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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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Emma Clement | Graphics Editor, Josephine Kalbfleisch | DFP Photographer, Lauren Albano | Campus Co-Editor

Musk Foundation donations to BU rocketry club launch debate

Lauren Albano February 28, 2025
Donations made by the Musk Foundation to a BU rocketry team uncovered by The Daily Free Press are igniting debates over private donorship and revealing intra-University tensions over the funding it receives.
Participants at the third annual Boston Men’s March to Abolish Abortion and Rally for Personhood hold up signs that read, “Personhood Now,” at the rally in Kenmore Square on Saturday. The rally began at the Planned Parenthood on Commonwealth Avenue, and members continued marching through Boston University’s campus until they reached the Boston Common. SARAH CRUZ/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Men’s March against abortion meets counter protests along Commonwealth Avenue

Julia Hendler November 18, 2024
The third annual National Men’s March to Abolish Abortion and Rally for Personhood took place Saturday morning and marched through Boston University’s campus.
Foreign Affairs Feature: Putin’s approval ratings and the conservative anomaly

Foreign Affairs Feature: Putin’s approval ratings and the conservative anomaly

International Relations Review April 12, 2022
The popular saying “the enemy of my enemy is my friend,” seems to be true for many well-known U.S. conservatives who have argued in favor of Putin throughout the war
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Racism is alive and well in Boston— is media coverage worsening the problem?

Editors March 31, 2022
Instead of pictures of neo-Nazis and endless repetitions of their disgusting slogans, the media should highlight actions we can take to stop white supremacy, or resources for people who could be the target of a hate crime. 
Twitter thread investigating a Boston University student for neo-Nazi beliefs

Online activists accuse former BU student of involvement with neo-Nazi, white supremacist group

Nick Kolev March 8, 2021
Online activists accused former Class of 2024 College of Arts and Sciences student Steven Van Zelst of allegedly engaging in hate groups centered on Nazism, racism, anti-semitism and misogyny in a Twitter thread and article posted Thursday.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

I Call Foul Play: Ideologies that dismiss science are dangerous

Luca Becker February 26, 2021
This ideology of politicizing science — such as Trump’s politicization of the COVID-19 pandemic — already has and will continue to have large-scale consequences in the real world.
Boston University Professor of Health Law, Ethics and Human Rights Michael Grodin speaks at the Elie Wiesel’s “Beyond Duty” event Sunday to commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day. EMILY HARDY/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU’s Elie Wiesel Center commemorates the liberation of Auschwitz

Scarlett Blydenburgh January 30, 2020
Auschwitz-Birkenau and the victims were honored at the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies’ “Beyond Duty” event on Sunday, which featured heroic international diplomats who helped in ending Jewish oppression.
LAUREN RICHARDS/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Masked individuals with suspected Nazi affiliations disrupt anarchist book fair

Jenna Manto November 27, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKf72Tug88g Five people began chanting slogans associated with Nazis at the Boston Anarchist Bookfair Sunday. COURTESY OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY STUDENT Masked individuals...

After the Curtain Call: A performance of Trump’s own: fake news

After the Curtain Call: A performance of Trump’s own: fake news

Ellie French December 11, 2017

As Donald Trump repeatedly reminds us, fake news is everywhere. According to the president, all news sources that do not side with him are reductively fake. Needless to say, this is an extremely dangerous...

Max vs. Media: The problem with humanizing white nationalists

Max vs. Media: The problem with humanizing white nationalists

Max Berman December 2, 2017

How do you profile a white nationalist? A loaded question indeed —  so much so that it could be listed as an example of one in the dictionary. Before we even get to an answer, many will criticize the...

BERMAN: Freedom of speech is everyone’s right

BERMAN: Freedom of speech is everyone’s right

Max Berman October 2, 2017

If I were to rank the 10 amendments in the Bill of Rights from most significant to least significant, at the top of the list is the First Amendment. This sacred amendment even affords me the right to agree...

Food for Activists serves food donated from local restaurants to protesters at the Labor Day Rally on Sept. 4. PHOTO COURTESY AXEL SIMON

Fueling the fight – Food for Activists feeds local rally-goers

Sabrina Schnur September 20, 2017

Being a social activist is not easy — it requires coordination, passion and endurance. Boston Food for Activists is a group dedicated to assisting activists with that last requirement  — keeping...

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