11.02.2003
Sunday Breakdown: Trustees stunned by Goldin 'hit list'
The Globe's Patrick Healy and Marcella Bombardieri have this eye-opening must-read on the Goldin situation:
In the days leading up to a climactic Oct. 16 meeting, only his second with the full board, Goldin informed some BU board members and faculty that he was seeking "a fresh start" for the university and that he wanted to overhaul the establishment that Silber had built since taking over BU in 1971.
In doing so, Goldin made clear he intended to replace longtime leaders, including provost Dennis Berkey and treasurer Kenneth Condon; several deans, including Ronald Cass at the law school; and trustee favorites such as Christopher Reaske, the fund-raising chief who has built a sophisticated development operation that has set $100 million annual records recently, according to BU sources. Berkey and Cass were finalists for the BU presidency this summer...
The Boston Herald's Kevin Rothstein has this: "'There's a sense that Silber is just not responsible for things anymore and people will vote their conscience,' one source close to the board said. 'Without Silber, there's no voice suggesting a path for the school, so they'll find their own path...'"
Campus Insider: Pot project gets support; student journos get carded; 250 layoffs at MIT; and snacking the vote at the debate Nov. 4.
This caught the eye:
If you're a college journalist, how do you cover a riot without getting arrested as a rioter? That concern, among others, led editors of Boston College's campus paper, The Heights, to apply for press passes with the Massachusetts State Police this fall, so they could pull out official identification cards in case anything went wrong. Ryan Heffernan, news editor of The Heights, said his request for press passes was initially approved, but when the students showed up at Framingham headquarters to collect, police revoked the offer, citing rules that only professional journalists may be credentialed. "We take our job seriously," Heffernan wrote last week in a letter to Colonel Thomas Foley, state police superintendent...
RELATED: The Heights editorializes on the Hampton U. controversy.
MIT shuts down file-sharing service, which received a lot of media coverage over the last week or so, due to legalities. "Obviously, this is disappointing to me," Keith Winstein, one of two MIT students who designed the LAMP network with a $60,000 grant from Microsoft Corp told the Globe's Hiawatha Bray.
Maryland Democrats decry Governor Ehrlich's tution caps proposal, reports the Washington Post: "A day after the Republican governor made his comments on Baltimore's WBAL radio, several members of the opposition party called it a 'double whammy' against the 13-campus university system. Without added tuition revenue, they said, it would be even harder to close a gaping budget deficit..."
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