By: Nathan McGuire
The issue of fossil fuel divestment has been heavily contested in recent years. Growing concerns about the causes and effects of climate change have inspired movements that advocate for public pushback against fossil fuel industries to spring up around the country.
By: Scott Bailey
On an unusually “lion-like” evening for one of March’s final days, the Homeless Speaker’s Bureau visited the Yawkey Center’s Murray Room to offer a voice for the otherwise voiceless Boston underclass. Peter and Tia, two formerly-homeless-turned-advocates, addressed a crowd of Boston College students and faculty about their experiences with homelessness and their paths out of it.
In front of Devlin Hall, which houses Boston College’s admissions office, is a ramp. There are handrails on each side, and it looks like a person using crutches or a wheelchair could navigate up and down it with ease.
By: Alex Gaynor
The term “lost” tends to connote chaos and confusion. Lost is the exact opposite of having and abiding by a plan or carefully reviewed map. As my professor stated, perhaps getting lost can actually reveal to us places, people, and experiences that we never would have even fathomed had we stuck to our personal maps and plans.
By: Connor Farley
For many, happiness-in the traditional sense of the term-is equated with rigid social constructs and conventional interpretations of joy, euphoria, or other ephemeral perceptions of what it means to be truly happy. Or at least, so said President of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and formerly renowned classical musician Arthur Brooks, who spoke to a crowded Devlin 008 on Tuesday at 8 p.m.
By: Carolyn Freeman
Cancer never sleeps, and on Friday night, neither will over 1,000 Boston College students, professors, alumni, and friends. From 6 p.m. on March 28 to 6 a.m. the next day, the Flynn Recreation Complex will be filled with participants walking the track for BC’s seventh annual Relay For Life.
By: Carolyn Freeman
The Unwinding, which won the National Book Award for Non-Fiction in 2013, focuses on the stories of several Americans and their struggles to succeed in today’s disjointed society. Packer used these stories in order to tell the larger story of the institutional failures that took place in America beginning in 1978.
By: Connor Farley
After raising the cost of tuition by 4.01 percent for the 2012-13 academic year-which then stood at $43,140-and 3.6 percent for 2013-14, the Boston College Board of Trustees has agreed to raise overall tuition costs for the 2014-15 year an additional 3.6 percent, to $46,670.
By: Julie Orenstein
According to information released by BCPD in its public blotter, there were seven medical transports from the Flynn Recreation Complex on the night of the Plexapalooza concert hosted by the Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC) this past weekend.
By: Adriana Mariella
There is a dichotomy between the supposedly incompatible personas of “wife and mother” and “strong businesswoman,” not only because it is difficult to be both successfully, but also because our notions about femininity don’t permit a woman to be both.
