on campus
Sanella, Filarski given alumni awards
Rev. Nicholas A. Sannella, BC '67, and Elisabeth Filarski Hasselbeck, BC '99, were awarded the University's top two alumni awards for 2004 last Thursday. Sannella and Hasselbeck were among eight other University graduates who were honored for their lifetime contributions in their respective fields. Sannella, who received the William V. McKenney Award as BC's outstanding alumnus, has been a member of the Board of Trustees since 1993, has a degree in both medicine and law, and gave up a private practice in vascular surgery to become a priest. Hasselbeck advanced to the final round of the CBS reality show, Survivor, and is now a co-host on the ABC daily talk show, The View. She is a vocal supporter of breast cancer research.
Fund started for ailing grad student
The St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Church established a fund last week for Oleg I. Bizyaev, a Boston College graduate student who is currently in a coma in Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Bizyaev, a doctoral student in economics, was found on a Brighton sidewalk early in the morning of July 9. Investigations done by the Boston Police Department said that Bizyaev was injured from a fall. His mother and brother came from the Ukraine to BC a week after his hospitalization and have remained here since. The fund will help Bizyaev's family with medical expenses.
local
Brookline considers burying all wires
Brookline residents have petitioned to bury the town's above-ground wires, which include those supporting telephone, electric, DSL, and cable television. Town Meeting members will vote on the idea during the November Special Town Meeting, according to the Brookline Tab. Committee members say the plan will make the town both safer and more beautiful. The plan, originally proposed in 2002, will cost roughly $1 million per mile and will cover about 100 miles of road in Brookline. The committee estimates that the project will be completed in 50 to 100 years, the Tab reported/
New center to help Newton teenagers
The Teen Reach Center plans to open a new youth center on Cherry Street in Newton on Oct. 25. The new teen center, run by the Newton Community Service Centre, will have video games, a pool table, a computer lab, music practice rooms, a movie screen, and a performance space for karate classes and various neighborhood comedy troupes, according to the Newton Tab. The center will also provide yoga, cooking, and SAT-prep classes. Chris Fortunato, director of the Teen Reach program, told the Newton Tab that he hopes the new center will be a place where teens can relax in a fun, safe environment.
universities
George Mason cancels Moore speech
George Mason University has cancelled a talk by controversial film director and author Michael Moore scheduled for five days before the presidential election. The decision came after a Republican state legislator wrote a letter to university president Alan G. Merten protesting the Virginia school's plans to pay the filmmaker $35,000 for the speaking engagement. "We just felt it wasn't the most appropriate use of [public] funds, so we decided the best thing to do was cancel," school spokesperson Daniel Walsch told the Associated Press. Moore told the Washington Post that he plans to speak at the school anyway in the name of free speech.
Two acclaimed profs to leave Harvard
Two more professors have left Harvard University's renowned African and African-American Studies department. Professors Marcyliena Morgan and Lawrence Bobo accepted professorships at Stanford University after being denied tenure by University President Lawrence H. Summers, according to the Boston Globe. The department had voted unanimously to offer both Morgan and Bobo tenure, which Summers decided to override. Several members within the department received offers from other universities within days of their announcement, according to faculty. Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr. has hinted that he may also consider other job opportunities. "This most certainly is a time for self-reflection, in the department and for each of us," said Gates.
nation
FBI forced to hand over Lennon files
A federal judge ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to turn over files on former Beatle John Lennon to a California professor last week. Jonathan Weiner, a professor at the University of California, requested the information for a book he began writing shortly after Lennon's murder, according to the Boston Globe. Weiner claimed that the documents show that Britain's domestic spy agency monitored Lennon's political activities, particularly his protests against the Vietnam War. Weiner has been in a 23-year legal battle over the documents with the U.S. government, who cited national security issues as reason for withholding the files. The U.S. government has 60 days to appeal the ruling.
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