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“Kids Need Us Now More Than Ever”: Lynch Students Weigh In on Potential Dismantling of the Department of Education

Mei Dasgupta and Lucy Freeman • April 7, 2025

As Lynch School of Educaition and Human Development students prepare for careers in education, they are also bracing for how Trump-era shakeups could impact their careers and the students they aim to serve.

“Teaching Kids to Dream”: STEM For All Sparks a Passion for Science

Veronica Pierce • April 6, 2025

“I think they’re teaching kids to dream,” Heaney said. “That whatever they think they can do, they can do. But, maybe more importantly, what STEM is doing is they’re exposing kids to things that they’ve never dreamt about before.”

Tricky Bus Schedules and Tight-Knit Community: Messina Students Reflect on First Year

Mei Dasgupta • March 17, 2025

Despite the technical difficulties that come with beginning a new academic program and adjusting to a heavy workload, Messina College students have managed to build a community within their 100-person class.

Computing Compatibility: Marriage Pact Sparks Love for Some, Laughter for Others

Elizabeth Maher • March 16, 2025

“I think it's a story of a true modern romance,” Hassanein said. “Meeting through Marriage Pact—DMing and stuff—it ended up going way better than I think I could’ve imagined, or Lucy could’ve imagined.”

“BC Is His Love”: Butler’s Mission and Ministry Leadership Prepares Him for BC Presidency

Elizabeth Maher and Veronica Pierce • February 24, 2025

“BC is his love,” DiPietro said. “So, he is a steward of Boston College, and he is going to make sure that it is successful, that he cares more about the people in it.”

Black BC Website Maps Out the Black Experience on Campus

Kate Kissel and Veronica Pierce • February 17, 2025

“It’s one thing to give somebody a book and say ‘If you want to know more about X read this,’” Frederick said. “I think that’s one way to intervene. But the more of yourself you get involved in learning—your physical self, your intellectual self, your emotional self, etc. — the more meaningful what you learn is to you as a human.”

“What Are We?”: Examining “Situationships” and Hookup Culture at BC

Kate Kissel and Veronica Pierce • February 14, 2025

“If you’re going to be in a relationship, grow up and be a part of the relationship,” Bracher said. “Have an adult relationship, and if you want to get out of the hurt feelings and the BC lookaways, you’ve got to be able to talk about your feelings.”

BC Prison Education Program Shatters Stigmas and Builds Better Futures

Lucas Ding • January 26, 2025

“When you are in a difficult position but find someone who doesn't judge you and tries to teach you, and even tries to learn from you, it is an amazing thing that can change your life, that can put you on the right path,” Alabi said. “And that's what they're doing. That's what their goal is.”

Abstraction, Activism, and Apathy: BC Students Take on Election Season

Eliza Hernandez • October 9, 2024

The autumn bustle of Boston College students this year is shadowed by the upcoming U.S. presidential election. With November quickly approaching, the student body is tasked with finding its role in the next chapter of American history, walking the line between abstraction, activism, and apathy.

Despite Growing University Trends Toward Lay Leadership, BC Plans to Elect Another Jesuit President

Lyla Walsh and Natalie Arndt • June 10, 2024

“University President is a tough job right now,” Rather said. “There’s been tremendous turnover. There’s been tremendous stress. So I think it’s incredibly difficult, even more reason that I think it’s important that BC continues with a Jesuit president to continue that tradition.”

Should I Stay Or Should I Go: Some BC Grads Stay in Boston, Others Depart for Something New

Spencer Steppe and Lyla Walsh • April 8, 2024

“I think [Boston is] an amazing, amazing college town, I’d say the best in the U.S.,” Kelly said. “But my perception was that it was going to be a little too young post-grad.”

Resources in Close Quarters: Co-Founder of AHANA and Current Students Express Concern Over LGBTQ+ Resources at the BAIC

Ernest Romero and Carina Murphy • March 25, 2024

“To me, it was a limitation of addressing [LGBTQ+] needs by tagging it on to the AHANA context,” Lewis-Mosley said. “They have a big enough endowment to where they could have broadened meeting the needs of both our AHANA legacy and established an even broader in development for the LGBTQI community.”