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The Daily Free Press

The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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Unemployment, loan debt make graduate degrees less appealing to some

By Daily Free Press Admin November 8, 2012

With unemployment still unsteady and student loan debt at its highest ever, students are questioning whether graduate school is a benefit or a burden. Rebekah Alexander, Boston University Graduate School...

Students weigh benefits of combined degree experience

By Daily Free Press Admin November 8, 2012

Jamie Lim, a Boston University Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences junior, said he applied to the Modular Medical Integrated Curriculum in his sophomore year because he liked the idea...

High school course might not prep. students for college, study suggests

By Daily Free Press Admin November 5, 2012

A number of incoming college students are unprepared for heavy amounts of college coursework, an issue officials and legislators may have to address, according toa recent study. The American Association...

Students split on race-based admissions

By Daily Free Press Admin October 9, 2012

Boston University students and professors expressed mixed feelings about the upcoming race-based affirmative action case involving the University of Texas, which the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to hear...

BU community weighs in on growing increase in loan debt

By Daily Free Press Admin October 1, 2012

Robert Lee, a College of Arts and Sciences freshman, said his student loans and financial aid from Boston University are important, especially as he is one of three students in his family with student...

Grad students dislike House’s vote on visas

By Daily Free Press Admin September 26, 2012

Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives rejected a Republican bill Thursday that would have granted 55,000 green cards to graduate students pursuing degrees in the science and technology fields...

SAT scores may be precursors to freshman grades

By Daily Free Press Admin September 18, 2012

A student’s SAT scores may indicate success in the first year of college, according to a study cited in The Chronicle of Higher Education Thursday, although some students at Boston University said they...

BU welcomes Class of 2016 at matriculation ceremony

By Daily Free Press Admin September 3, 2012

Thousands of Boston University freshmen paraded into Harry Agganis Arena to attend this year’s class of 2016 matriculation ceremony Sunday afternoon. The freshman weigh in at about 3,900 students, originating...

COM prof. remembered as mentor, friend

By Daily Free Press Admin August 6, 2012

College of Communication professor Peter Morrissey died Friday after a yearlong battle with brain cancer. Thomas Fiedler, dean of COM, said the thing Morrissey loved doing most was teaching. “He always...

Boston University champion of international health dies at 75

By Daily Free Press Admin June 8, 2012

Dr. Taryn Vian, associate professor of international health, said she could tell William Bicknell was an unusual leader from the time she first interviewed for a faculty position at Boston University....

Daniela Lekhno remembered by friends, professors

By Daily Free Press Admin May 14, 2012

This is the first in a series of obituaries on the three Boston University students killed in a tragic car accident while studying abroad in New Zealand. Friends and professors of Daniela Lekhno said...

Vigil attendees remember BU students killed in New Zealand

By Daily Free Press Admin May 13, 2012

College of Arts and Sciences junior Tori Pinheiro said the first time she met Austin Brashears, one of the victims of a car crash in New Zealand, he told her the scar on his face was from a shark bite,...

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