2005-10-01 |
Hurricane Katrina and the radical relief effort
By Micah Lee
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2005-10-01 |
Animal rights activists: Up against the Wall
By William Budington (legindish@hotmail.com)
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2005-10-01 |
The Boston Network for International Development
By Andra Brosy
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2005-10-01 |
Governor Romney, Office Supply Entrepreneur
By Christina Leonard
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2005-05-01 |
The Death of SDS
By Mark Rudd
Concerning the future ...
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2005-05-01 |
The Necessity of Terrorism
By
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2005-05-01 |
Taking Action by Making Dildos
By Mary Finer
The Third Annual Boston Skillshare Offers Education for All
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2005-05-01 |
Mad-Cow Disease
By Nate Leskovic
(Insert Clever Pun here)
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2005-04-07 |
Saving the Southern Appalachian Mountains
By Micah Lee
The Mountain Justice Summer Coalition
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2005-04-07 |
Anarcho-Terrorists Invade Boston
By Micah Lee
Dismantling the Heralds Disinformation Drive
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2005-04-07 |
BU Supports Culture of Queer
By Christina Leonard
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2005-04-07 |
Over the River and Through the Woods
By Kari Jaick
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2005-04-07 |
BU Bioterror Alert
By David with research assistance from Petrina
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2004-11-01 |
Less-Than-Lethal?
By Pete Stidman
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2004-11-01 |
Forget About It: Queering Memory at MIT
By Arielle Kristan
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2004-11-01 |
Biobus: Alternative Fuel Hits the Streets
By Zachary Bos
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2004-11-01 |
Armies of Compassion Prepare for Coming Rapture
By Bill Langewiesche Jr.
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2004-11-01 |
Campus Right Unite
By Marissa Brookes
Are the kids all Right? Or is the Left just caught up in its own Cacophony?
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2004-11-01 |
Confessions of a Serial Egg Donor
By Julia Derek
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2004-11-01 |
Love, Light, and Re-Evolution
By Bradley Lee Barnhart
Reflections on Earth First!
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2004-05-01 |
Iraq First-hand
By Khury Peterson-Smith
A member of the Campus Antiwar Network, Khury spent a week in Baghdad, where he talked to families whose loved ones have been detained or killed in the U.S. occupation--as well as students, professors, labor leaders, doctors, lawyers, U.S. soldiers, and others.
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2004-05-01 |
The world is run by baboons right now
By Brian Dolan
Bar-goer Rick Owens claims he is the only one in D.C. not full of shit.
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2004-05-01 |
Students protests save teacher from deportation
By Jon Tucker
Obain Attouoman, a devoted Boston school teacher, was about to be deported under the Patriot Act when his students hit the streets.
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2004-05-01 |
Tecschange: Technology for Social Change
By Eliot Kristan
Roxbury organization makes moves to keep up with technology and global community demands
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2004-05-01 |
Cyborg Soldiers: Less Blood, Last Longer
By Antoine Henry
Once again, MIT teams up with the military to lower casualty costs.
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2004-05-01 |
Swing State Break Weathers the Season
By Dan Costa
College Students Trek the US to Toss Bush Out of Office
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2004-02-01 |
Make Trade Fair
By Steve Holmgren
Brian Rawson reveals the secret of how you can help pull populations out of poverty
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2004-02-01 |
Tufts University Kills Dogs for Study; Alternatives Exist
By
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2004-02-01 |
Paul O'Neill: ėStraight Shooterî
By Monty Bal
Former Secretary of State openly criticizes the Bush administration
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2004-02-01 |
Surpassing the Classroom
By Liz Munsell
Education in Cuba an Astounding Success
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2004-02-01 |
BUAAA Hits the Ground Running
By Eliot Kristan
BU alumnus creates alternative alumni association
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2004-02-01 |
Electronic Elections Not So Secure
By Marissa Brookes
America's latest challenge to democracy is just a touch screen away
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2004-02-01 |
The Cost of Free Speech
By Afshan Khoja
Another Patriot Act war story; a 20-year-old American loses the battle to an opponent that doesn't fight fair.
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2004-02-01 |
National Conference on Organized Resistance a Huge Success
By Mike Dolan
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2003-11-01 |
How Free is the World's Media?
By Dylan Shubitz
From Reporter Supporters to ėPress Predators,î 166 Countries Receive Press-Freedom Ranks
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2003-11-01 |
Bush Stands Alone on Cuba Policy
By Liz Munsell
ėThe ëmajority of Americans favor lifting the travel ban,' yet Bush expressed his intention to exercise his powers of veto for the first time when the bill arrives at the White House.î
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2003-11-01 |
Students Escalate Campaign Against Bio-Weapons Lab
By Stefan Hasselblad
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2003-11-01 |
Bugs Bunny's Holiday in Cambodia
By Bill Sencio
The official press release from the US Department of State indicates that Bugs Bunny was specifically chosen, ėas the rabbit is considered a kind and intelligent creature in Cambodian culture.î
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2003-11-01 |
Progressive Editors Spark Up the News
By Mary Finer
Two stories of concerned citizens changing the face of media in Boston
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2003-11-01 |
Referendum Tries Venezuela's Democracy
By Ethan Goldwater
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2003-10-01 |
Bring Them Home Now!
By Sheera Frenkel
Military families unite against the military occupation of Iraq
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2003-10-01 |
New Laws on Reproductive Rights
By Meredith Goldberg
Bush's Agenda in Disguise?
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2003-10-01 |
Al Giordano on Media, the Presidential Election and the Internet
By Eliot Kristan
The publisher of one of the most influential sources of information pertaining to Latin America gives an exclusive interview to The Student Underground
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2003-10-01 |
Crash Course in the BU Presidency
By Marissa Brookes
Do you know where the power lies? Do you know who pulls the strings?
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2003-10-01 |
Rape Centers' Crisis
By Mary Finer
Budget cuts hurt MA
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2003-10-01 |
BU to host Biological Weapons Research Facility
By Stefan Hasselblad
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2003-10-01 |
Women on Waves
By Erin Hardy, Asheville Global Report
An experienced nurse, an abortion doctor, and a gynecologist converted a German fishing boat into a sea-worthy abortion
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2003-05-01 |
Say Anything
By Josalee Thrift
Reader's express their feelings about The Student Underground
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2003-05-01 |
Deregulating the Regulators
By Eliot Kristan and Josalee Thrift
The upcoming FCC decision corporate media doesn't want you to know about
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2003-05-01 |
Looting Iraq
By Liz Munsell
"The greatest catastrophe to ever befall a cultural institution in the history of the world"
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2003-05-01 |
Rubber Bullets and Wooden Dowels Maul Protestors
By Sue Ngo
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2003-05-01 |
How to Get Mugged
By Sheera Frenkel
Struggle to report on youth and homelessness
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2003-05-01 |
Feminism vs. Conservatism: Rhetoric and Mudslinging at Wellesley College
By Devin McDougall
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2003-05-01 |
Veteran War Journalist on Reporters in Iraq
By Sheera Frenkel
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2003-05-01 |
April 27 Boston Shaws GeMo Foods Protest
By Mary Finer
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2003-05-01 |
US Increases Hostility Towards Cuba
By the IFCO
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2003-04-01 |
Peace Reconsidered (Once Handcuffed)
By
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2003-04-01 |
Student Importance in BU Presidential Search Not So Obvious
By Marissa Brookes and Eliot Kristan
Are students apathetic? Or is that just what the machine wants you to think?
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2003-04-01 |
Personal Thoughts On (Or Near) the War
By the Underground Staff
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2003-04-01 |
Budget Cuts Cut Food
By Sheera Frankel
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2003-04-01 |
Forget the Prom, Do the Dyke Ball
By Mary Finer
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2003-04-01 |
A Bay State Love Story
By Eliot Kristan
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2003-02-01 |
US Forces Carry Heavy Burden
By Liz Munsell
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2003-02-01 |
BioHazard
By Zachary Bos
America's illegal biological and chemical weapons programs
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2003-02-01 |
Racial Tensions in Lewiston
By Marcus Owens
A Somali, a skinhead and an anti-racist walk into a bar in Lewiston, Maine...
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2003-02-01 |
Fuck the Inverted Pyramid
By Eliot Kristan
Two Undergrounders, Dan Feder and Dan Malakoff, will be in Mexico in February to attend the first ever School of Authentic Journalism
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2003-02-01 |
Food Not Bombs: It's All Perfectly Illegal
By Marissa Brookes
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2003-02-01 |
Moms Demand Respect from MBTA Drivers
By Josalee Thrift
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2003-02-01 |
Student Presence Lacking at Washington Protest
By Liz Munsell
30 years later former protesters stay true to ideals, while today's students remain blissfully ignorant.
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2002-11-01 |
Highlights and Flashbacks
By Marissa Brookes and Josalee Thrift
A Brief Sampling of '70s Student Activism at BU
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2002-11-01 |
Marijuana Charge or Campus Safety?
By Eliot Kristan
Meghann Horner, alleged rape victim comes clean of marijuana charge, raises questions about
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2002-11-01 |
A Coalescent Breakthrough
By Renee Fidziukiewicz
Assembly of Local Artists and Activists Sparks
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2002-11-01 |
We Didn't Start the Fire
By Josalee Thrift and Sheera Frenkel
A recent slew of fires have erupted on Allston properties.
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2002-11-01 |
Never Go Back
By Marissa Brookes
Pro-choicers Propose Filibuster Strategy to Derail Potential Supreme Court Nominees
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2002-11-01 |
Negative Perceptions Prevail
By Sheera Frenkel
Study Finds Foreign Teenagers Harbor Anti-American Sentiment
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2002-11-01 |
American Media/Academia Diverts Peace in Israel
By Eliot Kristan
Harvard President Lawrence Summers and Big Media say you are an anti-Semite if opposed to the state of Israel
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2002-11-01 |
Zinn Attacks Hollow Rhetoric
By Cassandra Nelson
Antiwar Symposium Draws Small Crowd
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2002-11-01 |
Youth Exudes Optimistic Enthusiasm at O'Brien Headquarters
By Sheera Frenkel
Jaded Adult Supporters Considerably Less Enthusiastic
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2002-10-01 |
Discounts to DFP on rent may violate BU policy
By Dan Malakoff
The BU administration plays favorites and keeps the Freep in business
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2002-10-01 |
Bike-A-Thon a Blast
By Ethan Goldwater
Bikes Not Bombs Annual Ride a Success
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2002-10-01 |
Huelga! Huelga! Strike! Strike!
By Erik Anderson
As of September 30th, hundreds of Boston's janitors have been striking for access to health care.
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2002-10-01 |
JACK'S RITZY RETIREMENT
By Jim Hightower
Jack Welch's uncanny retirement plan given today's economy
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2002-10-01 |
Classified Top Secret: Tibetan Independence
By Deepa Natarajan
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2002-10-01 |
Standing up for Your Civil Rights
By Rosalyn Ruiz
Eye witness accounts of what really happened in D.C. that Friday
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2002-10-01 |
IMF and World Bank Protests
By Sue Ngo
It's that time of year again; the people are in the streets
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2002-10-01 |
Anarchists' Actions Fuel Corporate Media
By Liz Munsell
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2002-10-01 |
Every Friday Night
By Steven George Shell
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2002-09-01 |
He's Baaaaaack!
By Marissa Brookes
John Silber has returned to the position as president of Boston University. What's to come of this?
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2002-09-01 |
Say Your Prayers...
By Josalee Thrift
An in-depth look into the Boston Church of Christ
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2002-09-01 |
Take Back the News
By Various
Confront the issue of rape, its all too close.
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2002-09-01 |
Weaving Through
By Sheera Frenkel
What do you have in common with an israeli soldier?
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2002-09-01 |
Food For Thought
By Eliot Kristan and Ethan Goldwater
A delicious interview with Nancy Jamison that may leave a bitter aftertaste
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2002-09-01 |
Replant the Streets
By Dylan Shubitz
The Food Project Takes the Urban Garden to a New Level
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2002-09-01 |
Food Rescue to the Rescue
By Sue Ngo
What's cooking at Boston University?
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2002-09-01 |
Boston University Denies Students a ėGood Thingî
By Eliot Kristan
Fair Trade Coffee - It tastes the same!
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2002-04-01 |
Another victim comes forward
By Dan Feder and Dan Malakoff
Meghann Horner claims that the university misled and betrayed her after she filed rape charges against another student. Her case could further damage BU's record on rape.
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2002-04-01 |
Counseling services may be under attack
By Claudia Lauer
Budget cuts could eliminate center
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2002-04-01 |
The Brazilian Agrarian Movement
By Dan Malakoff
BU Professor reports on his research of social movements in Porto Alegre
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2002-04-01 |
No Unity for Grads' Unionization
By Marissa Brookes
The issues surrounding graduate student unionization
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2002-04-01 |
Up Against the Wall, Motherfucker!
By Jorge Morales
An old-timey anarchist shares her thoughts and experiences of the East Village in the late ë60's.
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2002-02-20 |
Little victims of the fall of communism
By Michael Salguero
In post-communist Mongolia, a student finds homeless children are everywhere, and a government that hardly seems to care
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2002-02-20 |
Defending the forests
By Cari Shiffman
Staples refuses to commit to paper products which are less draining on forests, making it a target of Boston activists
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2002-02-20 |
Reproductive rights under attack
By Emily Brandt
Recent actions by the government threaten the advances the pro-choice movement has made since Roe v. Wade
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2002-02-20 |
Labor briefs
By The Underground Staff
NYU Employees win contract; Struggle at local Loews theatres; Worker control in Argentina
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2002-02-20 |
Close to home
By Lodrina Cherne
ėMassachusetts Confronts the Recession: A Speakout for Fairness and Justice in the Economy"
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2002-02-20 |
Practice what you preach!
By Valerie Costa
Progressive non-profit groups like PIRG, which often recruit students and recent graduates, have anything but a progressive approach to their labor standards
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2002-02-20 |
ėRevolutionary situationî
By Dan Feder
An anarchist reflects on his experiences in Argentina during that country's recent economic turmoil
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2002-02-20 |
Is another world possible?
By Dylan Shubitz
Protests and counter-summits in New York and Porto Alegre challenge the global system
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2002-02-20 |
ėWe are rising up...î
By Erica Bell
A first-hand account of police repression in NYC
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2002-02-20 |
A campus struggle continues...
By Dan Feder
Women at BU keep up the fight for a rape crisis center and against BU policies
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2001-12-17 |
Globalizations and the Discontent
By Avishay Artsy
Local and international responses to developments in globalization
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2001-12-17 |
Laughter and rage at BU
By Dan Feder
Kristen Roslonski went to the administration to report being raped. How then did she end up suspended and what message does it send?
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2001-12-17 |
The "pit" falls
By Melissa Shaw
Cambridge is trying to shut down its most popular public space
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2001-12-17 |
Al Giordano heads off to Bolivia
By Dan Feder
An interview with the famous drug war journalist on the present situation in South America
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2001-12-17 |
SSDP chapter formed on BU campus
By Judy Nguyen
BU Students organize for drug policy reform
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2001-12-17 |
Justice for Harvard workers
By Valerie Costa
Hundreds rally in support of Harvard Janitors
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2001-12-17 |
Inch by Inch
By Dan Malakoff
Linda Setchell, the Safe Foods Campaign, and brand-bashing activism
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2001-11-14 |
On the money trail
By Dan Feder
A look at area schools shows BU charges more, gives students less, and is more controlling of student fees
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2001-11-14 |
Anthrax is SO last week
By Melissa King
The threat of smallpox bioterrorism is enough to worry about; will vaccines against it start killing us too?
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2001-11-14 |
Who are these people, my people?
By Becky Elswit
Emails from occupied Palestine
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2001-11-14 |
A perfect match
By Avishay Artsy
Environmentalism and feminism meet at the Boston Ecofeminist teach-in.
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2001-11-14 |
Justice for Janitors
By Chris McCallum
After a long conflict, Tufts University janitors finally won a better contract, thanks in part to support from students.
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2001-11-14 |
Chomsky on the Afghan war
By Tyler Gumpwright and Laura Johnson
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2001-10-10 |
Activists march for peace
By Ben Gilbert
A large anti-war rally marches from Copley to Harvard square, drawing support and scorn from locals
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2001-10-10 |
Dismantling civil liberties
By Dan Feder
The ACLU and others explain that new attacks on democratic freedoms go far beyond what's needed to fight terror
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2001-10-10 |
Howard Zinn on the atmosphere of war
By Dan Feder
An exclusive interview with The Student Underground
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2001-10-10 |
The drug war is spreading in South America
By Melissa King
How plan colombia will affect the entire continent, and why it's still relevent after September 11
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2001-10-10 |
Labor Briefs
By The Underground Staff
Charleston Five, Anti-cruelty society has questionable labor practices, Sweatshops in the fields, Harvard's new president?
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2001-10-10 |
SLAP me some skin sister
By Avishay Artsy
Profile of a student labor activist at BU
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2001-10-10 |
BU librarians begin school year without a new contract
By Chris McCallum
New school year finds BU librarians in same old game with BU negotiators
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2001-10-10 |
Tough times for working people since September 11th
By The Underground Staff
The attacks hurt the world economy, but not much is being done to help workers
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2001-04-06 |
Students bring fair trade coffee to BU
By Leslie Cook
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2001-04-06 |
Glenn Loury talks race and reparations.
By Dan Feder
An interview with the esteemed BU professor of economics and the director of the Institute on Race and Social Division.
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2001-04-06 |
Questioning Holocaust Reparations
By Dylan Shubitz
A controversial Hunter College professor speaks out.
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2001-04-06 |
Revolutionary Economics
By Arashdeep Sangha
Anarchists and Marxists discuss the future of capitalism at the Lucy Parsons center
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2001-04-06 |
Report back from the Zapatista Caravan
By Dan Feder
Hundreds of thousands gather in Mexico city to welcome the Zapatista Army of National Liberation and shout °ya basta! to racism, globalization, and indigenous opression.
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2001-04-06 |
Corporate Earth Day
By Andy Battle
WBOS Earthfest has become a cynical parody of environmentalism.
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2001-04-06 |
MAJOR TRADE MEETING, HUGE PROTESTS IN QUEBEC
By The Underground Staff
North Americans converge in Quebec to oppose an agreement which gives unprecedented power throughout North and South America to corporations.
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2001-04-06 |
DEMONSTRATIONS ROCK WEST CAMPUS
By The Underground Staff
Hundreds of students, mostly West Campus residents, disrupted the opening game of the Boston Breakers on Nickerson Field, covering the dorms with anti-adminstration signs, blocking traffic, and clashing with police. West Campus had been in chaos for the entire week of the finals study period as the area was flooded by construction crews, promoters, and Soccer officials, players and fans. Corporate logos dominate the field while the word "Terriers" is nowhere to be seen. Students are accused of tresspassing in their own front yard.
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2001-02-24 |
Bush's corporate cabinet
By The Underground Staff
A look at the industry heads and wealthy elite whi have overrun the White House.
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2001-02-24 |
The deadly threat of golf and tourism
By Dylan Shubitz
A film examines exploitation of Filipino land by foreign capitalists
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2001-02-24 |
The real innagural parade
By Dan Feder
The scenes of protest and upheaval missed by the mainstream press
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2001-02-24 |
Solidarity at 14th and K
By Arashdeep Sangha
Demonstrators work together to save comrades from arrest
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2001-02-24 |
Library labor struggles
By Dan Feder
Librarians fight for equal pay and domestic partner benifits
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2001-02-24 |
Housing Activists say BUYAH!
By Ian Jones
The new BU group working fighting the housing crisis
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2000-12-07 |
The struggle of the Zapatistas of Chiapas, Mexico
By Whitney Beauregard
ėChiapan blood flows out through a thousand and one fangs sunk into the neck of southeastern Mexico."
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2000-12-07 |
Protesting the School of Assasins
By Simon Laing and Whitney Beauregard
BU Students join thousands to protest Latin American repression
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2000-12-07 |
A question of freedom
By Dan Malakoff and Dan Feder
Will proposed new regulations for tenured faculty challenge BU's academic freedom?
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2000-12-07 |
Youth on fire: a home away from homelessness
By Avishay Artsy
BU student Cindy Eigler creates drop-in center for Cambridge youth
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2000-11-06 |
Living the high life
By The Underground Staff
An Underground investigation uncovers extravegant amounts spent on President Westling's house last year, with students picking up the bill
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2000-11-06 |
Images of our world
By Avishay Artsy
The art and activism of camera-snapping globetrotter Don Gurewitz
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2000-09-18 |
Rape at BU
By Dan Malakoff
A look at how the campus deals with sexual assault
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2000-09-18 |
A summer of change for students and workers
By Chris McCallum
Unionizing drive heats up as the Local 26 and student volunteers organize BU food workers
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2000-09-18 |
FYSOP: passion, idealism, and all the bagels you can eat
By Fouad Pervez
"We might not have been able to change the world in 4 days, but we did our damnedest," says Nick Geisse, a FYSOP staff senior last year. It's that passion that best characterizes the program.
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2000-04-24 |
Neglecting SFA
By Liz Dinwiddie
BU's school for the arts, in need of money and renovations, is forever on the back burner to administrators
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2000-04-24 |
On pins and needles
By Jesse Serwer
Almost thirty years after making it illegal, the state of Massachusetts is
taking steps towards re-legalizing tattooing.
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2000-04-24 |
Women's Studies rejected at BU
By Wyndham Langston
Years of struggles have not budged the administration towards acceptence of this liberating discipline
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2000-04-24 |
Feminists unite
By Aimee Shirley
A BU student who attended the Feminist Exposition in Baltimore reports on what she saw
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2000-04-24 |
What democracy looks like
By Roni Kruzman
Reports from the streets of DC, where thousands rose up against the World Bank and IMF meetings
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2000-04-24 |
Global Focus, Personal Experience
By The Underground Staff
Several students from BU and other local schools tell their stories from the streets of DC
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2000-04-24 |
IMF, World Bank Demonstrators Released After Week in Prison
By Dennis Moynihan
New accounts detail gross mistreatment in jail and in the streets
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2000-04-24 |
Remebering a legendary labor struggle
By Avishay Artsy
BU campus comes together on 21st aniversery of strike
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2000-02-29 |
The American Conscience
By Criag Heeren
An interview with Howard Zinn
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2000-02-29 |
Faculty of the nation, unite!
By Avishay Artsy
As universities accross the country hire more and more contingent faculty, denying them equal pay and benifits, these educators are beginning to fight for union rights
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2000-02-29 |
Militarism across the street and around the globe
By Jessica Collins
The BU photonics center links our university to oppressive US militarism around the globe
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2000-02-29 |
Occupation for workers's rights at Madison
By Chris McCallum
58 students arrested at peaceful anti-sweatshop protest at UW
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2000-02-29 |
A Saturday teach in, a weekend of preparation, and an hour of mischief
By Peter-Christian Aigner
Protests outside of the UN against Iraqi sanctions
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2000-02-29 |
Boston Gentrification
By Jeremy Clark Ogusky
Are new, affluent residents waging a secret war against Boston's South End community?
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2000-02-08 |
"...all the moments in-between"
By Gwendy Reyes-Illg
The story of BU's laboratory animals
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2000-02-08 |
Why are we starving Iraq to death?
By Mark Greenfield
New Hampshire 2000 - A BU student joins a group of journalists and activists at the primary to ask
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