By Lauren Albano, Editor-in-Chief
• February 28, 2025
Donations made by the Musk Foundation to a BU rocketry team uncovered by The Daily Free Press are igniting debates over private donorship and revealing intra-University tensions over the funding it receives.
Boston University students held an independent student organizing town hall at the Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground Sunday, where speakers discussed participating in community activism and the fate of the University-wide divestment referendum bill.
The results of a campus-wide divestment referendum survey were nullified Monday due to “security and technological issues,” according to an announcement from Boston University Student Government.
At this week's meeting, Boston University’s Student Government endorsed the ResLife Union’s strike, agreed to promote an event at the Pardee Center and talked about preparations for BU’s “Vote!” Day.
Students express concern after sophomores in the College of General Studies learned they could not vote in the 2024 Student Government elections of their future colleges.
On Monday, Boston University Student Government heard a presentation from BU staff about the updated class registration system, discussed the BU “Vote!” Initiative and endorsed a resolution proposed by the BU Graduate Worker Union.
Boston University released decisions for the first round of early decision Thursday evening, admitting 34.1% of applicants to the class of 2028 in the first round of admissions following the affirmative action ruling.
