First Belinda the Willow Tree, now the radio tower atop the College of Communications at BU. Ross Levanto reports BU today took down the radio tower that had long symbolized the college, even if it hadn't actually broadcast anything since the 1950s:

... Maybe only a BU COM grad can understand, but it was somewhat of a poignant, if accidental moment. We recognize COM by the antenna in diametrically opposed ways. You think radio, of course, when you see it, but its derelict status always reminded the COM student of the equally decrepit halls of the building itself.

Ed. parochial note: What's next? That weird MIT radarish thing behind the fire station on Centre Street in West Roxbury?

Stop the Brookline thugs picking on BU students!

... I suggest the [BU] administration to either make an effort to buy the property or put pressure on the Brookline Housing Authority to monitor the tenets it accepts to 51-85 Egmont St. BU students who live in the Ashford/Gardner area they face a consistent problem every weekend with residents from the Egmont housing projects who come to the area for parties. Police can only take action after fights or vandalism; a greater power needs to step in to keep this from ever happening. ...

It means a lot coming from a student who admits he got his jaw broken at an out-of-control party he threw:

Granted, you put yourself at risk by throwing parties that you lose control of, but still. I'm not Tupac, I'm no Biggy, I'm a 20-year-old college student who pays 50 grand a year to go to BU. I should not be in these situations.

Via Wearing my Fancy Pants.

Beth Adelson listens as a Green Line conductor tries to remember the name of the stop that comes after BU East outbound.

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Boston University assures us they won't let anybody with psychological problems work at its new South End biolab.

But instead, Good Girl Gone reports the two large signs right in the middle of BU's Marsh Plaza warning people to accept Jesus or they'll burn in hell actually made her feel good:

... Clearly, according to the two people holding those signs, I am destined to go to hell, simply because I'm Jewish. But what I got from this experience, was a sense of contentment with my own religion. In Judaism, we would never tell someone that by simply not believing a certain principle, they will end up in hell. ...

Did anybody in Boston not get a call last night from the National Institutes of Health about a hearing on BU's Deadliest Things Alive project in the South End?

Just in case, it's on Oct. 14, starting at 6:30 p.m. at the Roxbury Center for the Arts at Hibernian Hall, 184 Dudley St.

Light turns green, BU student on bicycle attempts to turn left in front of car going straight on Comm. Ave. and University Road Tuesday morning, the Daily Free Press reports, adding he was taken away with a head wound.

BU freshman from Kansas learns about the harsh realities of life in Allston after his iPod, GPS and radio are stolen from his car parked on Comm. Ave.

... He ran back to the apartment and told his roomies what happened. They were all very upset on his behalf. Then one of them asked him how the thief got in. As it turns out, the kid from Kansas left his doors unlocked and everything in plain sight because that is the way he "does things at home."

Jennifer Douglas, who told workers at Boston University's Mugar Library she had a bomb on May 4, yesterday admitted to sufficient facts in the case and was sentenced to two years' probation and mental-health treatment - and was ordered to stay the hell away from BU - the Suffolk County District Attorney's office announced.

She was also ordered to stay away from the Bethel AME Church in Boston.

By forcibly removing any bicycles not attached to a rack on Comm. Ave.