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Emma Clement | Graphics Editor

Magnolia and memories: Reflecting on America’s only lynching memorial

Maha Uddin March 27, 2025
After experiencing the museum, Montgomery felt different. My class was silent. Nobody cared to crack any jokes. The air even started to smell different — like rotting garbage, reminiscent of the Southern Magnolia that Billie Holiday sung about decades prior. 
Nancy Hopkins from the film Picture a Scientist

‘Picture a Scientist’ screening discusses women’s obstacles in STEM careers

Caroline Bowden April 22, 2021
The panel includes topics of sexual harassment and assault and promotes a support network for women in STEM.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Gender Justice: Your lack of intersectional feminism has real consequences

Meredith Varner March 26, 2021
Feminism must be intersectional and fight for every woman — not just the ones who look like you.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Spotlight on Society: Mirroring the Me Too movement

Emma Shapiro March 25, 2021
If TV accurately portrays the #MeToo Movement, sexual assault stigma will hopefully disappear.
Angela Ao/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: Despite severity, the Boston Marathon bomber’s actions don’t justify the immorality of capital punishment

Editors March 23, 2021
The death penalty is immoral and an amplifier of existing racial inequities in our judicial system.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Gaming the System: Behind closed doors, esports perpetuate sexual assault

Nick Speranza March 17, 2021
Esports and video games are a great thing, and their communities have the potential to reflect that even more. However, they demonstrate with particular clarity the systemic factors that facilitate an epidemic of sexual assault. They are the same factors that plague our world outside of gaming, including our own lives as Boston University students.
Emma Moneuse/DFP STAFF

Gender Justice: The sexual abuse to prison pipeline for women and girls

Meredith Varner March 5, 2021
People deserve second chances, support and help. It is time our country gets its humanity back and starts to rehabilitate rather than incarcerate.
Spotlight on Society: Police the police

Spotlight on Society: Police the police

Emma Shapiro March 4, 2021
Television needs to depict the tragedies that have occurred in the unlawful killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and other unarmed Black people, instead of making us root for our favorite actors.
Sophia Flissler/DFP STAFF

Canceled: Armie Hammer and creeps like him

Bini Ollivier-Yamin February 8, 2021
We should not protect someone from the consequences of their actions simply because they are a high-profile actor.
BURSTEIN: PETA cannot equate artificial insemination to rape

BURSTEIN: PETA cannot equate artificial insemination to rape

Sarah Burstein November 9, 2016

PETA released a video advertisement Nov. 2 on their Twitter page featuring women who are apparent survivors of sexual assault as they emotionally describing their experiences. One woman described how she...

EDITORIAL: Pennsylvania Catholic sex abuse scandal reemphasizes issue's persistence

EDITORIAL: Pennsylvania Catholic sex abuse scandal reemphasizes issue’s persistence

Editors March 2, 2016

A grand jury report released Tuesday detailed two bishops’ cover-up of a Pennsylvania sex abuse scandal involving more than 50 priests sexually abusing hundreds of minors over the course of 40 years,...

BU alumna climbing Bunker Hill Monument for Marathon victims

Daily Free Press Admin May 1, 2013

Boston University alumna Elena Barbera is putting her skills to use in a unique fundraising initiative for victims of the Boston Marathon bombings. “Every day for 30 days, I am climbing the Bunker...

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