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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.
Emma Clement | Graphics Editor

Ask Abby (Or Analise): Are all men really trash?

Analise Bruno March 2, 2025
I’m kidding, but it's important to remember why we sometimes make generalizations as a society. Not all bees will sting you, but still we’re scared of bees. We don’t say, “only some bees will sting you”  because that’s a given — it’s redundant. In that same way, no one really means all men are trash. Not all men are the same as Mr. Big.
Luc Ljoka | Graphic Artist

Trust | Doctor’s Orders

Luc Ljoka September 19, 2024
Dear Doctors, I suspect that my boyfriend may be cheating on me. What should I do? Sincerely, Perplexed
Annika Morris | Senior Graphic Artist

Ask Abby (or Analise): Betrayal, lies, deception — your guide to all things cheating

Analise Bruno April 3, 2024
Dear Abby: It feels like my girlfriend considers every little thing I do to be cheating. I mean, I liked one girl’s Instagram post and she said I betrayed her! Is she overreacting? Or am I really a bad boyfriend? What do you consider to be cheating anyway? Please help.
Emma Moneuse/DFP STAFF

Gaming the System: ‘Minecraft’ cheating as a case study in subculture drama

Nick Speranza February 11, 2021
Infighting happens in part because we encourage it. When our politicians never receive real punishments, is it any surprise that we love to see them in subculture?
For Boston University students having difficulties managing school because of COVID-19, the morality of cheating during online exams is far from black-and-white. ILLUSTRATION BY HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

In era of online exams, concerns over cheating develop new nuances

Angela Yang December 10, 2020
When Gus Betts-O’Rourke was told his midterm had been uploaded to Chegg, he wasn’t surprised.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Sincerely, Ally: American individualism prioritizes progress over emotional well-being

Alexia Nizhny November 5, 2020
American individualism runs deep — pull yourself up by the bootstraps and move on. This mindset fails us.
Jun Li/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: Online learning does not equate to easier education

Editors October 29, 2020
Administration, please keep our mental health and mounting stress in mind as we head into the new year. If you could sprinkle in a few extra holidays — possibly even a snow day — maybe we could all once again get that familiar rush of warmth at the thought of getting just one extra day to take a breath.
Chegg, an online student services platform that rents students textbooks and other study materials, is cooperating with professors in Boston University’s chemistry and physics departments after it was discovered students were using the platform to cheat on online exams. ILLUSTRATION BY AUSMA PALMER/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Chemistry and physics departments looking to limit cheating

Allison Pirog April 28, 2020
BU professors in the Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics professors are working with Chegg, an online student services platform where users can rent textbooks and get tutoring help, to crack down on students using the site to cheat on quizzes after evidence surfaced last week.
The John Joseph Moakley Federal Courthouse in the Seaport District, where the U.S. District of Massachusetts Court is located. The court sentenced actress Felicity Huffman to 14 days in prison on Friday for her involvement in the college admissions scam. SOFIA KOYAMA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Felicity Huffman will serve 14 days in jail for college admissions scandal

Emanne Khan September 17, 2019
Huffman is the first parent to be sentenced, out of the the 34 parents who were charged after being caught in an FBI investigation.
WILSHERE: An affair to forget

WILSHERE: An affair to forget

Meredith Wilshere September 12, 2016

If there is one thing I have learned from observing the world this year, it is that it’s easy to cheat. From Melania Trump’s passionate, very original speech at the Republican National Convention to...

OP-ED: College cheating

OP-ED: College cheating

Editors November 18, 2015

Op-eds do not reflect the editorial opinion of The Daily Free Press. They are solely the opinion of the author. Dear Daily Free Press Editor, Grade dropping is the academic down low in higher education....

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