The Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life recently hosted a panel discussion featuring several distinguished scholars.  Known as “Humanitarian Intervention and the ‘Responsibility to Protect,’” the panel did not disappoint in terms of informative and entertaining debate. The panel featured three academic scholars: David Hollenbach, S.J., University Chair in Human Rights and International [...]

Northern Illinois University Professor Tomis Kapitan – specialist in his studies of international ethics of terrorism – visited the Boston College campus this past weekend to deliver a lecture entitled, “Terrorism and Self-Determination in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.”  The lecture was sponsored through the efforts of the Center of Christian and Jewish Learning. Kapitan argued, “terrorism [...]

Father Jim Fleming, S.J. delivered a hypothetical “last lecture” this past Wednesday night, sharing the major experiences and themes of his life thus far with the Boston College community.  The organization Americans for Informed Democracy sponsored the event, and it was quite well attended. Boston College invited Father Fleming to present the fourth in a [...]

The Winston Forum on Business Ethics sponsored a discussion in the format of a public interview with Jim Koch, the founder and chairman of the Boston Beer Company.  Just as the Winston Forum always does, the discussion focused on the ethical implications for running a good business. The main theme of the night was that [...]

The Boston College women’s track team finished the distance medley relay race in 11th place at the NCAA Championships this past weekend.  The NCAA Championship tournament took place from March 12th-13th in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Tennessee women’s track finished the medley relay in first place, with Oregon and Georgetown coming in second and third, respectively.  However, [...]

Every year, Boston College students are bombarded in the quad, in their rooms, and on their doors, with flyers and other forms of campaigning for UGBC president and vice-president, as well as class council persons. Though to the average BC student the constant badgering may become bothersome, it is indeed the most effective way to [...]

As everyone is quite well aware, the season of campaigning for both the President and Vice President positions in the Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC) has been in full swing for the last couple of weeks.  Furthermore, as everyone should be able to agree upon, this “campaigning” provides the students with much more of [...]

The Boston College Music Department presented a joint presentation of the Boston College Symphony Orchestra and the Boston College Cello Ensemble to a packed audience of BC students, faculty and staff, and parents this past Friday, February 19th in Gasson Hall.  There were over 50 talented young musicians performing in the concert that night. The [...]

The discussion panel “Contextualizing Crisis in Haiti: Resilience, Recovery and Rebuilding in the First Black Republic” convened in the Corcoran Commons’ Heights Room.  The African and African Diasporas Program, the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Boston College, the Volunteer and Service Learning Center at Boston College, and the Boston College Working Group [...]

From February 6th to June 6th, the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College is playing host to the acclaimed exhibition entitled Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-War America.  Asia Society Museum in New York arranged for the exhibition, which features some of the greatest and most profound pieces of artwork that were drawn from [...]