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No Hate, No Hazing

By Daily Free Press Admin September 20, 2011

In October of 2010, a Radford University student passed away from acute ethanol poisoning in what was deemed a result of hazing. This is just one in many cases of hazing that has occured at universities...

Solar powered sea adventures

By Daily Free Press Admin September 19, 2011

Could one solar powered catamaran resolve environmentalists’ fear of the international shipping industry? Traveling the world by sea was once a luxury, and now it seems like a thing of the past. However,...

Lucien Finally Gets His Summer Loving Torture Party

By Daily Free Press Admin September 19, 2011

If anybody has been religiously reading my Free Press articles starting from my dark days as a lowly “Blog Contributor” to present day as big shot “Music Editor,” then you could probably tell...

Where we’re going, we don’t need roads

By Daily Free Press Admin September 18, 2011

A private organization will invest a grant in an interstellar space travel business plan. Is it a smart move? To infinity and beyond? Not quite yet. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency recently...

Neutral Milk Hotel broke my heart

By Daily Free Press Admin September 14, 2011

Last weekend, perhaps the most significant dream of my brief life became a reality. At approximately 8:07 PM on Saturday evening, Jeff Mangum took the stage at the New England Conservatory with the same...

Morrissey, still on top of his game

By Daily Free Press Admin September 14, 2011

Where would bands like The Killers, Radiohead and The Decemberists be if Morrissey and The Smiths had not first paved way for alternative and indie rock? And if the tortured genius was as influential as...

Grindtime Now Invades Boston

By Daily Free Press Admin September 14, 2011

“If y’all turkeys want beef, cool I’m not into bacon/your careers are going slow like midgets racin’.” This tounge-lashing of New York MC Half Past 7 was delivered by Roxbury’s own Sir Locksley...

Remembering 9/11

By Daily Free Press Admin September 12, 2011

While many students spend the first day in a new class reviewing a syllabus, students in PO 309, taught by political science professors Douglas Kriner and Neta Crawford, spent it watching footage of the...

Is Jack White losing his Seven Nation Army?

By Daily Free Press Admin September 7, 2011

What do you get when you combine one of the most respected musicians of the 21st century with one of the most ridiculed? How about when you throw in Austria’s proudest export and a rising indie band? Well,...

The campus is a-changin’: This fall, students will have to reacquaint themselves with BU thanks to new course additions, campus construction and culinary expansion

By Daily Free Press Admin September 6, 2011

Keeping with its constantly changing atmosphere, Boston University administators stayed busy implementing a number of changes over the summer in academics, residences and student life. From program offerings...

Actively avoiding activity

By Daily Free Press Admin September 5, 2011

Many students will return to school today and wonder if their minds are prepared to undertake the challenges of a new semester. Luckily, MIT neuroscientists may have detected a key component of memory...

Shows, shows and more shows

By Daily Free Press Admin September 1, 2011

Everyone from new kids on campus to returning students to bona fide Bostonians should look out for these upcoming concerts in order to explore the city and enjoy some of this year’s most critically-acclaimed...

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