The staff at The Observer would like to wish its readers a Merry Christmas! We look forward to publishing again next semester!

There’s nothing like a good stout glass of eggnog, a crackling fire, and a solid Christmas movie to get the Holiday season going. Some are funny, other sentimental, and occasionally a few are utterly ridiculous. No matter the message, every Christmas movie from Miracle on 34th Street to Santa Clause 9: Part 3 and ½, [...]

Earlier this year The Observer reported that the Archdiocese of Boston had launched an initiative inviting Catholics to receive the sacrament of Reconciliation. The Archdiocese is continuing that initiative, The Light Is On For You, this Advent.  All parishes in the Boston Archdiocese will be open for confession between 6:30pm and 8pm tomorrow (12/15) and [...]

The Observer at Boston College is decorating it’s website for Advent in preparation for Christmas!  Purple, the liturgical color for the Advent Season, is our background color, while rose, the liturgical color for Gaudete Sunday, is used as an accent. Snowflakes are falling on our home page which also features an Advent Wreath (courtesy of [...]

The typical scene in and around O’Neill plaza at 5 p.m. contains the traffic of bustling students entering and exiting the library to work and study, hungry people walking through Campanella to beat the dinner rush for a Hillside Burger, or some type of congregation of BC students who have completed a day’s schedule of [...]

The Boston College student newspaper The Heights reported on Monday that the “Fashion Show for Growth” included the throwing of condoms into the student audience.  The Observer has since discovered that personal lubricant was distributed, not condoms. The show, held this past Friday evening in the basement of Lyons Hall, was sponsored by the African [...]

The BC Christmas tree had just been lit.  The scent of free hot chocolate and the sound of carols mingled in the cheerful air as members of the BC community young and old gathered to start off the Christmas season. Just as the tree lighting ceremony was wrapping up, a few members of the crowd [...]

For the 76 million members of Generation Y, the workplace is on the brink of change.  The future of the business market lies in the hands of Generation Y, the twenty-something segment of the population distinguished by its technological sophistication and commitment to environmental consciousness.  Shaped by the advent of the internet, cell phones, and [...]

BCSSH sponsored a field trip to the airport and opted for pat downs when passing through security. Barack Obama is a lousy president. Since you read the last sentence, Barack Obama is still a lousy president. BCSSH has proven … that when it is given the chance to co-sponsor an event it will use the [...]

How do we know who makes a good President? As the Obama Presidency has demonstrated, holding values and working towards them is not enough. Many say Obama is too ideological. But Reagan was also ideological, and the country loved him. Why was he successful, but not Obama? And what does this mean for someone like [...]