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Webpages are frames. The frame determines how the content is displayed and experienced. Classical pages have a rigid heirarchy and organization. Newer pages are usually streams, framing their content into …
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Building a Community is a new column documenting a pending redesign of The Quad. It is meant to encourage the involvement of The Quad‘s readers and staff in the future …
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Boston University did not rise out of the Charles River. It is a heterogeneous hodgepodge of spur of the moment decisions. Although easy to take for granted, the layout of …
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Today’s video games integrate their music so tightly that as players interact within the game’s ruled boundaries, the soundtrack mutates under the influence of their decisions.
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4-Player is a new, weekly video game column examining gaming culture on campus and online, documenting a previously unrepresented segment of BU’s culture. 4-Player is co-written by Jon Christianson, Ashley Hansberry, …
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On Friday, February 8th, BU cancelled school because of the impending blizzard, nicknamed Nemo. When students awoke the next morning, the storm was dying off. By noon, the snow had …
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Nobody may love Scarlett more than Rhett, but nobody loves Rhett more than BU. Everybody at BU knows Rhett. Or, at least they think they do. The Quad spoke with …
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The social network Vine launched last Monday. Vine is an iOS (-only, for now) app that allows users to upload endlessly repeating, six-second long videos (Vines? Is what we’re calling …
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Reporting contributed by Jake Lucas At noon on Friday, a group of roughly 50 Boston University student protesters entered the office of university President Robert A. Brown. Their protest was …
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Every morning I leave home early, making sure to snatch (steal?) one of the free copies of The New York Times from COM before they’re all gone. I scan the …
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Let’s read the Internet. To begin, let’s read along with everything below this paragraph. Highlight all the text below the paragraph, starting and then hold control and press the ‘C’ …
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Last issue, The Quad addressed the topic of environmental policy and sustainability in Boston. To better understand Boston University’s own environmental progress, I sat down with Dennis Carlberg, our Sustainability …
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