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Melissa Park | Associate Graphics Editor

The trying-my-best era: a gentle approach to self-improvement

Obioma Eke April 3, 2025
When implementing these practices, keep in mind that you can start whenever you want to. As a matter of fact, start as soon as possible. You do not need to wait for Monday, the end of the month or Jan. 1 to make a difference in your life. 
Jodi Tang | Graphic Artist

Music to help you reset over spring break | Liv Listens

Olivia Stapleton March 6, 2025
Whether you're traveling somewhere warm, heading home or staying in Boston, I want to encourage everyone — no matter how busy you might still be — to take spring break as an opportunity to do the same as me and take some time for yourself. I’ve picked some relaxing songs with spring vibes to get into that fresh start and warmer weather mindset. 
Two cranes tower over Time Out Market in Fenway. A $600 million development project to build office space and potentially a branch of the Boston Public Library in Fenway was approved last week. MOLLY POTTER/ DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Developers announce new plans for Fenway, potential library

Leia Green February 23, 2024
A $600 million development project aiming to enliven the Fenway neighborhood with the development of a new office building and potentially a new library was approved by the Boston Planning & Development Agency board last week.
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Students react to lack of library on Boston University Fenway campus

Taylor Hawthorne September 26, 2022
Boston University Fenway Campus Library on 132 Riverway permanently closed, University in search of alternative spots for additional study spaces for its residents.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: Returning to in-person classes may invite new anxieties, but will undoubtedly help stabilize our lives

Editors April 29, 2021

If you’re on campus at Boston University and witnessing the city’s slow transition into spring — barring unpredictable Boston weather — the news of in-person classes and Commencement has arrived...

Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: ‘Captain Underpants,’ Dr. Seuss aren’t being canceled, but children’s books do have to be held to a higher standard of inclusivity

Editors March 31, 2021
We must educate children to be mindful and compassionate members of society. It starts with books.
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BU conducts diversity survey to seek input from staff

Anna Vidergar March 26, 2021
BU launched the survey to seek guidance from employees on diversity, equity and inclusion policies.
empty classroom in the college of arts and sciences

Online learning poses new challenges, advantages for faculty with disabilities, those in the Deaf community

Emily Stevenson March 22, 2021
Those with disabilities and in the Deaf community had more flexibility, restraints with pandemic.
East to West: Feb. 22, 2021

East to West: Feb. 22, 2021

Justin Tang February 22, 2021

Today on East to West, we cover a boycott on in-person BU Library services, anti-Asian racism on campus, the donation of the brain of former NFL wide receiver Vincent Jackson to the Boston University...

Some Boston University library employees will work partially in person during the Spring semester because their requests for full workplace accommodations were denied. HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DFP FILE

BU library staff denied full workplace accommodations for Spring

Daily Free Press Staff December 17, 2020
Multiple BU library staff members have been denied full workplace accommodations and are required to work in person for a certain number of hours per week.
Hannah Bohn

Let Your Hair Down: Pandemic strengthens link between us and our phones

Hannah Bohn November 2, 2020
People do not often think about the outbreak’s influence on our connection with technology, specifically with our phones. Our relationship with phones has deepened and intensified. In a world where physical engagement is compromised, virtual activity is the alternative.
Alexia Nizhny

Sincerely, Ally: I went to the same school as Paris Hilton, and some things never change

Alexia Nizhny October 28, 2020
It is important to go back and explore Paris Hilton’s NYC experience as a case study for wealthy parents’ expectations of their children.
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