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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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EDITORIAL: If BU provides free condoms, why can’t they provide free tampons?

EDITORIAL: If BU provides free condoms, why can’t they provide free tampons?

Editors October 10, 2018

A significant portion of Boston University’s student population relies on menstrual products, yet the administration fails to recognize these products as a basic hygiene necessity warranting free access...

Harvard University in Cambridge. Harvard research and teaching assistants have voted to form a union, allowing them to collectively bargain with the university for better conditions. PHOTO BY MADHAV KOHLI/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Harvard teaching assistants have voted to unionize. BU grad students want the same.

Haley Lerner April 25, 2018
Last week, Harvard University research and teaching assistants voted to unionize, allowing them to collectively bargain with the university for better conditions and payment. This historic result prompts questions of similar efforts occuring at Boston University.
PHOTO COURTESY STATE FARM

EDITORIAL: Legacy status has no place on college applications

Editors October 9, 2017

Many markers on college applications tend to favor students who grew up in wealthy homes. SAT scores are higher for students who could afford SAT tutors. Extracurriculars are more impressive for students...

Harvard University’s daily student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson. PHOTO BY SARAH SILBIGER/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Report finds some students newspapers, journalism advisers face unfair censorship

Nathan Bindseil December 8, 2016

Administrative censorship of student newspapers is on the rise, according to a report released Dec. 1 by the American Association of University Professors. Journalism professors and student journalists...

A bill seeking to make private college police records public is in a committee in the Massachusetts State Legislature. Boston University students currently have to go to the Boston University Police Department and have the records read to them because they do not exist online. PHOTO BY PAIGE TWOMBLY/DAILY FREE PRESS CONTRIBUTOR

Bill seeks to make private college police department records public

Carolyn Hoffman October 15, 2015

A bill in the Massachusetts State Legislature seeks to make private college police departments operate similarly to city departments by making records publicly available, which could have implications...

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