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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...