Overview
- Students, faculty, staff, and alumni rallied outside BU’s administrative center Thursday and delivered a petition with more than 2,000 signatures.
- Vice President and chief of staff Christine Wynne accepted the petition and said administrators are open to a conversation at a later date.
- The petition seeks a revision that would let people display signs and flags on doors, windows, and walls in private offices and dorm rooms even when visible from outside.
- BU says a longstanding rule bars outward-facing signage regardless of content, a claim protesters dispute as they point to Pride flag removals including Professor Nathan Phillips’ window on March 12 and 15.
- Organizers cite a 1986 Massachusetts case involving BU and a new letter from the free-speech group FIRE, framing the fight as both a legal test and the start of further talks with university leadership.