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Beyond science: Jane Goodall’s legacy | Data Driven

Beyond science: Jane Goodall’s legacy | Data Driven

By Sarah Datta October 13, 2025

One of the most important legacies a person can leave behind is one of change — of irreparably breaking glass ceilings, challenging the status quo and reimagining our perception of longheld beliefs.  Jane...

The future sounds like Geese | On the Record

The future sounds like Geese | On the Record

By Addison Schmidt October 8, 2025

Everyone is talking about Geese.  On Sept. 26, the rock band released their third studio album to critical acclaim and played a mobbed surprise show in Brooklyn the following day. They performed on...

Superhero, or superheroine? A commentary on representation in superhero media

Superhero, or superheroine? A commentary on representation in superhero media

By Elyanna Kwok, Contributing Writer October 8, 2025
Anyone can save the day. Everyone can make a difference, no matter how strong or how powerful. There is still a long way before female superheroes will be held to the same standard as classic male heroes. But it is a trail ablaze, and it is a force to be reckoned with. Every hero needs a hero. The lucky ones, however, get a heroine.
The need to be linked-in | Terms and Conditions

The need to be linked-in | Terms and Conditions

By Elyse Bloom October 8, 2025

The antithesis to Instagram, as far as social media goes, is LinkedIn.  To contrast our party posts, vacation brags and birthday tributes, our generation has professional connections, job announcements...

A man or a bear? | Con-Current Events

A man or a bear? | Con-Current Events

By Frank Yang October 8, 2025

You, a woman, find yourself lost in the woods, alone. You hear rustling from the bush a couple paces away, and a large figure slowly reveals itself beneath the shadows of the tall trees. You start praying...

Complicity is neutrality’s long shadow | Editorial

Complicity is neutrality’s long shadow | Editorial

By Editors October 7, 2025

680,000. That is the estimated number of Palestinians murdered by the Israeli state over the past two years, according to a recent calculation by Richard Hil and Gideon Polya based on civilian death...

OP-ED: We deserve a better bike lane in front of Warren Towers

OP-ED: We deserve a better bike lane in front of Warren Towers

By Guest Writer October 7, 2025

Op-Eds do not reflect the editorial opinion of The Daily Free Press. They are solely the opinion of the author. Jerry Zhou (CAS '26) is a fourth-year Boston University College of Arts and Sciences studying...

LinkedIn is making us feel like failures — in business casual | Thinking Out Loud

LinkedIn is making us feel like failures — in business casual | Thinking Out Loud

By Sophia Kikis October 7, 2025

A few weeks ago, a friend told me his biggest life goal was reaching 500 connections on LinkedIn.  I asked him whether graduating college, getting his first job or even marrying the love of his life...

TikTok is the new QVC | Stop Scrolling

TikTok is the new QVC | Stop Scrolling

By Madison Forrest October 6, 2025

Scroll through TikTok long enough and you’ll notice a pattern — there is no line between entertainment and shopping on the app anymore.  A storytime video turns into a product description. A morning...

Technology and the end of caring | Data Driven

Technology and the end of caring | Data Driven

By Sarah Datta September 29, 2025

It’s fall again, and I’m thinking about Franz Kafka.  Last year around this time, I read his work “Letters to Milena,” and if there is one thing Kafka can do well, it’s letter writing.  There...

Violent security theater: BU Law’s dangerous decision to bring police into our tower | The Dissenting Opinion

Violent security theater: BU Law’s dangerous decision to bring police into our tower | The Dissenting Opinion

By Lucio Maffei September 26, 2025

Last week, Dean Angela Onwuachi-Willig announced the Boston University School of Law would begin stationing a uniformed police officer inside the law tower from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. each day for the following...

Listen to the music | On the Record

Listen to the music | On the Record

By Addison Schmidt September 24, 2025

Two summers ago, I interned at a music company in their communications department. I loved it for a lot of reasons — one being the wall decor, which consisted of pictures, record covers and merchandise...

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