By John Conor Michalek'Tis the season to be jolly - almost. With Thanksgiving just around the corner, students get a break from classes and a time to express gratitude for all of one's blessings. This was the focus of the Multicultural Thanksgiving Service held yesterday.
Eight days before Thanksgiving, the Heights Room was filled with worshippers from a variety of faiths.
By Matthew DeLucaWhen settlers and explorers came to the New World, they encountered cultures and societies already deeply entrenched in the land. Though those people were pushed off the land over time by the ferocious technology, puritanical fervor, and unfamiliar diseases of the Europeans, Native Americans today are asserting their place in the nation's culture.
By Joseph Zaleski
Registering for courses is a tedious and stressful process. There are questions of University requirements, core requirements, balance, and personal enjoyment. Sometimes, students feel lost and overwhelmed. And many times, contacting one's advisor to obtain the necessary course registration code is one more difficult task at an already dreadful time of year.
By Alexi Chi / Editor-In-ChiefThough tailgating in the Mods before football games is a long-standing tradition on the Heights, a policy implemented last year excludes a sizable group of underage seniors from doing so.
For the last home game of the season, however, the Quality of Student Life Committee, in concert with the Office of Residential Life, has initiated a trial run of an altered policy.
By Caroline PepekWhen has anything that Kip Tiernan and Fran Froelich done been conventional? Last night in a program sponsored by the Women's Resource Center and campus volunteer programs, the pair referred to as "the conscience of Boston" spoke about their outsider political theology in their book, Urban Meditations.
By Dave Kete
The Fulton Debating Society novice debate team, consisting of Michael Stork, A&S '11, and Kevin Walton, A&S '11, won the novice division of the Liberty Debate Tournament on Nov. 4 in Lynchburg, Va. Their victory came after a strong 6-0 tournament start during which they had won unanimously in all rounds except one.
By Reeves Wiedeman / Heights Senior StaffPlenty of culprits have been blamed for the United States' decision to invade Iraq. The president's decision-making, hawkish cabinet members, and a suppliant Congress are all near the top of that list.
But not far behind in the minds of many commentators sits the so-called "fourth branch of the government": a mass media that largely failed to challenge the government in Iraq.
By Samantha Clifford
Eating disorders have become increasingly prevalent among young adolescents and college students, and nearly 4 percent of women battle either anorexia or bulimia at some point in their lives.
Every year, the Women's Resource Center organizes "Love Your Body Week," inspired by the National Eating Disorders Association's (NEDA) campaign, "Be comfortable in your genes," which took place this year from Nov.
By Tom Oliva
Last Saturday afternoon, Curt Schilling sat calmly behind a desk fielding an array of questions from a packed auditorium. The questions didn't involve his newest ring, his new contract, or even baseball at all.
The focus of the panel discussion at Harvard Business School related to the future of online, virtual-world video games, such as Warcraft, and how Schilling's company, 38 Studios, intends to compete with the wildly popular franchise.
By Tom OlivaThe subject of Zionism is bound to conjure up strong emotions from both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian debate. This Wednesday night, the second part of a two-part lecture series on the Christian view of the conflict was hosted by the center of Christian-Jewish Learning and the Boston College Human Rights and International Justice group to examine the issues from both sides.
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