News Articles

Williams-Rochowicz win UGBC elections

By Ryan Heffernan / Heights Senior Staff
Derrick Williams and Tom Rochowivz, both A&S '04, won the Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC)'s presidential race today, with 1,798 votes. The team beat Jon Lennon and Summit Mallick, both A&S '05, who received 1,031 votes.

Campus Shuttle to discontinue Reservoir Stop

Junior wins MLK award

Roderick Lamar Carey receives academic, service award

By Michelle Sanders / Heights Senior Staff
Roderick Lamar Carey, A&S '04, received this year's Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship at the 22nd annual MLK Memorial Committee awards banquet on Thursday, March 13. According to its pamphlet, the committee, formed in 1981, wishes to honor King's memory "by recognizing and encouraging the development of future leadership at Boston College through offering a scholarship in his name.

Boston universities aid local cities, economy

By Ryan Heffernan / Heights Senior Staff
In an attempt to challenge the thought that tax-exempt universities do not contribute back to their locality's revenue, Boston's eight major research universities released the 102-page report "Engines of Economic Growth: The Economic Impact of Boston's Eight Research Universities on the Metropolitan Boston Area.

BC grad earns Navy honor

By Tim Czerwienski / Heights Senior Staff / Columnist
Lieutenant Commander Michael Cura, BC '82, earned the Bronze Star in a ceremony held in January. Cura, a Navy SEAL, led Special Operations Forces (SOF) in Afghanistan for Operation Enduring Freedom. Cura's Bronze Star citation, signed by Admiral Vern Clark, chief of Naval Operations, read: "Hand-selected by the commander to lead the combined planning group, Lt.

Citing security, ODSD changes UGBC election dates

By Ryan Heffernan / Heights Senior Staff
The Office of the Dean for Student Development (ODSD), after consulting with Information Technology (IT), made the decision to postpone elections for the Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC) from Monday March 17, to Wednesday March 19. Dean for Student Development Robert Sherwood said the elections needed to be postponed because IT was working on a confirmation feature so that students could know their votes were processed.

LSOE scholars launch African education journal

By Shawna Gallagher Vega / Heights Senior Staff / Columnist
The Lynch School of Education (LSOE) will soon be the focus of international attention as two of its scholars prepare to take the helm of the first publication on higher education in Africa. The Journal of Higher Education in Africa (JHEA) is an outgrowth of the effort of two Lynch School scholars to publish a comprehensive book on the subject.

UGBC urges faculty diversity

By Jeffrey LaBroad / Heights Staff
The Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC) recently sent a letter to the deans of the different schools of Boston College as well as to the academic vice president and associate academic vice president, calling for a more concerted effort to attract a racially diverse faculty.

Leahy pressured to speak out on Iraq

By Michelle Sanders / Heights Senior Staff
In a letter to University President Rev. William P. Leahy, SJ, members of the Boston College community demanded that the University take an official, public stance against the war in Iraq. Attached to the letter was a petition signed by 1,200 students, faculty, and staff.

News and Notes

Internet offers University programming

By Alex Timiraos / Heights Staff
On March 1, the Office of Marketing Communications began producing a University Web site featuring free access to 20 streaming-video presentations of campus lectures and hopes to assemble footage of 50 events by June. The Web site, named "Boston College Front Row" (www.

Exhibit explores "Troubled Images"

By Bartletta, Tom
A retrospective of political and terrorist propaganda posters, created and distributed during the conflict in Northern Ireland, opened for viewing in the John J. Burns Library. The display consists of more than 70 posters depicting the experience of great conflict in Northern Ireland ranging from racial peace pleas to boycott collaborations.

Student protesters arrested at sit-in

By Michelle Sanders / Heights Senior Staff
While many Boston College students studied for midterms and prepared for Spring Break, Joe Previtera, A&S '05, spent the night in jail. Along with 11 other protesters, varying in age from 20 to 50, Previtera and fellow BC student Nick Fuller-Googins, A&S '06, were arrested for their involvement with an act of civil disobedience at the Boston Metro Recruiting Station at 185 Devonshire St.

AHANA and the "D" word

By Ryan Heffernan / Heights Senior Staff
Some time before Spring Break, the higher-ups at the Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC) decided it was time to make a move. They weren't fretting over whether it would be Cancun or Jamaica, or even what the hell was going on with the Gay/Straight Alliance; they wanted to get the ball rolling on faculty diversity.

Stress relief and meditation course comes to Boston College

By Tim Czerwienski / Heights Senior Staff / Columnist
The Senate of the Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC) passed a co-sponsorship bill in support of the Art of Living, a stress relief and meditation course to be taught at BC from March 20 through March 25. The Senate awarded the Art of Living program $300.

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Support group raises money for cancer

By Jennifer Nance / Heights Staff
When cancer survivor Kristy Devine, LSOE '05, arrived at Boston College last year, she was hoping to find the same outlet for support that she had found at home: understanding family and friends who had given her the strength to survive. She said she could not find a "place where people who have been impacted by cancer can go and share similar experiences and situations.

Citing safety, Univ. cancels Middlemarch

By Ryan Heffernan / Heights Senior Staff
The O'Connell House cancelled its annual Middlemarch Ball last weekend due to concerns of fire safety in the wake of a devastating nightclub fire in Warwick, Rhode Island that claimed the lives of 99 people and seriously injured another 200. "This nightclub event in Rhode Island has certainly got everybody to sit up and say 'wow,'" said Arthur Andersen, a fire safety consultant for Boston College.

Library utilizes survey to gauge satisfaction

By Julia Green / Heights Staff
The O'Neill library staff will administer an electronic survey next Monday to a computer-generated random sample of 1,200 undergraduate students, 900 graduate students, and 600 faculty members. The survey, called LibQUAL+, is used nationally to test user satisfaction with library services.

University ends credit card option for tuition

By Scully, Meghan
After May 31, parents will be reaching for their check books rather than their credit cards in order to pay their child's tuition, fees, and room and board at Boston College. In a recent letter sent out to parents and students, Student Services Director Louise Lonabocker declared that credit cards will no longer be accepted for payment of student fees.

Notes from Otherground

Acall for peace east of the pond

By Hoskins, Kevin
It was an extremely cold day, but it wasn't the wind that was giving me the chills. As I climbed onto an electrical box on the side of the street, I felt like a young kid sitting on his father's shoulders straining to see the parade as it goes by. This wasn't just a parade though, it was much more than that.