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Runners wait to start their course. Two Northeastern female track athletes were disqualified at the CAA Championships for wearing illegal shoes Feb. 26. Photo courtesy Pexels.

Two Northeastern track athletes disqualified for illegal shoes at CAA Championships

Aoife Jeffries, news staff March 7, 2025

Two athletes from the Northeastern track and field team were disqualified from the women’s 5000-meter for illegal shoes at the CAA Indoor Track Championships in Virginia Beach, Va. Feb. 26. The runners, graduate student Azza Borovicka-Swanson and senior Vivian McMahon, were...

The new model for the multi-purpose facility to replace Matthews Arena. In May 2024, Northeastern sent a letter of intent to the BPDA to construct a 290,000-gross-square-foot multi-purpose athletic facility. Rendering courtesy Perkins&Will.

Northeastern to release plans for multi-purpose facility set to replace historic Matthews Arena

Amelia Ballingall and Zoe MacDiarmid March 5, 2025

Northeastern will unveil updated plans for a new multi-purpose athletic facility to replace the historic Matthews Arena March 6, according to information the university shared with The Huntington News.  Northeastern, which acquired Matthews Arena in 1979, is looking to take...

Brynne Norquist (left) and Tyler Knohl pose for a photo together. The two run Hiike, a platform that uses data to provide film festival recommendations to independent filmmakers. Photo courtesy Kira Briggs.

Major production companies are threatening independent filmmakers. These students are fighting back.

Zoe MacDiarmid, campus editor March 4, 2025

Their story begins in 1938. At the time, eight major film companies — including Paramount Pictures and Twentieth Century-Fox — sought to control the film industry through their sole ownership of film distribution and exhibition. Ten years later, in 1948, after delays...

Alessandro Vespignani shares with the audience the process of finding a new Provost. The audience consisted of students and faculty alike.

Provost Search Committee hosts undergraduate open forum amid hunt for Madigan’s successor

Madison Evangelist, news staff February 28, 2025

The Provost Search Committee tasked with appointing Northeastern’s Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs David Madigan’s successor held a sparsely attended open forum Feb. 25 for undergraduate students to offer their input on what they want to see in Northeastern’s...

The John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse. Beau Benson was sentenced to five years in prison Feb 27, with five years of supervised release.

Former Northeastern admissions counselor sentenced to five years in prison for receiving child pornography

Emily Spatz, news staff February 27, 2025

Content warning: This story contains details of sexual assault and child pornography. The former Northeastern admissions counselor who pleaded guilty to receipt of child pornography last year was sentenced to five years in prison Feb. 27, according to the U.S. Attorney’s...

The Huskies Reward App displays various games students can get tickets to. On July 1, 2024, Northeastern Athletics launched the Huskies Rewards

Beanpot ticket controversy and more eyes on women’s sports: the impact of the new Huskies Rewards app

Katarina Schmeiszer, news staff February 25, 2025

The new Huskies Rewards App may have caused a stir when it came to Beanpot tickets, but its goal for increased fan engagement at Northeastern could be bringing more attention to women’s sports.  On July 1, 2024, Northeastern Athletics launched the Huskies Rewards App, a...

Dylan Mitchell poses for a photo with his bike. He started cycling in the roundabout outside Ruggles in 2022, when he moved up to Boston for work.

Who’s the man biking around Ruggles? Uncovering the identity of the ‘Centennial Cyclist.’

Auden Oakes, news staff February 23, 2025

Dylan Mitchell is not a campus celebrity. Instead, he is a campus enigma. While his name may not immediately ring a bell, for Northeastern students and Ruggles commuters, his peculiar hobby might. For hours on end, the 24-year-old biker extraordinaire circles the Centennial...

A washing machine with the door removed in International Village. An email was sent out Feb. 21 asking students to stop removing the doors.

International Village residents ‘causing disruptions’ by removing washing machine doors, according to email

Caroline Baker Dimock, news staff February 23, 2025

Residents of International Village, or IV, received an email Feb. 21 instructing them to cease removing doors from washing machines following several reported incidents of vandalism in the residence hall.   The email, which went out at 5 p.m. and was signed by three resident...

20 years ago, Northeastern students embraced sex. Now, they barely hear about it.

20 years ago, Northeastern students embraced sex. Now, they barely hear about it.

Yashavi Upasani, news staff February 22, 2025

Let’s talk about sex, baby. More specifically, Northeastern’s history of bold sexual discourse and its current lack of this same liberation.  Twenty years ago, Northeastern had a dedicated “Sex Week” during its spring semester, and The Northeastern News, now The Huntington...

From pre-med to fashionista, this Northeastern student does it all

From pre-med to fashionista, this Northeastern student does it all

Sydney Woogerd, news correspondent February 21, 2025

It takes more time to organize a fashion show from the ground up than it does to study live rats in a diabetes lab for 10 months. Yeani Kwon knows this from personal experience.  In late 2023, at the age of 21, Kwon, a then fourth-year biology major, started to juggle...

Julian Herzing-Burkard (left) and Dylan Lee pose for a photo. The duo said they hope to foster more interconnectivity between students.

Julian Herzing-Burkard announces student body presidential campaign

Bowen Rivera, news staff February 19, 2025

Julian Herzing-Burkard, a third-year international business major, officially confirmed his candidacy for student body president Feb. 17 alongside his executive vice president, or EVP, candidate Dylan Lee, a second-year data science and economics combined major. The campaign...

Jacob Davis stands for a photo in Ell Hall. Davis was a behavioral neuroscience major at Northeastern when he was struck and killed by Gerald Veneziano in May 2024. Photo courtesy Deborah Davis.

New Jersey man sentenced to 6 years in prison for drunken crash that killed Northeastern student

Lily Webber, news correspondent February 19, 2025

A New Jersey Superior Court judge sentenced Gerald Veneziano, the 41-year-old man who struck and killed first-year Northeastern student Jacob Davis in a two-vehicle collision last May, to six years in prison Feb. 14. Along with the six years in prison, in accordance with the...