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The emergency contraception vending machine in the basement of the George Sherman Union. A student-led initiative organized the installation of a Plan B vending machine at Boston University Medical Campus. HOLLY GUSTAVSEN/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

New Plan B vending machine installed at BU Medical Campus

Samantha Genzer September 11, 2024
A Plan B vending machine was installed at the Boston University Medical Campus.
A hand reaching to grab a tampon out of a feminine product dispenser

City files hearing to implement pilot program providing free menstrual products in municipal buildings

Katrina Scalise February 21, 2023
The Mayor’s Office of Women’s Advancement and Advocacy is beginning a pilot program that will provide free menstrual products in city buildings in the coming months.
Plan B vending machine

Emergency contraceptive vending machine to be restocked

Ella Nigro October 5, 2022
The emergency contraceptive vending machine under GSU will be restocked the week of Oct. 11, featuring a larger machine that will be able to carry “a wider variety of products".
East to West: Sep. 30, 2022

East to West: Sep. 30, 2022

Taylor Hawthorne September 30, 2022

Happy Hocus Pocus 2 Release Day! Today on East to West we cover the evacuation of the Rafik B. Hariri building, the return of the Overnight Host Program, a die-in at Government Center, and more. Click...

Plan B vending machine

Emergency Contraceptive vending machine will be out of stock until further notice

Annika Chaves September 28, 2022
The vending machine that provides Plan B in the GSU basement will be out of stock until further notice.
East to West: Mar. 4, 2022

East to West: Mar. 4, 2022

Ellen Maloney March 4, 2022

Spring break! Today on East to West, we cover members of the BU community standing with Ukraine, BU’s updated mask mandate, and more. Click here to stream this episode of “East to West” on Spotify,...

East to West: Feb. 25, 2022

East to West: Feb. 25, 2022

Ellen Maloney February 25, 2022

Good luck with midterms! Today on East to West, we cover the first emergency contraceptive vending machine in the GSU, BU pep band performing at Beanpot, and more. Click here to stream this episode...

Contraceptives in a Boston University vending machine at Kilachand Hall. After five years in the works, BU’s Students for Reproductive Freedom will introduce an emergency contraceptive vending machine March 1 in the George Sherman Union. TAYLOR COESTER/DFP STAFF

Student organization to launch emergency contraceptive vending machine in GSU basement

Talia Lissauer February 24, 2022
The vending machine, which will sell Plan B at $7.25, will be unveiled on March 1st.
PHOTO COURTESY MIKE MOZART

EDITORIAL: Offering Plan B should be BU’s plan A

Editors November 17, 2017

If you’re a student at Brandeis University and you need to take Plan B, all you have to do is go to the student health center — unless it’s a weekend, that is. Or if it’s after 6 p.m. Or before...

RYAN: Is this church or Congress?

Daily Free Press Admin April 2, 2014

My occasionally Protestant mother sent her unreligious daughter (me) to Catholic school because it worked best with her nine-to-five schedule. One of my second grade vocabulary words was “reconciliation”....

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