The anguish was palpable as families gathered outside a coal mine in Soma, Turkey awaiting news of their loved ones who had been trapped inside after an electrical transformer exploded on May 13. The resulting fire spread smoke and carbon monoxide through the mine, claiming at least 282 lives. While 383 miners made it out alive, many with serious injuries, there could still be as many as 150 trapped inside.
“Flowers for the performers,” said the woman handing out yellow and blue carnations across from the bilingual picket line that had formed outside of Harvard's Sanders Theatre. But Vladimir Spivakov was not the performer she had in mind — it was a fellow Russian activist playing for free further on down the road. Blue and yellow are the colors of the Ukrainian flag.
As the third season of “Once Upon a Time” comes to a close with a special 90-minute finale, viewers are left wondering what’s going to happen next: is Regina destined to a life of unhappiness, and what is Elsa of “Frozen” going to bring to the table?
By Nick Marini, social media manager
Your high school parking lot, the bar that accepted fake IDs, the basement of your friend’s house whose mom knew not to come down on Friday nights...the familiar places where the music of your teen years took shape and precisely cemented...
By Mary Whitfill, editor-in-chief
“Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” ABC’s Avenger’s comics spinoff, has officially been renewed for a second season, a decision that was up in the air until last Thursday. The TV version of the popular blockbusters was originally...
As part-time adjunct faculty members at Northeastern University, we are all at an important crossroads in our relationship with the school. On April 25, the SEIU mailed out ballots to all eligible part-time faculty in order to hold a vote on potential union representation. We have all received multiple communications from the union advocates over the past few months; however, I have not seen or heard much from the faculty who are not interested in union representation.
Northeastern’s Husky Ambassadors are a group of undergraduates who lead campus tours and provide visitors a glance into student lives at Northeastern. The ambassadors staff Open House and Welcome Day events, operating out of the visitor’s center in West Village F. An application...
The Northeastern Institutional Master Plan (IMP) is a 10-year trajectory plan for the university. The IMP requests permission to build 11 new academic, residential and athletic facilities on the Boston campus over the next 10 years, specifically to support research enterprises....
West Village is a cluster of residence halls on Northeastern University’s campus. It consist of West Village A, B, C (open to second year honors students only), E, F, (partially reserved for second year honors students), G (partially reserved for upperclassmen honors students)...
Centennial Commons is a popular lawn on Northeastern University’s campus created to celebrate Northeastern’s 100th birthday in 1998. Centennial is used for students to socialize, as well as for events and outreach hosted by various groups around the university. It is a vast...
Stetson West Eatery is a dining hall located in the bottom of Stetson West residence hall. The dining hall boasts an omelet station, pizza oven, salad bar, sandwich bar and stir fry station. The grill always offers grilled cheese sandwiches, burgers and grilled chicken, but Mexican...
The Irving M. Levine Marketplace, renamed from Stetson East Marketplace in 2001, is a dining hall at Northeastern University. Still commonly referred to by students as “Stetson East,” the eatery is located on the bottom floor of the Stetson East residence hall. The restaurant-style...
