The Issue: Plenty to be proud of as students at BC What we think: Progress should continue into future
Sure, you didn't get a Mod or got stuck on College Road. So the Patriots have lost their entire team. Maybe that economics midterm didn't pan out so well. It's been a pretty rough week.
But let's face it, it's a great time to be a student at Boston College. Never before has more attention been given to BC, and for a school that wants to grow more competitive nationally as the year goes on, that can only be a good thing.
An admissions office that received over 26,000 applications - a record, and one of the higher. A Princeton Review poll also found that parents rank BC as one of the top 10 schools they'd like their kids to attend, along with Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and others.
And Craig Smith may have found his way onto the regional cover of the latest Sports Illustrated, but he and the men's basketball team are just one-third of the success BC athletics had this weekend. For the first time in NCAA history, one school has a team in the round of 16 in the men's hockey, and men's and women's basketball NCAA tournaments.
That school is Boston College.
And that isn't the only media attention coming BC's way. Joe Sabia and Woody Tondorf, both A&S '06, were featured in yesterday's New York Times for their work on The BC. The University also made the front page of yesterday's Boston Globe for its rescue of the St. Columbkille parochial school in Allston-Brighton.
The list goes on. A new campus masterplan should be released in 2006. Kanye West is coming to Conte Forum. The University is expanding, merging with the Weston School of Theology. And much, much more.
This isn't to say everything is perfect. Debates from academic freedom to discrimination rage across campus, but it is promising that they are at the forefront of campus discussions.
It is exciting to see what the future holds in store for BC.
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