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The Daily Free Press

The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

The Daily Free Press

Yvonne Tang/DFP STAFF

Minority Report: Let them eat meat

Lincoln Son Currie April 22, 2021
Meat destroys our planet, but meat “makes life worth living.”
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

A Room With a View: Life is long if you know how to use it

Antonia Lehnert March 1, 2021
Time is a valuable resource. The only lifelong activity we should be pursuing — with no fear of wasting time — is learning, and “it takes the whole of life to learn how to live.”
Abbigale column

Mind your business: Empathy is an unreliable tool for combatting larger social issues

Abbigale Shi December 1, 2020
As we tackle larger social and human rights issues, it’s especially important to instead practice compassion, self-awareness and moral responsibility.
Kara Chen/DFP STAFF

Culture Shock: Polarization is ruining societal ability to function, progress

Colbi Edmonds November 3, 2020
The people, a collective force, are the ones who create change. We come together to protest, strike and vote for progressive action. If we cannot join forces across the spectrum of political ideologies, then this intolerance will only hamper our nation’s growth. We can have no progress without conversation. 
Clara Kim/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: The opinion section holds responsibility to inform the public

Editors October 12, 2020
Our job is, above all else, to report the objective truth. We sacrifice the option of amplifying our opinions to earn and keep the trust of the people we serve. However, there is still a moral obligation to spread informed opinions to our readers.
Joel Herbert

Diamonds and Rust: Columbus — The Myth, the Monster, the Man

Joel Herbert October 8, 2020
Centralizing blame on Columbus for all of the terrible things that came in his wake shifts accountability away from whole governments of people who have, and continue to, commit error.
Bini Ollivier-Yamin

Canceled: Context clues and Trump’s disease-ridden body

Bini Ollivier-Yamin October 7, 2020
I’ll admit, it is rather harsh to wish death on another human being. But it is also rather harsh, and rather stupid, to pretend context doesn’t matter.
EDITORIAL: The Tab's "must read," a lesson in journalistic ethics

EDITORIAL: The Tab’s “must read,” a lesson in journalistic ethics

Editors October 6, 2015

Boston University’s chapter of the online college news site The Tab posted what they called “A Must Read” piece on their Facebook page Monday morning. The piece, entitled “Fearless BU photographer...

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