Column: U.S. must respect immigrant rights
November 28, 2018
By Melissa Wells, opinions editor When history looks back on Nov. 25, nobody will remember why the United States justified an attack on unarmed civilians. It will remember Maria Lila Meza Castro dragging her twin daughters away from tear gas, one barefoot, the other tripping over her mother’s dirt-covered shoes. The girls have nothing but t-shirts and diapers to cover...
Editorial: Keep on voting, America
November 28, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinion
The 2018 midterm elections were remarkable in terms of voter turnout. Almost half of the people in America who can vote, did. What’s particularly striking is that nearly a third of young people voted in this election — the highest proportion of this age group to vote in the last seven midterms. When the voting ...
Candidates for U.S. Senate face off in debate
November 5, 2018
Filed under City
By Nick Swindell, news correspondent Senator Elizabeth Warren and her Republican challenger Geoff Diehl faced off in their final debate Oct. 30 in Needham, MA, discussing were Trump, immigration and gun rights. Warren was the first to speak, immediately framing Diehl as a President Donald J. Trump sympat...
Editorial: Violent rhetoric must end
November 1, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinion
A mass shooting at the Congregation Etz Chaim synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has reminded the nation how devastatingly rampant hate crimes are in the United States. This massacre was an atrocity that closely parallels a history of anti-Semitic terror, that we need to universally rebuke. The acc...
RETRACTED: Editorial: Freedom of the press must be protected
October 24, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinion
Dear readers, It has come to our attention that one member of our staff plagiarized material published in this editorial. In accordance with our constitution, we are retracting this post and the person involved has been removed from staff. Integrity, truth and transparency are all values we take v...
Thousands converge in Boston for ‘March for Our Lives’
Charlie Wolfson and Katie McCreedy
March 24, 2018
Filed under City
Students, teachers, parents and other concerned citizens gathered in the thousands on Boston Common Saturday to protest gun violence and call for new gun restrictions nationwide. Protesters convened early Saturday morning at Madison Park Vocational Technical High School in Roxbury, then marched togethe...
Letter: I stand with Barry Bluestone
February 19, 2018
Filed under Opinion
I stand with Barry. After reading The Huntington News account, published on Feb. 15, of Professor Barry Bluestone’s recent comments pertaining to the sitting president of the United States of America, I fail to see why this warrants any institutional response and, thus, any coverage at all. It i...
Op-Ed: Renew U.S. temporary protected status for Haitians
February 14, 2018
In the recent torrent of national debate over immigration policies, Northeastern students might have missed the termination of Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for 59,000 Haitians in the United States. In July 2019, this displaced contingent will be asked, or forced, to leave the country and return...
Brief: Pressley responds to Capuano’s border wall comments
February 13, 2018
Filed under City
Ayanna Pressley, a Boston city councilor who launched a campaign in late January to challenge Rep. Michael Capuano (D-Mass.) in the Democratic primary election, has begun coming at Capuano from the left. In a Tuesday release, Pressley challenged a statement Capuano made regarding President Donald J. T...
Law school opens clinic to help undocumented immigrants
February 7, 2018
Filed under Campus
By Jenna Majeski, news correspondent Northeastern’s law school launched a program Thursday in which students will work with undocumented immigrants to help them obtain legal status. The celebratory event that launched Northeastern’s Immigrant Justice Clinic, or IJC, was held in the West Vil...
Column: How Trump’s rhetoric has embedded itself into American culture
January 31, 2018
By Maria Lovato, columnist After the 2016 election, our world seemed to change overnight. “Controversy” became an overused term when discussing any issue, whether on news broadcasts, in newspaper articles or on social media. Now, people frequently talk about “division” and “our current political cl...
Column: Professor politics can be uncomfortable in an unexpected way
January 24, 2018
At universities across New England, professors tend to be politically liberal, and Northeastern is no different. President Donald J. Trump is not popular among many professors here, and snide comments about the administration are common, at least in my arts and media courses. With that, though, can...
