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How do you feel about social media?

How do you feel about social media?

Veronica Thompson March 30, 2022

Unmasked is the storytelling podcast that uncovers the thoughts, feelings and voices of the BU Community. Today’s prompt was — how do you feel about social media? Click here to stream this...

Yvonne Tang/DFP Staff

Canceled: New spring, new me

Bini Ollivier-Yamin April 28, 2021
The performance of self-reinvention may destroy more of the self than it reinvents.
child holding a candle at the newton asian community vigil

Newtonians hold vigil to honor victims of Atlanta shooting

Chloe Liu March 22, 2021
Community members joined state and local representatives in mourning the eight killed March 16.
Alexia Nizny/DFP STAFF

Dear Men: No one should tell you what ‘masculinity’ looks like

Yvonne Tang January 25, 2021
We need to turn toward our own personal satisfaction with our gender expression, instead of lashing out at others for theirs. If you feel secure in your masculinity, don’t let anyone ever make you doubt it. Conversely, if another person is secure in their masculinity, you don’t get to question them about it.
EDITORIAL: “13 Reasons Why” doesn’t recognize finality of death

EDITORIAL: “13 Reasons Why” doesn’t recognize finality of death

Editors April 23, 2017

The Netflix original “13 Reasons Why,” based on the teen fiction novel by Jay Asher, recently has been the most binge-watched show that is popular among college students and high schoolers alike. The...

EDITORIAL: Rise in U.S. suicide rates caused by more than just medical factors

EDITORIAL: Rise in U.S. suicide rates caused by more than just medical factors

Editors April 24, 2016

Suicide rates in the United States have increased by 24 percent after a steady decline in the 1990s, according to an April analysis run by the National Center for Health Statistics. The rate has specifically...

EDITORIAL: Popular students could be employed to fight bullying, but shouldn't be

EDITORIAL: Popular students could be employed to fight bullying, but shouldn’t be

Editors January 20, 2016

Science has finally found a way to brainwash children for the better. Three researchers found that students did a better job listening to anti-bullying messages when influential students spread the messages,...

On Wednesday, 72 women’s and civil-rights groups sent a letter to the U.S. Education Department urging for more regulation on anonymous social media applications, such as Yik Yak, to prevent student harassment. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY OLIVIA NADEL/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Students notice issue of anonymous online bullying within campus community

Sydney Foy October 29, 2015

Title IX and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 are meant to protect students from discriminatory environments that can be created on college campuses. While these structures generally exist institutionally,...

EDIT: Stopping bullying where it begins

Daily Free Press Admin April 28, 2014

Policymakers in Massachusetts can spend as much money as they please to expand and refine early education in their state, but if a student isn’t even comfortable in the classroom — what’s the point? According...

EDIT: TV anchor bullied

Daily Free Press Admin October 3, 2012

A morning news anchor used her platform to rebuff personal attacks on her weight and address the issue of bullying on Tuesday. Jennifer Livingston, an anchor for the CBS affiliate WBKT-TV in LaCrosse,...

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