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A man and a woman having a domestic dispute is, sadly, fairly commonplace. A Southbridge couple was having a dispute and when the woman's dog cam to help her, the man stabbed the dog repeatedly with a large kitchen knife. The dog, a 5-year-old pit bull mix named , is at Tufts University’s veterinary hospital in Grafton, and is expected to fully recover. The suspect is being held without bail until a dangerousness hearing on Monday. He pleaded not guilty to charges including domestic assault and battery, violating a restraining order, and animal cruelty.All charges alleged until proven under law. [Globe]
While we were cruising Huffington Post to find a meaningless top 10 list to reblog so we could start a meaningful conversation entertain you meet our pageviews quota, we came across this list of the "Top 10 Hipster Colleges." While honorees Weslayan and RISD are in New England, and number one college, Hampshire, is actually in Massachusetts, even we found this particular list to be too off-topic to reasonably post. So we decided to make our own.
The idea of going to Harvard University is appealing. Bostonist can admit that. Earning a coveted slot in the class of 2014 is more competitive than ever. Harvard received a record 30,489 applications and accepted 2,110 students, an admission rate of 6.9%. For reference, the University of Pennsylvania accepted 3,830 students from 26,938 applications, or 14.2%.
You would think that after Harvard went broke, destroyed the global economy, and revealed its students' limited capacity for walking, that the school would just shut up for a second and stop giving us new reasons to hate and mock it. But, if Harvard did that, would it not cease to be Harvard?
-- Alternative advice for bikers to not run red lights: only "slightly illegal." [Boston Biker]
-- Danvers High can't even handle reading "meep." They passed on an attorney's email to the police. [Theodora Michaels]
-- Statistically speaking, Coach Belichick wasn't that crazy. (And if they converted, everyone would call him a genius.) [Advanced NFL Stats]
You may have heard that Tufts University recently outlawed doing it while your roommate's in the room (which appears to also exclude doing it with your roommate). Official text of the rule: "You may not engage in sexual activity while your roommate is present in the room. Any sexual activity within your assigned room should not ever deprive your roommate(s) of privacy, study, or sleep time." Now, Tufts students are calling this rule unenforceable.
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!
Yesterday, the Globe ran a feature on MIT's "cool" side--the one where students participate in sports and theatre, and study things other than math and science. That seems all right--even engineers can be (and often are) well-rounded. We certainly know a large contingent of hard-drinkin', uber-athletic engineers (men and women). But then the article unfortunately equates the wide-ranging opportunities at MIT with the phenomenon of MIT girls posing for fundraising calendars self-described as "a thinly veiled excuse to ogle hot engineering and science chicks."
">"Public masturbation a persistent problem at Tisch Library," reports that, in the past year, four women claim to have encountered inappropriate public acts of self pleasure in the library. It sounds hilarious, but it is sexual harassment.
--The following falls more in the "Don't Panic" category instead of the "Blotter" category. If you stuck a TV set on top of a light pole at the corner of Main Street and Bishop Allen in Cambridge this morning, the Cambridge Police Department would like to have a word with you. You caused quite the freak-out. [Cambridge Chronicle] --The Christmas tree at the State House is covered blue light-emitting diodes," which conserve energy. However, the...
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