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It was exactly 12:19 pm in the spring of 1897. Eighteen men lined up in front of Metcalf’s Mill in Ashland, MA, and the starting official simply yelled, “Go!” The …
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Over the Top seeks to the go beyond the limits of Top 40 music, exploring indie and local artists. Each week I’ll discuss something notable and important going on outside …
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PaksMIT, a Pakistani cultural group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), held a spectacular event this past Saturday evening in an effort to promote the richness and diversity of …
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Reporting assisted by Rhiannon Pabich, COM ’14 It costs $4,590 for any one of the four standard dining plan options at Boston University. These plans offer students a combination of …
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On Thursday, April 4, the Center for International Relations hosted co-authors Eric Schmitt and Thomas Shanker, who spoke to an audience of international relations students and professors about their experience …
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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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PETA kills. Sounds like an oxymoron, doesn’t it? However, that is the crime of which Nathan Winograd is accusing the organization in a recent Huffington Post contribution. Winograd, director of …
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Between 8 p.m. Saturday and 8 p.m. Sunday, twenty Boston improv comedy groups, hundreds of BU students, and one Boston University Dean of Students found themselves laughing or performing in …
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An interview with Boston University’s Professor Dick Lehr about recent biography of James J. “Whitey” Bulger, a mob boss especially infamous in Boston for his shaping of the South End.
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This past Wednesday, the student-run group !mpact, whose goal is to end BU tuition hikes, gathered members of the Boston University community together to address a pertinent issue: “Is BU …
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Attention, seniors—this post is for you! With graduation approaching as the end of the semester nears, the realization that life is about to get really, well…real should be setting in. …
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“Your first word of all was light,/and time began. Then for long you were silent./Your second word was man, and fear began,/which grips us still./Are you about to speak again?/I …
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