This reflects a significant increase in the University’s admission selectivity from last year’s 24 percent acceptance rate.
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Marty Walsh Signs Petition Calling for LGBTQ Resource Center at BC
The petition has garnered high-profile support in the past, including a retweet from Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, and an endorsement from former Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson, both last March.
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SA Confirms Directors to Financial Affairs, Environmental Sustainability
The Student Assembly (SA) of UGBC confirmed Robert Finn, CSOM ’22, and Ryan Bates, MCAS ’22, to the 2021-22 Executive Council on Tuesday night.
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Every Bite Counts Returns With a Sustainable and Altruistic Goal
Boston College students have relaunched Every Bite Counts (eBC), a student-led initiative that aims to reduce the environmental impact of BC’s dining halls and feed families in need, this spring.
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Arkes Denounces Same-Sex Marriage, Abortion at BC Republicans Event
In a lecture that came just two weeks after the Vatican released a statement saying the church does not have the power to bless same-sex unions, Arkes—who said he has “friends who are gay who are reserved about same-sex marriage”—argued that natural law only permits marriages between men and women.
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“A Pyrrhic Victory”: BC Alum Presents on The Battle of Bunker Hill
Brian Cummins, BC ’82, provided an expansive description of the Battle of Bunker Hill in a virtual presentation on March 18.
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Boyle Shares Experiences With Homeboy Industries, Helping Others
Boyle, a Jesuit author and graduate of the School of Theology and Ministry (STM), spoke at the second annual Daniel J. Harrington, S.J., Lecture Thursday on Zoom to accept STM’s Alumni Distinguished Service Award.
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Five BC Grad Schools Rank in ‘U.S. News’ Top 50
Five of Boston College’s eight graduate schools ranked in the top 50 in the nation in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2022 graduate university rankings.
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Boston College Community Responds to Shooting in Atlanta
Boston College students, faculty, and staff voiced their support for the AAPI community on campus, and also organized opportunities for community members to express their concerns and heal in light of the event.
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Resmaa Menakem Talks Healing Racial Trauma
Menakem, author of My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, spoke about relieving racial trauma through a process he calls “somatic abolitionism” at a Zoom webinar hosted by the Boston College Forum on Racial Justice in America on Thursday.
