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Charlotte Business Journal
Northeastern heads uptown
Northeastern University landed a long way from home Monday, trading chowder for sweet tea at its new uptown campus.
Taylor Swift popularized fighting for masters. Are more artists getting ownership?
“As a result, you had these companies coming in and bestowing upon these young talents this check to enable them to create recordings that the label could then make money with,” says David Herlihy, an entertainment attorney and music industry professor at Northeastern University. “And so the labels owned the recordings.”
Mistrial called in Karen Read boyfriend murder trial after jury deadlocks
“It was this perfect stew of factors,” Daniel Medwed, a professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University said of the Read trial. “You have a woman charged with homicide, which is pretty rare; the victim is a police officer; and it’s a small town, so a lot of people can identify with the […]
The history of the town hall debate
As Northeastern University journalism professor Alan Schroeder points out in his book on the perils of the presidential campaign trail, the Bush team believed that since the debate was being held in conservative Richmond, Virginia, undecided voters would be impressed enough by a chance to speak to the president that they wouldn’t ask him hard questions. Bush […]
Charlotte Observer
Northeastern University starting nursing program in Charlotte
With last week’s approval by the North Carolina Board of Nursing, Northeastern University’s Charlotte campus is now taking applications for its new accelerated bachelor of science in nursing program. The Boston-based college, which has had an uptown campus for five years, is offering a 16-month nursing program designed for professionals with bachelor’s degrees in non-nursing […]
OregonLive
Experts weigh in on Oregon’s ‘castle law,’ copycat effect after spate of home intruder shootings
It’s not that hard to prove justifiable cause for shooting a home intruder in Oregon, said Jack Levin, a criminology professor emeritus at Northeastern University. Oregon is among about 20 states that have “castle laws” that protect homeowners in these scenarios, Levin said. The Oregon statute says a person is justified in using “deadly physical […]
Boston Herald
Terror experts say Bangladesh cafe attack likely ISIS
Terrorists descended upon a restaurant in the diplomatic zone in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka yesterday, taking dozens of hostages and killing two police, in the latest attack that security experts say is likely ISIS — or an equally deadly offshoot. If indeed ISIS is responsible for the attack, it would further shroud the […]
This app wants to spy on bad drivers, but it’s really all of us, too
“We’re losing some of the granularity between car and driver that we’ve had in other contexts,” said Andrea Matwyshn, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University. What if “bad drivers” get tracked using the app’s notifications? Do you have the right to know where any given driver might be at any time, […]
Boston.com
Boston.com: John Kerry gives shout-out to Boston sports fans in commencement speech
Boston.com: John Kerry gives shout-out to Boston sports fans in commencement speech Before congratulating the Northeastern class of 2016 during his commencement address Friday, Secretary of State John Kerry took a moment to talk sports. “Boston is the best sports town anywhere,” he said. “At the moment, for the Red Sox, ‘anywhere’ just happens to be […]
Boston Globe: Magic and wonder tour continues for Northeastern hockey team
Boston Globe: Magic and wonder tour continues for Northeastern hockey team The magic-and-wonder tour continued Saturday night for the Northeastern Huskies. The team with the tiniest of chances in November, the team that once again was the punch line and pratfall of college hockey in our town, swashbuckled its way to a Hockey East championship […]
ABC News
The real ‘Spotlight’: meet team that inspired the Oscar-nominated film
Walter “Robby” Robinson Walter has worked at The Globe for more than three decades and is a Boston local, through and through. He grew up north of the city and went to high school right across the street from the paper’s main offices. He often jokes that his friends use to say he hasn’t gone […]
No felines here – you only live once
YOLO. It was the catchphrase of the century a couple years back, a phrase that allowed us to branch out of the norm and do something radical. Unlike cats, we only live once, and this proclamation is the underlying instigator behind many status-quo-breaking things we do. For me, that was taking a job beyond the […]