Amy Palmer

The Heights • 14th November 2022

A Look Into BC Dining: Undercooked Food and Bugs Where They Don’t Belong

Jamie D’Ambra, MCAS ’25, was finishing her chicken and two sides—a Boston College Dining classic—when her roommate noticed something dark peeping out of the vegetables.

Unsure of what it was, D’Ambra said the two pushed the vegetables aside and uncovered a giant black bug.

“It was so big,” she said. “It did not look like any bug I’ve seen before, and it was clearly cooked into the food. I was really shocked.”

Students from

The Heights • 31st October 2022

UPDATE: Man Arrested After Series of “Peeping Tom” Incidents Near Off-Campus Housing —

The Boston Police Department (BPD) arrested Oqueli Pascual-Hernadez on Saturday morning in connection with a series of “peeping Tom” incidents near off-campus student houses, according to a BPD police report.

“The behavior had caused obvious alarm, fear and concern in and around Boston College,” the BPD report reads.

Officers detained Pascual-Hernadez, 33, after responding to a call about a suspicious person around Strathmore Road and Lothian Road at around 10:20 p.m. on Oct. 29, police said.

The Heights • 26th October 2022

Susannah Anderson Sees Title IX in Action 50 Years After it Became Law

Boston College softball’s Susannah Anderson is hardly the first person in her family to play a college sport. Not only did all of her siblings compete at the collegiate level, but her parents did too.

The opportunities Anderson has been afforded, however, are far greater than the opportunities either of her parents had, she said. Especially compared to her mom.

“I would definitely say that I have way more resources and opportunity now as a female athlete than my mom did,” Anderson said.

When

The Heights • 19th September 2022

SOFC Runs Out of Funds for Fall Semester, Disallows New Budget Requests

When the Student Organization Funding Committee (SOFC) informed club leaders that it had already allocated its entire budget for the semester, Hollywood Eagles President Dominic Floreno said the news spread like a shockwave through campus.

“SOFC point blank is the lifeline,” Floreno said. “It’s like the IV drip … for all clubs on campus. … It is the only thing that keeps all the clubs alive because it’s where all the money comes from.”

The chairman of SOFC emailed club leaders on Thursday that

The Heights • 13th April 2022

Turning Point Repeatedly Contacts UGBC Members, Reflecting Nationwide Pattern of Targeting Student Governments

A representative of the Campus Leadership Project (CLP)—a conservative leadership development organization designed for college students—has repeatedly contacted and offered resources to a number of Boston College students involved in UGBC.

CLP Senior Victory Coordinator Michael Yurkovskiy first reached out to Julia Spagnola, UGBC vice president–elect and MCAS ’23, while she was still a representative in the Student Assembly (SA). Spagnola said that when she first received the LinkedIn message

The Heights • 23rd March 2022

University Places CJBC Under Probation Following Divestment Protest

The University placed Climate Justice at Boston College (CJBC) under probation for violating the Student Code of Conduct after students delivered cards with vulgar language to University President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J., as part of a Valentine’s Day–inspired divestment protest.

Audrey Kang, president of CJBC and MCAS ’22, said the University missed the purpose of CJBC’s protest by only focusing on the language used in the cards.

“I think it was really unfortunate that everything got derai

The Heights • 19th February 2022

Bat Found in Walsh Hall, Released by BC Facilities Management

Sofia Megale jolted awake in her dorm room in Walsh Hall to something repeatedly brushing against her shoulder.

“I woke up to Sofia screaming her head off,” said Caroline Shannon, Megale’s direct roommate and MCAS ’24. “I thought it was like a terrible, terrible nightmare.”

Hearing the commotion, one of Megale’s suitemates burst through the door and identified a flying creature—a bat.

Megale, MCAS ’24, said she and her roommates left their suite on Feb. 10 and waited in the hallway as Shannon

The Heights • 20th January 2022

$150 Million Integrated Science Building Opens On Campus

The arrival of the highly anticipated Integrated Science Building at Boston College has attracted visitors from all over campus, which is exactly what it was made to do.

“This building is designed to bring in faculty and students from across all disciplines to solve complex problems,” Tom Chiles, vice provost for research and academic planning, said.

The Integrated Science Building is also known as 245 Beacon—not to be confused with the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society tha

The Heights • 16th January 2022

Parent-Created Petition Proposes Additional Exemptions to BC’s Booster Mandate

A petition urging Boston College to allow four exemptions to its vaccination booster mandate claims there are “very serious safety concerns” with the University policy. The petition has garnered 830 signatures as of Sunday.

Hooman Noorchashm, the author of the petition and the parent of a current BC student, said the driving force behind the petition was BC parents who approached him with their concerns about the mandate.

“There are specific populations of people who need a very clear off-ramp

The Heights • 11th September 2021

20 Years Later: Boston College Remembers Alumni Who Died on 9/11

Editor’s Note: For the 20th anniversary of Sept. 11, The Heights reached out to the families and friends of the 22 Boston College graduates who lost their lives in the attacks.

We were able to reach the family or friends of six of the graduates. We regret not being able to reach friends or relatives of the other 16. We invite you to learn more about the other alumni in our archives.

Marc Landy, a professor of political science at Boston College, was watching the news on a clunky TV in his doct

The Heights • 26th April 2021

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

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. Dziak—who went on to work at Jesuit schools in Jamaica, New Orleans, and New York—was accused last week of raping a postgraduate volunteer in Belize in 2004, according to nola.com. In one instance, members of the chaplaincy—which is now Campus Min

The Heights • 2nd February 2021

“Why Is It Only Our floor?... Why Us?”: Multicultural Learning Floor Vandalized Saturday Morning

Ayanna Rowe was startled awake in the middle of the night by the sound of chaos in the hallway just outside her dorm room in Xavier Hall.

“I was literally startled out of my sleep at like 2 a.m., and I heard banging, and I was like, ‘What’s going on?,’” Rowe, a resident of the third floor of Xavier Hall and MCAS ’24, said. “Someone [had] just ransacked our hallway … We just saw trash all over the floor.”

The Boston College Police Department identified two individuals responsible for vandalizin