Archive for ‘April, 2008’

MADRID: Do something with your life

So this is it: my last column. No, no — it’s OK. Please don’t cry. Seriously, shut up — I can’t think when you’re blubbering like Augustus Gloop over there. We’ve really had some great times together this semester, haven’t we?

STAFF EDIT: NU students take a stand

When students from Northeastern University braved the rain and wind in Boston Common to protest their institution’s low pay scale for janitors last weekend, they may not have gotten the instant satisfaction they wanted — though they picketed in front of Northeastern president Joseph Aoun’s $7.5 million Beacon Hill residence, the administrator was not home to answer.

Laboring for Change

After watching a team of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents rush into a New Bedford factory and arrest roughly 350 undocumented workers in March 2007, Sergio Reyes, a 56-year-old who emigrated from Chile, said the military-like efficiency and mass mobilization of the armed squadron reminded him of similar tactics he encountered in his past.

Professor’s sophisticated medical research is more than just bare bones

Thomas Einhorn, Boston University School of Medicine orthopedic surgery department chairman, has been performing some revolutionary surgeries — and there are no bones about that.

Urban campuses grow with student population

Many Boston-area colleges looking to increase on-campus housing have found themselves caught between dealing with limited room for growth and appeasing concerns local residents have about the expansions, city and university officials said.