Archive for ‘April, 2006’

Robert Brown inaugurated as university’s tenth president

To honor President Robert Brown at his inauguration Thursday evening at Agganis Arena, prominent members of the Boston University community praised the accomplished engineer for both his work over the past year and the visions he has for the future. The ceremony was attended by such notables as Mayor Thomas Menino, Tufts President Lawrence Macow, Massachusetts Treasurer Timothy Cahill and, of course, former BU president John Silber.

Perspective: Who’d have thought four years could go by like that?

I really don’t know how to approach this perspective. I don’t know what to write. This coming from a writer. Part of me wants to write about the last four years of my life. Those four years that change your life forever. The four most wonderful years of your life.

So, you wanna be a Division I athlete?

It would be stupid to bet against John Curry now, because athetes of his breed — the Doug Fluties and the Rocky Balboas and the Gonzagas — usually don’t stop proving people wrong once they start. And if Curry could elevate his play from a third-string bench-warmer to an All-American in college, why can’t he do it in the pros? I would have been rooting for Curry to make it anyway, simply because I get the impression from spending some time around him the last three years that he’s a respectful, hard-working kid who has his priorities in the right place.

Final Word: Off the Post

Three years, six semesters and 69 columns later it all comes down to this: my final column. Ever. In a lot of ways, this might be the most important column I’ve ever written. Fair or not, you’re often remembered by how you go out, which is why I’ve felt so much pressure the past few days trying to figure out how to fill this space.

Easy does it

By his own admission, John Curry hopes it all looks too easy. What he does may be amazing, and at times impossible, but if the junior goalie of the Boston University men’s ice hockey team makes it seem like you could have done it, he’s at his best. At the same time, subtlety has never been Curry’s forté, either.