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Student encampments on Marsh Plaza. Enshrined in student protest, Boston University saw some of the largest anti-war protests in the 1960s and ‘70s, followed by anti-apartheid protests in the 1980s and similar campus activism remains prevalent at BU. MATTHEW EADIE/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

‘Decades of activism’: BU community leaders reflect on history of campus protests, coverage

Mary Goetz April 4, 2025
Boston University has a history of protests and student-led activism. Community leaders, professors and former students reflect on their experiences.
A protester holds up a sign reading “Protect Our Students” during a university-wide walkout hosted by Students for Justice in Palestine at Marsh Plaza Friday. The protest featured faculty and student speakers from Boston University and surrounding universities and a march down Commonwealth Avenue. ZACH SCHWARTZ/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

SJP holds ‘Liberation Week’ faculty, student walkout at Marsh Plaza

Emma Clement March 30, 2025
Boston University Students for Justice in Palestine hosted a walkout Friday at Marsh Plaza featuring faculty and staff who support justice in Palestine to cap off its “Liberation Week” demonstrations.
Moderna protest

‘Whose vaccine? Our vaccine!’ Protest outside Moderna calls for global vaccine equity

Cassandra Dumay May 3, 2022
Protest outside Moderna calls for global vaccine equity in an April 28 rally.
A clip from the Zulu film “Nabantwa Bam’.” The Boston University African Studies Library held a virtual discussion of the film Wednesday night. ILLUSTRATION BY CONOR KELLEY/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

CineMAfriq hosts film discussion on the film ‘Nabantwa Bam’,’ Apartheid in South Africa

Hailey Pitcher November 22, 2021
The Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies African Studies Center hosted the film discussion.
globe placed on the ground

BU students help launch educational Content Creation Lab for teens

Juncheng Quan April 15, 2021
The CCL allows teens to create educational text and videos to share with their peers online.
Boston University’s Agganis Arena COVID-19 testing center. BU will screen positive test results for variants of the disease this semester. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU to begin screening COVID-19 tests to identify new variants

Emily Stevenson February 3, 2021
Boston University has been given approval to start sequencing all positive COVID-19 tests to scan for the newly identified variants of the disease, according to a member of BU’s Medical Advisory Group.
Boston University International Students and Scholars Office. International students faced difficulties returning to campus due to travel restrictions and experienced challenges with ISSO over winter break. SOPHIA FLISSLER/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

International students report ISSO delays, travel difficulties as Spring semester begins

Vanessa Bartlett January 27, 2021
International students returning to campus for the Spring semester have reported varying degrees of difficulty in traveling back to the United States because of delays in receiving paperwork from the International Students and Scholars Office.
Boston University’s College of Communication. Alumni from COM and the College of Fine Arts working in late-night television shared career advice with film and television students at a virtual panel on Friday hosted by Sheila Sitomer and the COM “Cinematheque” series. ELIZA SHAW/ DFP FILE

Late-night TV producers share words of wisdom with BU film and TV students

Caroline Bowden November 19, 2020
Clips from late-night television often spread on social media after they air, but the process of getting these programs on TV takes a group of people who know how to get their audiences laughing.
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker credits mask-wearing for fewer cases of influenza and other illnesses in the state this year compared to previous years. LAURYN ALLEN/ DFP FILE

COVID-19 guidelines are slowing spread of other illnesses

Samuele Petruccelli September 13, 2020
“Because people are doing such a good job in Massachusetts for the most part around wearing masks and distancing,” Baker said, “ear infections, sore throats, strep throats, traditional respiratory infections, a whole bunch of things, separate and apart from [COVID-19], are just way down.”
A public lecture connecting the 20th century jazz movement to South African culture took place at the Boston University College of Arts and Sciences on Tuesday evening. COURTESY OF PXHERE

Lecture discusses role of music in South Africa’s apartheid

Alyssa Figueroa October 30, 2019
A professor from Johannesburg, South Africa, spoke at Boston University Tuesday about how music and the arts were a part of South Africa’s transition into apartheid.
Max vs. Media: Iran sanctions are step backward, but not disastrous

Max vs. Media: Iran sanctions are step backward, but not disastrous

Max Berman November 7, 2018

Sanctions, when hard-hitting and globally agreed upon, can be effective tools to change the behavior of regimes. South Africa was able to (start to) move past its days of apartheid because of global sanctions...

Worldview: The crisis of Cape Town and the dawn of our future

David Damiano January 22, 2018

When contemplating the challenges of the future — such as overpopulation, climate change or resource depletion — it is easy, or perhaps even natural, to consider these challenges as distant phenomenons,...

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