Boston College grad caught in Olympic torch controversy
BOSTON --A Boston College graduate teaching English in China was caught in the acrimony between China and France over the Olympic torch relay when he was confronted by angry protesters outside a French-owned store.
Officials say 22-year-old James Galvin was coming out of a Carrefour store in Zhuzhou on Sunday when dozens of protesters confronted him, thinking he was French.
Galvin, from Plymouth, Conn., is a volunteer with Cambridge-based WorldTeach. WorldTeach executive director Helen Claire Sievers says Galvin was whisked away by police unharmed.
Galvin is a 2007 graduate of Boston College. He is on a yearlong assignment teaching English to seventh- through 12th graders.
Galvin took Monday off but was back teaching Tuesday. 