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Gaming the System: Behind closed doors, esports perpetuate sexual assault

Nick Speranza March 17, 2021
Esports and video games are a great thing, and their communities have the potential to reflect that even more. However, they demonstrate with particular clarity the systemic factors that facilitate an epidemic of sexual assault. They are the same factors that plague our world outside of gaming, including our own lives as Boston University students.
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EDITORIAL: Dennis White’s domestic abuse allegations are yet another example of the policing system’s failures

Editors February 5, 2021
Police are not equipped to handle all of the issues they face and it is up to their city to hold them to a higher standard.
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Canceled: Concepts of terrorism

Bini Ollivier-Yamin January 24, 2021
It’s important the crowd of mangy white supremacists who broke into the Capitol a few weeks ago are labeled as terrorists. But do the same for the cops letting them into the building and posing for selfies, the cops participating in the insurrection and the cops who engage in acts of terrrorism on the daily.
EDITORIAL: Racial data collection during police stops may be helpful, but we need to do more

EDITORIAL: Racial data collection during police stops may be helpful, but we need to do more

Editors September 25, 2020
The racial biases that were in the system then are still there now. And collecting data on traffic stops might not be of too much assistance — more action will need to be taken.
Following reports of hate crimes after the election of Donald Trump, Attorney General Maura Healey has launched a hate crime hotline to take reports of harassment and intimidation of minority groups. PHOTO BY BRITTANY CHANG/ DFP FILE PHOTO

Healey opens up hate crime hotline for Mass. residents

Jordan Kimmel November 18, 2016

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey launched a hotline for state residents to report bias-motivated threats, harassment and violence following last week's presidential election, according...

EDIT: Police departments online

Daily Free Press Admin September 23, 2012

Several police departments south of Boston have amped up their social media presence, according an article in The Boston Globe Sunday. Twitter and Facebook are the two social media sites that police departments...

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