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By adamg - 12/5/12 - 7:09 am

The Daily Free Press reports, adds he doesn't match the description of the guy wanted for pushing women down and lifting their skirts for photos on Ashford Street.

By adamg - 11/30/12 - 8:59 pm

The Crimson reports:

Flyers Under Students' Doors Say 'No Fucking Jews'

By adamg - 11/30/12 - 12:20 pm

UPDATE, 3:20 p.m: Northeastern says two students "have accepted responsibility for vandalizing the university's Menorah" and that they now face disciplinary action. Still no word on just what they did.

Northeastern President Joseph Aoun alerted his campus in e-mail this morning. He didn't specify just how the Krentzman Quad menorah was damaged, but said it's been repaired and that campus police are hunting suspects. His e-mail:

To all members of the Northeastern community:

By adamg - 11/29/12 - 9:25 am

The Huntington News reports that campus police officers responded to a pre-Thanksgiving report of students chucking pumpkins out of a third-floor window of a Columbus Avenue dorm. Officers found "small pumpkin pieces on the ground" but no students willing to own up to the gourdgeous desecration.

The News reports campus police did take decisive action when they found a student pissing on a car on Gainsborough Street:

The officer reported that they were able to pour a bottle of water over the area on the vehicle and that there was no damage.

By adamg - 11/27/12 - 10:25 am

The story behind HoboJacket, in which the author spends most of his time discussing how he built the site and ends with a comparison to Mark Zuckerberg (note to kid: He went to, um, Harvard). Among the valuable life lessons he learned from making bums/Caltech the butt of his joke:

By adamg - 11/20/12 - 5:12 pm

Matt O'Connor tweeted around 4:30 p.m.:

South Station: girl, Northeastern Sweatshirt, literally carrying a hamper of dirty laundry.

To which Brian D'Amico, himself of the Huskie ilk, replies:

Well ... how else is the laundry going to get home?

By adamg - 11/16/12 - 6:25 am

The Heights reports Stephanie McCaffrey's suspension over tweets cracking wise on the Penn State sex-abuse case (no link to her Twitter feed because it's disappeared).

By adamg - 11/14/12 - 6:44 am

The Daily Free Press reports that around 8 p.m. on Nov. 6, a BU student was pushed onto a set of stairs on Ashford Street by a man who then lifted her skirt and took her picture - and that this was the third or fourth such incident along Ashford since September.

By adamg - 11/12/12 - 7:38 pm

Bicycle after crash at Brighton and Harvard.The bicycle after the crash. Photo copyright Scott Eisen.

A 21-year-old BU student died after a collision at Brighton and Harvard avenues with an MBTA bus.

Scott Eisen reports the bus seems to have simply driven away. WCVB reports police say the driver of the Route 57 bus did not realize he'd hit someone. BostInno reports the driver was taken off the job as the investigation continued.

Boston Biker has some more info on the bicyclist.

Traffic in the area quickly snarled after police shut Harvard Avenue to allow an investigation.

In June:
Bicyclist struck, killed in collision involving MBTA bus on Huntington Avenue.

By adamg - 10/30/12 - 8:29 am

And that answer is paintballs:

Sung Wook Paek SM '12, a graduate student in MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, says if timed just right, pellets full of paint powder, launched in two rounds from a spacecraft at relatively close distance, would cover the front and back of an asteroid, more than doubling its reflectivity, or albedo. The initial force from the pellets would bump an asteroid off course; over time, the sun's photons would deflect the asteroid even more.

By adamg - 10/25/12 - 7:22 am

The Daily Free Press reports BU Police are warning students about getting mugged on Allston Street near Ringer Park - there have been three street robberies in on Allston between Comm. Ave. and Brighton Avenue over the past month.

By adamg - 10/18/12 - 8:03 am

The Huntington News reports that campus police were summoned to a dorm early one recent morning on a noise complaint from an anonymous student, they quickly learned from a resident assistant what the real problem was:

The officers spoke to an RA who stated the student is overzealous regarding other people living on the floor and often complains of people opening and shutting doors. Officers reported that there was no noise coming from the room the student called about. The department of Housing and Residential Life is handling the issue.

By adamg - 10/15/12 - 8:59 am

Simmons College suspectWhat kind of aftershave do you think he wears?

By adamg - 10/12/12 - 1:40 pm

Currently limited to Harvard students, but then again, that's how Facebook started, too.

By adamg - 10/11/12 - 7:17 pm

BU Today reports the suspect, not named because of his age, turned himself into Brookline Police around 5 p.m. and is being charged with two counts of armed robbery.

By adamg - 10/11/12 - 7:04 am

In among the usual reports of students found lying in their own vomit and being surprised that their laptops were gone from the classrooms they'd left them in several days earlier, the Huntington News reports that when a Northeastern student had her phone swiped at the Ruggles T stop, another student swung into action: He got on his skateboard, chased the punk down and got her phone back:

A security officer reported observing a student riding a skateboard down the Egan Access Road chasing another party and yelling "Stop."

By adamg - 10/9/12 - 9:50 pm

Alert broadcast on BU cable system tonight. Photo by Ana Maria Pulgarin.Alert broadcast on BU cable system tonight.

By adamg - 10/4/12 - 7:43 am

But now Splash, on Kneeland Street, faces a Boston Licensing Board hearing on Oct. 23, the Daily Free Press reports.

By adamg - 9/28/12 - 8:06 am

The Crimson reports on a sociology class where the professor brought in three homeless Harvard Square guys to talk about their experience.

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