Growidgbu University Teanzs up 1'Vith Jo Tn Hancock to Expand Campus
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Heacl of the Charles is this weekend t) Community Newspaper Company FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 200.2 Vol. 7, No. 13 44 Pages 3 Sections 75¢ .. • GrowiDgBU University teanzs up 1'Vith Jo tn Hancock to expand campus • By Phoebe Sweet ha-, a n I) simng central heart." STAFr WRITER The next building to go up \\ill be the Hany Agganis t a time when the rest of the state of M~-.'3Chu Sport.-. ;uk.I Entenainment Arena, schedu ~ to be com setts is tightening its belt, Boston Univt:r y, in i pleted in 2<Xl4. The nc\\ ho..:ke) arena ha-. 6.200 ~.ex A corporate partner'lhip with John Hancod Finan pandable to 7,200. Hancock alkmed BU to name the cial Services, is embarking on one of the large\! 1. ni;truc arena alter Agganis a-. an honor to the alum, university tion project in the univer\ity's history. ba.-.eball and football hero and Red Sox .,lugger. JHF donated $20 million for the naming righh of three The a --erm. titnes., and recreation center, parking garage new BU dorms - the John Hancock Student Vill•rgl' 10 and open .,pace wrll Cl .,t an estimated $220 mi lnon to be built on the site of the old armory on Commorm ealth cornpleti:. Avenue. These three new buildings, going up nc 110 the The u 1in''""iLy ha-; already unveiled it'> ne\\ tennis and existing 18-story Student Village housing compl !:>.. are ind<Xll" trLKk .mJ field complex at I 00 Ashford St., anoth onl} one part of the construction project, \\hi ch \\ill take er part of the Student Village project. I 0 acres of prime real estate and several year\ t 1 com The proJ\!\.:l. \\hich BU President Emeritus Jon West plete. ling calkd .. a ma~1.,i\e imestment of time and treasure:· David D'Alessandro, CEO of.Hancock, said th ..t BU began '>I> year... ago. "has always had an incredible academic head and nm\ II BU, page 25 This Is what the new student village complex wlll look like whfln construction Is finished. Prayer for Local health care peace gets hit hard with By Christine Moyer latest budget cuts CORRESPOND N With the possibility of war in Iraq loom By Phoebe Sweet higher education and health-care ing on the horizon, roughly I 00 people STAFF WRITER I .tnd human '>ervices. Among the gathered at St., Gabriel's Parish in Brighton · Lawmakers performed a deli lr,rrdest hit are hospitals and on Sunday evening to pai1icipate in a can cate budget-balancing act on health centers throughout the dlelight procession, spon~ored by the Cru Beacon. Hill this week, weighing '>late, including several in All saders of Fatima. essential services for the poorest 'lon-Brighton. The procession held in the church, ci tizens of Massachusetts against Tenncd "death by inches" by which is nestled between trees upon a hill an alam1ing lack of funds. The lvmn O'T<X)le of the Massachu on Washington Street. occurs on the 13th results, handed down by acting tL-. League of Community ofe\ery month f~om V1 a) through October Governor .Swift nm w ek on f k 11th Centers. ih'- .. ub "'ill mosT ld.1f..iLl: u1c .1p1xa1<111l ~ l•f ll11.: dk.','>t:d Tum oa), an. 'll- 'l r 1lhon in 11ou-;I\ attect linancially ailing · Mother of Jesu'> to three children near I·atJ cut., that yank the '>atety n, ts out hn,pitals and community health ma, Portugal in 191 7. from under the sick, the poor and Ll'nters that serve I0 percent of all Sunday evening's commemoration of · the elderly. · Mw.;sachusctts residents. the holy events in Fatima began with a Programs taking hits include Senator Steve Tolman said church service at 8 p.m., followed by a pro fu ll -day kindergarten programs, BUDGET, page 25 cession throughout the church during which time the pru1icipanrs. ranging from young children to the elderly, recited the rosary. According to the visiting celebrant, Renewed building the Rev. Victor Hoagland, "the candlelight procession images your li te." Hoagland explained that the procession and new missions is very symbolic. He said that the candle represents the light of God that leads peo plea<; they go through li fe. The reciting or West End House enters new era the rosary po1trays the need of prayer to help people, and the performance of this ByWlllKilbum center, m<xlem kitchen and im act as a group symbolizes the notion that CORRESPONDENT proved athletic facil ities. New people must go with others. When the West End House paint is everywhere, while new "If you go by yourself, you won 't get Boys and Girls Club reopened last windows let the light in even on there," Hoagland said. spring atier months of renovation gray days. One thing was missing, Passing the flame from person to person and expansion, the kids and adults though: enough grownup staff and from candle to candle, the panicipants all gave high mru·k~ to the changes and volunteers to fully utilize it filed into the aisle. Slowly shuffling their made to their second home. Six all. feet and tracing rosary beads with their fin thousand square feet were added But all that's changing this fall, gers, they followed behind blue-robed men 10 the building on Allston sQ-eet following a summer in which the belonging to the Franciscan order who cai·- next to Ringer Park. space which new space wa<., gl ven a test run, ried a fi gure of the Blessed .Mother above sr.,.. PHoTo evMicH•EL MANNING has been filled wilh dance and vi and everyone, kids and adults in VIGIL, page 6 A nun prays during Sunc ay night 's Crusaders of Fatima candlelight vigil. sual m1s studios, a teens-only cluded, had a chance to really see rcxm1, an expanded educational WEST END HOUSE, page 9 I E Pave and park Landlord.\ see green with front-yard parking By Phoebe Sweet Brighton ha-. slo\i, I) been replaced by \\"RITER black top and automobiles. also ille At 154 Kilsyth Road. in a quit:l n-s gall)'. idential neighborhood ith namw., ..There are centuries-old trees and winding streets. 1hcre orce stood a mature shrubs and plantings that have ENTERTAINMENT row of stately oak trees. l'o<lay. \\here been removed due to greed and shon those trees once hadt.'d green l!r.t'>'- ' ll.rm gain," -.aid Joe Teller, a local res WilliamH. and a network <1i· centurie~-old ;Kll\. ident and <\RCA member. there sits a row ofcar-; . One trw..:k. t" < Teller and resident" throughout A Macy plays a cars, one blue and t\\ o black. forei~ n B have noticed the increase in paved and domestic m.:>del., - they gumd O\er la\\ ns and un.,ightly parking loLs screen dad . 154 J(jJsyth Road like glo!.')· modem located illegally in front yargs. Ac sentinels illegall patke9 ~ntinels cording to Boston\ zoning code, it is 1111>- SEE PAGE 15 • The cars of I "4 KiJ.,y th Road me illegal to park a car in front of a house not unique. Over the~ t ~O year... the Jue to setback regulations. But with • PHOTO BY ZARA !ZANE\/ . front yard \egetation f All-.tor - Some building owners have paved over their front yards to create parking, such as at this INSIDE PARKING, page 6 building on Commonwealth Avenue in Brighton .. Commentary 10 l\IAEL '~~ "fl '(('" AU.'"''"" fl1*fn Community Notes 3 SIMPLY FREE ~~\.~\\~() •• ~,;:-:;.. '"( ; f11t kub & l«°"'trl <:,~~~ "'1•''' <'~ ~, • . 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