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Campus gathers to remember Catanese

Friends, family, classmates pay tribute at Mass

By Kyle Smeallie
Christopher Catanese, a former Boston College student, was memorialized at St. Ignatius Church on Tuesday. Catanese died in a car accident in the early morning hours of his 21st birthday, leaving behind a legacy of friendship and service at BC. With University President William P. Leahy, S.J., presiding, Catanese was honored with the traditional Catholic memorial Mass. Rev. Anthony Penna of Campus Ministry provided the homily at the service, quoting many of Catanese's friends to describe the former student.

Group fights youth apathy

Project Open the Door 2004 talks politics at Boston high schools

By Jan Wolfe / Heights Senior Staff
Shawna Sullivan, A&S '06, can still pinpoint the day she became involved in politics. Three years ago, a referendum on a proposed new high school in her hometown of North Andover, Mass. faced vocal opposition from town watchdog groups. By coordinating a voter registration drive for her high school classmates, Sullivan and a handful of classmates added 150 new voters to the rolls and helped sway the vote back in favor of the plan.

Sweatshop workers tell story

By Joanne Hallare
Cheap clothing from sweatshops

Identity theft scams on rise

IT warns of phone, e-mail solicators

By Jan Wolfe / Heights Senior Staff
The global spread of identity theft hit close to home for many Boston College community members this week, due to a string of disconcerting phone calls and e-mails from people posing as legitimate businesses in order to solicit personal information. Students and faculty should not release any information to solicitors, said officials from Information Technology (IT).

Research center receives grant from Social Security

By Chris Laws / Heights Staff
Boston College's Center for Retirement Research (CRR) recently received $1.9 million in funding for this year from the Social Security Administration. The CRR was founded in 1998 and has received over $12 million in funding since its inception. The goal of the CRR is to research retirement issues and to share the findings with policymakers and other researchers.

Survey finds portion size correlates to obesity rates

By Olivia Oran, U-Wire
(U-WIRE) ITHACA, N.Y - When young adults are served larger portions of food they are more likely to overeat, found a recent study conducted by Cornell nutritional science and psychology professor David Levitsky and Trisha Youn, Cornell '01. The research supported a previous study by New York University professors that proved that expanding portion size is responsible for America's growing obesity problem.

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