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Demonstrators gathered outside the Massachusetts Statehouse Monday to ask the Biden administration to end the United States’ role in ongoing armed conflicts in Yemen. ANRAN XIE/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Protesters demand end to U.S. involvement in Yemen

Rin Velasco January 26, 2021
Bostonians gathered at the steps of the Massachusetts State House to protest the military conflict in Yemen Monday afternoon, asking the Biden administration to halt support of a war that has raged since 2014.
Bini Ollivier-Yamin

Canceled: Corporations Can’t be Woke

Bini Ollivier-Yamin February 20, 2020
Goldman Sachs is in part directly responsible for the predatory lending practices that led to millions of people losing their jobs and houses. As college students, we’re intimately familiar with the nightmarish student loans that will take years to pay back. Either way we’re getting screwed over. Would you feel better if your executioner were a woman? I think not. 
East to West: February 10, 2020

East to West: February 10, 2020

Justin Tang February 10, 2020

In this episode of East to West, we cover a new Wellness Challenge on campus, Anti-mandatory-vaccination protests at the State House, and more in city and campus news. Plus, podcast contributor Michelle...

East to West: October 7, 2019

East to West: October 7, 2019

JenRacoosin October 7, 2019

In this episode of “East to West,” we cover a student protest at the engineering career fair, the arrest of a BU professor, and Uber’s new app feature for Massachusetts. This episode originally...

Protestors stand outside of the George Sherman Union with signs calling attention to the defense contractors being represented at the College of Engineering’s career fair taking place in Metcalf Ballroom. COURTESY OF CHANCE CHARLEY

Student groups protest defense contractors outside ENG career fair

Melissa Ellin October 3, 2019
Boston University students gathered at noon Wednesday outside the George Sherman Union to protest the presence of war profiteers being represented at College of Engineering career fair held that day in the Metcalf Ballroom from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Boston University Rocket Propulsion Group plans to create one of the first amateur rockets to reach space, breaking several world records in the process. PHOTOS BY JUSTIN HAWK/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU group to send world’s first student rocket space-bound

Jaime Bennis October 2, 2014

The Boston University Rocket Propulsion Group is preparing to launch a 1,100-pound, 30-foot rocket into space by summer 2015. If they succeed, BURPG would be one of the first student groups to accomplish...

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