The Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences falls short on transparency by failing to clearly disclose when graduate teaching assistants are teaching courses and leaving students in the dark about who is actually behind the lectern.
Column, Opinions
Do Not Remember This Column
I’m terrified of losing my memory. Genetically, it feels almost inevitable. My mom’s family has a history of Alzheimer’s disease, while my dad’s family has a history of brain tumors. Both sides also had members who struggled with alcoholism—another indicator of poor brain health in old age.
Column, Opinions
Breaking Out of the BC Bubble
“He felt that Boston College was a gated community for white people.” Those words, casually mentioned by the nurse to explain why her son did not attend Boston College, hit me like a brick wall. As a nursing student in my population health clinical, I was placed at an elementary school in Lower Roxbury.
Opinions, TU/TD
Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down: Week of Feb. 9
It’s been a winter wonderland lately. It seems like every day we are getting winter storm warnings and waking up to snow covering the ground. Stokes and Gasson are looking as beautiful as ever coated in white. This also means many fun winter activities: sledding, building snowmen, and snowball fights.
Sports, Hockey, Women's Hockey, TU/TD, Voices from the Dustbowl
Catamounts Upset No. 15 BC 3–2 in Vermont
After coming off a dominant 7-1 victory over Vermont just the night before, No. 15 Boston College women’s hockey traveled to Burlington hoping to bring the same energy, but couldn’t answer back after the Catamounts two second period goals that stood as the deciding factor.
Sports, Basketball, Men's Basketball, TU/TD, Voices from the Dustbowl
BC Goes to Triple Overtime for First Time in History, Loses to Syracuse 95–86
Boston College men’s basketball tied the game up versus Syracuse on the last shot of regulation, but there needed to be three extra quarters to decide the winner of Saturday night’s game. BC couldn’t pull away in its 95-86 loss in what was its first ever triple overtime game in program history.
Sports, Hockey, Women's Hockey, TU/TD, Voices from the Dustbowl
No. 15 BC Rolls Its Way Past Vermont in 7–1 Victory
In No. 15 Boston College women’s hockey’s first game of its home-and-home series with Vermont, the Eagles put up seven goals en route to its first regulation win since their Beanpot semifinal win versus Harvard.
Letters To The Editor
Letter to the Editor: Silence is Not Violence
Nick Voll’s recent op-ed, “BC Alum and U.S. Senator Ed Markey’s Inauguration Absence Was Undemocratic,” makes a number of disingenuous comparisons that merit correction.
Mr. Voll begins by acknowledging the January 6th riots as “attacks, which directly threatened the lives of several Capitol police officers and members of Congress.” He cites the “left-leaning” arguments that Donald Trump “questioned” the fair election (a generous term for the concerted campaign of proven falsehoods to undermine it) and leveraged his political office for personal gain.
Column, Opinions
Embarrassment: An Occupational Hazard of Being Alive
I am not a chef. Not even a cook. I fall into the category of people who scrounge together meals, occasionally and eagerly resorting to Lower Live. I treat cooking as a necessary but unfortunate chore. No one is to blame but myself.
Column, Opinions
Across the Pond: Childhood Dreams and Double-Decker Buses
London has been a dream of mine since childhood. It was a place I saw in storybooks and movies, dotted with grand palaces and cherry red double-decker buses. Hollywood’s version convinced me that it was the pinnacle of perfection, at least in the eyes of my younger self.
Standing in Maloney Hall on that dull February day, I was overcome with excitement, knowing I would finally get to live out the life 11-year-old Makayla had always dreamed of.
