Description: John Silber wants to buy insurance policies on students, making BU the beneficiary. Students run across Commonwealth Avenue, dodge cars, ride bicycle, motorscooter, skateboard, throw Frisbee.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/20/1989
Description: BU president John Silber announces his Democratic gubernatorial candidacy. He proclaims "I am not a professional politician."
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/17/1990
Description: John Silber is booed at Chelsea public hearing where he defends BU's management of school system; advises no cuts in education budget and home rule petition raising property taxes for local services.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/14/1991
Description: John Silber 1990 campaign compilation: winning on primary night; political ads; BU students protest him as bigot; shaking hands, hobnobbing; with Clapprood; at Democratic unity gathering.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Description: Article in BU newspaper paraphrases John Silber's comments on monitoring student sexual behavior. Students in summer clothes walk along Commonwealth Avenue.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/14/1989
Description: Kathryn Silber, Melvin Miller, and BU colleagues reminisce on John Silber's life leading up to his gubernatorial candidacy. Helen Vendler. Photos of young Silber, wedding, college, with family.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/30/1990
Description: John Silber denies profiting f/Seradyn investment. Documents show BU trustees & officers did benefit f/Seradyn sale. Henry Morgan charges conflict of interest in Seragen ownership.Commonwealth armory
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/02/1990
Description: BU president John Silber announces he will not run for statewide office in 1990; instead will devote himself to rebuilding Chelsea public schools.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/24/1989
Description: Boston University students camp out in a tent in front of Marsh Chapel as symbolic protest against homelessness.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/27/1989
Description: 1) Questions about BU investments through Commonwealth Partners; trustees and officers benefit privately, violate fiduciary responsibility; John Silber on Seradyn. 2) Daniel Ellsberg on US troop buildup in Saudi Arabia parallel to Vietnam. 3) Increasing incidence of AIDS among women; interview with Maryalice Guilford. 4) Gov. Dukakis on tax on professional services needed to make up budget deficit; Sen. Paul Cellucci.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/30/1990