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Rower remembered at memorial

By Michael O’Brien
"He spoke the truth as he saw it," said Rev. Joseph Marchese, First Year Experience director, in his homily at a memorial mass for Scott Laio, A&S '06. "He was a man who was always thinking, and he would share his own vulnerability, but always with a deep faith, with a love, knowing that he was accepted.

Loyola pres. looks to future

By Kyle Smeallie / Heights Senior Staff
Reid Wick, professor of music industry studies at Loyola University in New Orleans, volunteered at area hospitals in the days following Hurricane Katrina. He was a "strong man," assisting in the transportation of patients on boats and helicopters. Recently, he spent time in Nashville, raising funds for New Orleans musicians in need.

Homecoming a wet and wild time

Rain complicates plans for first on campus, outdoor Homecoming

By Carolyn Mattus / Height Senior Staff
Rainy conditions and tight spaces hit the Homecoming dance Saturday night as a sold-out crowd of 1,500 students danced the night away in the Mod parking lot. This "Evening Under the Stars" was a departure from past Homecomings, which have previously been held off campus in places like the Fairmont Copley and the Park Plaza.

BC creates rights and justice center

Center will launch with lecture from former UN official

By Lai-Yan Tang / Heights Senior Staff
They are the forgotten people, he said. The 35 million refugees and displaced persons around the world are among the problems that Rev. David Hollenbach, S.J., is looking to analyze.

Jesuit imagines a world of non-violence

By Chris Bone
Rev. John Dear, S.J., knows of a capitalist-free world without international debt, starvation, nuclear weapons, militaries, the CIA, NSA, or even the Pentagon; one rife with Kyoto Protocol signatories, full employment, and free healthcare and education, and it's only a few billion hearts away.

Speakers discuss African oil supplies

Experts address dichotomy between oil wealth and poverty of native populations

By Michael O'Brien / Marketplace Editor
By 2015, West Africa will supply 25 percent of the United States' oil consumption, warned Austin Onuoha and Rev. Antoine Berilengar on Thursday evening in their joint lecture titled, "African Oil and Poverty."

Medical ethics lecture series begins

By Alexis Mark / Columnist
A new lecture series aims to promote discussion of controversial issues in the advancing field of medical ethics within medicine, healthcare, and fetal and maternal health. David Solomon, the director of the Center for Ethics and Culture and a philosophy professor at the University of Notre Dame, addressed issues of abortion, the Terry Schiavo case, and the state of America's health care in his lecture "Medical Ethics and the Crisis of Contemporary Society.

Lucid dreaming a key to quality sleep

By Mika Mandelbaum
Through a state of dreaming that combines Western science and Tibetan Buddhist study, students might be able to improve sleep quality, overcome fears, and explore reality. Lucid dreaming occurs when a person is sleeping and becomes aware of the fact that they are dreaming.

Floridians evacuate as Wilma approaches coast

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Column: A night to not remember

By Shawna Gallagher Vega / Heights Senior Staff / Columnist
I'd like to give a big, resounding cheer for the most disorganized Homecoming in history. In retrospect, I should have gone running back to Rubenstein when I saw the long line to the entrance on that welcoming, rain-soaked red carpet. Or maybe I should have known before then, when buying tickets to a semi-formal in a parking lot became a frenzied, seemingly Boston College Rally Committee-inspired experience.