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....
(Margie’s writing is in Roman type; Gil’s is in italic ) (MVP) So … (all good non-news stories start with “so,” don’t they?) … so, there was my boyfriend (now husband of 53 years) who was a freshman at Northeastern University’s Burlington campus when, in the early spring of 1965, I received an acceptance letter from Northeastern. That was such a...
All Hail 53 Years Later I was a green kid from a small town when I first set foot on Northeastern’s quadrangle in the fall of 1963. There were only 53 in my high school graduating class; the crowd of families and friends at my high school graduation was smaller than the packed auditorium for...
“Time it was, and what a time it was …” — Paul Simon, “Old Friends” Looking back, it was a period justly recalled as a time of protest, motivated by parallel lines of dissent that met, one in support for civil rights, the other in ending the Vietnam War. Even the soundtrack of the period...
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...
It was a thrilling time to be a college student. It was even more thrilling to be the editor of a college newspaper. By 1968, the anti-Vietnam War movement had reached Northeastern University. We on the Northeastern News could feel it. As editor/guru, I found myself surrounded by talent as eager as I was to...
I hadn’t looked through my copy of Cauldron 1971 for many years before working on this project, but when I did, I was struck with what a remarkable accomplishment it was. I had never before (or since) seen a comparable yearbook with such an inclusive scope of academic, local, national and global awareness or with...
On the last day of Freshman Orientation Week in September 1966, most of us were gathered in Symphony Hall. There, I was later told, President Asa Knowles welcomed us to Northeastern with a warning: “Look to your left, now look to your right. One of the people sitting next to you will be gone before...
Even though you have been gone for more than 50 years, I still to this day appreciate your guidance and wisdom. The advice you gave urging me to attend your alma mater Northeastern and experience the co-op opportunities, were invaluable. During my time spent in the late ’60s at Northeastern as an English major and...
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...