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Time of India
2 days ago
- General
- Time of India
BU students, staff celebrate spl edition of ‘Sundays on Cycle'
Berhampur: Several students, teachers and non-teaching staff of Berhampur University (BU) on Sunday participated in a special edition of 'Sundays on Cycle' under the FIT India Movement to mark World Bicycle Day, which falls on June 3. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now The participants pedalled for around 4km from the administrative building of the university to the entrance gate of Army Air Defence College near BU as part of the cycling rally. BU vice-chancellor Geetanjali Dash, who flagged off the rally, said, "We invited all stakeholders to participate in the rally and some even cycled for around 12-13 km to the campus to participate." "The rally aims to promote cycling as a sustainable mode of transportation and an effective way to enhance personal fitness, while contributing to improved air quality in the city. The initiative will amplify the message of healthy living and environmental consciousness in the university," she added. The participants pledged to lead an active and healthy lifestyle, to devote half an hour daily to exercise and encourage others to stay fit and healthy. "To encourage cycling among the staff and students on campus, BU authorities have observed every Saturday as 'zero emission day' for the last two years. On this day, no petrol or diesel vehicles are allowed on campus, except e-vehicles and bicycles," Dash added.
Time of India
6 days ago
- Time of India
Students allege cheating by BEd institute in Bengaluru
Bengaluru: About 50 students protested against alleged cheating by an educational institute in Chamarajpet, where they enrolled in a BEd degree programme. Some students were there for at least a year and did not write a single semester exam for the four-semester (two-year) course. Over months of their study, the protesting students said they repeatedly sought clarity on why the examinations were not conducted and why hall tickets were not issued. They said they were cheated out of Rs 35,000 semester fee. "There are more than 100 students facing the same issue. Only a week ago, we got to know the BEd institute is not affiliated to BU," said Sitara, a student. Several students are women, many of them married, and looking for better earning opportunities in teaching after completing the course. A student said: "I am an assistant teacher at a private school, earning about Rs 12,000 a month. I took up the course to upskill myself for better income. We looked it up online and, through word of mouth, found out about this institute a year ago. However, there was confusion about which college we were linked with. The administrators said it was a college in the south zone." Students were made to write assignments, which were said to be part of the 70:30 evaluation scheme for completing the course. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like 2025년 가장 멋진 RPG 게임을 지금 정복하세요 레이드 섀도우 레전드 Undo Another candidate, Priyadharshini R (31), who quit her job as a nursery teacher and joined the BEd course a year ago, said the institute claimed to have links with 10 BU-affiliated colleges that offered management seats for BEd. "We later learned the institute is linked to a college that is allegedly run by them, but is not affiliated to Bangalore University. I completed my nursery teachers' training at SVV itself. But that is a diploma-level course, whereas BEd requires university affiliation," she added. She has been waiting a year to write her first-semester examination. As per Bangalore University, the BEd examination was scheduled for May 12 this year. The owner of the institute was unreachable when TOI attempted to contact.
Boston Globe
24-05-2025
- General
- Boston Globe
Boston University's Honor Wall profiles students, alumni killed in service to country
His story is included in BU's new 'They're really humbling stories of heroism and bravery that a lot of people kind of overlook nowadays, especially when we think of the importance of that time in history,' said Michael Tozeski, who graduated last week with a master's degree from BU's Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies. Tozeski spent the last year researching BU students or alumni who were killed in action since World War I. He relied on state and national military records, BU archives as well as outreach to veterans organizations. Advertisement The wall so far includes 28 killed in World War I, 221 killed in World War II, 15 killed in the Korean War, nine killed in the Vietnam War, and three killed in the Global War on Terrorism. Tozeski said it has been 'tremendously humbling' to learn about BU's service members. Advertisement 'It's just been a truly unbelievable project,' Tozeski said. 'Like, really, greatest generation kind of stories.' BU hopes to hear from people with information about other students or graduates who died while in uniform, so that their profiles can be added to the page. The wall was modeled after an online veterans memorial The memorial page launched at the suggestion of John Woodward, BU's director of military education since last year. He had heard there were about 220 service members from BU killed in World War II alone. 'The lack of a comprehensive list of the members of the BU community who made the supreme sacrifice serving in uniform saddened me,' Woodward said in an email. 'My dad and my uncles were all combat veterans of World War II. I grew up seeing how important their war service was to them. They always remembered the comrades they lost in the war.' Tozeski, Woodward's research assistant, got to work. He figures he spent at least 150 hours on the project, spending his lunch hour twice a week at the university's archives center. 'They were able to provide archival material dating back to the turn of the 1900s and were extremely gracious in helping pull records,' Tozeski said of the archives staff. The profiles on the wall also include World War I Army Private WWI Army Private Charles W. Whiting of Avon is among the BU alumni listed on the Honor Wall. Boston University/Honor Wall 'Enemy soldiers were made aware of his efforts, and despite being targeted by field artillery, Pvt. Whiting remained steadfast and continued to repair and maintain the communication lines until he was killed in action,' Tozeski said. 'Such bravery cannot be quantified.' Advertisement While some of the people included on the wall had already graduated from BU before they went to war, many were still students, Tozeski said. 'And they're kids,' Tozeski said. 'That's the other thing that I've been so humbled learning, is that a lot of these were students that gave up their education to go to war, you know, they gave up their lives to serve the country.' Adam Sennott can be reached at
Time of India
22-05-2025
- Time of India
Barkatullah students protest VC's prolonged ‘absence' from campus
Bhopal: Barkatullah University (BU) faces fresh controversy as organised an unusual demonstration by affixing "missing person" posters of vice-chancellor SK Jain throughout the campus. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now According to NSUI, vice-chancellor Jain was absent since the first week of May. Ashish Sharma, NSUI's university in-charge, said that while main examinations continued and admissions commenced statewide, BU's portal allegedly remained non-functional due to the vice-chancellor's 'unavailability'. Besides, exam paper evaluation remained pending, and administrative tasks, including payments, ceased, he alleged. NSUI announced a Rs 1,100 'reward' for locating vice-chancellor Jain. He further said the failure of the VC to resume duties within three days would result in filing a missing person's report at a police station. NSUI alleged that crucial tasks, including private college inspections and affiliations, were delayed, as the acting vice-chancellor 'lacked decision-making authority'. The demonstration brought attention to concerns regarding the university administration's functionality. VC Jain did not respond to calls or texts sent to him on the issue. Bhopal: Barkatullah University (BU) faces fresh controversy as NSUI organised an unusual demonstration by affixing "missing person" posters of vice-chancellor SK Jain throughout the campus. According to NSUI, vice-chancellor Jain was absent since the first week of May. Ashish Sharma, NSUI's university in-charge, said that while main examinations continued and admissions commenced statewide, BU's portal allegedly remained non-functional due to the vice-chancellor's 'unavailability'. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Besides, exam paper evaluation remained pending, and administrative tasks, including payments, ceased, he alleged. NSUI announced a Rs 1,100 'reward' for locating vice-chancellor Jain. He further said the failure of the VC to resume duties within three days would result in filing a missing person's report at a police station. NSUI alleged that crucial tasks, including private college inspections and affiliations, were delayed, as the acting vice-chancellor 'lacked decision-making authority'. The demonstration brought attention to concerns regarding the university administration's functionality. VC Jain did not respond to calls or texts sent to him on the issue.
Boston Globe
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Leslie Epstein, author and creative writing professor whose novels drew from his family's storied legacy, dies at 87
'All my creative life has been a slow return to the past,' Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Advertisement 'San Remo Drive' was 'a haunting and deeply affecting book' and was 'wonderfully resonant,' Times critic Michiko Kakutani wrote in 2003. Beginning in the mid-1970s, Professor Epstein published a dozen works of fiction, along with reviews and essays in the Globe, the Times, and many other publications. His teaching career, meanwhile, was often the more prominent role to many who knew him. Advertisement 'He was a huge presence in my life,' said 'He always inspired a kind of idealism and integrity with literature. He always held high standards for writing,' said 'Although he could have a stern appearance, he was a sweet man,' added Jin, who now directs BU's creative writing program, 'and I think most students who knew him well can testify to that.' Little in Professor Epstein's life was 'just' anything, however. 'There was a creative streak that ran through the family,' said his daughter, Anya Epstein of Brooklyn, N.Y., Professor Epstein also was the father of Theo Epstein, a part owner and senior adviser of the Fenway Sports Group who more than 20 years ago became the youngest general manager in Major League Baseball history and the youngest to win a World Series when Boston snapped its 86-year championship drought in 2004. Theo's twin, Paul, is well-known in Brookline as a longtime social worker at the high school. Advertisement 'Razor sharp wit — those three words seem to capture a key component of his character — that and towering intellect,' Paul said of his father. Professor Epstein augmented his writing critiques by playing Bach concerto recordings in his classroom, assigning students to watch Ingmar Bergman movies on weekends, and suggesting museum visits to strengthen their artistic foundations. 'He had a certain charisma,' said his wife, Ilene, who formerly co-owned the Studio, a women's clothing store in Brookline, for about four decades. 'If he came into your life, you remembered him.' As a spouse, father, teacher, or friend, 'he turned people toward another direction that allowed them to fulfill their dreams,' she said. Leslie Donald Epstein was born in Los Angeles on May 4, 1938, and spent part of his youth in the city's Pacific Palisades neighborhood. He was 13 when his father, Philip, died. Leslie, the older of two brothers, had a more distant relationship with his mother, Lillian Targan Epstein. 'She was too close and too distant at the same time,' Professor Epstein told the Globe. For 'that daily nurturing there were maids and others.' After his father died, his mother got a master's in social work and began working with children. 'I never got over the irony of that,' he said. Initially aspiring to write plays, Professor Epstein graduated from Yale University with bachelor's and doctoral degrees, went to Oxford University in England as a Rhodes scholar, and received a master's from the University of California at Los Angeles. He began teaching in New York at Queens College, where he met Ilene Gradman, whom he married in 1969. Her twin sister was in a class he taught, and insisted that Ilene meet the handsome teacher. Advertisement 'He was, in fact, adorable,' said Ilene, who was struck by his mix of traits, such as being shy in person, but assertive and brilliant in the classroom. When he kissed her good night after walking her home on their first date, 'I felt his heart beating,' she said. In addition to Ilene and their children, Professor Epstein leaves his brother, Ricky of Carpinteria, Calif., and six grandchildren. The family will sit Shiva in the family's Brookline home and will announce a celebration of Professor Epstein's life and work. Along with delighting his grandchildren with exaggerated funny faces that were tailor-made for memorable photos, Professor Epstein was a calm and stabilizing presence for them, as he had been with his three children, Theo said. 'He made us all laugh constantly, and always with a phrase that you could never concoct or would never suspect,' Anya said. 'He had a tremendous cackling laugh and was a practical joker, which he inherited that from his father and uncle.' As his children and grandchildren reached adolescence, Professor Epstein gave each a copy of 'The Grapes of Wrath' to read. 'He had a moral compass and a deep sense of right and wrong,' Theo said. 'He hated bullies and always rooted for the underdog — in life, in politics, and in sports.' When Theo became general manager of the Red Sox, his father made one suggestion: 'Be bold in doing this job,' advice his son took to heart when deciding to trade away longtime fan favorite Nomar Garciaparra as a necessary step toward winning the 2004 championship. Bold in doing his own job, too, Professor Epstein wrote books including 'King of the Jews.' His best-known work, it drew praise and criticism for introducing an element largely absent from Holocaust literature. Advertisement 'Writing in the manner of old Jewish storytellers, Epstein dares to be funny: It is the mordant humor that has always been the visible rage of those who are forbidden to show their rage,' The 1979 novel, set in a World War II Polish ghetto, was 'an astonishing accomplishment,' Kernan wrote. Professor Epstein adapted the novel into a play that was staged in Boston in 2007. 'He was a terrific observer of the world and his mind was always churning,' said Theo, who added that those closest to his father sometimes noticed a hint of a smile as a thought formed. 'He was delighting himself and couldn't wait to share it, and then he'd find just the right words that either cracked up the room or made people think in a new way, and quite often elevated their world.' Generally in good health when he scheduled this month's surgery, Professor Epstein had taught the spring semester at BU. 'He was probably writing more in the last year than he ever did in the years before,' Anya said. 'Short stories, novels, letters to the editor — right up to the day before he died.' Bryan Marquard can be reached at
