The Unpaid Intern's Plight: Getting Ahead in a Recession, Labor Laws Aside
Are you currently an unpaid intern, or have you ever been one? Have you felt helpful around the office, actively contributing to the team, seeing your work pay off in a final product? Have you worked independently, without a supervisor breathing down the back of your neck at all times? Have you felt like you could have a shot at a job once your internship ended? I certainly have. As an intern I was told I could easily transition to being a paid staffer, if only I didn't have a year of college left (the company going bankrupt five months later is another story). Here's an excerpt lifted from ...
Text Messages: For Haiti, For Food Stamps, For Your Lunch
Last week, things were quiet at the Hot Chocolate for Haiti table. The fundraising effort was set up near the entrance of Boston University's George Sherman Union, a hub for quelling caffeine addictions and between-class munchies. Plenty of students rushed by, but they didn't take the bait to make a donation for Haiti in exchange for the goods. Two girls sat behind the table, standing guard over a shoebox with a few crumpled bills thrown in. Both were playing on their phones. It would be no surprise if these girls, like millions of others, had opted to donate to the Haiti relief effort via ...
Life Without Teddy: Massachusetts Students Face Their First Republican Senator
BOSTON -- The last time a Republican was elected to fill a Massachusetts seat in the U.S. Senate, Barack Obama was still Barry. It was 1972 when Ed Brooke was re-elected, and the future 44th president of the United States was just 11 years old. Ted Kennedy, of course, had already been a senator for a decade when Brooke was elected. Kennedy's nearly five-decade reign makes it easy to believe that there has never been life without the so-called Lion of the Senate representing Massachusetts. The months since Kennedy's August death excepted, for a staggering 59.8 percent of Massachusettians -- ...
What R U Wearing? A Black Robe: Texting and the Supreme Court
Things I've consulted my 232 Twitter followers about: a) What to have for lunch b) Where to find my misplaced driver's license c) How to make recently consumed hot peppers feel less hot The only reason that not one of my 1,919 tweets involves being summoned for jury duty or actively deciding on a criminal trial is because, well, I've never been summoned for jury duty. (Probably a lucky thing for all involved, but that's beside the point.) The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case about techno-privacy, and will eventually decide whether employees have the right to privacy on texts sent and ...
Dad Weighs In on National Christmas Tree Lighting
All of you out there still worrying that President Barack Obama is a secret Muslim, rest easy: despite online rumors that the National Christmas Tree displayed on the ellipse in front of the White House would be called (gasp!) the National Holiday Tree this year, it just isn't true. The National Christmas Tree will be lit in a dazzling display Thursday night, while the first family, singers Sheryl Crow and Ray LaMontagne, rapper Common and, of course, a national television audience, look on in awe. Though the tree's name may be safe from any griping about political correctness (it has been ...
Debtors' Revolt: True Stories of Overdraft-Fee Survivors
We all know someone who's had a $35 cup of coffee. No, this isn't a kids-these-days rant about the coin required for a fancy-schmancy latte (extra foam, extra hot, non-fat, please). This is about cold, hard, overdraft fees. You don't even have to be a caffeine drinker to fall victim to them. Even those who pinch pennies can't escape their grasp. The Federal Reserve says that banking institutions make between $25 million and $38 million annually from overdraft fees. Bank of America, which received billions in government bailout money, is notorious for its merciless $35 overdraft fees. ...
New 'Green' Excuse At Boston University: My Print Quota Ate It
At what point does university sustainability threaten the college experience? Nearly 19,000 Boston University undergraduates will find out soon when they head back to the Charles River campus and learn they must cut their printer usage by 80 percent. ...
No Use Crying Over Spilled Beer Diplomacy
The echo of the "oops" heard round the world -- the arrest of renowned Harvard professor Dr. Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. while trying to get into his own Cambridge, Mass., home without his keys -- is still bouncing off every flat surface it touches. More than a week later, the world waited with bated breath to hear what kind of beer Gates would have in his Thursday White House sit-down with President Barack Obama and Sgt. James Crowley, the Cambridge police officer who arrested Gates. (For the record, Gates had been planning to drink Red Stripe, notable for its lack of birther cred, but ...
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