Northeastern
The Herald didn't get invited to a press conference at which Northeastern announced the end of football, so the Herald is retaliating by refusing to cover Huskies sports, including the successful basketball team.
The Huntington News reports Northeastern University Police plan to charge a Wilmington man with some 50 laptop thefts over the past year. Dude would steal laptops out of lockers at the law school and from classrooms, then sell the purloined computers at other schools.
The arrest is already paying results. The News also reports a student who left a backpack containing his laptop, some clothes and a bottle of water in the library returned a few minutes later to find it missing. The backpack was recovered the next day - with the laptop still in it it, but the clothes and water bottle gone (several other students, however, were not so lucky).
The Huntington New reports a pair of 18-year-old students are in hot milk for throwing pudding they didn't like out the window, splatting a window across an alley. Also, the 18 beers and the bottle of rum found in their room failed to further endear them to investigating campus cops.
Huntington News covers the rally.
Report from the student center and Huntington Avenue.
Photos of Obama speaking, by Scott Isen.
Barney Frank on Huntington Avenue. More photos from Huntington Avenue. Channel 25 posts photos from inside the rally.
Jay Fitzgerald rounds up some reaction and links to the Brown counter-rally in Worcester. Ghetto Uprising wonders why you don't see any people of color in Scott Brown's ads.
Blue Mass. Group has the details, basically, it starts at 3, doors open at 1 (so people will start lining up at, what, 6 a.m.?).
The Globe reports city Councilor Mike Ross wants the BRA to force Northeastern to stop enrolling quite so many students. Seems the school had promised to try to curb enrollment, but it actually now has 585 more students than it promised to have.
Ryan Fox is reporting a late-night flurry of activity at the facility off Forsyth Road: At least 11 emergency vehicles, one of them a hazmat truck and one a ladder truck with its ladder extended to the roof on the Ruggles side. Possible formaldehyde leak in the building.
Namely, if a stranger - even a well dressed one - comes up to you and says he needs $450 in cash for car repairs, and he says he'll give you a check for $500 for your troubles, and you agree to get the money for him from an ATM, the check is going to bounce. The Huntington News reports on the incident - along with an unrelated one involving a guy who, upon being rudely interrupted in his joyous trek down a hall stealing whiteboards off people's doors, punched the student who dared stop him twice in the face and then, when the guy was down, kicked him in the head for good measure.
The Huntington News reports a Northeastern student tried the old trick of stuffing a towel under her door and using a window fan to keep people in her dorm from knowing she was smoking pot. Unfortunately for her, it was 10:15 a.m. and a passing Northeastern police officer noticed the smoke coming out of her window and went to investigate. Now she has to answer to the college disciplinary office.
The Huntington News reports that to kick off the hockey season, the Northeastern athletics department printed up 1,000 T-shirts reading:
Who's house is this?
The department is now in the process of printing up new T-shirts.
Boston Police today charged Akil Washington, 24, of Lincoln, with a late-Wednesday holdup at a Northeastern dorm that ended in a SWAT sweep of a Wentworth building - and Washington's escape.
Police say anybody who knows Washington's whereabout should contact the Northeastern Police Department at 617-373-2121. People can also call Boston's anonymous tip line at 1-800-494-TIPS or by texting TIP to CRIME (27463).
Boston Police say they believe Washington was on campus to sell drugs to somebody in Burstein Hall on the Northeastern campus, 458 Huntington Ave. But, police say, Washington pulled a gun and demanded the other guy's laptop - and then fled. Northeastern police almost had him in a sting soon after, but he sensed they were cops and fled again, this time into a Wentworth administration building.
Boston Police have released some details of the events leading up to their storming a Wentworth building early this morning. Read more
The Huntington News reports that when Northeastern police responded to a report of several people running around campus chasing other people with guns, they found six students with a plastic toy shotgun and Nerf guns playing Humans versus Zombies:
The plastic shotgun was confiscated and the six students were counseled on the dangers of playing such a game in an urban setting.
In other Northeastern gun news, the News reports a student who liked shooting birds on campus with his two BB guns was reported to school authorities. The bongs and marijuana grinder police also found in his room didn't help his case.
Channel 25 reports he's wanted for holding up a Northeastern student inside a Northeastern dorm after midnight; they found the student's laptop outside a Wentworth administrative building. Channel 7 reports he wasn't in the building.
Boston Police report officers flagged down by a neighbor around 2 a.m. on Sunday issued an immediate last call for some hardy partiers at 220 Hemenway St.
Assisted by Northeatern Police, Boston officers arrested the three leaseholders on charges of being keepers of a disorderly house and procuring alcohol for minors - no alleged mean feat, given the three are all 19. Officers found "numerous bottles of alcohol throughout the residence," along with 50 to 60 mostly pre-21 partiers, police say. Police also had to call for an ambulance to cart away a dude who was passed out and unresponsive in one bedroom.
Plunged to the ground: Decorative molding at the roof line of 337 Huntington Ave. Photographed after it fell off by Robert Beene. Compare to the Google Street View below.
WBZ traffic reports that a partial building collapse at 337 Huntington Ave. in Boston has closed the road and the Green line E trains near the Northeastern T-Stop.
A map of Northeastern University lists the building as a residence hall.
Channel 5 reports roofers were working on the building when part of the front collapsed.
Another photo from the scene.
NHL.com previews tonight's Beanpot final between Northeastern and Boston University:
... Separated by the Charles River, Parker's No. 1 Terriers and Cronin's No. 3 Huskies will meet Monday night in the Beanpot final. ...
Via On Being a Sports Girl.
Magnetic Mack
MassMostWanted reports Hanover Police are looking for a guy, who goes by the names "Magnetic Mack" and Raymond, in connection with a kidnapping around 1 a.m. on Dec. 3 on Hinckley Street in Dorchester:
She said that he put her into his m/v, a newer model white Chevy impala unknown reg. The victim says the pictured male subject robbed her and assaulted her. He finally let her go ion rt. 53 in Hanover.
Meanwhile, the Huntington News reports Saugus Police arrested a Boston man on charges he kidnapped and raped a Northeastern student on Sunday:
The 20-year-old student repeatedly opened and closed a van door as the suspect drove down Route 1 in Saugus in front of a patrol car at about 3:00 a.m, said Lieutenent Mike Annese from the Saugus Police Department. This prompted police to pull the van over.
Faisel Abdi Ibrahim, 36, now faces a variety of charges. The Lynn Daily Item reports Ibrahim offered the woman a ride in Boston, then drove her to Saugus, where he raped her. He was ordered held without bail in Lynn District Court yesterday.
So this Northeastern grad student sees Northeastern cops grilling a couple of non-students whom they suspected of attacking and punching two undergrads and decides to get involved - by telling the guys they don't have to say anything because the uniforms "aren't real cops." The cops tell him to go away, but he refuses and just keeps repeating how they aren't real cops.
At which point, the Huntington News reports, the cops decided to show him just how real they were, by arresting him for disorderly conduct (he was due for arraignment this week in Roxbury District Court). Apparently, the student had failed to read Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 22c, section 63:
Such special state police officers shall serve for three years, subject to removal by the colonel [of the State Police], and they shall have the same power to make arrests as regular police officers for any criminal offense committed in or upon lands or structures owned, used or occupied by such college, university, or other institution or hospital.
Smart until proven dumb.
Channel 5 reports.
BPL Main Branch steps filled with Obama supporters yelling "USA! USA! USA" and "Yes we can!"
Heather: "It's almost like a World Series celebration." Well, yeah, except without the rioting and people dying.
Celebration in Davis Square.
And you don't slam a door in a Boston police officer's face. A Northeastern student allegedly learned that around 1 this morning when he and four other Huskies were arrested on charges of partying a bit too hardy at 610 Columbus Ave. Read more
Boston Police report hitting the trifecta of out-of-control student soirees this past weekend: Read more
Boston Police report that Northeastern University has bought a new bird bath for the 93-year-old Hillside Street resident who'd had her bird bath stolen a couple weeks ago by some "drunk college kids."
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