STAFF EDIT: Preventing the swine flu
President Barack Obama has told Americans not to panic over swine flu, but not panicking doesn’t mean sit on your hands and hope that swine flu doesn’t get any worse. Thus far, Boston University officials have taken the appropriate measures to protect the BU community at home and abroad.
SHANFIELD: BU is the real deal
In middle school, we are introduced to the idea of a person being ‘fake.’ The summer between elementary school and middle school causes some people to mysteriously change ‘- either grow boobs or obtain a deeper voice ‘- and thus receive the label of being ‘fake.’
SZAFRANSKI: A call for innovation
I was waiting a table at a restaurant on the Boston University campus, and there was a family whose son was deciding where he wanted to go to college. BU was among the colleges that had admitted him.
STAFF EDIT: Union not mended
If President-elect James Sappenfield and Vision for BU want to make resolving the internal problems of the Boston University Student Union a priority, then Monday’s General Assembly meeting was a step in the wrong direction.
STAFF EDIT: Lost bonuses can hurt
The effects of the economic recession are once again finding their way into the lives of Boston University students, and this time the casualties are the bonuses awarded to student employees of BU Dining Services.
