The Berkeley Beacon

When Cassidy Brettler went to the Super Bowl last year, she did so with the help of Verizon, and took her Flip cam wherever she was permitted, making videos for her YouTube channel. This year, working for Motorola, Brettler will be back at the Super Bowl, but in a much grander capacity. Following a nationwide search to choose one reporter for the Ochocinco News Network (OCNN) sponsored by Motorola as it covers Super Bowl XLVI, Brettler, who graduated from Emerson last May, was chosen as the winner.

Six party-craving Emerson students made an attempt to avoid the hassle of public transportation and the frigid winter air standing in front of the Gypsy Bar on Boylston Street two Fridays ago, in search of a more original way to start their night. As the mysterious coach bus pulled up to the curb, the group said they remember feeling curious yet excited. A man stepped off the bus, holding a sign, reading, “Boston Nightlife Express.” “At first it seemed sketch, but it was really nice and fun,” Renée Safir, a junior visual and media arts major said. The Boston Nightlife Express is a coach bus that brings students from Emerson’s campus to Allston and Boston University’s West Campus every Friday night.

President M. Lee Pelton announced Monday night that Emerson will host a conference in April on the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, a bill that seeks to provide permanent residency to illegal minors who come to the United States as children and graduate from public high schools. “There ought to be a coalition of college presidents, public and private, from every state, seeking to correct the ineptitude of Congress for not passing the so-called DREAM Act,” said Pelton at the end of his speech.