Boston University is willing to spend big bucks--$1.8 billion, to be exact--to be an academic powerhouse. Linda Wertheimer at the Globe reported Thursday that BU wants to "add 150 professors, dramatically lower the school's student-faculty ratio, and pour money into salaries to allow BU to vie for the nation's top professors."
Not bad. You go, BU. President Robert Brown has visions of US News & World Report college rankings dancing in his head.
However, if BU wants to improve its reputation, it might want to think locally and then act nationally. BU students feel that they've been unfairly hassled by the other BPD. One student wrote in a letter to the Daily Free Press that the Brookline Police were "unnecessary" (link via Massachusetts Liberal). This line of thinking likely did not go over well in Brookline.
A group called Bring BU Back (BBUB?) wanted to stage a protest by putting college kids who weren't drunk (surely there are about 10 or so) on doorsteps to see how the Brookline Police will handle it. The BU Student Union (BUSU?) talked the BBUB out of it.
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