Authorities in the UK have arrested seven suspects in what is being marked as the largest insider-trading case ever for the Financial Services Authority. The FSA is the UK’s primary financial institution regulator that has recently been criticized for lacking oversight over the financial district in London. The FSA is now attempting to establish a [...]
“Still Right” is an initiative by The Observer to create a historical archive of Observer articles since 1983. Throughout each month we will publish articles from past issues that we believe are of particular historical relevance. We hope you enjoy reading these pieces. This archive will be a historical look at both The Observer and [...]
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops continues to voice its opposition to the passage of the recent health care reform bill which they found “deeply disturbing” and fundamentally flawed. The USCCB opposes the bill, which was passed by a seven vote margin in the House of Representatives last week, because it expands federal funding [...]
In an effort to solidify its position as the “Least Green Paper on Campus,” The Observer printed twice the number of copies as usual for the issue. The excess were doused in oil, and burned. We also shot an elephant. It was an endangered one. We used its trunk to make piano keys. Which we [...]
As I sit pleasantly in my kitchen, I can look around and see all of the various meal options I am able to make because I am not on the Boston College meal plan. After arriving on campus as a freshman and realizing that I had to pay $1 for an apple, which I can [...]
Attorney David Deacon was joined by NBC’s Dateline producer Fred Rothenberg and forensic nurse, Christie Holden, to present an astonishing case with an unforeseen twist. Many people are familiar with the definition of a “DNA fingerprint”: an individual’s unique sequence of DNA base pairs. But is it possible for two individuals to have the same [...]
Our dining halls here at Boston College seem to generate a lot of strong opinions from the students. Now, I personally have no serious beef (no pun intended) with the food quality, but what I have heard from others may indicate that most are not huge fans of many of the delicacies presented, such as [...]
On March 25, members of the Boston College and local communities celebrated a “Mass for Life” in St. Mary’s Chapel on the Boston College campus. About 40 people, including two dozen graduate and undergraduate students, attended the 7:30pm Mass. Members of local parishes led the Rosary immediately preceding the Mass. Fr. Raymond Helmick, SJ presided [...]
As my father says to me with a wink, “Get down to the city. Take a nice girl out for dinner, maybe some ice-skating, and who knows? Maybe some ‘extracurricular’ activities,” I stare at him with a smug look on my face. HAH! His nostalgic thoughts of the ‘good old days’ are far from applicable [...]
Leafing through several news and opinions pieces in The Observer and other Boston College student publications, there are certain words that stand out. These words tend to repeat themselves almost methodically, as though they carried with them some sort of understood, unquestionable meaning. Among the words which I noticed were words such as “Jesuit” and [...]
