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The Daily Free Press

The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

The Daily Free Press

Emma Clement | Graphics Editor

Ask Abby (Or Analise): Girls — and boys — gone wild: surviving fears of spring break infidelity

Analise Bruno March 7, 2025
In your hometown, you can’t even go to the grocery store without running into someone who knows your mom. But on spring break? You’re just another face in the crowd of frat bros, beach bums and vacationers who will never cross your path again. What happens on the beach stays on the beach — or so they tell themselves.
Chloe Patel | Senior Graphic Artist

EDITORIAL: Where’d all the empathy go? — BU and its entitlement crisis

Editors March 27, 2023
There is something in the air at Boston University— and no, it is not the refreshing springtime aroma—but rather the pungent scent of entitlement seething from all four-corners of campus.
Lydia Evans | Graphic Artist

Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour: Breaking down the eras

Katrina Liu March 22, 2023
Here’s my breakdown of the eras tour within the two setlists we’ve seen so far in order, as well as a hint of what her different eras have meant to me.
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Boston University 2022 Report highlights financial progress, research initiatives and competitive admission

Jennifer Small January 24, 2023
The 2022 Boston University Financial Report credited FY2022’s success to the swift resumption of residential learning, teaching and research after the pandemic as well as budgeting, planning and disciplined financial management.
taylor swift performing on her speak now tour

An impossible task: ranking Taylor Swift’s albums

Sam Thomas April 21, 2021
After too much thought, I present my updated ranking of Swift’s studio albums.
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.
Angela Ao/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: The University’s actions are unacceptable, we demand more

Editors February 10, 2021
BU needs to make a constant commitment to the cause, actively work to ensure students’ safety, dismantle the prevalent rape culture on its campus and establish trust so students will be willing to speak up and report assailants in the first place. It will never be as easy as one quick, overnight policy change.
Harvard University fellow Meir Alkon examined China’s new plan to become carbon neutral in a Global China Research Colloquium lecture hosted by the Boston University Global Policy Development Center Wednesday. HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU lecture on China’s energy investments reveals contradictions to clean energy goal

Sophie Nye December 4, 2020
In a BU lecture Wednesday, presenter Meir Alkon discussed how China’s international energy investments relate to the country’s goal of carbon neutrality, and said the country’s polluting practices could prevent it from reaching its goal.
Taylor Swift’s “reputation” is released Nov. 10. PHOTO COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

REVIEW: Taylor Swift’s ‘reputation’ suffers from her own ego

Jordan Saliby November 13, 2017

As Taylor Swift faces an inevitable public scrutiny of her character, her latest album  “reputation” is a call to everyone who ever doubted her. The fate of that concession, as referenced by the...

BURSTEIN: Sororities bring out best in members

BURSTEIN: Sororities bring out best in members

Sarah Burstein February 18, 2016

This past weekend, my sorority sisters and I participated in recruitment, looking for our newest member class of sisters. In the process, I learned an incredible amount about my chapter and myself, and...

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