A few weeks ago, a friend told me his biggest life goal was reaching 500 connections on LinkedIn.
I asked him whether graduating college, getting his first job or even marrying the love of his life...
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.
The great room of the Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground is a popular destination for students to open their tablets, take out their laptops or plug in their headphones. However, just around the corner,...
“Hillary Clinton and Democratic Party elites are harboring a child sex trafficking ring under Comet Ping Pong, a Washington, D.C. pizza shop.”
Or so said the internet.
Emerging during the...
Marathon Monday is not just a day off at Boston University — it's a campus-defining ritual. While runners chase records down Beacon Street, students fill the streets of Allston, celebrating the city...
When former President Joe Biden’s Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy held office, he made a daring proposal: Social media should be the next product slapped with a compulsory warning.
“The mental health crisis among young people is an emergency — and social media has emerged as an important contributor,” Murthy wrote in an op-ed published by The New York Times in June.
Darnella Frazier was 17 years old when she witnessed police officers brutally murder an innocent Black man on the streets of Minneapolis. Frazier and other witnesses could only stand by and watch as George...
As the first generation growing up with access to social media, Gen Z kids are building a digital footprint both earlier and more expansively than any generation before.
Twenty years ago, The Daily Free Press published an editorial accusing the Boston University Police Department of “racial profiling” and a “lack of skill.”
The piece outlined the 1984 killing of 19-year-old Christopher Dignan by a BUPD officer, detailing double-standards extended to University police and noting their routine targeting of minorities on BU’s campus.
When implementing these practices, keep in mind that you can start whenever you want to. As a matter of fact, start as soon as possible. You do not need to wait for Monday, the end of the month or Jan. 1 to make a difference in your life.
The “rotten girl” is a hot mess — she comes home at 5:00 a.m., she has Domino’s Pizza boxes scattered throughout her apartment and the indent of her body is creased into her mattress. She’s been wearing the same clothes for three straight days, but everyone around her just laughs and tells her she still looks fabulous.
