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By adamg - 5/10/24 - 8:47 am

The Tech reports MIT and Cambridge police and state troopers moved in shortly after 4 a.m., forcing out both protesters and reporters.

MIT president's statement to campus community.

By adamg - 5/6/24 - 12:18 pm

The Tech reports on the aftermath of an exploding manhole around 1 this morning.

By adamg - 5/6/24 - 11:39 am

The Crimson reports Harvard's interim president sent out a campus-wide e-mail today threatening students in a Harvard Yard encampment with "involuntary leave" for students who don't pack up now. Read more.

By adamg - 4/27/24 - 10:30 am

The Huntington News reports. Protesters with Northeastern IDs were released, although they could face disciplinary action; people without Northeastern IDs were arrested. Read more.

By adamg - 4/25/24 - 9:43 am

NBC Boston reports Boston Police move in around 2 a.m. and dragged out students protesting the situation in Gaza and tents from Boylston Place. Emerson canceled classes for today. Some video.

Meanwhile, Harvard students are in their second day of an encampment in Harvard Yard. The school is barring non-Harvard people from the Yard.

By adamg - 4/24/24 - 10:38 pm

A federal judge today sentenced Xiaolei Wu to nine months in prison for reacting to a flier another Berklee student posted calling for democracy in their homeland by threatening her with death - maybe even by being eaten by a homeless person at South Bay - and by reporting her and her family to Chinese officials, including his mother, a government functionary. Read more.

By adamg - 4/22/24 - 11:50 am

Only people with Harvard IDs will be allowed in, in anticipation of Gaza-related protests, the Crimson reports.

WBZ reports students at Emerson and MIT have set up encampments.

By adamg - 4/13/24 - 9:51 pm

A federal appeals court yesterday upheld an earlier lower-court ruling that a woman who was suspended from the theology master's program at Boston University for refusing to take the nasal Covid-19 tests the university once required has no case because the school no longer requires the tests. Read more.

By adamg - 4/10/24 - 1:26 pm
Councilor Coletta presents proclamation to Charlestown Coach Hugh Colman

Councilor Coletta presents proclamation to Charlestown Coach Hugh Colman

The Boston City Council today officially honored the city's four state-championship teams with proclamations - and pizza: Charlestown High School, whose boys basketball team won the Division 3 state championship, New Mission High School, whose boys basketball team won the Division 5 championship, the Josiah Quincy Upper School's girls wrestling team brought home medals in Division 2 and Boston Latin School, whose hockey team won the Division 2 championship. Read more.

By adamg - 3/26/24 - 9:02 am

The Crimson reports there were witnesses to the foiled fiddle filching at the Burren in Somerville. Plus, the bow fell out of one of the two students' coats as they were getting into an Uber. One of the two is a Crimson editor, but declined to comment when contacted by a Crimson reporter.

By adamg - 3/25/24 - 9:50 am

The Daily Free Press reports that the BU Graduate Workers Union, affiliated with the SEIU, will start their strike today with a rally at Marsh Plaza on Commonwealth Avenue following unsuccessful negotiations over wage increases, better working conditions and funding for childcare for grad students with young children.

By adamg - 3/24/24 - 12:43 pm

Randolph Abraham, athletic director at Brighton High School is asking for some help in rebuilding the school baseball program:

We are rebuilding the program stronger than ever and have some incredible young men who are in need of cleats and gloves. If anyone wants to donate gloves and cleats you no longer use, please bring them to the high school and ask for Coach Abraham. Size 9, 9 1/2, 10. Or anything.

By adamg - 3/14/24 - 10:33 am

A federal appeals court yesterday upheld a lower-court judge's dismissal of a suit by several Boston University students over the move to online education, ruling that a state law passed last year specifically to bar such suits is constitutionally valid. Read more.

By adamg - 3/8/24 - 9:54 am

Two MIT students and a pro-Israel group from California yesterday sued MIT on charges it has allowed protests over the Israeli war in Gaza to blossom into full-blown anti-Semitic threats against Jewish students and professors. Read more.

By adamg - 3/3/24 - 1:39 pm
67 Ashford St. on fire

The Boston Fire Department reports a three-alarm fire reported at 65 Ashford St. around 2 a.m. on Saturday injured one resident and caused an estimated $2 million in damage. Read more.

By adamg - 1/25/24 - 3:17 pm
Flier calling for various freedoms in China

The flier that outraged Wu, via the FBI.

A jury in federal court in Boston today convicted Xiaolei Wu, 26, on one count of cyberstalking and one count of interstate transmissions of threatening communication for the way he threatened and harassed another Berklee student from China who'd posted a flier posted on Mass. Ave. calling for various freedoms in their dictatorial homeland. Read more.

By adamg - 11/20/23 - 9:58 am

The Heights reports on the state of BC's most recent acquisitions: The 23-acre former Mount Alvernia High School in Newton and the former Pine Manor College in Brookline. Read more.

By adamg - 11/12/23 - 5:49 pm

The Huntington News reports on rats and mice running roughshod over Huskies. One student was bitten, another reports putting towels under her doors to try to keep one hallway mouse from getting around, a third describes the situation of students competing for the best rooms only to get rodents as "ironic."

By adamg - 11/7/23 - 9:12 am

The Jewish Journal reports on Brandeis's decision, which came yesterday, hours before Students for Justice in Palestine was to hold a rally at the school.

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