Boston College

Online mystery: Who's posting news about BC and the IRA subpoenas?

John Carroll can't help but wonder who's behind Boston College Subpoena News and posting news about the college's fight to block subpoenas related to material in its archive of IRA interviews: Could it be the archive's director?

Acid test for firefighters at BC

The Boston Fire Department reports a sulfuric-acid spill at the Boston College science building left one professor with "very minor burns" around 6:20 p.m.

The department's hazmat team responded to the spill at 2609 Beacon St. to evaluate and clean up the spill, of about a quart of the H2SO4.

In May, firefighters evacuated two BC buildings and a few nearby houses as a precaution during a possible chlorine spill.

Court: Campus cops can't just root around students' rooms

The Supreme Judicial Court today threw out drug evidence against two BC students because campus police didn't have a warrant or clear, voluntary permission from the students to search their room.

Maybe those BC kids weren't quite to blame for that Comm. Ave. trolley crash

Remember that crash involving the seven BC students in an SUV that got hit by a trolley on Comm. Ave.? Brian McGrory reports the T suspended the trolley driver because he was doing 35 m.p.h. at the time, when the trolley shouldn't have been going more than 10 m.p.h. And now it's pursuing perjury charges against him, because he allegedly failed to tell investigators about his multiple driving infractions before the T hired him.

BC accuses MBTA of dissembling on Comm. Ave. trolley/car collision

The Heights reports an attack by Boston College officials on the veracity of an MBTA investigation into an April 25 crash between a trolley and a Jeep loaded with BC students at Comm. Ave. and South Street.

"As a result of our discussions with the students, we have serious concerns about the MBTA's seemingly deliberate campaign to assign full blame for this unfortunate incident on our students," [BC spokesman Jack Dunn said.

BC didn't go so far as to blame the T for the crash, which sent several of the students to the hospital, the paper reports. Instead, the college says the driver may have been distracted by other traffic on the road.

Three BC hockey players among those charged in connection with trolley/SUV crash in Brighton

UPDATE: Trolley driver suspended for exceeding speed limit on that stretch of track.

MBTA Transit Police have charged seven teenagers with being minors in possession of alcohol after a midnight crash between a Jeep and a Green Line trolley on Commonwealth Avenue at South Street.

Good thing the Eagles hockey season is over

The Boston Fire Department reports an ammonia leak at Conte Forum this morning.

Alleged drunk teen charged with plowing into BC student, then taking off

Benjamin Knott, 18, is scheduled for arraignment this morning in Brighton District Court on charges he ran into Bethany Pfalzgraf while she was walking along St. Thomas More Road early Sunday. BC Police fond Knott and his car nearby; Channel 25 reports Pfalzgraf remains in critical condition.

BC student government vows not to let next big party get out of hand

The Heights reports plans are in the works to monitor noise from Modstock this spring, to prevent more problems with neighbors.

The Heights itself opines neighboring residents shouldn't let their feelings about "university expansion, the passage of the Master Plan, the possibility of residence halls on the Brighton Campus, the degradation of the neighborhood brought on by absentee landlords and the havoc students are known to wreak in the community" color their judgment about parties on campus.

Another Green Line fail?

According to the latest WBZ Traffic on the 3s report, the T is apparently bussing between Blanford and Packards Corner on the B line.

Nothing on the T web page yet, although they do mention an earlier failed streetcar on the C line at St. Marys.