“Leahy’s work toward building the University has been invaluable, but that long-term building has neglected the short-term needs of students.”
Featured Column, Editorials, Opinions
This Presidential Election, Vote for Progress
“BC students have to make a choice: to vote for a candidate who represents their ideals and whose policies promote inclusion, or to vote for a candidate whose rhetoric has continued to endorse xenophobia and racism.”
Top Story, Features
Boston College’s Race Debate
BC students, faculty, and staff weigh in on the University’s social climate after recent events on campus and in the city.
News, Top Story, On Campus
Students, Faculty March to Call Attention to University Silence
A few hundred people marched an accessible route from Carney to Corcoran Commons to bring awareness to problems of racism and LGBTQ and disability rights on campus.
Column, Opinions
The Political Climate at BC
“I’d posit that this lack of frequent, visible events is due to a combination of both less political extremism and less political interest.”
Column, Opinions
The Challenge of White Supremacy on College Campuses
“White bodies can be in the same physical space as nonwhite bodies and yet these two sorts of bodies can experience that identical environment in sometimes radically different ways.”
Orientation Guide 2016
[one-fourth-first].[/one-fourth-first] [two-fourths] Welcome to the Heights (and The Heights). The grass is always greener at Boston College—literally, because grounds crews replace it each spring, and figuratively, because for the next four years, you’ll have a whole host of opportunities to become your best self. In Jesuit lingo, this means becoming “a man or woman…
News, On Campus, Top Story
At Commencement 2016, a Look Forward With the U.S. Secretary of Energy
The remarks from U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest J. Moniz, BC ’66, focused on embracing change in a world that has shifted in many key ways, as shown by massive environmental change, like increased snowfall, and social tragedies, like the Boston Marathon bombings.
Person of the Year 2016, Features, Person Of The Year
Momentum Award: Eradicate BC Racism
The Heights awarded Eradicate Boston College Racism with a momentum award for its anti-racist activity on campus throughout the 2015-16 academic year.
News, Top Story, On Campus
The State of Race: UGBC, Admin Prioritized Dialogue, Culture Shift Over Policy Change
Throughout the course of the year, discontent on campus with regards to race led UGBC and the administration to open up dialogue on these issues but they were unable to change much of the University’s policies.
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