Op-Ed Archives — The Heights

2025 Celebrating Black Voices, Op-Ed, Opinions

Advocacy Paves the Way for Legacy

Just two weeks before the start of my freshman year, I was welcomed into a community that completely shifted the trajectory of both my life and experience here at BC. The BC F1RST College Transition Program (CTP) provides support and guidance to help students succeed. They offer programs that foster relationships with faculty, encourage the use of university resources, and cultivate intentional connections that will benefit students throughout their college careers. It was truly heaven-sent for a student like me, who grew up in Georgia and was moving across the country for the first time in my life.

Opinions, Op-Ed

BC Alum and U.S. Senator Ed Markey’s Inauguration Absence Was Undemocratic

Just two days later, President Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States of America. BC’s most visible alumnus was noticeably absent from the ceremonies, presumably mourning the demise of his once proud basketball program. Markey, along with several other members of the Massachusetts delegation, including U.S. Representatives Bill Keating and Ayanna Pressley, consciously decided not to attend Trump’s inauguration.

Opinions, Op-Ed

From Panic to Partnership: BC Professors Are Rethinking AI in Higher Education

AI, like past innovations, should serve as a tool to enhance and challenge existing learning methods, improving their efficiency and validity, rather than becoming a crutch that stifles genuine learning.

Opinions, Op-Ed

BC Students Need To Cultivate Intellectual Humility and Fervor

The biggest challenge for fruitful dialogue, debate, and activism at BC is not the lack of intelligence nor ignorance of the student body, but is what I have diagnosed as an attitude of “keeping the peace.”

Op-Ed, Opinions

A Case for Compassion

This morning, I started to write a radically different article. After a painful U.S. election, I wanted to issue a call to action and a plea for hope in the face of what seemed like utter hopelessness. The first paragraph quoted Emma Lazarus and the second lamented Arizona’s passage of Proposition 314. Frustration poured onto the page. Then I got an email. My friend died this afternoon.

Opinions, Op-Ed

Jeff Bezos Is Missing The Point

Just 11 days before the U.S. presidential election, Jeff Bezos decided to kill The Washington Post’s editorial endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris on grounds of “compromised objectivity.” I think his decision undermines the very foundation upon which journalistic credibility is established.

Opinions, Op-Ed

Boston College Republicans’ Statement to the BC Community

The last few days have seen escalating attacks on conservative students at Boston College in the wake of President Donald Trump’s reelection. Conservative students have been targeted on social media and on campus, being told that they condone rape, sexism, racism, and every other “ism” in the English dictionary.

Opinions, Op-Ed

Beyond Motherhood: Recognizing the Right to Non-Motherhood in a Pronatalist World

The terms “mother nature,” “lady justice,” and “mother tongue” convey a certain gendered innateness about them. In other words, they are feminizations of natural and social concepts. These terms, among many others, are used to signify nurturing and naturally occurring phenomena, paralleling the way motherhood has been constructed and reciprocated as innate to womanhood.

Op-Ed, Opinions

Confounded: What Was Liz Cheney Supposed to Teach BC?

On Tuesday night, I sat on the floor of the overflow room at Walsh Hall to hear Liz Cheney speak. I had been confounded for weeks: What had The Council for Women of Boston College chosen to celebrate? The fliers were maddeningly vague—and one week before the election, too! Wouldn’t she be campaigning with Kamala Harris? I was fascinated.

Op-Ed

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