I was horrified but not shocked to learn that the CEO of ExxonMobil recently spoke at the Boston College Chief Executives Club.
Opinions, Letters To The Editor
Letter to the Editor In Response To: “Jewish and Palestinian Newton Residents Contend With the Israel-Hamas War’s Impacts on Their Daily Lives”
To the Editor: I am writing to express my dismay with the above-referenced article, which ran in the edition of ‘The Heights’ that arrived in my inbox on Oct. 23.
Opinions, Top Story, Letters To The Editor
Letter to the Editor: “Jerry York’s Letter to the Boston College Community”
Dear BC Community, Pulling on a BC hockey jersey almost 60 years ago was a dream come true. When Fr. Monan offered me the opportunity to return to the Heights in 1994 as the men’s hockey coach, it gave me the chance to relive that dream for the past 28 years. A team is the…
Letters To The Editor, Opinions
Letter to the Editor: Resolution Defending Academic Freedom As It Relates to Teaching About Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Critical Race Theory
Co-sponsored by the BC chapter of the AAUP and University partners: Since its founding in 1915, the AAUP has steadfastly opposed political interference in the conduct of this country’s institutions of higher education. Today the AAUP condemns in the strongest possible terms the recent actions to ban, limit, or distort the teaching of history and related…
Opinions, Letters To The Editor
In Response To: “Class Of 2025 Inattentive At Annual Convocation”
To the Editor: We, students in Professor Sue Roberts’ fall Courage to Know class, are writing to challenge the Sept. 10 Heights article “Class of 2025 Inattentive at Annual Convocation” that described the freshmen at this year’s freshman convocation as “a sea…that spoke over [convocation speaker Sherry Turkle], looked at their phones, and trickled out…
Opinions, Letters To The Editor
Lela In Response To: “To Promote Dialogue, Student Organizations Should Not Invite Prejudiced Speakers”
So, “Student organizations should not invite discriminatory speakers that ostracize members of the BC community and do not constructively participate in open debate.” I guess it’s okay to discriminate against so-called “discriminatory speakers.” Heaven forbid that we have some differing views, like Republican or conservative views, on a school campus! No! Everybody must goose-steppingly conform…
Letters To The Editor, Opinions
Watts In Response To: “To Promote Dialogue, Student Organizations Should Not Invite Prejudiced Speakers”
It is common sense that “To Promote Dialogue, Student Organizations Should Not Invite Prejudiced Speakers,” as The Heights’ Editorial Board wrote on May 3. Unfortunately, Boston College, including The Heights, needs to have a better understanding of what is appropriate and what is not. The Heights claims that Kristan Hawkins gave a “civil” “Lies Feminists…
Letters To The Editor, Opinions
Leahy’s Leadership Is Not Jesuit: In Response to: “Complaints About Boston College Priest”
During his tenure at Boston College, University President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J., has made a big deal out of living one’s life in accordance with Jesuit values. Shortly after becoming president in the fall of 1996, Leahy supported BC’s decision not to recognize the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Community (LGBC) student group, saying that…
Opinions, Letters To The Editor
In Response To: “Complaints About Boston College Priest Sent To Leahy And Jesuit Provincial Years Prior To Rape Allegation”
Dear Editors: I write this as a huge fan of most things Ignatian. I was lucky to know and be informally mentored by a variety of the fathers at BC and elsewhere. I am not surprised that Dziak and his Jesuit superiors are being called to account for his alleged “inappropriate conduct with students.” In…
Letters To The Editor, Featured Story, Opinions
University President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J., Issues Statement in Response to April 26 ‘Heights’ Article
The Heights article of April 26, 2021 describing allegations against Fr. Ted Dziak contains erroneous and irresponsible claims about me and my role as President of Boston College. A response is necessary.
