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Chart a 10-mile path down the Miami coast, and the options for luxury shopping are endless. But from Fendi to Missoni to Porsche to Bentley, the branded products many shoppers [...]

Byline: Scott Baker I was awakened in the predawn hours by a raging downpour. Cold, howling winds were coming off the lake, and the screen door to our half-domed shelter [...]

Byline: Scott Baker Boston College is rejecting a recent call from the Vatican for Catholics to divest from companies and industries engaged in activities 'harmful to human or social ecology' [...]

Byline: Scott Baker University President William P. Leahy, S.J., sent a letter to the Boston College community on Wednesday stating that it is essential for everyone to 'acknowledge and affirm [...]

Byline: Scott Baker University President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J., released a statement on June 2 condemning racism and offering prayers for George Floyd, the man who a police officer [...]

Byline: Scott Baker Protesters gather in Boston Common on Sunday. (Colleen Martin / Heights Editor) Boston College Police Department officers conducted crowd control at a protest in Franklin Park on [...]

Byline: Scott Baker Boston College's major construction projects are all currently under active construction, as the City of Boston begins a phased reopening of construction. Construction has resumed for Phase [...]

Byline: Scott Baker The Massachusetts Higher Education Working Group, a group of 14 college presidents representing higher education in Massachusetts, submitted a 'framework for reopening colleges and universities' to Massachusetts [...]

Byline: Scott Baker Boston College plans to resume on-campus classes in the fall as scheduled, University President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J., announced in an email to the BC community [...]

Byline: Scott Baker Boston College's net assets decreased by $41 million in the fiscal year running from June 2018 through May 2019, according to the University's annual 990 tax filing, [...]

Byline: Scott Baker Christian Guma and Kevork Atinizian took over as Undergraduate Government of Boston College president and vice president Wednesday, replacing Michael Osaghae and Tiffany Brooks. Guma and Atinizian [...]

Byline: Scott Baker Boston College offered use of its currently unused residence halls to the City of Boston during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the city turned down the University's offer, [...]

Byline: Scott Baker The COVID-19 pandemic and Boston College's ensuing move to online classes and closure of the residence halls have put significant strain on the University's finances, according to [...]

Byline: Scott Baker Boston College's May Commencement is now canceled over concerns due to the COVID-19 outbreak and restrictions on social gatherings, according to an email sent to the Class [...]

Byline: Scott Baker Students who normally live in on-campus housing will still be counted in the 2020 census through their universities, even if they are temporarily living in another place [...]

Byline: Scott Baker When Chantal Sanchez, MCAS '20, received the news that Boston College was closing the residence halls, she had more on her mind than missing Senior Week and [...]

Byline: Scott Baker and Julia Kiersznowski Boston College has amended its academic policies for this semester by expanding the option to take courses pass/fail and extending the pass/fail designation deadline [...]

Byline: Scott Baker The proposal for a security studies program housed in the political science department, to be funded by the Charles Koch Foundation, has now been relabeled as a [...]

Byline: Scott Baker A petition addressed to University President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J. and the Boston College Board of Trustees calling for BC to support LGBTQ+ students at the [...]

Byline: Scott Baker Associate Vice President of University Communications Jack Dunn said that Boston College has not made the decision to move all classes online due to the novel coronavirus, [...]

Byline: Scott Baker Boston College closed its Italy and South Korea study abroad programs on March 3 due to the novel coronavirus outbreak, citing guidelines from the U.S. Department of [...]

Byline: Scott Baker Boston College agreed on Thursday to meetings and ongoing discussions with Climate Justice at BC in response to the group's Fossil Fuel Divestment Day protest, in which [...]

Byline: Scott Baker The Office of International Programs has closed the BC in Parma study abroad programs due to the outbreak of coronavirus in Italy, Nick Gozik, director of OIP, [...]

Byline: Scott Baker Since Christian Guma, CSOM '21, and Kevork Atinizian, CSOM '22, were elected Undergraduate Government of Boston College president and vice president last Tuesday, they have begun meeting [...]

Byline: Scott Baker Czar Sepe, MCAS '21, and Jack Bracher, MCAS '22, are arguing that policies set by the Elections Committee should be revised following their 18-vote loss in Tuesday's [...]

Byline: Scott Baker Voter turnout in the election for the 2020-2021 Undergraduate Government of Boston College presidential election was higher than it's been in years, reaching the 30 percent threshold [...]

Byline: Scott Baker Christian Guma, CSOM '21, and Kevork Atinizian, CSOM '22, will be the next Undergraduate Government of Boston College president and vice president, winning 850 of 2,988 votes, [...]

Byline: Scott Baker Boston College named Laura Steinberg the first director of the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society on Thursday morning, according to a University release. Steinberg, who [...]

Byline: Scott Baker Boston College received almost 30,000 applications for the undergraduate Class of 2024, Grant Gosselin, director of Undergraduate Admissions, told The Heights in an email. BC received more [...]

Byline: Scott Baker A crowd of students, faculty and staff listened, often snapping in affirmation, as the booming voice of Rev. Willie Bodrick echoed across the walls of the Heights [...]

Byline: Scott Baker The recent outbreak of a new strain of coronavirus in China has prompted IFSA-Butler, an external provider of study abroad programs, to cancel a program in Shanghai [...]

Byline: Scott Baker The race for president and executive vice president of the Undergraduate Government of Boston College kicked off Thursday night, with four teams announcing their candidacy. The election [...]

Byline: Scott Baker Tickets to this Saturday's Boston City Limits concert will now be offered free of charge, the Boston College Campus Activities Board said in an email. Students who [...]

Byline: Scott Baker A car crashed into the fence along the Green Line B Branch tracks near Gerald Street on Friday afternoon. All three people in the car--at least one [...]

Byline: Scott Baker Ariel Cox, MCAS '22, was hit by a commuter rail train in West Newton Friday morning, according to an email from Vice President for Student Affairs Joy [...]

Byline: Scott Baker Neil Wolfman, a chemistry professor at Boston College, died on Wednesday, according to a family-run blog that provided updates on Wolfman's health to family, friends, and former [...]

Byline: Scott Baker A petition urging Boston College not to accept funding from the Charles Koch Foundation that was signed by over 1,000 people was sent to administrators on Dec. [...]

Byline: Scott Baker, Owen Fahy, and Megan Kelly Andrew Klavan, a conservative author and talk show host, was met by mass protest at his Tuesday lecture, titled 'The Art of [...]

Byline: Scott Baker Boston College Law School began a partnership with Tashkent State University of Law , the largest law school in Uzbekistan, in 2017 as part of the University's [...]

Byline: Danny Flynn and Scott Baker Ivor Bell, a former Irish Republican Army leader, was aquitted last week of the 1972 kidnapping and murder of Jean McConville, for which he [...]

Byline: Scott Baker As part of the Church in the 21st Century Series, the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life hosted a panel titled 'How Would You Reform [...]

Byline: Scott Baker Boston College is hosting a conference analyzing Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf and the precursors to the Holocaust Thursday and Friday in commemoration of the tragedy. The conference [...]

Byline: Scott Baker A group of clubs hosted a panel on Tuesday examining ethical investment and what they believed Boston College should divest from. The talk, titled 'Divestment 101,' was [...]

Byline: Scott Baker The Ignatian Society invited Rev. Pat Conroy, S.J., to Boston College on Wednesday to talk about Jesuit spirituality and the role it plays in his life. Conroy [...]

Byline: Scott Baker The Ignatian Society invited Rev. Pat Conroy, S.J., to Boston College on Wednesday to talk about Jesuit spirituality and the role it plays in his life. Conroy [...]

Byline: Scott Baker President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled 'Improving Free Inquiry, Transparency, and Accountability at Colleges and Universities' on Thursday on higher education issues. The order was [...]

Byline: Scott Baker Frank Garcia, a professor at Boston College Law School, gave a talk on March 14 highlighting the topics in his recently published book, Consent and Trade: Trading [...]

Byline: Scott Baker President Donald Trump released his administration's budget proposal for the 2020 fiscal year on Monday, titled 'A Budget For A Better America: Promises Kept. Taxpayers Saved.' The [...]

Byline: Danny Flynn and Scott Baker Move-in day for Boston College students will be pushed back a day to August 24 and Welcome Week will be shortened to four days [...]

Byline: Scott Baker Rev. Mitchell T. Rozanski, bishop of Springfield, Mass., came to Boston College on Feb. 25 as part of the C21 Episcopal Visitors Series to speak about current [...]