The average college student has a busy schedule, balancing academics, extracurricular activities, and a social life.  However, some students take on even greater challenges during their undergraduate years by becoming entrepreneurs. Whether students create a website that revolutionizes networking, a space-maximizing model of dorm furniture, or a campus laundry service, college start-ups can prove not [...]

In recent years, different events seem to demonstrate that the cover up of the initial crime makes that crime exponentially worse. For instance, take Nixon’s Watergate Scandal. Or Bill Clinton’s lie about his extramarital sexual relations with Monica Lewinski. Or Barry Bond’s perjury charge for lying about alleged steroid use. Or the sex abuse scandal [...]

The current tax code is confusing, complex, and unfair; anyone who today files taxes can attest that. Every American adult is subject to a mountain of paperwork that takes a trained professional to truly understand. Moreover, the tax code is rife with loopholes that give special deals that favor specific actions. Luckily, several proposals to [...]

President Obama has recently announced a new plan for lessening the burden on college students by outlining initiatives to help lower student loan debt. In a clear effort to pander to young voters who may have become disillusioned with Obama’s failures, Obama announced reasons why student loan debt is a priority for him.  However, the [...]

After asking the Mother of God how his life would be, Mary presented the child with two crowns, one red and one white. The white represented persistence in purity, and the red meant that he would become a martyr. When Mary asked if he were open to accepting either crown, the child replied that he [...]

Catholics participating in Mass on November 27th will experience the first use of the Roman Missal, Third Edition, a new translation recently prepared and distributed to parishes. Pope John Paul II announced the revision of the Missale Romanum over a decade ago, during the Jubilee Year 2000. This revision includes prayers for the observances of [...]

Currently at Boston College, the Fall 2011 Student Art Show is on display in the Bapst Student Art Gallery. Sponsored by the BC Art Club, the art show is a multimedia exhibition of student artwork, including performances by student musicians and poets. From triptych sketches to watercolor to sculptures, there is a variety of art [...]

After two months of demonstrating against corporate greed, a lack of jobs, the top one percent, and all other related and unrelated issues, it is time for the Occupy Wall Street protesters to wrap it up. The press related to the Occupy movement has soured in the past month, the endearing news of peaceful protests [...]

Sponsored by the Provost Office, the Love Across Difference lecture series recently hosted Mary Catherine Bateson for a discussion of her upcoming book. This lecture’s particular theme was “connecting across cultures” and it aimed to promote understanding across cultural, racial, and ethical differences Students and faculty alike gathered in Higgins to hear Professor Bateson. Mary [...]

It seems as though the “football team” took to the ice Sunday afternoon to play the BU Terriors in the latest skirmish of the battle of Comm Ave. They were led, in this futile endeavor, by the most popular man on campus, Frank Spaziani, who had donned a white wig and suit for the occasion. [...]