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Midterms 2022

Is DeSantis the New Trump? And Other Thoughts from the Midterms

November 9, 2022

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First-Gen VOICES

POV: My First-Gen Story: In Search of a “Better Future, a Better Life”

November 7, 2022

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Sustainability

Video: Where Does BU’s Food Waste Go?

November 4, 2022

Collage: (from left to right) Photo of a raging wildfire, marijuana leaves, A protestors holding up a blue sign that reads "keep abortion legal", and a gas station pump showing high gas prices are shown to illustrate some of the issues being debated in the midterms.

Politics

What Issues Will Decide the 2022 Midterm Elections?

November 1, 2022

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Voices & Opinion

POV: Affirmative Action in College Admissions Is at Risk

October 28, 2022

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Public Health

POV: Every Hour, 40 Women in This Country Are Told They Have Breast Cancer. I Am Now One of Them

October 19, 2022

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Books

School of Law Expert: Software Enables Innovation, Except When It Doesn’t

October 17, 2022

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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

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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

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