If there ever were a time for Boston University students to take to the streets, it is now. There is no degree that can be earned at this business-like institution that is worth $50,000 a year. Unfortunately, the elected students who are charged with representing our voice are sitting quietly on the issue of tuition and costs, like they have for years. (0) comments
Seventeen-year-olds are not given many legal rights: They cannot vote, drink alcohol, run for elected office or serve on a jury. Why, then, is it that American youth, most often at the excitable and impressionable age of 17, apply for acceptance at colleges that in total cost us more than a mortgage we cannot obtain, and begin a lending process that will take us into our 30s? No student should face the public relations and advertising blitz that somehow has brainwashed a nation of high schoolers, parents, senators and guidance counselors into believing $50,000 spent every year for four years, often for only the beginning of an academic career, is a fair price to pay for college quality. (1) comment
For the most part, the walls of The Daily Free Press are almost as empty as they were in the 1980s when the editors moved there from Cummington Street. (4) comments
When students in a College of Communication advertising class told The Daily Free Press more than two weeks ago that their professors let them drink beer in the classroom, the first thing we did was confirm all the facts of the incident that led to the dean canceling the Thursday sessions of the class that day. (0) comments
For the past week, the front page of The Daily Free Press has been dominated by continuing coverage of the Boston University Police Department's lack of cooperation in providing details about a collision in which a BUPD officer struck a student with his car on Commonwealth Avenue.
On Oct. 1, a Boston University men's hockey player had his laptop, iPod and speakers totaling about $1,500 stolen from his room on Bay State Road. The residents of the brownstone said a faulty door was to blame for letting unknown thieves into their homes.
With submachine guns pointed at her face, Star Simpson became the center of a short-lived media frenzy that thrived on the public's sense of security. Police forces were swift, and for a few minutes, the bomb scare seemed legitimate at Logan International Airport.
Thirty-seven years ago, the first issue of The Daily Free Press was printed the day after Boston University's deans canceled final exams and Commencement following the Kent State riots.
