Emily Spatz, deputy campus editor
• August 20, 2023
Skyrocketing application rates to Northeastern — which have risen almost 50% in four years — resulted in a record number of undergraduate applications to the university for fall 2023. Northeastern accepted 5.6% of applicants from a record-breaking 96,327 applications for...
After an multi-year effort to unionize while facing sustained university opposition, Northeastern graduate student workers received authorization from the National Labor Relations Board July 14 to hold a vote in September deciding whether a union should represent graduate workers...
Northeastern graduate students on May 5 filed an unfair labor practice charge, or ULP, against Northeastern after university police allegedly retaliated against two union organizers, visiting their workplaces to question their participation in union action.
The federal charges,...
Editor’s Note: This article discusses sexual assault. Northeastern offers the following sexual violence prevention resources for students.
OPEN provides confidential sexual violence support services to Northeastern students.
OPEN’s Sexual Violence Resource Center provides...
The Marino Recreation Center will close for renovations starting May 8 until the end of Summer 1, with a plan to fully reopen at the beginning of the Fall 2023 semester, according to an email sent to students Wednesday.
Jim Madigan, director of athletics and recreation at...
Following a recent protest calling on Northeastern officials to allow graduate students to unionize, the university admonished organizers for failing to plan the demonstration around a campus ceremony for the victims of the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing.
“We were surprised...
After a Reddit post titled “Modern day sla*ery at Marino” detailing the mistreatment of Marino employees circulated the Northeastern subreddit, numerous students expressed concern and outrage at the working conditions of Marino’s work-study employees.
The March 31 Reddit...
It was April 15, 2013. Thousands of runners sprinted down Boylston Street during the Boston Marathon on Patriots Day, usually a lively celebration in the city of Boston.
At 2:49 p.m., everything changed. Two homemade pressure cooker bombs planted near the finish line...
Northeastern is expected to permanently convert a section of the Sheraton Boston Hotel in Copley Square into undergraduate housing for about 854 students, according to a Universal Hub story Tuesday.
Often seen as overflow housing for a university struggling with a housing...
After hours of intense debate, a resolution that would push Northeastern administration to halt the university’s collaboration with private military companies — including terminating research contracts, financial holdings and campus recruiting events — passed in the Student...
Women entrepreneurs across Northeastern met in ISEC earlier this month to attend the annual summit held by the Women’s Interdisciplinary Society of Entrepreneurship, or WISE. The event’s theme was “Created by Courage,” recognizing the risks women take in creating their...
After winning the Beanpot and the Hockey East regular season title, Northeastern had just one more goal on its checklist — winning the Hockey East tournament for the sixth consecutive year. The Huskies had dominated Merrimack College and Boston College during the first two...
