Archive for ‘December, 2006’

Second Suspect Pleads Not Guilty to Assault on BU Athletes

A second suspect pled not guilty this morning to multiple assault charges in connection with a Dec. 3 attack on four Boston University athletes. Boston and Hingham police arrested Ronald B. Twombly, Jr., 23, at 3 p.m. yesterday and charged the Hingham resident with assault with intent to murder with a dangerous weapon, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon causing serious injury, and affray.

Mugar hires shuttle for 24-hour schedule

Instead of shortening its hours, Mugar Memorial Library administrators have contracted a private busing firm to shuttle students across campus when the library begins operating through the night for final exams, starting Dec. 12. Administrators said they briefly considered canceling the 24-hour finals schedule after the university cut the late-night Escort Security van service earlier in the semester, worrying that students living far from Mugar would not be safe walking home late at night.

UNI Director to Step Down in June

After almost two years at the helm of the smallest college at Boston University, Bruce Redford will step down as director of the University Professors’ Program in June 2007, university officials have confirmed. Redford, who became director in January 2005, plans to work on a book and collaborate on a related exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, said College of Arts and Sciences Dean Jeffrey Henderson in an email.

Final Week: Lives of Student Soldiers

A self-proclaimed “nerd extraordinaire,” John Stivers, 25, said he did not seem like the sort to go into the military after high school. He said he had a lot going for him and was accepted into his Ivy League dream school, where he hoped to study medicine.

BU Prof. Sparks Local Debate on Paternal Leave

When Boston University biology assistant professor Paul Cook began his tenure track in 2001, he and his wife knew they would have a family one day — but they never planned to have three children in less than four years. After five years of researching optical brain functions, Cook was notified in September that he had been denied tenure, because a department committee had decided Cook had not published enough material.