Marketplace Articles

Familiar program used differently

Beset by storm, displaced students use Facebook to connect

By Joseph Dreeszen
Most students will log on to the Facebook to check out a friend's new photos or to discover the interests of someone in a class. For students visiting from New Orleans, however, it's not something they do for fun - it's a way to get their life back together.

Students struggle to balance finances

By Denise Ekenstierna / Heights Senior Staff
It's seems so easy - just whip out that shiny card with the raised numbers and money spits out of the ATM. One swipe at the register in the mall and the purchase is yours without money ever actually changing hands. But is it really that quick and painless?

Book review: When the many are wiser than the few

By Andrew Buttaro / Heights Senior Staff
"No one in this world, so far as I know, has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people," the American newspaperman H.L. Mencken once infamously remarked. Mencken was wrong, concludes James Surowiecki in The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies, and Nations.

The Bottom Line: Using time is an important skill to have

By John Murray / Heights Senior Staff / Columnist
Nov. 7, 2005. Oh yeah, that's today's date. I am a senior. We're approaching the end of our first semester at Boston College this year. Wow. Take that in. Some of my Heights brethren are noticing that this journalistic project is waning. Time has been on my mind lately not just in a senior year moment, but in the economical sense.

Health & Science: Our generation's horror: Avian flu

By Alexis Mark / Columnist
With all of the hype and controversy surrounding the threat of a global avian flu outbreak, anyone would think that we were back in the 1300s with the menacing and deadly epidemic of the bubonic plague upon us. If you haven't been paying attention to the news, here's a brief catch-up to the latest information on what could possibly result in a pandemic.

Politically Speaking: Slowly, surely, Clinton moves to center

By Andrew Buttaro / Heights Senior Staff
Don't look now, but Hillary's moving toward the center. That's right, the former first lady and current junior senator from New York is slowly but surely retooling her position on a number of issues, seemingly resurrecting her husband's strategy of "triangulation" for a presidential bid.

Tech Journal: Tips for mixing up your AIM experience

By Chris Cahill / Heights Senior Staff / Columnist
So you sit down at your computer and tell yourself that you're going to buckle down and finish that paper. Or maybe you just need to send a quick e-mail and then you're off. But wait! Who's online? Did someone IM you? Let's face it: we can't stay away from instant messenger programs.