Many students and faculty members sported buttons bearing both BC's colors and the words, "This is what a feminist looks like" on clothing and backpacks in honor of BC's second annual Feminist Coming Out Day. 

Boston College improv comedy group The Committee for Creative Enactments (CCE) recently won first place at the 2014 College Comedy Festival's Beanpot Championship.

Although the new commissioner of the National Basketball Association Adam Silver has loved the game for most of his life, basketball has not always loved him back. 

Tracy Kidder met Richard Todd in 1973, when Kidder was a 29-year-old writing his first article for The Atlantic. Forty years later, the two have partnered on several articles and books and fostered a strong literary friendship. At the Lowell Humanity Series-sponsored event on Wednesday evening, "Tracy Kidder: Another Set of Eyes," Kidder discussed the influence Todd had on him.

The theme of love persists throughout Arabic poetry and literature. Professor Michael Sells discussed that theme on Tuesday, paying particular attention to the poetry of Ibn Zaydun and Ibn al-'Arabi. The religion of love, in different forms, is a common thread that links much of Arabic culture together, Sells said.

In our lives, we are frequently given the choice to make our world small or extremely vast, and each mindset comes with its own set of blessings and challenges. 

Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences David Quigley has been named provost and dean of faculties for Boston College.