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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

Stick Check: This season should have been the PWHL’s inaugural season

Grace Sferrazza November 20, 2024
The PWHL is entering its second season with new branding, jerseys, and permanent homes, but it should have began like this in the first place.
Agganis

Hollywood Fight Nights celebrates St. Patrick’s Day at Agganis Arena

Mark Fraenkel March 19, 2023
Hollywood Fight Nights Boston brought live boxing to Agganis Arena the day for a St. Patrick's Day celebration to host seven home-grown boxers and Ireland's Callum Walsh in the main event.
Men's Ice Hockey

Men’s ice hockey to take on Providence College in Hockey East Semifinals

Mark Fraenkel March 16, 2023
Following a resounding victory in the Hockey East quarterfinals and riding a five-game win streak, the men's hockey team will face the Friars in the semifinals on Friday. Mark Fraenkel previews the team's big weekend.
Haley Alvarez-Lauto | Senior Graphic Artist

The United States first union of working women | Bad Business

Nathan Metcalf November 18, 2022
The most radical non-violent act you can do is withhold your labor and assert yourself as an autonomous being.
Massachusetts is ready to deploy pop-up hospitals again if necessary as COVID-19 cases continue to rise. SOPHIE PARK/ DFP FILE

Massachusetts prepares to reopen field hospitals as COVID-19 cases rise

Katarzyna Jezak November 13, 2020
Five temporary medical sites operated this spring in Massachusetts, including Boston Hope on Boylston Street, as well as sites in Lowell, Dartmouth and Worcester. 
On Wednesday, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker announced the state would provide free COVID-19 testing sites in eight cities seeing higher numbers of positive cases, as part of efforts to help control the spread of the virus. COURTESY OF U.S. ARMY STAFF SGT. MARY JUNELL VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Baker provides free testing in eight cities

Kyla Denisevich July 11, 2020
Chelsea, Everett, Fall River, Lawrence, Lowell, Lynn, Marlborough and New Bedford will have free testing sites from July 10 to August 14.

Journalist Ofeibea Quist-Arcton speaks about importance of representing African women voices

Sophie Wiener October 16, 2018
Award-winning journalist and Ghanaian native Ofeibea Quist-Arcton headed to Harvard University as the most recent speaker in a series of lectures highlighting issues facing women in developing countries Thursday.
The new location of the vegan restaurant Life Alive. The restaurant is set to open soon. PHOTO BY RACHEL SHARPLES/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Life Alive prepares to open location on campus

Lillian Ilsley-Greene April 24, 2018
This summer, local restaurant Life Alive will be opening a new location in Boston University’s West Campus.
Mayor Martin Walsh speaks to the press following his debate with mayoral candidate Tito Jackson Tuesday night. PHOTO BY BILLY BEVEVINO/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

EDITORIAL: Walsh is no slanderer, he simply spoke out against hate

Editors October 26, 2017

When a free speech rally was planned on the Boston Common this August, Mayor Martin Walsh urged people to “stay away.” After the rally, which drew barely 20 participants and almost 40,000 counter-protesters,...

The MBTA Green Line Extension Project team releases a request Friday morning for a proposal to rebuild the line. PHOTO BY NATALIE CARROLL/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

MBTA updates proposal requested for Green Line Extension Project

Abigail Freeman March 21, 2017

The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority Green Line Extension Project team released a draft Request for Proposal Friday with an Affordability Limit budget of approximately $1.3 billion, according to...

Freshman forward Bobo Carpenter had a goal early in Saturday's loss to Lowell. PHOTO BY MADDIE MALHOTRA/DFP FILE PHOTO

UMass Lowell buries BU early in men’s hockey loss

Sarah Kirkpatrick February 13, 2016

LOWELL — The mistakes came early for the No. 7 Boston University men’s hockey team, and so did the goals for the No. 11 University of Massachusetts Lowell. Lowell defenseman Dylan Zink had a...

Senior Danny O'Regan and BU is readying for the last stretch of its season. PHOTO BY MADDIE MALHOTRA/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

UMass Lowell weekend awaits men’s hockey

Sarah Kirkpatrick February 12, 2016

The No. 7 Boston University men’s hockey team will face one of the league’s best teams in No. 11 University of Massachusetts Lowell during a home-and-away series beginning Friday at Agganis Arena. The...

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