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LTE: I’m A Woman, I Would’ve Voted For Harris If She Taxed DJ Equipment And Podcast Microphones

LTE Opinion November 13, 2024

He is making podcasting too expensive for your broke, bummy boyfriends who haven’t had jobs since they got fired from the dispensary they worked at for two weeks! That should be celebrated as a win for feminism!

LTE: Dear BC Republicans, We Called You Short, Fat, And Ugly With Grubby Little Rat Hands, Not Racist

Big Issues LTE Opinion November 12, 2024

However, we, as BC students, will not stand with the lies that you posted in your op-ed. We said you were “short, fat, and ugly with grubby little rat hands.” We never called you racist.

NEC Has The Drive To Make Important Change, But Administration Won’t Let Us Turn The Res Into A Lazy River

Opinion Student Life April 26, 2024

The students’ planned for all 37 members of the organization to swim in the same clockwise direction to create a “whirlpool.” Once the water really got rushing, they would throw a few inner tubes in for regular students to enjoy.

Slimiest Guy You Know Works For Eagles Realty Now

Big Issues Campus Culture Opinion ResLife February 20, 2023

MCELROY COMMONS– In today’s modern labor market, the true “9-5” may be going out of business. Replacing it are a slew of recently popularized streams of passive income. Students at BC are determined to not be left behind in the obsolete 9-5 world, and are constantly looking for ways... Read more

“We’re Actually Pretty Middle Class” Says Kid Whose Parents Started The War In Iraq

Big Issues Opinion February 17, 2023

GASSON HALL– The core curriculum, a cornerstone of Boston College’s educational pedagogy, offers many students the unique opportunity to discover that people have lived experiences. Professors often ask students to consider and share how their identities impact their lives. Overwhelmed by his peers sharing their identities and experiences that... Read more

OPINION: Dear White Buddhists

Featured Opinion February 24, 2021

It’s one thing to be a garden-variety, store-brand Asian fetishist, but to make the massive shift from big-tiddy-anime-girls to big belly Buddha is deeply unsettling.

Opinion: Strip Mod Must Go On, Even If It’s a Private Little Show Just For Me

Campus Culture Coronavirus Opinion Sex December 10, 2020

Throughout the fall semester, far too many beloved Boston College traditions have been postponed, doomed to rot on the shelf until further notice. But if I could make a plea to ensure one tradition continues this semester, it would be this: Strip Mod must go on, even if it’s... Read more

OP-ED: A Perfectly Normal Tuesday

Campus Culture Featured Opinion November 3, 2020

Well, I can’t seem to explain it really — compared to the commotion of most others days so far, today’s shaping up to be about as perfectly ordinary as it gets. Perhaps I should elaborate. My alarm went off at seven, as it usually does. I snoozed it just... Read more

Op-Ed: Valentine’s Day Is Over And So Is Premarital Sex

Holidays Opinion Sex February 17, 2020

February 14th, what a magical night. I bet you had a ton of fun having sex, huh? Bet you really enjoyed yourself. Think it’s so fun to disrespect the Lord? Yeah? Well guess what folks! Fuck time is OVER! That’s right, it’s time to hold hands and share one... Read more

The NEC Endorses Mayors Quimby, West For UGBC President And VP

Big Issues Opinion Student Life February 11, 2020

Media outlets have a civic responsibility to conform their readers’ minds to their own way of thinking, and this is especially true in elections. With this in mind, The New England Classic endorses Mayor Joseph Fitzgerald O’Malley Fitzpatrick O’Donnell The Edge Quimby (CSOM ’22) and Mayor Adam West (MCAS... Read more