Without virtual commencement, students fill the void with at-home celebrations
Charlie Wolfson, news staff
May 12, 2020
Students celebrated at home with cakes, photos and Zoom calls.
Congress allocated $14 billion in relief money to colleges. Here’s how it impacts Northeastern
Charlie Wolfson, news staff
April 14, 2020
Northeastern was allotted more than $11 million by the CARES Act. Half must go to emergency financial aid grants for students.
The loss of a possible national title, two iconic NU leaders
George Barker, sports editor
March 23, 2020
Today should have been special. In fact, every single day of the past two weeks should have been life changing for the Northeastern women’s hockey team. In the end it was, but for the wrong reason. Today could have been a day of celebration for a recently crowned national champion. Instead, the...
Column: A tragic end to a historic Husky year
George Barker, sports editor
March 14, 2020
It had to be done, but that doesn’t make it any less crushing. Sports is often our escape from reality when reality is particularly stressful, scary or frustrating. For perhaps the first time of our lifetimes, that escape is completely shutdown. The NBA was the first domino to fall, after Utah ...
Northeastern moves classes online due to COVID-19 outbreak
Deanna Schwartz, campus editor
March 11, 2020
All Northeastern classes will be moved online as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, Northeastern announced Wednesday afternoon in an email to all students. The transition will begin Thursday morning, and it is unclear when and if in-person classes will resume. “Today I am announcing that, be...
Student EMTs provide medical detail at events, promote education
Mary Bancroft, news correspondent
February 26, 2020
The Northeastern University Emergency Medical Services club, or NUEMS, provides medical detail at campus events and hosts numerous educational programs, but they are looking to do more. The group is in the process of starting new initiatives, such as obtaining an ambulance through collaboration ...
Work and Family Mobility Act approved by Transportation Committee
Nicholas Stolte, news correspondent
February 13, 2020
The Massachusetts Transportation Committee favorably reported the Work and Family Mobility Act, which would allow undocumented immigrants to receive driver’s licenses, to the state Senate after a vote Feb. 5. The bill was voted on during a hunger strike organized in support of it by immigrant rights organization Movimiento Cosecha. The strike sta...
A first and a last Beanpot: A dream come true for McDonough and Picking
Valeria Vazquez, deputy sports editor
February 13, 2020
The two Huskies have dreamt about this moment since they were young. Both from Massachusetts, the Beanpot was a tournament any young hockey player could only dream of winning. And they did it. Senior forward John Picking is no rookie to a Beanpot win, he won his first in his sophomore year and an...
At long last, a Beanpot victory for the seniors
Kelly Chan, news staff
February 13, 2020
Northeastern’s name has finally been engraved on the Women’s Beanpot trophy for the first time since their last tournament victory in 2013. Only four players on the team — seniors Andrea Renner, Codie Cross, Paige Capistran and Matti Hartman — had ever played in a Beanpot championship prior to...
MFA drawing event aims to increase art accessibility
Sasha Shrestha, news correspondent
January 30, 2020
While 20 people silently sketched out the live model in the gallery of the Museum of Fine Arts, Elsa Zhao was not sketching hers as others were. Instead, she decided to sketch one of the Rococo-style portraits in the Ann and William Elfers Gallery. The gallery holds magnificent works like Claude-Nicola...
Hundreds in Boston protest US involvement in Middle East
Nicholas Stolte, news correspondent
January 30, 2020
Over 400 people rallied in Boston Common Saturday as part of an event to denounce U.S. actions in Iran and Iraq, including an airstrike which killed Iranian Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani and sanctions against Iran. Soleimani was "plotting sinister attacks on diplomats and American military personnel," President Donald J. Trump said in a speech following the Jan. 3 airstrike, al...
Katy Knoll brings auto racing drive from family to the ice
Paige Stern, news staff
January 29, 2020
Northeastern University women’s hockey player Katy Knoll has made incredible strides for a player her age. But for the promising athlete, it’s the passing down of traditions and passions through her family that has made her who she is today. Knoll, 19, grew up in Amherst, New York, like her father....
Without virtual commencement, students fill the void with at-home celebrations
May 12, 2020
Students celebrated at home with cakes, photos and Zoom calls.
Congress allocated $14 billion in relief money to colleges. Here’s how it impacts Northeastern
April 14, 2020
Northeastern was allotted more than $11 million by the CARES Act. Half must go to emergency financial aid grants for students.
The loss of a possible national title, two iconic NU leaders
March 23, 2020
