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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Love and Copy Scams
By 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. …
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Snapshots: America Reacts to Ferguson Grand Jury Decision
Two 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 …
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Glowsticks, vibrators and condoms galore: sex ed in college
By 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 …
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BU Department of History Rethinks the 20th Century
By 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 …
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The Best Time to Talk About Vaginas Is All the Time
By 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 …
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Understanding Our Response to Sexist Carl’s Jr. Commercials
By 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 …
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Are You Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
By 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 …
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Ether Dome at The Huntington Theater
By 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 …
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Could a Lesson From New Zealand Fix America’s Gridlock?
By 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; …
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Mystery of Rebirth: An Interview with Keith Lowe
By 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 …
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Moving Up the Food Chain: How “Trash Fish” Became the Main Course
By 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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