Northeastern truly espoused its role as a global university last month when it announced it was cutting ties with Adidas over the athletic apparel company’s role in workers’ rights violations overseas. By doing so, the university proved that its global reach is not limited to academics, but includes Northeastern’s values as well.
April is here, and for most students, that simply means finals, lots of rain and temperamental weather as we slowly make the change over to summer. For me and my other senior class members, however, this month is the last time many of us will set foot inside a university. It is an exciting and nerve-wracking time, where everything and nothing seems possible. As I reflect on my five glorious years at Northeastern, I guess I can say I learned a thing or two.
While I initially believed that this decision was a mistake by The Huntington News and a failure of the paper to report on matters important to the Northeastern community, after putting in additional thought, I realized that the true failure lies within SGA. If SGA does something for the student body, but no one knows about it, did it ever happen?
After the soldiers were introduced, more than half of the students started chanting "No justice, no peace!" and other slogans. They then ran out, not before the group photographer yelling behind him in Hebrew "the Israeli Army only wants war!" We sat there in silence for a moment. I was shocked.
ResLife has every right to discipline their employees, and as rounds are necessary to ensure resident safety, these accusations should not be taken lightly. But due to the breadth of this problem, it is apparent that failures were institutional, and blame should not be placed solely on individual RAs.
If you have been into Chicken Lou’s in the past couple of years, you might have noticed a photo of two Marines next to the cash register. Maybe you asked one day, like I did, who’s in it.
What if the money went to a scholarship fund for an incoming freshman? Then the money would make a real difference, even if just for one or two students. And what better way to “[provide] opportunities for current and future Huskies,” as Leahy wrote the goal of the gift was in last week’s edition of The News, than to literally give someone the opportunity to attend who otherwise may not be able to.
Some attentive readers of The News may have noticed a striking lack of coverage of Northeastern’s Student Government Association (SGA) throughout the current academic year, and especially now, during direct elections for student body president and executive vice president. The News does not believe the actions of the SGA have substantially impacted the Northeastern community on a week-to-week, and therefore has decided to direct its resources towards covering other topics.
For as long as guns have been around, society has been debating the issue of gun control. Guns are weapons that make it easy for anyone to harm another, whether it be an animal, an intruder or an innocent. Guns are not only seen as weapons but as a right guaranteed to the American people by the Constitution, which seems to place guns on a pedestal; it is important not to forget that guns can and are meant to cause harm to whatever is in front of them, whether it is a target, a deer or a burglar.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has time and again used harsh rhetoric in contempt of Israel’s place in the world. In May 2011, Ahmadinejad compared the creation of Israel to the spread of cancer throughout the body, saying that this “regime infects any region” and “must be removed from the body.” It's quite clear what he wants. Ahmadinejad is specifically calling for the genocidal ousting of the State of Israel. Such hate speech cannot be tolerated by anyone.
