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By adamg - 3/1/22 - 1:43 pm
Update: Northeastern goes even further.
BU announced today that starting March 7:
Face masks will no longer be required in most areas on campus, including dining halls, residential housing common areas, offices, libraries, food courts, and common areas in buildings and colleges. Masks will continue to be required indoors for instructional purposes and lectures in classrooms, the BU Shuttle, all healthcare facilities, and in those venues which are open to the public and host ticketed events.
By adamg - 2/25/22 - 12:23 pm
The Harvard Crimson reports campus police are investigating two slur-filled signs posted on the Adams House door of the Asian-American president of the undergraduate council. Separately, the Crimson reports "ongoing graffiti and offensive notes left in the elevator and on bulletin boards, windowsills, and walls," some of it racist, at Quincy House.
By adamg - 2/23/22 - 11:05 am
Eric Bolduan, 47, of Rochester, MN, yesterday pleaded guilty to transmitting in interstate commerce a threat to injure another person for threatening e-mails he sent to a Boston College student he apparently found at random on social media. Read more.
By adamg - 2/18/22 - 10:34 pm
Starting March 1, Northeastern University will still make testing available to students and staff, but people without any symptoms will only have to take a test if they feel like it, the school announced today. Along with that, the university will be dropping its Covid-19 dashboard.
By adamg - 1/26/22 - 9:10 am
The Daily Free Press reports on a walkout by social-work students - and some professors.
By adamg - 1/14/22 - 9:11 am
Boston Parents Schoolyard News reports the walkout, called by the Boston Student Advisory Council, starts at 10:30 to call for the state to let schools go online only for two weeks without being penalized due to growing Covid-19 rates. The state's current policy forbids schools from counting remote-learning days towards the 180-day minimum number of required school days.
By adamg - 1/7/22 - 4:40 pm
Update: The frat brothers have taken their giant snow penis down.
A concerned citizen recovers with the help of some smelling salts and files a 311 complaint about the giant male genitals the brothers of MIT's Theta Tau fraternity erected outside their frat house at 526 Beacon St., near Charlesgate, today. Read more.
By adamg - 1/2/22 - 1:32 pm
Cambridge Day reports the city wants to give school staff and students more time to get tested for Covid-19.
By adamg - 12/26/21 - 11:12 pm
The Crimson won't be playing in Kansas on Wednesay because of what the team calls "COVID-19 concerns and safety protocols within the Harvard men's basketball program."
By adamg - 12/26/21 - 12:58 pm
WBZ reports BC, which was scheduled to play East Carolina in the Military Bowl in Annapolis tomorrow has pulled out because it's lost 40 players to a combination of injuries, opt-outs and, yes, of course, Covid-19.
By adamg - 12/23/21 - 2:29 pm
Inyoung You, now 23, today admitted she helped drive her boyfriend Alexander Urtula to suicide the day he was supposed to graduate from Boston College in 2019, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 12/18/21 - 5:41 pm
The Crimson reports Harvard is ordering as many people as possible off campus for the first three weeks of January due to rising Covid-19 cases - 344 among students, faculty and staff over the past week.
Harvard's undergraduate spring semester is scheduled to start Jan. 24; the university says it will "monitor the situation" and decide whether students and professors can have in-person classes or whether they will have to start the semester remotely.
By adamg - 12/16/21 - 4:42 pm
Harvard officials today notified students and staff that the school will require them to show proof of a Covid-19 booster for the spring semester. Read more.
Area colleges showing rise in Covid-19 cases, although still at levels below surrounding communities
By adamg - 12/16/21 - 9:32 am
By adamg - 12/10/21 - 4:46 pm
Yesterday, as it was announcing that students and staff had to get booster shots by next month, Northeastern University was canceling a two-day on-campus vaccination clinic next week after information from people signing up somehow wound up on the provider's Web site. Read more.
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