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The Intercultural Center celebrates 25th Anniversary

  | 04/04/2017

To celebrate the Intercultural Center’s 25th anniversary, food, music and festivities filled Sherman Function Hall in a student-organized event featuring all of the ICC’s clubs on Saturday evening.  Each of the clubs held a table featuring food and custom hand-painted banners representing their community.  “In recent years, nothing like this has happened — all 18 clubs together,” said Lillian Wang ’18, co-coordinator of the event.

Eversource proposes rate rise for Massachusetts

  | 03/28/2017

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey spoke out on Thursday against a proposed $300 million rate increase by New England energy company Eversource Energy, according to a Friday article in the Waltham Patch. In her appeal to the Department of Public Utilities, Healey called this case “an important opportunity for the Department to reset the balance between company profits and customer rates,” according to the Patch article. Healey argued that Eversource’s recent returns have been far higher than most national public utility commissions would allow, citing a cumulative total return of 89 percent to Eversource shareholders between 2010 and 2015, according to the article.

Senate discusses “meatless Monday” and bylaw amendments

  | 03/21/2017

The Senate convened on Sunday to recognize several new clubs and discuss amendments to the Union’s constitution and reports on issues raised by constituents this past week. The first club up for recognition was Fencing Club, a club that previously existed but had been disbanded.

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