A child is born
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From the McMullen Museum, Burns Library, and St. Mary’s Hall, nine portrayals of Mary and Jesus.
That championship season
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Twenty years after they wrote BC football into college athletics history, members of the 1984 Eagles are honored by the University.
Sing we Noel
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The University Chorale and Symphony Orchestra’s “Annual Christmas Concert.”
Googled: Clinton Kelly ’91, style guru
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The cohost of What Not to Wear redresses fashion wrongs.
The unseen Heights: Part II
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The hidden haunts of Zamboni operators, Jesuits, Fryolators, and chancellors.
Early and often
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Among scores of BC community members running for public office this November are a presidential candidate, a vice presidential candidate (Green Party), and a faculty member who hopes to land a seat on the Natick, Massachusetts, school committee.
The Interview: Obsession
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Jeffery Howe on his 30-year relationship with the painter Fernand Khnopff.
Eminences
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On September 30 in Robsham Theater, 10 alumni were honored with the 2004 achievement awards.
Googled: Raj Bhakta ’98, would-be apprentice
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Raj Bhakta ’98 takes on 17 adversaries on the second season of NBC’s hit, The Apprentice.
Fast forward
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Upper Campus move-in day compressed into the time it takes the Dropkick Murphys to howl their punk version of For Boston.
Family feud
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A review of highlights (and lowlights) of the BC-Holy Cross football rivalry, from its initiation in 1896, to its demise 82 games later in 1986.
Remembering Kia
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On April 4, 2004, friends of the late Kia Rozier ’04, a gifted classical musician, held a memorial concert of music she loved.
Prime movers
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Reunion attendees recall (and are reunited with) faculty members who changed their lives.
The way we were
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A near-century of commencement snapshots from the Burns Library archives, spanning Henry V. Cunningham, who received BC’s first honorary degree in 1892, and Lionel Ritchie, who sang a hit single in Alumni Stadium in 1986.
Googled: Herb Scannell ’79, TV mastermind
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President of Nickelodeon and other top networks; personal friend of SpongeBob SquarePants. A look inside Herb Scannell’s world.
Salon
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Arts Festival readings and declamations by faculty and students of their prose and poetry.
In concert
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Singer/songwriter Ellis Paul (Paul Plissey ’87), the 2004 recipient of the Boston College Arts Council Alumni Award, performs live under the tent on O’Neill Plaza.
Turning points
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With same-sex marriage legal in Massachusetts as of May 17, @BC presents a gathering of links to recent campus presentations and discussions on gay life, Catholics, politics, and nuptials.
The Interview: Storyteller
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A conversation with Elizabeth Graver, fiction writer and author of the new novel Awake.
Googled: BC women’s basketball team
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Boston Globe profiles of a league champion coach and six of her players.
Major concerns
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Fifteen faculty members who were promoted to tenure or to full professor this year answer the question: What’s on your mind?
Distant spires
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1956. The year of Presley, Khrushchev, and poodle skirts. And on Chestnut Hill, a group of faculty and staff made a film about Boston College. Drawn from Front Row archives, a 28-minute glimpse of a lost time and place.
The laughter of discovery
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From waltz lessons, to hip pads, to accent renovation—a behind-the-scenes look at the Boston College Theater Department’s recent production of Tom Stoppard’s classic play, Arcadia.
Rock around the clock
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Part party, part endurance test, an 18-hour dance marathon organized by BC students wore out plenty of sneakers and raised thousands for Children’s Hospital Boston.
Googled: Amy Poehler ’93, big shot comedian
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Entertainment Weekly’s Must List says she’s “the best reason” to watch Saturday Night Live. Some links to sites that tell you why.
Inside view: The unseen Heights
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Places you’ve never visited, from Gothic rooftops to hidden tunnels.
The meaning of Tom O’Connor
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Colleagues and former students on their debt, and ours, to Boston’s master historian.
The Interview: Book report
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William Neenan, SJ, on his popular, long-running, iconoclastic Dean’s List of recommended reading.
Inner fire
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Gargan Hall’s stained glass windows are resplendent with color and light. They are also by turns reverent, mysterious, and whimsical.
Meet the press
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Archbishop Sean O’Malley speaks to the media after attending Boston College’s recent conference on treating victims of sexual abuse.
History lesson
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Boston College’s recent Reflections in Black exhibit attracted an unusually youthful museum audience.
The Interview: Ringside
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Carlo Rotella on tank-town fights, ring names, Larry Holmes’s soul, and the boxer’s code of honor.
Page turner
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Take a journey through Boston College’s two-millionth volume, a 1613 scientific treatise by Galileo Galilei.