NUPay Working Again

Last night we blogged about NUPay being unavailable. We now can bring you the good news that the service is back up and running.

A Certified Green Restaurant Right On Campus

Students looking to eat in a "Green" facility will soon be able to enjoy the benefits of a Certified Green Restaurant right on campus with next month's opening of the International Village Dining Hall. The announcement that the dining hall was made a Certified Green Restaurant by the Green Restaurant Association was made by Dining Services on Twitter this morning and the Resident Student Association independently confirmed the information through the Green Restaurant Association's website (see below) just a few minutes ago.


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NUPay Down

If you were hoping to add money to your HuskyCard, pay your tuition, or make a housing deposit tonight, you may not be able to. There is currently an outage of the NUPay (also known as CashNet) service that students can access via the myNEU Portal to make online credit / debit card payments.

The problem seems to have come up after the close of business, but Information Services Customer Service staff informed us that they have assigned a "High" priority to the issue and that the group in charge of the service will "be taking a look at this in the morning."

Affected students will see an error message stating "You have too many outstanding requests, wait for them to complete, then try again," or will see a message like this:


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Students who encounter an error accessing the service can send an e-mail to help@neu.edu to let Northeastern know they are having problems.

Help With Move-In

Move-in for the Fall of 2009 starts September 3rd, and the University is looking for students to volunteer to help out. To learn more, you can attend an information session on August 18th at 6:00 PM in 333 Curry Student Center or e-mail movein.volunteers@neu.edu.

New Dining Hall Opens August 31st

The International Village Dining Hall is set to open on Monday, August 31st, 2009. The newest dining facility to Northeastern will feature a state-of-the-art residential dining experience for Northeastern students, and will supplement the existing facilities at Stetson Hall East & Stetson Hall West helping to meet the volumes of students who will be using the dining facilities.

Columbus Lot Closure

Northeastern is going to be doing work on the Columbus Parking lot (the surface lot between the two garages) this upcoming weekend, and so the lot will be closed on Saturday, July 25th, and Sunday, July 26th. The work should include the fixing of potholes that currently exist in the lot.

Students, faculty, and staff with day parking permits can park in the North Lot during this time, and students, faculty, and staff with overnight parking permits can use the North Lot or Renaissance Park Garage.

If you fail to remove your car from the Columbus Parking lot in a timely fashion, you risk being towed.

Blog Now On Twitter

This blog is now fed over to Twitter. Whenever a new blog post is made, within 30 minutes a tweet will be issued from @RSABlog about the post with a link to it! If you don't yet have Twitter, you can sign up for free at www.Twitter.com.

Recycling

A question that I want to pose to you blog readers: Would you recycle more if recycling bins were more accessible on-campus. For example, if you were throwing a plastic bottle, glass bottle, or paper out and right next to the trash can was a recycling container, would you recycle or just trash it all? If your laundry room had a recycling bin, would you recycle empty laundry detergent bottles versus throwing them away? Or do you already recycle these?

Letting us know will provide some preliminary feedback on a couple ideas that RSA and HEAT discussed in a meeting last night about improving on-campus recycling options and availability.