Archive for ‘April, 2011’

U-JIN LEE/DAILY FREE PRESS FILE PHOTO Senior forward Holly Lorms put up career highs of 14 goals and nine assists in her senior season at BU, her first season that wasn’t interrupted by injury. U-JIN LEE/Daily Free Press Staff

For Lorms, home is where her team is

If Holly Lorms has a Wisconsin accent, it’s barely detectable. Although she hails from Brookfield, Wis., a suburb of Milwaukee, she often wears a worn-out Red Sox hat and says she wants to stay on the East Coast after graduation. After four years with the Boston University women’s hockey team, the senior forward and captain [...]

Echoing the Silence

Students gather in silence to remind the Boston University campus of the oppression of LGBT teens

MAHDI: The fountain of youth

Spiderman once mused that with great power comes great responsibility. What he should have said was, with great weather comes great responsibility. As spring descends upon us, we dig out our wrinkled short skirts and summer caps as weapons to prepare for the battle against the sun. Wrapping our dry hands in scratchy gloves evolves [...]

STAFF EDIT: DOMA-lition

President Barack Obama’s February announcement that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional was a victory for gay rights supporters who have long called for his explicit support of LGBT rights. Predictably, Obama’s order that the Department of Justice stop defending the act was met with Speaker of the House John Boehner’s argument that DOMA’s [...]

STAFF EDIT: Supremely disappointed

The Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that police officers are no longer allowed to enforce exit orders on drivers whose cars smell of marijuana, based on the marijuana decriminalization law passed in 2008. While the ruling may signify a much-needed attitude adjustment regarding marijuana use in the state and the authority of the police, it [...]