By forcibly removing any bicycles not attached to a rack on Comm. Ave.

Jennifer Douglas, 28, is charged with making a false bomb threat by walking into BU's Mugar Library with two boxes and telling an employee she had a bomb yesterday evening.

The library was evacuated as the Boston Fire Department and the police bomb squad investigated. They eventually concluded the library was safe to re-open. The Daily Free Press reports the boxes contained a cuckoo clock, a framed picture and newspapers (it also published a picture of the boxes).

The Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports Douglas was arraigned this morning in Brighton District Court and was sent to the Eric Lindemann Center in Boston for 20 days to determine her competence.

Douglas could get between 2 1/2 and 20 years in jail, depending on the nature of the charges brought against her.

Read for yourself the National Research Council report on why it thinks more study is needed before BU should be allowed to study deadly pathogens in the South End.

Biolab follies - Phoenix report.

Silber Knocks New Architecture in Book, Built Junk at Boston U.

One guess what the author of that review of John Silber's harangue about new buildings at MIT and Harvard thinks about former BU strongman Silber's own fleet of new buildings across the river.

... Is he angry that his 13 million square feet have risked nothing, aspired to nothing and achieved no glory for the institution he led for so long?

He ought to be.

Via Geoff Edgers.

Gribley reports:

BU Medical Campus wisely decided to spray the lawn with pesticides the day before the first sunny, warm spring day. Did the nasty smell and the little yellow signs stop people from playing, picnicing, and lying out on the grass? Of course not.

Why are we spraying the lawn with these things, exactly? Isn't there a School of Public Health and a School of Medicine on this campus? You'd think we'd know better than this.

The Tab reports police filed a license violation against the Common Ground on Harvard Avenue after a woman allegedly committed "assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (pint glass)" on April 5 by throwing her stein at another patron, getting him in the face and sending him to the hospital (report does not state if the pint glass still had beer in it).

The police blotter also contains some useful advice for BU students: Roommates might not appreciate having their shampoo bottles filled with what appears to be semen or having male genitalia drawn on their dry-erase boards and so might call the police (who will then advise the lot of you to go seek some counseling at BU).

Go figure: The old Charlesgate Hotel is haunted, and Eugene O'Neil's ghost makes occasional appearances at BU's Shelton Hall. Sam Baltrusis, writing a book on the paranormal at New England campuses, discusses.

The Allston-Brighton Tab reports a national fraternity conclave - headed up by some BU students - got a bit out of hand at the Soldiers Field Road Days Inn this past Sunday. Well, you know how boys are.

... The hotel manager told police Sunday, March 23, that dozens of people from the Lambda Phi Epsilon fraternity were allegedly going from room to room and destroying items. While officers were trying to clear the hallways, the various groups continued to run from floor to floor to avoid the police. ...

Via Bostonist.

Fenway? Colin the Bold reports parking meters all around the neighborhood are already plastered with "No Parking Sun - Mon" signs. Huh? Oh, right, Boylston Street, the preferred rioting grounds of students everywhere.

But lest one think the BPD is discriminating against Northeastern and BU students, Police Commissioner Ed Davis warns he will brook no nonsense from anybody Sunday night:

Davis said come Sunday night, police will be on every corner near college areas.

That's a lot of corners, from Brighton to downtown.

Jason Schwartz reports on an intensive, 18-month rebranding effort in which Boston University, um, er, removed a thin white line between "Boston" and "University" in its official logo. Also: The letters are a bit thinner now. And so, progress marches on.