Archive for ‘April, 2008’

In Allston, COM students bring joy and jump ropes

Thanks to some Boston University students, 10-year-old Terri Smith said she was excited to have new jump ropes for her and her friends to play with at the West End House Boys and Girls Club in Allston.

Union report brings advising to admins.

Academic advising is failing many Boston University students and the process should be streamlined and professors should be trained to advise, the Student Union Academic Affairs Committee said in a report to be presented to the administration today.

Choose or lose: housing selection

Students say the emotions wrapped up in Boston University housing selection are not unlike an amusement park ride.

LICHTENBERG: Dancing down to Florida

Some students dream of attending the Frozen Four in their time at BU. Some hope to storm the court at an America East championship game to celebrate a basketball team’s punched ticket to the Big Dance.

Trouble finishing at Spring Thing

The Boston University golf team did not perform poorly, but didn’t play up to its potential with a third-place finish in last weekend’s Mount Saint Mary’s Spring Thing. BU placed behind Fairleigh Dickinson University and host Mount Saint Mary University in the Littlestown, Pa., tournament.