Gothic architecture and beautiful stained glass windows are distinguishing characteristics of Boston College’s iconic Gasson Hall. Recently, however, the structure’s windows drew attention of a different sort. A pane of glass fell from a third-floor window frame last Monday at about 12:55pm, shattering on the ground below and sending shards of broken glass toward nearby [...]
The Irish Dancers at Boston College performed the third annual St. Patrick’s Day Show, RHYTHM, this year to a large audience in a new performance venue, the Robsham Theater. Made up of thirty-one students, twenty-nine females and two males, Boston College Irish Dancers (BCID) performed an astonishing seventeen pieces to the amazement of the audience: [...]
Orlando Zapata Tamayo was a simple man who possessed a simple dream: to secure the freedom of Cuban prisoners-of-conscience who were being placed alongside common criminals in Cuba’s prisons. That is all. No calls for violence. No calls for revolution. He recognized an injustice and spoke out against it by going on a hunger strike, [...]
In the modern world, it is an all too common phenomenon for Catholics to over-emphasize social activism, while forgetting what must always lie at its root. Such service to others, undoubtedly, is a good and admirable thing by its very nature, but it becomes infinitely more valuable when performed in a spirit of love for [...]
Michael Reer left The Observer to write his two senior theses. Michael Reer left The Observer to “secretly” join the Stasi. Apparently he thought The Observer’s name referred to a surveillance training program. Michael Reer left The Observer to pursue a career with the College Democrats. Observer editors skated home from their meeting upon hearing [...]
March 17th, 2010. Hundreds of gallons of green vegetable dye are dumped into the Chicago River while hundreds of gallons of Guinness and Baileys are consumed. Beyond this massive and strange consumption of stereotypically Irish fluids, St. Patrick’s Day also provides us with a chance to consider the man behind it. The most well known [...]
Philosophy professor Eva Feder Kittay of Stony Brook University delivered a talk called “Lives Not Worth Living: Project T4, Mental Disability, and racism.” The author of several books touching upon various subjects, Kittay spoke about Holocaust mass murders of Jews and people with disabilities, as well as the general problem of societal discrimination against those [...]
You know it was a down year when ESPN’s Bracketology calls Boston College a “bad loss.” It is fairly insulting to be guilty of costing a bubble team a spot in the tournament. While Boston College is often a team on the bubble, that was not the case this year. The Eagles started the season [...]
As the USA Today #4 ranked team in the nation, the Eagles have, as fervent fans might put it, ‘soared’ past pre-season expectations. With only three returning seniors, many questioned the youth of coach Jerry York’s squad as an issue come March and the national tournament. Before the puck dropped on October 19th of last [...]
Catholics recently observed Laetare Sunday, marking the midway point of the Lenten season. For four weeks, Catholics have been making sacrifices, attending special prayer and penance services, and making other preparations for the celebration of Easter. In addition to Prayer and fasting, Lent is also a time for almsgiving, in light of the recent earthquakes [...]
