AHANA Leadership Council (ALC) leaders have announced a proposal to force freshmen to take a mandatory course on race, class, and gender. According to a Facebook group designed to promote the required course, such a class is necessary because of articles published in both The Observer and The Heights during the fall semester, both of [...]
This past week, Boston College hosted its annual performance of The Vagina Monologues, a play written by Eve Ensler. Since its debut in 1996, the play has drawn considerable attention and controversy. The performance consists of a series of monologues, each recited by different actresses, which tell stories and experiences of various women as these [...]
The Boston College Republicans (CR) invited former presidential candidate and Law and Order star Senator Fred Thompson (R-TN) to speak to the student body on Tuesday, February 16, 2010.
Despite arriving 90 minutes late due to a snowstorm, Thompson entered the Irish Room and quickly began his speech right after CR President Michael Reer introduced Thompson [...]
The artistic community of Boston College gathered in the Bapst Library basement to celebrate their accomplishments and to share them with family, friends, faculty, and fellow students on the evening of Thursday, February 18, 2010. As written in the invitation, the evening, which was sponsored cooperatively by the University Libraries, the Art Club, and the [...]
For the American servicemen and women who are Catholic, finding a church on Sundays is not an easy task. To alleviate this hardship, Pope Pius XII created the military ordinariate in 1939. This grew out of an informal brotherhood of volunteer priests, formed in 1917.
Originally, the military ordinariate branched from the Archdiocese of New York, [...]
From Monday the 15th to Wednesday at 5:00pm, members of the Boston College community gathered in the Shea Room of Conte Forum, filling out forms and waiting patiently for their names to be called.
Josh Berk, the Organizational Director of the American Red Cross Club of Boston College, explains that the drive was one of four [...]
The Boston College Music Department presented a joint presentation of the Boston College Symphony Orchestra and the Boston College Cello Ensemble to a packed audience of BC students, faculty and staff, and parents this past Friday, February 19th in Gasson Hall. There were over 50 talented young musicians performing in the concert that night.
The Boston [...]
Recently, Professor Lewis Hyde visited the Boston College campus to discuss the benefits of public discourse and collective thinking in a lecture entitled “Freedom of Listening.” A poet, essayist, translator, and cultural critic, Hyde has produced much insightful writing to be commended, including his famous book The Gift that was published in 1983.
Deservedly, Professor Hyde [...]
Boston College faculty were recently given the opportunity to hear an insightful message from Gary Rhoades, who gave a lecture entitled “Academic Freedom and Responsibility in Hard Times.” Sponsored by the Boston College chapter of the American Association of University Professors, the lecture allowed faculty and graduate students to discover the importance of freedom in [...]
The Boston College Career Center recently hosted information sessions and on-campus interviews conducted by Grassroots Campaigns, a self-admitted progressive organization that limits its work to liberal-leaning groups in order to affect change. The sessions were held in Gasson and spanned two days.
In an e-mail circulated by the Student Recruiting office, Grassroots Campaigns explained that they [...]
