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The independent student newspaper of Northeastern University

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Alexa Coultoff

Alexa Coultoff, Projects Editor

Alexa Coultoff is a second-year criminal justice and journalism combined major and projects editor of The News. Previously a staff writer for The News, she is excited to bring new insights and investigations into the projects section this semester. You can follow her on Twitter for updates @alexacoultoff.

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Massachusetts efforts for police accountability rise while other states fall behind

Massachusetts efforts for police accountability rise while other states fall behind

Alexa Coultoff, projects editor
September 24, 2023

Following the August release of a statewide database of police disciplinary records, two of three Northeastern police officer records have been amended in an effort to correct the original publication. The...

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A chalk message in favor of graduate students right to unionize is written on the ISEC bridge. Councilors in the Cambridge City Council expressed their support for GENU-UAW during an Aug. 7 meeting.

[Photo] ‘We stand behind them’; Cambridge City Council supports graduate student advocates on their quest for unionization

September 11, 2023

A chalk message in favor of graduate students' right to unionize is written on the ISEC bridge. Councilors in the Cambridge City Council expressed their support for GENU-UAW during an Aug. 7 meeting.

One of the chalk messages advocates with GENU-UAW wrote on campus in April 2023. The NLRB in August dismissed GENU-UAWs charge that the university illegally intimidated organizers by having NUPD officers question organizers who participated in chalking.

[Photo] National Labor Relations Board rules Northeastern did not illegally intimidate unionizing graduate student workers

August 23, 2023

One of the chalk messages advocates with GENU-UAW wrote on campus in April 2023. The NLRB in August dismissed GENU-UAW's charge that the university illegally intimidated organizers by having NUPD officers...

A wall on campus with chalk messaging promoting graduate students right to unionize. The union representing grad students has filed charges against Northeastern after university officials allegedly illegally retaliated against students for chalking.

Northeastern graduate students file federal charges against Northeastern as intimidation efforts to interfere with graduate union continue

Alexa Coultoff, news staff
May 13, 2023

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...

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Students at the April 14 graduate student unionization protest walk into ISEC. Demonstrators called for Northeastern to allow graduate students to unionize, which would give student workers more leverage to improve their working conditions at the university.

The fight for graduate student workers continues with no sign of concession from Northeastern

Alexa Coultoff and Julia Henning
April 25, 2023

Kutub Gandhi says he is one of the luckier ones. When Gandhi, a third-year computer science graduate student, is not doing his PhD work, he fulfills a mandatory role as a Research Assistant or Teaching...

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Downtown Miami, where Northeastern will open its 14th campus in Fall 2023. The campus will focus on technology, finance and health. Photo by Ryan Parker via Unsplash.

Q&A: New Miami campus dean discusses innovative master’s programs for global tech industry

Alexa Coultoff, news staff
April 14, 2023

Northeastern University’s 14th campus will open to both graduate students and Experiential Associates to Master's, or eA2M, degree completion program students for the Fall 2023 semester in the sunny...

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Gourevitch speaks at the 30th Annual Robert Salomon Morton Lecture. Gourevitch conveyed to attendees the importance of recalling genocide and using that memory to take action to prevent it from happening again.

Philip Gourevitch comments on the power of genocide memory at annual Northeastern lecture

Alexa Coultoff, news correspondent
April 4, 2023

“If it happened once, it can happen again.”  Italian Jewish Holocaust survivor Primo Levi left this warning in his literary work before he died by suicide in 1987. This reminder still echoes...

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Tánaiste Micheál Martin (right) addresses an audience beside Boston Globe journalist Kevin Cullen (left) at the John F. Kennedy Library on St. Patricks Day. Martin spoke on U.S.-Ireland relations at the event.

Tánaiste Micheál Martin discusses unique Irish-U.S. relationship at St. Patrick’s Day forum

Alexa Coultoff, news correspondent
March 26, 2023

Ireland and the United States share a unique relationship, centered upon the sharing of values and culture through the immigration of Irish people into America, Tánaiste Micheál Martin told the audience...

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Katy Shorey moderates the Zoom Q&A with “Girl Talk” producer Stephanie Sunate and film subject Gaby Lewis. The documentary followed the high school careers of five teenage girls on Newton South’s high school debate team. Photo courtesy of Claire Ogden.

‘Girl Talk’ documentary screening empowers women in debate

Alexa Coultoff, news correspondent
March 21, 2023

Over 40% of national high school debate students are female, while less than 10% become national champions, according to the documentary “Girl Talk.” Anika Sridhar of Newton South High School was the...

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