Boston University

Voices & Opinion

Point of View, POV, ISIS, Islamic State, ISIL, terrorism, Middle East, journalist beheadings, international relations, politics, hostages, ransom

Science & Technology

POV: To Pay or Not Pay Terrorist Hostage Takers

September 24, 2014

Boston University BU, opinion editorial op ed, Syrian Refugee Camp, humanitarian emergency middle east

Voices & Opinion

POV: World Can’t Wait to Address Mideast Refugees

September 15, 2014

Boston University BU, Cynthia Hass, Point of View, op ed, opinion editorial

Voices & Opinion

POV: What You Really Need at BU

September 12, 2014

Market Basket Grocery Store, Arthur T. Demoulas, settlement

Business & Law

POV: Market Basket “Victory” May Be an Illusion

September 2, 2014

Boston University BU, ebola virus, point of view POV, opinon editorial op ed, Peter Duprex

Public Health

POV: Battling Ebola. It’s Our Problem, Too

August 8, 2014

Boston University BU, opinion editorial op ed, point of view pov, MH17 plane crash, Ukraine

Law

POV: Where Is Europe While Ukraine Burns?

July 24, 2014

Boston University BU, Tamar Frankel, broken banking financial institutions, law, economics, economy

Economy

POV: Why Bank Holding Companies Need to Be Broken Up

July 21, 2014

microaggressions, racism, sexism, stereotype, prejudice

Racism

POV: Let’s Stop Playing the “Who’s Racist” Game

July 10, 2014

Boston University BU, opinion column, point of view pov, planned parenthood health clinics, supreme court decision, buffer zone, womens rights

Politics

POV: Why Supreme Court’s “Buffer Zone” Decision Is Wrong

July 2, 2014

Frank Macri, English as a Second Language teacher, China, teaching abroad, teaching english abroad, teaching english in China

Travel

POV: Lessons Learned from a Year Abroad

June 30, 2014

victims of violence, urban violence, gun violence, shootings in boston, memorials for victims of violence

Voices & Opinion

POV: Who Mourns for Brianna?

June 6, 2014

minimum wage, federal minimum wage, livable minimum wage

Jobs

POV: Raise the Minimum Wage, but Don’t Expect Much

May 12, 2014

Lyndon B Johnson, LBJ, War on Poverty, 50th Anniversary of the War on Poverty, Economic Opportunity Act, EOA, poverty in the united states of america, homeless in the united states of america, homelessness in the united states of america

Science & Technology

POV: LBJ’s War on Poverty 50 Years Later

April 29, 2014

Boston University BU, Marty Walsh, Boston mayor politics, point of view pov opinion editorial

Boston

POV: Memo to Boston’s Mayor on How to Fight Inequality

April 23, 2014

legal drinking age in the United States, 18 vs 21, william dejong, Boston University School of Public Health, SPH

University News

POV: Legal Drinking Age of 21 Works. Deal with It.

April 8, 2014

Boston University BU, Bryan Stone associate dean for academic affairs, School of Theology STH, Noah Movie, Darren Aronofsky’s Noah, Russell Crowe

Film

POV: Do We Really Need Another Bible Film?

April 1, 2014

Kenneth Elmore, Boston University Dean of Students

Culture

POV: My Riffs and Questions about Race

March 27, 2014

op-ed, opinion editorial column, point of view POV, Philip Seymour Hoffman, heroin overdose, public health, drugs, addition treatment

Voices & Opinion

POV: Let’s Get Serious about Treating Addiction

March 21, 2014

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, Secretary of State John Kerry, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo ABE, Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Fumio KISHIDA, and Minister of Defense tsunori ONODERA

Voices & Opinion

POV: Obama’s Asian Pivot in Peril?

March 11, 2014

Boston Unversity BU, Point of View POV, opinion column, Arizona, Governor Janice Jan Brewer. proposition 102, discrimination, anti-gay, business discrimination

Politics

POV: Religion Cannot Excuse Discrimination

March 4, 2014

POV: Religion Cannot Excuse Discrimination