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The Daily Free Press

The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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Boston University students and clubs seek transparency from BU Police Department

Campus organizations call for increased efficiency, transparency at BUPD, otherwise abolition

Tanisha Bhat December 2, 2021
Campus clubs raised issues with BUPD's policing, calling for greater transparency or its abolition.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Let’s Talk About: The downsides of returning to normalcy

Mayela Machribie Lumban Gaol April 7, 2021
There is a disturbing trend between the rise of terrorism and the decline of COVID-19.
demonstrator holds a stop the hate sign at a stop asian hate rally in boston common

State lawmakers call for clearer definition of hate crimes

Colbi Edmonds March 30, 2021
A proposed bill looks to create a clearer definition and punishment of a hate crime in the state.
Angela Ao/DFP STAFF

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

Politics Philosophized: The immorality of the elephant ivory trade

Max Ferrandino February 3, 2021
Forty-six years after the implementation of the ban on ivory, business is still booming. Once again, humans will use any means necessary to plunder the earth for its few natural resources.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

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.
American Protest: Now is the time to politicize   

American Protest: Now is the time to politicize   

Meredith Varner November 7, 2017

Our nation has undergone another senseless act of terrorism, with one of the five deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history happening this past weekend. Officials are still searching for a motive for why...

BURKE: Life after 9/11

BURKE: Life after 9/11

Patrick Burke September 14, 2017

People always say they remember exactly where they were when 9/11 happened. That fateful day has been burned into the memories of people across the globe. But for people of my generation, we may only remember...

EDIT: Tsarnaev’s golden ticket

Daily Free Press Admin May 2, 2013

Dzokhar Tsarnaev’s case might have just been saved. Judy Clarke agreed to join his team of defenders to prevent him from the death penalty Wednesday. Clarke is known for representing insanely high-profile...

EDIT: In wake of a tragedy

Daily Free Press Admin April 17, 2013

Boston has proved its resilience. In the wake of one of the most tumultuous days for every resident in and around the city, people have come together, selflessly opening their homes to marathoners and...

EDIT: Report confirms U.S. torture

Daily Free Press Admin April 17, 2013

When your country is in a state of emergency, all you want is answers. The U.S. government, the Bush administration specifically, strove to find those answers. So the U.S. government resorted to torture....

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