After first refusing to release their respective $80,000 and $30,000 budgets, both the AHANA the GLBTQ Leadership Councils (GLC) released their budgets to The Observer. As semi-autonomous organizations within the Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC), both the ALC and GLC receive their funding from the UGBC. The Observer sought line-item budgets from the UGBC, [...]

Students filled St. Ignatius Church on the Fourth Sunday of Easter to witness nine fellow Eagles receive the Sacraments of Initiation during the RCIA Mass. Father Joseph Appleyard, SJ celebrated the Mass in which six students were baptized. Fathers Donald MacMillan, SJ and Anthony Penna, director of Campus Ministry, concelebrated the liturgy. Receiving all three [...]

Boston College entered a historic partnership in 2006 when it joined forces with the Archdiocese of Boston and Saint Columbkille Parish to support Saint Columbkille School in Brighton.  Four years later, the Saint Columbkille Partnership School is continuing its mission “to become one of the outstanding Catholic elementary and middle schools in the nation.” Peter [...]

Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve Chairman, recently announced his intentions of forming a plan that will decrease the federal deficit in the near future. Bernanke told The New York Times, “Although sizable deficits are unavoidable in the near term, maintaining the confidence of the public and financial markets requires that policy makers move decisively to set [...]

The Boston College men’s rugby team dismantled Harvard’s squad this past Saturday, 43-12 on Harvard’s own turf. Rob Guerrero, Stuart Harris, and Peter Kerr all contributed to the win with tries. The game this weekend was part of the rugby team’s spring season, which is more of a developmental season than the fall.  No seniors [...]

This past Thursday, President Obama proposed an “interesting” strategy to try and get Wall Street on board with his and Congress’ financial regulatory overhaul. In an address at Cooper Union College in Manhattan, the President boldly claimed that he foresaw the crisis two years ago when he gave a speech at the same venue. He [...]

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SSH is poised to begin distributing handguns with gloves taped to them to murderers, contingent upon the success of the Solo cup campaign. SSH wants BC students to know that sex cannot be consensual if alcohol is in either party’s system… unless you’re too hammered to read their poster. Dear SSH: We go to BC, [...]

Among Boston College’s most recent guests was acclaimed poet Kevin Young, a native of Lincoln, Nebraska. Having received his Bachelor of the Arts from Harvard University, where he learned from poetic heavyweights Seamus Heaney and Lucie Brock-Broido, and his M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Brown University, Young has certainly studied the art of writing extensively [...]

The Jay McGillis Spring Football Game was played last Saturday, and the Jay McGilis scholarship is annually awarded to a deserving defensive player. While everyone knows the name of the spring game, not everyone knows who Jay McGilis was. Jay McGilis was a sophomore safety for Boston College in 1991 when Tom Coughlin took over [...]