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The past few weeks have passed in a blur of caffeine, exhaustion, and highlighted text. Classes are drawing to a close, and brains are throbbing as students attempt to stuff …
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The word “feminist” is a loaded one. For some, the word is associated with hairy legs, burning bras, and aggressively intolerant women who march through the streets crying out for …
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Women’s employment is a hot topic. In the last presidential debate, Mitt Romney set the Internet ablaze with his response to a question about women in the workforce. His “binders …
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If you walk into the lobby of the College of General Studies sometime in the next few days, you’ll hear a voice floating through the air. A video plays on …
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Everyone needs to get down every once in a while. Luckily for Boston University students, Beantown is the town to get down. Whether you like to shake a tailfeather, bust …
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In the early morning hours of March 11, Staff Sergeant Robert Bales walked off his combat outpost in rural Afghanistan and allegedly murdered 17 people, assaulting six more. He was formally …
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Abigail Adams’ letters to her husband are the stuff of legend—none more so than the letter that famously exhorted her husband to “remember the ladies.” For thousands of years, the …
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The Dear Abbeys may not need an introduction. The all-male acapella group is well known on campus, to say the least; they routinely play to standing-room only audiences. Many a …
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What is red and white and made for change? Project Mailbox, a 3 ½ ft-tall cast iron mailbox that has taken up residence in front of University Grill. BU Stories …
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Books, quite frankly, are awesome. They are doorways to other worlds; they are reservoirs of knowledge. They are almost always better than the movie. The Boston Book Festival (BBF) was …
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Take a sunny, bright-eyed optimist. Throw him in a world full of warmongering Bulgarians, bloodthirsty Portuguese and thieving Dutch. Mix in one true love, some lecherous clergy and a few …
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Yesterday, Boston University students joined hundreds of other college students in an Occupy Boston march protesting corporate corruption and the rising cost of college education. The BU students gathered in …
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