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April 24 Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down

Thumbs Up Meatball Obsession – Although we were unable to make it to the new inhabitant of the hut outside of Lower on Marathon Monday due to limited street crossing opportunities, we have heard from sources close to TU/TD that the meatballs were good. While we question the continuing tradition of weirdly suggestive names for…

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Leaders Address ‘Boston Strong’ Motto

Contributors To Presidential Scholars’ Publication Discuss Social Injustices In Boston One year after the Boston Marathon bombings, four contributors to a publication produced by Boston College Presidential Scholars—”The Heart of This City: Boston Strong and Becoming Stronger”—came to speak at BC. On the one-year anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings, contributors to a publication produced…

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Leaders Address ‘Boston Strong’ Motto

By: Nathan McGuire

One year after the Boston Marathon bombings, four contributors to a publication produced by Boston College Presidential Scholars-“The Heart of This City: Boston Strong and Becoming Stronger”-came to speak at BC. 

News, Athletics

York’s Salary Jumped In 2012

By: Austin Tedesco

Head men’s hockey coach Jerry York’s total compensation from Boston College increased by more than 20 percent-up to $638,975-in 2012, according to the University’s 2013 Fiscal Year IRS Form 990, which was released this week. 

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Schor To Be Awarded By ASA For Research

By: Julie Orenstein

The American Sociological Association (ASA) has recognized Boston College professor of sociology and best-selling author Juliet Schor as the recipient of this year’s Public Understanding of Sociology Award.

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Love With Open Arms

By: Adriana Mariella

While I’m not going to try to argue that racism and sexism are easy problems to fix, I am going to argue that the thing holding us back from solving them is a lack of the kind of open-minded, open-armed love that we learned about in religion class and an inability to see past the fixed identities that we assign each other.

News, On Campus

Healthcare App Wins SEED Competition

By: Nathan McGuire

Loic Assombo, A&S ’15, was awarded first place in the Social Entrepreneurs Envisioning Development (SEED) competition last Tuesday for his plan to develop a smartphone app to spread awareness about life-threatening diseases to countries in Africa.

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