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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Northern Illinois University Professor Tomis Kapitan – specialist in his studies of international ethics of terrorism – visited the Boston College campus this past weekend to deliver a lecture entitled, “Terrorism and Self-Determination in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.” The lecture was sponsored through the efforts of the Center of Christian and Jewish Learning. Kapitan argued, “terrorism [...]
Several Asian culture groups recently partnered with the Asian Caucus of Boston College to celebrate the naming of the Asian American Scholarship. In order to bring more awareness to the student body, the clubs organized a rally in the Middle Campus quad and decorated the campus with yellow balloons, posters, and banners to commemorate the [...]
Through the joint efforts of the Boston College Philosophy Association, the Sons of Saint Patrick and the Saint Thomas More Society, Fr. Paul McNellis, S.J., a professor in the philosophy department, recently addressed both male and female students in Cushing Hall. In his lecture, entitled, “The Hook-Up Culture: How Men Should Respond,” the Jesuit offered [...]
The budget for the Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC) for this past school year, including a line-item budget, has been released to The Observer. Funded by mandatory student activity fees, the UGBC’s total budget this year totaled $538,000. Of that total, campus entertainment received the most money, $222,000, or 41.3% of the budget. $100,000 [...]
The big screen, movie theater popcorn and candy, guest presenters, and golden Baldwin awards created a “red carpet” atmosphere for an event to honor BC undergraduate filmmakers. The sixth annual Baldwin Awards, an event which recognizes “excellence in film and video” among Boston College undergraduates, featured thirty-seven films nominated for fifteen categories of awards. The [...]
