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Listen Now

Will the Supreme Court End Affirmative Action?

October 17, 2022

A photo of many cannabis leaves on a living plant. President Biden’s pardons for people convicted under federal marijuana possession law are a good-faith, but limited step in reforming cannabis policy, BU’s Seth Blumenthal says. Photo by Rick Proctor/Unsplash

Politics

Will Biden’s Pot Pardons Make a Difference—or Will States Ignore the Policy Change?

October 12, 2022

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Voices & Opinion

If Hispanics Hate the Term “Latinx,” Why Is It Still Used?

October 7, 2022

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Admission Requirement

POV: What BU’s School of Public Health Learned after Dropping GRE Requirement

September 30, 2022

Photo: People hold signs and chant slogans during a protest over the death of Iranian Mahsa Amini outside the Iranian Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, on September 26, 2022. A group of women, most not wearing hijabs, hold signs supporting Amini and protesting her death.

Student Voices

Anger, Pride, Fear: BU’s Iranian Students React to Mahsa Amini’s Death

September 28, 2022

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Voices & Opinion

POV: Will Bringing Back “Happy Hours” Make Us Happy?

September 19, 2022

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Immigration

Florida Governor DeSantis’ Transport of Migrants to Massachusetts Is a “Crude Political Tactic…Playing with People’s Lives,” LAW Expert Says

September 16, 2022

Student Voices

Advice for First-year Students on Navigating the College Experience

September 12, 2022

Photo of Dhruv Kapadia giving a speech at BU's 2022 Matriculation. A young South Asian man wearing red robes stands at a podium in front of a stage decorated in black curtains and with a large BU insignia hanging behind him. Blurry students are seen in the crowd in front of him, as other robed officials sit on stage to his left.

Student Voices

POV: Student Government Can Be a Radical Force for Change

September 9, 2022

Photo of Isabelle Yap (Sargent'23) , (left), and Genesis Veiassa (Sargent'24) standing on a dock along the Charles River. The Harvard Bridge is seen behind them in the distance; the water and sky are blue with puffy clouds. Yap is a young Black woman with her dark hair pulled back. She has a backpack slung on one shoulder and wears a yellow top and black spandex. Veiassa is a white Woman with long red hair pulled back into french braids, she wears a black t-shirt and gray shorts. Both smile, wear orange, black and gray life jackets, and hold canoeing paddles across their chests.

Things-to-do

Video: Canoeing on the Charles

September 9, 2022

Photo of Boston Mayor Michelle Wu (third from left) with five of this year’s BU City Scholars Summer Fellows: Willa Nessoff (CAS'24) (from left), Nancy Wang (Questrom'24), Connie Situ (CAS'23), Shirli Marini (Questrom'24), and Stella Dzialas (CAS'24). Wu is a middle-aged AAPI woman with shoulder length black hair who wears a black dress. Nessoff, a White woman, wears a black shirt and flowy tan pants, has wavy reddish hair. Wang is an AAPI woman with shoulder-length black hair who wears a black v-neck and a floral skirt. Situ is a woman of color with long brown and blonde ombre hair who wears a black long sleeve shirt and a black and white plaid shirt. Marini is a light-skinned woman with short strawberry blonde hair who wears a white sweater and black and white speckled pants. Dzialas, a White woman, wears a knee-length black dress and has short, wavy dirty blonde hair. They pose in front of a cement wall.

Government

Terriers Get an Up-Close Look at a New Administration at Work

September 8, 2022

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Student Life

Working the Pacific Northwest Trail

August 31, 2022

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Politics

Q&A: Gorbachev’s Death, Putin’s Rise, and Cold War Politics

August 31, 2022

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Voices & Opinion

POV: It’s a Mistake to Make Students Reveal Their Pronouns

August 22, 2022

Education

Almost Every State Needs More Special Ed Teachers. How Can They Get Them?

August 4, 2022

In this photo released by the Taiwan Presidential Office, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, left, and Taiwanese President President Tsai Ing-wen wave during a meeting in Taipei, Taiwan, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022. U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, meeting top officials in Taiwan despite warnings from China, said Wednesday that she and other congressional leaders in a visiting delegation are showing they will not abandon their commitment to the self-governing island. (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP)

International Relations

Following Nancy Pelosi’s Visit to Taiwan, What Happens Next?

August 3, 2022

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Boston Sports

POV: Remembering Boston Celtics Legend Bill Russell (Hon.’02)

August 1, 2022

Composite of three images of Sujena Soumyanath wearing three different outfits. Soumyanath is a young woman of color with long, dark, straight hair. At left, she wears a white tank top, wide-brim baseball hat, light jeans and a chunky belt on a sidewalk near some industrial looking pipes. At center, she wears a colorful tube top, ripped wide leg jeans, and stands with her hands in her belt loops in front of a graffitied wall. At right, she wears a brown sweatshirt, black mini skirt, and brown, nearly knee-high boots. She wears dark round sunglasses and poses on a street corner.

Accolades

Society of Professional Journalists Honors Daily Free Press Writer for Fashion Column

July 27, 2022

Sepia photo of the aftermath of a devastating gas line explosion at the corner of Tremont and Boylston streets on on March 4, 1897, which blew up two trolley cars and left 10 people dead, just six months before the Boston subway was scheduled to open. At left, a man in a bowl hat and a long trench coat looks out into the rubble of metal and piece. A crowd of people, back right, can also be seen examining the damage. Photo by Nathaniel Livermore Stebbins, courtesy Boston Pictorial Archive via Boston Public Library

Transportation History

125 Years Ago, Like Today, Many Bostonians Feared Their Subway System

July 26, 2022

Photo of the drug misoprostol sitting on a gynecological table at Casa Fusa, a health center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. A blue and white box reads: "MISOP 200: Misoprostol 200g" and an orange package with 4 pills is seen in front.

Voices & Opinion

POV: Why We Can’t Rely on Abortion Pills to Offset Closure of Abortion Clinics

July 22, 2022

POV: Why We Can’t Rely on Abortion Pills to Offset Closure of Abortion Clinics