Since the announcement that the CSOM Honors Program (HP) would stop accepting students admitted after the Class of 2021, a group of CSOM HP members has been working to create a new program for the incoming freshmen. The group established the Fulton Leadership Society (FLS), a new club with a mission of furthering “high achieving”…
‘You know, we’ve seen a hundred of these police departments around the country do these videos, when is BC going to do one?’” said BCPD Lt. Jeffrey Postell. “And I’m not one to back down from challenges.”
The newest addition to the Boston College Libraries’ inventory of resources available for students on campus is a subscription to The Wall Street Journal with no monthly charge to student subscribers. BC Libraries has paid a fee so that students do not have to pay extra for access to the Journal. BC also offers access…
Lionel Richie will headline the 2018 Pops on the Heights gala, according to marketing materials for the event. Scheduled for Sept. 28, Boston College Board of Regents chair and Suffolk Construction CEO John Fish will co-chair the gala with his wife, Cyndy. Last year’s event, the 25th since its inception, raised a record $14 million,…
Starting this fall, all students living in on-campus housing will have access to the Xfinity on Campus streaming service. BC Information and Technology Services (ITS) announced the addition in late June alongside upgrades to the Boston College G Suite and fixes to security issues. Through Xfinity on Campus, students can both stream from over 100…
The Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC) will be launching a new initiative called “Senators in Residence Halls” this September, according to Ignacio Fletcher, executive vice president of UGBC and MCAS ’20. Senators will be assigned to represent students in every residence hall on campus. The only delay in the launch of the initiative will…
As the fall semester approaches, Boston College Dining Services has made additions to its menus across all dining halls to both expand offerings and to better incorporate special dietary restrictions for students, spanning a wide array of foods and locations. Most notable among those changes is late night dining on Lower Campus moving from the…
Late night dining on Lower Campus will have a new home for the fall semester. Addie’s Loft on the second floor of Corcoran Commons will be now be late night’s territory, a short trip upstairs from Lower dining—the former home for BC students’ late night needs. In addition to the move, a new late night…
Boston College Dining Services will introduce its new reusable to-go container program at Stuart Dining Hall this fall. The move is part of a series of steps aimed at ramping up sustainability efforts on campus. The program aims to offer an environmentally friendly alternative to the paper containers currently available while also cutting back on…
“We got chairs!” Barb Jones, the retiring vice president for student affairs at Boston College, says on a beautiful July afternoon in her Maloney Hall office. Any other summer, it would be a normal and quiet time to visit her. But this summer is her final one, so it’s hardly typical—though her enthusiasm for what…
