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New Student Programming Board To Finalize Restructuring

By: Connor Farley

Within two weeks, the structure of a new programming board independent of UGBC is slated for completion. In December, the UGBC Student Assembly (SA) passed an amendment to its constitution that would detach two of its three programming branches-on-campus programming and BC2Boston-to a separated board.

News, Academics

Academic Advising Center To Host Student-Run Advising Sessions

By: Nathan McGuire

The Academic Advising Center’s Student Advisory Board (SAB) will host three walk-in hours this week to answer students’ questions about the fall 2014 registration, majors and minors, or any other academic topics.
With only one month of classes left before finals, it’s once again time to start thinking about next semester.

On Campus, News

Franco Wins Romero Scholarship

By: Carolyn Freeman

Jessica Franco, A&S ’15, who is studying economics, theology and international studies and is a mentor through the Learning To Serve program, won the 22nd Annual Archbishop Oscar A. Romero Scholarship Award on March 29. Franco, who was one of three finalists, won a scholarship of up to $25,000.

News, Column

Beats, Ball, And Life

By: Austin Tedesco

By the time I was old enough to remember any of them, my dad and I stopped going on vacations together. We didn’t stop traveling-far from it. We just realized that vacations were the opposite of how we wanted to spend our time

On Campus, News

LABC Hosts Inagural Leadership Conference

By: Connor Farley

Last Saturday while most students were eating lunch, just a few yards away from Corcoran Commons in the Heights Room, CEO of Citigroup Latin America Francisco Aristeguieta was delivering a keynote speech to the Latin American Business Club (LABC) of Boston College.

News, Column

Let’s Fight For A Cause

By: Adriana Mariella

If you’ve ever seen Mario Savio’s 1964 “put your bodies upon the gears” speech-a part of the Free Speech Movement (FSM) at UC Berkeley in which he fearlessly urged his fellow students to take on a university that he saw as oppressive, tyrannical, and corrupt-then you know that you’ve probably never seen a display of conviction as passionate and as brazen as his at Boston College.

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