Archive for ‘February, 2010’

STAFF EDIT: Good deed? Meet punishment

When United States citizen Laura Silsby and nine other members of her Idaho church were detained in Haiti after trying to smuggle children out of the country and into the Dominican Republic, she had one thing to say: ‘We were trying to do the right thing,’ she told The Associated Press.

STAFF EDIT: Addressing endowment dips

Financial contributions made by Boston University alumni to their alma mater have been consistently and notoriously slim. BU’s endowment is miniscule for a university of its size and the school seems adjusted to the idea that it might never exceed the $1 billion mark by any significant margin. As a contrast, Harvard University’s endowment, which is the country’s most substantial for a college or university, is upwards of $25 billion.

LETTER: BU too apathetic toward CAS assault

Last Wednesday, a young woman was ‘indecently assaulted’ in the basement of the College of Arts and Sciences while waiting for an elevator (‘BUPD searches for suspect in reported CAS assault,’ Jan. 27, p. 1). While the attack itself and its circumstances were shocking, the fact that many students heard the story first on the local evening news was even more worrisome.

WHITING: Shoot for the moon: Pay cash up front

So I’m, like, totally not a space nerd, considering I’ve only seen Episodes II and III of Star Wars and my Star Trek intake in life is absolutely zilch. But I do know a handful of people who actually enjoy the concept of space travel, and while I personally am not too keen on the idea of getting blown up while en route into a dark, starry abyss, I still enjoy their company, mostly because they are smarter than I am, and because they laugh if I make failed allusions to the cosmos. Often, this makes me feel clever and like I got my money’s worth in the Core Curriculum’s Natural Sciences class.