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The Daily Free Press

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Protestors gather in Somerville March 26 to call for the release of a Tufts PhD student who was arrested by Federal authorities. Legal and academic associations representing university professors sued the Trump administration March 25 for detaining students who have engaged in pro-Palestinian protests or sentiment. PHOTO BY TRUMAN DICKERSON

‘The right to hear’: Professors sue Trump administration for detention of students engaging in pro-Palestininan activities

Isabelle Zhang April 2, 2025
Legal and academic associations representing university professors sued the Trump administration March 25 for detaining students who have engaged in pro-Palestinian protests or sentiment.
Tents in a pro-Palestinian encampment at Massachusetts Institute of Technology on April 23. After more than 100 demonstrators at Columbia University were arrested during a pro-Palestinian encampment protest last Thursday, university students are now setting up their own encampments after Columbia called for students to replicate the protest. ANDREW BURKE-STEVENSON/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Emerson, MIT student groups set up camp amid student arrests across country

Anna Rubenstein April 24, 2024
The first day of Passover happened rather unceremoniously in the 2 Boylston St. alley. Grape juice and paper seder plates bordered a dinner table thrown together with copies of Emerson College’s student newspaper, sprawled long across the brick ground. 
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Ashley Jackson, BU’s newest sports information director, provides representation and inspiration

Mark Fraenkel November 1, 2022
Ashley Jackson's passion for sports drove her to the BU Athletics Department, and as the only woman SID, she provides representation and inspiration to athletes and students alike.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

A Room With a View: If you think that your grades define you, consider this your wake-up call

Antonia Lehnert November 10, 2021
Rather than striving for excellence, as students, we should seek balance between our academic and personal life.
Fair Admission: Episode 4 - Money

Fair Admission: Episode 4 – Money

Edward Sturm March 18, 2021

The college admissions scandal of 2019 caught CEOs and famous actors in egregious fraud, but maybe the real scandal is a system that you don’t need to break the law to rig. Preference given to...

Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: College acceptances portrayed in adolescent media perpetuate a dangerous, unrealistic standard

Editors March 8, 2021
A better depiction of college applications in the media would be showing a sincere reason for the character’s choice of school and a more personalized college search. If producers lead with characters’ genuine motivations rather than sticking with the tried and true big-name school, it will give way to a diversity of acceptances and more realistic representations on what college is truly like.
Boston University’s School of Public Health hosted a virtual panel on Wednesday with “Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus” co-authors Jennifer Hirsch and Shamus Khan. HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Sexual assault researchers suggest campus-based offenses are complex, multi-layered

Ashley Soebroto November 19, 2020

Sexual assault is an issue prevalent on college campuses across the nation, and the phenomenon is worsening in recent years. Despite a number of initiatives working to prevent sexual assault, the...

The Christopher Columbus statue in the North End, beheaded in June, will not return to Christopher Columbus Park. Instead, a new statue that celebrates Italian heritage will take its place. COURTESY OF KATHRYN ROTONDO VIA FLICKR

Beheaded Christopher Columbus statue will not return to North End

Daniel Kool October 8, 2020
The repaired statue will instead relocate to a new affordable housing development funded by the Massachusetts Knights of Columbus.
Bearing Witness: Police disparities in drug arrests

Bearing Witness: Police disparities in drug arrests

Ariel Stein April 4, 2018
It's a Friday night in StuVi2 and you and your friends are getting ready to go to a frat party. Music is blaring, the vibe is good and everyone is celebrating the fact that it’s the weekend. For a few hours, you can escape the overwhelming amount of work you have.
Gina is a sugar baby to help pay her tuition. PHOTO BY CHLOE GRINBERG/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Money for sugar: BU students turn to dating for extra cash

Cynthia Fernandez March 1, 2018
In a series of interviews, The Daily Free Press found that BU students become sugar babies for a variety of reasons — to pay for college, go on trips, buy expensive clothing or to have someone who’s looking out for them.
Saks Fifth Avenue hosts a Q&A with the designers of Opening Ceremony on Nov. 9. PHOTO BY MAGGIE LEONE/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Opening Ceremony designers launch latest collection at Saks Fifth Avenue Boston

Mayzura Restalia Munaf November 16, 2017

It was 10:30 p.m. on a Monday night, and Carol Lim was already in her pajamas, ready to tuck herself in for bed. Humberto Leon, a classmate of one of Lim’s roommates, had just come back from class...

Joe Jones is in his sixth season as coach of the men's basketball team. PHOTO BY MICHAEL CUMMO PHOTOGRAPHY/FLICKR

20 questions with men’s basketball head coach Joe Jones

Tyler Oringer February 9, 2017

What’s your favorite type of music? I’d have to go with R&B. What’s the best concert you have been to? (Laughing) I’m not a concert guy.   What’s your favorite song? “Man...

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