The Boston Globe said an “oversight with delivery” of newspapers to Boston University dorms accounted for the absence of the broadsheet around campus this semester, in an email to Boston University.
Webb Lancaster, director of operations in the BU Auxiliary Services Department, said the Globe apologized for confusion about resuming delivery after it was suspended over break and said the newspapers, available to students for free, should be back on campus by Wednesday.
BU will continue to receive the Globe for the rest of the semester, and Lancaster emphasized the friendly relationship between the university and the newspaper.
“I always get a kick out of seeing free papers in the student residences,” said BU spokesman Colin Riley. “There’s a benefit for it.”
The Daily Free Press first reported the newspapers were missing from their stands Friday.
“Nobody contacted any of the administrative offices or Residence Life to notify that the papers were not coming,” Lancaster said in the Feb. 1 article. “I didn’t realize the papers were not being delivered, and I don’t think anybody else did.”
The missing newspapers sparked confusion and questions from students and professors in the College of Communication, in particular, as many journalism classes require students to obtain hard copies for assignments.
“It is not always easy for students to buy the paper,” said journalism department Chairman Lou Ureneck. “For a journalism department, the newspaper is essential.”