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Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground. Boston University students held an independent town hall meeting at HTC Sunday, where speakers discussed community activism participation and the fate of the University-wide divestment referendum bill. SARAH CRUZ/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

BU Resistance Network holds leftist student town hall in Howard Thurman Center

Eli Pekelny February 18, 2025
Boston University students held an independent student organizing town hall at the Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground Sunday, where speakers discussed participating in community activism and the fate of the University-wide divestment referendum bill.
Boston University Graduate Worker Union (BUGWU) members march down Commonwealth Avenue at a combined union rally last October. BUGWU will begin striking on Monday at Marsh Chapel, following eight months of negotiations. KATE KOTLYAR/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

BUGWU organizes first strike rally after unsuccessful negotiations

Abigail Hassan March 25, 2024
BU Graduate Workers Union will hold a rally at noon today in Marsh Plaza after unsuccessful contract negotiations with Boston University.
Student Body President Dhruv Kapadia speaks at a Student Government meeting on Jan. 29. StuGov members listened to a presentation about an updated class registration system and endorsed a Graduate Workers Union resolution on Monday. MOLLY POTTER/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

StuGov hears presentation about updated class registration system, endorses BUGWU resolution

Samantha Genzer February 28, 2024
On Monday, Boston University Student Government heard a presentation from BU staff about the updated class registration system, discussed the BU “Vote!” Initiative and endorsed a resolution proposed by the BU Graduate Worker Union. 
A StuGov meeting in Oct. 2022.

StuGov discusses doxxing, BU Grad Workers Union contract

George Lehman November 7, 2023
Boston University’s Student Government held a meeting Monday discussing doxxing and BU Graduate Workers Union’s new contract. 
Graduate students, RAs and adjunct faculty members march down Commonwealth Avenue during a three-union rally.

GALLERY: Three-union rally marches down Commonwealth Ave

Daily Free Press Staff October 25, 2023
Resident life workers, graduate student workers and adjunct faculty held a joint union rally on Oct. 20 following recently ratified bargaining demands.
Members of the Boston University graduate, residence life and adjunct faculty unions march down Commonwealth Avenue on Friday. The unions came together in a show of solidarity to express their respective demands. CORINNE DAVIDSON/ DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Boston University student workers hold three-union rally

Sophia Spiegel October 22, 2023
Three BU unions — BU ResLife Union, BU Graduate Workers Union and BU Part-Time Faculty — rallied at the George Sherman Union on Oct. 20 about their recent ratified bargaining demands and marched to 1 Silber Way to deliver their demands to University administrators.
David Zaslav

BU commencement speaker sparks controversy

Lindsay Shachnow May 17, 2023
Boston University’s 150th all-university commencement speaker David Zaslav, president and chief executive officer of Warner Bros. Discovery, sparks discussion in the BU community.
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BU graduate workers express discontent with University’s decision not to raise stipend

Daily Free Press Staff May 3, 2023
The Boston University Office of the Provost announced earlier this year that they will not be increasing PhD student stipends for the 2023-2024 academic year, which created discontent among many BU graduate student workers.
PHOTO BY CHLOE GRINBERG/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

EDITORIAL: Sexual harassment cannot be tolerated at BU, regardless of the statute of limitations

Editors October 15, 2017

Abuse, harassment and perversion — headlines have been dripping with the horrors of Harvey Weinstein for more than a week. Behind the scenes of the Hollywood producer’s uber-successful career, the...

The BU Graduate Workers Union hosts "Speakout and Rally Against Sexual Harassment in Higher Ed" Wednesday evening at the Metcalf Science Center Plaza. PHOTO BY CHLOE GRINBERG/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Department chair under investigation for sexual harassment

Mugdha Gurram October 12, 2017

A number of female Boston University graduates have accused earth and environment department chair David Marchant of sexually harassing them during research trips to Antarctica. After the first allegations...

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