The recent announcement that the NBA lockout has come to an end brought sighs of relief and exclamations of excitement from players, owners, and fans alike.  The lockout began nearly five months ago on July 1, 2011.  For a while, it seemed as if the owners and players were never going to find common ground [...]

For the first time since 1999 the Boston College football team will not end its season in a bowl game. With this being the case, the Eagles could not have picked a better way to end their season than they did over the Thanksgiving holiday in Miami. Coach Spaziani led the Eagles into Florida and [...]

Many different factors influence a job-seeker’s net worth.  Education, experience, skills, industry, company, and geography all impact salary, yet the job-seeker is not solely powerless in determining his or her compensation. How job-seekers comport themselves during all parts of the hiring process, from the first interview to the job offer, plays a role in determining [...]

Today, Americans are constantly bombarded by news of rising oil prices, potential shortages in pipelines, offshore drilling moratoriums, and pump prices potentially reaching four to five dollars a gallon.  But what is constantly being ignored is the statistic for oil exports by the United States.  Since 2008, the United States has been exporting refined gasoline [...]

This past August, Kimmi Vo, CSOM ’14, traveled to Spain with a group of fellow Boston College students to participate in World Youth Day in Madrid and the preceding Magis program hosted in Loyola by the Society of Jesus. Magis is a week long spiritual experience designed to prepare Jesuit educated students for the impending [...]

Last Friday, a group of students calling themselves “BC Students for Dental Health” (BCSDH) distributed individually wrapped dental flossers near Upper Campus, citing the lack of campus-sponsored dental health programs on campus. BCSDH told The Observer that students on campus are not given easy access to oral care products that could prevent gingivitis and periodontal [...]

In a December 1st Rasmussen Reports poll, Newt Gingrich soared to first place with 38%, and Mitt Romney fell to second place with 17%.  Many other polls show similar trends: Gingrich is soaring, Romney descending.  Could Newt Gingrich be the next President? I think so.  From the very beginning of the race, he spoke with [...]

Recently, BC Professor Suzanne Matson of the College of Arts and Sciences was made a 2012 recipient of the Creative Writing Fellowship in Prose from the National Endowment for the Arts. She was given this award for an excerpt of a work of fiction in progress. Matson is a professor in the English Department and [...]

In the sixth and final installment of the “Love Across Difference” lecture series, acclaimed author and visiting scholar at the Center on Aging and Work at Boston College Mary Catherine Bateson delivered a thought-provoking and enlightening final lecture. The theme of the final lecture was “Recognition and Compassion” that Bateson briefly prefaced as “Humans, other [...]

The “Support Love” campaign at Boston College has, for years now, been a movement by the GLC advocating for the acceptance and support of gay and lesbian persons and relationships on campus. The popular t-shirts with symbols of three couples – two men, two women, and a man and a woman – do not merely [...]