ALC Mandatory Race Class

AHANA Leadership Council (ALC) leaders have announced a proposal to force freshmen to take a mandatory course on race, class, and gender. According to a Facebook group designed to promote the required course, such a class is necessary because of articles published in both The Observer and The Heights during the fall semester, both of [...]

Vagina Monologues Come to Campus

This past week, Boston College hosted its annual performance of The Vagina Monologues, a play written by Eve Ensler.  Since its debut in 1996, the play has drawn considerable attention and controversy.  The performance consists of a series of monologues, each recited by different actresses, which tell stories and experiences of various women as these [...]

Fred Thompson Addresses Students

The Boston College Republicans (CR) invited former presidential candidate and Law and Order star Senator Fred Thompson (R-TN) to speak to the student body on Tuesday, February 16, 2010.
Despite arriving 90 minutes late due to a snowstorm, Thompson entered the Irish Room and quickly began his speech right after CR President Michael Reer introduced Thompson [...]

Bapst Gallery Showcases Student Talent

The artistic community of Boston College gathered in the Bapst Library basement to celebrate their accomplishments and to share them with family, friends, faculty, and fellow students on the evening of Thursday, February 18, 2010.  As written in the invitation, the evening, which was sponsored cooperatively by the University Libraries, the Art Club, and the [...]

Honoring Tradition, Remembering Struggles

It is easy to fall into a certain way of looking at the city of Boston.  We are perched atop Chestnut Hill in our Catholic school, looking out at a city that is well known for its Irish heritage, and therefore Catholic people, right?
Certainly nobody at BC believes that every Bostonian is an Irish Catholic, [...]