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The Daily Free Press

The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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Emma Clement | Graphics Editor

An ode to Audrey Hepburn | It’s All Been Done Before

Erica Schwartz March 5, 2025
Hepburn was a style icon for what she specifically wore, but I think she was even more iconic for wearing what she wanted without any regret.
Iris Ren | Graphic Artist

What was I made for? Resilience of womanhood in film

Isabella Laikin November 13, 2024
Female filmmakers have emerged — illuminating the diverse, resilient and unapologetically complex experience of being a woman. 
boston city hall

Applications open for Mayor’s Youth Council

Madison Mercado April 27, 2021
The program, taking applications until June 18, promotes civic engagement among high schoolers.
Piper Kerman at a virtual webinar

‘Orange is the New Black’ author talks prison reform at interdisciplinary BU event

Emma Vacirca February 25, 2021
Piper Kerman, author of “Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison," spoke about criminal justice reform at a BU event co-sponsored by Boston University’s Law Student Affairs Office, Law Student Government Association, Kilachand Honors College and Center for the Humanities on Monday.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

OP-ED: Traditional education hinders student activism

Editors January 29, 2021
Universities need to prioritize civic engagement over traditional testing requirements. To do so, service learning needs to be intertwined with academic requirements as to not add to the amount of work we already face.
Poll workers socializing at Coolidge Corner’s Precinct 2 polling location. Voters’ rights advocacy organizations helped recruit poll workers for the Nov. 3 election. SOPHIA FLISSLER | DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Advocates recruit Mass. poll workers

Allison Pirog November 4, 2020
A coalition of voters’ rights advocacy groups helped fill all poll worker positions in Massachusetts Tuesday, following concerns the pandemic would exacerbate poll worker shortages typically prevalent in election years.
Environmental advocacy organizations such as Chelsea-based GreenRoots have had to evolve their practices to respond to and meet challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic. COURTESY OF GREENROOTS

Community environmental groups adapt to pandemic

Rajwinder Kaur September 16, 2020
Since the pandemic began, many environmental groups have shifted operations online and provided aid for members of their communities.
Protestors march at the Boston Climate Strike last December. Boston-based environmental organizations have had to cancel in-person Earth Day rallies and transition to virtual events because of the coronavirus. AUSMA PALMER/ DFP FILE

Environmental activism moves online for this year’s Earth Day celebrations

Molly Farrar April 21, 2020
Environmental organizations are forced to cancel their Earth Day celebrations this year, and continue their advocacy efforts online.
Boston University students bring nonprofit organization PERIOD to BU to spread menstrual health awareness. PHOTO BY JACKIE O'BRIEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU students bring menstrual health advocacy club to BU

Isabel Owens November 9, 2017

Two Boston University students are introducing a chapter of PERIOD., a national organization promoting menstrual health, to BU’s campus. Eudora Olsen, programs director at PERIOD., said this is...

OP-ED: BU should offer seminars on sexual assault

OP-ED: BU should offer seminars on sexual assault

Editors December 18, 2015

Op-Eds do not reflect the editorial opinion of The Daily Free Press. They are solely the opinion of the author. Boston University Alert Service: “On Oct. 18 a female student reported that… an unknown...

Kymbeerly Irizarry (SHA and CAS '17) (right) speaks during “Sexual Assault at BU: Come Discuss the Letter to the Editor” at the Center for Gender, Sexuality and Activism Wednesday. PHOTO BY DANIEL GUAN/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Students organize to prompt university administration to address sexual violence

Keela Sweeney April 30, 2015

In response to a Letter to the Editor published in The Daily Free Press Tuesday, the Boston University Feminist Collective (FEMCO) hosted a town hall meeting Wednesday night to address the ways the...

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