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The Daily Free Press

The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

The Daily Free Press

Emma Clement | Graphics Editor

Digital footprints and the dangers of just being a kid | Terms and Conditions

Elyse Bloom April 7, 2025
As the first generation growing up with access to social media, Gen Z kids are building a digital footprint both earlier and more expansively than any generation before. 
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

Obsessions of the week | Maia’s Inner Monologue

Maia Penzer October 10, 2023
Welcome to "Maia's Inner Monologue," my new column that gives you a peek into the world of my — rather random — passions, scattered thoughts and latest obsessions. Join me on an adventure into all things downright bizarre. 
Haley Alvarez-Lauto | Graphic Artist

OP-ED: A monolingual country can’t lead the world

Editors October 28, 2022
The world is globalizing fast, instead of adapting to the integration of foreign language and culture, the United States is waiting for the rest of the world to assimilate to us or to kindly keep out.
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

Bubble Burst: Representing girlhood

Lydia Evans March 24, 2022
It’s not odd to experience a first crush or to grow frustrated at the strange stage between child and adulthood, but because the media lacks such depictions, girlhood is seen as abnormal. 
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Dear 12-year-old me

Michelle Tian September 23, 2021
Everything around you is so beautiful and worth falling in love with.
PHOTO COURTESY OF IFC FILMS

REVIEW: Things change, things stay the same in thoughtful ‘Boyhood’

Cat McCarrey September 19, 2014

Legend has it that Richard Linklater was once challenged to make a film around a conversation. The film was “Before Sunrise,” whose restricted single-night setting and honest intensity vaulted Linklater...

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