Category: Dean JCF’s Corner

Reprise – Baby Got Boom? Sounds that Travel Well

A well-deserved (and short) break to spend time with family and friends deserves music during the down time. Music that will get everyone on the floor and dancing (if they aren’t talking). My playlist will get you, the children, mom, dad, and grandpa stompin’. These sugar-coated jams will make the dog howl and grandma say, […]

This Year I’m Down With Voter Expression

If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show, ‘Twould not be you, Niagara–nor you, ye limitless prairies–nor your huge rifts of canyons, Colorado, Nor you, Yosemite–nor Yellowstone, with all its spasmic geyserloops ascending to the skies, appearing and disappearing, Nor Oregon’s white cones–nor Huron’s belt of mighty lakes–nor Mississippi’s […]

Hurricane Sandy Information

Boston University is taking every precaution necessary given the threat of Hurricane Sandy. University wide planning started last week, and is in full force as the storm approaches. Because of the storm, classes are canceled on the Charles River Campus on Monday, October 29, 2012. An update about Tuesday’s classes will be given around 8pm […]

Touching Babel and Social Strife Makes Me Better

Globally, and particularly in America, the issue of race and racial justice has been grand, dynamic, and an argument. Time to focus on different parts of the story? Time for us to remix the conversation? Are you in a better position than I am – less cynical and politically unburdened – to lead the convo? […]

Remembering Dr. Silber

Boston University’s president emeritus John Silber passed away Thursday, September 27, 2012 at the age of 86. Silber served as the University’s president from 1971-1996, and as chancellor from 1996-2003. One of Dr. Silber’s greatest legacies will be how the University celebrates the life of alumnus Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boston University is believed […]