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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

Gaming the System: The ‘boosting’ industry is booming — is that good?

Nick Speranza November 2, 2021
Recent news of punitive legal measures against the practice of 'boosting' brings up questions about the nature of video-games in our capitalist culture.
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Letter from the Editor: We have no justice in a broken system

Colbi Edmonds April 22, 2021
I’m happy about Chauvin’s guilty verdict, but I will not become complacent in this one victory.
Bini Ollivier-Yamin

Canceled: Eva Longoria’s statement reveals anti-Blackness in white Latinx communities

Bini Ollivier-Yamin December 3, 2020
To truly be anti-racist, we must cancel and dismantle the toxic structures that prevent us from seeing how we perpetuate anti-Blackness and are complicit in our country’s corrupt and violent systems.
Purdue Pharma L.P. pleaded guilty on Oct. 21 to criminal charges for the company's marketing and selling of opioids, which led to a nationwide opioid crisis. NICOLAS TEPPER/DFP FILE

BU professors analyze Purdue Pharma shutdown, aftermath

Kyla Denisevich November 6, 2020
Around 450,000 people have died from opioids since the turn of the century, and many companies are to blame for the drug's overprescription and misuse.
John Adams Courthouse. The Massachusetts Trial Court has postponed the earliest possible return of in-person jury trials from Friday to Nov. 9 due to COVID-19 concerns. COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Courts delay permission to start in-person jury trials

Rin Velasco October 22, 2020
The Massachusetts Trial Court has pushed back its earliest possible restart date for in-person jury trials from Friday to Nov. 9 due to coronavirus concerns.
“Criminal,” in theaters Friday, stars Kevin Costner as a deranged criminal implanted with the memories of an assassinated CIA agent, played by Ryan Reynolds. PHOTO COURTESY JACK ENGLISH

REVIEW: “Criminal” disappoints despite famed cast

Emma Parkinson April 15, 2016

Director Ariel Vromen’s “Criminal” begins in what English teachers call “in medias res” and what moviegoers might call confusing. Kevin Costner sports an aggressive buzz cut on a beach while...

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