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The Daily Free Press

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The Boston University Police Department. This week’s crime logs include breaking and entering, elevator entrapment and larceny. HOLLY GUSTAVSEN/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Campus Crime Logs: Oct. 27-Nov. 1

Mary Goetz November 5, 2024
This week's crime logs include an elevator entrapment, a chemical event and a suspicious person.
The Boston University Police Department. This week’s crime logs include a hit and run, theft and a suspicious person. HOLLY GUSTAVSEN/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Campus Crime Logs: Oct. 20-26

Eli Pekelny October 28, 2024
This week's crime logs include a narcotic investigation, prisoner watch and suspicious person.
Boston University residence hall at 726 Commonwealth Avenue. Early on Oct. 11, a small fire occurred in the building’s basement. RACHEL FEINSTEIN/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Fire at 726 Comm. Ave. exposes faint fire alarms, disrupts asbestos

Mary Goetz October 23, 2024
Residents of 726 Commonwealth Ave. said they could barely hear the fire alarms in their dormitory after a small fire on Oct. 11 which disrupted asbestos building material. 
South Campus dorms on Buswell Street. Residents in South Campus are concerned by recurring maintenance issues. MATTHEW EADIE/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Students face maintenance issues in South Campus residences

Leia Green February 9, 2024
BU students express frustrations about South Campus maintenance issues.
BU students want gender-neutral restrooms on campus

Students call for more gender-inclusive bathrooms on BU campus to accommodate transgender, non-binary community

Zoe Tseng January 20, 2022
Difficulties in finding all-gender bathrooms on campus have made transgender students feel unsafe in the past.
student exits warren towers

Students share experiences living inside buildings not renovated since mid-’90s

Tanisha Bhat April 29, 2021
Students from Warren, Kilachand, South Campus and Bay State Road described their living conditions.
Angela Ao/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: Unhygienic, unsafe residential life practices are not a rite of passage for anyone

Editors April 27, 2021
Though BU can improve student quality of life, much of the responsibility lies on students themselves.
Mouse in a corner

Students report mice, cockroach, bird feces in University residences

Emily Stevenson April 23, 2021
The incidents have occurred all across campus, from apartments in South Campus to COVID-19 isolation housing.
warren towers at boston university

Warren Towers experiences power outages, flooding

Madhri Yehiya March 30, 2021
Overflowing toilets and electrical circuit failure caused the unrelated incidents on the same day.
man walks through flooding at boston university

Water main break floods area surrounding Center for Computing and Data Sciences construction site, causes water supply shutdown

Madhri Yehiya March 26, 2021
A CDS construction site water main flooded the area and led to water shut-offs in the aftermath.
A sign denouncing Boston University’s treatment of rape cases posted Sunday night in West Campus. BU Facilities removed some of the signs put up by protesters Monday because they were not located in designated free-expression spaces. HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU removed sexual assault protest posters citing University policy

Madhri Yehiya February 9, 2021
Many of the hundreds of posters hung around campus during Sunday night’s “Our University Has a Problem - Protest on Sexual Assault @ BU” demonstration were removed by Boston University Facilities Management and Operations staff members early Monday morning.
Boston University’s South Campus. BU Police are investigating a series of robberies in South Campus residences that began in January. ELIZABETH MCCLELLAND/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BUPD investigating series of South Campus burglaries, break-ins

Vanessa Bartlett February 8, 2021
A series of break-ins and burglaries on Boston University’s South Campus at 46 Mountfort St. and 6 Buswell St. are currently under investigation by the BU Police Department, according to an emergency alert email sent out Thursday.
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