Doctors performed a second successful surgery yesterday morning on College of Arts and Sciences senior Steven Boursiquot, who survived the 21 Aberdeen St. fire that killed two Boston University students Feb. 24, according to those close to him. Treating Boursiquot's third-degree burn wounds, doctors transplanted skin from his thigh to burn spots on his back to help them heal, according to an online statement his sister, Christina Boursiquot, posted on a Massachusetts General Hospital CarePage.
A Boston University graduate who spoke to WTBU members last night about opportunities in the radio field knows a thing about opportunity herself. MTV executive Amy Doyle, a 1992 College of Communication graduate, earned her position booking the hottest bands for the entertainment empire after crawling her way through the national radio circuit.
The Boston University School of Medicine, along with other Massachusetts colleges, will study how medical students and residents are educated about how their patients can become addicted to medicine they are prescribed. The Massachusetts Consortium of Medical Schools -- consisting of the BU School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, University of Massachusetts Medical School and Tufts University School of Medicine -- will also develop a standard curriculum for other medical institutions to follow as part of the nine-month contract from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Senior campaign advisers for three major candidates for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination fielded questions last night at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, but many in the audience made up of mostly students said they were disappointed by the answers -- and non-answers -- the top strategists gave.
Crime problems in the Allston-Brighton area will have to take a back seat to more pressing problems, such as gun violence and turf wars in other parts of the city, for at least the next few years, city officials say - although they said they are taking the rising number of assaults reported in the area seriously.
Mexico has come a long way socially in the past 20 years, but progressive movements have been overshadowed by immigration policies with the United States, said the Mexican Deputy Consul last night at the Howard Thurman Center in the George Sherman Union. "A lot of people have in their mind the Mexico of 20 years ago," Deputy Consul Rodrigo Marquez said to more than 80 Boston University students.
The following reports were taken from the Allston-Brighton District 14 crime logs from Feb. 26-March 5. Undercover police responded shortly before 1 a.m. March 4 to several complaints of loud parties, excessive drinking and disorderly conduct at a large party on Gardner Street.
Expressing beliefs through personal reflections and performances, representatives of different faiths from across Massachusetts gathered at the George Sherman Union's Metcalf Hall last night to debunk religious stereotypes and misconceptions. "Breaking Barriers: Destroying Misconceptions About Our World's Faiths," hosted by different on-campus religious groups, was an opportunity for about 20 students to talk about their personal struggles with how others perceive their religions, said Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore during his opening speech.
As more diverse ethnic groups walk the Boston University campus each year, the face of the city's once-dominant white population is changing as well. Despite a slight dip in BU's white population over the past few years, the number of white students at BU is significantly higher than the number of white residents living in Boston, a figure which some attribute to changing family structure and housing costs.
