This past Thursday, President Obama proposed an “interesting” strategy to try and get Wall Street on board with his and Congress’ financial regulatory overhaul. In an address at Cooper Union College in Manhattan, the President boldly claimed that he foresaw the crisis two years ago when he gave a speech at the same venue. He [...]
SSH is poised to begin distributing handguns with gloves taped to them to murderers, contingent upon the success of the Solo cup campaign. SSH wants BC students to know that sex cannot be consensual if alcohol is in either party’s system… unless you’re too hammered to read their poster. Dear SSH: We go to BC, [...]
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Among Boston College’s most recent guests was acclaimed poet Kevin Young, a native of Lincoln, Nebraska. Having received his Bachelor of the Arts from Harvard University, where he learned from poetic heavyweights Seamus Heaney and Lucie Brock-Broido, and his M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Brown University, Young has certainly studied the art of writing extensively [...]
The Jay McGillis Spring Football Game was played last Saturday, and the Jay McGilis scholarship is annually awarded to a deserving defensive player. While everyone knows the name of the spring game, not everyone knows who Jay McGilis was. Jay McGilis was a sophomore safety for Boston College in 1991 when Tom Coughlin took over [...]
The women’s rowing squad competed in ACC Championships this past weekend down in South Carolina at Clemson University. They rowed against Clemson, Virginia, Duke, Miami, and North Carolina. The weekend consisted of just one 2,000-meter race per boat type with all six teams rowing head-to-head. The team finished 4th place overall as a team. The [...]
The main thing I took away from Saturday’s game, besides terribly sunburnt shoulders, was that Michael Marscovetra should be the starting quarterback in the September 4th game against Weber State. Marscovetra and Shinskie were the two starting quarterbacks and the 19-year-old sophomore-to-be outshone his 26-year-old fellow sophomore-to-be counterpart. Marscovetra displayed more accuracy and better decision [...]
Facebook has become an absolute cultural phenomenon, and the average college student would be hard-pressed to scrounge up a name of a friend that doesn’t own a Facebook. Ever since it appeared on the digital scene in 2004, college students, then high school students, and later the wider world, have been virtually addicted to Facebook [...]
The Boston College Students for Sexual Health (BCSSH), a grassroots movement of Boston College students moving to ease accessibility to condoms on campus, has recently made their new condom distribution campaign public via an online blog. Their latest promotion of prophylactics consists of “responsible party kits.” These kits are described as such: “Each kit consists [...]
Pope Benedict visited the Mediterranean island of Malta from April 17 to April 18. Though at first glance this may seem superficially short, his trip teemed with sightseeing and outreach, including a Mass at the Floriana Granaries and a meeting with sexual abuse victims. As publicly released on the Vatican website, Pope Benedict outlined three [...]
