Owen Fahy was the Editor-in-Chief and President of The Heights in 2021. He was formerly the Special Projects Editor from 2019 to 2020. You can contact him at owen.fahy@bcheights.com.
The Human Rights Foundation hosted the College Freedom Forum—a speaker series that hopes to inform students about democracy and human rights around the world—on Wednesday night at Harvard University. A series of civil rights activists and public dissidents shared their stories and answered audience questions about their own stories and the state of the world.
The circulation of a text message on social media that alleged that residents of a mod were “drugging women’s drinks” resulted in the mod being vandalized and threatened, which garnered a response from Associate Vice President and Dean of Students Tom Mogan.
BC law professor David Wirth was an official academic adviser at COP24, which was designed to halt the impending effects of climate change.
Boston College’s Global Observatory on Public Health has begun its first project, which will focus on the burden of disease caused by air pollution in India and will be completed in conjunction with 20-25 other scientists from around the world.
Sarya Baladi, president of ASA and MCAS ’19, breaks down how she’s working to integrate an underrepresented voice into the University’s culture and the role ASA will play at BC going forward.
Biology professor Philip J. Landrigan gave a talk on human health, climate change, and pollution Wednesday night based on a report he co-authored that was published in The Lancet medical journal.
Student activists took to the Quad to draw attention to injustice and issues they saw with inequality at BC on Oct. 18. This was different from 2017, which was in response to a string of racist incidents on campus.
The majority of demonstrators taped their mouths shut to show “the institutional silencing that happens at Boston College,” according to the release from the Black Eagles, the groups that organized the protest.
Student protesters staged a “die-in” on the Quad on Thursday afternoon to challenge “the various forms of oppression upheld through a culture [of] institutional passivity” at BC, according to a release from Black Eagles Matter.
The Boston College Chief Executives Club convened on Thursday to hear Visa Inc. CEO and BC Board of Trustees member Alfred Kelly speak on the leadership, the current state of affairs and the future at Visa.
