Crime spikes on Halloween: fictional ghost story or factual concern? According to James Alan Fox, a professor at Boston’s Northeastern University, criminal activity tends to increase on three specific holidays — New Year’s Eve, Independence Day and Halloween. Between 2006 and 2009, crime around the city of Boston was 50 percent higher on October 31 than any other date all year. Similarly, in Canada, police […]
Cambridge housing lottery lures middle class Barry Bluestone, director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University, agrees. But even so, he notes, these sort of policies barely scratch the surface of Boston’s huge demand for middle-class housing. “They are good-hearted attempts at trying to provide housing for working families,” he said. “The problem is that we […]
Psychology Today The most important lessons in college Pursuing your degree? Feeling the pressure? It’s that time in the term, when the heat is turned up-between deadlines, exams and everything in between. If you are a student of today, you likely have a lot going on in the between. Ideas about “traditional” and “non-traditional” students have flipped, with increasing numbers of students being […]
Northeastern offers discounts to parents, siblings Northeastern University on Saturday announced that it will offer the parents and siblings of current undergraduates a 25 percent discount on graduate programs. “Ensuring that we make experiential, lifelong learning opportunities available to the family members who support our current undergraduates is crucial,” said a statement from Joseph E. Aoun, Northeastern’s president. He made the […]
Middlesex DA’s office shows troubling attitude about evidence Not only must exculpatory evidence be shared, it must be shared promptly. “Immediacy is not required, but the law demands some level of promptness,” said Daniel Medwed, professor of law at Northeastern University. “More to the point . . . we should expect and demand immediate compliance.” The best prosecutors would have shared that information right after […]
New York Magazine Talking Hillary and Trump with Michael Dukakis Michael Dukakis is hunched over in his office in the Renaissance Park Building in Boston, rummaging through cardboard boxes on the floor. The political-science department at Northeastern University has just moved in, and Dukakis is still dealing with the upheaval. “For God’s sake, it’s sitting here!” he says, suddenly straightening up. Next to the window […]
Fortune Forget the U.S. Treasury’s help — let Puerto Rico file for bankruptcy While Europe agonizes over the Greek debt crisis, the United States is saddled with one of its own. Individual investment portfolios are replete with $72 billion in bonds issued by Puerto Rico’s government and its agencies, and since August this US Commonwealth has been in default. While federal law allows municipalities to restructure their debts […]
ABC News Northeastern U. gives 25 percent tuition break to parents Come to campus for the family weekend festivities, stay for a graduate degree. That’s the idea behind Northeastern University’s newest tuition discount, which will give a 25 percent break to the parents and siblings of undergraduate students if they pursue a degree in almost any of the school’s graduate programs. Northeastern said it will unroll […]
Northeastern University discounts tuition for family of undergrads Siblings and parents of current Northeastern University undergraduate students can receive a 25 percent discount on their own tuition starting in the spring. Northeastern’s president, Joseph E. Aoun, announced the Lifetime Learning Membership on Saturday morning at Parent and Family Weekend. The discounted tuition will apply to more than 100 graduate programs, including online and […]
The funny thing about adversity DOES adversity harden hearts or warm them? Does experiencing deprivation, disaster or illness make a person more — or less — sympathetic to the travails of others? You’ve probably encountered examples of each: survivors of hard knocks who lend a compassionate ear to beleaguered souls, and those who offer only a disdainful “suck it up.” […]
Inflexible partners and women’s careers One of the authors, Kathrin Zippel, associate professor of sociology at Northeastern University, said this could be because it was more difficult to convince partners with a full-time job to move to another country. “What we believe is common sense: that partners, especially with full-time jobs and careers, are far less portable than children,” she […]
How Facebook and Google’s algorithms are affecting our political viewpoints Plenty of users take what they read online at face value, which some social experiments have proven. The average user often doesn’t check facts or consider whether the source is credible. “You look at a Wikipedia article and assume that it all must be true,” said Christo Wilson, a computer science professor at Northeastern University […]