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The Daily Free Press

The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

The Daily Free Press

Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Colleges do not ‘have a guy problem’ – despite what The Atlantic wants you to think

By Editors November 11, 2021
Recent news coverage on the decline of male enrollment in college may speak more to societal anxieties about the increased educational access for women and people of color than provide any substantial insight of the gender divide in this country.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Tragedy at Astroworld reveals faults in concert organization

By Editors November 8, 2021
Questions have been raised about why the incidents at Astroworld unfolded — and who, exactly, is to blame.
Sophia Flissler / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Emerging Boston biotech industries have a responsibility to science — and to their neighbors

By Editors November 4, 2021
Given the lack of stringent and uniform federal regulations, Boston's emergent biotech lab industry have the responsibility to ensure they are operating with the safety of their neighbors in mind.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Nightlife in Boston remains defined by racism

By Editors November 1, 2021
It is important to acknowledge that Boston’s nightlife — just as any social structure dominating public life — is regulated by systemic racism that prevents everyone from having equal access to a care-free night.
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: You cannot “clean up” a humanitarian crisis, Mayor Janey, Sheriff Tompkins

By Editors October 28, 2021
Boston’s new plan to forcibly remove people from their living encampments in the area near Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard is based on criminalization — an approach that may make things worse.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Kappa Sigma’s Student Activities Office-affiliation should be removed

By Editors October 25, 2021
A protest demanding the removal of Kappa Sigma’s university affiliation held last Saturday brings new questions to light about the place of fraternities on our campus and in our broader society. 
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: BU Barstool and the corporatization of memes — and rape culture

By Editors October 21, 2021
The recent campaign to shut down the BU Barstool Sports affiliate meme instagram page reveals deeper lines of misogyny and racism ingrained within Barstool Sports media, its founder, and the corporatization of memes.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

ENDORSEMENT: A vote for Michelle Wu

By Editors October 21, 2021
We, as a paper, endorse Michelle Wu because we believe in her vision, and we trust in her ability to achieve it.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Harry Styles, Bad Art Friend, and fiction

By Editors October 14, 2021
If pens are as mighty as surgical instruments, it is worth weighing their reference points.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Recent settlement from City of Boston emblematic of systemic issues with policing

By Editors October 13, 2021
How can we expect actual change from the Boston Police Department if they can pay out a million-dollar settlement to a man they permanently injured without an apology?
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss?

By Editors October 7, 2021
The utility of the term girlboss has perhaps passed, as we as a generation begin to question the actual efficacy of utilizing capitalism to destroy the very inequalities it creates.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Shiney James is a symptom — not the cause

By Editors October 6, 2021
BU student workers' accounts of abuse from James uncover a greater issue: a lack of protection for student employees.
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