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In Response To: "Preservation Committee Passes Webster Woods Acquisition, City Council to Vote Soon"

In Response To: “Preservation Committee Passes Webster Woods Acquisition, City Council to Vote Soon”

Letters November 27, 2019

It is already quite difficult to speak out against my own school regarding Webster Woods, especially when I want to see it expand and do well, but to see its response in a recent Newton Tab article, among...

Letter to the Editor: In Response to: “Koch Foundation Offers Funding for Political Science"

Letter to the Editor: In Response to: “Koch Foundation Offers Funding for Political Science”

Letters November 18, 2019

When The Heights reported news of the Boston College political science department receiving funding from the Koch Foundation, the reaction was unsurprising. Yet, I question those who express concern that...

Letter to the Editor: In Response to "BC Republicans' Choice to Invite Klavan Unproductive, Needlessly Divisive"

Letter to the Editor: In Response to “BC Republicans’ Choice to Invite Klavan Unproductive, Needlessly Divisive”

Letters November 18, 2019

Throughout my four years at Boston College, The Heights alternated from being vaguely, if superciliously, tolerant of those critical of its left-wing editorial stance—to being unduly belligerent of...

In Response to: "To Compete with Top-Ranking Institutions, BC Should Take Koch Foundation’s Funding"

In Response to: “To Compete with Top-Ranking Institutions, BC Should Take Koch Foundation’s Funding”

Letters November 11, 2019

We live in an era of outsize influence of the ultra-wealthy in our institutions. Lobbying has never been so profitable and so widely used. A single large donation to a politician’s campaign often is...

Letter to the Editor: In Response to "Boston College Republicans to Host Speaker With History of Islamophobic Comments"

Letter to the Editor: In Response to “Boston College Republicans to Host Speaker With History of Islamophobic Comments”

Letters November 8, 2019

On Nov. 5, Boston College Republicans brought Andrew Klavan, a prominent journalist, to our campus as a speaker on the topic “The Art of Being Free.”  The AHANA+ Leadership Council believes many...

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