By Matt Hamilton
"How pathetic!" "Is she on drugs?" "To have all that money and need to steal! Could it be true?"
When the department store cameras confirmed the accusations of theft, the judgments on Winona Ryder erupted. The consensus was clear: Winona Ryder had a problem, and she must be punished and treated. Who in their right mind would commit such egregious theft? Just ask Helen Wechsler, director of Boston College Dining, whose mine of student-purchasing (and theft) data would make a food marketer's Christmas.
By Kathryn Dill / ReporterAt what point in life does who we are after hours begin to reflect on who we are when we're at our best and brightest, wearing our shiniest pair of shoes and saying all the right things? When does around-the-clock accountability become essential to the preservation of not only our personal characters but the various roles we fulfill in society?
By Nidia Fevry
Should employers or administrators use Facebook as a screening tool? According to a 2005 survey of 100 executive recruiters conducted by ExecuNet, they already do. According to this leading executive job search and recruiting network, 77 percent use search engines to learn more about candidates and 35 percent have eliminated a candidate from consideration based on the information uncovered online.
By Letter to the Editor"Catholic Identity in the new century." The fact that the Provost's Planning Committee on Catholic Intellectual Traditions has made a commitment to engage faculty in the discussion of the Catholic Intellectual Traditions at Boston College does not mean that students should be excluded.
