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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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Boston Marathon bans Russian and Belarusian participants

Russian, Belarusian runners banned from Boston Marathon

Casey Choung April 13, 2022
The Boston Athletic Association has banned Russian and Belarusian marathon runners from this year’s Boston Marathon.
Jun Li/DFP STAFF

Canceled: True progressives cannot be friends with conservatives

Bini Ollivier-Yamin November 3, 2020
If we are able to exorcise Trump from office, your conservative friends will still be conservative, and that’s still gross. Stop being friends with gross people, or at the very least, stop bragging about your email exchanges with them on Twitter.
Young conservatives disillusioned with the current state of the Republican Party founded gen z gop as a refuge for Republican college students who want to vote President Donald Trump out of office. COURTESY OF GEN Z GOP

‘Politically homeless’ young conservatives seek to build Republican Party of the future

Angela Yang October 15, 2020
Conservative college students disillusioned with today’s partisan polarization are banding together to push for reform in the Republican Party and vote President Trump out of office.
Abbigale Shi

Mind Your Business: Powerful institutions shouldn’t invalidate a language in the name of anti-racism

Abbigale Shi September 17, 2020
As a foreigner to another language, mishearing some false cognates can be dangerous. Homonyms across languages can be mistaken for slurs.
BURSTEIN: Air France demands respect for other cultures with headscarf request

BURSTEIN: Air France demands respect for other cultures with headscarf request

Sarah Burstein April 6, 2016

This past week, Air France faced backlash from its female crewmembers after requesting that they wear more modest clothing during flights to Iran and put on a “loose-fitting jacket and headscarf” before...

REMILLARD: Trump-less debate chance to refocus GOP

REMILLARD: Trump-less debate chance to refocus GOP

Christopher Remillard January 29, 2016

Late Tuesday evening, GOP frontrunner Donald Trump announced via Twitter that he would not be participating in Thursday’s FOX News Republican Debate, the last before the first voters voice their opinions...

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