Archive for ‘May, 2011’

City Crime Logs: That Wasn’t Fare

Officers in Mattapan were on Blue Hill Avenue when they saw a female following a black man at 2 a.m. Tuesday morning. The girl stopped chasing the man at 1165 Blue Hill Ave. as they saw him run across the street and jump into a taxi. The officers then saw the girl attempt to chase [...]

HAGEN: Dear seniors

OK, seniors, I need everyone to stay calm. There must be a solution. On May 22, if we all just refuse to leave our apartments and dorms, effectively staging a “StuVi-sit-in,” then they cannot make us graduate. I, for one, would much rather be staring at the million-dollar Boston skyline view in my Student Village [...]

INTERROBANG

On Sunday, Osama bin Laden was shot and killed in a compound in Pakinstan. So we here at the ol’ Free Press thought of where people at BU may have thought he was hiding. Dean Elmore thought he was in the Charles River so he offered to jump in it and fish him out of [...]

STAFF EDIT: Patrolling the abortion cops

In another attempt to bring an anti-abortion agenda onto the national stage, Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, and House Republicans passed the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act Wednesday night. Under the bill’s provisions, which many of the Congressional sponsors are not apt to discuss, “abortion cops” would be in control of auditing rape and incest [...]

HAYES: Holland leaves behind big shoes to fill

Two-and-a-half weeks from today, the Boston University Class of 2011 will graduate. The approximately 4,000 members of the class will depart BU for the last time. One of those graduating will be the lone senior on this year’s men’s basketball team, John Holland. As he collects his diploma on May 23, the program will officially [...]