“They seem, to me, the exact sort of class that ought to be taken pass/fail, so that the obsequiousness encouraged by the obsession with grades can be put aside for once, giving students the chance to speak without the normal consequences of expressing unformed thoughts.”
“To simply exclude alcohol from University-sponsored events directed at students is to send a message that we cannot be trusted to act responsibly, and to pass over the opportunity for providing spaces in which to practice the art of social drinking.”
“My wish is that there were some suitable on-campus locations where moderate drinking could take place with University approval.”
“At BC, we have the valuable opportunity to look around and watch as those we know, and those we don’t know so well, worship in the same places as us.”
“BC’s Catholic heritage gives it permission to ask students to grapple with questions of human fulfillment, a privilege not afforded to secular universities.”
Peter Kreeft, a philosophy professor at BC since 1965, studies the relationship between various religious vocations.
