BU email spam ad trying to sell lululemon products in my work email

@bostonu.bsky.social please stop spamming work email, with ads for cancer alley petrosynthetics, no less.

Academic Freedom and Departmental Speech Statements issued in the name of academic departments and schools are becoming as controversial as they are common, raising pressing questions about institutional expression and academic freedom.

“…much turns on just who is *we* and what is *ours*.” - @brsoucek.bsky.social
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LGBTQIA+ Student Resource Center mounts pride flag atop Howard Thurman Center one day after Gilliam halts pride flag removals Boston University’s LGBTQIA+ Student Resource Center put a pride flag on the roof of the Howard Thurman Center April 7, one day after BU President Melissa Gilliam announced a temporary pause in the Un...

This is both a welcomed move by @bostonu.bsky.social and thickens the plot, by putting the question in bold relief: who gets to decide university speech?
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Diversity, cost, freedom of speech: Why some future Terriers say they’re excited to attend BU, and why others are concerned Prospective students who applied regular decision to Boston University received their admissions decisions from BU Admissions March 28. Some are committing to BU because of its location and diversity,...

“The playbook of trying to wait out any type of backlash and then addressing it later on has not been working for students.”
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Browsing comments about campus speech underscores need for more civics education. Hard to grasp logic behind arguments such as: if a person puts up a flag in a random office window, the admin must put up all other possible flags? What?!

Also the extremely slippery slope of “only US flags!”.

‘I am deeply sorry.’ Boston University president pauses Pride flag removals following backlash. - The Boston Globe BU has been under fire in recent weeks over its enforcement of a signage policy that some professors say was meant to keep the spotlight off of the university as the Trump administration pursues anti-LGBTQ+ policies.

Boston University is pausing its removal of Pride flags from office windows amid a national backlash over its controversial free expression policy, President Melissa Gilliam announced.

Trinity College removed American flags from students' window but allowed pride flags to remain for days later The dean reportedly said some students were offended by the Gadsden and Thin Line flags

An important case study. As much as I oppose these flags, & an argument can be made that cop flags embody threats to brown & black folks & shouldn’t be protected speech, I come down on them having the right to express these views. Censoring bad ideas gives them O2.
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'F*** Nazis You Are Not Welcome Here' sign hanging in window of UMass Amherst dorm sparks controversy Emotions are heightened at UMass Amherst days after a residence director emailed a student to request the removal of a 'F*** Nazis' sign from a dorm window.

@bostonu.bsky.social see how admins can lead with courage and principle rather than fear?
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Dorm window sign at UMass Amherst says “Fucking Nazis you are not welcome here”

Apparently some Nazis were concerned about this blatantly anti-Nazi sign at UMass Amherst:

“RIP Harambe” in a Syracuse U dorm window. Harambe was a gorilla who was shot and killed to protect a 3-yr old who fell into his cage at the Cincinnati Zoo.

Syracuse U:

Dorm window sign at OSU says “My rights your policies”, next to another window with the Ohio state flag

Love this one from Ohio State U:

My “Free Rumeysa” office window sign of Spring, 2025

My “Divest” from fossil fuels office window sign of 2013. Note this photo is copyrighted by BU and was publicized by BU in its own Bostonia magazine.

My progress pride flag of spring 2026

Here are a few signs I’ve put in my campus window over the years. How about you?

Rats taught to drive tiny cars to lower their stress levels Researchers taught rats to drive tiny "ratmobiles" in exchange for food, which helped the rats relax.

How it started:
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BU has declared every first Thursday TERRIER SPIRIT DAY.

My fellow BU AAUP members are certainly making me #ProudToBU

BU AAUP pins read:
“No austerity without transparency!“
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“Support academic freedom and CGS rights to hire its faculty!”
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“CAS faculty say protest graduate programs!”

@bostonu.bsky.social speech police can’t silence freedom. Try it and we’ll multiply further.

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Pride flags and swastikas are not analogous. BU’s signage policy treats them the same way. | Editorial Last spring, Boston University’s Center for Gender, Sexuality and Activism was vandalized. For a University that often markets itself as a welcoming community — one that proudly supports its LGBTQ+ me...

“We’re less draconian” - @bostonu.bsky.social policy is driven not by our highest aspirations but by fear of the worst actions.
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OP-ED: BU’s AAUP documents a campaign of censorship on campus Op-Eds do not reflect the editorial opinion of The Daily Free Press. They are solely the opinion of the author. BU AAUP is the Boston University Chapter of the American Association of University Profe...

Boston U's AAUP uncovers a campaign of censorship on campus. A series. dailyfreepress.com/03/30/21/219...

OP-ED: A history of suppressing speech on campus Op-Eds do not reflect the editorial opinion of The Daily Free Press. They are solely the opinion of the author. BU AAUP is the Boston University Chapter of the American Association of University Profe...

Forty years ago, and again today, Boston University finds itself on the wrong side of Massachusetts law and history when it silences student and faculty dissent.

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In solidarity with @dankennedy.net & all our Husky friends. @universalhub.com

A range of new pride & nods to pride flags & window displays in these 4 photos

Hopefully @bostonu.bsky.social realizes there’s no going back now.

It’s almost funny watching maga tie themselves up in knots about which signs & flags they’ve decided can be displayed and which not.

@bostonu.bsky.social is finding out what shared governance looks like

A courageous call to action by Prof. Snyder-Cappione. We are at a tipping point which @bostonu.bsky.social affiliates & alums can, by signing the petition herein, help turn into a landslide:
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President Gilliam doubles down on signage policy amid pride flag takedown controversy, faculty resist Boston University officials responded to faculty and student concerns about the removal of outward-facing signage on campus, including pride flags, in a BU Today article published Tuesday.  Officials ...

“As frustrating and disappointing as it is, I have never felt more hopeful about the kind of awakening that’s happening on campus, where faculty and students and staff are saying ‘who’s making the rules here?’ and ‘what about our voices?’”
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Pride Flag Ban at Boston University: Is ‘Neutrality’ Hiding Homophobia | Instinct Magazine In a twist that might remind you of a bad break-up with a college roommate who claims to support you but keeps taking down your Pride flags, Boston

“Try to silence a message of inclusion, and the backlash can be louder than the flags themselves.”
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Deforestation is tree neutral.
Depopulation is population neutral.
Etc.

But I’m glad you are on campus, Nathan, with a zeal to debunk, because when it comes to bunk one should never be neutral in opposition to it.

JL
CLA ‘80

@bostonu.bsky.social keeps insisting on calling its no signs policy “content neutral”. But there’s no content.

That’s like saying everyone gets nothing, equally. It’s trivial & meaningless.

‘That’s selective enforcement’: BU professors mobilize after University removes pride flags during spring break Faculty are speaking out against Boston University’s signage policy amid ongoing disagreements over the removal of public-facing pride flags in office windows, an issue faculty say is an unnecessary b...

Thank you. So proud of profs speaking up in this new McCarthyite era. Appreciate you and @nathanpboston.bsky.social

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The kraken flag, up today & since 10/25, for example, is closer to the pride flag removed at the WGS office than either of the two other pride flags removed. The “personal outreach” was clearly based on sign content.