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The Daily Free Press

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The Daily Free Press

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Audubon crash hits campus

By Daily Free Press Admin October 30, 2008

A three-car collision occured at the intersection of Park Drive and Beacon Street in Boston University's South Campus Wednesday at 2:20 p.m.

Historic women’s relics displayed at HGARC

By Daily Free Press Admin October 30, 2008

Boston University students held tiny pieces of women's history in their hands on Tuesday night.

Artist inspired KKK defections

By Daily Free Press Admin October 29, 2008

Grammy Award-winning musician Daryl Davis has more than 20 Ku Klux Klan robes in his possession after spending 20 years trying to convince Klan members to leave the group and hang up their white, hooded garments.

Amid a secular world, expert says faith making a comeback

By Daily Free Press Admin October 29, 2008

Alfred L. Morse Auditorium may have originally been a synagogue, but Tuesday night it represented a smorgasbord of global religions as Boston University professor emeritus Peter Berger discussed the religious revitalization movements in all major traditions.

BU tells some students to BYO soap

By Daily Free Press Admin October 29, 2008

Boston University junior Melissa Barragan was watching a movie with her friend in the German House on Bay State Road and, when she went to use the communal bathroom down the hall, her friend handed her a bottle of hand soap and a towel to take with her.

Yearbooks struggle in Facebook age

By Daily Free Press Admin October 29, 2008

Whether yearbook signatures will give way to Facebook wall posts in the future has yet to be seen, but students will still be swapping some kind of books next May.

Wiesel’s week

By Daily Free Press Admin October 28, 2008

Metcalf Hall reached capacity Monday as an estimated 1,250 people crowded in to hear Boston University professor and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel give what was billed as his last major lecture.

A heightened alert

By Daily Free Press Admin October 28, 2008

Boston University performed the year's second test of the BU Emergency Alert Service by leaving voicemails, sending text messages and emails to students, faculty and staff across campus Monday morning.

Exhibit stirs up controversy

By Daily Free Press Admin October 28, 2008

A Boston University graduate student stood up at the back of Morse Auditorium Monday, confronting British artist Jenny Saville during a question-and-answer session on an exhibit that included images of bodies burnt or mutilated after catastrophe.

Brains, beauty win out in pageant contest

By Daily Free Press Admin October 27, 2008

Solar system simulations often earn scientists straight As and science fair accolades, but two College of Engineering students grabbed a novel Nobel substitute Saturday night: tiara, crown and pageant sash.

Musicians celebrate Wiesel’s accomplishments

By Daily Free Press Admin October 27, 2008

Boston University professor, writer, scholar, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel celebrated his 80th birthday with a concert in his honor on Sunday. About 50 people attended the event in Tsai Performance Center.

Dorm signs offend some

By Daily Free Press Admin October 24, 2008

Pedestrians walking down Commonwealth Avenue last fall couldn't avoid a nine-letter message from the windows of Warren Towers 14C: 'HOT SEX NOW.'

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