Like many others, I found myself on Sunday night working on the mountain of final tasks that come with the end of any semester at BU. While working out the details of a presentation I was giving the following morning, I decided to divert myself with a quick visit to Facebook – surely a quick [...]

Not sure what to do tonight? Sick of hearing house beats and terrible techno remix versions of popular songs at bars and house parties? Go check out the Concert of Student Works TONIGHT at 8:00pm at the CFA Concert Hall (855 Comm. Ave)! Martin Amlin will be directing pieces composed by students, including the UnCommon [...]

I recently had the opportunity to attend the National Conference on Undergraduate Research at Ithaca College. I would count this experience among the most valuable over my past four years at BU, one that I’ll probably remember throughout my life. The National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR for short) allows undergraduates the setting for presenting [...]

The past weeks have seen a great deal of political upheaval in northern Africa, with the ousting of Tunisia’s President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and the rampant civil disobedience in Egypt. Egypt’s upheaval placed the United States in a precarious position between supporting reform as a result of economic collapse and supporting President Hosni [...]

The recession has affected every organization and individual in this country, either directly or indirectly. In the continuing effort to recover from this economic downturn, President Obama called on congress during his State of the Union address to cut spending and eliminate superfluous programs. This sentiment, while positive in its efforts to eliminate dubious spending [...]

Hey there BU, this week is Open Access week, a week devoted to espousing the free flow of information in academia.  Open Access is a relatively new idea, which calls for authors and academic journals to publish material for free access online.  This system relies on cooperation between authors and journals working to replace the [...]

My previous entry focused on the abundant musical resources available to any BU student through Mugar library’s second floor music library.  The audio collection holds a host of recordings, focusing mainly on the classical and jazz repertoire studied most frequently by the musical students from BU’s College of Fine Arts; however, this collection also includes [...]

When thinking about the library, one doesn’t really consider the potential for music hidden past the silence and the stacks of books. However, the library is an excellent way to get involved in music in a variety of ways. The music library, located on the second floor of Mugar Library, houses a vast collection of [...]