Second semester is here, and in many ways it’s a bit disappointing the world didn’t end last month. Especially for all of you sophomores who have a firmly set group of friends from freshman year and are wandering into Off Campus Student Services and making calls to real estate agents. Apartment hunting season is on.
The law students who comprise our chapter oppose a completely smoke-free policy, and urge Northeastern decision-makers to consider alternative methods, such as designating smoking areas, providing cessation support and reducing the harms associated with smoking in the university community.
Congratulations are in order to Northeastern’s Student Veteran’s Organization (SVO) for recently being recognized as the top chapter of Student Veterans of America, a well-deserved honor for the organization that advocates and supports the university’s 300-plus veterans.
The winter slump can be attributed to more than just seasonal depression. For the lucky few on co-op: Congratulations, six months off from classes. You’ll be back. For me, I am looking down the barrel of actually having time off – for the rest of my life if I’m not lucky. That’s right, I’m a senior.
Here we are again. The twilight of the fall semester. If you’re like me, you stopped genuinely caring about school sometime around Oct. 1 and faked it with flying colors up until Thanksgiving break. But then, well, Thanksgiving.
Last week in this page, Adam Sapers wrote a letter to the editor: “US, Israel relations should not be forgotten, diminished” where he emphasized the mutual relationship the two countries had. Having gone into depth about the benefits America gets from Israeli’s military technology, it was surprising that he never mentioned Israel’s human rights violations of the Palestinians.
By Taylor Dobbs
Fellow students, I am so very glad to see you exercising your First Amendment rights. After Hurricane Sandy hit, washing away homes, families and livelihoods, you did a courageous thing: petitioning the university administration to cancel classes for a second...
As another long weekend approaches, it would be foolish of students to look upon this one as just another chance to catch up on work, sleep or a social life. This weekend, and Monday in particular, is not about trying to get something extra out of the class-free day. It is about...
