From the Archives
Share your memories of interruptions to campus life
On Wednesday, March 11, Boston University announced all classes were moving to online only due to the fast-moving coronavirus pandemic. For most of the spring and summer, classrooms, dorms, and dining halls were left empty. Comm Ave, usually so full of bustle, was eerily quiet. In April, a drone flew over the Charles River Campus and captured aerial views of a deserted BU.
We asked Andrew Costello, digital imaging manager and expert on BU’s extensive photography archives, to find a photo that captured another time in history when BU’s campus fell still. He dug out some great images from the blizzard of ’78, including this one showing Bay State Road reduced to little more than a footpath.
The February storm walloped Boston: 27.1 inches of snow fell in 33 hours. The city was effectively shut down for six days.
We’d like to hear your memories of the infamous blizzard of ’78—or of any other disruptions to normal life during your time at BU. How did you spend your days? If it wasn’t a weather-induced lockdown that disrupted your BU career, what was it?
Share your memories with the editor. And don’t forget to see what readers had to say about last issue’s photo from the archives: the biology student connected to a lampshade.