Tag: Boston University

Lewiston Shooting Panel Presses Army Reservists on Maine Gunman

A commission investigating the October mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, interrogated Army Reserve colleagues of the gunman, Robert R. Card Jr., at a hearing Thursday, pressing for answers about their failed efforts to prevent him from inflicting harm and eliciting some of the most detailed accounts yet of the months leading up to the rampage. […]

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Profound Damage Found in Maine Gunman’s Brain, Possibly From Blasts

A specialized laboratory examining the brain of the gunman who committed Maine’s deadliest mass shooting found profound brain damage of the kind that has been seen in veterans exposed to repeated blasts from weapons use. The lab’s findings were included in an autopsy report that was compiled by the Maine chief medical examiner’s office and […]

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Pro-Trump Internet Trolls Escalate Ugly Attacks on Nikki Haley

Social media posts depicting her as Shiva, the deity of destruction. Others that misleadingly use deep fake technology to show her insulting voters. And still others that direct vitriol at her son, a college student. For most of her presidential campaign, Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina and former United Nations ambassador, has […]

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The Newest Union Members Are Undergrads

Sam Betsko figured out fast that being a resident assistant in a college dorm would demand more than helping locked-out students and pleading with sophomores to, for the love of God, turn down the music. In her role at Boston University, there were days of compulsory, unpaid training, and the specter of arbitrary discipline from […]

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Merle Goldman, a Leading Expert on Communist China, Dies at 92

In November 1974, a small group of American college presidents spent three weeks traveling through China, visiting universities, communes, factories and even the office of Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping, who was still four years away from taking over as Communist Party leader. Though the United States had recently re-established relations with China, it was an […]

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Ibram X. Kendi Blames Racism for Boston University’s Inquiry Into His Center for Antiracist Research

Photo: Natasha Campos (Getty Images) Following Boston University’s revelation that its audit of Ibram X. Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research revealed no money mismanagement, Kendi shared his candid thoughts on why the inquiry was launched in September. This Book Aims To Arm Kids With The Tools To Fight Racism Off English “Unfortunately, one of the […]

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An Overdue Lesson on Antiracism

“The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination,” Kendi wrote, in words that would be softened in a future edition after they became the subject of criticism. “The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.” In other words, two wrongs do make a right. […]

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Ibram X. Kendi and the Problem of Celebrity Fund-Raising

“It was a frustration of mine, at the Democracy Alliance, that I couldn’t get people to invest as heavily in these civic engagement institutions on the Black and Latino side as they were used to doing in some of these historically white-led think tanks,” the former Democracy Alliance president Gara LaMarche told me. Often, he […]

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An Ambitious Antiracism Center Scales Back Amid a Funding Slowdown

In the wake of George Floyd’s murder in May 2020, protests, looting, and anger were boiling up in the streets of Boston, a city that has played host to both abolitionists and vicious race riots. At Boston University, Black students demanded action to address campus racism. The university had a dramatic response. It announced a […]

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Ibram X. Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research At Boston University Under Scrutiny Following Layoffs

Photo: Arturo Holmes (Getty Images) Boston University has confirmed that an inquiry has been launched into Ibram X. Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research, which is housed by the school. It will also look into how grant funding had been managed, numerous layoffs and Kendi’s leadership at the center. This Book Aims To Arm Kids With […]

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A Former Hockey Enforcer Searches for Answers on C.T.E. Before It’s Too Late

Page 68 of Boston University’s Hope Study questionnaire asks, “Have you ever injured your head or neck in a fight or been hit by someone?” For Chris Nilan, a simple yes could never convey the whole story. The answer stretches out over 300 bare-knuckle fights as a professional hockey player, and countless other brawls on […]

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