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C WBC Change
Students can now apply in Groups of two for Walsh spots
Women’s Council chair will step down in the springtime
By Lucy Freeman Asst. News Editor
By Isabel Sullivan Heights Staff
Instead of scrambling to form large groups to live in Walsh Hall, rising sophomores can now apply to the Sophomore Living Experience, a program where selected pairs will be placed in Walsh Hall quads or eight-mans with randomly assigned suitemates. “If you are someone who is interested in selecting one roommate, developing relationships with new students, and confirming your housing assignment prior to room selection, this is for you,” the 2023–24 housing application reads. When filling out their housing applications, rising sophomores can opt in or out of the new program. Students may indicate their preference for a four- or eight-person suite in the housing application. “You are able to select one friend to live with you within a 4 or 8 person suite, and then the housing assignments team will assign your other suitemates,” the application reads.
meaning—was apparent within the first five minutes of play. Officials called Cam Burke for boarding, resulting in the first of many scuffles between the two teams. “It’s something we’re gonna have to address again,” BU head coach Jay Pandolfo said. “I thought we’ve been better with our discipline. It got the best of us, certainly tonight. It’s something we’ll talk about, so hopefully we can address that and move on.”
Kathleen McGillycuddy will step down as chair of the Council for Women of Boston College (CWBC) this spring after serving in the role since the organization’s inception 20 years ago. “It’s been a labor of love,” McGillycuddy said. “It’s probably one of the things I’ve done in my life I’m most proud of, because we started with absolutely nothing. We went from [nothing] to where we are today, and it’s something I am immensely proud of.” Current CWBC vice chairs Patricia Bonan, BC ’79, and Elizabeth Vanderslice, BC ’86, will become CWBC co-chairs effective this spring. “[The transition] was really natural,” Vanderslice said. “We’ve been working so intimately together, and Kathleen is so diligent, so it was just all the runtime that we had working together, it just seemed like a very natural, orderly succession.” As CWBC’s incoming co-chair, Vanderslice said the organization will seek to place an emphasis on diversity when recruiting new members as part of its new strategic planning initiative.
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BC Can’t Shake the Terriers ALINA CHEN / HEIGHTS STAFF
Eagles drop two straight games to BU in weekend series. By Luke Evans Asst. Sports Editor
Until Saturday night, the last time Boston University men’s hockey captured a win at Kelley Rink was on Dec. 1, 2017. But on Saturday in Chestnut Hill, something clicked for the Terriers for the first time in over five years, as Boston Boston University 3 College (9– Boston College 1 9–5, 5–6–4 Hockey East) lost its third game in a row
and second straight contest to the No. 4 Terriers (19–6, 13–4) in a 3–1 decision. Despite the loss, the Eagles outshot BU 41–25. After dropping the first of the two-game series in BU’s Agganis Arena just 24 hours prior, BC fans filled Conte Forum in a sold-out student section. “Yeah, I mean, BC-BU is one of the best rivalries in all sports,” BC defenseman Marshall Warren said. “The fans are great. I think everyone loves to play in those games. The atmosphere is great, the competition’s always there.” The game’s intensity—and bigger
Prof.’s Podcast Looks at AI and Business By Athena Vinch Heights Staff
After six years of collaborating to investigate the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into business strategy, Sam Ransbotham and Sher vin Khodabandeh realized they wanted to share their insights beyond the scope of a research report—so they turned to podcasting. “We were good at doing a lot of interviews, and they were interest-
ing, but they didn’t always fit perfectly with what we were writing about for that year’s report, and it just crushed us to leave interesting things that people were saying,” Ransbotham said. Ransbotham is a professor at Boston College’s Carroll School of Management (CS OM) and Khodabandeh is a senior partner and managing director at Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
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Petition Opposes New Developement
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By Connor Siemien Newton Editor
A petition opposing current devel-
opment plans to build a seven-story apartment building in Thompsonville describes the proposed building as too large for the landscape and unafford-
able. At the time of publication, 804 people signed the petition. “A family has to be making $110,000 or less in order to qualify for the housing and the housing is priced that way,” Jacob Silber, one of the founders of the petition and a Newton resident, said. “So when we think of affordable housing you know, when we think of people who … are making ends meet [at] $15 an hour jobs, these [units] are not going to be that.” The development at 528 Boylston Street was proposed by the Pennsylvania-based Toll Brothers Apartment Living company and will contain 244 living units, according to the company’s presentation of the project.
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Original Play Debuts at Bonn By Erin Pender Heights Staff
NICOLE WEI / HEIGHTS STAFF
A lighthouse off the coast of Newport, R.I. in the 1870s is the setting of Idawalley, written by Maggie Kearnan, BC ’14, and directed by Grace Cutler, MCAS ’24. A B C the atre depar tment production, Idawalley ran in the Bonn Studio Theatre from Jan. 26 to Jan. 29 To open the play, two women
burst through the door, holding a man who appears to have fallen into the sea. The man is Michael (Benjamin Burke, MCAS ’25), a farmhand originally from County Cork, Ireland, who jumped in the water to save a prize sheep. The two women are the Lewis sisters, Idawalley (Leah Temple Lang, LSEHD ’23) and Hattie (Ellie Falanga, MCAS ’23). Idawalley, or Ida, as she prefers to be known, is a mythical fig-
OPINIONS
Staff writer Yoony Kim lays out a clear framework to help BC students make more attainable and hard-to-forget New Year’s resolutions.
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MAGAZINE
On the heels of a contentious speaker election, columnist Joseph Baldwin analyzes the dangers of not extending the country’s debt ceiling.
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ure—though stories of her are well known, she seldom leaves Lime Rock, the rock on which the lighthouse stands. After the death of her parents, she took on the role of keeper of the Rock. She is known throughout Newport for her braver y, though in personal relations she seems to be quite cynical and reticent.
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