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LTE: Service Club Rejected Me, Now I’m Never Helping Anyone

Campus Culture LTE Service October 1, 2024

I, a self-proclaimed servant for others, feel the time has come to address the service COC (crisis on campus). I have recently received word from various on-campus service organizations that my applications have been “enthusiastically yet apologetically redirected,” AKA — rejected.

BC Girl Reconnects With Her Jesuit Values, Only Eats Bread Rolls And House Wine In Punta

Holidays Service Student Life March 13, 2024

“She promptly described her powerful experience at her 4-day mass in a ‘distant place,’ providing plenty of candids of her consumption of the ‘house wine blood’ and “bread roll body” of Christ.”

LTE: All Good Deeds Are Inherently Selfish

Campus Culture Drinking Service Student Life March 2, 2024

At the end of the day are we not just serving ourselves? I over serve myself in alcohol and you over serve yourself in the reception of gratitude and acknowledgement, are we both not drunk?

Leahy Sends APPA Students To Camp Green Lake To Search For Oil

Leahy Service February 22, 2024

“This week you will have one task: Holes. You’ll be digging up as many holes as you can. No breaks and no water unless you can find something for me. Something golden and rich. Something oily…”.

Arrupe Volunteer Gave Me A Wedgie And Stole My Lunch Money

Campus Culture Service November 6, 2023

Shrouded in the mystique of do-goodery and philanthropy, these “arrupites,” as The Classic calls them, greet hungry students with puppy eyes, outstretched palms, and wide open pockets. Arrupe is their name and greed is their game.

BC Sends Students To Stonehenge To “Figure It Out”

Big Issues Leahy Service November 1, 2021

“We’re kind of curious on, like, how they did it. They didn’t have cranes then, to my knowledge, so they must have used their hands. Now for those back home, these things are heavy–big rocks,” said “Little” Lisa Thorax (LSOE ’22) over zoom. “We were collected by the president–BC wanted their best applied psych majors, to apply our psych.”

Going Baby On Baby? Nursing Student Helps Deliver Twins

School Service Student Life WTF February 3, 2021

LONGWOOD MEDICAL AREA — Anna Dababski (CSON ’22), a junior on clinical rotation with the OB/GYN department of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, played a crucial role last Thursday in aiding a mother through the birth of her first born baby. As it turned out, however, there was another one... Read more

Welles Crowther 5K To Be Held Over Wii Fit

Coronavirus Service WTF October 16, 2020

The run’s organizers are also taking aggressive steps to prevent runners from simply shaking the Wiimote up and down. All participants are required to install Proctorio, the test-proctoring software, onto the Wii that they will be using, which will track their movements using the Wii’s sensor bar.

Fuck Yeah: Kid In Your APPA Group Brought Her Dab Pen

Service Student Life March 9, 2020

PARKERSBERG, WEST VIRGINIA — Students in APPA group #42 have taken a break from building houses for the impoverished to get REALLY high in the mountains of Appalachia. “Dabs with the bros are what make this experience so worthwhile,” said Eleanor Restucci (CSOM ‘21), referring to her G-Slim 2800... Read more

Appa Group #24 Placed At Schiller Institute

Service Student Life February 28, 2020

To ensure that the group would be able to work on the site, construction of the Schiller Institute has been officially registered as a Habitat for Humanity site, and will likely make use of hundreds of plucky volunteers until its anticipated opening in 2021.