Shihua Wu, vice president of the first-generation club and CSOM '20, delves into parsing layers of identity as a first-gen student at BC, as well as where the community can improve its support of first-gen students.

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.

Thumbs Up Something I’m Not – Before writing this, I looked back at the first ever Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down that I wrote back in December. I was new, and the glorious legacy of the previous thumbs made...