The Heights

Dem. Senate Primary Shows Only Elite Can Win

Sophie Hoeltgen • September 14, 2020

Noyes Says UGBC Should Improve Outreach to Conservative Students

Samantha Karl • March 1, 2018

“We need to start using conservative students as the basis for some of our activism, not all of it, but enough to assure such students that we do in fact represent them as the Undergraduate Government of Boston College,” said James Noyes, CSOM ’19.

Department of Education Must Pursue Reform

Garrett Reynolds • February 20, 2017

"If the Department of Education is to survive, it needs to make fundamental changes."

Conservative or Liberal? You Can’t be Both

Ryan Duffy • October 2, 2016

"That this coupling could exist harmoniously in theory is unlikely and in practice impossible. Indeed, the dissonance and mismatch of these incongruent ideals are jarring and cacophonous."

A Defense of Donald Trump

Karl Salzmann • September 28, 2016

"Trump is brash, bold, and crass, and superficially represents everything this culture preaches—yes, but he is speaking for those who are not, those who have been put on the back-burner by our elites, those who feel that the America they knew and loved is dying."

What is a Conservative?

Karl Salzmann • September 14, 2016

"Admittedly, being a conservative is difficult in this progressive and egalitarian age."

Seeing the Other: BC’s Road to Change

John Wiley • May 4, 2016

"Until undergraduates in Students for Sexual Health and the Pro-Life Club can hang banners next to each other on O’Neill Plaza, host a joint panel event, and retire to dorm spaces where they routinely interact, we can’t say that BC has unlocked the true potential of its diversity."

The Problem of Common Core

Chase Schaub • March 16, 2016

"Using an untested, unproven method all over the country is a risky and dangerous move. Educational standards should be created then reviewed and discussed with teachers, parents, students, and local governments around the country before they become the norm."

The Case for Kasich

Chase Schaub • February 21, 2016

Why John Kasich should be the Republican nominee.

The Real Loser in Iowa? The Democratic Party

Chase Schaub • February 7, 2016

Of course there were obvious winners and losers in the 2016 Iowa Caucus, but the biggest loser of the Iowa Caucus was the Democratic Party.

LTE: A Response to “Winning Over Millennial Republicans”

Letters • February 3, 2016

I read Nicholas Hissong’s Feb. 1 op-ed, “Winning Over Millennial Republicans,” with interest; while I am not sure if I (having been born in 1997) count as a “Millennial” (my dictionary gives...

Winning Over Millennial Republicans

Nicholas Hissong • January 31, 2016

Many millennials who prefer Republican economic policy—free markets, lower taxes, and minimal government expenditures—simultaneously lean far to the left on issues like climate change, practical gun control, and marriage equality. The Republican Party, unfortunately, refuses to lean with them.