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Monday night, as superstorm Sandy wreaked havoc across the Northeast and destroyed beaches, towns, cities, and homes, American Apparel saw an opportunity for profit. “In case you’re bored during the …
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Although many of us are aware of gentrification, few people consider it a topic worthy of urgent counteraction. After all, when a neighborhood undergoes an economic revival, many people–like students, …
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You’ve had midterms, homework, extracurriculars, and partying your face off to worry about–we know. Who then has the time to come up with a killer costume idea? The clock is …
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On Saturday, October 27, forty-plus students and two faculty members made the hike up Mount Monadnock in Jaffery, New Hampshire. Math professor and Claflin Hall faculty resident Diane Meuser organizes …
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“This is a pair of Levi’s®, buttons and rivets and pockets and cuffs, and the thread that holds it together. . . . You’re the next living leader of the …
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With features such as “‘Comm Ave Runner’ Absent from Campus After Discovering Treadmill” and “Your Friend Albert From High School Now Going by ‘Just Al,’” Kevin Flynn’s Tumblr brainchild The Bunion not …
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Financial aid matters. It matters to nearly every college student and every parent of a college student in the U.S. Especially at Boston University Very few people can afford a …
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“The Heritability of the Longitudinal Arch of the Foot.” “Optogenetic Control of Excitatory Neurons in the Mouse Somatosensory Cortex.” “Double Emulsion Microbubbles: A Targeted Theranostic Approach to Noninvasive Drug Delivery.” …
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Boston University students have heard about it all too much: athletes committing sexual assaults, frats hazing, peeping toms in dorms, assaults in the library, and the Freep’s bad judgement in …
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Life at BU is a curious kind of existence. In many ways, it’s every inch an urban university. In other ways, BU is enclosed in a social, geographical, and economic …
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On October 17, the College of Fine Arts welcomed Michael Quintero, an ethnomusicologist and assistant professor of musicology at Bowdoin College, to present his work on his doctoral dissertation entitled …
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Fall rolls around quickly every year, gracing us with colorful leaves lining Comm Ave, pumpkin-flavored everything, and a cozy atmosphere across campus. It is also the time to register for …
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