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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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‘A Complete Unknown’ keeps Bob Dylan a mystery

Ruby Voge February 7, 2025
The film’s title, “A Complete Unknown,” serves as a guide for how it approaches its subject material. Mangold’s script works to uphold the mythology of Dylan as an unknowable artist — who, from the beginning, was reluctant to be defined by others and by himself. 
Toby Makoyawo men's track and field profile

Toby Makoyawo: The fastest runner in BU history

Brendan Nordstrom April 28, 2022
Boston University freshman sprinter Toby Makayawo has shattered records and made a splash on the national track-and-field circuit.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss?

Editors October 7, 2021
The utility of the term girlboss has perhaps passed, as we as a generation begin to question the actual efficacy of utilizing capitalism to destroy the very inequalities it creates.
Yvonne Tang/DFP STAFF

Politics Philosophized: Unified Ireland?

Max Ferrandino March 17, 2021
Northern Ireland leaving the EU would create many problems that would be difficult to resolve, as if a unified Ireland is already a sensitive enough issue

Cinephilia: ‘Lovers Rock’

Andrew Harwood February 12, 2021
“Lovers Rock” tells the story of young love, thrills and Reggae set during the span of a house party in West London in 1980.
The race to create a COVID-19 vaccine has opened up greater transparency in the vaccine-making process, also opening the process to public scrutiny. COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Search for COVID-19 vaccine continues with promising results

Daily Free Press Staff October 29, 2020
With more than 1 million people around the world dead from COVID-19, the hunt for a vaccine is underway, and more than 100 countries are aiding its development.
Worldview: EU-Japan economic partnership demonstrates superiority of free trade

Worldview: EU-Japan economic partnership demonstrates superiority of free trade

David Damiano February 18, 2019

It is undeniable that protectionism has experienced a revival in recent years by way of President Donald Trump’s trade war with China, withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and criticism of NAFTA,...

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