Archive for ‘November, 2007’

Ampersand

We are outraged that word on the street is a class promoting every COM student’s favorite activity — drinking in the classroom — may be cut from the college. We here at the ol’ Free Press share our carefully culled list of omissions from the registrar’s listings for spring 2008.

STAFF EDIT: Address campus STDs ASAP

Sexually transmitted diseases are all too common among young people in the United States, with the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention reporting that nearly half of the 19 million new STD cases that occur each year affects the 15-to-24 demographic.

Producers finding new ways to tell heroic tale

Unable to heal the injured, fly or bend time and space like the characters on their hit show Heroes, Mark Warshaw and Jesse Alexander spoke about the necessary superpower of TV conglomerates to transform their on-screen adventures into digitalized dynamite.

Environment-conscious students urge recycling

Doing the little things from recycling to unplugging phone chargers to printing double-sided pages can help save energy, the Environmental Health and Safety Office suggested to students on America Recycles Day yesterday.

This time, VP on end of nasty phone calls

BUPD received a report of threatening phone messages left on a BU vice president’s office voicemail at the John and Kathryn Silber Administrative Building at 9:30 a.m. Nov. 8.