Advocates for poor and disenfranchised people in the Commonwealth held a rally on the steps of the Massachusetts State House Monday.

Student Government announced rapper Aminé will be the headliner for the Spring Concert, called 802.1, on April 5.

Plans to build a new hotel and plaza at the western edge of Kenmore Square were unveiled by property developer Robert Korff at a community meeting Tuesday night. The proposed hotel would tower nearly 300 feet above the site currently occupied by a Citizens Bank, at the junction of Commonwealth Avenue and Beacon Street.

BU President Robert Brown published a letter Thursday opposing proposed changes to federal Title IX regulations.