Calendar
Concerts (May 6 through July 31)
Friday, May 10
Wednesday, May 15
- 7:30 PM Vampire Weekend
Sunday, June 16
Friday, July 19
- 8:00 PM Carlos Vives
Friday, July 26
BU Today: Latest Headlines
- Changing the National Conversation around Death February 15, 2019From anti-aging beauty regimens to strict diets and medical screenings, Western culture places immense value on the quality and preservation of life. Death, however, is a subject largely absent from daily conversation, and when raised, it evokes fear and anxiety. But talking about death—and the policies and attitudes that shape it—is a healthy practice, speakers […]
- BU Track & Field to Compete in Patriot League Indoor Championships This Weekend February 15, 2019When Jordan Coverson was in South Carolina visiting family during intersession, a stranger noticed her BU T-shirt and came over to talk to her. Learning she was also a BU student-athlete, senior Coverson (Sargent), one of BU’s track and field captains, asked her: “Oh, what sports team are you on?” “I’m on the track team,” replied […]
- Prodded by Students, BU Phases Out an Environmental Scourge: Plastic Straws February 14, 2019BU doesn’t have plastic straws at its residence dining halls. Yet it still went through 27,000 a year at retail sites (such as City Convenience stores and the George Sherman Union food court), Rhett’s West in Claflin Hall, and the Warren Towers Late Night Kitchen. That was before the University removed them from public sight […]
- BU Women’s Hockey Beanpot Win: The Action, the Celebration, the Joy February 14, 2019With a flick of the wrist just before midnight on Tuesday, BU junior Sammy Davis (CGS, Sargent) poked the puck past Harvard goaltender Lindsay Reed, netting the No. 7 Terrier women’s hockey team its longed-for first Beanpot championship as a varsity sport. The women’s only other title came back in 1981, when they were a […]
- Women’s Ice Hockey Terriers Capture First Beanpot Trophy Since 1981 February 13, 2019The women’s ice hockey Terriers stunned the Harvard Crimson at 13:38 in sudden-death overtime Tuesday night to win the 41st Women’s Beanpot Tournament at Harvard’s Bright-Landry Hockey Center, their first championship in nearly four decades. On a power play, junior forward Sammy Davis slammed home the puck from a short distance away to give the […]
