"Northeastern develops high-tech homeland security devices" October 09, 2011|By Akilah Johnson, Globe Staff
This is Northeastern University’s George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security, a new $12 million building on the school’s Burlington campus that still smells of fresh paint. Professors and students stood in labs in various stages of completion, detailing the domestic security applications of research that will occur in a restricted and classified environment.
“The mission of this facility is to assist the government with the protection of our freedom,’’ said Northeastern alumnus George J. Kostas, who funded the project, the largest capital donation in university history. “We lived through the Great Depression, the Second World War … and now we see the country facing an even greater challenge. The challenge is terrorism.’’
If the government is supposed to be protecting our freedom why is it taking so much away?
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I dismissed class early.
