Inside Higher Education reports the university is blaming the recent strike by existing graduate students for making its programs too expensive to run.
[T]he programs not accepting Ph.D. students for next academic year are American and New England studies, anthropology, classical studies, English, history, history of art and architecture, linguistics, philosophy, political science, religion, Romance studies, and sociology.
The Daily Free Press reports 26 students had their bikes or scooters stolen, from the streets of Allston to the racks of BU - and some were secured with U-locks. The Freep interviewed one student who rode his scooter to class, locked it to a rack with a wire lock and, while in class, ordered a U-lock - only to go outside to find his scooter stolen.
A Boston University graduate student today filed what she hopes will be a class action against the school for what she charges is the haphazard system it now has for paying her and other graduate students for the work they do for professors. Read more.
The state Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission has ordered Sunset Cantina, 916 Commonwealth Ave., to go alcohol free between Oct. 7 and Oct. 15 because of an incident in which a swarm of state investigators found an even larger swarm of freshman-age drinkers, many with vodka concoctions, one night last October. Read more.
Boston University says it's going to be at least a couple years before it formally says what it's going to do with the parcel at the end of Ashford Street in Allston that it bought from City Realty this week.Read more.
BU minds the GAP: Rendering of the building it could put up on Ashford Street.
Boston University yesterday paid $19.8 million to buy what is now a one-story warehouse and parking lot at 76 Ashford St. in Allston from City Realty, which won approval in September to put up a 17-story 254-unit apartment building there. Read more.
The Daily Free Press reports BU's dorm at 610 Beacon St. is now officially known as just 610 Beacon St.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Did you notice it briefly got lighter for a bit a little after 1? Alisa Bokulich looked out from her office at BU and captured the rainbow that sprang up over Cambridge before it got dark and stormy again.
David Fisher spotted it, too, from his aerie in the Seaport: Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board today ordered a one-day license suspension for Walsh Wine & Spirits, 388 Washington St. in Brighton Center, which police detectives cited on July 19 for selling tequila, rum and other drinks to two guys who were under 21, in the latest such incident at a place that had become popular among Boston College and Boston University students. Read more.
Northeastern (l) and Simmons suspects.
Boston and Simmons University Police report two sexual assaults on women near the Simmons and Northeastern campuses in recent days, while Boston University Police report making an arrest for two sexual assaults along their campus yesterday. Read more.
BU Today reports the selection of Melissa Gilliam, executive vice president and provost at Ohio State University as the replacement for Robert Brown, who retired as president earlier this year.
In addition to being a leader of the Ohio school, Gilliam is also a research scientist and a physician.
The Daily Free Press reports a crisis at the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research.
Photos of the stolen viola and its case via BPD.
Boston Police report they are looking for a viola stolen from an address on Glenville Avenue in Allston sometime between 2 a.m. and 3:50 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.
WBUR is announcing what it calls "a fresh weekend programming lineup" that includes ditching a local religious service that it had broadcast live for seven decades for some talkish non-religious thing out of New York City. Read more.
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