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Emma Clement | Graphics Editor

Situationship survival guide: Lessons in love, loss and letting go | The Hard Pills We Hate to Swallow

Breanna Pham March 25, 2025
The way of surviving life and situationships is that you have to know that you can’t control someone’s thoughts or actions — you can only control your own. Here are just a few tidbits of advice and lessons I’ve learned that have helped me navigate my experiences with situationships. 
Emma Clement | Graphics Editor

Ask Abby (Or Analise): Why your partner isn’t your therapist — and thank goodness for that

Analise Bruno March 24, 2025
Mental health also looks different for everyone. Sometimes, your struggle could come off as being dismissive or moody to outsiders who aren’t aware of your situation. Being as open as you’re comfortable will only allow your relationships, romantic and not, to prosper.
Emma Clement | Graphics Editor

Sweetness: A bridge of affection

Isabella Panichi February 18, 2025
To nurture someone is to nurture yourself just a little bit as well. In other words, in feeding others you feed yourself. 
Mandile Mpofu | Graphic Artist

Ask Abby (or Analise): If you like me, just tell me!

Analise Bruno September 26, 2023
Dear Abby: What’s the deal with people leading each other on these days? Someone who I thought liked me turns out to not want anything to do with me romantically — why did this happen, and how can I keep avoiding this problem?
Legal experts discussed judicial issues within the U.S. health care system in a Friday symposium hosted by the Boston University School of Law. JASMINE LI/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Public health, legal experts discuss racial disparities, inequities in health care system

Divya Sood February 9, 2021
Experts at BU School of Law's “Legal Innovations in Response to Public Health Crises” event on Friday highlighted disparities in the U.S. health care system.
EDITORIAL: Overlapping public health issues: opioid addiction and HIV

EDITORIAL: Overlapping public health issues: opioid addiction and HIV

Editors April 8, 2018
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren announced she is drafting legislation that addresses the opioid epidemic taking place across the country right now and calls for a budget of $100 billion to be allocated to states and individual treatment centers. The bill is one of many efforts put forth by senators to combat the crisis which seems to be getting worse every day in this country.
"Shape Shift With Me,” the seventh album from punk band Against Me!, is set to be released Friday. PHOTO COURTESY TOTAL TREBLE MUSIC

Fall music releases: varying modes of melancholy

Conner Reed September 16, 2016

Music is compelling when it’s sad. This is not news; it’s biology. Our brains are wired to associate emotion with sound, and the idea that we could go from happy to sad at the stir of a violin is...

PILLEY: An exercise in gratitude

PILLEY: An exercise in gratitude

Katelyn Pilley December 10, 2015

“I think it’s more of an exercise in gratitude,” Ali said. We were at Speak for Yourself, the spoken word poetry group I’m in, and someone had pointed out how sad the writing prompt about saying...

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