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(Emily Ahern / Heights Editor)

Leahy Highlights Adaptability, Tradition in Jesuit Education at C21 Panel

Mei Dasgupta • April 11, 2025

Complaints About Boston College Priest Sent to Leahy and Jesuit Provincial Years Prior to Rape Allegation

Complaints About Boston College Priest Sent to Leahy and Jesuit Provincial Years Prior to Rape Allegation

Julia Kiersznowski, Victor Stefanescu, Amy Palmer, and Megan Kelly • April 26, 2021
Members of the Boston College community sent complaints beginning in the 1997-98 academic year to University President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J., accusing Rev. Ted Dziak, S.J., a Jesuit at BC from 1990 to 1998, of inappropriate conduct with students.
Christenson: Boston College Is Not a Good School—But It Can Be

Christenson: Boston College Is Not a Good School—But It Can Be

Grace Christenson • September 29, 2020
Columnist Grace Christenson asks a question that high school seniors across the country are asking themselves right now: Is Boston College a good school? Well, that depends on what you mean by good. But if we’re using the University’s coronavirus response as a measuring stick, the answer is no.

Boston College, Jesuit Refugee Service Sign Memorandum

Owen Fahy • April 28, 2019
BC and the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) have signed a three-year memorandum of understanding.

At Community Gathering, Students Question Administrators About Leahy’s Stance, Institutional Racism

Abby Hunt and Jack Goldman • December 13, 2018
Students confronted a panel of administrators and students in the wake of Michael Sorkin, CSOM ’21, defacing walls, furniture, blinds, and a mirror in Welch Hall with racist epithets on Sunday.
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Stanford Professor Evans, Leahy Address Freshmen at First Year Convocation

Brooke Kaiserman • September 9, 2018
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.
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Posters Criticizing Leahy Appear Around Campus

Connor Murphy • October 23, 2017
In an interview with The Heights last October, following the first “Silence is Violence” march, Jack Dunn said that Leahy strongly believes it is the University’s role to tell students what to think, not how.
At University Convocation, Leahy Condemns White Supremacists

At University Convocation, Leahy Condemns White Supremacists

Connor Murphy • September 5, 2017
"Since last year’s presidential election, it has become even more difficult to have respectful dialogue about such issues as immigration, race, sexuality, free speech, and religious beliefs," Leahy said.
Climate Justice's Overnight Vigil Ends With Alleged BCPD Encounter In Morning

Climate Justice’s Overnight Vigil Ends With Alleged BCPD Encounter In Morning

Carolyn Freeman • April 16, 2015
The students participating in the overnight vigil plan to present Leahy with a list of demands when he arrives in the morning.

A Focus On Cost-cutting Saved BC From Bankruptcy, Financial Woes In The 1970s

Juan Olavarria • November 2, 2014
In the 1970s, BC faced substantial debt, but four decades later boasts an endowment fund over $1 billion.
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