Need something fun to do this Friday? Consider attending the Bed-Net Ball at the O'Connell House from 9 p.m. to 12 p.m. Tickets are on sale for $10 apiece with the proceeds going toward the purchase of bed nets for families in Africa. Each ticket sold funds one bed net, which can protect a family from malaria-carrying mosquitoes. Malaria, one of the most easily preventable diseases, still infects more than 500 million people per year and kills more than 1 million. You can be a philanthropist while dancing the night away in a lavishly decorated environment. Even if you can't attend, feel free to check out www.nothingbutnets.net for more information about malaria and other ways you can help.
ON CAMPUS 'USA Today' features BC parents in story on letting go A USA Today report on the separation anxiety faced by parents of college freshmen featured interviews with several Boston College parents and students. According to the report, which was published earlier this week, universities are adapting as parents around the country increasingly turn dropping off their students at college into a multi-day affair. Seventy-four percent of 193 responding institutions said that this year they were sponsoring special parent receptions on move-in day, up from 7 percent in 2003, a University of Minnesota study found. And BC is no exception to the trend. But even with the special attention paid to parents, as those interviewed in the article noted, it's still hard to let go.
LOCAL Burst pipe releases asbestos in air; downtown streets closed Yesterday, steam began to pour out of a manhole in downtown Boston on Otis and Summer Streets as a result of a ruptured steam pipe. Nearby streets were closed and workers were decontaminated due to concerns that asbestos had been released. Larry Plitch, general counsel for Trigen Boston Energy Corp., which owns the pipe that ruptured, said that older pipes in the city, such as this one, are insulated with asbestos. Plitch said tests have confirmed that asbestos was in a brown material that spewed out of the pipe along with the steam and that the air in the area is still being tested.
UNDER REPORTED French web site creates alibis so adulterers can 'save marriages' A French Internet service known as Ibila was established about six months ago by former private eye Regine Mourizard to provide alibis for adulterers so they won't be found out. Ibila comes up with a range of excuses for absence, including wedding invitations, seminars, and emergency phone calls from work. The service is simple: the prospective client e-mails Ibila with a request for an alibi at a specific date and time, and Mourizard, bearing in mind the client's profession and circumstances, creates the perfect excuse. "If the alibi is well done and the spouse doesn't suspect anything, this can sometimes save marriages," Mourizard told The Associated Press.
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