By: Nathan McGuire
With only one day left until voting begins, the two remaining teams are mobilizing supporters and making a last-minute campaign blitz. The EC’s straw poll at the campaign kick-off event last Sunday showed a tight race between the pairs.
By: Adriana Mariella
The Olympics plays out for us a familiar American story about hard work paid off-it reminds us of everything that’s romantic about capitalism. We are constantly rooting for the unlikely victor, the one whose success seems worked for rather than effortless. The more meager the beginnings, the more delicious the victory.
By: Daniel Perea-Kane
The Boston College Symphony Orchestra enlivened a cold, wintery afternoon yesterday with an early 20th-century piece by Jean Sibelius.
By: Julie Orenstein
Spoken word poetry, a cappella, and dance performed by Boston College undergraduates were the central focus Thursday night at “Speak for Your Change,” an event celebrating diversity and cultural identity.
By: Mary Rose Fissinger
Marchese and Fiore-Chettiar pledge to be different from past “UGBC insider teams” who often do nothing to end the bureaucracy that many believe hinders effectiveness. They both have expressed dissatisfaction with the current culture and hope to drastically transform it if elected. Fiore-Chettiar was considering leaving UGBC before she decided to run for president, and only felt comfortable running for the position after she met Chris, whose vision she felt aligned with hers.
By: Daniel Perea-Kane
Regine Jean-Charles, a Haitian-American professor in the romance languages and literatures department, uses culture and language to create an inviting forum in which to discuss gender and other issues.
By: Mary Rose Fissinger
Many of their platform points are things that Levine and Vergara believe, though they may seem trivial, will have a large impact on student life based on the amount of people they will affect-more staplers on campus, more printing stations, better coffee in the dining halls. They hope that by accomplishing small things that impact nearly every student’s life, they will be able to reintroduce UGBC into students’ minds as an effective vehicle for accomplishing tasks that serve the interests of the student body.
By: Connor Mellas
Having passed the halfway point of the first year of Gold Pass implementation, the Boston College athletic department is pursuing student feedback and new initiatives to further develop and improve its ticketing system.
By: Soo Jung Rhee
BC’s architecture is certainly impressive, but its significance goes far beyond aesthetics.
By: Julie Orenstein
An international prospective on Christian-Jewish relations was highlighted in the third annual Pope John Paul II lecture Sunday night, which featured Rev. Christian M. Rutishauser, S.J. of Switzerland, speaking on the “Jewishness of Jesus” and renewing Christian appreciation.
