Eight million people have paid to watch a movie about a fast-talking geek who alienates friends, types furiously, and eventually makes a fortune.  Business students don’t care who runs GE, but they can tell you what color turtleneck Steve Jobs wears.  And for three years running, BC students have launched businesses, received funding from investors, [...]

It’s been a year since the political groundswells dubbed Hope and Change flipped the balance of political power in the United States.  But this mainstream revolution- though well-intentioned and well-publicized- was never the magic bullet that would finally put an end to the problems of the federal government.  The Obama campaign machine- though mighty and [...]

The warnings were dire:  Massachusetts would be fragrant  with the smoke of joints from  Nantucket to Williamstown.   Productivity would plummet and  roaming hippies from across the  nation would move in.  A year  later, it is easy to see that many of  the arguments against marijuana  decriminalization were exaggerated.  But what about the argu-  ments [...]

An invisible struggle that has been raging since May could find a resolution today as the University and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) meet at the negotiating table. Attempts to renew the contracts of approximately 270 members of the SEIU at BC have been deadlocked over a University effort to cut overtime costs. “We’ve [...]

Students and union leaders have rallied to save the Boston College post office after news of a possible discontinuation was released last month. Reeling from the recession and left overextended in a changing world of communication, the United States Postal Service (USPS) was placed on the Government Accounting Office’s “high risk” list after a loss [...]