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FONTANA: ‘Inpolitically Uncorrect”

By Daily Free Press Admin December 4, 2012

Politically correct! Doesn’t it just make your skin crawl? Why are we so focused on emphasizing what’s “politically” correct? Since when are politicians the people that we want to model our lives...

EDIT: A royal announcement

By Daily Free Press Admin December 4, 2012

After months of rumors, it was announced on Monday that the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, is expecting a child. Americans reacted on social media networks and in the comment sections of major...

EDIT: Hard Knock Life for T drivers

By Daily Free Press Admin December 4, 2012

A trolley driver for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority was allegedly punched and yelled at by an individual Sunday, according to an article in The Boston Globe. The suspect allegedly approached...

LETTER: Israel revisited

By Daily Free Press Admin December 4, 2012

To the Editor: It is not an insignificant fact that, despite the space which it took in these pages, two recent letters professing support for Israel failed to mention the most basic feature of the Israel-Palestine...

LETTER: On peace

By Daily Free Press Admin December 3, 2012

To the Editor: Boston University encourages student expression and involvement in community and world affairs. Our right to expression as students is enshrined in our nation’s founding principles...

WHITING: A campus mixtape

By Daily Free Press Admin December 3, 2012

Fresh snow quiets things, especially on a Saturday morning, when, even without it, campus is almost wholly silent. There’s no traffic. The halls of the College of Arts and Sciences are empty, and the...

EDIT: Baltimore blogger

By Daily Free Press Admin December 3, 2012

Frank James MacArthur, a blogger from Baltimore, broadcasted his standoff with police Saturday, according to an article in The Baltimore Sun. MacArthur, who was wanted on a court-issued warrant, refused...

EDIT: Gov’t Center station to close

By Daily Free Press Admin December 3, 2012

Residents expressed concern over how the closure would affect their daily commutes after the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority announced it would be closing the Government Center station for a...

KAWACHI: Major question

By Daily Free Press Admin December 3, 2012

Since I’ve started college, I’ve been asked the same question over and over again. “What are you majoring in?”And every time I reply with “art history,” I am quickly thrown into a pit of questioning...

LETTER: On Israeli peace

By Daily Free Press Admin November 29, 2012

Last week I was overcome with anxiety. As hundreds of rockets descended into civilian populations in southern and central Israel, I lay restlessly in my safe bed in Student Village II  — 6,000 miles...

EGAN: Bleak weeks, holiday cheer

By Daily Free Press Admin November 29, 2012

As the days grow shorter and we march onward into these last dooming few weeks, toward exams and holidays, and then beyond them to the apocalypse, our thoughts turn toward break. Winter is my favorite...

OOMMEN: Express Thanksgiving

By Daily Free Press Admin November 29, 2012

This was my first American Thanksgiving and it didn’t go the way I’d imagined, since I ended up celebrating it a day early. Last Tuesday, my sister picked me up from Warren Towers. She warned me I’d...

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