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Letting go of my old pants

Sophia Keohane January 23, 2025
It sucks saying goodbye to your favorite pair of jeans. It sucks saying bye to someone you used to love. But at the end of the day, it’s not a fit — and that’s okay. 
Boston City Hall

Boston City Councilor Kenzie Bok resigns

Braedon Blumfield April 7, 2023
During the Boston City Council’s meeting on Wednesday, Councilor Kenzie Bok, representing Boston’s 8th District, offered a letter of resignation to the council.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Harry Styles, Bad Art Friend, and fiction

Editors October 14, 2021
If pens are as mighty as surgical instruments, it is worth weighing their reference points.
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Dear 12-year-old me

Michelle Tian September 23, 2021
Everything around you is so beautiful and worth falling in love with.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

Letter from the Editor: Pride beyond June

Lily Kepner July 2, 2021
Today, we leave June behind. But that does not mean Pride has to stay behind with it.
Boston University’s International Students and Scholars Office. The University is opposing a Department of Homeland Security proposal that would limit the time international students may study in the United States. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU opposes federal proposal limiting stay of int’l students in US

Chris Larabee November 5, 2020
BU President Robert Brown sent a letter to federal leaders on behalf of BU Oct. 23 to push back against a Department of Homeland Security proposal that could limit how long international students may study in the United States.
In the letter, “A Call for BU to Dismantle Institutionalized White Supremacy Culture,” Boston University faculty, staff and students demand the University update some of its policies and put an end to the “white supremacy culture” at BU. ILLUSTRATION BY LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU community urges University to update policies, eradicate “white supremacy culture”

Claire Williams September 13, 2020
BU’s unionized faculty, staff and students are demanding that BU overhaul some of its policies through the letter, “A Call for BU to Dismantle Institutionalized White Supremacy Culture.”
Ladies I Am Right: One last love letter

Ladies I Am Right: One last love letter

Meredith Wilshere April 30, 2018

When I started this column in September 2015, I was a fresh sophomore with a battered notebook and a Samsung Galaxy. At that point in my life, I had moved out of Warren Towers, was getting ready to take...

Boston city councilors Josh Zakim and Tito Jackson filed a public hearing order on Wednesday in response to an open letter written by Mission Hill and Roxbury residents about their concerns with the Northeastern University police's use of “tactical rifles." PHOTO BY MADISON GOLDMAN/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Councilors Zakim and Jackson file hearing order regarding Northeastern University Police Department

Alyssa Meyers January 29, 2016

Boston City Councilors Josh Zakim and Tito Jackson filed a hearing order Monday to discuss Northeastern University's decision to arm its police officers with semi-automatic assault rifles, according...

Boston University President  Robert Brown sent a letter to the BU community Monday urging students to remain concerned about diversity issues. PHOTO BY MAYA DEVEREAUX/DFP FILE PHOTO

BU President addresses diversity issues in letter to BU community

Taryn Ottaunick December 9, 2014

As several Boston University students take to the streets to protest the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, Eric Garner in New York and Tamir Rice in Cleveland, BU President Robert Brown...

FINAL WORD: A letter from the editor

Daily Free Press Admin May 1, 2014

At this very moment in time, I would argue, student journalists are caught in one of the most difficult situations of any type of student. We are asked to keep up with modern trends, and criticized by...

EDIT: Let’s LEGO of gender stereotypes

Daily Free Press Admin February 3, 2014

A 7-year-old girl named Charlotte Benjamin penned out her frustrations on gender-stereotypes in a letter to LEGO this weekend. In the viral letter, Charlotte wrote, “I am 7-years-old and I love legos...

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