Neenan’s list
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A new O’Neill Library exhibit commemorates 25 years of the annual “Dean’s List” of books worth reading, created by William Neenan, SJ.
Music of hope
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A documentary tells the story of a concentration camp survivors’ orchestra in post-World War II Germany.
Campus tour
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Historian James O’Toole serves up the history and lore of the 64-acre property in Brighton that Boston College has purchased from the archdiocese.
In the day
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The Class of 1957 tells its stories for “The Boston College Experience,” a program that will collect alumni memories in anticipation of the University’s 150th anniversary in 2013.
Concerted effort
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The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn ’93 reflects on his life and times in rock ‘n’ roll.
Reborn in the USA
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A documentary film profiles three immigrants who work at Boston College.
Portrait of a saint
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Jeremy Zipple ’00, SJ, chronicles the life of Saint Xavier in his film, made 500 years after the saint’s birth
Artistic expression
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From hip-hop dance to choral singing, student performances at the 2007 Arts Festival
Gold diggers of 2007
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Live (on tape) from the Heights Room—it’s the Third Annual Baldwin Awards!
Remembering Bob Bullock
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A tribute to Fr. Robert W. Bullock ’51 examines the life of a long-time activist in Christian-Jewish relations.
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
Comic timing
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Arts Council honoree Amy Poehler ’93 is interviewed in front of a very live student audience.
Work of art
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A documentary film about the effort that brought the Secular/Sacred exhibition to Boston College.
The winners are
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The 2006 Baldwin Awards, from a teen-angst drama to a send-up of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Fashion forward
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What Not to Wear cohost Clinton Kelly ’91 returns to campus for a Master Class.
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.
California streamin’
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The third episode of The BC, a parody of Fox TV’s The OC, is now on air. Will Woody Atryan find happiness on the Heights? Will Seth Lohan ever get it together? Tune in.
New man around campus
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BC’s new academic vice president Cutberto Garza on his callings.
Shelter from the storm
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A conversation among New Orleans students who have landed at Boston College.
The Interview: Illuminated verse
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Professor Paul Mariani and illustrator Barry Moser talk about their poetic collaboration.
Playing on
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Four BC faculty composers present recent works and talk about being artists in a genre that commands little cultural attention.
The Interview: Recovery program
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Veteran political observer Alan Wolfe on how America has lost, and can regain, its sense of purpose.
The Interview: Our man in Saigon
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History professor Seth Jacobs on one of the most ruinous foreign policy decisions of the postwar era.
“Killing Silence”
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John Michalczyk’s documentary on how the Sicilian people and government reclaimed their island from the Mafia.
The Interview: Ritual life
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History professor James O’Toole on transformations in American Catholic religious practice.
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.”
The Interview: Obsession
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Jeffery Howe on his 30-year relationship with the painter Fernand Khnopff.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Toward renewal
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A Church in the 21st Century panel discussion, moderated by NBC’s Tim Russert, on the aftermath of the sexual abuse crisis and the challenges ahead.
Memorial labyrinth
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On the two-year anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy, a labyrinth is dedicated to the 22 alumni who were lost.