In speeches to the Student Government Association, or SGA, at an April 4 full body senate meeting, leadership addressed the tumultuous election cycle for the Spring 2022 election.
The election, which was contested for the first time in four years, saw election violation hearings,...
On March 4, 13 students affiliated with the Ukrainian Cultural Club and Russian Speaking Club at Northeastern University signed an email to administrators across the university, asking for help and support amid the outbreak of war in Ukraine. The plea was met with no response,...
Springfest, a week-long series of on-campus events for undergraduate students organized by Northeastern’s Council for University Programs, or CUP, will offer several programs from March 27 to April 2. The springtime tradition is making an in-person comeback for the first time...
For over 20 years, the Commonwealth Avenue Mall, or the Mall, has been lit up every winter. But the bright lights have prompted a mix of opinions from the public, from charming to controversial.
After art philanthropist Ted Cutler returned home about 20 years ago from a...
About 100 individuals attended the Massachusetts Say No march for bodily autonomy Saturday, starting at the Ruggles Station Rotary on Forsyth Street. The group criticized the state’s COVID-19 mask and vaccine restrictions.
The organization urged Boston citizens to say no...
Roxbury’s historic Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building is taking on a new role as a high-capacity COVID-19 testing center. Amid complaints of long wait times and lines of residents standing in the cold at nearby locations, Boston’s Public Health Commission is expanding testing...
Ken Henderson, Northeastern chancellor and senior vice president for learning, spoke with The News in a 30-minute, virtual conversation Wednesday about the closure of wellness housing, the university’s endemic approach to COVID-19 and its goals moving forward.
Below is a...
Starting Feb. 1, the Emerald Necklace Conservancy, a nonprofit organization working to improve and restore Boston’s landscaping, will hold their second annual “Lights in the Necklace” installation. Every night from dusk to 9 p.m. until March 20, emerald-colored LED lights...
When Olga Prifti decided to cut off contact with her therapist, a woman she had never met in person, there were complications.
It started when Prifti, a fourth-year bioengineering major, was having trouble adjusting to off-campus life amid the pandemic. Riddled with feelings...
Boston’s newest city council members were sworn in at an outdoor ceremony at the Boston City Hall Plaza Jan. 3. The ceremony recognized all representatives elected in the Nov. 2, 2021 city election, including five new councilmembers.
The ceremony was originally scheduled...
Sanjana Shastri opened her eyes at 7:59 a.m., just one minute before her class started. During a normal school year, this would be ample cause for the hardworking and driven student to panic, but 2020 was anything but normal.
Shastri, a second-year behavioral neuroscience...
Katie Mogg, deputy lifestyle editor
• November 13, 2021
In-person homecoming events are back and better than ever. Northeastern’s Council for University Programs, or CUP, invited comedians Ali Wong, Jonathan Van Ness and Sheng Wang to tell their best jokes live on stage at Matthews Arena Nov. 10.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic,...
