Arts Editor Jacob Schick highlights the lack of on campus arts event at the start of the semester and proposes a few potential solutions.
Opinions, Column
Choose Happiness
“Stepping it up can take a lot of forms, and there’s by no means a “perfect” college experience.”
Opinions, Column
Taking a Step Back From Campus
“Sometimes, you need to take a step back in order to see the big picture. Sometimes, you need to defamiliarize the familiar in order to recognize just how special it is.”
News, Top Story, On Campus
Stanford Professor Evans, Leahy Address Freshmen at First Year Convocation
University President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J., addressed the flock of freshmen clustered in Conte Forum this past Thursday at First Year Academic Convocation. A maroon tapestry cloaked the bottom of the platform, emblazoned with phrase: Go set the world aflame.
Column, Featured Column, Opinions
Save Late Night
“Speaking of half-baked, how the hell is this whole operation going to function?”
Administration, Top Story, News
Evans to Retire from BPD, Head Up BCPD
William B. Evans will leave his post as commissioner of the Boston Police Department (BPD) to become chief of the Boston College Police Department and director of public safety at BC. The news was first reported by The Boston Globe Monday morning, and a press release was issued shortly thereafter. Evans said his goodbyes during a press conference at…
Top Story, Administration, News
VPSA Barb Jones to Retire in August
Vice President for Student Affairs Barb Jones is set to retire this summer, the University announced. She’ll be replaced in the interim by current Associate Vice President of Alumni Relations Joy Haywood Moore, BC ’81, beginning on August 3. Jones has run Student Affairs since 2013, when she joined the BC administration from Miami University…
Features, 2018 Momentum Awards
The Frisson in the Air
“I didn’t see, during that period of time, a real push for considerations of equality from the Catholic Church,” Copeland said. “And sadly, I still don’t see that today … We don’t have any substantive response from our bishops about the deleterious racial situation we’re living in.”
Top Story, Off Campus, On Campus, Movies, Arts
‘Dating Project’ Documentary Features Cronin’s Famous Date Assignment
‘The Dating Project,’ a documentary about modern relationships, features interviews with Boston College professor Kerry Cronin, along with two students in her Perspectives class.
Features
Across the Pond and to the Pulpit
After growing up in the middle of political and religious unrest in Ireland, Rev. Oliver P. Rafferty, S.J. now teaches about some of the historical events he live.
