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America must improve its financial education | Data Driven

Sarah Datta February 14, 2024
Teaching finance-specific math, like compound interest and investment related probability, could have a much more direct impact on people’s lives. A lot of people don’t have the luxury of generational financial knowledge.
fragmentos

Fragmentos exhibit gives queer, BIPOC stories ‘the respect that they deserve’

Zenobia Lloyd April 10, 2023
Charcoal Magazine and BU Student Activities collaborated on Fragmentos, an event to spotlight queer BIPOC students through portraits, storytelling and pop-up performances at the Howard Thurman Center on Thursday.
Boston City Hall

Several social justice proposals for BIPOC and LGBTQ+ citizens put forth in weekly City Council meeting

Cassandra Dumay January 27, 2023
Boston City Council added a series of social justice initiatives to their agenda Wednesday afternoon, including hearings on affordable housing, supporting minority-owned businesses and promoting mental health in Boston Public Schools. 
Epsilon Eta at Boston University during rush week. Epsilon Eta, a co-ed environmental fraternity, was founded in 2018 with about 10 to 15 members. They now have over 70 members and are back on campus with in-person events. COURTESY OF BU EPSILON ETA VIA INSTAGRAM

BU’s only environmental fraternity returns to in-person events

Melina Nguyen March 4, 2022
Epsilon Eta, BU's environmental fraternity, is a co-ed community for those who are passionate about environmentalism.
Plants of BU Instagram Account

New student-led Instagram account features plants and community

Molly Farrar May 16, 2021
@plants.of.bu shares plant tips, tricks and trivia while supporting the BIPOC and queer community.
Seema Thakkar/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: Boston Police’s overtime budget is out of control, in desperate need of fewer officers, reallocation

Editors April 15, 2021
We must stop spending hundreds of millions paying the criminals, abusers and killers who “protect” us.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

OP-ED: Environmental racism is a legacy of white supremacy

Editors April 6, 2021
BU, hen will you uphold your sustainability and anti-racist mission and divest from fossil fuels?
kim janey is sworn in as boston mayor at city hall

Mayor Kim Janey sworn in as Boston’s first woman, first Black Mayor

Anna Stjernquist March 26, 2021
Janey noted racial and economic disparities difficulties “laid bare” by the COVID-19 pandemic.
marty walsh speaking into a microphone

Senate confirms Marty Walsh as Secretary of Labor

Madison Mercado March 23, 2021
City Council President Kim Janey stepped up as acting mayor — the first woman and person of color.
BUnited meets with a student at BU beach

BUnited slate runs uncontested in StuGov elections

Molly Farrar March 4, 2021
With the Boston University Student Government elections fast approaching, the BUnited slate is ready to begin their term as the next StuGov Executive Board, said Student Body President-nominee Nyah Jordan, a junior in the College of Communication.
reggie lewis track and field center at roxbury community college

Mass vaccination site opens at Roxbury Community College

Isabella Abraham March 3, 2021
CIC’s operations opened with an initial dosage capacity of 800 Pfizer-BioNTech vaccinations per day, with plans to increase that number to 2,500 daily appointments in a month’s time —half will be reserved for local residents.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: The University’s ‘diversity’ marketing is misleading, hurtful

Editors February 18, 2021
BU’s marketing — and the handful of diversity victories — it clings to is not representative of its reality. Though it may be implementing anti-racist policies, the change is not visible in classrooms, on campus or at an administrative level.
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