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Harvard University Massachusetts Hall. Harvard and Yale University have dismissed several faculty members because of controversy related to the Israel-Hamas conflict. JENNY CHEN/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Harvard faculty terminations evoke unease, conversation

Phoebe Miller April 8, 2025
Harvard University dismissed two faculty members of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies in March after the CMES faced accusations of ideological bias and antisemitism regarding teaching on the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Graduate student catcher Audrey Sellers (13) catches the softball in a game against Yale University on Tuesday. The Terriers swept the double header with a 7-1 victory, followed by a 7-0 victory over Yale. ZOE KU/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Terriers dominate in historic home opener, sweeping Yale

Eli Cloutier March 20, 2024
The Boston University softball team has a couple things to get used to after its home opener Tuesday. One is easier than the others.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

Wear Me This: Dark Academia could be the answer to the very problem it romanticizes

Sujena Soumyanath October 4, 2021
Dark Academia romanticizes an exclusionary era of higher education — but could it also present a way of making these spaces more diverse?
Fair Admission: Episode 7 - Competition

Fair Admission: Episode 7 – Competition

Edward Sturm April 8, 2021

College sports and ROTC programs are uniquely competitive and often discussed staples of the college admissions process. When these pathways to college go too far, however, they have the potential...

Fair Admission: Episode 3 - Testing

Fair Admission: Episode 3 – Testing

Edward Sturm March 10, 2021

To understand standardized testing, we have to go back in time. Tracing the history of the SAT from its racist origins to its discriminatory impacts today, the imperative for a test-free future becomes...

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.
Fair Admission: Episode 2 - Diversity

Fair Admission: Episode 2 – Diversity

Edward Sturm March 4, 2021

What does diversity really mean? The battle over affirmative action happening in court and on college campuses across the country leads us to question the way that we talk about race and college...

Fair Admission: Episode 1 - Fairness

Fair Admission: Episode 1 – Fairness

Edward Sturm March 4, 2021

In pursuit of a working definition of fair college admissions, the American ideal of meritocracy is called into question. Host Edward Sturm explores what fairness is (and is not) when we talk about...

EDITORIAL: Elitism pervades journalism, and it damages the industry

EDITORIAL: Elitism pervades journalism, and it damages the industry

Editors October 26, 2020
Our newsrooms are as elitist as any other industry in the country, but if we are to deliver all the compelling stories we aim to tell, we must shift our focus when determining who gets to hold the pen.
Sophomore midfielder Maggie New in a game against Colgate Sept. 22. She recorded an assist against Bucknell Saturday morning. MADDIE MALHOTRA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Double overtime ends in fourth conference win, 3-2 against Bucknell

Jayden Ma October 14, 2018
The No. 22 Boston University field hockey team scored its fourth conference win Saturday morning, after going double overtime and winning 3-2 at an away game against Bucknell University.
No. 23 field hockey shut out 0-2 by No. 11 Harvard

No. 23 field hockey shut out 0-2 by No. 11 Harvard

Jayden Ma October 8, 2018
The No. 23 Boston University field hockey team was defeated 0-2 by the No. 11 Harvard Crimson at a Sunday home game on New Balance Field.
Terrier field hockey looks to bounce back against Ivy League foe

Terrier field hockey looks to bounce back against Ivy League foe

Emily Phillips October 4, 2018
The Boston University field hockey team comes back home Sunday to face off against Harvard University at New Balance Field.
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