Nick Genovese muses over the holy mission of Boston College and offers words of advice to the Class of 2016.
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Mental Health and the Got Time? Campaign
Rather than fault students for their temporal mismanagement, the Got Time? campaign should consider how modern education reinforces and ingrains a lifestyle that leads to increasing mental unwellness.
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Defending the Foodstagram
Food does more than just physically sustain us—it provides comfort, connection, and perhaps even love. It can bridge any cultural gap and forge bonds between anyone willing to prepare a dish or take a bite. Instagram facilitates this relationship, allowing the emotional bonds of the dinner table to preserve in an increasingly globalized world.
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Pushing Back Populism in the 2016 Elections
America must resist the temptation of populism and unify behind a rational candidate. It is true that this election cycle lacks extremely strong candidates, but some more moderate ones are capable of leading our nation.
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The Effects of BC Exceptionalism
To “Eradicate Boston College Racism,” as the campus’s most recent wave of student activism has urged us to do, demands we investigate the very architecture of a BC education. This certainly extends to policy and curriculum decisions made at the top, but it does not stop there.
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Confronting Your True Self
Like so many other well-meaning BC students, I had become over-involved, trapped in that room of mirrors in an effort to play every role.
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Why Bernie Sanders’ Policies Make Sense
The ‘socialist’ policies of Bernie Sanders make economic sense. His proposals will save money, increase the freedom of businesses, and encourage entrepreneurship.
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The Case For A BCEMS Ambulance
It’s only going to be a matter of time before our EMS system comes under scrutiny because of its inability to get emergency transport help to a student in a timely manner. Is it really going to take a serious injury, or even a death, for changes to be made?
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Safe Space And Making the Rules
Safe spaces and protests demanding racial justice are the only options for students of color who have been offered no other means of effectively having their voices heard and impacting university policies.
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The Christmas Crisis
There needs to be a distinction between Christmas as a commercial holiday and Christmas as a religious holiday. The religious holiday should be celebrated by Christians at Mass and in their homes, but by no means on the side of a Starbucks cup.
