The Boston College Students for Sexual Health (BCSSH), a grassroots movement of Boston College students moving to ease accessibility to condoms on campus, has recently made their new condom distribution campaign public via an online blog. Their latest promotion of prophylactics consists of “responsible party kits.”  These kits are described as such: “Each kit consists [...]

It is rather hard to do anything in the world today without encountering some form of eco-friendly, sustainable, “let’s all be green,” “recycle this” rhetoric that ten years ago may have been swept to the side as tree-hugger nonsense.  At Boston College, the dining halls post elaborate signs telling students how to recycle, what trash [...]

The budget for the Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC) for this past school year, including a line-item budget, has been released to The Observer. Funded by mandatory student activity fees, the UGBC’s total budget this year totaled $538,000. Of that total, campus entertainment received the most money, $222,000, or 41.3% of the budget. $100,000 [...]

Leafing through several news and opinions pieces in The Observer and other Boston College student publications, there are certain words that stand out.  These words tend to repeat themselves almost methodically, as though they carried with them some sort of understood, unquestionable meaning.  Among the words which I noticed were words such as “Jesuit” and [...]

For those who did not read my opinions piece in the last issue (The Vagina Monolouges: An Editor Responds 2/23/2010), you can do so online.  For those of you who have, you no doubt read or contributed to the slew of comments I received (also available online, below my article).  In voicing my opinion, I [...]

This past week, Boston College hosted its annual performance of The Vagina Monologues, a play written by Eve Ensler.  Since its debut in 1996, the play has drawn considerable attention and controversy.  The performance consists of a series of monologues, each recited by different actresses, which tell stories and experiences of various women as these [...]

Of all the events on campus, none seems more divisive than The Vagina Monologues.  The poorly advertised play put on in a small venue serves more to polarize than critics or proponents would like.  Nonetheless, it has a presence on campus – one which cannot be avoided.  In response, this writer and editor offers some [...]

Friday the 22nd of January marked the 37th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision Roe v Wade which stated that denying women access to abortion is a violation of due process of law.  In protest of the decision, seen by critics as a clear case of judicial activism, a reading into the constitution of “rights” [...]

Waking up in the morning, looking out my fourth story apartment,  my eyes are normally disappointed  – only greeted by the bland architecture, poorly kept fields, and industrial construction sites of the  northwest corner of Heidelberg,  all dimly illuminated by the morning still breaking.  When the fog is  not too thick as I cross the [...]

Amid the controversy surrounding the availability of birth control on Catholic campuses, several factors and realities seem to be left out of the debate. Students have asked, quite openmindedly and honestly, about the Church’s reasoning behind its stance on contraception. Unfortunately, the University’s lackluster response and the pathetic failure of the faculty panel/discussion on birth [...]