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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.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Popularity of True Crime shows how the public is desensitized, not enough empathy for victims

By Editors September 30, 2021
True crime podcasts may offer a form of entertainment, they often do more harm than good.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Boston Globe protest proves even the best in the industry aren’t exempt from culture of overwork

By Editors September 29, 2021
The Boston Globe strike is a disheartening example of the working conditions inside of seemingly progressive newsrooms.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: BU needs to prioritize students, not normalcy

By Editors September 23, 2021
We understand the administration’s desire to go back to normal. But this mentality is outdated and dangerous.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Boston University should respect the Massachusett Tribe at Ponkapoag’s request to rename Myles Standish

By Editors September 22, 2021
Myles Standish is a product of misplaced, racist nostalgia for some fictional American past. 
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Students should be careful of scams, but the administration should too

By Editors September 21, 2021
As more students fall victim to scams, the administration should consider how some of these scams may fly under their radar.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: We should be wary of digital cities

By Editors September 16, 2021
The digital city is rapidly approaching, but it may introduce more problems than it solves.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Stalking should be taken seriously, and survivors believed the first time

By Editors September 15, 2021
Horrible things have happened, and will continue to happen. Why not do something about it?
Alexia Nizhny / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Public infrastructure is more important than it seems

By Editors September 14, 2021
It is worth asking how many accidents it will take for any significant progress to be made in public infrastructure?
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