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Tents in a pro-Palestinian encampment at Massachusetts Institute of Technology on April 23. After more than 100 demonstrators at Columbia University were arrested during a pro-Palestinian encampment protest last Thursday, university students are now setting up their own encampments after Columbia called for students to replicate the protest. ANDREW BURKE-STEVENSON/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Emerson, MIT student groups set up camp amid student arrests across country

Anna Rubenstein April 24, 2024
The first day of Passover happened rather unceremoniously in the 2 Boylston St. alley. Grape juice and paper seder plates bordered a dinner table thrown together with copies of Emerson College’s student newspaper, sprawled long across the brick ground. 
BUPD station

New Chief of BUPD sits down for first interview with editors

Daily Free Press Staff September 13, 2023
Boston University's new chief of BUPD meets with FreeP campus news editors to discuss his new role, views and plans for the university community.
Maggie Rogers performing in Boston

The evolution of Maggie Rogers from one tour to the next

Margaret Corona February 24, 2023
Margaret Debay Rogers was born on April 25, 1994, in Easton, Maryland. Her love for music began when she was four years old — hearing her voice reverberate in a bathroom with beautiful acoustics was the start of it all, she told Narduwuar in an interview. 
Cinematheque

Luke Matheny and the unusual path to film, TV industry stardom

Emma Hagert May 3, 2022
Academy Award winner Luke Matheny spoke in BU's Cinémathèque screening series April 29.
Unpacking the Desire for Prestige | Is It OK If I Record?

Unpacking the Desire for Prestige | Is It OK If I Record?

Angela Yang October 3, 2021

As Sarah and Angela continue to explore why prestige is so desirable, the two reflect on how their high school experiences shaped their initial attitudes toward college — causing them to place...

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EDITORIAL: College acceptances portrayed in adolescent media perpetuate a dangerous, unrealistic standard

Editors March 8, 2021
A better depiction of college applications in the media would be showing a sincere reason for the character’s choice of school and a more personalized college search. If producers lead with characters’ genuine motivations rather than sticking with the tried and true big-name school, it will give way to a diversity of acceptances and more realistic representations on what college is truly like.
In its Monday meeting, Boston University Student Government discussed resolutions supporting free on-campus laundry and accommodating BU library workers, and also voted on a bill that alters Senate participation. HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

New Senate positions, library workers’ accommodations, free laundry on the agenda at StuGov meeting

Anna Vidergar February 9, 2021
Boston University Student Government voted on a bill regarding Senate positions, resolutions in support of library workers and free laundry in a Zoom meeting Monday night.
Panelists speak at the First Amendment and Hate Speech event. The Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate hosted the event on Thursday evening. PHOTO BY JENNA MANTO/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer speaks on hate speech, First Amendment at Edward M. Kennedy Institute

Jenna Manto March 30, 2018
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and a group of panelists attracted over 100 people to the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate Thursday night for a conversation on the First Amendment and hate speech.
What tobacco industry’s past could forecast for opioid crisis’s future

What tobacco industry’s past could forecast for opioid crisis’s future

Hannah Shearer February 20, 2018

Smoking kills over 480,000 Americans each year and costs the United States $300 billion a year in medical care, according to a study from the Center for Disease Control. Before 1998’s Master Settlement...

EDIT: Replay-Allpocalypse!

Daily Free Press Admin November 29, 2012

NYU students are torturing each other via email, according to a recent blog post in New York Magazine. That is, “torturing” each other by blowing up each others’ email inboxes. That is, blowing up...

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