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LETTER

By Daily Free Press Admin September 23, 2009

' I was surprised to see myself quoted by Boston University College Democrats Campaign Relations Director Elizabeth Jones as saying that students are the 'scourge of Boston.' ('Boston Politics tend to ignore student demographic,' Sept. 22).

A Call for change

By Daily Free Press Admin September 22, 2009

After 16 years of Mayor Thomas Menino, Boston hangs at a standstill in terms of progress. A city once rooted in a history of tradition, it transforms more and more every year as colleges grow and diversity flourishes.

BERICK: September psychosis

By Daily Free Press Admin September 22, 2009

For some of us, it is a tick that never goes away. But for most,?it's first month dementia and it strikes annually and without discretion or grace, like a tropical hurricane, or puberty. It is that constant uncertainty that induces every student at Boston University to become nervous, paranoid and completely unpredictable.

Perspective

By Daily Free Press Admin September 22, 2009

Is there such a thing as cell phone etiquette? While it's almost definite that 'When Not to Text' won't be a successor of TLC's 'What Not to Wear,' the use of cell phones among college-aged people and younger has been the topic of radio broadcasts, talk shows and magazine and newspaper articles.

Letter

By Daily Free Press Admin September 22, 2009

' I was both pleased and troubled by your recent articles regarding the quarantining of students with possible Swine Flu in Danielsen Hall. I am glad that The Daily Free Press has investigated the issue and brought it into the public eye; but as a resident of Danielsen Hall and a student in this university, I must take issue with the university's policy.

STAFF EDIT: Lost in isolation

By Daily Free Press Admin September 21, 2009

When Ian Koneigsknef was diagnosed with a probable case of H1N1 and urged to leave behind his room in Myles Standish Hall in order to ride out his illness in quarantine on the second floor of Danielsen Hall, his story corroborated Thursday's Daily Free Press article regarding the mysterious activity.

STAFF EDIT: Menino’s highs, lows

By Daily Free Press Admin September 21, 2009

Mayor Thomas Menino was unable to sit with The Daily Free Press for a pre-primary election interview. But his spokesman, Nick Martin, managed to participate in a phone interview, throughout which he stressed, with pamphlet-quality eloquence, Menino's commitment to being progressive.

DONNELLY: The impermeance of former-fat kid fitness

By Daily Free Press Admin September 21, 2009

April 1998, age nine: I reach into a bureau plastered with doctor's office stickers and pull out a Ninja Turtle-laden B.U.M. equipment sweatshirt. I giggle to myself quietly as I pull it over my head '- making the intellect's leap from B.U.M. to ass '- and realize, as my pervasive mushroom cut erupts out of the top, that I have it on backwards.

KRANTZ: How it all began

By Daily Free Press Admin September 21, 2009

Paris may be the city of love for some, but a few sprawling fields in rural Bretagne did it for me. After a blissful semester in Grenoble, conjugating irregular French verbs until I was as blue in the face as the French cheese, I sought any means to stay in France just a bit longer. I became a WWOOFer.

LETTER

By Daily Free Press Admin September 21, 2009

It is very troubling that your newspaper published a story regurgitating the false claims made by Wendy Kaminer about the ACLU without even affording our organization an opportunity to respond or to correct the record. Ms. Kaminer's accusations about both the American Civil Liberties Union Board and its John Adams Project, as reported by The Daily Free Press, are completely inaccurate.

GLANDER, SAUER AND FORSTER: Bikes, grammar, heartbreak

By Daily Free Press Admin September 17, 2009

So Im a COM major & Im really angry about the dumb grammar lessons'?that we need too take. Its like, BU is really expensive and it's workload is heavy enough as it is-why are we burdened by extra busy-work that we learned in highschool?

STAFF EDIT: Rocking the boat

By Daily Free Press Admin September 17, 2009

Mayoral candidate and City Councilor-At-Large Michael Flaherty met with The Daily Free Press yesterday and began the discussion by answering the question: 'How are you different from Mayor Thomas Menino?'

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