LETTER: Renaming the Lu Lingzi Scholarship Fund
In the past year and a half, 12 BU students have died. Monday, April 9, 2012. A graduate student was found dead at her home in an apparent suicide. Friday, April 20, 2012. A graduate student was fatally shot near his Allston apartment. Saturday, May 12, 2012. Three undergraduate students studying abroad were killed in […]
LETTER: Obamacare and a Millenial’s Point of View
Obamacare exchanges opened Oct. 1 in nine states as our government has recently shutdown (how fitting). The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, aims to alleviate the skyrocketing costs of healthcare while broadening coverage and ensuring it to more Americans than ever. Before Obamacare, businesses would cover health insurance costs with […]
LETTER: Phones these days
I’ve had five cell phones in my lifetime. Most of them have cost hundreds of dollars, but my family bought them for a lower price with 2-year contracts so that we wouldn’t notice ourselves getting ripped off over time. I’d be okay with this if any of these phones were useful, but no matter what, […]
LETTER: Best colleges
Love or hate them – and there’s usually no middle ground — the U.S. News and World Report rankings are a big deal in higher education. So, congratulations for BU for their placement at spot 41 on this year’s list. But I was a bit dismayed to read the Daily Free Press’ coverage of this […]
LETTER: BU Right to Life
Society seems to compel young women to choose a career over motherhood. A 2008 study showed 1 in 5 women will have an abortion by the age of 25, and 45 percent of total abortions occur in women between the ages of 18 and 24. This seems to be less of a choice and more […]
