Thumbs up this week: Starbucks soy matchas and registering to vote. Thumbs down: The presidential debate and not knowing thanksgiving plans.
Editorials, Opinions
Editorial: What We’d Be Thankful For: Knowing BC’s Plans for After Thanksgiving
Though we encourage the University to make a plan akin to Gonzaga University’s, no matter what BC decides, it needs to announce its plan soon. Students and their families need the ability to start planning now, whether it be to book a flight home or to find housing in Boston if returning home is impossible.
Opinions, Column
Christenson: Boston College Is Not a Good School—But It Can Be
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.
Opinions, Column
Girardot: BC and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year
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.
Opinions, Editorials
The Heights Editorial Board: How to Vote in the 2020 Election
This year, there won’t be any get out the vote rallies or voter registration parties to attend—not in person, at least. BC students need to take it upon themselves to make sure they get their ballots in on time. If you’re unsure of how to register, apply for an absentee ballot, or vote, check out our voting guide below.
Opinions, Column
It’s Ok To Cry Bro
I am human, and I understand my emotions. Not that well, as I still see my UCS therapist, but I know how I feel.
Opinions, Column
Nuclear Energy Is a Fission-ary Idea
New nuclear needs only a moment in the sun to blossom, and through it, we can help achieve the greener future we deserve.
Opinions, Editorials
To Combat Confusion, Release Details on Contact Tracing Procedures
UHS should post general guidance that is publicly available about situations that fall outside the definition of a close contact.
Opinions, Column
Freshman Year, Covid-19 Edition
College is hard. Like, really hard. The freshman experience feels more like the freshman experiment this year, and it’s hard to keep up. College moves at twice the speed that high school does, and no matter how much anyone warns you, nothing will fully prepare you for the takeoff. Navigating Canvas makes me feel like...
Opinions, Column
Dem. Senate Primary Shows Only Elite Can Win
Boston College alumnus Ed Markey defeated challenger Joe Kennedy III in the Democratic Primary for a Massachusetts Senate seat—making Markey the first man ever to defeat a Kennedy in a congressional vote on Massachusetts soil. Markey will be going head-to-head with Republican challenger Kevin O’Connor on Nov. 3 and is currently expected to easily take...
