According to Sunday Times sports writer Michael Foley, attendees of a Dublin Gaelic football match expected a Sunday afternoon of fun and excitement, not a massacre.
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Seventy-Six BC Students in Isolation Ahead of Thanksgiving Holiday
Seventy-six undergraduates were in isolation housing as of Tuesday after testing positive for COVID-19, the largest number since Sept. 17, when 85 students were in isolation.
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BC Professors Reflect on Teaching During a Pandemic
With approximately half of the University’s undergraduate students opting to complete the semester remotely, professors must continue to adapt to the ever-changing landscape of teaching amid a pandemic.
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BC Reports 27 New Undergraduate Cases of COVID-19
The University reported 27 new undergraduate cases of COVID-19 out of 4,734 undergraduate tests, a positivity rate of .57 percent.
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BC Experiences Delayed Test Results Day After COVID-19 Spike
After an issue with equipment at the Broad Institute, which processes some of Boston College’s COVID-19 tests, members of the BC community are experiencing a delay in receiving their test results, according to an update on the University’s COVID-19 dashboard.
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BC Sees Largest COVID-19 Case Spike Since Early September
The University reported 23 new undergraduate cases of COVID-19 out of 2,400 undergraduate tests, according to a Wednesday update on its COVID-19 dashboard, an undergraduate positivity rate of .96 percent.
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Panelists Debate Pope Francis’ ‘Fratelli Tutti’ and the Role of the Catholic Church
Discussing Pope’ Francis’ latest encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, panelists critiqued the lack of women’s voices and questioned what this omission says about the role of women in the Catholic Church and in society, among numerous other topics, in a panel on Tuesday.
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Honor System Raises Questions About Academic Integrity
For Kathleen Freeman, a senior studying biology at Boston College, an impending physics midterm brought along more than the usual anxiety and frustration associated with midterm season.
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BC Dining Prepares for Thanksgiving Feast
Boston College Dining Services holds a Thanksgiving dinner every year for students who remain on campus. But this year, with students staying on campus for the break, it is preparing for a larger crowd than usual.
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International Students Confront Challenges of Virtual Learning
When the University suspended in-person classes in March, Jiayi Wang, MCAS ’22, returned home to Henan, China to finish out the semester in a different hemisphere, and because of U.S. travel restrictions barring entry to those coming from China, she was unable to return to campus for the fall semester.
