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Your guide to navigating campus on crutches

Samantha Marshall November 4, 2024
After three weeks on crutches due to a sports injury that ended in hip surgery, I suddenly found myself facing everyday challenges that made the walkable city of Boston, unwalkable. I wanted to share some advice for anyone else who finds themselves on crutches in the middle of the semester. 
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

Highway to Health: U.S. healthcare system is sustaining the inequitable quality of care crisis

Bailey Salimes December 8, 2021
Millions of people in the United States are in medical debt crises, with many asking if they can afford to live.
East to West: Oct. 1, 2021

East to West: Oct. 1, 2021

Veronica Thompson October 1, 2021

Booster shots are available! Today on East to West, we cover availability of Pfizer COVID-19 booster shots, a fire at Stuvi-I on Monday, an escalator malfunction at the Back Bay T station and more. Click...

Seema Thakkar/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: Boston Police’s overtime budget is out of control, in desperate need of fewer officers, reallocation

Editors April 15, 2021
We must stop spending hundreds of millions paying the criminals, abusers and killers who “protect” us.
boston police department officers in downtown boston

City Councilors, police discuss ways to prevent BPD from exceeding overtime budget

Sam Trottenberg March 15, 2021
The department has likely already run-over this fiscal year.
Police officers deploying a chemical agent

Councilors retry chemical, projectile crowd control reform

Daniel Kool February 26, 2021
The proposed restriction would that police use chemical weapons and impact projectiles only if a supervising officer witnesses violence or destruction of property and determines the situation cannot be controlled or de-escalated.
BOSTON, MA - DECEMBER 03: Boston University Terriers forward Nikolas Olsson (13) during the third period of the game between the Providence College Friars and the Boston University Terriers on December 3rd, 2016, at Agganis Arena in Boston, MA. (Photo by John Kavouris/Daily Free Press)

Forward Nik Olsson returns from injury, immediately steps up for BU hockey

Nick Frazier December 3, 2016

For the No. 6 Boston University men’s hockey team, their oldest assistant captain could not have returned at a better time. After missing seven games with an upper body injury, junior forward...

EDIT: Really? You took away sports from recess?

Daily Free Press Admin October 9, 2013

You remember sitting in fourth period math in the seventh grade? The minute hand crawled across the face of the clock, your feet started to tap the desk in front of you and all you needed was to punt a...

Boston Children’s Hospital creates program tailored to female athletes

Daily Free Press Admin April 9, 2013

The Boston Children’s Hospital announced the creation of a Female Athlete Program on April 3 that will combine sports medicine to help female athletes stay healthy to compete. “We started developing...

Terrier to undergo surgery today

Daily Free Press Admin October 23, 1995

By Scott Lauber and Fluto Shinzawa When rookie forward Travis Roy slammed head-first into the boards on Friday night against the University of North Dakota, he flopped face-down on the ice, lying motionless...

Neck injury paralyzes BU hockey player

Daily Free Press Admin October 23, 1995

By Scott Lauber It wasn't supposed to be this way. Not for Travis Roy, a 20-year-old hockey player making his debut for Boston University on Friday night. Not for his proud father, Lee Roy, who made...

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