About the Author: Hannah Johnson serves as DipNote’s Assistant Editor.
Each week, we will be highlighting a U.S. government photograph from around the world as part of our “Photo of the Week” segment. This week’s photograph comes to us from the Office of Art in Embassies. Taken by…
I hope the start of the new year has been great so far. We will start up another weekly trivia contest in a few weeks. If you won a prize and have not come to pick it up, you need to do so by 3pm on Thusday (1/12/12).
Where is the world’s largest road tunnel?
This is the Last question for the Fall 2011 M1LK Trivia. We will hold the prize drawing on Dec. 12 during the event of the semester event. Please see your RA for more information.
When was the first issue of “The Co-Op” printed and what was the front page article?
Email staff.m1lk@gmail.com with the answer.
The last trivia question will be posted next week Monday. Prize drawing will take place on Dec. 12th. Keep an eye out for more information.
Earlier this month, the United States Supreme Court announced it would hear oral arguments and issue a ruling on the constitutionality of the Obama administration’s controversial health-care reform legislation. We asked Kristin Madison, a Northeastern University professor with dual appointments in the School of Law and the Bouvé College of Health Sciences, to assess the upcoming case.
What issues in the health-care law will the Supreme Court most likely scrutinize during oral arguments this spring?Read the full article http://www.northeastern.edu/news/stories/2011/11/madison.html
November is National Diabetes Month, a time to remember the victims of this disease, support those it affects, and to pledge to fight it.
In the United States, diabetes affects nearly 26 million people—more than eight percent of the population—and many more are at risk. However, diabetes can be…
Read the Full Article from TIME Magazine, written by Feifei Sun
“In 2010, more Americans lived below the poverty line than at any time since 1959, when the U.S. Census Bureau began collecting this data. Last January, TIME commissioned photographer Joakim Eskildsen to capture the growing crisis, which now affects nearly 46.2 million Americans. Traveling to New York, California, Louisiana, South Dakota and Georgia over seven months, Eskildsen’s photographs of the many types of people who face poverty appear in the new issue of TIME. Eskildsen, who last visited America in 1986, says the poverty crisis was a side of the country he’d rarely seen in the media in Berlin, where he is based. “For Europeans living outside of America, it’s a mythical place because we’re breastfed with all those images of Coca-Cola and American culture,” Eskildsen says. “It was very heartbreaking to see all kinds of people facing poverty because many of these people were not only economically poor, but living in unhealthy conditions overall.”
Homecoming Comedian
Russell Brand
8:00pm –Matthews Arena
This event is sponsored by SAA, & CUP.
Tickets will be available via the myTickets tab on myNEU. $10 and $17 for students