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Weekender

The Weekender: October 22 to 25

October 22, 2020

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Voting

Countering the Top Excuses Young People Give for Not Voting

October 22, 2020

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University News

12 BU Students Suspended after Loud Parties, Infractions

October 21, 2020

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Construction

What Did It Take to Reopen Campus This Fall?

October 21, 2020

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Diversity & Inclusion

How Does Socioeconomic Inequality Affect Social Class, Especially for People of Color?

October 21, 2020

Diane Constantino (Sargent’81), director of BU’s Center for Stuttering Therapy, in her office with client Mason Blake (Wheelock’23). The two stage a therapy session. They both wear masks, Constantino wears a clear mask.

Speech Therapy

Clients Praise Stuttering Treatment at BU’s Center for Stuttering Therapy

October 20, 2020

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University News

Rise in BU’s COVID-19 Cases Prompts Stricter Measures

October 20, 2020

A photo of a ballot that reads "Ranked Choice Voting"

Politics

Massachusetts Ballot Questions 2020: What You Need to Know

October 20, 2020

Photo of August Menchaca (CAS’23) in a face mask, black t-shirt and jeans, collects his things from a UPS truck and wheels them away in a yellow cart while moving in on Bay State Rd on August 26.

Back2BU

Fall Move-out, Intersession, Spring Move-in: What You Need to Know

October 20, 2020

Portrait of Katherine Kennedy at the Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground

Howard Thurman Center

Katherine Kennedy’s Journey from Childhood Sadness to Howard Thurman Center Director

October 19, 2020

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Career Advice

Seven Tips for a Successful (Virtual) Career Fair

October 19, 2020

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Campus Life

Have You Picked Up a New Hobby during the Pandemic? Tell Us about It

October 19, 2020

A black and white photo of author Isaac Asimov with 80 books at a Mugar Library event comemmorating the publishing of his 80th book in 1967. The table in front of him is piled high with books; he flips through one, wearing dark thick-rimmed glasses and a suit.

Voices & Opinion

POV: Why Isaac Asimov’s Novels Still Speak to Us Today, 100 Years after His Birth

October 19, 2020

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Public Health

What Are States Doing about COVID-19? This BU Database Has Answers

October 19, 2020

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Student Life

Dealing with Loneliness in College during a Pandemic

October 16, 2020

Artistic rendering of The Embrace MLK monument in Boston by Hank Willis Thomas with MASS Design Group

Voices & Opinion

POV: It’s Time to Change How We Choose Monuments and Statues

October 16, 2020

illustration of young adults wearing medical face masks. text embedded on the image says 'COVID Compliance Numbers'

Health & Medicine

Weekly COVID Compliance Report: October 16

October 16, 2020

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Campus Life

Thanksgiving Advice for BU Students: Stick Around, Have a Safe Friendsgiving

October 15, 2020

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Weekender

The Weekender: October 15 to 18

October 15, 2020

Composite image: on the left, a close-up portrait of poet Natasha Trethewey, her bangs sway to the right over her eyes, photo by Matt Valentine; on the right, the book cover for "Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir" by Natasha Trethewey, a Pulitzer Prize Winner. On the cover, a sepia photo of Trethewey's mother holding her as a young baby.

Poetry

Pulitzer Prize Winner Natasha Trethewey to Lead Thursday’s Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading

October 15, 2020

Pulitzer Prize Winner Natasha Trethewey to Lead Thursday’s Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading