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Technology and the end of caring | Data Driven

Technology and the end of caring | Data Driven

By Sarah Datta September 29, 2025

It’s fall again, and I’m thinking about Franz Kafka.  Last year around this time, I read his work “Letters to Milena,” and if there is one thing Kafka can do well, it’s letter writing.  There...

Violent security theater: BU Law’s dangerous decision to bring police into our tower | The Dissenting Opinion

Violent security theater: BU Law’s dangerous decision to bring police into our tower | The Dissenting Opinion

By Lucio Maffei September 26, 2025

Last week, Dean Angela Onwuachi-Willig announced the Boston University School of Law would begin stationing a uniformed police officer inside the law tower from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. each day for the following...

Listen to the music | On the Record

Listen to the music | On the Record

By Addison Schmidt September 24, 2025

Two summers ago, I interned at a music company in their communications department. I loved it for a lot of reasons — one being the wall decor, which consisted of pictures, record covers and merchandise...

Blackstone thinks you’re stupid | Con-Current Events

Blackstone thinks you’re stupid | Con-Current Events

By Frank Yang September 22, 2025

As the right blames the left for political violence — despite being the main perpetrators of violence themselves — I can’t help but notice this to be another tool directed by the right to detract...

Real or cake, but now it’s … news? | Terms and Conditions

Real or cake, but now it’s … news? | Terms and Conditions

By Elyse Bloom September 19, 2025
According to the Pew Research Center, 54% of Americans report they consume at least some news from social media sources. These sources include anything from YouTube and Instagram, all the way to X and Truth Social. 
What can the rising price of higher education actually buy? | Editorial

What can the rising price of higher education actually buy? | Editorial

By Editors September 19, 2025
If nearly $70,000 worth of education per year cannot promise recent graduates a job, what is the ever-rising price of higher education actually buying today? 
Error, error: bias detected | Data Driven

Error, error: bias detected | Data Driven

By Sarah Datta September 15, 2025

I can barely get through a conversation without talking about AI.  Whether it’s someone talking about it with an almost religious fanaticism or simply just using it for task planning and questions,...

The perverted ideology of ‘political violence’ | The Dissenting Opinion

The perverted ideology of ‘political violence’ | The Dissenting Opinion

By Lucio Maffei September 12, 2025
We have constructed a political discourse so detached from historical reality that we cannot acknowledge what every serious student of social change knows: Significant transformation has rarely occurred through purely peaceful means. 
BU admin’s silencing of student protest isn’t rare — it’s routine | Editorial

BU admin’s silencing of student protest isn’t rare — it’s routine | Editorial

By Editors September 11, 2025

On March 27, Boston University students entered the Center for Gender, Sexuality and Activism to find it trashed and vandalized in what the organization called a hate crime. BU’s Police Department was...

Since when did less stop being more? | On the Record

Since when did less stop being more? | On the Record

By Addison Schmidt September 10, 2025
Albums are more interesting when listened to as the original release, without the changes and additions following its drop. Records are forever preserved in this form. They exist just as they were created. Finding a record in its original form on a streaming service today feels difficult, as if artists no longer feel the original album will satisfy their fans. 
Records are romantic | Terms and Conditions

Records are romantic | Terms and Conditions

By Elyse Bloom September 9, 2025

Type “record store near me” into your search engine of choice today, and you’ll probably find at least a few stores near you. If Google existed in the 1970s, the results may have looked almost identical....

Like Pitbull, I’m Mr. Worldwide | Con-Current Events

Like Pitbull, I’m Mr. Worldwide | Con-Current Events

By Frank Yang September 9, 2025

Spending over an entire month in East Asia really changes you.  I don’t mean in some deep, meaningful way. I think my English regressed a few levels, my pop culture knowledge has been replaced with...

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