Just yesterday, Monday, February 1, 2010, marked the official beginning of the NRG games of Boston College.  For those who do not remember from past years, the NRG games represent a competition between each of the twenty-five residence halls on campus to determine which hall is able to conserve the greatest amount of energy. Lasting [...]

As most students are well aware, the drop/add deadline for declaring undergraduate classes has come and gone once again in its usual fleeting nature, with just nine calendar days to muse on which classes one should take – lasting from January 19th to the 27th. And as most students are quite well aware, that is [...]

The Church in the 21st Century Center and the Boston College Women’s Resource Center  presented the seminar Unwrapping Faith for Our Children:  Helping the Young Challenge  Consumerism.  The discussion  focused on the detrimental impact that our consumer culture  has had on the development of  children and strove to define the  true meaning of the holiday [...]

 For the 18th consecutive  year, the United Nations passed  a resolution condemning the  United States for its economic  embargo against Cuba.  Although  the embargo was first put in  place to secure fundamental hu-  man rights for Cubans, it has not  delivered on that promise and, as  a growing number of opponents  say, is that much [...]

The Boston College Athletics Department hosted the annual Boston College-Notre Dame pep rally this past Tuesday, October 20th in O’Neil Plaza to boost morale for the football game this Saturday against the Fighting Irish. The Screaming Eagles Marching Band and Irish Dancers kicked off the night with some dance and music to the rhythms of [...]

The Student Programs Office hosted the panel “Can I, As a Caucasian, Be a Part of Your Group?” in the Murray Room of Yawkey Center.  The panel was a direct result of a controversial Observer article dealing with race relations at Boston College. Michael Reer, Editor-in-Chief of The Observer at Boston College, stressed the mission [...]

Elizabeth Alexander, the poet laureate who addressed the nation at Barack Obama’s presidential inauguration, spoke with students and faculty in the Heights Room of Corcoran Commons. The presentation, Hearing America Singing: Multi-Vocal Cultures in America, focused on the role of African American studies in our nation. Alexander began her lecture through an appraisal of those [...]

President Obama has proven himself to be somewhat inefficient thus far, but the notion that he lacks substance is unfounded. Such an assertion came this past week from Newsweek Senior Correspondent Howard Fineman, convinced that the president has been too omnipresent in the media limelight without adding much content to the conversation. Fineman assessed Obama [...]

From September 5th to December 11th, the McMullen Museum of Art in Devlin Hall is playing host to the exhibition: “First Hand: Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection.” For the first time, this archive of illustrations – once thought to have been lost forever – is available for public viewing. Alongside these illustrations [...]