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Carroll School of Munificence

By Matthew Hamilton
Last year I stumbled upon the idea that Haley House could vend for BC Dining, with a dollar for each purchase underwriting all of Haley House's operations. The project could only have been realized through the work of many people, from BC Dining to Fr. Jim Fleming to the Carroll School of Management's Honors Program, along with Dean Richard Keeley, Dean Amy LaCombe, and Tina Zamora. In the latter especially, I found not the demons of Wall Street but the humble workers of BC, committed to their students and to society alike. Profit may be the stated goal of the operating models, but for the CSOM students and professors who have made Haley House a partner, their ethic is striving to be one with the common good.

Smugness out of place in Senate

By Kathryn Dill / Reporter
BC students can change the world. Maybe then they can change the conference room.

Give the B Line a Break

By Nidia Fevry
If I had a nickel for every grievance made against the B Line I could buy one of those coveted monthly-link Charlie passes. Yet, after an admittedly unscientific and barely objective case study of fastest ways to get into the city. The conclusion? Give the B Line a break.

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Keep shamed Spitzer out of jail

By Neil Johnson / Heights Senior Staff
While placing prostitution below adultery on a personal hierarchy of wrongs is more emotional than rational, I think most people think that Spitzer, as he himself said, "acted in a way that violates … my, or any, sense of right and wrong." It is a sad thing and one society would not wish to encourage. But society is not the state. Though I hesitate to say I think that prostitution should be allowed, value judgments of individuals should not entail the policies of the state. Prostitution may be a bad thing, but we embark on an endless trail if we wish to legislate morality. Should we punish adultery, tear down burlesque clubs, reinstate prohibition, eradicate cigarettes, ban Maxim?

Homosexuality is not something that can be 'fixed'

By Letter to the Editor
In the article "Stay true to biblical view of homosexuality"(Feb. 28), Julie Thornton eloquently expresses a key concept in the fight against homophobia. "I cannot imagine what it would be like to experience same-sex attraction. It must be a very difficult cross to bear.

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