By: Jennifer Suh
Boston College joins over 500 colleges across the U.S. and Canada in the 2014 RecycleMania competition.
News, Column
COLUMN: Consider The Kitsch
By: Alex Gaynor
Blame it on the advertising industry, the American Dream, or even human nature, but our society has a tendency to resort to looking at the world through an overtly positive and kitschy frame of mind.
News, On Campus
Journalist Gives Account Of Soviet Union Collapse
By: Carolyn Freeman
Anne Applebaum, a journalist and Pulitzer-prize winning author, began her lecture on Soviet totalitarianism by reading aloud the anthem of the East German Communist Party.
News, On Campus
Study Finds Signs Of Depression In Abused Caregivers
Boston College doctoral student Jooyoung Kong, GSSW ’16, recently published a study, “Caring for My Abuser: Childhood Maltreatment and Caregiver Depression” in The Gerontologist, a bimonthly journal of the Gerontological Society of America, and it has been making headway in the field of studying childhood maltreatment.
News
The Same Old Story
By: Conor Hawley
Another close game slips away from the Eagles as the Fighting Irish outlast BC with an overtime buzzer beater.
News, On Campus
Beth Emery Adjusts To Role As Director Of BC Dining
By: Julie Orenstein
While working for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Beth Emery realized that she was passionate about food and people, not the clinical side of her nutrition field.
News, On Campus
International Population Rises At BC
By: Nathan McGuire
The international student and faculty population at Boston College rose for the sixth consecutive year to the highest level ever recorded, according to data recently released by the Office of International Students and Scholars (OISS).
News
Panelists Discuss Poverty Issues
By: Emily Gutelius
On Wednesday, the issue of poverty in the United States was addressed in Stokes 195S by three Boston College professors in a panel called “The War on Poverty: A Hand Up or a Handout?” Professors Charles Derber, Marc Landy, and Richard Tresch represented the sociology, political science, and economic departments, respectively, in an event centered on American poverty.
News
Liquor, Quicker
By: Connor Farley
It all started with a text message.
Nick Rellas, BC ’12, was sitting in his dorm room in Ignacio Hall when the thought occurred to him. Upon reaching for a beer only to find an empty fridge, the then-senior sent his friend and former classmate Justin Robinson, BC ’11, a text.
News
Professors Ranked As Top National Scholars
By: Daniel Perea-Kane
Boston College professors Andrew Hargreaves and Marilyn Cochran-Smith were recently listed on a ranking of the top 200 university-based education scholars based on public influence.
