The results of a campus-wide divestment referendum survey were nullified Monday due to “security and technological issues,” according to an announcement from Boston University Student Government.
BU StuGov endorsed an open letter requesting updated emergency protocols for all buildings on campus and an understanding of lockdown and shelter-in-place procedures.
A mural of civil rights icon John Lewis found a new home at Food for Free’s volunteer packing center in East Cambridge after being defaced in November.
In an open letter released Monday, the Council urged members of the New England House and Senate delegations to draft legislation that would increase the maximum award available to give to recipients displaying extreme financial need.
The state’s Black and Latinx populations each suffered 10 percent more COVID-19 cases in the first half of 2020 and saw a death rate three times that of white residents.
Six months after her first open letter to the University, BU student Prisha Sujin Kumar wrote a second letter to the University about her experience with sexual assault on campus, condemning the University’s treatment of her and other survivors and demanding change.
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.
Those trees were planted in 1977 — the same year the gas lamps were installed. Roughly more than two-thirds of the trees have since died, while the remaining five are in bad health, according to the letter.
