At Sunday’s Academy Awards, First Lady Michelle Obama announced (from the White House) Ben Affleck’s Argo as winner of the “Best Picture” award. Her appearance, coupled with the choice for the...

Lil’ Poopy’s first mixtape was titled “Coke Ain’t a Bad Word.” In the song, he justifies the title in a high-pitched voice: Coke is just short for Coca-Cola. But Lil’ Poopy is nine years old,...

There’s nothing in the world riper for fictional portrayal, for fictional adulation, than the American college experience. Whether it’s the classic National Lampoon comedy Animal House, a more serious...

I think I’m going to preface this latest episode of my Washingtonian experience by saying that I’m actually writing this from a New Orleans-themed café in a neighborhood called Kalorama. The ceiling...

Racism is not a positive thing, and thus hard to present in a positive light when issuing a statement to the public. But in a column he wrote for the university magazine, Emory University President James...

Skepticism, I firmly believe, is the soul of progress. The ability to be a skeptic in the face of injustice weaves the fabric of basic human liberty. We have freedom of expression. We can say that we think...

Whether a private company, no matter how vital to the public, should be allowed to levy taxes on said public is debatable. The question is currently on the table as state senators question how to deal...

If all goes accordingly, my future will sit atop a wooden staircase and be encased by oak panels, rare books and a view of the State House. This isn’t a vain desire spawned from some materialistic, preadolescent...

The Feminine Mystique, largely said to be a manifesto of second wave feminism, turned 50 this year. The Ol’ Free Press wondered what the schools of BU would title their own manifestos, if they had them...   COM...

Immortality. Sounds pretty nice right? All the coolest people throughout history have had it: Nicholas Flamel, the Greek Gods, Mario and Luigi. I mean you get an eternity of time to do whatever you want...

It’s been said that you can work your way up in a corporation, or any workplace for that matter: Start low, work hard, get noticed, and then get promoted. That’s the general process. So at first it...

As a member of the Boston University chapters of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics and Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, it was with great joy that I read the...