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Theatre Professor Jorgensen Ties Teaching and Acting Together
“I was thinking, ‘Oh man,’ you know, I don’t know if I want to teach or if I want to keep acting,” Jorgensen said. “But for me, I’ve always been very ...
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The Other Side of Paradise: Field Reports From the Internship Hunt
I arrived and he was piss drunk, trying to "network,” which I would learn was a favorite verb of his that really just means introducing yourself to pe...
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Cancer Survivor Tommy Cleary Gives Back Through Relay for Life
“Usually it’s a family member that donates, but none of my relatives matched,” said Cleary. “So they had to go to the bone marrow registry … so I got ...
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Listen First, Act Second: Joy Moore Drives the Student Body Forward
For Joy Moore, leading the Division of Student Affairs is like driving a car: Sometimes it’s her job to help the student body accelerate—other times, ...
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Forty-Six Years Strong, BC’s Women’s Center Continues to Strive for Gender Equality and Student Safety
The female-led grassroots movement to build a women’s center at Boston College finally came to fruition with a grand opening in the women’s bathroom o...
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Not a Job But a Vocation: M. Shawn Copeland After 29 Years With BC
M. Shawn Copeland’s journey to BC was neither speedy nor direct. She first studied at Madonna College, joining the Felician Sisters who conduct the sc...
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With Commencement, Browne Puts the Seal on His Time at BC
When Browne went to the zoo outside his doorstep, he could see almost every type of animal. When he went to bed at night in his grandparents’ apartmen...
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Christianson Rolls out Neuroscience Major Amid Groundbreaking Research
“I never actually dreamed of being a professor or anything, it [was] just kind of, that was the trail I was on and things kind of kept going well—so I...
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Piercey Graduates but Leaves BC Something to Lean On
“My greatest hope for UGBC, and I guess for the institution as a whole, because I don’t think a lot of UGBC's problems originate with the organization...
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Tommy Mazza: The Marathoner and The Mascot
“What it is about running, it’s, you get out what you put in—it’s always having a reward," Mazza said. "... it really is the encapsulation of everythi...