Karyl Clifford (she/her) is the Digital Director for The Heights. She served as an assistant news editor in fall 2023 and served as the editorial assistant in spring 2023. She is from East Bridgewater, Mass. You can contact her atkaryl.clifford@bcheights.com
Like many Boston College seniors hoping to take full advantage of their remaining days on the Heights, Kristen Donnelly said she and her friends have a bucket list to tackle before graduation. This bucket list, Donnelly explained, is particularly important to her because the COVID-19 pandemic prevented her from doing many of the activities and…
The African and African diaspora studies department hosted Willie Jamaal Wright, an assistant professor of geography at the University of Florida, on April 12 as part of the New Directions Lecture Series. Wright discussed his latest project, a book on how Black artists in historically Black neighborhoods use art and public performance to create a vision of development rather than gentrification.
Despite ongoing discrimination like the rise of anti-Asian racism during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Asian Pacific community is not powerless to make change, according to Interim Director of the Office of Student Involvement Roatha Kong.
Children, police officers, and students came together at Margot Connell Recreation Center for Boston College’s first annual Polar Plunge on Saturday morning. The BC Police Department hosted the event along with Special Olympics BC and the Law Enforcement Torch Run.
The United States is more segregated today than it was 100 years ago, according to Thomas W. Mitchell, the Robert Drinan, S.J., Professor of Law at Boston College.
Sitting on the crest of a hill on Boston College’s Brighton Campus lies the Charles S. and Isabella V. McMullen Museum of Art. Once a two-story museum in Devlin Hall with only enough space to put on two to three exhibits annually, the McMullen Museum is now housed in the renovated former residence of Boston’s archbishop.
Rebuilding democracy starts within local communities, according to New York Times columnist and former CBS political analyst Jamelle Bouie.
Boston College’s Irish studies and history departments welcomed Hirota on Wednesday night to speak on the origins of the term “illegal alien,” specifically when referring to Irish, Japanese, and Mexican immigrant populations in the 19th century.
Juliet Schor, a Boston College sociology professor and economist, was named a 2022 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellow.
On Saturday, the BC Women’s Center held its first fully in-person Women’s Summit in two years. The event featured workshops and panel discussions that aimed to empower attendees and engage in meaningful conversations, according to the Women’s Summit website.
