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A Spring Night In Boston
After a long, hard winter, yesterday was the first day of real spring. But for most of it, we were trapped inside. Yesterday, Boston University was on lockdown. The Dean’s …
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Thanks for Everything, Boston Phoenix
It’s July, 2011. Fellow intern Katie Lannan and I sit in a big, dusty, windowless room tucked away in the back of the third floor of 126 Brookline Ave. We’re …
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Quadcast, Episode 3: Stereotypes
Your browser does not support audio embedding. It would be impossible to write a series on BU culture and not talk about stereotypes. They’re everywhere. I think it took me …
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Your browser does not support audio embedding. I can count on one hand the number of BU traditions I know of—walking across the campus on Matriculation, going to hockey games, …
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Greetings from the Free City of Christiania
Christiania was something unexpected. I visited it as a last-minute outing on my recent trip to Copenhagen, Denmark. It was two blocks away from Vor Frelsers Kirke, a big baroque …
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QUADCAST: Hey London, Obama or Romney?
Audio QUADcast: Hey London, Obama or Romney? Fellow Quadling Jon Christianson and I are abroad in London right now, and from all the way over here, the election feels weird. …
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I Can’t Be The Only College Senior Who Knows Absolutely Nothing About Personal Finance
If I am to believe the thirteen million or so articles written on the topic, we young, twentysomething, soon-to-be college-graduates are on the fast track to Disastertown, next stop: unemployment. …
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The Internet is Serious Business: Thoughts from ROFLCon
It would be a mistake to expect anything but ridiculousness from this weekend’s ROFLCon, the third in a series of Internet conferences held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Because …
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Hard to Be Heard in Higher Education
There are forty-one members of the Boston University Board of Trustees. Thirty-two are men. Nine are women. Thirty-two are university alumni. None of them are students. This is not the …
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Meet the Funniest Fellas at BU
Earlier this year, Boston University was chosen to participate in TBS’s National College Comedy Competition. Initially, the BU comedians competed against one another for four spots on a team representing …
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Boston University Discovers Fire
Last week, archeologists from Boston University discovered fire, in a manner of speaking. Professors Francesco Berna and Paul Goldberg published research stating they found evidence of man-made fire that, at …
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For Fear of Unfair Fares
It’s not as if no one saw this coming. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has been deep in debt for a while and has been seriously considering service cuts and …
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