Frank Spaziani is probably grateful that viewers could only see the game on ESPN 360.com Saturday, as it was pretty tough to watch his boys improve to 7-3 in the fashion that they did. However, the final score was good enough as the Eagles picked up their first road win of the year. They held [...]
Tyler Roche and Reggie Jackson put on a show Friday night as the Eagles won their first game of the year in front of two shiny HD scoreboards and an enthusiastic crowd of 4,227. The Eagles were without three main contributors, two of whom are starters. Rakim Sanders, Corey Raji and Courtney Dunn were all [...]
The New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Safran Foer visited Boston College’s Vanderslice Cabaret Room to read from, discuss and sign his newest book, Eating Animals, that was released just this year. Having won tremendous praise for his first novel, Everything Is Illuminated, which recounts a man’s effort to acquaint himself with his ancestry, and [...]
There is no system in greater need of reform than the academic advising system here at Boston College. Twice a year, students are plagued to visit their “advisors” to discuss their future classes and receive their access code to register for classes. Although academic advising was most likely a revolutionary idea at its conception, throughout [...]
Chris Woods, Head of Industry for Google spoke to CSOM sophomores. As a graduate of Boston College, Woods used his finance degree from CSOM to propel his career through the entertainment industry to a senior position at Google. He advised CSOM sophomores on life at Google, the GMATS, summer internships, and how to use a [...]
Boston College students were recently given the opportunity to hear the fascinating story of Franco Majok, a refugee from the African country of Sudan. As a refugee of the Sudanese Civil War, Majok came to the United States in 1998 in search of a better, safer life. However, after visiting his birthplace, the small village [...]
Both our men and women’s soccer teams competed this past weekend in their respective end-of-the-season tournaments. The men’s team advanced to the semifinal of the ACC championship tournament only to suffer a 1-0 loss Friday night against NC State. In the men’s game, NC State’s Ronnie Bouemboue scored the game’s only goal on a header [...]
There is perhaps no more obvious disparity between the outlook of modern Catholics and that of Catholics in ages past than the way in which each looks upon death, judgment, heaven, and hell, the four “last things”. For centuries, the Church saw judgment as something essential to the Faith, and encouraged a holy fear that [...]
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) meets in Baltimore for its annual Fall General Assembly from November 16th to 19th, 2009. The meeting began Monday morning with Mass, followed by regional meetings, then the public plenary session. The Bishops will hear an address from Francis Cardinal George of Chicago, the president of the [...]
To the Editor, I am writing to protest in the sharpest possible terms your printing of the Pro-Choice≠Pro-Abortion cartoon in your last issue. The cartoon as drawn clearly showed tiny fetal body parts protruding from the bucket of bloody remains. But in the cartoon as printed the brilliant details were reduced to so many dirty [...]
