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Person of the Year
By Jennifer Roach / Special Projects Editor
"Going Green" may be the popular catch phrase of '08, but environmentalism is nothing new. People have been fighting to save our planet in peril for decades. In '88, TIME magazine dubbed "The Endangered Earth" the Person, or Planet rather, of the Year. While these five Boston College seniors were mere toddlers when this issue landed in newsstands across the globe, it would eventually evolve into the defining issue of their generation.

Twenty years later, Katherine Walsh, Peggy Fox, Jessica Young, Katie Cava, and Merrill Putnam, all A&S '08, have already done more than most care to do in a lifetime to stop the looming threat of global warming and to protect the environment. Here at BC, their efforts have been seen and felt by everyone from the students living in the residence halls to the upper administrators perched in their offices at the top of campus.
By Jennifer Roach / Special Projects Editor
It has been a year of change and progress here on the Heights. Across all spectrums, from academics to athletics to activism, Boston College students, faculty, and staff have risen to and met the challenge of greatness. While each of their successes has been individual, their contributions to the University have been felt by each of us.

Seeing the efforts of so many people within the BC community striving to single-handedly make BC a better place, The Heights has decided to recognize their successes, presenting to seven individuals this year's Genius Awards. These awards acknowledge those whose accomplishments may have gone unnoticed or under recognized by the greater BC population, but nevertheless had an impact, helping to shape BC's reputation as an institution of excellence.
By David Kete
The search for the new dean of the Connell School of Nursing (CSON) ended last Friday when it was announced that Susan Gennaro would be the next to head the school. Genarro currently serves as a professor of nursing at New York University and will assume her post at Boston College on July 1.
By Diana C. Nearhos / Editorial Assistant
After overcoming a shaky start to the season, the women's club water polo team won the North Atlantic division and will complete in the National Collegiate Club Championship tournament this weekend. The Eagles began their regular season with back-to-back losses.
By Chase Kinser
Despite an over abundance of unrealistic teen movies and fantasy-like reality shows depicting teenage life, Nanette Burstein has a different recollection of what life was like in high school. Eager to show it, the documentary director decided to follow a handful of students around with a camera during their senior year of high school.Thus, she created the 2008 film, American Teen, which earned her a best director award (documentary) at the Sundance Film Festival this year. Burstein has had quite a career so far, as she was nominated for an Academy Award for her debut documentary On the Ropes, which she filmed in graduate school at NYU.
By Joshua Darr
For the final Election Central column of this academic year, it would be my pleasure to write a neat wrap-up of the primaries and tell you all what to expect in the fall. Unfortunately for you, Hillary Clinton, Democratic superdelegates, and the zaniest march to a convention in American history have made that impossible. I have written many columns about the horse race, polls, controversies, results, and all of the other ins and outs of this process, so I thought I'd mix things up a bit. Enough about them - let's talk about you.

Young people have made a tremendous difference in the primaries so far. Through unprecedented interest, volunteering, and (most importantly) voting, America's youth have made their mark on the history-making 2008 primaries. While increased participation is always a good thing, this information should be making one group of political consultants worried: Republicans.
By Heights Editorial Board
At a place filled with so many leaders and achievers, picking one standout can be tricky. And so, in selecting this year's Person of the Year, we chose to honor not just one, but five exceptional people, recognizing that sometimes a group's collective strength is as important as those individuals within it.

The senior leaders of Ecopledge, Katherine Walsh, Katie Cava, Jessica Young, Merril Putnam, and Peggy Fox, all A&S '08, have demonstrated just how big an influence a group of determined students can have.
By Kathryn Dill / Reporter
This is my final Heights column. That being said, and now that the clapping of a grateful public eager to see me go has subsided, I've never been one for sentimental goodbyes; in fact I believe that in the section of my high school yearbook under my graduation picture, where people usually write things to the effect of "LUV MY GURLIES 4 LYFE!!!," I submitted something along this lines of "It's been really nice.

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