Congratulations to the staff, donors, and Board of Directors of The Observer at Boston College for delivering a stunning turnaround in order to come in second place for this year’s Collegiate Network Newspaper of the Year award. While the executive staff certainly deserves credit for giving the newspaper a chance to succeed by placing the [...]

The three stooges are at it again. Just a few short weeks after winning the Nobel Peace Prize for no apparent reason, President Obama has once again teamed up with his two favorite sidekicks, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, in an effort to further socialize the country. As if government-subsidized financial institutions and automobile companies [...]

It happens every election cycle. Candidates present themselves as holier- than-thou saviors and heroes, at the same time trying to slander their opponents into appearing like fools, bigots, and criminals. They look through the records of other candidates, examining how they voted, where they have worked, and what activities or movements they have taken part [...]

This past week, Boston College undergrads competed in the annual Deloitte Consulting Case Competition. Teams of three to four members labored all week to research and propose a solution to key administration issues within a hypothetical country, MLJ Airparts. The winning team was announced this Sunday. MLJ Airparts, the company invented for analytical purposes, is [...]

The European Bishops’ Commission for the Media met for a four day conference in Rome this past week to discuss the use of social networking technology in the Catholic Church. Archbishop Claudio Celli, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, spoke at the meeting and noted that less than a third of Catholic websites [...]

 For the 18th consecutive  year, the United Nations passed  a resolution condemning the  United States for its economic  embargo against Cuba.  Although  the embargo was first put in  place to secure fundamental hu-  man rights for Cubans, it has not  delivered on that promise and, as  a growing number of opponents  say, is that much [...]

Troubling allegations have surfaced that the Service Employees International Union may have violated the provisions of its contract with Boston College with last month’s “Hat Day” demonstration outside of Hillside Café. Determining whether this gathering was indeed a violation of the contract’s prohibiting advertisements of Union disputes cannot be ascertained without a careful examination of [...]

In a last-ditch attempt to save a gubernatorial campaign running on empty, Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds ran a series of television advertisements brandishing his opponent Bob McDonnell as a right-wing extremist who would take Virginia back to the Stone Age. The basis of this charge was a masters’ thesis that McDonnell wrote in [...]

Some Boston College employees who are members of the Service Employees International Union Local 615 (SEIU) may have violated a provision of their contract with BC. Article 14 of the contract between BC and SEIU members prohibits the Union from engaging in “strikes, stoppages, lockouts, picketing, banners, or advertisements concerning any matter in dispute between [...]

Wait. What? You can have fun without drinking alcohol? Is that actually possible? You’re kidding right? You have to drink in college. Take a look at what some friends and I did one weekend. We enjoyed it, without drinking. On one evening, a group of friends and I went to see the comedian Rob Riggle [...]