In orbit

Astronomer Michael A’Hearn leads master class

Liftoff

Senior Liz O’Day plans for the future

Advanced hoops

Three-rounds deep in the NCAA

Made for TV

BC soap, California-style

Intercollegiate

Exploring ties with Weston Jesuit; cosponsoring a conference with Brandeis

Varsity bards

The other Beanpot

Style points

Clinton Kelly dispenses advice on careers and, of course, clothing

Lead time

A center for ethics and leadership; a laboratory for the Lynch School of Education

Quality start

Student group brokers campus improvements

Substitute preacher

A lesson plan for when no priest is available

Slippery slope

Men’s ice hockey reaches No. 2

Campus digest

News in brief

From the senior project exhibition

Oil and burned tobacco on canvas

Code

When a young heart stops

The competition

Applying to college has never been easier—or more stressful. BC’s director of admission explains why

Antidotes & fortifiers

For whatever ails

Cover photo by Gary Wayne Gilbert

City lights

Before there were blue states and red states, there was Boston’s way of thinking and the South’s

by Thomas H. O'Connor

Staying here

Should a 29-year-old petty criminal and recovering addict be deported to a country she fled as a child?

by Cara Feinberg

Genesis

Artists at work

Photographs by Lee Pellegrini

Green

A memoir

by Paul Doherty

Faith, hope, and politics

Practicing religion in the public realm

by Michael Molyneux

Can we talk?

A contrarian theologian takes on interfaith dialogue

by William Bole

Under the influence

Now starring, in “Grand Theft Auto”

“War story,” “War story II,” “Theologically speaking,” “Look it up,” “Aid to families,” “About a dance,” “Daly recollected,” “Something new”

The journey