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NU adjuncts win contract for next three years By Jason Ritchey news corresPondent
The Northeastern University (NU) administration reached a tentative contract settlement with its 900 adjunct faculty members on Jan. 14, concluding more than days before a planned walkout and strike. A press release from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 509, which represents the adjunct faculty, said the major gains in the agreement inincreases in per-course pay, including double-digit raises for the lowest-paid instructors; compensation for courses canceled on short notice; inclusion in the Northeastern community; and access to funding to support research, scholarship, civic engagement and professional and artistic practice.” Haley Malm, an adjunct professor of English as a Second Language (ESL), was glad to see progress. wages for all adjuncts, job security – we are hired from term to term, with no assurances of future employment or course guarantees – and full inclusion in campus life and community,” she said. However, the negotiation process was not always easy. “It often felt as though the administration was uninterested in improving working conditions or inclusion of the adjuncts who are part of the bargaining unit,” she said. “The administration was more BargaInIng, Page 3
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Protesters advocating for Northeastern University adjuncts and part-time workers parade down Forsyth Street to stop the T at the Northeastern Green Line on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015. Since then, adjuncts have settled a three-year contract with the administration, winning provisions.
Protesters gather to oppose police By Anna Sorokina InsIde edItor
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tion Justice,” hundreds of activists marched nearly four miles on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in temperatures dipping below 20 degrees. March, Page 6
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Artist John Jennings displays his gallery, Visible Noize, at Gallery 360 in Northeastern University’s Curry Student Center on Tuesday, Jan. 19. The gallery opened on Saturday, Jan. 9 and will close on Sunday, March 13.
Comic book gallery debuts By Sahan Weerakoon dePuty InsIde edItor
With heroes like Superman and Batman, comic books have not been the most racially diverse works of art. But with his new exhibition, artist John Jennings hopes to bring a black perspective to a white-dominated universe. Visible Noize, an art exhibition featuring ethnic comic book illustrations, and curated by Northeast-
ern Curator Bruce Ployer, opened in the Curry Student Center’s Gallery 360 on Jan. 9. It features collaborative work by Jennings, a Mississippi native, and Stacey Robinson, an artist and illustrator from Albany, N.Y. Many book covers and posters presented at the exhibition are reminiscent of a Marvel comic book – except all the characters are black. This style is part of a genre called Afrofuturism, which
reimagines realities, spaces and time from a black perspective. It also explores the cultural tension surrounding future America. Jennings sees Afrofuturism as allowing blacks to escape the box of identity – something that has been policed throughout history. “It’s more in line with creating a new world instead of making sense of this one,” Jennings said. Another recurring theme in afrofuturIsM, Page 8
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Activists at the “March for Justice” advocated for social movements through Dorchester in protest of police brutality on Monday, Jan. 18.