One of the biggest hassles BC students face is dealing with the bus system on and off campus. Freshmen living on Newton often complain about the Newton bus and the inconveniences associated with taking it everyday. Unfortunately, the perils of the BC buses do not end after the first year of college, as the Comm. [...]

The Boston College women’s ice hockey team now holds a 4-0 record for the season after winning two games at Vermont this weekend. With 16 players returning from last year’s roster, and two seniors returning from a year away from Boston College to compete in the Vancouver Winter Olympics, the Eagles are already making an [...]

One of the biggest complaints Boston College students have about student life is the lack of school spirit. But Notre Dame weekend is different; it’s always different. Sure, students go to other football games if it’s a nice day and BC is playing a good team, but it often feels like few students are personally [...]

Boston College is an institution founded on Jesuit principles and a keen sense of tradition for its students and alumni, but one word, added to the end of a well-known student cheer at football games, has created an uproar on campus. For most students, the “Eagles First Down!” cheer was a welcomed part of BC [...]

As the year comes to a close, graduation hangs in the minds of this year’s graduating seniors. Senior Week and other annual events are undoubtedly topics of conversation in the last few weeks of school. But lately, news of the 2010 Commencement speakers has also created headlines. As most of the students are already aware, [...]

The life of a college student is undoubtedly a busy one. Between classes, homework, extra-curricular activities, and socializing, there is hardly time to be worrying about grocery shopping, cooking a meal, and doing dishes. For all freshmen and the majority of sophomores, meal plans are mandatory; even some juniors living on campus are required to [...]

Boston College recently announced that tuition will increase for the upcoming year, but who was really surprised to hear that? One of the contributing factors to the increase in tuition is that the University will increase the student activities fee for the second year in a row, from $190 to $244 per student. The fee [...]

The Irish Dancers at Boston College performed the third annual St. Patrick’s Day Show, RHYTHM, this year to a large audience in a new performance venue, the Robsham Theater. Made up of thirty-one students, twenty-nine females and two males, Boston College Irish Dancers (BCID) performed an astonishing seventeen pieces to the amazement of the audience: [...]

As tensions heighten in Washington over healthcare, it seems that a solution in the immediate future is questionable. Or at least a solution that the majority of American people will support is questionable. A March 8, 2011, Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that, “42 percent [of voters called] favor the plan while 53 percent [...]

For students who want, or even need, a car on campus, the inconvenience of dealing with BC student parking can outweigh the convenience of having the accessibility of a car. Amanda Terzian, a sophomore in the Connell School of Nursing, knew that she would need a car for her off-campus clinical placement at the Veterans [...]