Columnist Grace Christenson asks a question that high school seniors across the country are asking themselves right now: Is Boston College a good school? Well, that depends on what you mean by good. But if we’re using the University’s coronavirus response as a measuring stick, the answer is no.
Columnist Doug Girardot writes that in their reopening rhetoric, BC officials did everything in their effort to downplay the realities of college life in a pandemic. The flurry of summer emails students received in their inboxes and the maroon and gold technocratic signage littered throughout campus have suggested a conditional promise of normalcy: If you do all these things, then we can have school just like usual. But this is a dangerously fantastical apodosis.
I am human, and I understand my emotions. Not that well, as I still see my UCS therapist, but I know how I feel.
New nuclear needs only a moment in the sun to blossom, and through it, we can help achieve the greener future we deserve.
The populist tides have washed ashore Chestnut Hill, delivering to the cronies of Carney Hall a historical renunciation of the hysterical, reactionary policies that have become endemic to the Undergraduate Student Government of Boston College—Trump, Brexit, Christian and Kevork, the textbooks will read. On Tuesday, the student body voted to reject the old guard of…
In hindsight, a group of six finding a sit-down restaurant on a Saturday in a tourist destination such as Venice—during a festival season, no less—should have been nearly impossible. It would have been, probably, for a meal that was worthwhile. We had been looking for not 10 minutes when a friendly Italian woman beckoned us…
With the conclusion of the first Democratic caucus, and the first step in nominating the Democratic presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders has become a front-runner to winning the Democratic nomination. Sanders’ movement originated as a small grassroots campaign in 2016, but that small campaign now has Sanders consistently polling among the top two candidates nation-wide. Sanders’…
