Speaking of the Ward Commission ...

UMass-Boston has shut down its parking garage, the one where people ran the risk of being crushed by falling concrete (hmm, sound familiar?). It was this concrete mistake that led in part to the Ward Commission.

Via Jon Keller.

Tim Lavallee has a UMass degree and is grateful he could finish his degree online:

... The online environment was great in that I didn't have to leave my house, but better yet that I didn't have to go to campus and risk my life.