Police arrested a 22-year-old man for motor vehicle homicide in a fatal hit-and-run in Chelsea last month. Julio Vaquerano of Revere was killed in Chelsea on December 14. [Globe]
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YouTube isn't just for pets doing stupid tricks anymore. For Tufts University, the video sharing website is now an optional part of the application process. Yes, ABC News says Tufts solicits YouTube videos as something akin to an essay.
Stop reading if this shocks you, but according to a new lawsuit filed in Middlesex Superior Court, some college professors totally exploit their researchers! Tufts chemistry prof Samuel Kounaves demanded sexual favors in exchange for job security and career advancement, according to a lawsuit filed by Suzanne Young, a former researcher in his lab. Kounaves and his lawyer deny any wrongdoing.
- The early voter turnout in Boston was heavy in places as the choice between Menino and Flaherty was finally made. [Boston Herald, Boston Globe]
The Somerville Journal keeps getting older while the naked butts stay the same age. The paper sparked a kerfluffle last year when it ran a basically unedited video of the 2007 Tufts Naked Quad Run on its website, featuring hundreds of naked butts and little else. This year, with the number of runners reduced by temperatures that threatened to inflict permanent shrinkage on any naked person, the Somerville Journal turned its camera on the clothed and practiced something bordering on journalism. The naked butts are still there, but in reduced number, and the video has been edited to more closely resemble a news story.
-- A 7-year-old boy was shot last night amid the crossfire between warring youths. The child had been playing kickball near Smith Street on the Mission Hill end of Roxbury when he was apparently struck by ricocheting bullets. He remains hospitalized with multiple injuries.
--Natives are fleeing Massachusetts, while the state is having trouble encouraging people to move here. Apparently four years of college--and four Boston winters--just about does it for a lot of people. [Boston Globe]
--Logan Airport is going greener by buying renewable energy credits, right in time for Earth Day. [Boston Globe]
Boston isn't the best place in the country to celebrate Earth Day, the pedagogical holiday started in 1970 by Senator Gaylord Nelson to teach people about environmental issues. Our own spring holiday involves more redcoats and Red Sox than anything that's green.
--A three-alarm fire broke out at an apartment complex in Framingham yesterday afternoon. Three firefighters and three residents of the complex went to the hospital for minor injuries. [Boston Globe]
--Everyone needs money, so it's not a surprise that Mayor Menino wants to increase fines for illegal parking in the city: "The largest increase will be for parking in a fire lane, which would rise from $40 to $100 under the mayor’s plan. Parking in front of a handicapped ramp would go from $50 to $100, while parking in front of a hydrant would rise from $75 to $100." [Boston Herald]
">"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.
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--Yet another explanation for why you should have a sinking feeling in your tummy any time you go over a bridge in Massachusetts. [Boston Herald]
Four (Curious) Stories Monday, November 5, 2007 7-9pm (Music starts @ 6) The Enormous Room 567 Massachusetts Ave Central Square, Cambridge Admittance free and open to the public While "Tales of exploration, experimentation, and questioning" might conjure up images of coming out stories, tonight's installment of the Four Stories reading series isn't specifically tailored to that topic. It's just a bunch of curious tales, designed to step off the beaten (written?) path and spark some...
Honk! Friday, October 5, through Sunday, October 7 Honk!'s official site The full Honk! schedule Despite the festival's name, Honk! is about more than making noise. Street bands will be performing, but the purpose of the second annual Honk! celebration is to "Reclaim the Street for Horns, Bikes, and Feet!" Honk! is a sound, a lifestyle, and a movement, according to the Honk! mission statement: "Honkers have been providing a heartfelt musical antidote, a soundtrack...
Officials at Tufts University moved to uphold the first amendment after student-faculty groups tried to block racist, unsigned pieces from appearing in campus media. It all started when The Primary Source, a conservative outlet, published "O Come All Ye Black Folk" and a piece about violence in Islam. You can guess where they were going with those. Whoever wrote the pieces didn't have the cojones to put their name or names on it. The Committee...
The Phoenix posted the tenth annual Muzzle Awards. The listing, compiled by Media Nation blogger Dan Kennedy, showcases the offenses against free speech by local individuals and organizations. An apropos way to celebrate liberty for the Fourth of July. He gets the Muzzle this year by stifling the free speech of former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami by refusing to provide state-police protection to the visiting former head of state. Boston Police stepped up to provide...
Then again, don't answer that because that picture looks like a mugshot. This guy is renowned history professor Felipe Fernandez-Armesto of Tufts University. He has published academic books through Simon & Schuster, not just University of Eastern Podunk Press. But, after today, he'll be better known as the prof who somehow managed to get arrested in Atlanta.
One of Bostonist’s favorite weekend activities is catching up on all those trashy MTV reality shows that we often miss during the work week. And luckily, this weekend we were able to watch the premiere episode of "The Real World Key West", which we believe will be the most mentally unstable of all the seasons. This week’s episode included the standard “seven people picked to live in a house and have their lives taped” but Bostonist also noticed that there are a couple of castmates who hail from New England. The gay cast member, Tyler, is 23, grew up in Minnesota, recently graduated from Tufts University and now resides in Davis Square with roommates. According to a recent article in the Herald, he’s pursuing television production and of course, he’ll now fall into the group of pseudo-Boston celebrities that have done reality shows. While Tyler definitely made some snide comments here and there, we enjoyed him as he threw catty comments at some of his roommates. And a hint from Tyler as what’s to come this season:
It seems to Bostonist that news coverage of our area institutions of higher education tends to focus on the academic achievements of Harvard and MIT, or the sports achievements of BC (okay, maybe that's a simplistic statement but those schools do get much of the spotlight). So it's an exciting day northeast of the [Cambridge] border when Tufts University garners some media attention. And yesterday was exactly one such day. Unfortunately for Tufts, however, that news wasn't of the overwhelmingly positive variety.
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