It's really tragic:
"MIT shutters fraternity after woman’s fall" by Matt Rocheleau | Globe Correspondent October 31, 2014
MIT is shutting down a fraternity because of poor conduct and is forcing members to move out of the group’s off-campus house in Boston this weekend, the school’s chancellor said.
University officials did not specify the conduct that led to the action against the Lambda Chi Alpha house, which included stripping the fraternity of its university recognition as an official student group. But a woman was injured in a fall from a window during a party at the house this semester, and the group has faced scrutiny and activity restrictions since.
Rumor is she was given a date-rape drug.
The incident was not the sole reason the chapter is being shuttered, according to Haldun Anil, a senior at MIT and president of the Interfraternity Council. The group had compiled “a history of persistent and troubling behaviors” and was facing “multiple pending judicial cases,” Anil wrote in a message to the leaders of MIT’s Greek organizations Thursday.
MIT said its move was prompted in part by a decision the fraternity’s international organization announced on Thursday to suspend the MIT chapter for at least five years due to “conduct that does not support the fraternity’s priority of providing a healthy chapter environment for its members.”
MIT Chancellor Cynthia Barnhart said the fraternity “has fallen short of the MIT community’s expectations, to our great disappointment.”
“It is my hope that this incident will reveal itself as a learning opportunity for those involved,” Barnhart wrote.
An investigation was launched and the fraternity was suspended after a college student who did not attend MIT was injured when she fell from a third-story window during a rush week party at the house two months ago. Amid concern that the party had violated rules that ban gatherings of 50 or more, the case led MIT officials to reaffirm a year-old ban on large parties at university-affiliated fraternities, sororities, and living groups. That ban was first imposed after an MIT student fell four stories through a skylight at a party last fall at another nearby fraternity.
Yeah, that was a very illuminating experience.
The 45 students living at the Lambda Chi Alpha house, at 99 Bay State Road in Boston, must leave by Sunday, university officials said. On-campus housing will be available to members for the rest of this semester, and campus officials will help students relocate and find housing for the spring semester.
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Related: MIT community targeted by phone scammers
Those poor kids!
Speaking of crying poverty:
Harvard’s financial report sounds cautionary tone
But they have money for this?
"Harvard secretly photographed students to study attendance" by Matt Rocheleau | Globe Correspondent November 05, 2014
Harvard University has revealed that it secretly photographed some 2,000 students in 10 lecture halls last spring as part of a study of classroom attendance, an admission that prompted criticism from faculty and students who said the research was an invasion of privacy.
The clandestine experiment, disclosed publicly for the first time at a faculty meeting Tuesday night, came to light about a year-and-a-half after revelations that administrators had secretly searched thousands of Harvard e-mail accounts. That led the university to implement new privacy policies on electronic communication this spring, but another round of controversy followed the latest disclosure....
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Related: Harvard must respect faculty, student privacy on campus
Just stay safe, kids:
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Police seek man in sexual assault on teenager
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Nooooo!
First person arraigned in pumpkin fest disturbances
Also see: Smashing Pumpkin Fest
"Bridgewater State examines sex offender hiring ban" by Trisha Thadani | Globe Correspondent November 07, 2014
It recently came to light that Sean Janson, a registered Level 2 sex offender, has been teaching at BSU as a visiting English lecturer since 2006, having been hired less than a year after he was convicted.
They seem to gravitate to the job, yeah.
Janson, 32, of Bridgewater, was convicted in 2005 of indecent assault and battery on a person 14 or older and the purchase or possession of child pornography, according to the Sex Offender Registry Board.
According to a campus directory, Janson is still employed by BSU. If the Minors on Campus policy is approved, Gaffney said, it could affect his employment.
For a Level 2 offender, the Sex Offender Registry Board says the risk of reoffense is moderate and the degree of dangerousness is such that a public-safety interest is served by making registration information available, according to the website of the state Executive Office for Public Safety and Security.
Level 3 means the board has determined the risk of reoffense is high and the degree of dangerousness is such that a substantial public safety interest is served by active dissemination.
Bridgewater State also made headlines this fall after administrators failed to alert the campus about two reported rapes in September, drawing criticism from students.
Two weeks later, the school announced the creation of a task force to look at ways to improve the prevention of sexual assaults and relationship violence....
Feel safe now?
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Here is a good way to prevent all that:
"Plan for Boston school police to carry pepper spray is halted" by James Vaznis | Globe Staff November 06, 2014
Interim Superintendent John McDonough announced Wednesday night that he was halting efforts to equip school police with pepper spray, saying it might “drive a wedge between our students and the school police.”
No, I meant give all woman a can.
McDonough told the School Committee in his opening remarks that it became clear during forums held in recent weeks to develop a pepper-spray policy that students, parents, and other community members did not support the idea of equipping the system’s 75 school police officers with the chemical spray.
He also noted the number of student arrests has dropped dramatically in recent years, and that the district has taken other steps to bolster safety, such as installing key-card access to schools, upgrading cameras, and adopting new measures to prevent conflicts before they erupt, but there has been a spike in arrests this fall.
“The cycle is going back up.” Better get those cans out just in case.
“I think what we are hearing so far has persuaded me that pepper spray -- no matter how well-developed the policy and no matter how well-crafted the training, and no matter their good intention -- might serve to drive a wedge between our students and the school police who do a great job protecting them every day,” McDonough said.
When is the next psyop false flag hoax?
Boston school police officers, who carry no weapons, have been pushing for pepper spray for years. They finally struck an agreement with the School Committee as part of their union contract more than seven years ago to carry it. But the provision came with a hitch: the school police chief needed to first develop a policy on the use of the spray, which never happened.
Since when are union contracts sacred?
Alfred Gordon, an attorney who represents school police supervisors, said the union “will take every potential legal action” to fulfill the contract language and protect its members. Those steps could include filing charges with the state Department of Labor Relations.
“The union has documented, over the last seven to 10 years, numerous incidents of students bringing deadly weapons into schools, and the only defense that the school police officers and supervisors have had at their disposal is their own two hands and their handcuffs,” Gordon said in a phone interview.
Of course, that is okay if you are a private citizen given the gun-grabbing agenda.
With a spate of school shootings nationwide, Gordon said, it is even more imperative for school police to have some level of protection.
Many of which have been proved to be false flags if not outright hoaxes.
The school system’s unarmed police force is unique, the Globe reported in 2012. The National Association of School Resource Officers in Alabama said at the time that most school officers around the country carry weapons....
Several School Committee members told McDonough they supported his decision to scuttle the use of pepper spray.
“It goes to show that BPS is working closely with students to make schools a better environment,” said Ayomide Olumuyiwa, the committee’s student representative, who attends the O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science in Roxbury.
McDonough’s announcement came hours after some City Councilors raised concerns at their meeting about giving school police pepper spray and voted to hold a hearing on the issue.
“It’s simply an absurd idea,” Councilor Matt O’Malley said before the vote.
Councilor Tito Jackson said using pepper spray would only escalate tense situations.
“I don’t know why we would even broach the issue,” he said.
Councilor Ayanna Pressley said she did not want the schools “to become a police state.”
They already are. It's training and acclimation for the youth.
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"Students, staff at South Boston elementary school sickened by possible norovirus" by Trisha Thadani | Globe Correspondent November 05, 2014
More than 60 students were absent from a South Boston elementary school on Wednesday as a highly contagious virus, believed to be norovirus, runs through the school.
Approximately 140 students and 10 staff members have become sick with suspected norovirus over the past few days, said Boston public school spokesman Lee McGuire.
Norovirus can be transmitted directly by an infected person, contaminated food or water, or by touching contaminated surfaces, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It can cause stomach and intestinal inflammation, stomach pain, nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting....
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Ebola has gotten all the headlines while this killer that was brought by the illegal immigrants with which Obama flooded the country is more or less ignored.
