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A worker serves food in a Boston University dining hall. Boston University, the Islamic Society of BU and University Chaplains worked together to provide meals and on-campus prayer spaces for students during Ramadan. KATE KOTLYAR/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

‘Building community and bringing people together’: Ramadan at BU

Brie Foster March 4, 2025
Ramadan began Saturday, and Boston University is working with organizations on campus to ensure Muslim students can observe the religious holiday.
Boston University Police Department. This week’s crime logs include an intoxicated party, a narcotic investigation, and multiple cases of larceny. SARAH CRUZ/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Campus Crime Logs: Feb. 2-7

Emma Mullay February 10, 2025
This week's crime logs include trespassing, bike theft, and a narcotics investigation.
Google search results for Super Bowl LIX. The Philadelphia Eagles won 40-22 against the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LIX on Sunday. SARAH CRUZ/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Students host, attend Super Bowl watch parties around campus

Avery Fox February 10, 2025
Students attend Super Bowl LIX watch parties around campus, surprised by low turnout.
The City of Boston polling locations webpage. Multiple polling locations in the Boston University area reported low in-person voter turnout on Tuesday. KATE KOTLYAR/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Lack of in-person voter turnout at state primary prompts questions about uninformed voters, November excitement around Boston

Lauren Albano September 3, 2024
Early in-person and mail-in ballot turnout saw a major increase this year for the Massachusetts State Primary. However, polling locations in the Boston University area saw low in-person voter turnout on primary day.
A student rifles through a rack of clothes at the Earth Day clothing swap on Thursday at Kilachand Hall. BU Closet and professional fraternity Epsilon Eta collaborated to host the Earth Day 365 event with over 400 clothing items swapped. ZOE KU/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Terriers swap clothes, celebrate the planet for Earth Day

Martha Kolpien April 22, 2024
Combining fashion with sustainability, BU Closet and professional fraternity Epsilon Eta hosted an Earth Day clothing swap on April 18 — their biggest event yet.
Flooding inside 117 Bay State Road. Boston University housing at 115 and 117 Bay State Road flooded on Saturday night after a water main broke. COURTESY OF PEYTON MILLER

Flooding at Bay State dorms displaces BU students for weeks

Megan Amato March 26, 2024
A water main break resulted in students to be evacuated from 115 and 117 Bay State Road Saturday night. The flooding has caused students to be housed elsewhere while repairs are being made.
A plaque explaining how KHC 401 is ‘haunted’ by Eugene O'Neill. People say there are other ‘hauntings’ around Boston University’s campus. MOLLY POTTER/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Sinister forces haunt BU: vengeful toilets, loose poultry, drunk ghosts of Boston’s past

Priyal Patel October 22, 2023
When Laura Young was working a closing shift at Mugar Memorial Library, weird occurrences turned an average night into a spooky one.
BUPD headquarters. This week’s crime logs include a motor vehicle accident, a car alarm, an active fire at CFA, larceny, an intoxicated party, trespassing, and more. ANDREW BURKE-STEVENSON/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Campus Crime Logs: September 14-19

Xinyi Yang September 20, 2023
The following reports were taken from the Boston University Police Department’s crime logs from Sept. 14-19.
Kilachand Hall

Kilachand Hall construction continues through the school year, residences compensated for inconvenience

Xiaoya Shao September 13, 2022
Boston University provided residents of Kilachand Hall with housing subsidies due to construction-related disruptions
The Massachusetts Menstrual Equity Coalition home page on a phone screen. The Boston University School of Public Health’s Period Project and student organization Period at BU work to combat period poverty, or inequitable access to menstrual products. ILLUSTRATION BY CONOR KELLEY/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU student organizations combat period poverty

Lindsay Shachnow November 12, 2021
Student leaders discuss how period poverty can be combated at Boston University in the greater Boston area.
students in line for COVID testing

Agganis Arena to close for COVID-19 testing, faculty and staff will continue unobserved testing

Anna Vidergar September 9, 2021
Charles River campus students note the inconvenience and difficulty of finding available tests.
Warren Towers Entrance

Transgender students share frustrations with BU Housing, dorm bathrooms

Anna Vidergar June 18, 2021
Unavailability of gender-neutral housing and bathrooms for incoming freshmen is a repeated concern.
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