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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

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EDITORIAL: Despite severity, the Boston Marathon bomber’s actions don’t justify the immorality of capital punishment

Editors March 23, 2021
The death penalty is immoral and an amplifier of existing racial inequities in our judicial system.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: The University’s ‘diversity’ marketing is misleading, hurtful

Editors February 18, 2021
BU’s marketing — and the handful of diversity victories — it clings to is not representative of its reality. Though it may be implementing anti-racist policies, the change is not visible in classrooms, on campus or at an administrative level.
In a Friday webinar hosted by the Boston University Institute for Sustainable Energy, experts discussed the impact of COVID-19 on climate action urgency. CAMERON MORSBERGER/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Scientists look into equitable future for sustainability, climate action

Anuj Sawhney September 30, 2020
Lives around the globe have been transformed by COVID-19, and are now further complicated by worsening climate change. What consequences does the pandemic have on climate-related equity and policy planning?
Bearing Witness: The criminalization of trauma

Bearing Witness: The criminalization of trauma

Ariel Stein October 3, 2018

I believe innately in the power of people to overcome. The crux of life is navigating beauty and pain and making meaning out of hardship. What makes us human is experiencing discomfort, pain and inequality....

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