Amid a developing dialogue about sexual assault and a Title IX case filed against the university, Northeastern students have begun pushing the administration to redefine sexual assault in the Code of Student Conduct (CSC).Advocates for the change are hoping the university will provide more educational and supportive services for students while also creating clear guidelines for handling sexual assault and its various sanctions.
Three Northeastern University swimming records were broken during the Frank Elm Invitational meet against 11 universities at Rutgers University on Nov. 21-23.
This Tuesday, a coalition of student activist groups on campus came together to air out their grievances with their university. At the event, The Real State of NU, in opposition to President Aoun’s annual State of Northeastern address, the Progressive Student Alliance (PSA), DivestNU, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and NU Sexual Health Advocacy, Resources and Education (S.H.A.R.E.) created a list of demands they intend to deliver directly to the president.
Professor Richard Saul Wurman, creator, curator and chair of the TED series, was honored at the Museum of Science for his contribution to the sciences. The Oct. 23 ceremonycelebrated the 50th Anniversary of the Bradford Washburn Award, as well as the accomplishments of Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and Michael Bloomberg, former mayor of New York City and the UN Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change.
For dancers there was “Black Swan.” For mathematicians, “A Beautiful Mind.” Now, for musicians, there is “Whiplash.” The tale of the devoted genius driven to the point of crazed obsession has been tried and tested on the big screen for years, and it never fails to captivate.
It took some time and it wasn’t pretty, but the Northeastern women’s soccer team took home its first outright National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) tournament win in school history on Saturday. By edging Boston University (BU) in a 2-0 thriller at BU’s Nickerson Field, the Huskies earned a spot amongst the last 32 teams standing in Division I women’s soccer.
The College of Arts, Media and Design is beginning the search for a new dean after the college’s founding dean, Xavier Costa, left the university in Spring 2014 for unknown reasons after four years as dean in the position. Currently Bruce Ronkin, a professor of music at CAMD, is the acting interim dean.
As Ebola continues to spread and public concern rises, Northeastern professor Alessandro Vespignani has developed a model to predict the spread of Ebola in Africa and across the globe that has been featured in publications from The New York Times to The Wall Street Journal.
With ridership of the off-campus student shuttle expanding, the Student Government Association (SGA) and the Northeastern University Police Department (NUPD) have entered talks to expand the service to the nearly 6,300 students who live off campus.
“The Last Five Years” is neither romance nor comedy, nor anything specific, really.
“It kind of fits its own category,” director Jonathan Carr said of the two-character show with two timelines and six cast members, which opened at Northeastern last night.
With a 2-0 drubbing of the Hofstra University Pride in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) tournament championship, the Northeastern soccer team earned its second consecutive CAA title and second straight trip to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) tournament.
![A sign reading "The People's Iftar for [Palestine]." Students held a gathering for iftar and marched down Forsyth Street March 25.](https://huntnewsnu.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/IftarProtest_ElizabethScholl_3-17-25_1-1200x800.jpg)
