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Op-Ed: Another Jewish Voice Against Israeli Apartheid
Written by Ian Chinich As Israeli Apartheid Week nears yet again and Israel seems hell bent on assaulting Iran, I began to reflect on how my Jewish upbringing led me …
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Op-Ed: A Defense of Israel
Written by Alex Alpert. Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) has once again decided to bombard our campus with a barrage of false claims in order to fulfill their …
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OpEd: Jamil Sbitan on SOPA and PIPA
The Response to SOPA and PIPA: A Corporate Quickening of the Conscience The corporate world recently experienced a civil war within its bounds as Congress hoped to pass two repressive …
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Op-Ed: Kari Koeppel on the Return to Sincerity in Comedy
Being nice is back. Though the days of humor at someone else’s expense will never entirely fade, a consensus seems to have been reached within the comedy community; for the …
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Violence in America: Comparing Black Friday to the Occupy Movement
Last week marked one of the most hectic days of the year. Forget Thanksgiving; Black Friday was upon us. The busiest shopping day of the whole year, Black Friday 2011 …
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Op-Ed: Molly Chase on Vending Machine Options
What do a state-of-the-art exercise facility, healthful meal options in dining halls, and classes dedicated to smart eating habits say about a university? They say its students truly care about …
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Op-Ed: Eric Si on Who Should be BU’s Commencement Speaker
One afternoon, while conducting my routine check for Facebook notifications, I realized that one of my friends had added me to the “BU Seniors 2012” group. I quickly decided that …
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Op-Ed: Adrian Nardella on Study Abroad Applications
From Buenos Aires to Auckland, Istanbul to Hong Kong, BU students are offered opportunities to travel to distant lands while attending world-class universities. All you have to do is apply… which …
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Op-Ed: Erin Reese on Food Day
This past Monday, October 24, marked Food Day. If you didn’t happen to come across anything advertising the existence of Food Day, it is a national grassroots campaign (events were …
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Op-Ed: BU Occupies Boston, An Open Letter to Mayor Thomas Menino
The following letter was drafted by a body of students within the BU Occupies Boston group. It does not necessarily represent the views of the Quad, Occupy Boston, Occupy Wall …
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Op-Ed: Davide Nardi on Training to Become an English Language Teacher
On that inevitable day of college graduation (which had suddenly emerged with a foggy foresight of how the coming days would ensue) I was at sea, like many others, in …
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Op-Ed: Occupy Boston- Coming Out to Your Parents
In final weeks of the 2008 election, then-candidate Obama launched a viral campaign that posed a simple question to the ardent faithful in the choir: Have you had The Talk with your …
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