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Annie Probert, Deputy Campus Editor

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A Husky Ambassador leads a campus tour Nov. 4. Prospective students and their families are asked to attest that they don't have symptoms of COVID-19 and haven't been exposed, but no proof of negative COVID-19 test or vaccination is required.

Husky Ambassadors voice concerns over vaccination policy for tours

Annie Probert, deputy campus editor
November 11, 2021

Prospective students and their families visiting Northeastern’s campus for tours are not required to show proof of a negative COVID-19 test or vaccination, a policy some Husky Ambassadors say makes them...

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Casey Buttke was elected SGA president last week.

Uncontested Buttke-Galinkin SGA slate elected with 86% support

Isabel Stephens and Annie Probert
March 28, 2021

The Buttke-Galinkin slate, which ran uncontested, captured an overwhelming 86% of the vote in this year’s Student Government Association election. Casey Buttke and Izzy Galinkin will respectively serve...

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Northeastern Law students partnered with the Civil Rights Restorative Justice Project to investigate the case of Henry Gilbert, who was killed in a Georgia jail in 1947.

NU law students investigate, correct history

Annie Probert, news staff
March 4, 2021

Northeastern University School of Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice project, or CRRJ, is seeking to correct the false narrative surrounding the lynching of a Black man nearly 75 years ago through...

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First-year student Azara Mahtani studies at this remote workspace.

NU Start students torn on in-person, remote learning

Annie Probert, news staff
December 7, 2020
What was supposed to be an exciting spring for many NU Start students arriving on campus for the first time has turned into another semester at home due to the worsening coronavirus pandemic.
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Northeastern Votes tables outside of Curry Student Center.

Northeastern Votes aims to increase election turnout among students

Annie Probert, news staff
October 21, 2020

A non-partisan coalition of students, staff and faculty is looking to increase voter turnout and engagement among Northeastern students during one of the most eventful election years in recent history....

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The peaceful protests carried well into the night.

YDSA connects passionate students to Breonna Taylor protest

Mihiro Shimano and Annie Probert
October 5, 2020

On Sept. 25, more than 100 Northeastern students assembled at Centennial Common to create posters to carry in Boston’s protest of the grand jury failing to indict the officers responsible for the murder...

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First-year biology and mathematics major Sachi Kulkarni's remote learning setup in Texas.

NU Start program connects remote freshmen to campus

Annie Probert, news staff
October 2, 2020
Created for first-years unable to travel to the Boston campus and attend in-person classes, NU Start allows students to take all of their fall courses online. NU Start courses are asynchronous to accomodate students from around the world. This means they do not require real-time interaction, which is a key difference from the NUflex model of both synchronous and asynchronous classes.
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Students approve of first-year dismissals, but not financial penalties

Students approve of first-year dismissals, but not financial penalties

Annie Probert, news staff
September 23, 2020

In a decision that students have called “rushed,” “severe” and showing “zero-tolerance,” Northeastern announced Sept. 4 that it would dismiss 11 first-year students in the N.U.in Boston program...

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Stacks of moving hampers

First-years express excitement for fall semester after diminished senior spring

Annie Probert, news correspondent
September 12, 2020
Freshman move-in looked different this semester due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but after months of disappointment from cancelled high school events like prom and graduation, first-years who spoke with The News expressed excitement about finally being on campus along with nerves related to their first year of college.
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The N.U.in program, started in 2007, is a unique global experience in which first-year students spend their first semester of college abroad on campuses in Australia, Ireland, Germany, England, the Czech Republic, Canada, Greece or Italy.

Students struggle to break out of the ‘N.U.in Bubble’

Annie Probert, news correspondent
February 12, 2020
The start of the spring semester at Northeastern has brought many new faces - most notably, the over 1,000 first-year students arriving on campus fresh off their first semester abroad with the N.U.in program. Along with the excitement of being on campus for the first time comes the difficulty of adjusting to a freshman year that is almost half over.
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