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“University President is a tough job right now,” Rather said. “There’s been tremendous turnover. There’s been tremendous stress. So I think it’s incredibly difficult, even more reason that I think it’s important that BC continues with a Jesuit president to continue that tradition.”
Richard Gaillardetz was a world-renowned theologian, but he also made the well-being of his students and colleagues his top priority, according to Stephen Pope. Gaillardetz, former chair of the Boston College theology department, died on Nov. 7, 20 months after he was diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. He was 65.
Over the past three years, Boston College has purchased two new properties, Mount Alvernia High School and Pine Manor College, to expand its educational and administrative resources. Heights editors got an inside look at the new campuses.
Thirty-seven members of Boston College’s men’s and women’s swim and dive program dropped their lawsuit against the University Friday morning following Judge Diane Freniere’s decision on Thursday to deny a motion for an emergency injunction reinstating the team.
Judge Diane Freniere denied the request of the 37 members of Boston College men’s and women’s swim and dive to maintain anonymity in their lawsuit against the University.
Boston College filed court documents on Monday reaffirming the University’s earlier statements that hazing occurred within the men’s and women’s swim and dive program.
Thirty-seven unnamed members of Boston College men’s and women’s swim and dive filed a lawsuit against the University on Tuesday for allegedly imposing an unjustified suspension after recent hazing allegations.
The Boston College Women’s Center has partnered with UGBC to provide free menstrual products in certain bathrooms across campus.
The University published its crime statistics on Friday in accordance with the Clery Act, which requires all colleges that receive federal funding to release an annual public safety report detailing crime on campus and the school’s efforts to improve campus safety by Oct. 1 of each year.
The main goal of unionizing Boston College Residential Life student workers is to put ResLife employees at more of an equal playing field with their employers, BC ResLife Student Workers said in an email to The Heights.
