Led by ROTC students, band members, and cheerleaders, over 2,000 first-year Boston College students paraded down Linden Lane with several hoisting banners plastered with their dorm names for the first time in two years on Thursday.
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…
News, On Campus, Top Story
Class of 2025 Inattentive at Annual Convocation
Sherry Turkle spoke about the importance of conversation to the Class of 2025 Thursday evening at the annual Academic Convocation.
News
Leahy Addresses BC Community at Annual Convocation
University President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J. discussed the pressures that Boston College faces in the modern day, including an increasingly secular society and struggles within the Catholic Church, at BC’s 2021 University Convocation, according to University communications.
On Campus, Top Story, News
Springsteen Speaks at First-Year Convocation
The annual freshmen parade down Linden Lane to Alumni Stadium for freshman convocation was missing this year, as members of the Class of 2024 remained in their dorm rooms and were addressed by keynote speaker Bruce Springsteen over Zoom. The award-winning musician spoke to Boston College freshmen remotely from a music studio, and encouraged the…
News, On Campus, Featured Story
Bruce Springsteen to Speak at Freshman Convocation
Bruce Springsteen, author of the memoir Born to Run, will address the Class of 2024 at the First Year Academic Convocation on Sept. 10 in Conte Forum.
News, On Campus
Chris Wilson Continues His Master Plan
Growing up during the ’80s and ’90s in Washington D.C., Convocation speaker Chris WIlson was no stranger to the dangers of abuse, assault, and gun violence.
News, On Campus, Top Story
Stanford Professor Evans, Leahy Address Freshmen at First Year Convocation
University President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J., addressed the flock of freshmen clustered in Conte Forum this past Thursday at First Year Academic Convocation. A maroon tapestry cloaked the bottom of the platform, emblazoned with phrase: Go set the world aflame.
News, Top Story, Administration
At University Convocation, Leahy Commits to “Similar Response” to Renewed Abuse Allegations in the Church
University President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J. spoke to Boston College’s faculty and staff Wednesday as part of University Convocation. In his speech, Leahy shared his thoughts on the University’s place in the world, and commented more specifically on the renewed revelations of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. Leahy committed to formulating a response…
Featured Story, Features
A Conversation With Convocation Speaker Lev Golinkin
“I came into BC wanting nothing to do with my past, and I left as a Jew, needing to engage,” Golinkin said.
