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Modern Toolbox: Crypto is a silent protest

Jaeyoung Choi April 14, 2021
Crypto is a global movement to decentralize our finances and take back our economic power.
scientist holds a vial of the pfizer-biontech covid-19 vaccine

BU announces student COVID-19 vaccination requirement for Fall 2021

Jesús Marrero Suárez April 12, 2021
The vaccine will be mandatory to return to campus in order to facilitate in-person learning.
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Modern Toolbox: Coronavirus, stocks and crypto

Jaeyoung Choi March 11, 2021
The potential oncoming economic crisis is worrying, to say the least, but the first wave of economic hardship has been fought back through investment and capital injections into the markets by individual investors.
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Modern Toolbox: The Federal Reserve may have failed, but crypto is the way forward

Jaeyoung Choi March 2, 2021
Control over your personal finances is a concern that I, as a liberal, believe to be a multi-partisan issue. No matter how you vote or what you believe in, your money should be yours, without anyone else’s control over it.
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Diamonds and Rust: Freedom, or free-doom?

Joel Herbert February 25, 2021
Freedom can make us anxious. It can impact us all differently, and it may even exacerbate inequality. But it gives us the ability to create meaning for ourselves, and it allows us to be the unique individuals we all are.
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Let’s Talk About: Regaining US popularity around the world

Mayela Machribie Lumban Gaol February 24, 2021
I want to point out that recent events under the Trump administration have negatively changed the world’s perception of this country. However, I believe in second chances, and I think the United States can regain its popularity around the world.
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Politics Philosophized: The profound connection between conservatorship, exploitation

Max Ferrandino February 24, 2021
The conservatorship system is fundamentally exploitative and does not have the interests of the conservatee at heart.
Rioters at the U.S. Capitol Wednesday. Boston University faculty members and administrators criticized the insurrection Thursday, describing it as an attack on democracy and calling for a peaceful transfer of power. COURTESY OF MUKUL RANJAN VIA FLICKR

Boston University administration responds to U.S. Capitol riots

Nick Kolev January 7, 2021
After unprecedented acts of domestic terrorism on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump Wednesday, Boston University leadership and faculty have responded with unilateral condemnation of the riots.
EDITORIAL: We should all be advocating to eliminate student loans

EDITORIAL: We should all be advocating to eliminate student loans

Editors December 9, 2020
Our society’s subconscious desire to see people suffer with outdated and exploitative norms — just because we did — is selfish, and we should be putting in our best effort to actually change the systems that neglected our needs.
Joel Herbert

Diamonds and Rust: Columbus — The Myth, the Monster, the Man

Joel Herbert October 8, 2020
Centralizing blame on Columbus for all of the terrible things that came in his wake shifts accountability away from whole governments of people who have, and continue to, commit error.
Luca Becker

I Call Foul Play: Billionaires Will Continue to Act Immorally — Tax Them

Luca Becker September 29, 2020
The American people must call for change. In a climate where the same wealth inequalities that plagued their grandparents are being exacerbated, citizens must ask themselves if billionaires should even exist.

Pardee professor Augustus Norton dies at 72

Alex LaSalvia February 25, 2019
Augustus Richard Norton, a professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, died Wednesday at the age of 72.
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