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Eagles enter national marketing deal

Athletics look for expanded fan base in switch to ACC

By Chris Carty / Heights Senior Staff
The Boston College athletic department is not going to wait until it is formally introduced into the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) on July 1 to begin establishing its identity as the league's 12th member.

Week takes action on hunger

Collaborative intiative seeks to show BC community causes, effects of hunger

By Tom Barletta / Heights Staff
Perhaps the most common nutrition dilemma for a typical college student is not having enough meal points for a cheeseburger

Student sexually assaulted at Reservoir

By Carolyn Mattus / Height Senior Staff
A forcible sex offense that occurred on Feb. 4 was reported by a female Boston College student yesterday, prompting BCPD to release a Campus Watch notice detailing the incident. The student was assaulted by two males wearing sweatshirts with their hoods up at the Reservoir inside the iron fence area.

Play to open despite critics

By Kyle Smeallie / Heights Senior Staff
The Cardinal Newman Society (CNS) released an online statement on Feb. 11 urging all Catholic Women Leaders to voice their opposition against The Vagina Monologues being performed on colleges with Catholic associations. The play features personal narratives about the female genitalia, some of which the society finds to be degrading to women.

Primaries decide final two teams

By Carolyn Mattus / Height Senior Staff
Luke Howe, CSOM '06, and Ben Nauman, A&S '06, and Reena Parikh and Nick Fuller-Googins, both A&S '06, will enter the final round of elections for the presidential and vice presidential positions of the Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC). Howe/Nauman received 781 votes, or 23.

BC Law alum seeks state office position

By Alexis Mark / Columnist
Candidates for the top positions in the undergraduate government aren't the only ones who will be knocking on doors this month. Students who support the special election of Timothy Schofield, BC Law '99

Immersion trip includes academic components

By Alexis Mark / Columnist
Looking for something a little different to do this summer? Perhaps you might be interested in the new Philippine Immersion Trip that will take place in July. It will last for about two weeks and students will visit Ateneo De Manila, a Jesuit university located in the city of Manila, considered to be the Philippine equivalent of Boston College.

War on terror analyzed

By Chris Bone
Last night, before a full Gasson lecture hall of varying demographics, Dr. Walid Phares, a scholar and professor of Middle Eastern politics from Lebanon, offered retrospective and prescient insight into Islamic culture and America's war on terror. Having studied and taught on both sides of the Atlantic, Phares offered several cultural discernments.

Theory says DNA sequences hold key to finding true love

By Katie Costanzo (U-Wire)
STORRS, Conn.-Is there a reason we fall in love with certain people? Does science have anything to do with love? One University of Connecticut student proposed a possible answer to these questions with an explanation he calls the "love theory." Grzegorz Rdzak, a sixth-semester chemistry major from Poland, said he began forming his "love theory" after trips to several different dance clubs.

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GWU plays host to casting calls for the next Apprentice

By Lucy Kafanov (KRT)
WASHINGTON, D.C. - At George Washington University's casting call for The Apprentice there were no awkward combovers or "Free Martha" T-shirts. But there were more than 130 students and alumni sporting everything from tattered jeans to their business best.