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Article: COLUMN: A semester guided by 36 years of Daily Free Press history
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- December 12, 2006
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Neal Simpson
University Wire
12-12-2006
(The Daily Free Press) (U-WIRE) BOSTON -- It's hard to ignore history at The Daily Free Press, where the names of past editors are literally etched into the walls. From the Beanpot outage of the mid-1990s to the great blizzard of 2003, 20 years of history have been scrawled, tagged and carved into the desks, chairs and faux-wood paneling.
The Free Press attic is cramped and decaying, filled with two decades of discarded dorm room equipment, futons and microwaves, boxy outdated monitors and broken printers -- all covered with a fine layer of plaster dust. I spent much of last summer there, pulling out yellowed newspapers from the 1980s and '90s and ...