By: Kendra Kumor
With all of the craziness surrounding the annual rush to land and internship, one has to wonder: whatever happened to the good old days when a calm, minimum-wage job was enough?
News
BC Senior Co-Founds WOOF
By: Daniel Perea-Kane
Working On Our Future (WOOF) Supplies, LLC is a social entrepreneurship project started by Chris Olmanson, A&S ’14, his brother Alex, and his childhood friend Jack Angell, that aims to provide notebooks and other school supplies to under privileged children.
News, On Campus
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
News, On Campus
NBA Star Bryant Goes Back To School, Appears In CSOM Class
By: Nathan McGuire
Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant unexpectedly dropped in on an international marketing class last Thursday evening
News, On Campus
2014 UGBC Elections Re-Opened
By: Julie Orenstein
Facing the prospect of an uncontested election for UGBC president and vice president for 2014-15, the Elections Committee (EC) has re-opened the applicant pool for candidates and delayed the start of the election season.
News, Academics
CSOM Professors Publish Study On Online Consumerism
By: Mujtaba Syed
Carroll School of Management professors James Gips and Stevan Adam Brasel have found that the use of touchscreen interfaces makes consumers subconsciously feel as if they own products, thereby making them more likely to purchase items.
News, Off Campus, Column
Happy Accidents
By: Alex Gaynor
As a child, I always resisted situations that I didn’t have a plan for. I knew what I wanted, I planned out how circumstances would resolve themselves, and I would be intolerant of a situation happening any other way.
News, On Campus
Community Gathers For MLK Memorial
By: Daniel Perea-Kane
Although many now consider Martin Luther King, Jr. a political figure, a civil rights leader, and non-violent activist, he was originally and foremost a preacher and minister-a sentiment reflected by The Office of Campus Ministry during its Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Gathering, whose central question of the night asked “Has the Dream Been Realized?”
On Campus, News
Krause Discusses Syrian Civil War
By: Soo Jung Rhee
Acknowledging the confusion behind the frustratingly intertwined relations and conflicts among Arab countries, professor of political science Peter Krause introduced five key questions regarding the civil war in Syria before he presented an extensive outlook on the ongoing issue of the Syrian crisis.
