DEPIES: T’is the season
Being approached on street corners tends to bring out the worst in people. I tried to keep this in mind at the beginning of the school year when I found myself trying — and mostly failing — to collect signatures for a bill protecting transgendered people in the workplace with my First-Year Student Outreach Project […]
RYAN: America is a “C” student
By pretty much any reasonable definition, I am a successful product of the U.S. educational system. I may not have gotten into an Ivy League school, but I still did well. At a school like Boston University, I’m not alone. For the most part, we were all successful (and sleep-deprived) in and out of the […]
EDIT: Zero-tolerance means zero productivity
People send their children to schools to learn, not to be subject to rough societal punishments. When a person trusts a school with the well being of his or her child, it is understood that educators and administrators in middle and high schools will act in the best interest of the student. Zero-tolerance policies are […]
INTERROBANG
By adopting a Portuguese Water dog, Barack and Michelle Obama successfully completed their happy family. Too bad their newest dog Sunny hasn’t been too good with people. In a photo-op with disabled children, Sunny knocked a small girl over in front of dozens of people and cameras. So, we here at the ol’ Free Press were […]
DOUGLAS: That columnist gal
Hi BU! Welcome to the finals week, yay! This is my last column of the semester and because I’m going abroad it will probably be the last column I write for The Daily Free Press. I wanted to write you all a farewell letter and tell you all what I’ve learned by writing this column […]
