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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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Harvard University Massachusetts Hall. Harvard and Yale University have dismissed several faculty members because of controversy related to the Israel-Hamas conflict. JENNY CHEN/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Harvard faculty terminations evoke unease, conversation

Phoebe Miller April 8, 2025
Harvard University dismissed two faculty members of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies in March after the CMES faced accusations of ideological bias and antisemitism regarding teaching on the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Boston University Young Democratic Socialists’ Instagram post calling to make BU a sanctuary campus. Several student organizations made this call Monday, following the recent detainments and deportations of U.S. Visa and green card holders. SARAH CRUZ/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Student groups call for BU to be declared a ‘sanctuary campus’

Truman Dickerson March 26, 2025
Boston University student organizations call for the University to declare itself as a sanctuary campus.
Tents in a pro-Palestinian encampment at Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Tuesday. 108 people were arrested at a tent encampment in a public alley adjacent to Emerson College Thursday morning. COURTESY OF DAVID YEUNG

Impact of student arrests at Emerson College ripples through campuses in Greater Boston

Leia Green April 26, 2024
Arrests at Emerson College on Thursday have shaken the student body and neighboring Boston colleges after police swarmed an encampment organized by students and community members in solidarity with Palestine.
Tents in a pro-Palestinian encampment at Massachusetts Institute of Technology on April 23. After more than 100 demonstrators at Columbia University were arrested during a pro-Palestinian encampment protest last Thursday, university students are now setting up their own encampments after Columbia called for students to replicate the protest. ANDREW BURKE-STEVENSON/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Emerson, MIT student groups set up camp amid student arrests across country

Anna Rubenstein April 24, 2024
The first day of Passover happened rather unceremoniously in the 2 Boylston St. alley. Grape juice and paper seder plates bordered a dinner table thrown together with copies of Emerson College’s student newspaper, sprawled long across the brick ground. 
An employee works on renovations at Rock Spot Brookline before its opening this Friday. The Boston University Climbing Club partnered with Rock Spot and will hold practices, as well as events, at this new location. SYDNEY ROTH/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Climbing gym comes to Brookline as new hotspot for college students

Samantha Genzer February 29, 2024
A new climbing facility in Brookline hopes to open on Commonwealth Ave. this Friday. Steps away from Boston University’s campus, the gym is conveniently located for many college students in the area. 
An electric vehicle charging in a parking lot in Fenway. Boston’s Zero Emission Vehicle plan will install chargers in every neighborhood. HALEY ALVAREZ-LAUTO/DFP STAFF

City of Boston plans to install electric vehicle charging stations for every neighborhood

Casey Choung March 3, 2023
According to a Boston Transportation Department spokesperson, electric vehicle charging stations will be posted in every neighborhood by this year, with charging stations to be installed in Allston, Dorchester, Hyde Park and Roslindale.
Roe v. Wade Protest

Protestors flood Boston streets following Roe v. Wade reversal

Jennifer Small June 28, 2022
Following the Roe v. Wade reversal, Boston abortion rights protestors marched to the state house to express their anger with the Supreme Court's decision.
WBUR protest

Protest outside WBUR calls for publication to retract opinion piece, issue public apology

Jesús Marrero Suárez February 14, 2022
The group said WBUR used its platform to "smear peaceful protesters," upset over Mayor Wu's vaccine policies.
boston city hall

Applications open for Mayor’s Youth Council

Madison Mercado April 27, 2021
The program, taking applications until June 18, promotes civic engagement among high schoolers.
daffodil planted in a garden

Daffodils line Boston’s path toward spring, healing

Colbi Edmonds April 20, 2021
Marathon Daffodils delivered thousands of daffodils to frontline workers at Boston-area hospitals.
old north church in boston

Boston churches partially reopen for second Easter in the shadow of COVID-19

Sam Trottenberg April 4, 2021
Boston's Old North Church opened for a limited in-person service, while others stayed online.
children light candles at a stop asian hate protest

Activists call for equity, representation in response to anti-Asian violence

Jesús Marrero Suárez March 28, 2021
Panelists discussed systemic inequity, the model minority myth and openly racist hate crimes.
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