Wollaston's West Campus

The West Campus Wollaston's is now closed on Sunday for the rest of the summer. The Resident Student Association was not aware of the change or plans to change it, but we're looking into why this happened and if there is a possibility of keeping the location open on Sundays during the summer.

Last year under former Vice President Nicole Johnson the West Campus Wollaston's closing time was extended an hour. This was a great step forward, and it is disappointing to see a step back with the Sunday closing for the rest of the summer. Wollaston's in the West Campus directs students to go to the Marino Center location on Sundays

June Movies on RSA Cinema Video

In an earlier post, I discussed the new "this month on RSA Cinema" videos that we're running on the channel. The videos are now also going to be put on the Internet, thanks to YouTube. In RSA we also used YouTube to host the video from our winning Program of the Year presentation.

Each month we'll be uploading the movies to YouTube and then putting them here on the blog.

Feds Make Mistake at University

An interesting story related to University housing was in the news this week. The federal government has owned up to a mistake made on a college campus in California. As the Mercury News reports, at the University of California - San Diego, federal agents raided student housing looking for illegal immigrants. However, the agents failed to notify the University before the raid. It seems that the policy that is in place at with United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (USICE) is for agents to notify college police when entering a University campus or student housing.

At Northeastern University, the same policy would apply if USICE showed up on-campus looking for illegal immigrants. Most law enforcement agencies, such as the Boston police work in conjunction with Northeastern University police when there are issues on campus or in residence halls. In fact, Northeastern University police are notified when other law enforcement agencies or emergency services enter the residence halls. A lot of work goes into safety in the residence halls, and while much of it is made up of small, unnoticed efforts and is done behind the scenes, the work of Northeastern University Public Safety and the Residential Safety Office was good enough to get Northeastern ranked the second safest college campus by Reader's Digest. Don't believe me? The proof is here.

Find Departments & Offices

Have you ever needed to get in contact with an office, but had no clue how to do so? Thanks to the Northeastern University website's Find Offices page, you can look at an alphabetical list of departments, offices, colleges, centers, and institutes. Once you find the office you need, just click on it and you'll be taken to their website which should have contact information such as a phone number or e-mail address at the bottom. If you still can't figure out how to get in contact with a group or person at Northeastern, you can always e-mail us about it.