Our dining halls here at Boston College seem to generate a lot of strong opinions from the students. Now, I personally have no serious beef (no pun intended) with the food quality, but what I have heard from others may indicate that most are not huge fans of many of the delicacies presented, such as [...]

As my father says to me with a wink, “Get down to the city. Take a nice girl out for dinner, maybe some ice-skating, and who knows? Maybe some ‘extracurricular’ activities,” I stare at him with a smug look on my face. HAH! His nostalgic thoughts of the ‘good old days’ are far from applicable [...]

Leafing through several news and opinions pieces in The Observer and other Boston College student publications, there are certain words that stand out.  These words tend to repeat themselves almost methodically, as though they carried with them some sort of understood, unquestionable meaning.  Among the words which I noticed were words such as “Jesuit” and [...]

The life of a college student is undoubtedly a busy one. Between classes, homework, extra-curricular activities, and socializing, there is hardly time to be worrying about grocery shopping, cooking a meal, and doing dishes. For all freshmen and the majority of sophomores, meal plans are mandatory; even some juniors living on campus are required to [...]

Spring Break for Boston College has a different meaning than it does for other schools. It is one of the few schools where Spring Break actually starts in February. Some students fail to see the need for a break after a mere five weeks of school. Perhaps a change is necessary. There are a few [...]

Boston College recently announced that tuition will increase for the upcoming year, but who was really surprised to hear that? One of the contributing factors to the increase in tuition is that the University will increase the student activities fee for the second year in a row, from $190 to $244 per student. The fee [...]

Step one BC has spring concert, rumored to be MGMT but that was talk, they introduce The Fray, fans of Grey’s Anatomy go left and the rest of us run as far away as possible. We begin to wonder why they came. Where Did BC Go Wrong? Let’s face it, no one is going to [...]

In a manner of speaking, America has yet again been attacked. Not from terrorist and extremist groups from abroad but from inside, by Congress itself. The bastardization of this so called ‘healthcare’ reform bill has been laden with corruption, insider deals, and an undertone that can be perceived as unconstitutional. Add-ins such as the so-called [...]

Orlando Zapata Tamayo was a simple man who possessed a simple dream: to secure the freedom of Cuban prisoners-of-conscience who were being placed alongside common criminals in Cuba’s prisons. That is all. No calls for violence. No calls for revolution. He recognized an injustice and spoke out against it by going on a hunger strike, [...]

As tensions heighten in Washington over healthcare, it seems that a solution in the immediate future is questionable. Or at least a solution that the majority of American people will support is questionable. A March 8, 2011, Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that, “42 percent [of voters called] favor the plan while 53 percent [...]