Archive for ‘February, 2009’

There’s no place like home

Okay, fine . . . I get it. We’re in a recession. Businesses are plummeting to eternal doom, and the word ‘profit’ is a sick concept, hardly recognizable in today’s cross-cultural, globally consumed demise.

REMMERT: I hate “college”

I love college. I realize you might be confused, but bear with me. I’m not trying to make some grandiose claim that I can be contradictory and still brilliant (re: idiotic). I actually mean, in a very literal sense, that I hate ‘college’ as it is used in the context of the god-awful musical composition ‘I Love College’ by Asher Roth.

KIRLAND: The throwaway class

I know I really shouldn’t write articles in the middle of class. For one, it’s disrespectful to the professor. More important, not paying attention in lecture is detrimental to my final grade. If I don’t get a good final grade, my grade point average is lowered.

INTERROBANG

While everyone else was watching the Academy Awards Sunday night, we here at the ‘ol Free Press decided to host our own version of the Oscars.

STAFF EDIT: Amnesty not that simple

More than 90 colleges nationwide have adopted some form of medical amnesty, but it looks like Boston University isn’t ready to join them just yet. BU Student Union’s meeting with the University Council Committee on Student Life and Policies is clearly a commendable achievement but it has also brought to light how BU’s vague alcohol policy makes the issue of medical amnesty so complicated.