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Photos by Samantha Barry Above: Stop and Shop employee Angela Hunt stands outside the supermarket striking to gain better wages, pension and health care benefits.

Left: Stop and Shop employee Danny Santos leads a group of protestors outside of the grocery store parking lot in Mission Hill on April 16.

Stop & Shop workers strike at Mission Hill location

By Laura Rodriguez Deputy City Editor At 6 a.m. Friday, Stop & Shop employees at the Mission Hill location went on strike for better wages, pension and health care benefits. This event continues the 31,000-employee walkout across New England that began on Thursday. Workers hope this will improve their chances of cutting a better deal with the billion-dollar company.

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Workers Union, or UFCW, Local 1445 organizer and steward for the store, Jose Lopes, said the strike is completely warranted given employee demands.

“We never wanted a strike, you always prepare for a strike, but that’s a last resort. What we wanted was to negotiate a decent fair contract, and that’s what the whole intention was,” Lopes said. “Unfortunately you have to prepare for the worst, and this was the worst.”

Lopes has worked at Stop &

Shop since 1982 and describes the protest as a response to unfair labor practice, or ULP, which the supermarket conglomerate demonstrated with cuts in wages and job contract proposals that employees say would increase deductibles and health care premiums.

“The reason that we label it [ULP] is because they didn’t want to negotiate at the table,” Lopes said. “They wanted to negotiate off the table, meaning they posted our proposal right on their website, right

in the store, to undermine the whole process.”

Negotiations have been underway since early January with no end in sight. According to unions under UFCW, workers want their paychecks to grow larger, especially since Stop & Shop conglomerate Ahold Delhaize made more than $2.6 billion in free cash flow last year and received a tax credit of $266 million in the fourth quarter of 2018.

“Right now they want to hire people at minimum wage and don’t want

to increase it more than that,” Lopes said. “They want to keep everything as base as possible, and we’re trying to get people to give us more than that because you need one job, and not more than one job, to live.”

Workers on strike say they do not know how long it will take for Delhaize to meet their demands.

Crystal Shaw, a Stop & Shop employee from South Boston, said this is the first strike she has attended in the 11 years she has worked for the UNION, on Page 13

Diversity increases at startup challenge Photo by Samantha Barry Danielle Voke trains for the Boston Marathon at the Roberto Clemente Field Athletic Track on March 26.

Boston Marathon The 123rd annual Boston Marathon was held Monday, April 15th.

Northeastern students and alumni prepared for the 26.2 mile course by running as much as 50 miles a week. Close to 30,000 people participated this year, many running for charity or through qualifying.

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SGA elections

Chris Brown and Gabby Nobile won the uncontested SGA nomination by 61 percent of the student vote. About 39 percent of voters constituted no confidence, with 1,345 students abstaining.

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By Nick Swindell News Staff The Husky Startup Challenge, or HSC, held a Demo Day last week, where student-founded entrepreneurial ventures competed for cash prizes. The April 9 event featured over two dozen ventures, ranging from engineering solutions to nostalgia-inducing care packages known as MoodBoxes, in the Curry Student Center ballroom.

Last semester, only a single woman out of 40 finalists presented in Demo Day, a “heartbreaking” statistic for Mia Nguyen, a second-year business administration major.

“I think there was a community that was lacking at Northeastern for strong women to feel comfortable and confident to develop themselves as leaders and entrepreneurs,” Nguyen said.

Nguyen is the director of marketing for Northeastern’s Entrepreneurs

Club and co-founder of the Women’s Interdisciplinary Society of Entrepreneurship, or WISE, along with Eliana Berger, a first-year business administration and psychology combined major.

Nguyen said WISE was born out of the need to create a new, cross-disciplinary ecosystem for women entrepreneurs on campus. Nguyen and Berger intend to build a support system for women entrepreneurs and connect them to resources available on campus.

Berger said she experienced discomfort and felt “delegitimized” while serving in leadership positions in high school and that this inspired her to create a place where women like her could form an interdisciplinary community and seek opportunities on campus.

“Because we knew that if we were able to unite all these women that were interested, that needed that extra push, that our community could

Photo by Riley Robinson Business administration major Rebecca Lvov tables for her company ‘ButterSlice’. Lvov designed a new way to sell butter in a similar way to Kraft cheese singles. be a place where everybody gathered, ot the entrepreneurship club made as and then felt more comfortable a whole, and that can be accredited a exploring the other resources on lot to the co-presidents Keith Corso campus,” Berger said. and Spencer Singer,” Nguyen said.

This semester, six out of the 12 Fluxxio, Melodize and Temp-Z live-pitched ventures had women in won first, second and third place, their groups, a fact that Berger and along with an audience favorite Nguyen see as representative of a and social media challenge winner, broad initiative to make HSC a more RejUvenate, an all-women team, and communal and empowering process.

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Uncontested Brown-Nobile SGA slate elected SGA presidential election results by vote share

CHRIS BROWN

GABBY NOBILE

Title: President-elect Year: Sophomore Major: Math and business administration Residence: Farmington, Connecticut

Title: Executive vice president-elect Year: Sophomore Major: Business administration and psychology Residence: White Plains, New York

Percentage of the student population that voted

Referenda vote results

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Campus Climate

By Isaac Stephens News Staff The Brown-Nobile slate received 61 percent of the student vote in this year’s uncontested election, establishing Chris Brown as president and Gabby Nobile as executive vice president of next year’s Student Government Association.

About 39 percent of voters articulated no confidence in the slate — an increase of 14 percentage points from last year — and 1,345

ballot-casting students chose to abstain from the election. Brown and Nobile will begin their yearlong terms as SGA president and executive vice president at the start of the Summer 2 semester.

Students also voted to pass all three referendum questions on the ballot, each by large margins.

Nobile, a second-year business administration and psychology combined major from White Plains, New York, said she is thankful for

the chance to serve as executive vice president but is disappointed by the number of students that voted no confidence. She said she wants to boost student faith in SGA by extending outreach efforts.

“I do think that there were some flaws in me and Chris’ platform,” Nobile said. “We had a lot of great ideas on there, but people wanted more. My first priority is reaching out to as many students as possible to know what they want.”

Photo courtesy Chris Brown

Graphics by Avery Bleichfeld

Brown said he is excited about his election and encouraged by the overwhelming success of the ballot’s first referendum, which calls for student representation on the Board of Trustees.

“I think having a representative on the Board of Trustees is huge because the board has so much power,” Brown said. “I’m super excited for us to have the ability to voice our opinion to such high-ranking members of the university.”

The referendum is non-binding for the university, but Brown said a few sitting members of the Board expressed support for the proposal.

Other passed referenda call for Northeastern to institute comprehensive consent and bystander training in all “Introduction to College” courses and to endorse Massachusetts legislation requiring colleges and universities to conduct annual sexual misconduct climate surveys.

Fraternity walks for mental health

By Miska Salemann News Correspondent Behind the SMILE — a suicide and mental illness education student group at Northeastern — led students and faculty in the Out of the Darkness Walk Sunday.

The walk drew a diverse crowd of supporters. Participants wore different colored beads around their necks to show their personal connection to the cause, wearing green for a personal struggle, purple for a loss of a relative or friend and gold for a loss of a parent.

Brothers of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity were one of the largest groups that attended the walk.

According to Northeastern’s undergraduate admissions statistics, less than 10 percent of students participate in Greek life. Despite the small population, Northeastern Greek life has not escaped controversy.

In 2006, the school revoked a different fraternity chapter based onallegations of sexual harassment and hazing.

By participating in events like the Out of the Darkness Walk, members of Beta Theta Pi said they hoped to embody their true values and correct the perception that fraternity culture revolves around partying.

“I think it’s easy to stereotype.

People let the actions of a few define

the actions of many,” said Alex Renaud, Beta Theta Pi brother and a first-year environmental engineering major. “Just having a few fraternities that only party and don’t focus on the brotherhood enforces the stereotype that all fraternities are just focused on heavy drinking.”

Samantha Li, a second-year biology and English major and the treasurer of Behind the SMILE, greeted supporters in Krentzman Quad and gave a speech about her lifelong battle with mental health.

Li said the transition from high school to college is “something everyone goes through so they assume that it is easy to get through it. The reality is that it is something that many people struggle with and need support to get through.”

Like Li, members of Beta Theta Pi shared their own struggles transitioning to college. Many of them said the brotherhood provided them with an invaluable support system.

The brothers spoke of the less-frequently discussed side of fraternities: emphasis on service, ability for vulnerability and opportunity to navigate their identity through the college transition.

“When you come together with so many people you realize that they have a lot of similar struggles,” Renaud said. “You can relate to them.

Photo by Miska Salemann Beta Theta Pi members follow closely behind the leaders of Behind the SMILE during the walk.

You can all lean into each other to stay up.”

Renaud said he feels his fraternity has provided him with a sense of community that he believes to be absent at Northeastern.

“It can be alienating when all your friends go on co-op. It’s kind of a disjointed society here on campus.

That’s why I think Greek life is so important to me,” Renaud said. “It is that consistent brotherhood. Even when there are people on co-op, you still have the other half.”

During the rush process, freshmen

are assigned an older mentor, or “big,” to help guide them through fraternity life.

Jeffrey Sullivan, a thirdyear biochemistry major, said encouragement from his “big” was the reason he reached out to get help when he was struggling with mental health.

“I was coming from N.U.in, and that just destroyed my mental health.

I felt very displaced,” Sullivan said.

“Greek life helped me find my place at Northeastern, which was very refreshing.”

Beta Theta Pi members said their fraternity has brought in speakers to discuss issues pertinent to them, such as mental health and masculinity.

The fraternity will continue philanthropy work over the summer by volunteering at a summer camp in Maine for terminally ill children.

“Traditionally, fraternities were more of a social organization, and now they’re moving toward a purpose beyond that,” Renaud said.

“Breaking away from the past is hard and a big transition.”

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NUPD CRIME LOG Compiled by Sully Barrett, Deputy Campus Editor

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NU student summer plans span the globe

By Deanna Schwartz Deputy Campus Editor From co-ops in New York to dialogues in Rome, Northeastern students are taking advantage of their summer break.

Northeastern’s summer break stretches from the end of April to the beginning of September, giving students four months to explore a variety of options.

Many students will spend their summer break advancing their careers through internships, co-ops and research ventures.

Reine Lederer, a first-year psychology major, will intern at a mental health app company while taking Summer I classes. Lederer said the app, called Lyftly, is “kind of a social media for mental health” with peer mentoring and goal-setting activities.

“I’m so excited to be involved with the development while it’s still in the early stages,” Lederer said.

Third-year communication studies major Courtney Kearns will move to New York City in June for a co-op at AMC Networks Inc. where she will create social media and digital content for WE tv. She will live with three other Northeastern students, all on co-op, in an apartment in Hell’s Kitchen.

“I don’t like New York City, so I’m nervous to move there and sad to leave Boston,” Kearns said.

Casey Buttke, a first-year criminal justice and political science combined major, will be participating in

a research program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte focusing on the effect of criminal records on employment credentials.

“I applied thinking I wouldn’t get the position, and I’m lucky enough to have gotten it,” Buttke said.

True to the Northeastern emphasis on global experience, many students are using their summer to travel around the world through Northeastern’s Dialogue Of Civilizations — a faculty-led, “intensive shortterm international experience,” as described on the Dialogue website.

Krissy Kilgallen, a first-year psychology major, will be going on a sociology dialogue to Rome.

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Alkalali, a first-year psychology major, will travel to the French Riviera and Amalfi Coast with three other students whom she met online after posting in a travel forum on the website Lonely Planet.

“All my friends think I’m crazy for doing this, but life should be kind of crazy,” Alkalali said.

Alkalali is also spending two weeks in Bali, Indonesia, teaching English to children.

“It’s always been my dream to go [to Bali], but I also wanted to do some volunteer work and I love kids, so I thought it would be a perfect mix,” Alkalali said.

Lederer will also spend time

All my friends think I’m crazy for doing this, but life should be kind of crazy.

– Dana Alkalali, first-year psychology major

“I’m so excited,” Kilgallen said. “I am really interested in environmental justice, and it’s an environmental advocacy dialogue.”

Cassidy Doris, a first-year business administration major, will go on a language dialogue in Paris and Annecy, France, as part of her French minor. She also plans to co-op in France in the future and considers the dialogue to be “a test run.”

Dana Alkalali is traveling independently.

Photo by Samantha Barry Lauren Murphy sits in front of the Krentzman Quadrangle Northeastern sign. She will stay on campus this summer as an orientation leader.

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abroad teaching English as an au pair, or a foreign domestic assistant, for a family in Beasain, Spain, in July.

“They’ll be helping me learn about Northern Spanish culture as well as cultural exchange,” Lederer said.

Some other students are choosing to stay on campus during the summer. Lauren Murphy, a first-year behavioral neuroscience major, will be living on campus for most of the summer and working as an orientation leader. She said she knew she wanted to be an orientation leader since last summer.

“I’m really energetic and outgoing, so it seemed like something that would be perfect for me,” Murphy said.

Zachary Kunin, a third-year chemistry major, will take two Summer I classes that are required for his major but only offered during the summer.

“I haven’t taken summer classes before, but I’ve heard that they’re easier and less stressful,” Kunin said.

“Honestly, I get bored with nothing to do during the summer. So, it’s both a blessing to have a break from classes but a curse since there’s not much to do if I go home.”

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5:05 p.m.

The manager at the Marino Recreation Center reported a man not affiliated with NU was attempting to enter the gym. The manager reported the man entered the locker room after being declined entry and left the building when confronted again. A report was filed.

8:12 p.m.

An NU student reported a woman was sleeping in the lobby of West Village G. Officers responded and reported the woman was not affiliated with NU and banned her from NU property. A report was filed.

8:53 p.m.

An NUPD officer reported stopping a car after the driver asked an NU student personal questions outside Willis Hall. The officer reported the man was not affiliated with NU and stated he was completing a food delivery. The officer reported the man had a criminal record and banned him from NU property. A report was filed.

2:31 p.m.

An NU employee reported a homeless man was sleeping near the entrance of International Village, or IV. Officers responded and arrested the man for an active warrant for open and gross lewdness. A report was filed.

6:00 p.m.

An individual reported a man was passed out in the women’s restroom on the second floor of Hastings Hall.

Officers responded and reported stopping the man in the lobby and that he was not affiliated with NU. Officers banned the man from NU property. A report was filed.

10:19 p.m.

An employee of ABM Industries, a facility management company, reported a group of people were smoking marijuana in a room in Richards Hall. Officers responded and reported five NU students and one individual not affiliated with NU were in the room. One of the students took responsibility for the marijuana and a pipe, which the officers confiscated. The individual not affiliated with NU was banned from NU property. A report was filed.

5:01 p.m.

An NU student reported her bike tires were stolen from the bike rack outside IV. A report was filed.

9:42 p.m.

An NU student reported a man spit at her and told her to get out of his face while she was walking on Huntington Avenue. Officers responded and reported checking the area with no sign of the man. A report was filed.

9:01 p.m.

The manager at Qdoba on Huntington Avenue reported an employee was threatening her. Officers responded and reported the employee was fired and became irate.

Officers banned the employee from NU property. A report was filed.

2:00 a.m.

An NUPD officer reported seeing two women physically supporting each other while walking toward IV. Officers reported the women were NU students and confiscated a fake ID from one of them. A report was filed.

9:51 a.m.

The manager of Wollaston’s Market at Marino Recreation Center reported an NU student was seen shoplifting toothpaste on security camera footage. A report was filed.

6:16 p.m.

An NU student reported his laptop was stolen from Ryder Hall. A report was filed.

12:28 a.m.

An NU student reported that he believed the individual who stole his laptop was in Snell Library. Officers responded and reported the man, not affiliated with NU, did not have the student’s laptop but had another laptop he could not prove ownership for. Officers reported banning the man from NU property. A report was filed.

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Photo by Riley Robinson The Husky Startup Challenge is a semester-long endeavor designed to help students build and expand their own companies. The startup offered a myriad of resources to help students.

Pitch contest shows student ventures DEMO, from front selected to participate in live pitching on Demo Day. Prior to the event, a tabling session open to any venture was held for founders to talk with attendees about their companies.

Rebecca Lvov, a second-year business administration major, presented her company ‘ButterSlice’, that sells butter in a similar way to Kraft cheese singles.

“I started with the idea in high school. I was taking an entrepreneurship class, and I was encountering this problem of putting butter on toast, but the butter was really solid and the toast was so crunchy, and the toast kept on breaking and it wasn’t spreading efficiently,” Lvov said.

Berger, the vice president of NU’s Entrepreneurs Club, said the increase in community through policies like one-on-one mentoring, coaching and office hours was essential to the growth in the HSC. Fernanda Lopez, a second-year business administration and behavioral neuroscience combined major, and Lucas Espada, a first-year business administration major, worked as directors for the HSC. They created workshops, sourced speakers and guided ventures through the entire process through more programs.

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gave the focus on making it more human-centric designed, so basically, for every boot camp and every workshop, we implemented a value that we wanted to give to this event so whether it was empathy, whether it was courage, whether it was preparation, determination, we always try to add a sense of community and human aspect to every business lesson,” Lopez said.

Berger also emphasized the increase on building community and said that marketing HSC to WISE members was an important priority.

“I think it was because Lucas and Fernanda were focusing so much on community. And I think we also made sure that we were marketing Husky Startup lab from the beginning,” Berger said.

Lopez said she believes the formation of clubs such as WISE is a great accomplishment, but that it should also help establish more diversity initiatives by clubs on campus.

“It’s very important for all organizations on campus to realize that the fact that an organization focused on women had to emerge is something amazing, but it also is a call for action for all organizations on campus,” Lopez said. “It’s a great way to understand that we need to build diversity, it’s a value that we want to show to people that clubs are taking the matter seriously.”

Nguyen said WISE intends to further expand encouragement of female-driven entrepreneurship.

“We’re here to let women know that it’s okay to fail, it’s inevitable,” Nguyen said.

“We’re here to increase their confidence, hype them up, help them connect with other strong women and get them ready to utilize all the amazing resources on campus.”

Photo by Riley Robinson Student ventures include a piano teaching app, ways for students to find events on college campuses and ways for parents to find activities for their children.

Photo by Riley Robinson Rebecca Lvov was inspired to start her company after taking an entrepreneurship class in high school. This company, ‘ButterSlice,’ sells butter in a similar way to Kraft cheese singles.

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Presidential hopeful speaks on campus

By Isaac Stephens News Staff Last month, presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg was polling nationally between zero and one percent — but that quickly changed. When he came to speak at Northeastern two weeks ago, the crowd of attendees overflowed from Blackman to Curry, and now students on campus are organizing in support of his campaign.

Buttigieg — the two-term mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Rhodes Scholar and veteran — officially announced his candidacy April 14.

While his lack of federal experience kept him off the radar of many people at the beginning of his campaign, his candor and wit have propelled him to major-candidate status in recent weeks despite his low initial numbers. If elected, he would be the first openly gay president and the first millennial president in history.

After Nolan Brown, a first-year industrial engineering major, sent an email about Buttigieg to members of the Northeastern University College Democrats following Buttigieg’s talk at Northeastern, he was contacted by first-year political science and biology combined major Maya Mudgal. They are now spearheading the creation of an organization tentatively called “Northeastern Students for Pete.” The pair said they plan to hold phone banking events, non-partisan voter registration drives and advertisement campaigns during the fall semester.

Brown said they intend to focus the organization’s activities on spreading awareness about Buttigieg.

Mudgal said students will be apt to support him because of his age: The 37-year-old stands in sharp contrast to the rest of the Democratic field — Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders, for example, are in their late 70s. “[Buttigieg] knows what the up-

coming generations’ wants and needs are because he’s one of us,” Mudgal said. “Frankly, I’m just sick of baby boomers setting policy that they won’t be alive to see out, especially since a lot of the issues that we’re facing today were caused by that generation.”

During his talk at Northeastern, Buttigieg emphasized the generational difference between him and his competitors.

“By definition, the longer you’re planning to be here, the more you have at stake in the decisions that are being made right now,” he said.

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programs, refinancing student loan interest rates and incentivizing states to more heavily subsidize public education.

During his talk, he said he recognized that his education policies were not the “right answer politically” in an auditorium full of college students, who might look for politicians to support making college free. That honesty, despite his potentially lacking policy ideas, spurred a round of applause from the audience.

Buttigieg’s candor, Brown said, is something he thinks many students will get behind once his group starts

I’m always talking about the need to look at the world as it will look in 2054, when I get to the current age of the current president.

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– Pete Buttigieg, presidential candidate

“That’s why I’m always talking about the need to look at the world as it will look in 2054, when I get to the current age of the current president.”

Buttigieg said this generational stake informs his stance on many issues. He said student loan debt still affects him and his husband personally.

“Chasten [Buttigieg] and I are living with six-figure student debt.

College is increasingly becoming unaffordable,” he said in a press conference before his Northeastern talk. “I don’t know that I can responsibly promise that all costs of higher education can be removed from the student, but I do believe that we can make a big difference, and there are several things we can do in that regard.”

Buttigieg discussed policies like expanding access to teaching and public service loan-forgiveness

spreading the word.

“This generation, especially, can really tell when they’re being pandered to. In the age of social media, it’s very easy for us to tell when somebody is being fake,” Brown said.

He said he sees this as the root of low voter turnout among younger populations. “[Buttigieg] is somebody who says what he thinks, regardless of the crowd he’s in,” Brown said.

After hearing him speak on campus two weeks ago, students are already beginning to buzz about Buttigieg. Derek Packard, a third-year business administration major, said he thinks the talk raised Buttigieg’s profile among Northeastern students.

“I saw a lot of kids retweeting things that he had said or things said about him that were positive,” he said. “He’s on the radar.”

Photo by Samantha Barry Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg addresses a room of reporters during a press conference before his talk at Northeastern Univeristy.

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Photo by Samantha Barry Students and faculty wait in a line streteching from Ell Hall to Curry to hear presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg speak in Blackman Auditorium April 3.

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NU blocks union for a third time

By Hayley Slusser News Correspondent

Northeastern administration responded to the April 9 petition to hold a union election for full-time, non-tenure track faculty with a statement of position released April 16.

The statement, filed with the National Labor Relations Board, or NLRB, stated that unionization is “not appropriate” because the faculty are technically managerial employees.

The filing seeks to overturn a case from 2015, Pacific Lutheran University v. SEIU Local 925.

This case declared that full-time, non-tenure track faculty can only be labeled as managers if they have specific managerial duties.

Managerial duties apply not only to the faculty’s role in shaping academic programs, but also enrollment policies and finances.

In the filing, NU stated the Pacific Lutheran case was “wrongly decided” and that NU “intends to challenge

that decision.” If a judge rules in favor of the university, it could undermine faculty rights to unionize at private universities throughout the country.

NU cited a case from 1980, NLRB v. Yeshiva University, in which the court found that any faculty members with a role in shaping the curriculum can be considered de facto managers.

The initial court date is set for April 24, but because of the risk to other schools, it is unclear whether or not the NU faculty will revoke their petition.

“We won’t jeopardize the rights of our colleagues across the country by entering a legal battle presided over by an outspokenly anti-union Board,” faculty union organizers wrote on Facebook.

The protesting full-time, non-tenure track faculty are urging administrators to change their position before the scheduled date.

Photo by Hayley Slusser Marchers hold signs in support of the election for unionization on April 10. Northeastern responded to a petition claiming that there should be union elections for full-time, non-tenure track faculty with a statement.

Ciuccarelli brings research to Northeastern Paolo Ciuccarelli Previous Instituion: Polytechnic University Worked at previous institution: 20 years Degree: Architecture Worked in Information Design: 15 years Graphic by Sofie Kato

Photo by Elisa Figueras Ciuccarelli taught at the Polytechnic University of Milan for 20 years. He will join Northeastern in the fall as a full-time professor of design in the College of Arts, Media and Design.

By Sofie Kato Managing Editor After 20 years of teaching at the Polytechnic University of Milan, one professor found that he was ready for a new challenge to expand on what he calls “the

complexities of the world of design.”

Paolo Ciuccarelli, originally from Italy, is a design professor who taught at the faculty of design in the communication design master degree program at the Polytechnic University of Milan. He recently took a job as a full-time professor at Northeastern in the College of Arts, Media and Design, or CAMD. “I felt I did what I could do in my previous position,” Ciuccarelli said. “And so I think I had two options, I mean, in order to innovate, [I could] sit down, continue on the same page, or accept a new challenge and that’s what I did.”

With a degree in architecture

from the Polytechnic University of Milan, Ciuccarelli began exploring other integrative design methods including communication design and information design and eventually incorporated his passion for data and computer science into his work.

“When I started to teach in communication design, I had discovered by chance this idea of applying visual languages to represent complexity,” Ciuccarelli said. “And so when within the communication design program, they asked me to lead a studio-based course in the last year of the master program, I decided to challenge students with this idea.”

This discovery and work further fueled his interests in design, which led him to create the Density Design Research Lab at the Polytechnic University of Milan. Working alongside his students, Ciuccarelli cultivated an interdisciplinary method of explaining social phenomena.

“I realized that visualization and visual languages could be used to try to represent the complexity of social and mental problems and issues,” Ciuccarelli said. “I started teaching that, then when I was teaching that I realized that there was a potential for research.”

Ciuccarelli will start teaching at Northeastern in the fall, where he will also be the founding director of the Center for Design, which aims to bring design to more research disciplines around campus.

The Center for Design will combine his work from Italy with new ideas of

data and research within the scope of design.

“I hope that the Center for Design can also do something to establish itself as a design presence,” Ciuccarelli said. “But with the capacity to reflect on the semester and what you do in the future.”

While teaching in Italy, Ciuccarelli also guest-lectured at esteemed universities around the world, including the Glasgow School of Art and Stanford University. He is also on the committee of DataShack, a joint computer science and communication design collaboration between Stanford University and Harvard University.

Ciuccarelli also conjured the idea of “meta design,” which he describes as “designing design.” Design is rapidly growing and expanding, and being able to lay out maps for this ever-growing process is something he wants to explore.

He also hopes to encourage designers to bring data to their work and not be afraid of what this data can enhance.

“I mean, you couldn’t find designers in many industries, but then there is no industry where you don’t find design,” Ciuccarelli said.

With the constant expansion of design, he said he found some of his students to be worried about copyright issues and wants them to be open with their ideas.

“If you think you’re a good designer, you shouldn’t be worried about your idea. I mean, you’re not a good designer because you have this one wonderful idea,” Ciuccarelli said. “You are a good designer when you are able to produce continuously wonderful ideas.”

As an incoming full-time professor at Northeastern, Ciuccarelli said he hopes to continue to expand his idea of “meta design” and bring it to as many platforms as possible.

“I think I need to start from where I was. So it should start as a continuation,” Ciuccarelli said. “That’s what I hope. To build design as a kind of an interdisciplinary competence that can be integrated with all the rest of the university.”

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Students, alumni run first Boston Ma Peter Cunningham (right) and his teammate Jackie Creasey reach out for a fist bump during a March 20 training run in Boston Common in preparation for the Boston Marathon.

By Samantha Barry News Staff Running a marathon is not an easy task, yet thousands of people swarm the streets of Boston each year on Patriots’ Day to participate in one of the biggest races in the world.

“It’s the most prestigious marathon in the world next to the New York City marathon,” said Peter

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Northeastern students and alumni ran the 26.2 mile course and spent the past few months training and fundraising for the big day.

Race Preparation

Third-year chemical engineering major Drew McGlynn is part of Northeastern Club Running, and the Boston Marathon was his second

time running a marathon, but I’ve been working at it and running for a long time. It’s not like this happened by accident.”

McGlynn has been running competitively for seven years, starting his freshman year of high school and continuing into his time at NU. To train for this race, he ran an average of 30 miles per week.

The atmosphere was electric and I feel like I finally understand the hype around this marathon in particular and I’m so glad to have had this opportunity.

– Peter Cunningham, 2018 NU graduate

Cunningham, a recent Northeastern graduate who is running the race this year.

The Boston Marathon has been a beloved citywide event since it debuted in 1897. This years marathon will be the 123rd race in the city. People from all over the world come to the city to experience the race, whether that be by running it or cheering on racers from the sidelines.

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full marathon. Last year, he ran the Providence Marathon in Rhode Island and finished with a qualifying time for Boston on his first try — a feat which usually takes even the best runners several attempts to accomplish.

“I know it’s something that a lot of people work super, super hard for and I’ve been running for years now,” McGlynn said. “So when people tell you, ‘Oh wow you qualified in your first try’, it’s like, yeah, it’s my first

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That number reached close to 50 as Patriots’ Day neared.

While McGlynn is running as part of a qualifying heat, he is trying to keep some of the pressure off of himself and just wants to run the race to the best of his ability. He said he is not running to win by any means, but rather plans on racing against himself to beat his personal record and complete the course in under three hours.

“Obviously long-distance running

Photo by Riley Robinson The 2019 Boston Marathon was the 123rd annual race run in the city can be painful in a way,” McGlynn said. “It might really, really hurt towards the end, and you may be like grasping at straws and running on fumes, but, when you finally finish, that feeling of accomplishment, it’s just overwhelming, and I think that’s definitely what keeps me going.”

If a runner doesn’t achieve a qualifying time, the other way to enter the Boston Marathon is to get a bib through a charity. This method requires fundraising by the runner, and each year, thousands of runners

participate in the race this way.

Cunningham, a 2018 Northeastern graduate, was invited to run the marathon for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, or AFSP. After he applied to run for them last year and was rejected, they reached out and asked him to run this year. The fundraising goal for each of their runners was set at $12,500, but Cunningham upped his goal to $15,000, for he strongly supports and believes in AFSP’s work.

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Photo courtesy Ian Herrington Ian Herrington, a recent Northeastern University graduate trains for the Boston Marathon at the esplanade.

He ran the race for the charity, Grab the Torch, and it was his first marathon.

arathon Photo by Samantha Barry “I’m doing it because I lost my dad to suicide back in 2009 and it was really a painful experience to lose him,” Cunningham said. “That experience has kind of driven me and the marathon day is actually just about two weeks after his 10-year anniversary. So I wanted to honor him this year in a really positive way and fundraise to kind of help people who are going through the same thing that my father was.”

Cunningham has only been seriously running for three years and this was his first marathon. His goal is to complete the race in qualifying time, which would be just over three hours.

Ian Herrington is another 2018 Northeastern graduate who ran the marathon on Monday. He ran for Grab the Torch, a charity that hosts programs for high school-aged girls of all backgrounds to help build leadership skills and plan for their futures.

Herrington was moved to run after he spoke to a young woman who participated in the program and now works for the charity. While not a huge runner himself, he saw the race as an opportunity to help raise

money to support girls like her.

“I always knew it was something I wanted to try to get a chance to do just because I went to school in Boston and grew up in New Hampshire, so the Boston Marathon’s always been an event that I was fond of and thought was very, very cool,” Herrington said. “Then the more I learned about Grab the Torch, the more I thought, ‘Wow this is a really special program.’ It just kind of gets these young women thinking about their futures and inspiring them to be the leaders of the next generation and sort of gives them an opportunity that they might not otherwise have had to just think very optimistically and confidently towards their future.”

Danielle Voke, a fifth-year behavioral neuroscience major, ran the marathon on Monday as part of the Peer Health Exchange, a national nonprofit that teaches health education in Boston Public Schools.

Voke, who is from the Boston area and ran for Northeastern on both the cross country and track and field teams, was excited to feel closer to her hometown community.

“I really think that it makes me feel like part of the [Boston] community,” she said. “I feel like I am going to feel this huge sense of belonging in a way that I didn’t before … and I think that just makes me feel more close to the marathon community and more empowered to run it.”

The Aftermath

When Marathon Monday began, it looked like it was going to be a cloudy, rainy race, but as runners took off, the skies cleared and the weather completely turned around.

While most enjoyed not running through soaking wet streets, some

would have preferred it to the sticky conditions they got.

“I wish it rained the whole time,” Voke said. “The middle miles were so hot and humid, and I’m a cold weather runner so I really struggled.”

The sudden change in weather and difficulty of the course itself had a large impact on many of the first-time runners. Boston’s course is much hillier than most other big marathons, which often slows runners more than expected.

“I trained hard and felt pretty prepared, but this course and race are so physically and emotionally taxing,” Cunningham said. “I didn’t finish in anywhere near the time I would’ve liked and it was definitely the hardest thing I’ve done.”

He completed the race in 4:11:04, about an hour slower than his qualifying goal of three hours. Voke finished her race in 4:09:01, also an hour shy of qualifying, but she plans to run another marathon in September to beat her PR and qualify for next year’s Boston race.

Drew McGlynn, who qualified this year, finished in 3:08:39, also not a qualifying time for next year’s race.

Although he did not hit his target time, McGlynn said the experience of running the Boston Marathon for the first time was unlike any other race he had ever been in and he is still proud of the time he achieved.

“I saw so many incredible performances out there by fellow runners, and the support from the spectators and volunteers was just staggering and unlike anything I’ve ever seen,” he said. “Running with over 30,000 people was such an incredible experience.”

While they may not have reached their running goals, Voke and Cunningham hit the fundraising

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goals for their charities. Voke raised $9,000 for the Peer Health Exchange and Cunningham raised $15,415 for AFSP.

Photo by Samantha Barry Danielle Voke trains for the Boston Marathon at the Roberto Clemente Field Athletic Track on March 26.

Photo by Samantha Barry Peter Cunningham, a 2018 NU graduate, ran the race for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention charity and raised $15,415.

Graphic by Avery Bleichfeld The below map illustrates the race course, which begins in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, and ends in Boston. The circles represent important markers along the 26.2 mile track. There is also a timeline of significant events that have occured in the maraton’s 123-year history.

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All three said they hope to run the marathon again, whether it be next year or sometime in the near future. Ian Herrington said he would consider it, but plans to take a break for now.

“I have a newfound appreciation for anyone that has ever completed a marathon,” he said. “I am very lucky that my first ever marathon was here in Boston, but it was very challenging and definitely harder than I expected.”

Cunningham said his race day was particularly emotional given his reasons for running. His experience allowed him to fully comprehend why this is one of the most prestigious races in the world.

“It was so emotionally charged for me, with fundraising and running wrapped up together, and I nearly choked up thinking about my Dad while running the race,” Cunningham said. “The atmosphere was electric and I feel like I finally understand the hype around this marathon in particular and I’m so glad to have had this opportunity.”

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File photo by Riley Robinson Founded in 2003, the Northeastern Dance Team competes in regional competitions and sometimes competes nationally in Daytona Beach.

Pep teams bring spirit to athletics program

By Jordan Baron Sports Editor Imagine a sports game without the cheering crowd, blasting music and spirited fans. It isn’t the same, is it?

Spirit teams play an important role in creating an exciting atmosphere at a collegiate sporting event. At Northeastern, three different spirit teams are involved in varsity events. The cheerleading team, the dance team and the pep band follow each of the major sports programs to their home games and tournaments to cheer them on and create a fun and intense atmosphere for all to enjoy.

The Northeastern Cheerleading Team states on its website that its “mission is to promote school spirit and a positive attitude for those in the Northeastern community.” They do this by cheering at basketball home games and competing at a national tournament in Daytona Beach, Florida.

“We go to every men’s and women’s home basketball game,” said team captain Chelsea McGee. “Sometimes we’ll do other events on campus, like when they had the send-off for the hockey team for NCAA, we went to that.”

File photo by Riley Robinson The pep, dance and cheer squads keep the spirit up at all major sports games, creating fun atmospheres for players and audience members alike. They create a positive attitude for all, following teams to tournaments.

The cheerleading squad also accompanies the basketball teams to their respective postseason tournaments, whether it’s the conference playoff, NIT or NCAAs. This year, when the men’s basketball program won the CAA tournament, the cheerleaders were invited to attend NU’s NCAA tournament game in Salt Lake City, Utah.

“It was really cool. We got to obviously travel with the team there and just when we got there, getting off the plane, there was media everywhere and even at the hotel, everyone

was there to greet us,” McGee said.

“Everything was just decked out in Northeastern [and] March Madness stuff. The whole city was just ready for March Madness, and that was an awesome experience.”

In addition to attending athletic events, the cheer team is a competitive team. They placed seventh in the nation for Division I all-girls teams during the 2016 season.

Also at various sporting events is the Northeastern Dance Team, which was founded in 2003.

“Northeastern Dance Team primarily does hip hop [and] jazz … and we are a team of usually about 18-20 dancers,” said team captain Adianna San Lucas. “We perform at all men’s and women’s basketball games, we do a competition in the year. It might be regional competition or a national competition. We go to the CAA tournaments and we have bonding events throughout the year. We dance for fun now that the season is over.”

San Lucas said their impact is important to the environment of games during the course of the season.

“I think that the dance team brings a lot of entertainment,” San Lucas said. “I think a lot of people look forward to seeing what we have for the year in terms of dances. We cheer a lot, and I’ve talked to different basketball players, and, for some games, they don’t have as big of a fan base because it is during the weekdays and kids have school or co-op. So, having at least a base fanbase to cheer them on, help support them [and] help motivate them, they really appreciate it.”

The dance team sometimes competes at the national competition down in Daytona Beach. The competition is an intense and vigorous experience in which members of the team must perform multiple times and work hours each day to perfect their craft while attempting to make the final round. When the team doesn’t attend the national competition, they compete in regional competitions closer to the university.

The third of Northeastern’s spirit teams is the pep band, which consists of more than 150 members that attend and play at almost all of Northeastern’s major sporting events, ranging from both men’s and women’s basketball and hockey to

volleyball and beyond.

Pep band President TJ Fujiyoshi plays the trombone and has been a member of the team for four years.

“We’ve been focusing more on playing really well and playing loud and exciting tunes, but then also just being a really good fan section,” Fujiyoshi said. “It’s difficult because not as many people go to women’s volleyball or basketball or hockey [games], but if we’re there, we’re going to be loud. We’re going to be doing the same things we would do normally at men’s games.”

The pep band also travels with the teams, and attended the CAA, Hockey East and NCAA tournaments over the past year for basketball and hockey.

File photo by Riley Robinson The pep band consists of 150 members who attend almost all of Northeastern’s major sporting events, including travelling to CAA and NCAA tournaments with basketball and hockey, respectively.

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Open Letter to the Northeastern University Community from Concerned Tenured & Tenure-Track Faculty Private-sector employees have a right under federal labor law to vote on whether they wish to be represented by a union. There are now two organizing drives underway at Northeastern: full-time non-tenure track (NTT) faculty and, separately, graduate students employed as teaching assistants (and in other roles) seek elections in which each group can decide whether to have union representation. We support both groups in their call for free and fair elections in which the majority of affected employees will determine the outcome, and we call on the administration to take appropriate steps to facilitate this process.

We write this letter now because we are concerned that, to the contrary, the University has chosen to erect every possible barrier to accomplishing the goal of quick and democratic elections. The administration has signaled that it will pursue what is likely to be time-consuming and costly litigation to delay or prevent these elections. In particular, it has raised arguments as to whether these two groups are employees within the meaning of the National Labor Relations Act. The University claims that all NTT faculty members are or should be classified as “managers” and that the graduate workers, clearly employees under current law, should be disqualified because of their concurrent status as students or “mentees.” The administration cites the “One Faculty” policy as a legal barrier to free choice by the NTT faculty. The University is conducting an anti-union campaign through emails as well as posts on the Provost’s website. By contrast, the trend at leading universities is to allow the democratic process to run its course, honor the wishes of their employees for power-sharing, and begin forging productive partnerships with them. This is reflected at Harvard, Columbia, NYU, and other top institutions, some of which reconsidered and abandoned an earlier, oppositional approach. Why can’t this happen at NU? This question of process should be a matter of concern for all members of the NU community. Honoring employee rights goes to the heart of the type of institution we aspire to be.

Working conditions for faculty and graduate employees are learning conditions for students. NTT faculty and graduate employees perform a significant and growing proportion of teaching at Northeastern, particularly in undergraduate classes. They are dedicated teachers who make considerable personal sacrifices to serve our students. NTT faculty are typically assigned much heavier teaching loads than tenure track colleagues, but their compensation is significantly lower. The graduate employees struggle to make ends meet in one of the most expensive cities in the US while they teach faithfully and continue their studies.

We are proud to teach at Northeastern and share the ambition to re-imagine higher education for the twenty-first century. We can only reach that goal if we move forward together as an open and inclusive institution—one that respects the rights and contributions of all its members, including the right of each constituency to make its own choice about how to articulate its voice within collegial governance. In that spirit, we call on the University administration to begin immediately working with both organizing groups to arrange prompt elections. We urge our tenured and tenure-track colleagues to join us in this call.

Respectfully,

Libby Adler Professor of Law and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Aziza Ahmed Professor of Law M. Shahid Alam Professor of Economics Daniel Aldrich Professor of Political Science Nicole N. Aljoe Director, Africana Studies Program Associate Professor of English & Africana Studies Moya Bailey Assistant Professor, Cultures, Societies & Global Studies and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Brook K. Baker Professor of Law Shalanda Baker Professor of Law, Public Policy & Urban Affairs Stefano Basagni Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Leo Beletsky Associate Professor of Law & Health Sciences Faculty Director, Health in Justice Action Lab Cameron Blevins Assistant Professor of History Linda Blum, Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology Erika Boeckeler Associate Professor of English Dana Brooks Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Phil Brown, University Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Health Sciences Director, Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute Sharon McKinnon Bruns, Professor Emeritus D’Amore-McKim School of Business Margaret Burnham University Distinguished Professor of Law Director, Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project Victoria Cain Assistant Professor of History Ryan Cordell Associate Professor, English Department

Marco Deseriis Associate Professor, Program in Media & Screen Studies College of Arts, Media and Design Peter Desnoyers Associate Professor, Khoury College of Computer Sciences William Dickens University Distinguished Professor of Economics & Social Policy

Nancy Kindelan Professor of Theatre, College of Arts, Media and Design Karl Klare George J. & Kathleen Waters Matthews Distinguished University Professor, School of Law Louis Kruger Associate Professor of Applied Psychology Bouvé College of Health Sciences

Hilary Robinson Associate Professor of Law & Sociology Rachel Rosenbloom Professor of Law Co-Director, Immigrant Justice Clinic James V. Rowan Professor of Law and Director of Clinical Programs Laura Senier Assistant Professor Sociology & Anthropology and Health Sciences

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon Distinguished Professor of English & Chair

John Kwoka Neal F. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Economics

Peter Enrich Professor of Law

Marina Leslie Associate Professor of English

Jessica Silbey Professor of Law Co-Director, Center for Law, Innovation and Creativity

Deniz Erdogmus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Ann McDonald Associate Professor, Department of Art+Design

Matthew Noah Smith Associate Professor, Philosophy and Religion

Branden Fitelson Distinguished Professor of Philosophy

Daniel S. Medwed University Distinguished Professor of Law and Criminal Justice

Dani Snyder-Young Assistant Professor of Theatre

Murray Forman Professor, Media and Screen Studies

Michael Meltsner George J. & Kathleen Waters Matthews Distinguished University Professor, School of Law

Laura L. Frader Professor of History

Joanne Morreale Associate Professor Media and Screen Studies

Gary Goshgarian Professor of English Gretchen Heefner Associate Professor of History Sarah J. Jackson Associate Professor of Communication Studies Jeffrey Juris Associate Professor of Anthropology David Kaeli Distinguished Professor of the College of Engineering Sarah Kanouse Associate Professor, Art + Design Carla Kaplan Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature Professor, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Kathleen Kelly Professor of English Whitney Kelting Associate Professor of Religious Studies Ilham Khuri-Makdisi Associate Professor, Middle East and World History Eunsong Kim Assistant Professor of English, Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies

Emily A. Spieler Edwin W. Hadley Professor of Law Heather Streets-Salter Professor and History Department Chair Director of World History Programs

Patrick Mullen Associate Professor of English

Gilead Tadmor Professor (Emeritus) of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Antonio Ocampo-Guzman Associate Professor of Theatre

Steven Vallas Professor of Sociology

Dietmar Offenhuber Associate Professor, Departments of Art + Design and Public Policy Co-director Northeastern Visualization Consortium (NUVIS)

Daniel Noemi Voionmaa Associate Professor, Cultures, Societies and Global Studies

Wendy Parmet Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law Director, Center for Health Policy and Law Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs Celia Pearce Associate Professor, Game Design Program College of Arts, Media and Design Gordana Rabrenovic Associate Professor of Sociology Director, Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict Janet H. Randall Professor, Linguistics Program & English Department Joseph Reagle Associate Professor of Communication Studies Craig Robertson Associate Professor, Communication Studies

Tenured and tenure-track Northeastern faculty members who wish to join this letter may do so by emailing Karl Klare; please include your title and department or program. Emeriti signatures welcome. Thank you. k.klare@northeastern.edu

Louise E. Walker Associate Professor of History Suzanna Danuta Walters Professor of Sociology Director, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program Dov Waxman Professor of Political Science, International Affairs, and Israel Studies Stotsky Professor of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies Liza Weinstein Associate Professor / Director of Graduate Studies Department of Sociology & Anthropology Brooke Foucault Welles Associate Professor of Communication Studies Lucy A. Williams Professor of Law Faculty Director, Center for Public Interest Advocacy & Collaboration

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Wentworth remembers 19-year-old Max Carbone

By Riana Buchman News Correspondent Wentworth Institute of Technology student Max Carbone was found dead around 8 a.m. on April 7 in Roxbury.

Carbone, a sophomore from Nahant, was last seen between 1-2 a.m. on April 6 at a party near Allegheny Street wearing a green Heineken T-shirt and khakis. Police found his body near the Mission Hill neighborhood the next morning. Detectives from the Boston Police Department, or BPD, currently believe the circumstances of his death show no signs of foul play, though their investigation is still ongoing.

Carbone’s parents released a statement mourning the loss of their son while also expressing gratitude for those who helped in the search.

“We ask the media to respect our privacy during this difficult time.

Our hearts are broken,” the statement reads. “Max was a sweet, happy and loving son, brother and friend. He was a hardworking student who cared about helping people. He will be missed dearly. We want to thank the Boston and Nahant Police and the Wentworth Community.”

Wentworth, located just down the road from Northeastern, also released a statement in which it affirmed continued cooperation with BPD as well as efforts to understand how to prevent similar situations in the future.

“The Wentworth community

is devastated by the loss of Max Carbone, a 19-year-old sophomore at the university. He was a talented young man who had chosen biomedical engineering as his field of study,” the statement reads. “He had many friends within and outside of Wentworth, and a warm and loving extended family who will all miss him.

“We extend our heartfelt sympathies to the Carbone family. The family has been on campus, and we have been doing all we can to support them during this tragedy. We will continue to focus on supporting the family, his friends and students.”

At Wentworth, a school with an undergraduate population of less than 4,000 students, the loss feels tangible. Wentworth freshman Ssesy Lainez H. said the school’s close-knit community makes the tragedy all the more impactful.

“I don’t think there is a single person who doesn’t know him. Everyone has at least one connection,” said Lainez H., a 19-year-old bioengineering major.

A few services have been held in Wentworth’s Beatty Hallu, and the institute put out candles for Carbone.

“It was really tragic, and it was very prominent to know that he was a good kid. It’s been very emotional and brought up in class a lot,” said freshman bioengineering major Valeria Dountcheva, 19. “It’s interesting to see people take it so personally because the school is so small. It’s

been a very inclusive experience.”

News of the incident also made its way to neighboring schools like the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Science, or MCPHS. “Even people from my school have been talking about him, and there

have been tiny little services talking about safety,” said MCPHS freshman Alexa Raymond, 19. “Even on social media there’s a lot on [Carbone.]”

BPD is reviewing the case and urges anyone with information to contact Boston Police District B-2 (Rox-

bury) Detectives at (617) 343-4275.

Those in the community who wish to contribute to the investigation with anonymous tips are encouraged to contact CrimeStoppers Tip Line at 1 (800) 494-TIPS or by texting the word “TIP” to CRIME (27463).

Photo by George Barker Wentworth Institute of Technology student Max Carbone was found dead around 8 a.m. on April 7 in Roxbury.

BPD currently believes the circumstances of his death show no signs of foul play, though their investigation is still ongoing.

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Conversion therapy banned for minors

By Laura Rodriguez News Staff The Massachusetts State Senate passed legislation (H.140) on March 28 that will ban state-licensed health care providers from practicing conversion therapy on minors within the LGBTQ+ community. Conversion therapy, which attempts to change a person’s gender identity or sexual orientation, is currently banned in 14 states and the District of Columbia.

The bill, which was introduced to the House of Representatives by Democratic Rep. Kay Khan of Newton and had 116 co-sponsors from the House and Senate, received overwhelming approval in both houses — 147-8 in the House and 34-0 in the Senate. Proponents of the bill argued that the practice of conversion therapy has been scientifically debunked and has no place as a credible mental health treatment.

“I am proud that I have persisted session after session in filing the Conversion Therapy Ban Bill and to be working with a broad coalition of over twenty statewide legal, mental health, child welfare, and LGBTQ organizations,” Khan said in a press release sent out last week, “as well as parents dedicated to promoting the well-being and safety of our children in Massachusetts.”

Prior to the bill, children under the age of 18 were subject to often harmful and abusive conversion therapy practices, including but not limited to efforts to change behaviors or gender expressions and attempts to curb sexual or romantic attractions toward people of the same sex.

The Massachusetts House and Senate passed similar legislation in 2018 that never made it to Gov. Charlie Baker’s desk. The House was noticeably split on the bill, as independent Rep. Susannah Whipps of Athol initially voted against the

bill but voted for it during the second recorded vote. Other representatives supported the bill initially and opposed it during recounts.

This time, the bill clearly outlines what a healthcare provider — defined as any physician, psychologist, social worker, nurse or allied mental health and human services professional — can and cannot do.

Licensed practitioners are not to “attempt or purport to impose a change of an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity,” or “advertise for or engage in sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts with a patient less than 18 years of age,” according to the bill.

Republican Sen. Vinny deMacedo said that while he and fellow Republican Sens. Bruce Tarr, Ryan Fattman, Donald Humason and Dean Tran oppose conversion therapy, they do not believe that the wording in the bill is clear enough and infringes on the rights of mental health professionals, WBUR reported.

Proponents of the bill believe it is an important step in advocating for rights within the LGBTQ+ community, particularly the rights of minors, who have a lack of autonomy when it comes to mental health treatment.

“At the end of the day, this bill is about prohibiting discrimination in health care settings for youth in the LGBTQ community,” Khan said.

The press release from Khan’s office included comment from Sam Brinton, head of advocacy and government affairs at The Trevor Project — a nonprofit organization focused on suicide prevention efforts among at-risk LGBTQ+ youth. The organization is working to end conversion therapy on a state-by-state basis.

“As the final legislative vote passes to protect LGBTQ youth from conversion therapy, it’s important to acknowledge that this bill will save

Photo by Chris Triunfo Democratic Rep. Kay Khan of Newton testifies before the Financial Services Committee last year. numerous young lives in Massachusetts,” Brinton said. “Life-saving policy leaders like State Representative Khan, the hundreds of Representatives and Senators in support of this bill, and the thousands of local advocates from The Trevor Project’s 50 Bills 50 States campaign should be proud of their unwavering support of LGBTQ young people and survivors of conversion therapy.”

Advocates on Northeastern’s campus spoke out about the ban as well, including the president of NU Pride, Max Fournier. NU Pride is a community and safe space for the LGBTQ+ community on campus.

“The fact that practices such as conversion therapy exist in the United States, despite homosexuality being removed as a mental illness in 1973, is baffling,” Fournier said.

“If we don’t have laws backing the right for LGBTQA people to exist in all forms, then we aren’t really as progressive as we think.”

Organizations such as NU Pride

and The Trevor Project have lobbied for legislation advocating for LGBTQ+ rights.

“We were involved in ‘Yes on 3’ to protect trans folks in public spaces,” Fournier said. “For example, we had a meeting educating students on the topic of the bill and signed students up to vote in the election.”

Though the bill marks progress in the protection of LGBTQ+ rights, there are unanswered questions about the protection of minors within Massachusetts. Moya Bailey, an assistant professor of women’s, gender and sexuality studies at Northeastern, believes that there are still things to do to protect at-risk youth.

“This overwhelming support for young people’s autonomy is so important given their vulnerability to those responsible for their care and well-being,” Bailey said. “While this is a win in some ways for the youth of Massachusetts, it does not keep parents from going out of state or other states from still engaging in

this harmful practice.”

Other states in New England have made similar strides to outlaw the practice, as state legislators in Maine reintroduced legislation February 28 to prohibit certain licensed professionals from providing conversion therapy to minors after Gov. Paul LePage vetoed a similar bill last year, citing parents’ rights to seek medical treatment for their children that doesn’t “oppose” their religious beliefs.

In 2016, Pittsburgh was the first municipality in Pennsylvania to ban conversion therapy for minors, and other Pennsylvania cities have followed their lead. Slowly but surely, states are adopting laws that would ban this practice.

“Not only is a ban on conversion needed, but it’s long overdue,” Fournier said. “Conversion therapy is incredibly harmful to the LGBTQA community, is highly ineffective, and ... causes mental and physical trauma.”

Grocery store workers strike for better contracts

Photo by Samantha Barry Stop & Shop employee Dionicio Garcia stands outside the Mission Hill storefront parking lot to get shoppers to boycott the store in solidarity.

UNION, from front company. Shaw hopes the strike will only last a few days but said that she is ready for it to last weeks.

“I’ll stand here until they give us what we want. I will not go back in there. I just want people to be loyal and not shop there,” Shaw said.

Standing in front of the store across from the Brigham Circle Green Line T stop, Shaw pickets, yelling out for people to boycott the supermarket chain. She started at 11:30 a.m. Friday and planned to stay until 6 p.m., after which she would continue to protest at her local Stop & Shop in South Boston.

“It’s my only job, 11 years in, and I’m full time. I devoted my whole life to Stop & Shop,” Shaw said.

Lopes is uncertain about how long it will take before the conglomerate responds to their demands, but remains hopeful about the cause.

“I’ll be out here until whatever needs to be done gets done,” Lopes said. “I’ll be out here, even if I have to do it alone, I’ll be out here alone.”

Stop & Shop did not respond to a request for comment over the phone.

Some branches of the UFCW directed members to honor picket lines while employees across New England

continue to walk out. One of those branches is Teamsters Joint Council 10, which is showing solidarity for the cause by instructing members not to cross picket lines.

Stop & Shop employee Tim Joyce led a group of protesters by the loading dock of the Mission Hill store.

“Any of the trucks that are delivering product to the store, they’re all union drivers, and they will respect the picket line, and they won’t bring product into the store,” Joyce said.

Joyce and the group of workers positioned themselves in front of the loading dock early Friday morning.

Joyce said they believe the movement is gaining momentum from the community and beyond the New England region.

“This is every Stop & Shop in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, [and] we have the support of New Jersey and New York also,” Joyce said. “In Mission Hill, everybody’s supporting us, and everyone I know who works here is out on strike right now.”

As it currently stands, the Mission Hill Stop & Shop continues to operate with a limited service time of 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Shaw said that the strike’s success will only come from

community solidarity, which she hopes to see more of.

“We need everybody standing by us, and that means the shoppers, the community, the employees, the Union, everybody that stands by us is going to help us get through this,” Shaw said. “We have customers that stand by us, they have kids at the high school that are actually holding the sign, going around saying ‘Don’t shop at Stop & Shop,’ and holding signs. They’re loyal. That’s all we ask for, is their loyalty.”

It remains unclear how long these strikes could last. What is clear is that Stop & Shop employees are determined to keep the walk out going until demands are met, and they aren’t the only ones. State lawmakers and other politicians, such as 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, stated that they are allies to the employees on strike.

“I just ask everybody to stand by us as we go through this. It’s not only for us, it’s our families too,” Shaw said. “They’re trying to take everything away from us and it’s just not fair. So I’m going to stand here until they make it fair.”

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Op-ed: Transparency and inclusion will rebuild student trust in SGA I

started to care about student government halfway through my sophomore year at Northeastern. I voted for Elliot Horen and Suchira Sharma when they ran uncontested for Student Government Association, or SGA, president and executive vice president respectively in 2016.

It wasn’t until they introduced new initiatives to better include the student body, address student mental health concerns and improve campus sustainability that I started listening.

When Sharma and Paulina Ruiz ran for president and executive vice president respectively, I started believing. Their campaign was focused on equity issues, from UHCS to Title IX. It was refreshing to see student leadership recognize the unequal appropriation of resources. For example, before my first co-op, my advisor explained to me that Northeastern’s connections for the College of Arts, Media and Design, or CAMD, were more limited than those in other colleges. Sharma and Ruiz were tireless in their commitment to improving student life during their term, and they brought in a team of diverse, experienced and thoughtful cabinet members to achieve this goal.

In many ways, the accomplishments of an administration aren’t actually what is most important: The relationship with the student body and the willingness to bring student ideas to the table is what is most impactful. It seems the administration of Nathan Hostert, Dylan Balcom and Jake Grondin lost track of that.

I only found out about Hostert stepping down as SGA president days after the fact. The new administration defended its decision to not an-

nounce Hostert’s resignation so as to respect his privacy. From the people I talked to, it appears the administration’s decision left a bad impression on campus, as it should have.

This entire year, SGA was quiet.

They showed up at all the events that they normally do, but I saw fewer town hall meetings and less social media engagement. Since I arrived at Northeastern in 2015, I didn’t know when elections started until they had already been open for a week. Publicizing it didn’t seem like a priority to SGA. As someone who follows SGA’s social media and has friends in the organization, last week’s elections were not effectively promoted.

After reading a platform that excluded any significant mention of diversity, inclusion and equity on our campus and containing policy proposals that could be detrimental for students like me, I voted no confidence this year. It’s not that I have a personal problem with Chris Brown and Gabby Nobile. I agree with many of their ideas, however, their platform didn’t reassure me that SGA would return to prioritizing openness and student collaboration — not only with student groups, but also with individuals historically excluded in student government.

That’s not to say they can’t improve now that they’ve been elected. I believe the recipe for success is pretty simple.

With SGA’s reputation faltering once again, transparency is key. The new administration must focus on updating the student body, especially on social media where updates and information are easily accessible to students.

Melissa Wells

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t 6:43 p.m. Monday, the historic landmark, monument of faith and heart of Paris that is the Notre-Dame began to burn.

The cathedral took nearly 200 years to build after construction began in 1163. Home to many of the most important works of art and relics in Christian history, Notre-Dame is a symbol of France that has transcended political regimes and religions. More than 850 years later, it remains the most-visited monument in the world, viewed by approximately 12 million people annually.

As French President Emmanuel Macron described the cathedral on Monday: “Notre-Dame is our history, our literature, part of our psyche,

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For example, there is not a single building on campus designated only for CAMD, as Ryder Hall is shared with the College of Social Sciences and Humanities, leaving five computer labs spread across three buildings. It’s important to talk to

students with concerns and find a compromise.

Last, our representatives should be accessible. They need to engage in public conversations where students can talk with leaders in person. Many different people can be great leaders, but it comes down to execution.

Although I’m graduating, I hope Brown and Nobile will focus on transparency and inclusion so SGA can better serve its students once again.

Jasmine Heyward is a fourth-year journalism major.

Column: Calls to rebuild Notre-Dame set example of global unity for US the place of all our great events, our epidemics, our wars, our liberations, the epicenter of our lives.”

Nine hours and about 400 firefighters later, tireless efforts to extinguish the flames were able to salvage the main stone structure of the illustrious cathedral and its two towers, but not the roof or its iconic spire. As April 15 came to a close, dwindling embers of the blaze and billowing smoke revealed yet another tragedy for France to bear: “Our Lady of Paris” in ruins.

Around the world, people took to social media to share memories of Notre-Dame, one of more than 3,000 cathedrals in existence today.

Front pages of newspapers everywhere paid tribute to the cathedral, representative of world heritage that has stood tall since the 14th century.

Even for many who aren’t religious, Notre-Dame is more than a pillar of faith; it is a cultural symbol, an artistic feat, the embodiment of how faith has persevered throughout history — and the world watched, seemingly helpless, as it crumbled.

As a Christian, I find comfort and solace in places of worship. I was shocked when news of the fire broke

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and heartbroken by the pain captured of those at the scene. There will always be fires, but the worldwide solidarity and the sense of unshaken faith in humanity was touching to see on display. Hundreds who lined the streets in silent shock found comfort in each other — embracing strangers and kneeling together in prayer. The soft unison of “Ave Maria” traveled across the crowds of vigilant spectators.

It is not the building of wood and stone, although a masterpiece of Middle-Age Gothic architecture, that has maintained an audience over centuries — it is the value and history Notre-Dame embodies of Christianity and France. The desolation is worsened by the strength of a history battered by events like the French Revolution, two world wars and recent terrorism that has claimed the lives of more than 245 people since the Charlie Hebdo shootings in 2015.

The Notre-Dame cathedral will never be the same, despite Macron’s adamant promise to rebuild, but the underlying human virtues that led to its creation ensure it will rise again.

In the New York Times, contributing

opinion writer Pamela Druckerman argued that “we’ve failed, as a civilization, to be the caretakers of something priceless.”

The devastation caused by this fire will be etched in world history. But it is also human nature to rise from the ashes — or better yet, to start over and improve. The outpouring of support and financial aid to ensure the Notre-Dame is rebuilt is inspiring, but better yet, it should serve as the precedent.

When tragedy strikes, we all must come together: whether it be as a global community to save our planet from climate change or respond to humanitarian crises, or as a nation to rebuild Louisiana churches destroyed in a hate crime, make clean water accessible to Flint, Michigan or aid Puerto Rico’s recovery from Hurricane Maria. And those are just a few.

We, as a civilization, did not fail because Notre-Dame burned; the real failure will be if we cannot recreate “Our Lady of Paris” to be an equally comforting fixture for the generations to come, an edifice emblematic of the collective belief that faith and humanity remains indestructible.

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Thursday, Apr. 18

The Museum of Fine Arts kicks off its Gender Bending Fashion on Film series with the ’80s cult classic film “Liquid Sky.” The film follows an alien invasion set against the excesses of the New Wave fashion scene. The Gender Bending Fashion on Film series continues through the weekend. 8 p.m.-10:05 p.m.; Auditorium 161, Museum of Fine Arts; $5 with Northeastern ID.

Friday, Apr. 19

Photo by Morgan Lloyd First-year health science major Maryrose Hahn delivers a passionate lead vocal performance of “Taste” by Betty Who. Hahn won Best Soloist in the ICCA semifinals, in which the group placed third place.

Treble on Huntington brings rock flair to AfterHours

By Morgan Lloyd Deputy Lifestyle Editor Wearing denim, leather, fishnet stockings and Beatles T-shirts, Northeastern a cappella group Treble on Huntington took the stage at AfterHours for “Rockappella,” their end-of-semester showcase, with three other groups Sunday night.

The show was an opportunity for Treble on Huntington to perform the set that won them awards in the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella, or ICCA, a tournament that brings together student a cappella groups from around the world. The group took third place in the semifinal round, the farthest they

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also offered the group a chance to cut loose. Continuing their tradition of themed spring concerts, Treble on Huntington showed up in what Jones described as “biker clothes,” wearing attire that wouldn’t look out of place at a Motley Crue show.

In their performances, however, the a cappella groups stuck to pop and R&B hits, with a few surprises thrown in. After Treble on Huntington’s opening two numbers, the CharlieChords, Berklee College of Music’s only all-male a cappella group, took the stage.

Dressed in a striking black-andred color scheme, the CharlieChords showed a wide variety of talent,

We’re going to do our best, we’re going to have fun with it, and we’re not going to kill each other over it.

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– Natalie Jones, fourth year

have ever gone in the competition.

“We didn’t even go into it saying, ‘We need to place, we need to get to semis,’” said Natalie Jones, a fourth-year mathematics and biology combined major who is both the president and treasurer of Treble on Huntington. “We were just like, ‘We’re going to do our best, we’re going to have fun with it, and we’re not going to kill each other over it.’

And that made it even better that we ended up doing so well.”

With their competition season over, it was time for Treble on Huntington to have some fun. They opened the show by debuting two new songs, “Sue Me” by Sabrina Carpenter and “Make Up” by Vice and Jason Derulo. Both were instant hits with the crowd.

“We just wanted some fun things for the spring, after the competition season, songs that everyone really likes to sing,” Jones said.

The evening’s theme, Rockappella,

including a vocal percussion breakdown on “Whatever It Takes” by Imagine Dragons and rich three-part harmonies on their closing song, “Brother” by Needtobreathe.

Northeastern’s own Distilled Harmony took the stage next. Adhering to the rock theme with flannels and leather jackets, the group delivered a passionate performance, culminating in a powerful finale with “In My Blood” by Shawn Mendes. The group also teased their upcoming album “High Definition,” which is set to release soon.

The next performers were the surprise of the evening: The Bean Tones, Berklee’s barbershop quartet.

Treble on Huntington discovered the group busking on Newbury Street and invited them to perform.

“We were busking ourselves, and when we finished we were just walking around shopping, and we saw them busking. We stopped to listen, and we were like, ‘These guys are

awesome,’” said Kismet Seekond, a second-year communications studies major and the rising president and treasurer of Treble on Huntington.

The Bean Tones had the audience clapping for numbers like Queen’s “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” and Billy Joel’s “The Longest Time.”

They concluded with a barbershop quartet interpretation of “Ripped Pants” from SpongeBob SquarePants, performing to cheers and laughter.

The show concluded with Treble on Huntington’s performance of their ICCA set. The set kicked off with “Taste” by Betty Who, featuring a showstopping vocal performance by first-year health science major Maryrose Hahn. Hahn won the award for Best Soloist at the ICCA semifinals for her performance.

“As a first-year, just having a solo in itself was great, but winning an award was incredible,” Hahn said.

The set also featured “Finest Hour”

by Cash Cash and Abir and a medley of “River” by Bishop Briggs and “Twice” by Christina Aguilera, both delivering a powerful, reverb-heavy ensemble sound. Though the small stage limited the group’s choreography, for which they also won an award in the ICCA semifinals, they made up for it with a passionate performance.

Now, Treble on Huntington has returned to the recording studio to track their set as an EP to be released in the fall. The group doesn’t plan to return to the ICCA competition next year, instead looking to find other venues at which to perform.

The work Treble on Huntington put in this year opened new opportunities for them, Seekond said.

“Hard work pays off. We really worked for it,” Seekond said. “In the past, I don’t think we thought of ourselves as a group that was trying to win ICCA ever. But we’ve gotten to a point where we’re ready to work hard enough to get to that point.”

Listen to presentations from top researchers in neuroscience and artificial intelligence as part of the Cambridge Science Festival. The talks will focus on brain science including memory, emotions and how the brain makes predictions.

Tickets are available on Eventbrite.

9 a.m.-12 p.m.; Singleton Auditorium (46-3002), Building 46 - MIT; Free.

Saturday, Apr. 20

Watch the dancers of No Limits Dance Crew, one of Northeastern’s student-run dance groups, close out the semester. The performance will exhibit a variety of styles, from contemporary to hip-hop. Tickets are available on myNortheastern.

3:30 p.m.-5 p.m.; Blackman Auditorium; Free for students, $15 for non-NU students.

Sunday, Apr. 21

After watching No Limits Dance Crew, head back to Blackman for Northeastern University Dance Company’s semester showcase, Reflections. The show will feature a wide variety of dances, from intense contemporary to traditional Irish step and rhythmic tap dance. There will be performances at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Tickets are available on myNortheastern. 3 p.m.-4 p.m. and 7 p.m.-8 p.m.; Blackman Auditorium; Free for students.

Monday, Apr. 22

Head to the New England Conservatory’s historic Jordan Hall to hear the NEC Concert Choir and Chamber Singers perform choral masterworks, both a cappella and accompanied. The evening will feature a range of music, including pieces by Mendelssohn and Holst.

Reserve your ticket in advance on the NEC website. 7:30 p.m.; Jordan Hall; Free.

Tuesday, Apr. 23

Austin Kleon, author of the bestselling books “Steal Like an Artist” and “Show Your Work!”, will speak at Central Library about his latest book, “Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad.” The book provides advice about how to stay focused while producing creative work.

Registration is encouraged but not required. 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m.; Central Library in Copley Square; Free.

Wednesday, Apr. 24 Join the Nor’easters as they send off their seniors in style with their final show of the semester. The group will be previewing their set for the National A Cappella Conference 2019. The show will also feature performances from Pitch Slapped, Berklee College of Music’s premier co-ed a cappella group. Tickets will be available soon. 8 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.; Blackman Auditorium; Free.

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