Senior Ethan Pravetz (SED’12, CAS’12) talks about founding Delta Lambda Phi, a fraternity for gay, bisexual, and progressive men.
Points of Departure: Brotherhood
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Candlelight Vigil Lights Marsh Plaza
The Boston University community comes together to mourn the loss of Austin Brashears (ENG’13), Roch Jauberty (CAS’14), and Daniela Lekhno (SMG’13). The three students were killed when the van they were traveling in rolled over. Four other students who were in the Auckland, New Zealand study abroad program and one from the Sydney, Australia, program were injured. One remains in critical condition.
- Weekend of New Zealand Beauty Ends in Tragedy
- Adventurous Friends Remembered
- University Stunned by New Zealand Tragedy
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Seniors Nicole Chabaneix (CAS’12) and Allison Bitto (SAR’12) talk about becoming best friends after meeting their first day of freshman year.
Points of Departure: Life Turned Us Into Sisters
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Senior Shakeela Najjar (SAR’12) talks about how her religious beliefs intertwined with her change of major at BU.
Points of Departure: Something I’m Convinced About
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Cambridge, MA, April 7, 2012:
The Boston University gymnastics club competes at MIT.(© Meghan Kemp, 2012)
Diver Bailey O’Brien (SAR’12) was diagnosed with end-stage melanoma. She now has a clean bill of health.
Points of Departure: Coming Back from Cancer
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That’s a lot of breakfast! Thank you, @BUDiningService, for making it happen. #BU2012 (Taken with instagram)
More than 2,100 seniors are here this morning. You look great, #BU2012. #coffeeisgood (Taken with instagram)
not a bad place to write a paper
I have an artistic license to kill: Let me tell you about my library... →
So I have an hour between classes and I didn’t have/didn’t want to do any work so I went to Mugar (BU’s main library) and poked around the displays. I knew we had some pretty cool shit but seriously my mind was just blown! Let me tell you a little about this collection (at least what I remember in my brief 30min walk through). We have:
-Fred Astaire’s tap shoes, signed inside
-Ginger Roger’s Oscar, not to mention 4 other Oscars
-11 Emmys, 10 belonging to CBS and 1 belonging to ABC
-A personal letter from Katharine Hepburn to Ginger Rogers
-Ginger Rogers roller skates and mass amounts of various other Ginger Rogers memorabilia, a lot of it either very personal or very valuable
-12 Golden Globes, one of which belongs to Peter O’Toole
-About 10 or so Tony awards
-Elie Wiesel’s humanitarian award
-Other awards including the Chicago’s best Actress award, Berlin film festival award, The JFK Center for Performing arts award and many many more (some probably more impressive than those)
-50 pens used by Lyndon B. Johnston
-And just crazy amounts of memorabilia, personal letters, awards, stage passes, photos, articles, posters, scripts, clothing, china, furniture, sculptures from/by/about a whole slew of famous people in a number of fields.
And nobody seems to appreciate this here because we’re jaded and forget about it when we go into the library.
I just find this collection so crazy and cool…ahhh I love my school!
All this & more (and you can visit, too.)
