Last year, through a grant from the Fine Arts Department, philosophy graduate student John Michaelczyk wrote and produced a documentary entitled, Keith Jones: Un-Rapping Disabilities, which follows the story of Keith Jones, a disabled black hip-hop artist and advocate of social justice.  Recently, through the joint efforts of AHANA, the Office of the Dean for [...]

The artistic community of Boston College gathered in the Bapst Library basement to celebrate their accomplishments and to share them with family, friends, faculty, and fellow students on the evening of Thursday, February 18, 2010.  As written in the invitation, the evening, which was sponsored cooperatively by the University Libraries, the Art Club, and the [...]

Beginning in the summer of 2008, the Boston College Office of Sustainability and Energy Management has endeavored to determine the carbon footprint,or the measurement of carbon dioxide emission, of the entire campus. As a part of this ongoing project, teams of two students each have been taking  measurements concerning the amount of carbon that trees [...]

In honor of the 12 Days of  Christmas, we here at The Observer wanted to spread a little  holiday cheer of our own by  giving you, our stressed out,  overworked and under- rested  student readers, 12 reasons  why we should all be thankful  to be at Boston College during this wonderful time of year.   [...]

When it comes to academic procedure and policy, students adhere to a strict moral code. Honesty serves as the guiding tenet for writing papers, conducting research, and preparing for class every single weekday. Weekends and personal lives, on the other hand, are a very different story, and both illustrate a very different picture of the [...]

After nearly two years of meetings and debates, Boston College’s $1.6 billion Institutional Master Plan, which will take ten years to complete, was approved by the city council on May 8, 2009. The goals of the expansion include to “commit Boston College to becoming the leader in liberal arts education among American universities” and to [...]

I am sure that many students on the Boston College campus— myself included—have found themselves caught up with one of the Seven Deadly Sins, swept away in a deadly riptide of envy. Despite going to one of the best schools in the country, in one of the best cities in the country, in one of [...]

Although he was educated across the river at Harvard and later received his law degree from the University of Virginia, Senator Edward Moore Kennedy, who is the third longest-serving senator in US history, was highly influential at Boston College. His work in the United States Senate embodies the Boston College tenet of serving as “a [...]

Traditionally, Boston College practices a certain level of discretion when it comes to inviting public figures to speak at the University. For example, last spring, controversial activist Bill Ayers’ speech was cancelled for reasons related to his alleged involvement in terrorist activities with Weather Underground, an organization responsible for several bombings in the 1960s and [...]