You may have heard about the barely pubescent kids currently trying to run rampant through government computer systems that handle trillions of dollars in transactions and data on millions of Americans. Read more.
By adamg - 2/2/25 - 8:29 pm
The Huntington News reports on e-mail from the Northeastern sociology and anthropology department that urges readers not to interact with any ICE agents, but instead send them to the school's legal office: "Even if they say they have a warrant, do not assume the warrant is valid."
By adamg - 1/29/25 - 12:16 pm
The Huntington News reports Northeastern University is going down without a fight: It's "replaced or dismantled nearly all of its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, or DEI, messaging and websites. "
By adamg - 1/13/25 - 10:37 pm
The Huntington News reports on today's sentencing in federal court of Jason Duhaime, convicted of making up a story about an exploding bomb that left part of the campus sealed off in 2022.
By adamg - 11/11/24 - 2:05 pm
California now has a law that bans colleges from giving prospective students any sort of legacy preference. But the Huntington News reports Northeastern is continuing to consider legacy status as part of a "holistic" view of applicants because it's based in Massachusetts.
By adamg - 10/24/24 - 9:22 am
The Huntington News reports people who want to use one of the eight restrooms in the Mugar Life Sciences Building now have to first swipe their university ID on newly installed electronic locks after the building became a place to go for some paid sex. One professor said there's been no further lounge loitering since the locks were put in.
By adamg - 10/4/24 - 8:22 pm
The Huntington News reports the four grad students, all of whom live off campus, were recently diagnosed and are now isolating.
Northeastern requires inoculation against the communicable disease or proof of previous infection for all students, but just in case, campus health services will be offering shots next week.
By adamg - 9/16/24 - 10:42 am
The Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled today that Northeastern University can go ahead and expand its Marine Science Center on its 20-acre site at the tip of Nahant. Read more.
By adamg - 6/15/24 - 9:20 am
Northeastern University yesterday filed detailed plans with the BPDA for its proposed replacement for Matthews Arena on St. Botolph Street and laid out longer-term plans for several new buildings across its campus, including dorms and lab buildings, some 20 stories tall, that could dramatically change the look of one stretch of Huntington Avenue if built. Read more.
By adamg - 5/29/24 - 6:05 pm
Northeastern University today filed a "letter of intent" with the BPDA that it plans to replace Matthews Arena - built as Boston Arena in the early 1900s and once home to the Bruins and Celtics - with a new 290,000-square-foot facility that will include both an arena for university teams and a fieldhouse for recreational student use. Read more.
By adamg - 5/29/24 - 11:42 am
Northeastern University announced it's planning a Manhattan outpost through the acquisition of Marymount Manhattan College, a liberal-arts school on the Upper East Side (East 71st Street to be exact). The newest of Northeastern's roster of campuses outside 128 will be renamed Northeastern University - New York City.
By adamg - 3/20/24 - 11:26 am
Northeastern Global News reports Rébecca Kleinberger’s lab, which had earlier discovered parrots love videochatting with other parrots, has been designing games for tablets that parrots can play - with their beaks and tongues.
Their past research has shown that parrots - with their prodigious intelligence, high sociability and singular physical capabilities - are uniquely poised to benefit from touchscreen technology.
By adamg - 11/22/23 - 3:14 pm
A Dorchester man who worked at Northeastern advising prospective students at prep schools in the Back Bay and Dedham was arrested today on charges he saved explicit videos of men raping toddlers and other young children from Zoom sessions with other child-porn watchers, according to documents unsealed in federal court in Boston today. Read more.
By adamg - 11/12/23 - 5:49 pm
The Huntington News reports on rats and mice running roughshod over Huskies. One student was bitten, another reports putting towels under her doors to try to keep one hallway mouse from getting around, a third describes the situation of students competing for the best rooms only to get rodents as "ironic."
Brighton Center liquor store ordered shut for a day after it's caught selling liquor to minors again
By adamg - 10/26/23 - 10:58 am
The Boston Licensing Board today ordered a one-day license suspension for Walsh Wine & Spirits, 388 Washington St. in Brighton Center, which police detectives cited on July 19 for selling tequila, rum and other drinks to two guys who were under 21, in the latest such incident at a place that had become popular among Boston College and Boston University students. Read more.
By adamg - 10/13/23 - 4:19 pm
The Huntington News reports on the controversy over Delta Kappa Epsilon's annual alligator roast, which the boys decided to hold this year on campus instead of at their Mission Hill house. In addition to an alligator on a spit, the event featured a severed alligator head on a chair. Naturally, you want to slow roast your gator, so the brothers turned the thing on the spit for some eight hours.
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