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By adamg - 11/12/20 - 9:08 pm
The Crimson reports the presidents of the eight Ivy League schools have called off all winter sporting events due to escalating Covid-19 numbers, that the fall season will not be rescheduled for the spring and that spring events, if they happen at all, will not start until the end of February.
By adamg - 11/12/20 - 5:50 pm
Update: Babson, too.
The MIT Tech reports campus health officials suspended in-person teaching for first-year MBA students at the Sloan School of Management Nov. 5 through Thanksgiving due to a rash of positive Covid-19 tests among them. Read more.
By adamg - 11/12/20 - 11:54 am
A federal appeals court in Boston ruled today that Harvard's "race-conscious admissions program" does not violate federal law. Read more.
By adamg - 11/4/20 - 10:19 pm
A federal judge today gave several Boston University students, all trying to lead a class action against BU over the way it moved classes online this spring due to Covid-19, two weeks to show that they personally were harmed by the change in class assignments or have their cases tossed for good. Read more.
By adamg - 10/26/20 - 10:07 pm
The Heights reports Boston College has canceled spring break so it can start the spring semester later. Students will get a spring-break day, however.
By adamg - 10/22/20 - 11:44 am
BU Today reports 12 students were suspended for the rest of the fall semester and five were given lesser punishments because of their attendance at one of three parties that featured close-contact bare facedness as well as the more traditional "underage drinking, physical assault, and disturbing the peace." Read more.
By adamg - 10/20/20 - 12:23 pm
Boston University's Covid-19 numbers have shown a slight rise in recent days, certainly nothing BC-ish or even comparable to the rate across Boston, but enough to get officials to remind students and employees to remain vigilant and practice steps to reduce their risks - like stop going to parties and gatherings. Read more.
By adamg - 10/7/20 - 11:17 am
The Daily Free Press reports Boston University put Phi Chi Theta, a "professional business and economics fraternity" on notice after the video was posted on Instagram. The fraternity in turn says it's put the members in the video - taken at an event sponsored by one of its alumni - on its own notice.
By adamg - 10/5/20 - 10:20 am
The Crimson reports the three freshmen were ordered to leave their on-campus dorms after hosting a gathering with three other people despite Harvard rules against such things in an age of pandemic. The move means they're still enrolled, but have to take all their classes remotely.
By adamg - 10/1/20 - 11:01 am
A federal judge ruled today that Northeastern University never specifically promised students they would be educated in person and so tossed most of a class-action suit against the school over tuition and fees for this past spring's semester. Read more.
By adamg - 9/29/20 - 2:58 pm
Rendering, with birds, by HDS Architecture.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a six-story apartment building between Lincoln and Cambridge streets aimed at people who don't mind sharing apartments - such as grad students and young professionals looking to save on rent. Read more.
By adamg - 9/27/20 - 12:06 pm
And at least one Newton city councilor is pretty damned pissed about right now: Read more.
By adamg - 9/23/20 - 9:56 pm
Mayor Walsh said today that "we are very close into moving into the red category on the map," possibly within the next few days because Boston is now approaching a Covid-19 infection rate of 8 new cases per 100,000 each day. Read more.
By adamg - 9/22/20 - 11:16 am
Det. Eddie Hernandez holds up fake Mass. licenses from South Bay Applebee's
A state-of-the-art license scanner designed to ferret out increasingly sophisticated fake IDs won't work when a waitress lets her underage friends drink up, a manager at Mija in Faneuil Hall Marketplace acknowledged today. Read more.
By adamg - 9/17/20 - 10:10 pm
Newton Mayor Ruthanne Fuller reported tonight that the state has changed Newton's Covid-19 risk level from "low" to "moderate" because the city's average number of new daily cases has increased to 4.1 from 1.9 last week - which she said is not due just to the the Boston College outbreak but also because: Read more.
By adamg - 9/17/20 - 9:51 pm
Northeastern University announced tonight that it's reversed its decision to make 11 first-year students found in a room together forfeit roughly $28,000 in payments if they decide to re-enlist at the school for the spring - the money will instead go towards the cost of being at Northeastern then. Read more.
By adamg - 9/14/20 - 9:56 pm
New England Law Boston has filed plans with the BPDA to rent the 6,400-square-foot ballroom at the neighboring Revere Hotel on Stuart Street for use as a three-section classroom. Read more.
By adamg - 9/14/20 - 1:06 pm
WFXT reports Dover-Sherborn High School was supposed to open to students tomorrow, but put that off after a major party on Friday where up to 150 kids were found boozing it up without masks on. It joins Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School in having students who just can't control themselves during a pandemic.
By adamg - 9/14/20 - 10:03 am
With Boston College in the news because of a Covid-19 outbreak, a school vice president e-mailed students Friday afternoon reminding them to wear masks, social distance and not have parties, at the risk of suspension. The student newspaper, the Heights, however, reported on the scene on campus Friday night: Read more.
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