College of Arts and Sciences sophomore Paul Sawiya created a Facebook application to allow students to add music to their pages, and later received a letter from the RIAA, forcing him to take down his application because it contained illegal files. (5) comments
Boston University police records, along with those at private colleges across the state, could soon become public, if a bill approved yesterday by a legislative committee becomes law. (0) comments
Students will need to be careful where they drink their celebratory brew on Marathon Monday as the Boston University and Boston police departments vow to patrol around campus, enforcing public drinking laws. (0) comments
"Sex is my best release," said Boston University freshman Anil Daibee. College of Arts and Sciences student Daibee, a nonsmoker and nondrinker, called sex his vice, the best way "to emotionally release myself and chill my mind out with all of the stress of school . . . It's just part of the college culture." (2) comments
"Americans are not necessarily a bunch of jerks focused on cars, clothes or other material things," Pinsky said. "A poem is not a test to say something smart." (0) comments
Universities require undergraduate students to wrestle with the intricacies of -isms -- nihilism, utilitarianism, existentialism among them -- but students and professors are increasingly finding the life examined worthwhile. (0) comments
BUPD arrested a party for assault and battery and disorderly conduct at the Hotel Commonwealth at 1:20 a.m. April 5. The victim suffered an eye injury and was transported by ambulance to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. (1) comment
Grassroots groups in the Boston-wide green movement got their day in the sun yesterday, as Mayor Thomas Menino presented awards to 17 area businesses, families and school groups to acknowledge their environmental efforts at the second annual Green Business Awards. (0) comments
Two hundred years after the closing of the transatlantic slave trade in the United States, the country is still feeling the effects of the end of the slave trade, University of Maryland history professor Ira Berlin said last night. (0) comments