The art of football
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BC bowl posters from the 1940s and 1980s. The Eagles will go to their eighth consecutive bowl game on December 30.
The Interview: But seriously
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English Professor Paul Lewis discusses his new book, which examines the functions and ethics of humor.
Googled: Fr. Edward Phillips ’68, AIDS missioner
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A Maryknoll priest and “the sickness of these days.”
Merrily on High
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Music of the season from the University Chorale, Symphony Orchestra, Symphonic Band, and Wind Ensemble.
On Topic: Drug dependent
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It’s been nearly 20 years since Prozac was introduced. Are we happy yet? A roundtable on psychotropic drugs—the good they do, and the concerns they raise—with psychiatrists Christopher Doran ’68 and Kenneth Duckworth, and Boston College sociologist David Karp.
Compassion, Inc.
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A group of alumni works daily to provide volunteer support in disaster–stricken communities.
Googled: Jeff Simmons ’98, driver
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A computer science major while at Boston College, he’s been winning car races since age five
Freshman class
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A synthesist, a catalyzer, a climatologist, and an appreciative interpreter of Islamic culture are among the 29 faculty who begin work at Boston College this year.
Playing at the edge
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It’s been nearly 30 years since student-run WZBC took up its mission to play pop music that wasn’t yet popular. Time has not dulled its edge
Googled: Philip Landrigan, M.D., ’63, getting the lead out
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A leader in studies of lead, asbestos, Gulf War Syndrome, pesticides, and PCB’s, has now turned his attention to the toxic dust of 9/11.
Daily grace
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The McMullen Museum’s exhibition of Islamic decorative art, Cosmophilia, features more than 120 objects from the seventh to the nineteenth centuries.
On Topic: Decline and fall?
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A roundtable on the troubles facing Catholic elementary and secondary schools.
Googled: Lesley Visser ’75, for love of the game
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Being the first woman recognized by the Pro Football Hall of Fame is just the latest honor in a 30-year journalism career.
Inquiring minds
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Portraits of Scholars of the College and their faculty advisors, who talk about their students’ research topics, from Simone de Beauvoir to pterocellin A.
Comic timing
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Arts Council honoree Amy Poehler ’93 is interviewed in front of a very live student audience.
High notes
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Four songs from the award-winning Antiqued, the Bostonians’ seventh a cappella recording.
Work of art
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A documentary film about the effort that brought the Secular/Sacred exhibition to Boston College.
A woman’s place
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Members of the Golden Eagle Class of 1956 remember Boston College’s first year of coeducation.
Rites of spring
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End-of-year performances by the University Chorale, the Symphonic Band, and the University Wind Ensemble.
Team Hoyt: In the race
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On the occasion of their 25th Boston Marathon, Dick and Rick Hoyt star in a film for the disabled and everybody else.
Native sound
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On his new CD, John Mahoney, long celebrated for his classroom recitations, reads American poetry and prose on the theme of freedom.
The winners are
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The 2006 Baldwin Awards, from a teen-angst drama to a send-up of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Dual purpose
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Highlights from Secular/Sacred, an exhibition of medieval art and objects, currently at the McMullen Museum.
Fashion forward
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What Not to Wear cohost Clinton Kelly ’91 returns to campus for a Master Class.
Gabrielli to Grainger
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The University Wind Ensemble performs a concert of chamber music.
Oft-told tales: How Gulliver grew
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From book to movies to tchotchkes, how Gulliver grew and grew and grew.
Wilde thing
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Professor Thomas Oboe Lee and Paul Hodes J.D. ’78 premiere an opera on the life of Oscar Wilde.
The Interview: Neighborhood cinema
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Richard Blake on Gotham, as imagined by Lumet, Allen, Scorsese, and Lee.
Major considerations: Faculty make their pitch at the Minors Fair
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At the first fair of its kind, A&S faculty and students make the pitch for their interdisciplinary minors.
Googled: Tyler Jewell ’99, Odd man in
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Against many odds, this snowboarder heads to the 2006 Olympic games in Torino.