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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Free Brittney Griner, liberate women’s sports

By Editors March 24, 2022
Brittney Griner has earned the right to be a topic of conversation with every sports junkie or basketball fan. But, because she’s a woman, her achievements and abilities are regarded as trivial. 
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Gentrification and the Green Line Extension, over 30 years of MBTA mishaps

By Editors March 24, 2022
The immigrants, blue-collar workers and middle-class families that make up Somerville are vital to Greater Boston’s dynamic culture, and deserve to know that the City’s development won’t happen at their expense.
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Is permanent Daylight Saving Time the right move?

By Editors March 17, 2022
Given the myriad of issues that the permanent DST switch could create, it makes you wonder why the Senate unanimously approved the bill.
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Monica Cannon-Grant reminds us a movement is more meaningful than its mastermind

By Editors March 17, 2022
What was for Cannon-Grant a few thousand in unreported income is now being used to discredit nonprofits and perhaps even the Black Lives Matter movement as a whole. 
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: State of the Union … more like State of the Boring

By Editors March 4, 2022

On Tuesday, President Biden delivered the first State of the Union of his presidency. Yet many Americans could not be bothered to listen to the leader of their country lay out a series of plans and objectives...

Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: For some, masks are here to stay — and that’s okay

By Editors March 3, 2022
What may seem like an unwelcome cause of “maskne” for someone who has already gotten COVID-19 may be a necessary health measure for a student with immunocompromised family members. 
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: War is all around us in the age of social media

By Editors February 25, 2022
In the modern world of social media, the war in Ukraine has become an all consuming 24-hour event. But is this social media treatment of third rail topics like Ukraine appropriate for the subject matter?
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Arbery case jolts hate crime law out of its slumber

By Editors February 24, 2022
Now that the Arbery case has shown us a hate crime conviction is possible, the country must reckon with a hesitant legal system and discrepancies in how states approach the law.
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: The Super Bowl halftime show was historic, whether you liked it or not

By Editors February 18, 2022
Whether you’re someone who believes the NFL should’ve kept to their meat and potatoes of inoffensive pop and geriatric classic rock fare, or you’re someone who thinks the NFL didn’t go far enough in accepting Black culture and Black artists – we all have to agree that this was indeed an accomplishment. 
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: The Art of Banksy’s clumsy contradictions have much to teach us

By Editors February 17, 2022
Something about a profit-driven exhibition for an artist so decidedly anti-establishment just feels unethical. 
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Spider-Man: No Way … to An Oscar Nomination 

By Editors February 11, 2022
The fact is that the Oscars have never really awarded what the general public would call  the best movie. More specifically, to win an Oscar, one must not simply make the “best movie.” 
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Beautiful Boston — to romanticize or not?

By Editors February 10, 2022
Every city has its good and bad aspects. If people choose to focus on the good, why should we stop them?
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