In addition to his musical skills, Tom Rozum is also an able cartoonist. One of his efforts appears on the front page of this special edition. It was drawn and published in the Northeastern News 50 years ago. This year we asked Tom to fashion a new editorial cartoon that comments on America in 2021....
“I think it would be fun to run a newspaper.” —Charles Foster Kane/Citizen Kane Editor-in-Chief: Larry Rothstein Editors Donna Doherty Len Gamache Barry Gilbert Scott Kaeser Writers Peter Accardi Nedda Young Barth B. Jay Cooper Mike Chung Mike Dorfsman Mary Gelinas Jack Goldberg Nancy Vogelson Greene Donna Halper Kristen Kingsbury Henshaw Rick Howland Maxine Lieberman...
As political events in the spring of 1970 spiraled out of control, I decided to print the Northeastern News daily. I knew the staff was skilled enough and dedicated enough to make it work. My biggest worry was whether we would have enough newsworthy events to fill four pages every 24 hours. It was a...
“The past is never dead. It is not even past.” —William Faulkner One of the greatest lectures I ever heard at Northeastern occurred in a course I had learned to despise called The Bible as Literature. Taking a break from political science, I thought it would be interesting to learn the connections between characters in...
Bruce was different from the rest of us. Very different. We were mostly working-class kids who, like me, lived at home and commuted to Northeastern, trying to scrape by financially during our freshman year until we got co-op jobs to pay for our next semester. I even labored as a 15- hour-a-week mail boy while...
On the fourth floor of the Ell Student Center from 1967-1973, students from Divisions A and B each put out a great newspaper. In part, this was because of the times. Protests against the Vietnam War and movements for civil rights, women’s liberation, gay rights and environmentalism rolled through what had been the most politically conservative campus in the Greater Boston area. Assassination...