Every Friday for the past month, my father has driven down to Manhattan and delivered food with Catholic Charities to homebound senior citizens. When I first found out he was doing this, I was alarmed. As a 62-year-old cancer survivor, he’s not the best person to go in public during the coronavirus outbreak, let alone…
Be People for Others in the Time of Coronavirus
With the announcement of Harvard and Amherst College moving all courses online and ordering or encouraging students to stay home after Spring Break, my colleagues and I are eagerly awaiting an email from Boston College’s administration about what steps they are taking to respond to coronavirus. Moving courses online and encouraging those who can to…
There’s a Better Way to Do Woods College Registration for Undergrads
As a jaded senior, I thought I had experienced every obstacle that class registration had to offer: waking up for the early pick times, getting none of my classes because of the late pick times, forgetting to save my schedule in UIS and losing TKM’s Capstone class, everything. Monday, January 13 showed me I was…
Guest Column: A Letter to the Dean Calling for a Reconsideration of BC’s Alcohol Policy
If I’m going to get the same punishment for not drinking as I would for drinking, then why don’t I just drink like everyone else?
Guest Column: Bodetti’s Back
“So many options. So much time. I really underestimated how boring my victory over Mattress Firm would be.”
Guest Op-Ed: A Statement of Solidarity
Statement Of Solidarity Regarding Supreme Court’s Decision To Uphold The Muslim Ban Dear Boston College Eagles, On Tuesday the 26th of June, the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that the Muslim Ban, a policy motivated by explicit racism, xenophobia, islamophobia, anti-immigrant, and anti-refugee sentiment, was constitutional. The court chose to ignore the animus of…
Guest Op-Ed: Students, Not Criminals
“Their screams for justice were met with violent repression, yet they were not silenced.”
Guest Op-Ed: Nicaragua’s Cry For Democracy
“By then, around 28 students had been confirmed murdered by his orders.”