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Campus Crime Logs: April 12 – 18

Bailey Scott April 19, 2023
This week’s crime logs include larceny, assault and battery, a gas and chemical event, threats, harassment, a person with a weapon, a fight, noise complaints, a well being check and a suspicious person.
Fenway Library

Students react to lack of library on Boston University Fenway campus

Taylor Hawthorne September 26, 2022
Boston University Fenway Campus Library on 132 Riverway permanently closed, University in search of alternative spots for additional study spaces for its residents.
Mugar Memorial Library no head librarian

Reports of disorganization, understaffing as Mugar library remains without some high-level staff

Emilia Wisniewski February 17, 2022
The evening circulation manager, head of circulation and head librarian positions have been vacant for months.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Boston University’s new pandemic policies are not cutting it

Editors September 2, 2021
Boston University’s new pandemic measures place too much emphasis on student responsibility rather than institutional measures designed to keep students, faculty and service workers safe.
Yvonne Tang | DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Boston University should better support Boston’s unhoused population

Editors April 23, 2021
BU should enforce pandemic measures while also holding space for vulnerable community members.
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.
Bini Ollivier-Yamin

Canceled: The BUPD — Part 8

Bini Ollivier-Yamin September 25, 2020
We can no longer sit complacently in the midst of injustice. We can no longer use ignorance or lack of information as an excuse for continual violence and discrimination. The facts and evidence are all here: BUPD’s time is up.
A student studies in Boston University’s Mugar Memorial Library. The library will start requiring students and faculty to show their IDs in the Fall semester to ensure they are affiliated with the university. SOPHIE PARK/ DFP FILE

Mugar to implement additional security measures soon

David Hou March 2, 2020
In an effort to increase library security, Boston University Libraries is planning to implement enhanced measures to control building access and ensure patrons are either students or have business with the university. While the official date for when these changes will be made has not yet been announced, library officials say it will be in place by the Fall semester this year. 
Boston University Libraries hosted their fourth “Wikipedia in the Classroom” workshop Thursday to educate faculty on how to incorporate Wikipedia into their courses. RYAN GREGORY/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Wikipedia in the Classroom encourages students to serve the public

Mita Kataria February 6, 2020
Years ago, students were always told not to use Wikipedia as a source when doing any type of research assignment in school. But that is beginning to change as users are learning how to edit Wikipedia pages, and professors are even implementing this process into their coursework.
Boston University Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore said the Howard Thurman Center’s new design was inspired by conversations with students about race, culture and identity. RYAN GREGORY/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Dean Elmore shows The Daily Free Press the new Howard Thurman Center’s hidden gems

Sarah Readdean February 6, 2020
Kenneth Elmore, dean of students at Boston University, shared his secrets with The Daily Free Press in an exclusive tour of the new HTC.
Campus crime logs: 2/28

Campus crime logs: 2/28

Mia Cathell February 27, 2019
Reports were taken from the Boston University Police Department crime logs from Feb. 21–25.
Campus crime logs: 2/7

Campus crime logs: 2/7

Mia Cathell February 14, 2019
The following reports were reported by Lt. Daniel Healy of the Boston University Police Department. They took place between Feb. 8 and Feb. 11.
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