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Supreme Court slashes affirmative action: what should come next?

Editors September 11, 2023

The Supreme Court voted 6-2 on June 29 on the case Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard College in a decision which determined that affirmative action in higher education violated the Equal Protections...

Chloe Hannum / DFP Staff

Latest with Lin: Supreme Court denies disability benefits to Puerto Ricans

Michael Lin April 29, 2022
United States v. Vaello Maduro presents a devastating blow to the rights and well-being of Puerto Ricans.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Kappa Sigma’s Student Activities Office-affiliation should be removed

Editors October 25, 2021
A protest demanding the removal of Kappa Sigma’s university affiliation held last Saturday brings new questions to light about the place of fraternities on our campus and in our broader society. 
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Gender Justice: Lived experience does not invalidate a journalist

Meredith Varner April 12, 2021
Do not further alienate female journalists because we have been victims of mistreatment and abuse.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

2021 Breakdown: Manchin is the biggest roadblock for Democrats

Gabriella Aponte February 12, 2021
Instead of fighting with Democrats who want to help his constituents, Manchin should thank the party and the broader left for allowing him to call himself a Democrat and a great bipartisan figure.
Burt Glass, marketing and communications director at Boston University’s College of Communication, moderated a Virtual Speaker Series panel Wednesday entitled “Political Ads: What Do Candidates Get For $1 Billion?” hosted by COM. HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

COM professors, political scientists say political ads can persuade low-interest voters

Mita Kataria October 16, 2020
With a presidency and 35 Senate seats to decide on in less than a month, candidates are leaving no stone unturned to appeal to their voters. Boston University’s College of Communication hosted a panel Wednesday entitled, “Political Ads: What Do Candidates Get For $1 Billion?”
Gabriella Aponte

2020 Breakdown: Dear Democrats, It’s Time to Play Hard Ball

Gabriella Aponte September 25, 2020
Though the Democrats are currently in a difficult position, blocking the Republicans from reneging on their own precedent is not impossible. Democrats should be able to win this battle and the long war if they are strategic and relentless in their approach.
Jodi Kantor, left, and Megan Twohey, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters who broke the story of Harvey Weinsten’s sexual abuse, explored the story that sparked the #MeToo Movement in a recent book, “She Said.” COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Weinstein reporters discuss how they broke the landmark story

Kami Rieck October 8, 2019
New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor joined actress Ashley Judd at an event in Cambridge to promote their new book, which details their experience reporting on Harvey Weinstein.
Modern Musings: We can’t settle for mediocrity in 2020

Modern Musings: We can’t settle for mediocrity in 2020

Ausma Palmer May 1, 2019
The race for the Democrats’ 2020 nomination has become a bit of a joke recently as more and more politicians have jumped on the bandwagon.
Boston University is set to take part in a survey on campus sexual misconduct administered by the Association of American Universities (AAU) in the spring. SERENA YU/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU to take part in multi-university sexual misconduct survey

Laura Al Bast November 1, 2018
Boston University will be conducting a sexual misconduct student survey as part of the AAU 2019 Campus Climate Survey.
Meredith Varner

American Protest: Stacking the federal courts is not democratic

Meredith Varner October 29, 2018

With all the chaos going on in this country, between the pipe bomb mailings and a terrorist attack at a Pittsburgh synagogue Saturday, the Trump administration has been quietly conducting business without...

Femitwist: What’s your biggest fear?

Femitwist: What’s your biggest fear?

Michal Shvimer October 17, 2018

In the polarizing period of the Kavanaugh confirmation and the trials that preceded it, the nation found itself torn between two answers for the same question: who is the real victim of the #MeToo Movement?...

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