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Lady Gaga blasted from speakers while protesters waved “No Kings But Yas Queen” signs from a packed Copley Square. Vibra...
06/19/2025

Lady Gaga blasted from speakers while protesters waved “No Kings But Yas Queen” signs from a packed Copley Square. Vibrant rainbow colors from flags, parkas, feather boas and umbrellas shone through the drab, rainy weather as people gathered to both protest President Donald Trump and celebrate LGBTQ+ existence on June 14.

Millions of people protested nationwide over the weekend as part of the “No Kings” movement against the Trump administration, honing in on recent mass deportations and attacks on transgender people. Boston Pride joined forces with the city’s “No Kings” demonstration, merging two seemingly opposing concepts: celebration and protest.

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Story by Grace Phillips
Photos by Elizabeth Scholl
Graphic by Grace Cargill

“Down, down with deportation, up, up with liberation” echoed through the streets as a marching crowd of hundreds of peop...
06/14/2025

“Down, down with deportation, up, up with liberation” echoed through the streets as a marching crowd of hundreds of people made its way through Downtown Boston. Participants wore masks and scarves pulled over their noses and mouths, waved signs, beat snare drums and chanted alongside each other, showing out against the Trump administration and its crackdown on immigration.

On the heels of the recent Los Angeles anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, protests and the federal government’s subsequent deployment of the National Guard and U.S. Marines into the city, demonstrations have erupted across the country in solidarity with Los Angeles. Despite the risk of violence, arrest, workplace consequences and deportation, hundreds of people gathered beneath the gold dome of the Massachusetts State House June 10 to protest ICE raids, marching toward Boston City Hall.

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Story by Grace Phillips
Photos by Margot Murphy
Graphic by Daniel Patchen

Opinion by Antaine Anhalt and Gianna DeMonico: Every Northeastern student is familiar with the stress of housing selecti...
06/12/2025

Opinion by Antaine Anhalt and Gianna DeMonico: Every Northeastern student is familiar with the stress of housing selection: With your housing lottery number in hand, you eagerly wait for your selection slot only to watch all the best options get booked up.

This stress is tenfold for students registered with a disability. As students who are registered and have gone through the process, we know this stress first-hand.

It’s no secret among Northeastern’s disabled community that Disability Access Services, or DAS, provides little assistance and often adds unnecessary obstacles, from housing accommodations to academic and mental health support. As a whole, the department tends to be largely ineffective, causing more stress for students instead of alleviating it.

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Op-ed by Antaine Anhalt and Gianna DeMonico
Photo by Elizabeth Scholl
Graphic by Grace Cargill

Ongoing discussions about curriculum reform at Northeastern have opened the door to campus-wide reflection on whether cu...
06/12/2025

Ongoing discussions about curriculum reform at Northeastern have opened the door to campus-wide reflection on whether current course requirements reflect today’s cultural, political and environmental realities. At the heart of the conversation are course requirements for every Northeastern undergraduate known as NUpath.

NUpath, Northeastern’s set of general education requirements, is designed to allow students to integrate “essential, broad-based knowledge and skills” into their specific field of study. Undergraduates must fulfill a total of 11 requirements — known as “attributes” — before graduating.

Since NUpath’s introduction in 2016, the formal review process to assess its effectiveness has been “limited,” according to the faculty senate’s NUpath Ad Hoc Committee’s final report. The committee, created in fall 2024, was charged with reviewing the current requirements, developing a process for review and recommending a revised set of NUpath attributes and a course approval process. After carrying out its charges throughout the 2024-25 academic year, the committee presented its final report at the March 26 faculty senate meeting, establishing a foundation for potential revisions to the curriculum.

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Story by Spencer Lyst
File photo by Jessica Xing
Graphic by Grace Cargill

On weekends, Join Cheng and Ariana Borromeo fly out to perform at college shows — and by Monday, they’re back in class.C...
06/11/2025

On weekends, Join Cheng and Ariana Borromeo fly out to perform at college shows — and by Monday, they’re back in class.

Cheng, known professionally as hongjoin, and his manager, Ariana Borromeo, juggle school with a growing performance schedule that has taken them across the country.

Before coming to the United States for college, Cheng, a 2025 music industry and communication studies combined graduate, served in the Singaporean army. It was during that time that he began songwriting as a way to cope. What started as an emotional outlet slowly became something more: a way to connect with listeners and feel understood.

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Story by Leona Gagalac
Photos and design courtesy hongjoin
Graphic by Daniel Patchen

In his second administration, President Donald Trump has stretched the limits of his executive power. And as a Trump-led...
06/11/2025

In his second administration, President Donald Trump has stretched the limits of his executive power. And as a Trump-led government takes aim at universities in an effort to force them to conform to his agenda, the impacts have sent shockwaves through the nation.

But Northeastern’s historians say they’ve seen stories like this play out before.

Simon Rabinovitch, a professor of European, Russian, Jewish and legal history at Northeastern, said that while the moment is unprecedented, the Trump administration’s impact on universities is similar to strategies used by past authoritarian regimes.

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Story by Frances Klemm
Photo courtesy Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
Graphic by Grace Cargill

Three weeks ago, Northeastern Class of 2025 graduates turned their tassels at Fenway Park, a tradition five years in the...
06/09/2025

Three weeks ago, Northeastern Class of 2025 graduates turned their tassels at Fenway Park, a tradition five years in the running. But despite the clear skies and beaming sun, this year’s commencement served as a bookend to a semester marked by political unrest, confusion and fear.

Since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump has continued to forcefully pressure higher education institutions to conform to his political agenda — and Northeastern has not been immune to the political headwinds.

Northeastern’s Senior Vice President for External Affairs Mike Armini sat down for two interviews with The Huntington News, May 15 and 23. He discussed the university’s response to Trump’s rapid changes on higher education institutions — Northeastern’s role in responding to Trump, how it is communicating its response and his thoughts on how effective that response has been.

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Story by Eli Curwin and Zoe MacDiarmid
Photos by Elizabeth Scholl and Margot Murphy, File photos by Jessica Xing
Graphic by Daniel Patchen and Grace Cargill

On May 31, Marcelo Gomes Da Silva, an 18-year-old rising senior at Milford High School, was unexpectedly detained by U.S...
06/08/2025

On May 31, Marcelo Gomes Da Silva, an 18-year-old rising senior at Milford High School, was unexpectedly detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, officials while en route to volleyball practice. The news of his detainment quickly spread throughout the Milford community and led to widespread condemnation from community members, local leaders and even Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey.

Gomes, who has lived in Milford, Mass. since he was 5 years old, is originally from Brazil but has long been considered a member of the small town’s community. He’s on his high school’s volleyball team and regularly plays music at a local church, and his friends said in interviews with The Huntington News that he had never had trouble with the law.

Gomes was held in an ICE detention center in Burlington for six days. Community members protested the day after he was arrested and petitions circulated arguing that detaining a well-established high school student was unnecessary.

On June 5, a judge granted Gomes’ release on a $2,000 bond, and he now faces ongoing legal proceedings related to his immigration status.

The Huntington News spoke with Gomes about his time in detainment and what’s next.

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Story by Carson Lyle .carson19
Photos courtesy Marcelo Gomes Da Silva and Laura Rodrigues
Graphic by Daniel Patchen

On May 31, Marcelo Gomes Da Silva, an 18-year-old rising senior at Milford High School, was unexpectedly detained by U.S...
06/08/2025

On May 31, Marcelo Gomes Da Silva, an 18-year-old rising senior at Milford High School, was unexpectedly detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, officials while en route to volleyball practice. The news of his detainment quickly spread throughout the Milford community and led to widespread condemnation from community members, local leaders and even Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey.

Gomes, who has lived in Milford, Mass. since he was 5 years old, is originally from Brazil but has long been considered a member of the small town’s community. He’s on his high school’s volleyball team and regularly plays music at a local church, and his friends said in interviews with The Huntington News that he had never had trouble with the law.

Gomes was held in an ICE detention center in Burlington for six days. Community members protested the day after he was arrested and petitions circulated arguing that detaining a well-established high school student was unnecessary.

On June 5, a judge granted Gomes’ release on a $2,000 bond, and he now faces ongoing legal proceedings related to his immigration status.

The Huntington News spoke with Gomes about his time in detainment and what’s next.

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Story by Carson Lyle .carson19
Photos courtesy Marcelo Gomes Da Silva and Laura Rodrigues
Graphic by Daniel Patchen

Opinion by Serena Parekh: As students navigate a political landscape where complex moral questions arise daily — from de...
06/07/2025

Opinion by Serena Parekh: As students navigate a political landscape where complex moral questions arise daily — from debates about free speech and campus safety to questions about AI ethics, climate responsibility and economic inequality — the insights of Hannah Arendt, a German-Jewish philosopher who wrote during the mid-20th century, can provide intellectual resources to navigate the political turbulence.

In March, when the College of Social Sciences and Humanities organized an event to discuss how various academic fields can help us understand this period of tremendous change in our political system, I reflected on what Arendt’s work reveals about our present moment.

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Op-ed by Serena Parekh
Photo by Nia Calais
Photo courtesy Barbara Niggl Radloff, Wikimedia Commons
Letters courtesy Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Hannah Arendt Papers
Collage by Margot Murphy
Graphic by Daniel Patchen

He was the “ideal citizen” and had a “clean slate.” An active community member who has been in the U.S. since he was fiv...
06/05/2025

He was the “ideal citizen” and had a “clean slate.” An active community member who has been in the U.S. since he was five years old, Marcelo Gomes Da Silva was on his way to volleyball practice when he was arrested by federal agents.

Gomes, an 18-year-old junior at Milford High School, was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, authorities on May 31, one day before he was supposed to play in the school band at graduation. Gomes was driving his father’s car while carpooling with teammates to their Saturday morning volleyball practice when he was pulled over.

Students and community members immediately took to the streets of Milford after the school’s graduation to protest the detainment and show support for Gomes, who they say is a key part of the small town and never committed any wrongdoing.

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Story by Carson Lyle
Photo courtesy Laura Rodrigues
Graphic by Daniel Patchen

Northeastern President Joseph E. Aoun joined 50 university presidents and industry leaders May 22 in signing a joint sta...
06/04/2025

Northeastern President Joseph E. Aoun joined 50 university presidents and industry leaders May 22 in signing a joint statement calling on the federal government to restore research funding, which has seen significant cuts under the second Trump administration.

The statement, titled “A Renewed Call to Action,” was released by the Council on Competitiveness and warns that there is an urgent need to revitalize the United States’ innovation system amid global disruption and mounting competition from China. It explains that the United States must reclaim its leadership in many key industries, including science and technology advancement, by reinvesting in research, infrastructure and talent.

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Story by Caroline Baker Dimock and Madison Evangelist
Photo by Miles Mu
Graphic by Grace Cargill

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