Chris Woods, Head of Industry for Google spoke to CSOM sophomores. As a graduate of Boston College, Woods used his finance degree from CSOM to propel his career through the entertainment industry to a senior position at Google. He advised CSOM sophomores on life at Google, the GMATS, summer internships, and how to use a [...]
Boston College students were recently given the opportunity to hear the fascinating story of Franco Majok, a refugee from the African country of Sudan. As a refugee of the Sudanese Civil War, Majok came to the United States in 1998 in search of a better, safer life. However, after visiting his birthplace, the small village [...]
Both our men and women’s soccer teams competed this past weekend in their respective end-of-the-season tournaments. The men’s team advanced to the semifinal of the ACC championship tournament only to suffer a 1-0 loss Friday night against NC State. In the men’s game, NC State’s Ronnie Bouemboue scored the game’s only goal on a header [...]
There is perhaps no more obvious disparity between the outlook of modern Catholics and that of Catholics in ages past than the way in which each looks upon death, judgment, heaven, and hell, the four “last things”. For centuries, the Church saw judgment as something essential to the Faith, and encouraged a holy fear that [...]
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) meets in Baltimore for its annual Fall General Assembly from November 16th to 19th, 2009. The meeting began Monday morning with Mass, followed by regional meetings, then the public plenary session. The Bishops will hear an address from Francis Cardinal George of Chicago, the president of the [...]
To the Editor, I am writing to protest in the sharpest possible terms your printing of the Pro-Choice≠Pro-Abortion cartoon in your last issue. The cartoon as drawn clearly showed tiny fetal body parts protruding from the bucket of bloody remains. But in the cartoon as printed the brilliant details were reduced to so many dirty [...]
BC football won a road game…No really…They did. A certain campus opinions journal recently called an Observer cartoon the most bigoted thing they had ever seen. Our suggestion? Get out more. The same opinions journal wrote a letter to The Heights claiming that they stole their news article about the union contract negotiations; they stole [...]
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 [...]
This past Thursday, Alasdair MacIntyre, the O’Brien Senior Research Professor at the University of Notre Dame, packed McGuinn 121 for his thought provoking lecture “Philosophical Education Against Contemporary Culture.” Sponsored by the Church in the 21st Century, the speech was a part of the continuing Albert J. Fitzgibbons Lecture Series in Boston College’s Philosophy Department. [...]
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 [...]
