The dollar grew in strength against the euro for the sixth consecutive week after the Fed announced an increase in the discount rate last Thursday. The euro, valued at $1.3618 on Wednesday evening, decreased to $1.3544 after the Fed’s Thursday announcement. The Fed’s decision to raise the rate it charges banks for emergency loans from [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This Lent, the Archdiocese of Boston launched “The Light Is On For You,” an initiative inviting the faithful to return to the Sacrament of Penance. Every parish in the Archdiocese will be open on Wednesday evenings during Lent, from 6:30pm to 8:00pm, to hear confessions. The Archdiocese launched a website to provide information on the [...]
Beginning on Wednesday of last week, Catholics began the observance of Lent, the forty-day period of preparation for Easter. As is typically the case, Masses on Ash Wednesday were quite crowded, and many people around campus could be seen with ashes on their foreheads. It is rare, however, to see so many people at Mass [...]
Every year, Boston College students are bombarded in the quad, in their rooms, and on their doors, with flyers and other forms of campaigning for UGBC president and vice-president, as well as class council persons. Though to the average BC student the constant badgering may become bothersome, it is indeed the most effective way to [...]
The Observer: Having played on so many different teams over the past few years, how do you feel the Olympics compare to those teams/tournaments? Molly Schaus: Every team is a little bit different. I have been fortunate to play on a lot of good teams over the years, but it is hard to compare one [...]
As the regular season winds down for the Boston College men’s ice hockey team, the importance of each game only magnifies. Coming off of an upsetting 3-2 defeat by the Huskies at Matthews Arena to begin the weekend, the Eagles sought revenge at home. Someone forgot to tell Northeastern that there was a game on [...]
As everyone is quite well aware, the season of campaigning for both the President and Vice President positions in the Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC) has been in full swing for the last couple of weeks. Furthermore, as everyone should be able to agree upon, this “campaigning” provides the students with much more of [...]
