With Wall Street and Boston successfully Occupied, now the focus of the Occupy movement is working on colleges. Today, an Occupy Colleges walkout is planned across the country as college students are being asked not to go to school. You all know students need a reason to skip a class.
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Four are injured after their SUV crashes into a historic Newport mansion. [Providence Eyewitness News]
A man was hit by a light pole in Brookline while trying to help the driver who ran into it. [WHDH]
Economic signs in New England are generally positive. [Boston Herald]
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On the eve of his book release, the Boston-based finance guy who tried to blow the whistle on Bernie Madoff says he was willing to kill the billion-dollar con man. [Wall Street & Technology]
People are collecting support the ban of the word "retahd" or "retarded". It's unclear what the next word to be banned would be. [Boston Herald]
After last week's storms, power is still out for thousands in Maine and New Hampshire. [Seacoast Online]
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City Hall says they plan to post more than 5,000 "recovered emails" that were deleted by a top Menino aide, but they didn't say when or where. [Boston Globe]
Anatomy of a news story: Bostonist posts a link, Univeral Hub links to it, and a TV station does a piece about Ben Franklin chasing a thief. [WHDH]
Is planting bomb threats a new fad? Or is there a single prankster? [Boston Channel]
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Sources say a BU student had been drinking prior to falling to his death. [Daily Free Press]
Somehow the cops found out about the Freedom Rally and showed up to write tickets marijuana possession. [Boston Herald]
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Hundreds of teenagers marched from Copley Square to Beacon Hill Thursday to call for funding for youth jobs. Governor Deval Patrick proposed spending $8.4 million to fund youth jobs. Governor Deval Patrick is going to discuss jobs and the economy a group of Democratic governors and President Barack Obama. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
See? No offense, Eagles or Terriers, but the Beanpot needn't always be all about the BC/BU matchup. Monday's Garden double-header offered a pair of thrilling hockey matchups for Boston-area hockey fans, and while the Boston University community is wincing today, at least they can take consolation in knowing that they were part of an exciting installment of the area college tradition.
We know Boston College and Boston University will usually play a hockey game in February. They did it again last night at the Beanpot and it was a memorable battle, won by BC 3-2 on an overtime blast from Tommy Cross. Next week, top-ranked BC is the unfamiliar position of playing Northeastern in the championship game after the Huskies blanked Harvard, 4-0. BC reserved a spot in the Beanpot title game for the 31st time. Northeastern was in the Beanpot championship game in 2009 and hasn't won it since 1988.
A 2004 Northeastern University graduate has become actively involved in Egypt's anti-government protests. Mahmoud Salem, 29, blogged and tweeted about his experiences, including being beaten and arrested by State Security Service police.
- John Kerry is visiting the Sudan ahead of a national referendum in January that could split the country in two. [The Hill]
- A Boston firefighter was injured by an electrical shock during a four-alarm fire in Allston. Eight residents were displaced. [Boston Globe]
The only thing that would have made yesterday even more perfect was for Wes Welker to intercept a Mark Sanchez pass. The combination of Welker (15 receptions and 192 yards) and the defense (five turnovers, four of them interceptions) led to a satisfying 31-14 smackdown of the Jets that erased last week's turmoil and transferred it to Rex Ryan's Kleenex budget.
Seven out of fifteen ain't bad. That's how many New England schools made the Princeton Review's "green honor roll" of the greenest colleges in America by receiving as-close-to-perfect-as-possible green rankings of 99 points.
The building collapse at Northeastern University on Monday (in which, fortunately, no one was hurt) is being attributed to negligence by the school. The school has been issued a citation for having an unsafe structure and is now working to stabilize the wall and take away the cornice, as well as dismantle a parapet on the roof. OSHA is looking into the situation as well. Progressive Roofing, which had been working on the roof when it collapsed (a new contractor has since been put on the job), had previously been cited for safety failures, according to the Herald. Let's hope the new work precludes further disasters.
The facade collapsed from the front of a building on Northeastern's campus this morning, raining down hundreds of pounds of rubble but, miraculously, harming nobody. The building is located at 337 Huntington Ave., and the area has been all but shut down to road and MBTA traffic as authorities try to determine whether the whole building is coming down. Bostonist reader Sean Frederick snapped a few photos of the destruction.
Part of the facade of a dorm on the Northeastern campus collapsed on Monday morning. A roof renovation project has been ongoing for over a month at 337 Huntington Ave., the site of the collapse. Fifty people were evacuated and a police officer on a detail suffered minor injuries. Multiple street closures were in effect. The MBTA Green Line was also shut down.
It's almost graduation: you know, that time when the city is flooded with parents, graduates, and moving trucks as everyone prepares to move to their new job and city—or, in this economy, back in with the 'rents. What happened over the past year at the big (and small) schools around town? Bostonist looks back at some news stories, from Harvard's billion-dollar losses to Emerson's Holocaust insensitivity, and provides graduation information as well, including commencement speakers, in which category Berklee blows everybody away. Did we miss an important story? Let us know in the comments!
It was a terrific night of hockey at the TD Banknorth Garden on Friday as 4 area teams took the ice for the Hockey East semi-finals. UMASS Lowell squared off against Northeastern in game 1, and Boston College took on Boston University for the second game. The players were clearly excited to play in front of the big crowds at the Garden, and the fans were loud and proud and did not disappoint.
This past weekend was another big one for Hockey East as the Eagles of BC squared off against the Huskies of Northeastern. Going in to Friday night’s game at Matthews’s arena the Huskies were ranked #4 in the nation and held onto the top spot in the Hockey East conference. The Eagles were ranked nationally at #20, and had the chance to play conference spoiler if they could come up with a win.
Welcome to Collegitate Matchup, a new feature on Bostonist. We'll be bringing you the big games from our local universities every week and we certainly decided on a great weekend to start. On Friday night, we caught some men’s ice hockey, as the #1 ranked Terriers of BU took on the #4/5 ranked Huskies of Northeastern at Agganis arena.
-- Somerville cops bagged an alleged car burglar Monday only to discover that he was armed with a sword, according to reports. No word on whether he was being pursued by an oversized Russian. [Somerville Journal]
--Boston 911 operators are under scrutiny again because a call taker's error led to a delay in the arrival of police as a 76-year-old man was being beaten. [Boston Globe]
-Some Blotter days are longer than others … --After two teenagers were shot this morning as kids were going to school in Dorchester, police officers swarmed on the neighborhood in search of a suspect who they thought was hiding out in a triple decker on Hendry Street. Globe reporters said the BPD was at the triple decker for two hours before deciding it was empty and that the shooter took off. The victims' wounds are...
The season finale has just aired for your favorite TV show. NBC hasn't run Must See TV on Thursdays for a decade. The sun is shining and temperatures will be perfect for showing up jacketless to the next performance. Something to do every night this week – and rock it out for free with the pop tunes from WBOS' EarthFest line up on Saturday, starting at noon. All this and we're tivo-ing the Sox/Yanks games...
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