One afternoon, Josh Prinzo was escorted onto a bus and taken to a wilderness camp with no prospect of returning home for seven months. The BU senior became one of hundreds of teenagers forced into a behavioral facility for rebellious teenagers.
Like many other ambitious young women, I hope to enter a field dominated by men. But it’s more daunting than I anticipated. I love writing and politics, so if I could make a career out of doing political...
Incoming and perspective college students are bombarded with messages and presentations on the lengths that colleges are going to ensure their students’ safety on campus. Blue light systems, heavy police...
It seemed as though this second semester crept up a tad faster than previous ones. I don’t know if that is because I spent most of my time worrying about where I will end up after I graduate, or because...
A presumption law is one that will protect you no matter what — even if you don’t have any proof. This kind of law is especially important when it comes to doling out disability benefits to chronically...
Students in low-income school districts around New York will be given the chance of a lifetime in early 2016: they will be seeing the continually sold-out production of “Hamilton” for the #Ham4Ham...
Six months ago, I was so #ReadyForHillary. We had all been waiting months (or years) for the Clinton 2016 campaign to begin. It felt like every news story on the former secretary of state mentioned her...
In April, the Daily Free Press published a Letter to the Editor written by a female student who had the courage to come forward as a survivor of sexual assault. Her story, which circulated around Boston...
With college classes starting up for the fall, it is only natural that conversation surrounding trigger warnings and politically correct speech in classrooms will start up, too.
In its September issue,...
On Wednesday, the Ohio Senate approved a two-year transportation budget plan that would cost the state over $7 billion, and the high-stakes cost isn’t the only controversy.
The bill explains several...
It’s a horrific scene, one all too familiar but also straight out of your worst nightmares: a college-aged girl is at a party, drinks too much and things get out of hand. But the next thing she knows,...
