A sold-out crowd packed Agganis Arena to see the Stars on Ice Tour last Saturday. The show featured both U.S. Olympians and national team members performing in solos and pairs. During the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan, the United States brought home three of the five available gold medals, drawing in many new fans of figure skating and the U.S. Olympians. 

Our reporting this semester has, on several occasions, led to real, on the ground change at BU. I could not be prouder of this fact. We have, without fear or favor, reported tirelessly on a number of topics unsavory to BU’s administration. Examples include our pride flag coverage, our coverage of the COM dean’s connection to Jeffrey Epstein and our coverage of President Gilliam falsely claiming she attended a podcast about the Black experience at BU. We did not report, write, edit and fact check these articles to cheaply demean the administration. On the contrary, we published them to inform students, and to push BU to become a better version of itself. Just like President Gilliam, I too want BU to succeed.  So yes, when a pride flag was raised above the Howard Thurman Center one day after President Gilliam announced a pause in the enforcement of BU’s signage policy — a story we’d been fleshing out for weeks — I was proud.  I was proud, most of all though,...

On a Friday afternoon in Roxbury, Boston University’s student rock band The Janks set up for a live gig — not in a bar or an Allston basement, but in the United States’ first women’s homeless shelter.  

On April 11, sophomore defender Zac Maggiacomo took his position on the wing for the opening faceoff of Boston University’s men’s lacrosse’s mid-season clash against Bucknell University.

Swedish pop sensation Zara Larsson will headline Boston University’s inaugural “RhettRockz” spring concert May 3 at Agganis Arena.  BU, however, won’t be her only stop — Larsson is also slated to perform at several other New England schools in the next two weeks, including at Tufts University, Brandeis University and Yale University. Tufts, Brandeis and Yale provided free tickets to undergraduates, with Tufts selling $40 graduate student tickets. BU, on the other hand, has a ticket fee of $15 for undergraduate students, which aligned with the $10 to $17 benchmark used in past festivals. BU Student Government Vice President Tony Wu said the planning team wanted the festival to be more “student-focused” this year. “In the past three years of the concerts, we were in partnership with Agganis Arena, so even non-BU students, like the public, could attend these concerts,” Wu said. “This is the first year that we are entirely booking an entire arena just for...

The Daily Free Press interviewed Boston University President Melissa Gilliam Thursday afternoon to discuss the past academic year, the state of higher education and the future of BU. The conversation has been edited for clarity.

Janathan Rivera, a BUPD officer since 2024, was fired by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 2023, where he was a public safety officer, for use of excessive force on a 69-year-old hospital patient, state records show.  In security camera footage obtained by the Daily Free Press through a public records request, Rivera is seen grabbing the patient by the collar. The video then shows the patient falling to the ground, which the patient later alleged was because Rivera handled him “forcibly.” While several BUPD officers have faced disciplinary actions from 1984 to April 13, 2026, either by a previous employer or BUPD itself, Rivera is the only officer currently employed by the University who was previously fired, state officer disciplinary records show.  Rivera later filed a complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination against BIDMC — a teaching hospital of Harvard University Medical School — alleging he faced racial discrimination and retaliation.  BIDMC’s...

Every college at Boston University celebrates its graduating class each May— but for members of Computing and Data Sciences, the class of 2026 is particularly special. The weekend of May 14, CDS will celebrate the graduation of its first-ever undergraduate class. The cohort first entered the program in 2022, and have helped develop CDS in its formative years since its founding in 2019.