The optimism of 2008, in hindsight, hinged heavily on the quality of the presidential candidates.
Opinions, Column
Beyonce’s ‘Formation’ and the Importance of Entertainment Voices
Beyonce combines her inborn talents of performance, creativity, and aesthetic with politics to inspire discussion of the issues across the board, and in so doing, reflects her Black pride and identity.
Opinions, Column, Featured Column
You’re Single? Good
We need to stop pursuing relationships like we do a homework assignment or internship. Finding a life partner cannot be another checkmark on your college to-do list.
Opinions, Column
Marshaling Progressive Voters
Both Clinton and Sanders are focusing on issues that really matter to Americans. The debate is renewing progressives’ enthusiasm to vote in the upcoming election.
Opinions, Column, Featured Column, Features
This Is Not a Valentine’s Day Column
With Valentine’s Day around the corner, features columnist Madeleine Loosbrock offers a perspective on romance at BC.
Column, Featured Column, Opinions
The UGBC Challenge
Student leaders in UGBC lack the leverage they need to make substantial or impactful change to the governing of the University.
Opinions, Column
The Space in Between: Food’s Effect on Identity
Although food can in some ways draw lines of distinction, it also bridges gaps. When we eat, we experience the culture from which that food came.
Opinions, Column
The Real Loser in Iowa? The Democratic Party
Of course there were obvious winners and losers in the 2016 Iowa Caucus, but the biggest loser of the Iowa Caucus was the Democratic Party.
Opinions, Column, Featured Column
The Unnecessary Stigma of Mental Illness
The funny thing about the stigma is that it often reveals itself quietly. I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone teased for being depressed or suffering from an eating disorder—BC students (as far as I’ve seen) are pretty upright people. We know better than to bully each other. But what we will do is deny, deny, deny.
Column, Featured Column, Opinions
Why Student Interest Groups Can’t Win
Come this time of year, there will almost inevitably be some snarky opinion piece remarking on the futility of the incompetence of UGBC. Of course, we should be critical of our student leaders whenever necessary, but I also think it’s worth considering how many vested University interests stand to benefit from the belief that our student organizations are simply incompetent, and student advocacy only really ever touches on superficial problems.
