Jesse Naiman went to confession. See page 10
The ALC demanded that every freshman take a mandatorycourse on race. University officials, however, doubt if fitting aracecourse into the 10 year plan is feasible at this point.
Michelle Obama wants more grocery stores available nationwide to promote healthy eating. When asked how poor people could afford health foods, [...]

Readers may notice that The Observer was the only campus paper who declined to endorse a candidate in the recent UGBC elections. While we congratulate Micaela Mabida and Patrick Raab on their victory and wish them the best of luck, we found that each candidate team did not possess qualities we look for.
Both the Mabida-Raab [...]

You Don’t Know Jacq is a weekly column run and owned by The Observer. Its authorship should not be confused with any one student or writer. As such, we apologize for any confusion resulting from last week’s column, which was written by a different staff member.
Dear Jacq,
I want to know what girls expect from a [...]

Father Tacelli, who was President of the Board of Directors for a majority of my time here at The Observer, characterized me as a freshman by saying that “you were the most intense person I had ever met in my entire life. Everything seemed like an existential crisis to you. I don’t know how you [...]

Mary Daly was recently shocked when she showed up to the gates of heaven and God was actually an old white man with a long beard.
Scott Brown recently won “Most Embarrassing Dad of the Year” after telling the nation Ayla was available. On a positive note, Brown’s nude photos scored much better ratings than Nancy [...]

Some students and faculty members mourned the passing of Mary Daly by remembering her as an outspoken Catholic feminist who challenged the Church to morph its teachings to changing social conditions. We join the BC community in mourning her death, and we wish to remember her legacy in terms of reality and not wishful thinking. [...]

Dear Annamaria,
Until recently, my best friend at school has been involved in a serious relationship with a guy she’s known since freshman year. I have had feelings for her for a very long time, probably longer than I’ve ever liked anyone before. Although their break-up is recent, she has admitted to thinking that we’d be [...]

This past year, the television show Man vs. Food, featuring a daring food enthusiast traveling the nation taking on little known, local food and eating challenges, stopped in Chestnut Hill to visit Eagle’s Deli. His goal: to beat the Eagle’s Challenge: 5 pounds of hamburgers and 5 pounds of french-fries. Although the show’s star failed [...]

Most know of the dispute between the family of the late William Cardinal O’Connell and the Archdiocese of Boston regarding the movement of his remains. When Boston College bought land formerly belonging to the Archdiocese in 2004, it agreed to move the Cardinal’s body in a respectful manner as a condition of the sale. While [...]