Investing in the community surrounding BC shows genuine interest in improvement. While this money went to beautification, further installments of the $2.5 million will be used for causes to be determined.
Voices from the Dustbowl
‘If You Could Fight Anyone in History, Who Would It Be?
In this Monday’s edition of ‘Voices from the Dustbowl,’ we asked students ‘if you could fight anyone in history, who would it be?’
Opinions, Column
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.
Opinions, Column
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.
Column, Opinions
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.
TU/TD
Getting Through Winter with Stairs, Cheese, and Textbooks
Thumbs Up The New Stairs – An entire year passed, a year that will live in legend, when students hoping to cross from McElroy Commons to McGuinn Hall had to descend rickety, temporary stairs. The herds of students were uncertain, and their future looked grim. Will there ever be real stairs on this small hill…
Opinions, Editorials
Plexapalooza Ticketing Process Needs Improvement
One option CAB has to improve the system for selling these tickets in the future is to limit the number of tickets sold per student ID to one ticket.
Opinions, Editorials
New Program Focuses on Athletes’ Futures
It is good to see the Athletic Department supporting the athletes who work constantly toward its betterment.
TU/TD
The Dawn of Winter and Banned Hoverboards
With the start of a new semester comes a bevy of options. The entire world is our oyster here at Boston College. Get straight A’s? Read Ulysses? Join a new club? Make a new friend? Prove to the world that your existence matters? It all seems possible in this first week.
Featured Column, Column, Opinions
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.
