ComputerWorld recently featured Boston College's new data center, constructed in the empty St. Clement's chapel on Brighton Campus, which features its very own patron saint looking over the center. The data center sports 16 stained-glass windows, one of which depicts St. Isidore. Not only has the Vatican recently bestowed purview over the World Wide Web upon him, but Isidore of Seville has also been credited with creating the first encyclopedia. The move of the data center came as a result of space issues in O'Neill Library. The library's fifth-floor data center was 3,000 square feet and not expandable, while St. Clement's Hall is about 4,500 square feet.
ON CAMPUS BC athletics among nation's highest in graduation rates When it comes to graduation rates, the Eagles are among the nation's elite, with football ranked in the top three in the country and 16 Boston College teams receiving a 100 percent Graduate Success Rate (GSR), according to NCAA data. The football team scored a 93 percent GSR, tying with Duke, Notre Dame, and Stanford. The 16 other BC teams boasting a 100 percent GSR are baseball, men's cross country/track, men's fencing, men's golf, men's skiing, men's tennis, women's basketball, women's crew/rowing, women's fencing, women's golf, women's ice hockey, women's lacrosse, women's skiing, women's soccer, women's swimming, and women's volleyball.
LOCAL Panel created to investigate substance abuse in Boston FD Mayor Thomas M. Menino is asking a national fire-code specialist, a doctor who specializes in substance-abuse treatment, and the former head of the Massachusetts Port Authority to review Boston Fire Department policies and procedures. This panel comes as a result of the recent discovery that two firefighters may have been impaired when they died in a fire. Two government officials said last week that firefighter Paul J. Cahill was legally drunk and firefighter Warren J. Payne had traces of cocaine in his system when they died fighting a fire on Aug. 29 at a restaurant on Centre Street.
UNDER REPORTED Australian doctors drip-feed poisoned patient with vodka Two months ago, doctors at an Australian hospital drip-fed a 24-year-old Italian tourist vodka in an attempt to save his life, although the incident was reported only recently. The man, who has remained unidentified in reports, was hospitalized after having ingested ethylene glycol, which can cause renal failure. Pure alcohol is often used to treat such cases because it can inhibit the toxic effects. "We quickly used all the available vials of 100 percent alcohol and [after running out] decided the next best way to get alcohol into the man's system was by feeding him spirits through a naso gastric tube," Dr. Pascal Gelperowicz said. The patient recovered.
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