Bostonians, BU Community Members Mourn Jobs' Death
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011 Year XLI. VolumeThe LXXXII. Issue XXI. Daily Free Presswww.dailyfreepress.com [ The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University ] Campus & City MUSE Sports So You Want to be a Reality Back with ‘Black Cocaine’: Terrier Trouncing: Weather TV Star?: Today: Cloudy, High 68 Mobb Deep releases first album in M. hockey defeats ‘Real World’ casting call Tonight: Cloudy, Low 52 UNH in first game Tomorrow: 63/58 page 3 comes to Boston five years page 5 of season page 8 Data Courtesy of weather.com Police demand Occupy Boston protesters clear Greenway following march Students leave mark on East Campus Center By Katie Pontes and Kaylee Hill Daily Free Press Staff Written on one of two beams stationed on campus Friday is a message for Boston Univer- sity from an anonymous College of Communica- tion senior: “BU: You’ve helped me to build me, here’s to paying it forward.” The beams, which are the last two used to construct the frame for the Center for Student Services, were stationed around campus from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday at Danielsen Hall, Barnes and Noble, South Campus, BU Beach, Granby Street, Marsh Plaza, 881 Commonwealth Ave. and Buick Street, Harry Agganis Way, Warren Towers and the GSU Plaza so students could sign them. AMANDA SWINHART/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF Students scrawled their names and messages Left: College of Arts and Sciences junior KC Mackey protests with other Boston University students on Commonwealth on the beams as a way to “leave their permanent Avenue. Right: BU students march from Marsh Plaza to South Station Monday. See separate feature article on page three for more on the Occupy Boston movement. mark on the building,” according to the Dean of Students website. Sharpies were handed out to By Jamil Sbitan your right to protest peacefully,” the BPD will be subject to arrest.” Daily Free Press Staff people passing the beams and, at times, more than flyer said. “The BPD is also obligated to However, ACLU members passed out 20 people were seen signing the beam at once. maintain public order and safety. We ask for instructions on how protesters could deal “Students will be able to see their signatures After hours of protesting, thousands of your ongoing cooperation.” with police interference and Occupy Boston when it is raised, and will know that they are a part Occupy Boston movement members were The flyer also listed bullet points of what leaders posted a phone number for a law- of the building when they use it in the future,” said told by Boston Police Department officials BPD expected from Occupy Boston partici- yers’ group in Boston in case people were Assistant Dean of Students Kat Hasenaur. at about 8 p.m. that they could not occupy a pants and what Occupy Boston participants arrested. People with megaphones were present at section of the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Gre- could expect from the BPD. Monday’s march was part of a larger all the locations, and called out to students with enway that they had begun demonstrating in “If you are notified by the BPD that movement that began on Wall Street in New phrases including “Those who sign the beams earlier that evening. you are unlawfully assembling, or tress- York City on Sept. 30. will be a part of BU history!” and “Your name BPD officials distributed flyers warning passing, you will not be allowed to re- About 100 Boston University students will be there forever!” protesters that they may face arrests if they main in the area,” the flyer stated. left Marsh Chapel at 1:30 p.m. to march in “I wanted to come out and leave my mark on did not comply with police orders. “Please immediately leave the area with BU with this tradition of signing the beams,” said “The Boston Police Department respects your belongings, your belongings, or you OCCUPY BU, see page 5 Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sci- ences sophomore Lauren Donnelly. Following tradition, a ceremony is held to cel- Bay State elementary students help set reading record ebrate when the last beam of a steel structured is By Kyle Clauss Dewdney’s “Llama Llama Red Pajama,” load on Read for the Record’s website. raised, according to the website.The beams were Daily Free Press Staff breaking the record set by last year’s Read “It’s about service,” said Ruth signed by more than 600 members of the BU More than 250 pajama-clad children for the Record. Strubank, senior director of education for community, including the construction work- listened to Diane Patrick, the wife of Gov. “[‘Llama Llama Red Pajama’] was Jumpstart. “It’s about serving children ers, project managers, administrators and the Deval Patrick, read for Jumpstart’s sixth picked in collaboration between Jumpstart and families and insuring that all children students who the building will serve. They were annual Read for the Record day at the and Pearson,” said Susan Slater, Jump- have a quality early childhood education.” also signed by local businesses, such as Raising Boston Public Library in Copley Square. start’s executive director of the Northeast Strubank said she hopes the event will Cane’s. Jumpstart is a program that supports region. draw attention to the importance and value “By signing the beams, it shows that we are early childhood education. The pajama Past books read at Read for the Record of early education.The children gathered all involved here at BU,” said College of Arts and party at the Copley library on Thursday include “The Snowy Day” and “The Very at the BPL wore pajamas and participated Sciences sophomore Majed Abbas. was one of many reading celebrations Hungry Caterpillar.” in a variety of activities, including arts The beams are going to be raised to the top throughout the city. Jumpstart gave each child a copy of the of the building in East Campus at 100 Bay State Jumpstart enlisted about 2.1 million book, which was also available for down- children across the nation to read Anna READING RECORD, see page 5 EAST CAMPUS, see page 2 Bostonians, BU community members mourn Jobs’ death By Kelly Landrigan and Steph Solis Toyloy. Daily Free Press Staff “For me, it means to never be satisfied with The four-story Apple Store at 815 Boylston what you have and to dream big even if your St. in Boston was lacking its usual hectic buzz goal may seem unreachable at the time,” Toyloy, and excitement on Thursday as customers and a College of General Studies freshman, said. employees mourned the death of Apple founder Arantxa Orellena, a visitor from Spain, de- and CEO Steve Jobs. scribed Jobs as a “brilliant person” who had a Apple announced that Jobs died on Wednes- strong understanding of “human feelings.” day evening at the age of 56. “The world” had “He opened the way for a lot of people,” she lost a “visionary and creative genius,” the site said. “I’ve talked to my family in Spain and they read. are very sad by his loss.” Jobs, who was diagnosed with pancreatic Zam-zam Dayib, a senior at Northeastern cancer in 2004 and underwent a liver transplant University, said she was also deeply saddened by in 2009, resigned as CEO of Apple in August cit- the loss of Jobs. She said she overheard the news ing health issues. from a friend and then later listened to coverage Outside the main door of Boston’s Apple by Anderson Cooper of CNN. store, a small but steadily growing memorial Mumtaz Khan, a junior at Northeastern, said arose in honor of Jobs. Apple enthusiasts left she did not believe her sister when she told her mementos and gifts such as flowers, pictures, that the “Willy Wonka of Technology,” had died. drawings and apples. “I realized that it would be a big day in his- Each gift was filled with heartfelt messages tory because everyone owns an Apple product,” and inspiring quotes. Taped onto the glass fa- she said, as she placed a picture of a college çade of the building were the words, “Stay hun- classroom filled with MacBooks at the memo- gry and stay foolish,” which Jobs said during a rial. commencement speech to Stanford University’s Dayib and Khan both said that despite the Class of 2005. former CEO’s death, Apple would not lose its KAT SORENSEN/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF The message resonated with many people, Apple Store-goers create a memorial at the store’s Boylston Street location in including Boston University student Michelle remembrance of Apple Co-Founder Steve Jobs. JOBS, see page 2 2 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2011 BU IT, former Apple employee: Jobs worked to ‘move an entire industry forward’ JOBS: From Page 1 However, the statement did not dis- omore Nam Chu Hoai said that Jobs nology and business worlds. that I use my computer,” said Sarah Al status as the premier electronic pro- close the cause of death. was probably the greatest chief execu- “Jobs has set a new model for the Mousawi, a freshman in CAS. ducer. Connors, who worked at Apple for tive officer this generation has seen. technologically savvy entrepreneur College of Communication fresh- Boston University community eight years, said Jobs leaves behind “It’s inspiring and it shows that if who targets creativity over bottom- man Lida Nasseri said she agreed that members also expressed strong feel- one of the greatest legacies, one that you have a certain vision, you can do line profit,” Cassandras said. “Being Apple products have shaped the lives ings about Jobs’ death.