By: David Cote

The top floors of Stokes Hall are currently being outfitted with carpet and wood molding, and the project remains on schedule for completion around Halloween and an official opening in January, construction managers have said.

By: Eleanor Hildebrandt

Starting in early October, the Faculty Dining Room in McElroy Hall will open its doors to undergraduates once a week. Boston College Dining Services’ (BCDS) new TV Chef Series will kick off with a night featuring the cuisine of Food Network chef Jamie Oliver, and is slated to continue on Thursdays throughout the academic year.

By: David Cote and Greg Joyce

Jaryd Rudolph, the football player charged with unlawful secret recording last March after he allegedly recorded a consensual sexual encounter between his roommate and a female graduate student, has played in all three of Boston College’s football games this fall.

By: David Cote

By: David Cote

David Karp, a professor in the sociology department, received the George Herbert Mead Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of the Study of Symbolic Interaction.

By: David Cote

Anne Dhu McLucas, the inaugural chair of Boston College’s music department, was a victim in a double homicide near Eugene, Ore. on Sept. 7.

By: David Cote

Bollege’s Rev. J. Donald Monan, S.J. professor in theatre arts for the 2012-2013 academic year.

By: David Cote

Boston College was ranked 31st among national universities for the second consecutive year in the 2013 U.S. News and World Report rankings.

By: David Cote

The UGBC will receive $595,000 for the 2012-2013 academic year, according to a recently released budget report. Each of the four branches of the UGBC-Cabinet, Senate, the AHANA Leadership Council (ALC), and the GLBTQ Leadership Council (GLC)-reported increases in budget from the 2011-2012 academic year.

By: David Cote

This year’s Fall Concert, hosted by the UGBC, will feature hip hop duo Time Flies and Lupe Fiasco in Conte Forum on Friday, Sept. 21, at 5 p.m.