O’Neill Library recently announced it would renovate its first floor to add a new entryway along with a seating area, five look-up stations, scanners and printers for students. Construction will take place over winter break and the entryway should be open for students in January as the spring semester begins. The current doorway, an emergency [...]

  As classes enter their final week and finals are just  around the corner, at least  students can look forward to  study days – well, if that is  what you are thinking then  guess again! Yes, my friends,  another luxury has been taken  from us, those two wonder-  ful and biannual study days  afforded to us [...]

The Observer at Boston College won Runner-Up for Paper of the Year at the Annual Editor’s Conference sponsored by the Collegiate Network (CN) in San Antonio, Texas. The award was the second CN award that The Observer has in addition to the 2006 award for Paper of the Year. The two day Editor’s Conference brought [...]

There is no system in greater need of reform than the academic advising system here at Boston College. Twice a year, students are plagued to visit their “advisors” to discuss their future classes and receive their access code to register for classes. Although academic advising was most likely a revolutionary idea at its conception, throughout [...]

As the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall approaches, commemoration has already begun at Boston College with the establishment of a life size replica of the wall and a month of activities planned. Boston College is one of twenty-five universities selected by the German Embassy in Washington, D.C. to commemorate the twentieth [...]

The numbers are in and communications, mathematics, science, languages and finance are the hot majors on campus. A few musings on the results: First, to the College of Arts & Sciences: Congratulations to communications for once again being the popular major on campus (a position it has held since 2003.) However, this does not come [...]