Timmy is the associate magazine editor for The Heights. He is the first Heights editor to have gone viral, and did so with over 10,000 likes on his 2nd tweet from his real time journalist Twitter, @FacciolaTimmy
Every Friday for the past month, my father has driven down to Manhattan and delivered food with Catholic Charities to homebound senior citizens. When I first found out he was doing this, I was alarmed. As a 62-year-old cancer survivor, he’s not the best person to go in public during the coronavirus outbreak, let alone…
The populist tides have washed ashore Chestnut Hill, delivering to the cronies of Carney Hall a historical renunciation of the hysterical, reactionary policies that have become endemic to the Undergraduate Student Government of Boston College—Trump, Brexit, Christian and Kevork, the textbooks will read. On Tuesday, the student body voted to reject the old guard of…
Conversations. Meaningful impact. Improvement. Pushing for. Lifting up. Elevating. These are just some of the vapid terms UGBC candidates are using to compensate for the lack of substance in their platforms as they beckon for your vote ahead of Tuesday’s election. And you, dear reader, should do nothing but roll your eyes and carry on…
“Racism in America is endemic, bruh. We can mark the creation of this country not on July 4th, 1776 but August 20th, 1619, when the first kidnapped American was brought to this country against his will in bondage as a slave and built the greatness and wealth that neither he nor his descendants would be able to participate in and enjoy.”
“In 2017, I thought about transitioning out of comedy, but then I started to feel a bit better and do some comedy. I wrote new jokes and they were different, and I was encouraged by a quote of Samuel Beckett’s: ‘Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better.’”
I arrived and he was piss drunk, trying to “network,” which I would learn was a favorite verb of his that really just means introducing yourself to people at bars.
“The wake-and-bake was not invented yesterday, but as cannabis companies are expanding their product lines, they’re creating variations of THC that are designed to be consumed throughout the day—to take with coffee in the morning, to get through the afternoon lull at work, and to fall asleep at night.”
“And I realized the reason there was such a wealth gap … between whites and African Americans is because African Americans used to be somebody’s property.”
A document by BC scholars examines the relationship between the laity and clergy, the traits of an ideal priest, and the isolation of seminary life.
“I believe in the people in UGBC. … Something that isn’t always present at other universities but is here: when communities are targeted we always stand up for each other in solidarity. We always fill those roles.”
