Boston University
Police responding to a loud party found a severely intoxicated 19-year-old female, Boston University student lying in her own vomit. The host and DJ were arrested for being uncooperative, running a disorderly house and providing alcohol to a minor.
Yeon Lee, a Boston University student was struck by a BU police cruiser possibly while making an illegal turn in front of Marsh Chapel. The school's newspaper The Daily Press has been denied access to the incident report by the BUPD.
MIT
An employee at MIT working at the nuclear reactor facility was exposed to 80% of the radiation dose that a radiation worker can be exposed yearly.
Bunker Hill Community College
Cedirick Steele, a liberal-arts major, was shot seven times in the face, neck, and torso. Prosecutors believe that Steele was picked at random because the assailants "retribution" for a prior beef with Highland Street youth.
Havard
The initial report of scabies at the Pennypacker dorm may have been incorrect, according to an e-mail sent from University Health Services (UHS) doctors.
Wellesley
Wellesley College student, Anna Tang, was arrested for entering her ex-boyfriend's dorm room at MIT and stabbing him repeatedly while he slept. Tang was found later with her coat covered in blood with a black "buck" knife in her backpack.
Other
Seven students who were rowdy during the Red Sox ALCS victory were punished by having to write "a five-page essay detailing what they have each learned from the experience of getting arrested and that they provide the court with written verification that their parents are aware that they have been arrested and charged in connection with this incident", by Roxbury District Court Judge Edward Redd.
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Using Gmail IMAP with Windows Mobile
Gmail recently introduced IMAP for Gmail on select accounts.
Windows Mobile phones can be configured to take advantage of the new IMAP feature using the following instructions.
Windows Mobile phones can be configured to take advantage of the new IMAP feature using the following instructions.- Open the Messaging application
- Choose any of the accounts currently listed
- Click "Menu" then "Options"
- Select "New Account"
- On the "E-mail Setup" screen, fill out your name and your email address, then uncheck "Attempt ..." and click next.
- Enter your username and password; leave "Domain" blank, and click "Next".
- For "Server type" and "Account name", enter IMAP4, then click "Next"
- For "Incoming server", enter: imap.gmail.com
- Check "Require SSL connection"
- For "Outgoing server", enter: smtp.gmail.com
- Check "Outgoing server requires authentication"
- Click "Next"
- Choose the number of previous days and amount of message to download, then click "Next".
- Choose how often Gmail will be checked, then click "Next".
- Setup in finished, click "Finish" to start downloading your Gmail messages.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Boston Colleges - Oct 14-20
Boston College
Students were reminded not to burn down there dorms. During Fire Safety week BC has fire related events including a room inspection challenge, mock room burn, and "fireperson olympics". A new event this year is the fire extinguisher challenge; a relay race to demonstrate how to use a fire extinguisher.
MIT
A smoldering mattress was found on the roof deck of the Kappa Sigma house.
Boston University
A 20 year-old BU student sexually abused a 13-year old girl he met on Facebook. Bogush was charged with second-degree sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a minor, both misdemeanors.
BU announced that it will invest $1.8 billion to fulfill a strategic plan over the next 10 years to improve the campus’s academic and residential facilities, and recruiting an additional 150 new faculty.
Harvard
Residents of the Pennypacker Hall dormitory received "medicated cream and instructions on the eradication of the skin-borne (read: sex-related) infections." after an outbreak of scabies, "a parasitic disease involving skin-burrowing mites usually confined to livestock, 19-C covered wagons, and Oregon Trail."
MBTA police will start conducting random bag searches at the Harvard Square T station. Individuals will be selected by using a "random mathematical permutation".
Northeastern
A female student leaving a party near Fenway was thrown down the stairs after telling a group of seven other girls to stop shouting anti-Yankee slogans.
Tufts
Tufts will beginning promoting a program next month in which the university will pay off loan debt if a student takes a job a public school teacher or social worker, or work for any nonprofit. Undergraduate students at Tufts leave with an average of $14,400 of debt.
Other
Fifteen percent of freshman enrolled in America's top schools are white teens that don't meet the minimum standards for the schools they attend. The schools don't want to anger alumni, donors, faculty members, administrators, and politicians. The end result is that the wealthiest fourth of society is 25 times more likely to get into selective schools than the bottom fourth.
Students were reminded not to burn down there dorms. During Fire Safety week BC has fire related events including a room inspection challenge, mock room burn, and "fireperson olympics". A new event this year is the fire extinguisher challenge; a relay race to demonstrate how to use a fire extinguisher.
MIT
A smoldering mattress was found on the roof deck of the Kappa Sigma house.
Boston University
A 20 year-old BU student sexually abused a 13-year old girl he met on Facebook. Bogush was charged with second-degree sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a minor, both misdemeanors.
BU announced that it will invest $1.8 billion to fulfill a strategic plan over the next 10 years to improve the campus’s academic and residential facilities, and recruiting an additional 150 new faculty.
Harvard
Residents of the Pennypacker Hall dormitory received "medicated cream and instructions on the eradication of the skin-borne (read: sex-related) infections." after an outbreak of scabies, "a parasitic disease involving skin-burrowing mites usually confined to livestock, 19-C covered wagons, and Oregon Trail."
MBTA police will start conducting random bag searches at the Harvard Square T station. Individuals will be selected by using a "random mathematical permutation".
Northeastern
A female student leaving a party near Fenway was thrown down the stairs after telling a group of seven other girls to stop shouting anti-Yankee slogans.
Tufts
Tufts will beginning promoting a program next month in which the university will pay off loan debt if a student takes a job a public school teacher or social worker, or work for any nonprofit. Undergraduate students at Tufts leave with an average of $14,400 of debt.
Other
Fifteen percent of freshman enrolled in America's top schools are white teens that don't meet the minimum standards for the schools they attend. The schools don't want to anger alumni, donors, faculty members, administrators, and politicians. The end result is that the wealthiest fourth of society is 25 times more likely to get into selective schools than the bottom fourth.
Friday, October 12, 2007
Boston Colleges - October 7-13
Boston University
Police were called to investigate someone running around naked on BU campus at 2:30 AM on Oct. 5th at the corner of Charlesgate Road and Ipswich Street.
Brookline police have arrested 23 individuals since Sept. 1 most of which have been BU students. The police department claims that students have been offensive than in previous years, and has made arrests on charges of disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace and public intoxication.
Bentley
Eighteen year-old Erin Ortiz died of bacterial meningitis on Monday, Oct. 8 after feeling ill on Saturday. Thirty people were placed on antibiotics as a precaution.
Harvard
The Harvard Hooligan responds to the Harvard Interim Dean's declaration not to fund party grants. And the Harvard Undergraduate Council allocated $2,000 to hire legal counsel.
Police were called to investigate someone running around naked on BU campus at 2:30 AM on Oct. 5th at the corner of Charlesgate Road and Ipswich Street.
Brookline police have arrested 23 individuals since Sept. 1 most of which have been BU students. The police department claims that students have been offensive than in previous years, and has made arrests on charges of disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace and public intoxication.
Bentley
Eighteen year-old Erin Ortiz died of bacterial meningitis on Monday, Oct. 8 after feeling ill on Saturday. Thirty people were placed on antibiotics as a precaution.
Harvard
The Harvard Hooligan responds to the Harvard Interim Dean's declaration not to fund party grants. And the Harvard Undergraduate Council allocated $2,000 to hire legal counsel.
Saturday, October 06, 2007
Boston Colleges - October 1-6
Harvard
The National Board of Medical Examiners appeals the appeal allowing Sophie Currier extra time on the medical exam, so she can pump breast milk.
The college ends the Party Grant Program that paid students holding events $1750 per week. Interim Dean of the College David Pilbeam wrote in a letter to the Undergraduate Council (UC) that the UC "has not assumed responsibility...for verifying that underage students will not be reimbursed for purchasing alcohol," and "it is quite apparent that the UC Party Grant program, in practice, has funded parties where the focus is on drinking."
MIT
Chancellor Philip Clay sends a warning to students that pranks will not be tolerated, which break the law or put someone in danger.
Boston University
A woman was raped in a bathroom in Warren Towers on the Boston University campus Sunday morning.
Boston College
A lab at Boston College explodes sending a graduate student to the hospital. Higgins Hall was evacuated for fear of a chemical leak.
Tufts
Tufts fraternity ATO has gone overboard according to Alderman Bruce Desmond. The fraternity has been drinking on fire escapes, urinating in public, and vomiting on people's doorsteps. The cost for dealing with rowdy students to law enforcement is $45K+ per year.
The National Board of Medical Examiners appeals the appeal allowing Sophie Currier extra time on the medical exam, so she can pump breast milk.
The college ends the Party Grant Program that paid students holding events $1750 per week. Interim Dean of the College David Pilbeam wrote in a letter to the Undergraduate Council (UC) that the UC "has not assumed responsibility...for verifying that underage students will not be reimbursed for purchasing alcohol," and "it is quite apparent that the UC Party Grant program, in practice, has funded parties where the focus is on drinking."
MIT
Chancellor Philip Clay sends a warning to students that pranks will not be tolerated, which break the law or put someone in danger.
Boston University
A woman was raped in a bathroom in Warren Towers on the Boston University campus Sunday morning.
Boston College
A lab at Boston College explodes sending a graduate student to the hospital. Higgins Hall was evacuated for fear of a chemical leak.
Tufts
Tufts fraternity ATO has gone overboard according to Alderman Bruce Desmond. The fraternity has been drinking on fire escapes, urinating in public, and vomiting on people's doorsteps. The cost for dealing with rowdy students to law enforcement is $45K+ per year.
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