Northeastern moves to make campus smoke-free A move to make Northeastern University smoke-free is stirring controversy on campus around issues of civil rights and questions of enforceability. University administrators announced in December that they had formed a committee that includes staff and students to weigh the initiative, which would make Northeastern the newest of at least 1,130 colleges nationwide to create […]
Native Tongue: Speaking With a Caribbean Accent So where or how does the Volkswagen ad fit into this paradigm? I reached out to my colleague, Carole V. Bell, Assistant Professor in the Communication Studies Department at Northeastern University to get her reaction. (By way of disclosure, I am Trinidadian; Professor Bell is Jamaican). Although Professor Bell is not offended by the ad, […]
Forbes Anti-Immigration Rhetoric Frighteningly Reveals Education’s Failure “If you want to find a safe city, first determine the size of the immigrant population,” says Jack Levin, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Massachusetts. “If the immigrant community represents a large proportion of the population, you’re likely in one of the country’s safer cities. San Diego, Laredo, El Paso–these cities are teeming with […]
The Boys at the Back A third reason: improving the performance of black, Latino and lower-income kids requires particular attention to boys. Black women are nearly twice as likely to earn a college degree as black men. At some historically black colleges, the gap is astounding: Fisk is now 64 female; Howard, 67 percent; Clark Atlanta, 75 percent. The economist […]
The Christian Science Monitor Why is Chicago struggling with gun violence? N.Y. might have answers. “If you remove gang-related incidents from the Chicago homicide statistics, the homicide rate involving normal citizens is much lower,” says James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston.
Patriot Ledger JOSEPH GIGLIO: Congress has come to a fork in the country’s fiscal road Here’s a safe prediction for 2013: The folks in D.C. will continue the policies of extend and pretend, endlessly kicking the can into the high grass, lurching from crisis to crisis and showdown to showdown without addressing the causes of our fiscal woes, as pundits complain about how uncertainty is undermining economic recovery.
American Way Jackie Robinson: American Hero The real Jackie Robinson was far from the man who had agreed to enter baseball so delicately with the mission to not offend anyone, so his outspokenness on major civil-rights issues was not a surprise. “He had the success; he had the position,” says Dan Lebowitz, executive director of the Center for the Study of […]
The Return of the Sequester Wary of the cuts on the horizon, agencies appear to already be slowing funding. On campus, researchers are seeing a slowdown in federal grant-making and disbursement, said Tim Leshan, vice president for government relations at Northeastern University and president of the Science Coalition, an association of research universities advocating for federal scientific research. The Institute […]
It’s a stretch to call Patrick’s plan redistribution IN HIS Jan. 24 Op-ed column “Invest, but don’t play Robin Hood,” Edward Glaeser criticizes Governor Patrick’s tax proposal as an inappropriate effort to use the state tax system for redistributive purposes. Reasonable people can debate whether state taxes are an appropriate means of pursuing redistribution of wealth. But labeling Patrick’s proposal as redistribution flies […]
Law Schools’ Applications Fall as Costs Rise and Jobs Are Cut In the legal academy, there has been discussion about how to make training less costly and more relevant, with special emphasis on the last year of law school. A number of schools, including elite ones like Stanford, have increased their attention to clinics, where students get hands-on training. Northeastern Law School in Boston, which has […]
Latent TB germs can hide in marrow cells, study says Kim Lewis, director of the Antimicrobial Discovery Center at Northeastern University, said the study raised some interesting questions for further research. “It is an enormous problem indeed. Where exactly those pathogens hide within the body is not exactly clear, and this study tries to address this question,” Lewis said.
Crashes Raise Concerns At Winter X Games “Should we be asking these questions? We absolutely should be,” said Dan Lebowitz, the executive director of Sport in Society at Northeastern University, which examines the role of sports to promote healthy development and social responsibility. The people performing these superhuman feats “really are just human,” he said. “How do we maintain safety in that […]