“It was very difficult to get the administration to commit to it,” Claudio said. “We had a few people, you know, on the lower end of the administration really trying to help us out a lot. The problem was getting the higher-ups to commit to it.”
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Healing the Catholic Church in the 21st Century: C21 Center Celebrates Two Decades at BC
“I’m also really proud that the center is really looking to the future of the church, being young people with a particular focus,” Kiefer said. “Our commitment to having big conversations about roles and relationships in the church and the Catholic intellectual tradition … and constantly creating new opportunities to engage more people in important conversations about the importance of God.”
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From 1973 to 2022: The Abortion Debate at BC
Across the country and at BC, both abortion-rights and anti-abortion advocates are processing the Dobbs decision, which overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, establishing that the U.S. Constitution does not recognize a federal right to an abortion. Although not physically together on campus, students, alumni, and professors are grappling with what this decision means for the future of abortion in the United States.
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“Frustrating, draining, and frankly horrible”: How Title IX Policy in the White House Shaped Universities’ Reponses to Sexual Assault
“The process is so frustrating, it’s so draining and frankly it’s horrible,” they said. “…it’s so overwhelming because you have some people tell you, ‘yes, report, speak up’… and then other people telling you, ‘yeah, this is gonna take like months or years potentially to get anywhere with it.’”
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Trials and Transformation: The 50-Year History of Title IX
Title IX—passed on June 23, 1972—prohibits discrimination based on sex within educational programs or activities that receive federal funding in a mere 37 words:
“No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”
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Herrd is the Word: How One App Weaves a Tight-Knit BC Community
“Obviously you don’t know who people are, but that really allows people to be authentic and kind of bond together over a lot of things,” Valentine said.
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Eagles Take to the Skies: BC Study Abroad Returns
“I think my attitude was like, ‘Well, we’ve already had weird times, I’m just gonna go and do my own thing—there’s no other time to do it other than now,’” Carey said.
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One Year Later, MLE Residents Are Still Left in the Dark
“It makes me really uncomfortable because it doesn’t seem right for people like that to be here and around us when they directly are trying to make other people’s lives uncomfortable or unbearable,” Gonzalez said.
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2021 Momentum Awards
“It was just kind of understood that this is what we needed to get our feet back under us and be successful. And it’s gonna require you rolling up your sleeves and doing… something a little different, so it was just kind of understood, like, ‘Here’s what we need.’”
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The Class of 2021: Making the Most Of an Unconventional Senior Year
“You never know when something can be taken away from you,” Rueve said. “I think that’s something that the pandemic really, really made me realize, and be thankful for every lacrosse game that I get to manage and every charity water meeting, and every opportunity to see family or call a friend.”
