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BU’s John Silber Did Not Support Free Speech on His Campus

Written by Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Boston University student anti-apartheid protestors in 1986. Photo of 2010 scan of a page from the April 30, 1986 edition of the Daily Free Press by Jason Pramas. Original Daily Free Press photo by Paul Callard.

And I know that because his Boston University administration expelled me for participating in nonviolent student anti-apartheid protests in 1986

Recently, CommonWealth Magazine published an opinion piece by Rachel Silber Devlin, the daughter of former Boston University Chancellor John Silber, who published a book about her father last year and is giving a talk about him at BU today.

Her article paints a picture ...  read more

THE OMICRON SYNDROME

Written by Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics

"President Cyril Ramaphosa sees off Coronavirus COVID-19 quarantined citizens from The Ranch Resort" by GovernmentZA is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0

New COVID-19 variants inevitable until pharmas are stopped from privatizing public vaccine research and development

BOOZING ABROAD: SOUTHIE NATIVE DRINKS GLOBALLY IN NEW TRAVEL CHANNEL SHOW

Written by Filed Under: Drinks, Eats

An actor by trade who lives in LA, Jack Maxwell has been preparing for a gig that involves bouncing around the globe to share exotic (and sometimes ceremonial or religious) hooch amid colorful stories with locals since boyhood.

 

Maxwell, a Boston native who grew up in the Southie projects as an ...  read more