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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.
The imaginary show in the bubble

The imaginary show in the bubble

Camille Bugayong October 31, 2023
Stepping into the mental health treatment facility is a lot like stepping into a bubble. Here, we are patients, but to me, we become characters.
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

Rules for the week | Maia’s Inner Monologue

Maia Penzer October 31, 2023
Welcome to this extra-special edition of “Maia’s Inner Monologue” — rules for the week. Buckle up, because we’re about to take a journey into self-growth and love!
Alexia Nizhny | Daily Free Press Staff

Gender Justice: Adolescent girls need our support more than our regulations

Meredith Varner April 23, 2021
Sexist dress code policies are teaching young girls the wrong lesson about their bodies.
brain-shaped wires

BU event showcases SoundSpaces: a system adding audio-visual navigation to artificial intelligence

Connor Allen April 15, 2021
Researcher Kristen Grauman presented a new audio-centered AI platform to the BU community Monday.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: Children must re-enter the classroom to further their development

Editors March 26, 2021
Advancing the development of the next generation is too important to halt any longer.
The exterior of New England Treatment Access, a marijuana dispensary in Brookline. Boston Mayor Martin Walsh signed an executive order on Friday that prohibits city employees from participating in marijuana businesses. RACHEL SHARPLES/ DFP FILE

Walsh bans city employees from participating in a marijuana business

Peyton Mann September 17, 2019
The executive order aims to reduce conflicts of interests as the Boston city government grapples with multiple allegations of corruption.
WILSHERE: A connection beyond cellular

WILSHERE: A connection beyond cellular

Meredith Wilshere September 5, 2016

Space may be hailed as the final frontier, but every day millennials venture into unchartered territory. As we use our phones, our laptops, our watch-phones and sometimes our shoe phones, we are journeying...

WILSHERE: Dating rules are outdated

WILSHERE: Dating rules are outdated

Meredith Wilshere March 20, 2016

Girls have a number. That number can’t be too high or too low, and either one is claimed to be indicative of her personality. Guys always have to pay and always have to be the ones to make the first...

Sports Comedy Corner: How to ball at FitRec

Sports Comedy Corner: How to ball at FitRec

Zach Halperin February 26, 2016

Pickup basketball is not something you jump right into. You need to have the proper attire, attitude and endurance. You need to feel comfortable calling passive-aggressive fouls. And you need to be...

Two-Minute Drill: New NHL overtime a glaring success

Two-Minute Drill: New NHL overtime a glaring success

Chris Picher November 4, 2015

Goalies look helpless and certain marquee players can’t stand it, but the new 3-on-3 overtime format is doing exactly what it was supposed to do, and more. In the first overtime game of the season...

The Blue Line: NCAA changes

Daily Free Press Admin April 29, 2014

The NCAA has been harshly criticized for years. College athletes around the country have faced a consistently high risk of injury and very little scholarship protection. Very recently, though, players...

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