Emerson

Emerson student falls off building during film project

adamg — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 18:11:22 +0000

An Emerson student fell from the top of 610 Columbus Ave. around 10:45 this morning, according to reports from Boston Police and Channel 5.

In an e-mail to students and faculty this afternoon, Emerson College identified him as Justin Amorratanasuchad, 21, a junior film major from the Seattle area. Boston Police report he was pronounced dead at the scene.

One of his projects, which also involved filming from a high location

Going Gaga at Emerson

adamg — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:19:36 +0000

Emerson and Lesley College students got up early for Obama

dwyer — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:17:18 +0000

Before Barack Obama arrived in Boston last weekend to campaign for Deval Patrick, three Emerson College students and a fourth from Lesley College arrived at Hynes Convention Center around 6 a.m., more than six hours before doors would open.

Read full article by John Stephen Dwyer

Support for the Laramie Project in Boston

adamg — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 19:41:45 +0000

BostonTweet posted this video from today's protest at Emerson against the cretins from Kansas - who never even showed up.

Is that white smoke coming out of a chimney by Tremont Street?

adamg — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:13:43 +0000

Emerson College has a new president.

Emerson president leaving like Oprah

adamg — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:06:24 +0000

With plenty of notice: Jackie Liebergott is retiring in June, 2011, she just announced.

Via #jackiessecret on Twitter.

You can lead a kid to college, but you can't make him think

adamg — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:10:59 +0000

So City Council President Mike Ross wants to require local colleges to help the city figure out if more than four students are living in apartment, because it seems that since the city passed its five-students-and-you're-out regulation, not a single student swarm has been broken up, since ISD can't legally tell who's a student and who isn't.

Paul Flannery passes along word that the student paper at Emerson editorialized that this is just the sort of thing Hitler would have done:

Suppose some Boston city councilor proposed to ban more than four gay people from living together, claiming that such large gatherings of gays was a public nuisance. Or imagine if a councilor proposed such a Gestapo-like imposition on the city's Jews, or such a nouveau-Jim-Crow decree on Boston's blacks. ...

If the council president is serious about his cap on coed cohabitation, history provides a number of examples from effective tyrants. For instance, forget forcing colleges to report off-campus students' addresses. Hitler had Warsaw's Jews wear armbands for easy identification by the SS. Tattoos were effective, too.

Yeah, that's just what the son of a man who survived ten Nazi concentration camps while the rest of his family was wiped out would do. But, hey, Emerson teaches kids how to be DJs on indie FM stations, not how to do research or make rational arguments.

Town and gown - in Eastie

adamg — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:12:39 +0000

Seems the Emerson baseball team now plays its home games at East Boston's Sartori Stadium, newly rebuilt and featuring lights for night games. In general, the team seems to enjoy the new field, but as the Berkeley Beacon reports, there are some only-in-Eastie issues:

"There were some kids playing soccer in the outfield that interfered with the game a bit," said Anderson. "At one point one of them picked up the ball and threw it at the outfielder on the other team."

Via Jimbo.