Comments on: Boston University students claim they were threatened if they did not keep quiet about bed bugs in London BU dorm http://bedbugger.com/2007/10/09/boston-university-students-claim-they-were-threatened-if-they-did-not-keep-quiet-about-bed-bugs-in-london-bu-dorm/ bed bug news, information, activism, and support Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:03:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: nobugsonme http://bedbugger.com/2007/10/09/boston-university-students-claim-they-were-threatened-if-they-did-not-keep-quiet-about-bed-bugs-in-london-bu-dorm/#comment-6409 nobugsonme Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:05:49 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/2007/10/09/boston-university-students-claim-they-were-threatened-if-they-did-not-keep-quiet-about-bed-bugs-in-london-bu-dorm/#comment-6409 Update (10/15): <a href="http://media.www.dailyfreepress.com/media/storage/paper87/news/2007/10/15/BelowTheFold/Stealing.Our.Comfort-3032649.shtml" rel="nofollow">from Jason Millman and Matt Negrin of the BU Daily Free Press:</a> <blockquote>A couple weeks ago, we ran a story about two students who said a BU director in London told them they lied about having bedbugs in their room. When that story came to our desk, we were confident in the validity of the accusations, but we held the story for weeks to ensure we were certain of the story's details and to give BU a proper chance to explain the situation. We called around BU's various offices and sent emails for a week, and only heard back from very few, which we included in the story. The day the story ran, we received letters from readers about the subject -- some praising BU for dealing with pests quickly and some lamenting similar situations with the bugs. One letter, from an administrator in the International Programs office, said the students' accusations were false. Once the situation was out in the open, these invaluable letters showed many more sides of the story; <strong>in the administrator's letter, he said the London offices will now use the same protocol as used by the Housing Office on the Charles River Campus.</strong></blockquote> Update (10/15):

from Jason Millman and Matt Negrin of the BU Daily Free Press:

A couple weeks ago, we ran a story about two students who said a BU director in London told them they lied about having bedbugs in their room. When that story came to our desk, we were confident in the validity of the accusations, but we held the story for weeks to ensure we were certain of the story’s details and to give BU a proper chance to explain the situation. We called around BU’s various offices and sent emails for a week, and only heard back from very few, which we included in the story.

The day the story ran, we received letters from readers about the subject — some praising BU for dealing with pests quickly and some lamenting similar situations with the bugs. One letter, from an administrator in the International Programs office, said the students’ accusations were false.

Once the situation was out in the open, these invaluable letters showed many more sides of the story; in the administrator’s letter, he said the London offices will now use the same protocol as used by the Housing Office on the Charles River Campus.

]]> By: parakeets http://bedbugger.com/2007/10/09/boston-university-students-claim-they-were-threatened-if-they-did-not-keep-quiet-about-bed-bugs-in-london-bu-dorm/#comment-6344 parakeets Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:56:45 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/2007/10/09/boston-university-students-claim-they-were-threatened-if-they-did-not-keep-quiet-about-bed-bugs-in-london-bu-dorm/#comment-6344 Hooray for these students for speaking up and for being persistent, and for the BU paper for publishing this article. I have said it before--college students will lead the way in speaking out against bedbugs. Other stakeholders in society that have been affected by bedbugs, such as hotels or real estate management, have been silent because of the negative financial impact on their industries. The sectors such as public housing, senior housing, veterans' housing don't have a voice (excpet here where the stories are gathered). College students will lead the way. Hooray for these students for speaking up and for being persistent, and for the BU paper for publishing this article. I have said it before–college students will lead the way in speaking out against bedbugs. Other stakeholders in society that have been affected by bedbugs, such as hotels or real estate management, have been silent because of the negative financial impact on their industries. The sectors such as public housing, senior housing, veterans’ housing don’t have a voice (excpet here where the stories are gathered). College students will lead the way.

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