Features Articles

You could be a feminist too!

By Laurel Manlow
Calling women bitches, sluts, whores, and worse is dangerously commonplace in Generation Y. In fact, it is unusual to find someone on campus who doesn't use this language either in seriousness or jokingly. Half of our population is being judged more severely than the other half at progressive institutions.

From Here to Resevoir

By Christina Lepri / Online Editor
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." - Napoleon Bonaparte

Spreading awareness about HPV

By Courtney Dower
No student on Boston College's campus would know Mary Beth Hammer. All the way in Philadelphia, she is a person far from our minds. Yet her story is one that every single person on campus should hear. Hammer is a survivor of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and is now one of its vaccination's biggest advocates.

Shopping the blues away

By Sofia Barbieri
We are gods. Gods of a society based on well-being. Everything revolves around us in this modern, shiny Olympus of beauty, physical appearance, and happiness. We wander around this paradise sure of our ability to move the pawns of an extremely satisfying game.

Professor Profile: Hake encourages active learning

By Amanda Mangione
Biology has always been a long-term passion for Laura Hake, a professor in the biology department. From a young age, she recalls an eagerness to explore the world around her. Her elementary school experiences with science, including making her own barometer and cleaning out the science storeroom in third grade, were only the beginning of what would become a love and, ultimately, a career for Hake.

Editor's Column: Word choice

By Michelle Kaczmarek / Assistant Features Editor
"Let's hug it out, bitch!" Perhaps my favorite quote from Entourage. One guess to figure out the donor of this phrase. Who else but Ari Gold can you picture uttering, or rather shouting, these words? Maybe it isn't as memorable as when he called E a "c- muscle" or referred to Medellin as a "bad piece of p-," telling E to "just forget that you smelled it and move on.

BC True Life: I know anorexia

By Sarah Otterstetter
Urgh! I had run 7.5 miles every other day for the past three months, and four miles every other day for three months before that. Besides running, I also lifted weights and cut calories … a lot of calories. None of it made any difference. As I stared in the mirror, only one thought came to mind: I am fat.

The World Record: Madrid, Spain

By Caroline Merck
For about a month, I had been checking my mail religiously, or at least continuously, urging my host mother to check hers. She rarely has the keys to her padlocked mailbox on hand, and has only emptied it out once to my knowledge. The fate of my absentee ballot lay in her hands.

College Connections: Prim and proper advice in our modern, collegiate setting

By Lisa De Gray / Heights Senior Staff
Recently, a biography of Emily Post was published, bringing the late queen of etiquette back into the spotlight. Post - who is generally considered to be the most influential woman in America after first lady Eleanor Roosevelt - first published her guide, Etiquette, in 1922 and almost instantly became the go-to expert on all things manners-orientated.

Humor: Addicted to Wiki

By Nick Ackerman
Wikipedia was founded on Jan. 15, 2001, by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. By the end of the year, it had over 20,000 articles; today it has over 2.6 million articles in the English language, with 261 other languages having their own editions. I looked up that information on Wikipedia.

In the aftermath of the election

By Sullivan, Pat
"Election 2000: As close as it gets" read a Chicago Tribune headline. The narrow margin between the two candidates has not only been a breakthrough in politics, but it has given rise to a breakthrough in media technology as well. Not only is the election talked about wherever we go, but also on every TV channel that we view.