The women’s rowing squad competed in ACC Championships this past weekend down in South Carolina at Clemson University. They rowed against Clemson, Virginia, Duke, Miami, and North Carolina. The weekend consisted of just one 2,000-meter race per boat type with all six teams rowing head-to-head. The team finished 4th place overall as a team. The [...]
The main thing I took away from Saturday’s game, besides terribly sunburnt shoulders, was that Michael Marscovetra should be the starting quarterback in the September 4th game against Weber State. Marscovetra and Shinskie were the two starting quarterbacks and the 19-year-old sophomore-to-be outshone his 26-year-old fellow sophomore-to-be counterpart. Marscovetra displayed more accuracy and better decision [...]
Facebook has become an absolute cultural phenomenon, and the average college student would be hard-pressed to scrounge up a name of a friend that doesn’t own a Facebook. Ever since it appeared on the digital scene in 2004, college students, then high school students, and later the wider world, have been virtually addicted to Facebook [...]
The Boston College Students for Sexual Health (BCSSH), a grassroots movement of Boston College students moving to ease accessibility to condoms on campus, has recently made their new condom distribution campaign public via an online blog. Their latest promotion of prophylactics consists of “responsible party kits.” These kits are described as such: “Each kit consists [...]
Pope Benedict visited the Mediterranean island of Malta from April 17 to April 18. Though at first glance this may seem superficially short, his trip teemed with sightseeing and outreach, including a Mass at the Floriana Granaries and a meeting with sexual abuse victims. As publicly released on the Vatican website, Pope Benedict outlined three [...]
We would like to congratulate the AHANA Leadership Council (ALC) and the GLBTQ Leadership Council (GLC) for their efforts at further transparency. By releasing budgets, these two groups have shown that they hold themselves accountable for the student funds allocated to them each year. We would take issue, however, with the manner in which the [...]
E-mails recently released by a Senate subcommittee implicate Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs in making “serious money” off of the real estate bubble burst. The e-mail chains contradict claims by Goldman officials that the investment bank also lost a substantial amount of money from mortgage-related investments, and will be addressed during the bank’s Senate hearing [...]
The Boston College Students for Sexual Health’s (BCSSH) new initiative to help host “responsible parties” is misguided despite good intentions. Behind the idea to supply condoms to parties on campus discretely by taping them to the bottom of Solo cups lies a dangerous, hypocritical oversight on the part of BCSSH leaders. The group insists that [...]
As Greece experiences continued economic trouble, the government recently requested assistance from the International Monetary Fund. The IMF has agreed to lend Greece massive amounts in bailout money, as did many European nations. The assistance will allow Greece to avoid default on its many debts. Many European nations willingly agreed to donate billions to Greece, [...]
