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Annika Morris | Senior Graphic Artist

Is there ‘too much’ time in the day? | Is It Just Me Or?

Grace Donahue February 29, 2024
No one can ever truly be sure if we need more or fewer hours in the day, in the true fashion of time itself.
Connie Dai / DFP Staff

Critical Eye: Sleep study

Sarah Goodman April 21, 2022
Through sleep deprivation’s dissociative and singly concentrated conspirings, the student is more suggestible to the subliminals of their scholarship. Sleep deprivation then engineers the most potent conditions for learning.
Lorre Wolf expose, student complaints about DAS

‘Dismissive’ and ‘unempathetic’: Students claim unjust treatment from BU Disability and Access Services director Lorre Wolf

Lauren Rowlands January 28, 2022
Students claim DAS office is excessively bureaucratic, Wolf to be "abusive in her power over disabled students."
100 Gecs at The Royale

REVIEW: 100 gecs performs at the Royale, uniting audience in unique community space

Jasmine Grant October 28, 2021
The duo's unique hyperpop music features nightcore vocals and powerful bass beats.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

A Room With a View: College culture has normalized drugs, now schools have to deal with it

Antonia Lehnert October 21, 2021
Drugs have become an inherent part of the series of unspoken rules that make up college culture. What are the consequences?
mental health conditions word block

The importance of the words we use

Lynn Chu October 18, 2021
The informality with which we throw around words can be seen as a rejection of empathy.
Dearborn STEM Academy. High-priority Boston Public Schools students returned to in-person instruction Thursday. FELIX PHILLIPS/ DFP FILE

High priority students return to Boston classrooms

Sam Trottenberg February 5, 2021
Students with disabilities, students learning English and students experiencing homelessness were allowed back into classrooms for the first time this year Thursday.
Boston University College of Arts and Sciences senior Josh Prinzo poses with Paris Hilton at a protest supporting the #BreakCodeSilence movement aimed at supporting survivors of the troubled team industry. COURTESY OF JOSH PRINZO

CAS student shares personal experience with ‘troubled teen’ industry

Sophia Yakumithis November 24, 2020
One afternoon, Josh Prinzo was escorted onto a bus and taken to a wilderness camp with no prospect of returning home for seven months. The BU senior became one of hundreds of teenagers forced into a behavioral facility for rebellious teenagers.
Dearborn STEM 6–12 Early College Academy in Boston. For Boston Public Schools, the 2020-2021 school year will begin remotely on Sept. 21, with the hopes of transitioning back to in-person classes in October or November. FELIX PHILLIPS/ DFP FILE

Remote learning brings challenges for BPS students

Daniel Kool September 4, 2020
Students will later be able to choose between fully online classes and a hybrid learning model, in which they would attend in-person lessons two days per week.
The Hechinger Report releases an article detailing a disparity among students with disabilities that receive college degrees. PHOTO BY JENNA MANTO/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Students with disabilities face dismal graduation rates, but not at BU

Camille Fowler November 14, 2017

A recent report found that about two-thirds of students with disabilities who attend a four-year college do not graduate within eight years — a trend that Boston University has attempted to remedy...

EDIT: Adult ADHD on the rise

Daily Free Press Admin March 6, 2013

All of us have trouble focusing. Especially these days, when the demands for productivity are soaring while the outlets to avoid these demands seem to only increase in multitude. We feel like we should...

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