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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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A student grabs a plate of lobster and sides during Lobster Night in Marciano Dining Hall on Sept. 19. Boston University Dining Services is committed to reducing waste coming into Lobster Night, and students met the annual tradition with mixed reactions. SARAH CRUZ/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Lobster Night returns with tradition, sustainability, mixed student reactions

Samantha Genzer September 20, 2024

Boston University’s highly anticipated event, Lobster Night, returned Thursday night in on-campus dining halls.  According to BU Dining Services Director of Marketing Lynn Cody, the event is...

Haley Alvarez-Lauto | Senior Graphic Artist

The Great Cannoli Debate: Reviewing Mike’s, Modern, and Bova’s

Andrew DiBiasio September 13, 2023
This cannoli dilemma has been heated since the 1950s and social media has launched this conundrum from local fame to national frenzy and I’m here to review each of my experiences.
Alexia Nizhny / DFP Staff

Sincerely, Ally: There is no personal agency in ‘Squid Game’

Alexia Nizhny November 10, 2021
Since survival, under capitalism, is a money game, the “choice” the players are making in Squid Game is not to simply continue playing the game out of a selfish desire to earn money. The real choice is between living and dying, and that doesn’t seem like much of a choice at all.
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White Massachusetts residents more than twice as likely to own a business than Black, Latinx residents

Anna Stjernquist March 31, 2021
Less than half a percent of Boston’s 2014-2019 contract spending went to Black-owned business.
Angela Ao/DFP STAFF

Intentional Evolution: College students should learn to budget

Samantha Elizondo February 26, 2021
Sitting down with yourself and coming up with a list of priorities is a good way to hold yourself accountable and redirect your cash flow toward things that will make you the happiest in the long run.
On Sept. 1, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority lowered cash and CharlieTicket fares to match CharlieCard prices due to budget problems. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

MBTA lowers cash, CharlieTicket fares

Kyla Denisevich September 2, 2020
Boston’s public transportation riders paying with cash or a CharlieTicket will no longer have to spend more than those with CharlieCards.
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