Julie Sung, news correspondent
• December 26, 2020
In the middle of the January cold, Erika Uyterhoeven sat with the 27th Middlesex District’s former state representative Denise Provost at Somerville’s Armory Café, engaging in what would become a six-hour discussion of tyranny in the State House, a conversation that would...
Eamonn Ryan, deputy sports editor
• December 16, 2020
With Roy Coates as head coach, walking into practice is always a surprise for Northeastern’s swimming and diving team.
One time, he brought his team on a Boston duck boat tour during practice. When the team trained last season in Puerto Rico, he took them kayaking on a...
Some members of the Northeastern Students of Color Caucus, or NSCC, found much to discuss about President Joseph E. Aoun’s most recent email regarding Northeastern University’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. The email was sent to the Northeastern community Oct. 19, proposing initiatives that Northeastern will enact to address issues of systemic racism and discrimination, particularly against the Black community.
A couple days ago, my friend told me an unfortunate story about a man she saw getting off the T with reusable bags filled with Haymarket vegetables and fruits. As he stepped off the train, the bags spilled and the produce rolled all over the station platform, and both of us felt...
Later this month, thousands of students, faculty and staff will likely leave the relatively controlled ecosystem of Northeastern for the Thanksgiving holiday. This semester, Thanksgiving presents Northeastern with one of its biggest challenges yet.
Athletic scholarships are both the result of years of hard work and the start of an athlete’s career. Every athlete’s story is different, and every scholarship seems to mold to their story, especially here at Northeastern.
For Victor El Kholti, a freshman from France...
On Capitol Hill, Democrats have proposed making election day a national holiday to increase public participation. With little to no movement on this legislation in D.C., individual states and organizations have attempted to fill in the gaps. On Northeastern’s campus, a group...
Julie Henry, news correspondent
• October 28, 2020
On Nov. 3, Massachusetts voters will choose whether to implement ranked choice voting or uphold the status quo of winner-take-all.
The majority of elections in the United States use the “winner-take-all” system, where you choose your candidate for each race, grab your...
On any normal occasion, getting two missed calls from a Boston number wouldn’t be out of the ordinary. I was on my way out the door to head to my 11:45 a.m. class when I called the number back, thinking it might have been a source for one of my journalism assignments.
A non-partisan coalition of students, staff and faculty is looking to increase voter turnout and engagement among Northeastern students during one of the most eventful election years in recent history. Dubbed Northeastern Votes, the initiative is co-led by the university’s...
From 29 candidates in the Democratic presidential primary to nine primary candidates in our very own Massachusetts 4th Congressional district race, 2020 has been a year of bloated races and overwhelming election cycles. With another presidential election coming up between arguably...
Maggie Scales, news correspondent
• October 14, 2020
Flavia DeSousa, Zachary Shea and Veronica Bettio have made strides in developing community fridges — refrigerators on the street filled with donated food for locals in need — across Jamaica Plain and Somerville.
Communities all across the U.S. have taken massive economic...
