The Fight For 15
Erica Concepcion is fed up. She stands at the front of the room in the mezzanine of Northeastern University’s Curry Student Center, clutching a microphone and calling for a revolution. …
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Erica Concepcion is fed up. She stands at the front of the room in the mezzanine of Northeastern University’s Curry Student Center, clutching a microphone and calling for a revolution. …
Read MoreAs the journalism industry adapts to the digital era — while newsrooms continue to shrink and print journalism becomes supplemental source to online news — where will that leave the journalism degree? Traditional …
Read MoreOver eight feet of snow has fallen on Boston in the past two months. But in the future, snowfall could be just one of Boston’s worries during a big storm. This winter, …
Read MoreTwo weeks ago, people all over the country began protesting a Missouri grand jury’s decision not to indict Darren Wilson for shooting and killing Mike Brown, an unarmed black teenager. In many places, they were joined by …
Read MoreWe like to rank everything as if the world is black and white. College rankings, like Princeton Review, Forbes, and the U.S. News & World Report, try to create an objective representation of …
Read MoreBayla Ostrach is comfortable in the hallway, she says, her small frame slumping to one side, trying to counterbalance the weight of a canvas bag bursting with textbooks and loose …
Read MoreBe sure to check out the group’s incredible videos of the hot fire test here and here. The members of Boston University’s Rocket Propulsion Group gaze steadily at their rocket …
Read MoreMeet this year’s movers and shakers at BU, in The Quad’s profile of seven influential undergraduates.
Read More“MugArt” creatively and cleverly reflects BU students in limbo of academic failure and success and records timeless advice about these four years we’ll never get back.
Read MoreIt’s 1906. At the opera house, Composer Richard Strauss paces back and forth as the curtains rise for the debut of his new production Salome. The story is risky. Salome—based on …
Read MoreBoston University’s lopsided gender ratio is no secret. BU’s current population is roughly 60 percent female, a percentage that has continued to grow for the past 20 years. This phenomenon …
Read MoreThe idea of a work-life balance isn’t a new concept (but if you’ve never heard of it, check out this awesome TED Talk). It’s the age-old question that every worker …
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