{"id":5570,"date":"2016-03-30T16:08:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T20:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/?p=5570"},"modified":"2016-03-30T16:08:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T20:08:22","slug":"president-community-message-march-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/2016\/03\/30\/president-community-message-march-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Message from President Brown regarding student passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The following email was sent by President Brown to the Boston University community on March 30, 2016. <\/em><br \/>\n&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Dear Friends,<\/p>\n<p>It is with great sadness that I must report that a student has passed away early this morning on our campus.  First and foremost, our thoughts and prayers are with immediate family and friends who will, of course, be deeply affected by a sudden loss.<\/p>\n<p>I know that all members of our community will be mindful of the gravity of this loss and respectful of the privacy of a grieving family.  We cannot at this time offer additional information about identity or circumstances.  Many will have observed extensive emergency activity in and around Kilachand Hall.  We are, as you would expect, working closely with relevant public officials.  <\/p>\n<p>As we do when our community experiences tragedy, we are making counseling resources available to any individuals who need assistance and we strongly encourage people to turn to our experienced counseling and pastoral staff.  Information about these resources is provided in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2016\/kilachand-hall-death\/\">BU Today<\/a><\/em>. I encourage you to read <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\">BU Today<\/a><\/em> for updated information about this tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>Again I am grateful for the deep sympathy I know you feel for those most directly affected by this loss.<\/p>\n<p>With best wishes,<\/p>\n<p>Robert A. Brown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following email was sent by President Brown to the Boston University community on March 30, 2016. &#8212;- Dear Friends, It is with great sadness that I must report that a student has passed away early this morning on our campus. First and foremost, our thoughts and prayers are with immediate family and friends who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3766],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5572,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570\/revisions\/5572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}