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Emma Hart | Graphic Artist

Valentine’s Day: the holiday single people love to hate

Daniela Cejudo Curiel February 11, 2025
Learning to be alone isn’t easy, and it feels even harder during a holiday dedicated to love. But love isn’t only romantic — it deserves to be celebrated in all its forms. 
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

Ask Abby (or Analise): Talk to you later! Or never?

Analise Bruno October 30, 2023
Dear Abby: Help! I don’t know if this boy likes me. We’ve gone out a few times but he’s a really dry texter, and it takes him a while to respond to my messages and calls. I don’t want to seem needy and obsessive, but what do I do?!
pets.of.busm instagram account

BU pet Instagrams, campus dogs spark student joy

Alexandra Lack March 25, 2021
BU terriers find happiness in dogs on campus and pets on student-run instagram @pets.of.busm.
Yvonne Tang

Dear Men: New Supreme Court will endanger non-males in US

Yvonne Tang November 6, 2020
Though conservatives poke fun at us, calling us “fake feminists” for not supporting all women because of our distaste for Barrett, we know her confirmation unleashes a future filled with dismay.
Vanessa Barlett /DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: The pandemic poses new opportunities and challenges for dating

Editors September 21, 2020
Surprisingly enough, the coronavirus has posed even more dilemmas for the online dating world.
The College of Communication at Boston University. Students in two of COM Prof. Peter Smith’s journalism classes circulated a petition saying his reporting assignments required in-person interviews that could put them at-risk of the coronavirus, but Smith says he only gave students the option to conduct in-person interviews if they felt comfortable and observed social distancing rules. ELIZA SHAW/ DFP FILE

Students protest reporting assignment

Samantha Kizner April 5, 2020
Last week, students in two journalism courses sent Mariette DiChristina, dean of the College of Communication, a petition. Their complaints concerned assignments given to them by their professor, Peter Smith, that encouraged in-person reporting.
What’s open on campus now?

What’s open on campus now?

Melissa Ellin March 16, 2020
Students who remain on campus amidst the coronavirus pandemic face reduced university resources and widespread closure of common spaces as Boston University enters its first week of remote learning in response to the spread of the coronavirus.
WILSHERE: Postcards from across the pond

WILSHERE: Postcards from across the pond

Meredith Wilshere March 27, 2017

This past weekend, one of my hometown friends came to London. Friends since the first grade, she is one of those friends who you could go months without talking to only to meet up and pick up right where...

HAUSER: An ocean apart

HAUSER: An ocean apart

Jonathan Hauser January 31, 2017

Relationships are not easy things to manage during college, no matter who you are. Both people are busy with classes, clubs, work and of course, a social life with friends. That leaves only a limited time...

EDITORIAL: New app simplifies birth control, eliminates doctors

EDITORIAL: New app simplifies birth control, eliminates doctors

Editors January 26, 2016

Vagina owners, rejoice — birth control is now easier than ever to get ahold of. Nurx is a new app that allows women to order birth control and have it delivered to their doors, according to the app’s...

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