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....
Years of co-op job training in surgical research labs at Massachusetts General Hospital qualified me to easily get work in the Physiology Department at the University of Arizona Medical School in Tucson. But then, exactly a year after graduating from Northeastern in 1973, my life took a hard right turn when I was asked to...
The 1971 Cauldron yearbook included this now classic 33 1/3 RPM record that offered an aural history of life for Northeastern college students between 1966 and 1971 The 1971 Cauldron yearbook was a creative break from what had gone before, befitting the times and its spirit of innovation and experimentation. Graduating seniors opened the book...
A few years before I ever trekked Northeastern’s hallways and tunnels looking for classrooms and classmates, I was aware of its accurate, yet tenuous, link to Major League Baseball history. My cousin was an accomplished Husky chemistry major in the early 1960s (he was four years older), and when we attended an occasional Red Sox...
My years at Northeastern were spent in Boston for school and northern New Jersey for co-op. I alternated between these two environments that were, and still are, mostly urban. One can only dream of America’s wide open spaces while staring out the dorm windows on Hemenway Street. Fifty years hence, I am retired and still have...
The Northeastern University campus has changed dramatically changed since 1971, becoming larger, greener and more welcoming. If all you recall are trolley tracks, endless acres of blacktop parking lots and rectangular buildings of gray brick, and you haven’t been back to the campus since your Commencement Day, you probably would be surprised by many changes. A familiar view of the entrance to Ell Hall, but with a prettier garden to soften the gray brick A returning visitor first would notice how much cleaner the buildings they remember are now. This is partly due to...
My route to recognizing a special but largely unappreciated pioneer American female athlete, in my very first attempt at column writing for the Northeastern News in 1967, wound its way through a pretty absurd loss of innocence. Today, it is a complete relief to me that the actual column would never merit renewed scrutiny or, thank God,...
In college, I experimented. It was a period of protests, politics and pharmaceuticals. I dabbled, attending protests and marches in Washington for peace and the environment, and in New Haven, protesting the trial of Black Panther Bobby Seale. Little did I know that from that political awakening, I would wind up working in the White...
It’s been 50 years since we put our last edition of the Northeastern News to bed. It’s a metaphoric term, I know, but if you have seen the typefaces all kerned into their wooden trays, yes, they do look like they are in bed. Newspaper printing technology has taken leaps and bounds since that time,...
My five years at Northeastern as a member of the class of 1971 were a time of seemingly faster-than-typical shifts in the political and cultural landscape, dominated by reaction to the Vietnam War, but with other changes developing along parallel and/or intersecting tracks. Much has already been written about those times, and explaining them properly...