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Students walk by the Center for Computing and Data Sciences. The PILOT program requests that tax-exempt educational institutions, such as Boston University, make voluntary payments to support community and city services. SARAH CRUZ/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Boston’s PILOT program exempts private institutions from paying taxes

Abigail Hassan April 4, 2024
In last week’s city council meeting, Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn called for a hearing on the city’s Payment in Lieu of Taxes, or PILOT, program. 
Sargent

New Sargent center attempts to begin operations without a director

Jessie O’Leary February 16, 2023
The new Center for Clinical Simulation will provide SAR students with hands-on experience in the medical field.
Some Boston University library employees will work partially in person during the Spring semester because their requests for full workplace accommodations were denied. HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DFP FILE

BU library staff denied full workplace accommodations for Spring

Daily Free Press Staff December 17, 2020
Multiple BU library staff members have been denied full workplace accommodations and are required to work in person for a certain number of hours per week.
Lena Papadakis, a pre-medical senior in Boston University’s Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, founded Preemie to Pre-Med, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting child life departments in New England hospitals. ILLUSTRATION BY LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Sargent student’s childhood hospitalization leads her to launch nonprofit

Cameron Morsberger November 3, 2020
Lena Papadakis was born 32 weeks premature. But out of this distress, she is now giving back to the very programs that saved her life.
“Ratched,” Netflix’s newest original series, stars “American Horror Story” regular Sarah Paulson as a nurse at a mental institution. ILLUSTRATION BY LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

REVIEW: Netflix’s ‘Ratched’ misses the mark as true origin story material

Molly Farrar September 22, 2020
“American Horror Story"'s Sarah Paulson stars in “Ratched,” a Netflix Original that despite its visual successes, falters as a follow-up to the classic 1970s film.
EDITORIAL: New app simplifies birth control, eliminates doctors

EDITORIAL: New app simplifies birth control, eliminates doctors

Editors January 26, 2016

Vagina owners, rejoice — birth control is now easier than ever to get ahold of. Nurx is a new app that allows women to order birth control and have it delivered to their doors, according to the app’s...

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