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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

Ask Abby (Or Analise): Girls — and boys — gone wild: surviving fears of spring break infidelity

Analise Bruno March 7, 2025
In your hometown, you can’t even go to the grocery store without running into someone who knows your mom. But on spring break? You’re just another face in the crowd of frat bros, beach bums and vacationers who will never cross your path again. What happens on the beach stays on the beach — or so they tell themselves.
A message left by protesters in East Campus at Sunday night's sexual assault protest LILY KEPNER/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Campus Survivors holds sexual assault protest, demands University listen

Lily Kepner February 8, 2021
Nearly a month after BU junior Prisha Kumar’s second open letter condemning the University’s treatment of sexual assault was released to the public — after an initial letter written in June — Kumar and the other co-founders of the @campus.surviors Instagram account organized an on-campus protest, demanding a response from the administration.
Boston University’s College of Communication. Air circulators will be installed in COM classrooms without effective heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems, according to a memo sent to COM faculty. ELIZA SHAW/ DFP FILE

New air circulators to boost air flow in classrooms

Chloe Liu September 2, 2020
Air circulators will be installed in classrooms at BU that don’t have an effective HVAC system, according to a memo sent to COM faculty. 
Studies conducted using social media may not produce accurate results about human behavior, researchers from McGill University and Carnegie Mellon University reported Friday. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY DANIEL GUAN/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Social media not the best basis for human behavior, study finds

Gabriela Arriaga December 3, 2014

Large academic studies that rely on data gathered from social media may not be the most accurate way to understand human behavior, according to a study by two researchers from McGill University and Carnegie...

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