COM students write for the Globe
COM students Dan Rowinski and Leah Mennies recently wrote prominently-placed stories for January 12 edition of The Boston Globe.
Rowinski, working through BU's own New England Center for Investigative Reporting, wrote about police officers arresting citizens for electronically recording arrests-in-progress. The article was published on the front page of the Globe. Excerpt follows:
Simon Glik, a lawyer, was walking down Tremont Street in Boston when he saw three police officers struggling to extract a plastic bag from a teenager’s mouth. Thinking their force seemed excessive for a drug arrest, Glik pulled out his cellphone and began recording.
Within minutes, Glik said, he was in handcuffs.
“One of the officers asked me whether my phone had audio recording capabilities,’’ Glik, 33, said recently of the incident, which took place in October 2007. Glik acknowledged that it did, and then, he said, “my phone was seized, and I was arrested.’’
The charge? Illegal electronic surveillance.
Mennies introduced Globe readers to Lesley Kinzel, a self-described "fat" fashion blogger who claims thousands of readers and an unabashed attitude towards her weight. The article appeared on the front page of the Style & Living section. Excerpt follows:
Lesley Kinzel is fat.
Not “Does this dress make me look fat?’’ fat, which requires the obligatory reply, “Of course not!’’ At 300 pounds, Kinzel is fat in a way that is absolute. It’s who she is. She’s happy to be fat, and she’s happy to use the dreaded word.
“I benefit from owning this word, because if someone wants to use it against me, it takes away its power to hurt me,’’ she says. “If I am walking down the street and someone [calls me a name], I say, ‘Ha ha, you can’t use that against me.’ ’’
