To curb drinking at this year’s spring concert BC brought in musicians who were popular when most of us were minors. Congrats to Chris Kreider on his first NHL goal. Good news: Shinskie is here for only one more year. This is our last issue, so put all your torches and pitchforks away until next [...]
President Obama tried to get Congress to pass the Buffet rule last week so that those making at least $1 million a year would face a minimum tax rate of 30%. The rule failed in the Senate, and Democrats like New York Senator Chuck Schumer have promised to bring the rule to a vote over [...]
As my four years as a CSOM undergrad come to an end, the inevitable period of gloom at the thought of leaving Boston College has commenced. The idea of departing the college world to become a “real person” is far from comforting to most. Despite my sadness at leaving the Heights, I am confident that [...]
The recent discovery of the involvement of Fr. Bradley Schaeffer, SJ in the Donald McGuire child molestation case was deeply troubling to the Boston College community, and his resignation from the Board of Trustees last week comes as welcome news. After Fr. Schaeffer’s mismanagement of the McGuire affair and before his time at BC, he [...]
With the recent objection by Father Shea, O.S.A., to the supposedly inadequate theological explanation on the Church’s inability to ordain women, some students have written to The Observer arguing that, in fact, the Catholic teaching on women’s ordination isn’t infallible and could very well change in the (near) future. Pope Blessed John Paul II issued [...]
On the third day, Christ rose again from the dead. He returned from the realms of Hell that He might be the first fruits of the new age, of the resurrection to life. And it is by the power that is vested in Him, inherent in Him, from the beginning that He reveals God, life, [...]
St.Peter of Alcantara was a man of great ambition, not flashy ambition, but a simple and pure ambition. He followed his path wherever it led and had enough sense to recognize where change was useful. His story begins in 1499 when he was born son of the governor of Alcantara, Peter Garavito. He was raised [...]
On Thursday, April 19, the Rev. Bradley M. Schaeffer, SJ tendered his resignation from the Boston College Board of Trustees following the publication of an article in The Boston Globe which implicated him in the mismanagement of Donald McGuire, a pedophile and former Jesuit priest who was under Fr. Schaeffer’s charge in the Chicago Province [...]
On Friday afternoon, Boston College hosted its spring concert at Conte Forum and welcomed tons of students from each class to hear some great 90’s music. The concert featured two acts, the first being the band Third Eye Blind and the second the rapper Nelly, both of which were famous musical acts during the 1990’s. [...]
On a recent Thursday afternoon, an audience of authors, journalists, professors, and students gathered in Devlin 101 to hear Sam Tanenhaus, editor of the New York Times Book Review since 2004, speak on how the public role of the intellectual has been evolving and how this is linked with the constant changes in the world [...]
