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HAUNGS: Life goes on

By Daily Free Press Admin March 30, 2011

Loss is a very interesting occurrence in our lives. On some minute level, it happens to us every day, often slipping under the radar. No matter the magnitude of loss that occurs, it accumulates and begins...

MAHDI: Our "asp"-irations

By Daily Free Press Admin March 29, 2011

Traditions seem to have a funny way of reappearing where you would least expect to find them. They fend off the factual grinches of science and logical reason, preserving anecdotes of ancient history. The...

FONTANA: Spring, where art thou?

By Daily Free Press Admin March 28, 2011

While I was looking outside my dorm room window last night, wrapped in a warm blanket, sipping on some hot chocolate and feeling the warm glow of the cozy fire I started with my roommates’ linens, I...

RACKHAM: Tired of the BUS

By Daily Free Press Admin March 28, 2011

Today’s the day I’m going to get on the Boston University Shuttle. It’s going to happen. It’s 26 degrees outside, the wind has already blown my hat off twice, my fingers are too numb to text, and...

HAGEN: Slip of the rubber tongue

By Daily Free Press Admin March 23, 2011

I believe it is universal etiquette not to discuss sex at dinner. It is especially impolite if you have been acquainted with your dining companions for no more than a day and even less kosher if they happen...

Worlds apart

By Daily Free Press Admin March 23, 2011

In today’s society, we exist is separate worlds, sometimes belonging to more than one at a time. It’s easy to say, and ubiquitously heard, that we don’t want to place labels on ourselves, but it’s...

MAHDI: Learning from Japan

By Daily Free Press Admin March 22, 2011

Japanese author and Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburō Ōe wrote a book called “Kōzui wa waga tamashii ni oyobi,” meaning “the floodwaters have come into my soul.” Susan Napier, a professor of...

FONTANA: I'm a hipster infiltrator

By Daily Free Press Admin March 22, 2011

Some of my friends and I have spent years of our lives and an ample amount of our resources trying to successfully infiltrate the dubious, transcendental movement of young people known as “hipsters.”...

RACKHAM: Food For Thought

By Daily Free Press Admin March 21, 2011

After having lunch at the George Sherman Union too many times to count the past couple of weeks, I finally trek across the street to Warren Towers (which is the second largest non-military dormitory in...

O'DONNELL: All aboard the Trump train

By Daily Free Press Admin March 20, 2011

Donald Trump has a fantastic PR team. This week, the conductors of the Trump train had to battle news about Muammar Qaddaffi/Qadafi/Quadaffi/Gaddafi/Gadhafi in Libya and the catastrophe in Japan to somehow...

HAGEN: The attitude of life

By Daily Free Press Admin March 9, 2011

For the majority of the past week, I really thought I was a goner. After reviewing more than 160 studies, a group of researchers have just released their findings which link a positive outlook on life...

HAUNGS: Modern Times

By Daily Free Press Admin March 9, 2011

In my last column, if you read it or were merely flipping pages through The Daily Free Press, I touched on the inevitable and necessary turning point in our generation that seems to be looming in the immediate...

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