By Benjamin BroadmeadowThanks to a new, donation-based season ticket distribution system, non-student, men's basketball season ticket-holders may get sent up to the rafters - or given the chance to snag better seats - based strictly upon their donations to the Athletic Department's Flynn Fund.
Wheelchair ramps built to accomodate students
By Shanna AthertonIt began at 9 a.m., two Mondays ago, the jarring sound reverberating across O'Neill Plaza. With jackhammers in hand, workers proceeded to tear up the pavement right in front of O'Neill Library to make way for the latest construction project on campus: a new ramp to the front doors of the library.
UGBC looking to secure rock act for spring event
By Reeves Wiedeman / Heights Senior StaffAnother fall, another music-less Conte Forum. For the third straight year, there will be no UGBC-sponsored fall concert on campus, leaving seniors as the only class to have experienced the now-mythical event. The concert was again derailed by a lack of dates for Conte Forum made available by the athletics department and a lack of quality acts to fill those limited dates.
By Tyler Marangi
The safest city in the country is not right across the street anymore, according to the annual survey by Morgan Quitno Press. Newton, Mass., including its neighborhood of Chestnut Hill, which surrounds much of Boston College's Main Campus, has fallen from first to fourth on the list of cities with the lowest crime rates.
Specialty café never meant to be on residential meal plan
By Katie JulianThe Chocolate Bar's recent "switch" to residential dining bucks was actually not a switch at all, according to administrators within Dining Services, but rather a correction of what they say was a large-scale mistake. All semester, students have been able to use their mandatory meal plans at The Chocolate Bar.
By Tim Bates
For the typical college student, a summer living in New York City, dining in the finest restaurants with some of the nation's most esteemed experts in medicine, fashion, and media sounds like an unbelievable experience. Working with the top executives and athletes of the New York Giants football team and earning a generous $12,000 grant, however, makes it sound like a dream.
By Grant HatchimonjiResponding to a recent presentation by Isareli journalist Michael Yoschay, Ben Scribner of Boston2Palestine offered a refute Wednesday night, discussing the separation barrier wall, land loss, and poverty.
Scribner opened his presentation by summarizing the current situation between Israel and Palestine.
"Day of fasting" today to be the first of its kind on campus
By Grant Hatchimonji
"There is a dire need for discussion about poverty and hunger to take place," said Malak Yusuf, co-leader of Amnesty International at Boston College and A&S '09. In the group's Campaign Against Poverty, the past week has been designated Amnesty Week. To narrow the focus of the campaign, the group based it around the right to food, which Amnesty supports as a basic human right.
By Casey Guerin
In the first event of a three-part 2006-2007 series, Church in the 21st Century (C21) hosted "How Women Live out Being Catholic: Sharing Our Stories" Monday night. The four featured panelists, Kara Cherniga, A&S '07, Pat Casey, BC '75, Sheila McMahon, director of the Women's Resource Center, and Pat DeLeeuw, vice provost, discussed their experiences as women in the Catholic church, and how their faith challenged, nourished, and impacted their lives.
