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Thursday, April 18, 2013
Vol. XCIV, No. 20
BC RALLIES IN WAKE OF BOMBINGS Monday on campus saw widespread confusion, service
Students organize ‘Last 5’ walk, vigil as memorial events
BY ELEANOR HILDEBRANDT
BY AUSTIN TEDESCO
News Editor
Heights Editor
“This is over. Something happened at the finish line.” On the afternoon of Monday, Apr. 15, around 3 p.m., the crowd at Mile 21 was considerably thinner than it had been just hours earlier. The stream of runners passing by the Boston College campus had narrowed to a trickle, but students were still leaning over the guardrails by St. Ignatius Church, yelling encouragement and offering high fives. Friends, family, and local citizens had gathered on the other side of Commonwealth Ave. to do the same. One or two people had heard a sound like thunder a few minutes earlier, but no one thought much of it—the weather was turning from April sun to rain, perhaps. The Boston Marathon went on. Suddenly, phones started ringing and beeping, and the news began to spread.
The concern, at first, was how to get people to sign up. Danielle Cole, CSON ’15, and Michael Padulsky, LSOE ’15, were both stopped short of finishing the Boston Marathon after the two bombings on Monday, and they wanted to finish the race together. They were sitting in a dorm on Monday night with friends when Padulsky came up with the idea to walk the last five miles from the Boston College campus to the finish line, and invite the rest of the BC community to join. “Why don’t we do something about this?” Padulsky said. “We weren’t able to finish our marathon. Why don’t we do something to commemorate it?” The two made a Facebook event at 11 p.m. that night called “Boston Marathon: The Last 5,” but were worried they wouldn’t be able to spread the message to enough people. “We had said to each other, ‘How are we going to network so that people actually come to this?’” Cole said. “We didn’t think enough people would come.” Within five minutes, 300 people had signed up. Within an hour, the number approached 2,000. Before Cole went to sleep, more than 3,000 had accepted the invitation to finish the race on Friday afternoon. “It was funny, because you’d think
“There was ... a lot of confusion as to how many bombs, what was going on, what the damages were.”
- Alex Warshauer, president of Eagle EMS and A&S ’14
At 2:50 p.m., two bombs had exploded on Boylston St. by the marathon finish line in Copley Center. There were multiple injuries. No one knew whether or not anyone had died. Police officers in attendance consulted their radios, then moved out into the middle of Comm. Ave. to halt the marathoners. “This is over,” one officer said. “Something happened at the finish line.” A female runner crumpled to the ground, sobbing, as the officer continued, telling students that no one was being allowed into the Boston area, and the road slowly cleared. “We don’t know what’s going on,” he said. “They just told us to close down the race.” Throughout Monday afternoon and early evening, downtown Boston was the scene of violence and destruction. Boston Police and the FBI shut down the scene, investigating suspicious packages along the marathon route. Public transportation was temporarily halted. Cell phone service was suspended. The Boston Globe has since reported that three people—8year-old Martin Richard from Dorchester, 29-year-old Krystle Campbell from Arlington, and Lu Lingzi, a Chinese graduate student from Boston University—died as a result of the attacks, while at least 174 people were injured and received treatment in area hospitals.
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“We weren’t able to finish our marathon. Why don’t we do something to commemorate it?” - Michael Padulsky, LSOE ’15
GRAHAM BECK AND ALEX GAYNOR / HEIGHTS EDITORS
Boston College students lined Comm. Ave. Monday morning and early afternoon to cheer on marathon runners (top). Following the news of the bombings downtown, police blocked off the road next to St. Ignatius, halting the race (center). Runners used the cell phones of bystanders and sheltered in the church, while police coordinated to ensure campus security (bottom).
after running 26 miles you’d be tired, but I can tell you I did not sleep well that night because I was thinking about, how are we going to get this event together with 3,000 people,” Cole said. University administrators and BCPD intervened the next morning after receiving concerned calls from city officials, and ultimately Cole and Padulsky agreed to postpone the event until a later date. “Everyone was very supportive and helpful,” Padulsky said. More than 10,000 people had indicated they would participate in the walk at that point—that number was over 17,000 as of Wednesday night. Cole and Padulsky recognized that Friday was no longer a feasible option. “They’re very supportive of the event, the idea, and what it brings to Boston and Boston College,” Padulsky said. “They
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Faculty and admins in conflict over senate Supreme Court rejects Disagreement persists over the role Board of Trustees should take in senate formation BY ELEANOR HILDEBRANDT News Editor Unlike many institutions of higher education, Boston College does not have a faculty senate. The University did not always lack a governing faculty body, however. In the 1960s and 1970s, the University Academic Senate (UAS) was in operation. According to Michael Malec, a professor in the sociology department and the treasurer of the BC chapter of the American Association of University Professors (BCAAUP), UAS consisted of 50 percent faculty members, 25 percent administrators, and 25 percent students. In the late ’70s, though, the senate shifted to mostly faculty dealings, then to a forum for faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences, and then faded away at the end of
the 1980s as meetings were more and more sparsely attended. “I did notice very early on that there was no really effective faculty representation,” said Michael Clarke, a retiring professor in the chemistry department and the former executive vice president of BCAAUP, who arrived at BC in 1976. “There was an Arts and Sciences faculty senate that I was on, and that could have been effective—it was in the days when Bill Neenan was Arts and Sciences dean, and he always came to those meetings, so you had a direct chance to talk to someone who would listen in those days. But it never really voiced an opinion while I was on it—except on parking.” According to Malec, the idea of a faculty senate did not reemerge until the turn of the millennium. In 2006, faculty members attempted to
hold an election to form a faculty senate. Judith Wilt, a professor emeritus in the English department and then the chair of the interim faculty senate (IFS), a body consisting of elected members of University-wide committees which met with the goal of creating an official faculty senate, stated in a 2010 document released to the AAUP that the IFS submitted its proposal for a Faculty Senate in a referendum to the faculty in October of 2006. With 42.7 percent of eligible faculty voting, the measure passed at 88.08 percent approval, according to the report. “However, the Provost … declined to allow the faculty member who conducts elections for all committees to conduct the election for the 10 at large members of a new Faculty Senate, noting the provision in the Preamble to the University Statutes that the Board of Trustees reserved to itself the power to ‘establish senates, councils…,’” the document stated.
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Belfast Project appeal BY ELEANOR HILDEBRANDT News Editor Editor’s Note: This story is part of an ongoing series about the subpoenas of the Belfast Project. On Monday, Apr. 15, the United States Supreme Court denied the appeal made by Belfast Project Director Ed Moloney and Belfast Project researcher and former IRA member Anthony McIntyre in an effort to prevent the recordings of interviews with former IRA member Dolours Price from being handed over to the Police Services of Northern Ireland. Last Friday, Apr. 12, Senator Robert Menendez, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, urged Secretary of State John Kerry in a memo to “raise the potential political implications” of the UK’s
request for the tapes, arguing that sharing the material “could have the effect of reopening fresh wounds and threatening the success of the Good Friday Accords.” The PSNI will now be granted access to Price’s recordings. Price, who died in January at age 61, revealed in a 2010 interview with The Irish News that the interviews she gave for the Belfast Project contained information about the 1972 murder of Jean McConville, an Irish widow and mother of 10. In January, following Price’s death, the University filed to close the case pertaining to the Price tapes. A separate appeal by BC, related to seven other tapes that Judge William G. Young reviewed and found to be related to the Jean McConville murder, remains in process.
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