After TikTok voluntarily shut down for United States users Saturday evening before restoring access approximately 12 hours later, Boston University students reflected on the platform’s significance and noticeable shifts in user experience since its brief hiatus.
FitRec’s reopening is timely and beneficial, and we can’t ignore how great it is to have this facility available to us once again. But it also serves as another example of how athletics — whether justly or unjustly — are prioritized in our society.
BU needs to make a constant commitment to the cause, actively work to ensure students’ safety, dismantle the prevalent rape culture on its campus and establish trust so students will be willing to speak up and report assailants in the first place. It will never be as easy as one quick, overnight policy change.
Religious groups on BUs campus have shifted some programming online this Fall, but while university-affiliated Marsh Chapel remains closed, other buildings unaffiliated with BU have kept their doors open
BU's talent-based groups have to reimagine what their recruitment and eventual performances will look like without the lights, costumes and live audiences.
BU's student organizations must hold most events virtually this Fall, according to SAO. Some gatherings can still be held in person, but under strict capacity limits and with furniture fixed in place to ensure social distancing.
As incoming students begin planning their move to college, the question on their minds shifts from what school they will be attending for the next four years to what they will do with their time there.
The Boston University Student Activities Office will launch a new online platform Monday using OrgSync, a club management tool, replacing its current system, YouDo.
On Saturday and Sunday, SAO staff...
