Last week, the official TikTok account of Boston’s Northeastern University posted a video of students gathered on a lawn eating pudding with forks, with captioned: “DeutschTok, consider this our application.” 

Malcolm Purinton, a beer historian at Northeastern University, noted that many young people learned adult socialization during Covid lockdowns, meaning their relationship with alcohol may differ from that of their parents or older siblings. People turning 21, the legal drinking age, do not necessarily see drinking as cool.

The anger about the Bad Bunny stems from ignorance that Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens and that he’s an outspoken Latino artist, Amílcar Antonio Barreto, Northeastern professor of Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies, told Axios.

Jill Abramson, a former executive editor of The New York Times, teaches journalism at Northeastern University and is a contributing Globe Opinion writer.

Many of Instagram’s parental controls and safety tools remain easy to bypass and fail to address the features that keep teens hooked, a report from child-safety advocacy groups, corroborated by researchers at New York University and Northeastern University, found.

If you’ve driven on I-295 through Portland recently, you’ve seen construction for the new Roux Institute is underway. Northeastern University broke ground at the old B&M plant just about one year ago.

In a few decades, Northeastern’s U.S. News ranking has gone from 162 to 46, and its acceptance rate has dropped from 70 percent to less than 6 percent. Suddenly, Northeastern is looking pretty prestigious.

The increase in need even before these changes take effect could signal that food banks are a “canary in the coal mine” for what’s to come, said Christopher Bosso, a food policy expert at Northeastern University and the author of a book on SNAP.

“Licensees may become hesitant to use the music,” David Herlihy, a professor at Northeastern University who specializes in music licensing and copyright, told Business Insider in July. Plus, he added, there’s “no touring from the cellblock.”

“Those are essentially infringement claims. They’re less about false advertising and more about whether these products violate Lululemon’s rights,” says Alexandra Roberts, a professor of law and media at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, Mass. 

However, not everyone agrees that these protections go far enough. Research regarding the effectiveness of Instagram’s teen safety features, as reported by child-safety advocacy groups and corroborated by researchers at Northeastern University (Sept. 25, 2025), paints a different picture. 

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