BU Hosts the ICCA
By Maritt Nowak You may have seen “Pitch Perfect,” but what’s the real story on collegiate a cappella? We have a lot of outstanding a cappella groups performing at BU, …
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By Maritt Nowak You may have seen “Pitch Perfect,” but what’s the real story on collegiate a cappella? We have a lot of outstanding a cappella groups performing at BU, …
Read MoreBy Kylie Obermeier Photos by Reid Haithcock There are a lot of libraries in the Boston municipality. 120, to be exact. You can find just about any book you want. …
Read MoreTwo weeks ago, people all over the country began protesting a Missouri grand jury’s decision not to indict Darren Wilson for shooting and killing Mike Brown, an unarmed black teenager. In many places, they were joined by …
Read MoreBy Samantha Mellman A crowd of students lined up outside Boston University’s College of General Studies the Tuesday night before Halloween eagerly awaiting the moment the doors would open …
Read MoreBy Michael Whitesides “I want you to try and imagine your teenage years. You don’t remember birthdays and dates you remember events. The more you think back on it, it’s …
Read MoreBy Andrea Van Grinsven “I was worried about what we think about vaginas, and even more worried that we don’t think about them,” said Haley Jakobson (CFA ’15) as the …
Read MoreBy Ella Torres In a room of over one hundred students, some sitting on the floor or cramped in a corner to get a seat, Esther Thorson illustrated the complexity …
Read MoreBy Morgan Lehofer Familial tensions are universal, but what do you get when you mix an unhealthy relationship with lots and lots of alcohol, a career threat, adultery, and a …
Read MoreBy Morgan Lehofer These days, torture and surgery are not usually synonymous, but in a pre-anesthetic world the two were one and the same. Patients avoided surgery except in the …
Read MoreBy Michael Whitesides More and more, Americans are deciding to do something else with their time on Election Day. Only 37.8 percent of Americans voted in the 2010 midterm elections; …
Read MoreBy Michael Whitesides Keith Lowe is a well-known historian, lecturer, and author of numerous books about post-war Germany. He recently gave a lecture titled “The Phoenix Century — Myths of …
Read MoreBy Michelle Marino With the sustainability of world fisheries under threat and heightened attention being paid to what and how we eat, fish previously on the sidelines are now getting …
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