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The Daily Free Press

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The Daily Free Press

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Grace Lodewick | Graphic Artist

Ask Abby (Or Analise): No more silver springs — how to let go and move on from your ex

Analise Bruno March 30, 2025
Enter the half-joke, half-serious concept of “silver springing” someone. It’s the idea that you and all the love you bring with you are unforgettable — like a ghost that will eternally haunt them.
Emma Hart | Graphic Artist

Falling for New York Fashion Week: a brief history | It’s All Been Done Before

Erica Schwartz February 5, 2025
And so I remain fervently infatuated with the Council for Fashion Designers of America’s official Fashion Week and deeply enchanted by its mystique. I guess you can say it’s a bit of a toxic romance — one-sided, with one party granting the other not even a minute of their time.
Iris Ren | Graphic Artist

I don’t wish you the best

Daniela Cejudo Curiel November 14, 2024
I would love to be mature and say I wish my ex all the best — but I don’t. I don’t wish him the worst, but I will never wish him the best. 
Samantha Sanders | Graphic Artist

‘The Woman in Me’: Britney Spears is sharing her story, on her terms

Lucas De Oliveira November 6, 2023
“The Woman in Me” was released on Oct. 24, and after starting the book the minute I was able to get a copy, I finished the memoir two days later. I just couldn’t put it down.
Sophia Flissler /  DFP Staff

Social Media Society: Is Tinder toxic?

Gabriela Romero April 3, 2022
Tinder only perpetuates shallowness, a lack of authenticity and addiction to validation. 
How do you feel about social media?

How do you feel about social media?

Veronica Thompson March 30, 2022

Unmasked is the storytelling podcast that uncovers the thoughts, feelings and voices of the BU Community. Today’s prompt was — how do you feel about social media? Click here to stream this...

Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

Social Media Society: Social media makes screen time soar

Gabriela Romero January 30, 2022
The technologically reliant characters in the 2008 movie WALL-E may come to reflect reality rather than remaining the comical dramatizations they once were.
Shiney James, Boston University’s Director of Orientation, introduces thousands of students to Comm Ave every summer, but some of her student employees claim she verbally berated and demeaned them while working for her. ILLUSTRATION BY COLBI EDMONDS/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

‘Traumatic,’ ‘volatile’ and ‘torturous:’ BU students voice lasting impacts of working Orientation under Shiney James

Daily Free Press Staff October 4, 2021
Former employees allege mental and verbal abuse, as well as unprofessional, invasive questioning.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

Welcome to the Greenhouse: Why you should stop letting corporations blame you for climate change

Fiona Broadie September 13, 2021
Anyone can green-shame, but it is toxic when performed by the companies that contribute heavily to the problem.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Moving Forward: Acknowledging your humanity and feeling unpleasant emotions

Divya Sood April 12, 2021
Our feelings are neither solely good nor bad, but they are essential to our existence as human beings.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: The toxicity of tabloids can be lessened with respect, empathy

Editors March 29, 2021
Tabloids will never be fully ethical or accurate, but we can try to be respectful.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Gender Justice: It is time to stop responding to women’s complaints, fears with ‘not all men’

Meredith Varner March 18, 2021
If you are a man, you need to actively contribute to making the world a safer and better place for women. It is not enough to simply say you will not partake in the behaviors that end with us getting attacked or killed. You cannot be a bystander.
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