Features Articles

Caught in the haze

By Courtney Dower
"Your mission, should you choose to accept it, and you will, is to finish all these beers. In under five minutes. Naked."

Hazing takes many forms on the Boston College campus. This example above, although fictitious, is not totally exaggerated. Consuming large amounts of alcohol, sometimes in embarrassing or compromising situations, is not an unusual event.

Outlet for missed connections

By Sally Holmes
Remember that time you were sitting on the Comm. Ave bus and locked eyes with the boy sitting across from you? You knew you recognized him from somewhere; is he in your history class? Does he live on your floor? Was he in your orientation group? Then you were so busy searching your internal Facebook that you almost missed your stop (but caught the smile he gave you as you awkwardly stumbled to get off the bus).

Recent fire reminds BC of safety

By Dean Praetorius / Online Editor
Boston College runs a fire safety article every year. It can relate to a recent incident, like last week's fire on Strathmore or the BU fire two years ago, or it can just remind BC students not to smoke in their rooms. But it's more than just that. Last week's fire stemmed from the simplest of accidents and an unfortunate series of events.

Professor Profile: Herbeck stresses ubiquity of communication

By Jessica Salpietro
he bedrock for human experience. He says, "Speech makes it all happen." As a professor in the communication department and a lover of the spoken word, Herbeck was very active in debate throughout his undergraduate studies and often jokes that he was unique from other students in that he actually enjoyed writing papers and crafting speeches.

Editor's Column: Rain, rain go away

By Michelle Kaczmarek / Assistant Features Editor
Growing up in the greater Los Angeles area, the only raincoat I ever owned was purple. It was a Minnie Mouse raincoat and the collective five times I ever used it for its intended purpose, I loved it. Sitting in the back of my closet, or rather lying in the heap of clothes that always covered my closet floor, I occasionally would grab it to play dress-up or just to admire the drawing of Minnie on the back of the coat.

Now showing

By Nick Ackerman
Few people know this about me, but I'm what people in the biz (that's biz-talk for SHOW-biz) call an "insider." Basic human decency and a crippling fear of being blacklisted prevent me from disclosing my sources, but suffice it to say that I've got contacts all over Hollywood.

Baby steps to a smaller ecological footprint

By Lisa De Gray / Heights Senior Staff
"This is for the polar bears!" This phrase quickly became ubiquitous in my room as I spent the last two weeks trying in vain to reduce my carbon footprint. Some people may believe that global warming is "just God hugging us real close," but I prefer to jump on the eco-bandwagon.

BC True Life: I'm celebrating Ramadan

By Nasreen Hosein
I scramble toward the window in the semi-dark, tripping over a pair of jeans, as I desperately attempt to escape the zombie horde at my heels. "Shut it off," my roommate mumbles. What? Oh. The alarm clock. Of course. It's 4:45 a.m. I swallow, trying to ease the dryness in my throat and stumble with eyes only half-open into my suite's kitchen.

World Record: London, England

By Benjamin Broadmeadow
So it turns out the British don't hate Americans after all. They hate the French. I thought Americans held a decent grudge againstFrance, but it pales in comparison to what the Brits think of their counterparts across the English Channel. Buy an Englishman a pint, and he'll tell you everything wrong with France, from their cheeses to their record in world wars.

Blast from the Past: Music legend owns memorable evening

By Leon Ratz
Published in The Heights on Monday, Oct. 1, 2007 From platform nine and three-quarters to a galaxy far, far away, virtuoso conductor and Oscar-winning composer John Williams and the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra captured the hearts and imaginations of a sell-out, 8,500 crowd at Conte Forum at last Friday's Night's 15th Annual Pops on the Heights Scholarship Gala.