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Watch Duty app. Many Boston University students and faculty members have been affected by the Palisades and Eaton wildfires. SARAH CRUZ/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

BU students, faculty reflect on devastating Los Angeles wildfires

Samantha Genzer January 22, 2025
Boston University students and staff recount the devastation of the LA wildfires.
Chloe Patel | Senior Graphic Artist

On-Deck Circle: The 2023 postseason is finally here

Brendan Galvin October 4, 2023
The MLB season ended Sunday, which means the postseason is here and brackets are being filled.
Chloe Patel | Senior Graphic Artist

On-Deck Circle: Red Sox future in question with the departure of Chaim Bloom

Brendan Galvin September 21, 2023
The Boston Red Sox recently fired chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom after a controversial 4-year tenure, leaving big role in the Sox' front office needing to be filled.
boston university study abroad office

Summer Study Abroad canceled amid lack of resources, safety concerns

Jesús Marrero Suárez March 10, 2021
Gareth McFeely, executive director of Study Abroad, said the decision was motivated by the same pandemic-related concerns that prevented the University from running the program last summer.
Dacre Montgomery and Geraldine Viswanathan star in TriStar Pictures' THE BROKEN HEARTS GALLERY. © 2020 Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved. PHOTO BY GEORGE KRAYCHYK

REVIEW: ‘Broken Hearts Gallery’ contrived and tired, but light-hearted and fun

Sarah Wager September 16, 2020
The film portrays the classic rom-com formula with a bit of a fresh spin, and the results are bittersweet, comical and sometimes disturbing.
The International Students and Scholars Office at Boston University. For international students, uncertainty looms over how the University’s Fall 2020 Learn from Anywhere program will affect their visas. SOPHIE PARK/ DFP FILE

ISSO informs graduate student her visa may be jeopardized by remote learning in Fall

Allison Pirog June 4, 2020
With coronavirus travel restrictions in place around the world, many international students at BU are left wondering if they’ll be able to return to campus in the Fall and how, if at all, their student visas will be affected.
Boston Musica Viva and BU's School of Music collaborated to present an event featuring Los Angeles Philharmonic's President and CEO Deborah Borda at the Metcalf Trustee Center. PHOTO BY SUSIE TERASAKI/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

LA Philharmonic’s Deborah Borda conducts discussion on music industry

Rebecca Zeng November 2, 2015

Deborah Borda began her career as a professional violist and is now one of the most successful arts executives in the country. Now the president and CEO of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Borda visited...

MARASCO: Stress

Daily Free Press Admin November 6, 2013

I gave someone the finger the other day. I was asked to run all over town during rush hour, and was not given nearly enough time to do it. Hazard lights flashing, I pulled up outside one of CBS’s 5,000...

MARASCO: Brains

Daily Free Press Admin October 23, 2013

It didn’t take long to realize that this butcher didn’t speak English. So, I started pointing to the corresponding parts of my body that I wanted to buy from him. I stuck out my tongue. His face lit...

MARASCO: The Legend

Daily Free Press Admin October 7, 2013

There are approximately 2 million cars inside the city limits of Los Angeles – a car for every two people. An absurd figure when you take into consideration that it includes infants, middle-schoolers...

MARASCO: Rejection

Daily Free Press Admin September 25, 2013

When I was 16, I asked the same girl on a date four Friday afternoons in a row. I’d spend the whole week psyching myself up, thinking about what I’d say, how I’d say it and what measures I’d take...

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