News Articles

O'Donnell honored at Arts dinner

By Rosanne Palatucci / Heights Senior Staff
Chris O'Donnell, critically-acclaimed actor and BC '92, garnered the first Arts Council Alumni Award at a dinner for the Boston College Fifth Annual Arts Festival last Saturday evening. Sponsored by the Alumni Association, alumni were invited to attend a mass for the Arts given by J.

For these EMT students, dedication never wavered

By Michelle Sanders / Heights Senior Staff
After nearly 140 hours of preparation, 53 Boston College students took the test to become certified Emergency Medical Technicians in the state of Massachusetts. The course, offered by the student-run Eagle EMS organization, began in January and required students to meet twice a week for four hours a night, in addition to every other Sunday for eight hours.

Williams-Rocks sworn in at ceremony, pick Cabinet

By Ryan Heffernan / Heights Senior Staff
Derrick Williams and Tom Rochowicz, both A&S '04, were officially sworn in last Sunday as the president and vice president of the Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC) by Michael Davies, legislative chair of the UGBC. Rochowicz spoke with the legislative directors (LDs) present at the meeting about the role that they would fulfill within the UGBC.

B Line services may be cut

By Shawna Gallagher Vega / Heights Senior Staff / Columnist
After years of complaints from passengers that Commonwealth Avenue's B Line trains are too slow and never on time, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) is considering a major overhaul that would eliminate stops around the Boston University campus and introduce 100 roomier trains on Boston's railways by the year 2004.

Report shows high ranks for grad schools

By Tim Czerwienski / Heights Senior Staff / Columnist
U.S. News and World Report magazine recently published its 2004 "America's Best Graduate Schools" edition. Several of Boston College's graduate schools received high marks from the magazine, which ranks schools of business, law, medicine, education, engineering, and humanities.

Students return from SARS areas, summer programs ended

By Alex Timiraos / Heights Staff
As the outbreak of Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) continues to grow in Southeast Asia, Boston College is exploring alternatives for students planning to study in Hong Kong and China this summer, as they closely monitor the current developments. Following the SARS outbreak in Hong Kong, Marian St.

Waterworks decision postponed

By Michelle Sanders / Heights Senior Staff
The state advisory committee will make its recommendation for the developer of the Chestnut Hill Waterworks site to Massachusetts's Division of Capital Asset Management (DCAM) on May 1. The committee, scheduled to announce its recommendation publicly at a community meeting April 15, postponed that announcement and has not yet decided if it will publicly announce its recommendation before submitting it to DCAM.

More undergrads relying on jobs to meet tuition, costs of living increases

By Jeffrey LaBroad / Heights Staff
Now more than ever, undergraduate students are becoming student employees to help defray college costs, according to a study released by the American Council on Education, and the trend is being followed here at Boston College. "I would definitely say there have been more student [employees] in the last couple of years," said Leslie Marini, administrative coordinator at O'Neill Library, one of BC campus' largest student employers.

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Schools raise $82K for Cancer society

By Maureen Cooke / Copy Editor
The Boston All University Relay for Life raised over $82,000 for the American Cancer Society (ACS) last weekend, surpassing the ACS's standard first-year goal of $15,000. The relay, organized by the Boston Intercollegiate Community Service Organization (BICSO), took place at Cassidy Park near Cleveland Circle.

Controversial paper returns to campus

By Ryan Heffernan and Janet Rutledge
Last Thursday saw the reintroduction of The Observer, an independently funded conservative student newspaper that ceased publication on campus in 1998. In addition to covering campus issues, the newspaper offered its take on heated topics, most notably professing anti-abortion, pro-war, and anti-French sentiments.

Darkness & light

By Jim O'Sullivan / Heights Senior Staff
Lindsey McKenna stood underneath the tent on Saturday morning, but no one begrudged her that. Everyone else was silent, rapt, in the cold and the rain and the mud, but her story was much too much for anyone to notice the weather and it put to shame any fleeting discomforts.

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NAACP, student honored

By Michelle Sanders / Heights Senior Staff
The Boston College chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was named the first-ever Intercultural Organization of the Year last Wednesday at the AHANA Leadership Summit. The summit was hosted by the AHANA Caucus. "The basis of the Intercultural Organization of the Year Award was to spark more productivity within the intercultural groups and to bring them together with this small incentive to co-sponsor events with a little friendly competition," said Burnell Holland, director of the AHANA Caucus and A&S '05.

Eagle Bucks useful for merchants

By Julia Green / Heights Staff
Companies that accept Boston College's Eagle Bucks as an additional form of payment report that business has risen among BC students, who can now use their Eagle-One cards at a variety of businesses in the Chestnut Hill and Newton area. Takeout Taxi, a food delivery company, began accepting Eagle Bucks in December of 2002 in addition to cash and credit cards.