With the Student Village residences popping up and towering over Boston University, more and more students have opted to live on campus recently, with more choices available. Close proximity to class, optimal security and socializing with new floormates influences students to shell out the big bucks for StuVi, South campus, and Bay State brownstones. But [...](read more...)
Unless you’re lacking in some serious musical education, you know who Morrissey and The Smiths are. But just in case, I’ll humor those of you who just furrowed your brow thinking “Who?!” The Smiths were a terrific Manchester rock band in the early to late 1980s. They released four studio albums from 1984 to 1987: [...](read more...)
I first read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude” in the novel’s original Spanish. Marquez’s rhetoric transported me into a world that I didn’t suspect I would ever again inhabit—a world in which pleasure is glorified and sought, where women have the temperament of a bull and the heart of a dove, in [...](read more...)
It’s that time again. Soon, a little white slip with a number on it will appear in the mailboxes of thousands of students. Hands will reach in, pull them out and panic, elation, or confusion will ensue. Mass texts will immediately be sent out, asking “what was your housing number?” “Is that good?” “Do you [...](read more...)
2009 Boston University graduate Neil Anand is a part of one of the smallest scenes in Boston: the hip-hop/rap scene. The rapper’s stage name is Aviator, which the musician took during his freshman year of college. It signifies Anand’s then-distaste for mainstream hip-hop’s culture; he was bothered that a rapper with a “hot beat and [...](read more...)
This article is the result of a collaborative effort between Quad writer Anna Ward and Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. How much will $675,000 get you? That amount of money will buy you an additional 19 semesters at BU (and at least three more degrees), a [...](read more...)
The dining hall is a cornerstone of college campus living. I’m sure at one time or another, whether you have had a dining plan or not, every student has eaten at a dining hall and experienced its wonders: somehow, there is a variety of foods to eat in a single meal, yet their monotonous consistency [...](read more...)
By Caitlin Clancy and Becca Tarvin On the first day of Mammalian Ecology, Professor Thomas Kunz walked into the room holding a bone larger than his forearm. “Do you know what bone this is?” he asked us. It was a walrus baculum, the bone located inside the penis of a walrus. Most of us were [...](read more...)
March in Australia is famous for the city’s most fabulous festival of the year: LGBT Mardi Gras. Originating 25 years ago as a protest march, Mardi Gras has become a week-long celebration of gay culture and rights. This year’s Mardi Gras parade was broadcasted throughout Australia on Arena Network, a national cable TV station, and [...](read more...)
Homecomings are usually joyous occasions: a time when alumni return to their alma mater after so many years or perhaps a graduate returns home with diploma in hand. It is a celebration of memories, emotions, and gratitude. For actress Sue Costello, she is returning home with an ecstatic feeling and many stories to tell. She [...](read more...)
