By: Mary Rose Fissinger
Many students and faculty members sported buttons bearing both BC’s colors and the words, “This is what a feminist looks like” on clothing and backpacks in honor of BC’s second annual Feminist Coming Out Day.
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Meet The Fiore-Chettiar-Marchese Team
By: Mary Rose Fissinger
Marchese and Fiore-Chettiar pledge to be different from past “UGBC insider teams” who often do nothing to end the bureaucracy that many believe hinders effectiveness. They both have expressed dissatisfaction with the current culture and hope to drastically transform it if elected. Fiore-Chettiar was considering leaving UGBC before she decided to run for president, and only felt comfortable running for the position after she met Chris, whose vision she felt aligned with hers.
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Meet The Levine-Vergara Team
By: Mary Rose Fissinger
Many of their platform points are things that Levine and Vergara believe, though they may seem trivial, will have a large impact on student life based on the amount of people they will affect-more staplers on campus, more printing stations, better coffee in the dining halls. They hope that by accomplishing small things that impact nearly every student’s life, they will be able to reintroduce UGBC into students’ minds as an effective vehicle for accomplishing tasks that serve the interests of the student body.
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Revitalized AAC Plans 5K, Concert
By: Mary Rose Fissinger
The AIDS Awareness Committee had no current members on its listserv at the beginning of this year. Now, with about 40 active participants, the AAC is ready to start making a difference again.
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Boston-Area Fraternity Chapters Seek to Expand Greek Life To BC
By: Mary Rose Fissinger
Boston College brochures, tour guides, and admissions officers boast of the endless extracurricular opportunities for undergraduates at BC, citing the various a cappella groups, volunteer organizations, and clubs, from the social justice-oriented to the recreational to the eccentric. When compared with similar lists at many other American universities, however, BC’s is conspicuously missing one element: Greek life.
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Campus School Parents Host Prayer Service
By: Mary Rose Fissinger
Handcrafted signs bearing messages such as, “Please Save Boston College Campus School” and “We work best when we work together, hand in hand, Campus School and Boston College” adorned the altar of St. Ignatius Church Thursday night at the prayer service organized by Campus School parents.
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University Weighs Campus School Move
By: Mary Rose Fissinger
Seven Campus School parents and the co-presidents of the Campus School Volunteers of Boston College (CSVBC) met with University officials on Thursday, Jan. 16 to voice their concerns about the potential affiliation between the Campus School and the Kennedy Day School (KDS), which would result in a relocation of the Campus School to KDS’s facilities in the Franciscan Hospital for Children in Brighton
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Momentum Award: Conor Sullivan
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Female BC Students Report Lower Self-Confidence When Leaving College
By: Mary Rose Fissinger
At a faculty forum in April 2012, amidst a slew of data presented by Vice President of Planning and Assessment Kelli Armstrong to the hundreds of faculty members who had gathered that day, one statistic stood out to the crowd: female students leave Boston College with lower self-confidence than they had as freshmen. In contrast, men generally gain self-confidence during their four years here, despite having, on average, lower GPAs than their female classmates.
