By: Kristy Barnes
“Are you stupid? Do you not understand the difference between ‘bog’ and ‘dog?’ You’ve failed yet another spelling test!” I was in fourth grade and in front of my entire class when I discovered I had a learning disability (LD).
Column, News
Words Not Required
By: Alex Gaynor
In an ever-globalizing world, non-verbal and technological communication has become the norm, making antiquated ways of communicating obsolete in many situations.
Opinions, Editorials
New Programming Board Needs Student Input
By: The Heights Editorial Board
When UGBC voted to split off its programming department, a committee was formed to establish the form that the new Programming Board will take, as well as the guidelines under which it will operate. Since the committee began meeting at the beginning of this semester, it has made little quantifiable progress toward finalizing the structure of the new board, and has announced that it will push back its original April 1 deadline by two weeks.
Letters To The Editor, Opinions
LTE: On Quitting The Marathon
By:
From the viewpoint of a Campus School Marathon Team Chair who contributed to the decision not to send Campus School runners to the Boston Marathon this year, I would like to address Kendra Kumor’s column, “Not Afraid of Quitting,” published on March 24.
Letters To The Editor, Opinions
LTE: Demand Justice For The Minorities In Syria
By:
During our four brief years at college, we rightfully focus on engaging with our direct surroundings. However, exceptional circumstances in faraway places occasionally deserve our full attention.
Column, News
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
Column, Opinions
Raising The Minimum Wage
By: Mary Kate Nolan
When studying the debate over the minimum wage, I began to consider the effects of campus wages at Boston College. Year after year, on-campus prices increase. Football games, theater productions, and charity events are additional costs that are not factored into a semester’s tuition. These costs can be quite a heavy burden. As our nation looks to increase the minimum wage, student employees should join the movement to increase their on-campus wages.
Opinions, Column
The Devil Filed Into Conte
By: Nate Fisher
Three young men sit in the stands watching a hockey game. For the two seniors, it’s their final game at Conte-the last of many. Their conversation is resigned and detached-Boston College goes on to lose this game and faint worry is only just starting to set in. Mostly, the three young men make big pronouncements, each pronouncement anchored in the 20/20 hindsight of old age. They’re seated pretty high up.
Column, Opinions
A Different Kind Of Core
By: Kimberly Crowley
As an education dork fascinated by policy issues, I recently spent a lot of time reading about the Common Core. For those of you who haven’t heard of it, the Common Core is a set of academic standards and learning goals that outline what a student should know and be able to do at the end of each grade. What motivated me to write this column was my shock at turning on my computer the morning Indiana dropped out and realizing “Common Core” was trending on Facebook.
