Early-morning fire at 75 Strathmore Rd. in Brookline.

Michael Pahre analyzes the latest developments in the Boston College master-plan saga, concludes:

City Planner Floats a Trial Balloon on BC Master Plan: Just Give Them Pretty Much Everything.

F=ma, i.e., the Force with which you hit the ground when you try to shimmy down a tree just outside your second-floor window equals your mass times the size of your allegedly dumb ass when you slip and fall instead.

Found innocent on charges he smacked a guy with a bottle in a fight last year at the Greatest Bar. Two former BC players, both now in the NFL, had been put on probation for the incident.

Michael Pahre reports from a community meeting at which BC officials defended buying up apartment buildings off campus and such:

... Now BC's director of public affairs, Jack Dunn, increased his rhetoric again by saying Tuesday night that the housing on part of their Chestnut Hill campus is so dense that to find denser housing "you would have to go to a prison." ...

For some reason, residents didn't buy that argument; Pahre provides the numbers to show that BU, which nobody has yet compared to a prison, actually has a higher student density than BC.

Menino tells Banker & Tradesmen that maybe a bit of sophistry is involved when BC says it'll house all its undergrads on campus, then turns around and buys a high-rise apartment building on Comm. Ave. that isn't on campus.

Via Michael Pahre, who notes that BC officials are careful to talk about "university-controlled" housing rather than "on campus."

The 16-story, 190-unit building at 2000 Commonwealth Ave., GlobeSt.com reports.

As GlobeSt.com notes, the building was put up by Jerry Rappaport, the same guy who tore down the West End.

It's currently cat friendly.

Michael Pahre compares the reaction of BC and Suffolk when the city backed nearby residents and opposed new dorm plans: One worked with the city to find a more acceptable location for new housing; the other accused opponents of NIMBYism.

Harry Mattison posts a copy of a letter from Brighton resident Fred Salvucci to the Boston Redevelopment Authority's BC expansion project manager on the potential impact of the college's proposed buildout on traffic from Cleveland Circle to Brighton Center. And he says that unless the college takes steps to mitigate the increased traffic, the result would be a gridlocked neighborhood.

Salvucci knows from gridlock - perhaps more than anyone, he is responsible for the Big Dig, which started when he was transportation secretary under Mike Dukakis.

Michael Pahre provides the details:

In a series of recent postings at online forums and a discussion group, fans of Boston College athletics have repeatedly used anti-semitic and misogynistic language directly at a Brighton resident and community activist. The language has also included the suggestion of violence towards her. ...

Complete with examples. He says a BC official, while emphasizing the college has nothing to do with the forums, apologized for the language at a meeting this week of a college/community task force looking at BC's expansion plans.

One forum particpant reacted quickly to Pahre's post:

We may want to clean up our act since these interwebs are being monitored now.