With the recent executive crackdown on universities for pro-Palestine activism, the incident with Phillips’ signage sparked dialogue among BU faculty and students over administrative responses to free speech on campus.
While President Donald Trump has enacted mass rollbacks on climate policy at the federal level, Boston University’s climate research programs and sustainability groups have continued to educate and advocate.
Boston University Professor Nathan Phillips stood at the base of the Martin Luther King Jr. statue at Marsh Plaza Wednesday morning holding a cardboard sign protesting the Trump administration.
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.
Instructors and students attending in-person classes may be identified as close contacts in certain cases outside BU’s official definition, BU Nurse Practitioner Hannah Nichols wrote in an email Wednesday.
Through the Learn from Anywhere model, students are given a choice to attend class virtually or on campus, but most professors do not have this option.
On this Monday, August 24, East to West covers changes to BU’s facial covering policy, the cancellation of BU’s planned COVID-19 app, and classroom reassignments for the fall semester.
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BU has recently updated its facial coverings policy to no longer include bandanas, scarves and masks with exhalation valves, according to an email sent to the BU community Thursday.
In another move to address COVID-19 concerns on BU’s campus, BU Facilities Management and Operations Staff is working to improve mechanical heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems — referred to as HVAC — in the 120 buildings on campus that have them.
