Archive for February 22nd, 2010

You Be the Judge: Is Coakley’s defeat a rebuke of Obama’s policies?

Jamie Zhang / Chris Fegan – (Photo courtesy of masslive.com) Jamie Zhang – As former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill once said, “All politics is local.” The Martha Coakley-Scott Brown election, while la¬beled otherwise by pundits and politicians alike, is an almost perfect example of that axiom

Fight claustrophobia, stick with ‘Shutter Island’

By Sean Meehan, Video Editor – (Photo courtesy of famousmonstersoffilmland.com) Unless you were lucky enough to catch Shine a Light, the film world has heard very little from Martin Scorsese since 2006. That would be the year that he brought us The Departed, which is considered to be a sort of classic for any Boston-area college

Group forms to present Palestinian perspective at BC

By Sue Byun, Assoc. News Editor – This semester, several Boston College students have formed a new student activism group, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). The group, which is still waiting for the administration’s approval of their constitution, plans to work closely with the Student Programs Office, along with other groups such as BC