From the moment I stepped onto Boston College’s campus as a student, I was promised that Marathon Monday weekend would be the greatest weekend of my life.  The Boston Marathon holds a special spot in the heart of the BC community because we are the 21st mile of the marathon.  Runners pass by campus to [...]

On March 6th, Kentucky Republican Rand Paul embarked on a 13-hour Senate filibuster of the nomination of the eventual CIA Director, John Brennan. For those who haven’t seen Mr. Smith Goes to Washington or who aren’t aware of the U.S. Senate’s often perplexing rules, a filibuster is when one Senator holds up the Senate’s business [...]

It’s been two months since Stokes Hall opened at Boston College.  The “new building smell” is beginning to fade, and the desks have been broken in by many midterms and the sighs of stressed students that come along with them. Initial reactions have settled and everyone has finally figured out which part is North Stokes [...]

By Joe LaCorte Clothing that covers a male’s legs, often referred to as pants, has been a matter of hot debate throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. From the 1900s to the 1950s, pants were cornered to be just the bottom half of suits. The top of the suits received all the attention whether as [...]

By Kwesi Aaron 226 years ago, the founding fathers created a fluid document, The Constitution, which intended to do two things.  The first was to lay the foundation for the new country they were forming.  The second was to allow for changes, corrections and additions known as amendments to serve as the force that maintains [...]

The 2013 blizzard hits BC with more might than Thor’s hammer.   Early last week we heard all the hype: “Watch out! Blizzard Nemo is coming!” Naturally, many of us were skeptical. How many times in our lives have snowstorms been predicted only to result in about as much snow as they get in Miami? [...]

For most of its history, America has been a mass democracy. Before suffrage was extended to all races and all genders, it was extended to all classes. Since then, politicians and political parties in America have strove to appeal to the common man. Mass democracy has generally been a positive development; obviously we should not [...]

By Kwesi Aaron Generally the people of a given population and the forces that control their flow of information work together to promote certain principles, ideas and behaviors that lead to some kind of uniform behavior in one area or another.  Conformity, for the most part, is necessary because many common behaviors are beneficial (i.e. [...]

Quentin Tarantino is at it again, this time releasing his new movie Django Unchained for viewers to enjoy. The movie is the story of a former slave named Django (played by Jamie Foxx) who is rescued by German bounty hunter, who frees Django to help him find the three men he is currently hunting, as [...]

On Friday, July 20, 2012 in Aurora, Colorado, a large number of people gathered at the local movie theater with their family and friends, eager to see the newest Batman movie.  They grabbed their popcorn, found a row, and sunk into their chairs to begin what would have been the start to a relaxing and [...]