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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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Narek Sahakian / DFP Staff

Don’t Be a Hypocrite: New music? I forgive them for everything now

Viktoria Popovska September 9, 2021
Jumping onto the bandwagon to then ultimately recant everything you previously said isn’t the best option.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: Community tactics that utilize home surveillance present dangers of vigilantism, racism

Editors April 20, 2021
Security cameras could potentially create a safer environment, but it also comes with many pitfalls.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Sincerely, Ally: Putting a higher age limit on sex work doesn’t address our problems with over-sexualization in the industry

Alexia Nizhny April 6, 2021
Our priority should be addressing our unconscious biases about women, not the OnlyFans age limit.
Angela Ao/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: Despite severity, the Boston Marathon bomber’s actions don’t justify the immorality of capital punishment

Editors March 23, 2021
The death penalty is immoral and an amplifier of existing racial inequities in our judicial system.
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.”
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Politics Philosophized: Period pieces often glaze over a dark history

Max Ferrandino February 17, 2021
These period pieces should be taken with a grain of salt. While the clothes and houses may look pretty, unethically using and enslaving people certainly is not.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Diamonds and Rust: Bob Dylan was right, the times are a-changin’

Joel Herbert February 17, 2021
Fifty-eight years ago, Bob Dylan released his protest anthem. Now, and forevermore, the times are a-changin’.
Lincoln Son Currie

Minority Report: Hardly settling — Part 4

Lincoln Son Currie October 29, 2020
Character is the most important quality of a president. Since the beginning of the 2020 election cycle, former Vice President Joe Biden has made character a key issue of his platform.
Kara Chen/DFP STAFF

Mind Your Business: Conscious consumerism is not ethical consumption

Abbigale Shi October 21, 2020
The concept of conscious consumerism does not equate to ethical consumption, because it is not absolute. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
Jun Li/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: It’s time to retire American reverence for Columbus

Editors October 9, 2020
As society and its morals evolve, there comes a time when Columbus’ time as an American icon of navigation and expansion should be no more.
Max Ferrandino

Politics Philosophized: Can you be moral in today’s society?

Max Ferrandino October 4, 2020
Trying to be a moral or kind person is often not defined by only yourself. The authority figures in your life, and society as a whole, define your morals.
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