As of next fall, Boston University Terrier ID cards will be tapped instead of swiped at dining halls and vending machines, officials said. “It has to do with the efficiency,” said BU spokesman Colin...

Binge drinking may decrease the effectiveness of birth control pills, a fine-print caution in birth control packets that some Boston University students did not realize. Birth control brands such as...

Since one of their sons wants to be a chef one day, Kevin and Gail Legend of Ocala, Fla., took their family to Eastern Standard on Wednesday evening after a day of touring colleges. The Eastern Standard...

By Amanda Dowd, Daily Free Press Staff Writer The Vagina Dialogues, an event about sex and everything Vagina Monologues-related, took place Thursday night in BU Central with about 60 people present. The...

While College of Communication sophomore Candace Shelton was ineligible to vote in 2008, she said she intends to cast her vote for in November. “Looking back at me in high school, I would’ve...

Occupy Boston members and other activists gathered Monday on the steps of the Massachusetts State House to protest the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s proposed fare hikes and service cuts. Protesters...

In Boston Mayor Thomas Menino’s 19th annual State of the City Address Tuesday night at Faneuil Hall, he celebrated strides the city made in 2011 and said in the future, Boston must focus on a sense...

Before using myBookCrate, College of Arts and Sciences senior Lizzie Green said she had no intention of ordering books from the Internet. Like a number of Boston University students, however, she decided...

College of Arts and Sciences senior Allison Sebastiani said the Boston University Occupies Boston Speak-Out on Sunday showed the coming together of various communities for the sake of the movement. “That’s...

To compensate for the high cost of tuition looming over families’ heads, college students have found alternative ways to pay for their education. One extreme example is that of Metropolitan College...

After seeing mice several times in her brownstone on Bay State Road last year, School of Education junior Kim Serra was so scared she couldn’t fall asleep. “The first time I saw the mouse this year,...

Not even the cold weather and a large college constituency can deter tourists from the Hub. According to a survey released by Travel + Leisure last week, Boston was ranked one of the nation’s favorite...