summer job, or two, or three. But for some, even that is not enough.
Northeastern’s temporary suspension of Students for Justice in Palestine over the group’s latest Apartheid Week stunt is a despicable display of censorship not becoming of any academic institution, nonetheless Northeastern, an aspiring “global leader.”
As members of the Northeastern Adjunct Faculty Organizing Committee, we want to tell you about our union campaign and the ways in which we believe our effort will benefit the entire Northeastern University community.
Despite the modernization of the second floor, the new first floor of the library serves little discernible purpose. Over the summer, the university knocked down a wall separating the bulk of the floor with the computer lab and replaced practical study space with “modern furniture.”
It would take a major abuse of power to ever see piles of tires burning on the steps of the Capitol. That being said, the Ukrainian uprising does cast a new lens on a recent issue in US politics: the debt ceiling.
Since The News publicized the policy change, it has become clear that shockingly few graduating seniors were aware that their GPAs may no longer make the cut to graduate with honors.
Among the many controversies leading up to the XXII Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, the host country’s record on gay rights took center stage. Although fears of gay athletes being arrested at the Games have, as expected, proved thus far to be superfluous, Russia’s practices have still fallen under reasonable scrutiny during this international spectacle.
To say the event sparked outrage would be understatement. I as well was upset when I first heard this, but as is often the case with mass outrage, I realized the issue is more complex than it first appeared and I am not the best one to judge the situation.
