Archive for ‘March, 2009’

STAFF EDIT: Don’t take it to the bank

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has been in hot water over his handling of the AIG bonus scandal, but some are saying his job may be safe after all, pointing to Monday’s 500-point surge in the Dow Jones industrial average following Geithner’s announcement of a bank bailout.

STAFF EDIT: Herbivores not catered to

They pay the same amount for their dining plans as the rest of the Boston University student body, but it is clear that many vegetarian and vegan students feel as though their needs are not being met by dining services. The current amount of effort expended by dining services to inform students about their vegetarian and vegan options is far too lackluster.

Twenty Years Caught Up in the World Wide Web

Two decades of the Web are now behind us and surfers are still sharing funny pictures of cats. However, photoshopped pictures and Rick Astley music videos are not the only stimulation beaming across the Web each day. Now, with the Internet offering greater and once unimaginable possibilities as it blows out 20 candles, geeks and average Joes are having their cake and eating it too.

MED gets anonymous $10.5M donation for cancer research

Despite the tough economic climate, an anonymous Boston University Medical School graduate recently pledged the largest-ever single-person donation given to MED.

Let us in, let us in! Let us out, let us out!

Officers responded to a call about a loud party at the residence of Boston University fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi in Allston at 12:20 a.m. March 22. Officers were denied entry at the front and back doors of the building. More officers responded to the scene, and they could hear screams that people wanted to leave.