The College of Arts & Sciences approved an interdisciplinary major in Islamic civilization and societies for the fall of 2008. With baking assistance from undergraduate volunteers and marketing counsel from CSOM students, Dining Services began selling a chocolate chip “Haley House” cookie that returns funds to the Catholic Worker–inspired Boston organization named in 1966 for the late alumnus Leo Haley. USA Today joined the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, and New York Times among the stacks of free newspapers available each weekday to students. The Carroll School of Management’s undergraduate program was judged 14th best in the nation in a BusinessWeek survey of more than 600 corporate recruiters. The National Council on Teacher Quality cited the Lynch School as one of 10 education schools that prepare mathematics teachers particularly well. Monan Professor Lisa Sowle Cahill was awarded the 2008 John Courtney Murray Award by the Catholic Theological Society of America for her “contributions in diverse areas of Christian ethics.” The 17-story apartment building at 2000 Commonwealth Avenue was purchased by the University, which modified its proposed campus master plan to guarantee housing to all undergraduates, including 560 at the new facility. The University currently houses 80 percent of its students. Ending a tenancy in Brighton that began in 1929, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston vacated its chancery building and the Creigh Library in July, the last two of the 10 buildings (along with 65 acres) that it had sold to Boston College over the past four years, and set out for new headquarters just south of Boston. “It’s like losing your grandfather,” Msgr. Paul L. Moritz, age 97 and the oldest serving priest in the archdiocese, told the Boston Globe. The Lexington [Massachusetts] Symphony Chamber Players delivered the premier performance of “Walden,” opus 123 by music professor Thomas Oboe Lee, in June. Among its Thoreau-inspired themes, “Economy,” “Solitude,” and “Brute Neighbors.” Sylvia Crawley, a member of the 1994 NCAA champion team at the University of North Carolina, a player in both the ABL and the WNBA (and the winner of the ABL’s slam dunk competition in 1998) was named by Boston College to be head women’s basketball coach, a post she most recently held at Ohio University. Boston College’s newly founded School of Theology and Ministry is scheduled to move onto the Brighton Campus and into Peterson Hall, on August 15. Lynch School of Education Dean Joseph O’Keefe, SJ, gave an invited talk on the state of urban Catholic schools at a White House conference. And Dwayne Carpenter, professor of Romance languages, was invited to discuss his work on medieval Spanish literature and Sephardic (Spanish) Jewry with Infanta Doña Cristina, daughter of King Juan Carlos I of Spain. For every Hail Mary Berry Fat Free Smoothie sold at Ben & Jerry’s stores in the Boston area, a dollar went to the Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism. Some 300 students attended the Vegas-themed Middlemarch Ball. Sixteen seniors won Fulbright fellowships, while two students were awarded Beckman Scholarships to support science research. And Kuong Ly, born a refugee in Vietnam—his family fled the Cambodian genocide—won Boston College’s Edward H. Finnegan, SJ, Memorial Award, generally considered the most prestigious senior award made by the University. Ly, who intends a career in international diplomacy, picked up a Truman Fellowship in 2007. Honorary degrees were awarded at the May 19 commencement ceremonies to Anne P. Jones ’58, JD’61, a former commissioner of the FCC; historian David McCullough (who gave the commencement address); longtime Boston College administrator and charmer extraordinaire William B. Neenan, SJ; Jennie Chin Hansen Abrams ’70, an award-winning elder-care planner and now president of AARP; and the bearded, brown-robed Celestino Arias ’90, OFM Cap, who has worked with gang members in Boston and on AIDS prevention in east Africa. The gasoline pump that stood at the east rear corner of St. Mary’s Hall and fed fuel to Jesuit vehicles for at least 40 years was removed along with its 1,000-gallon tank. Patriot Homebrew IPA, developed by novice brewer Adam Walsh ’08, won an amateur homebrew contest sponsored by Boston Beer Company (maker of Sam Adams) and will be on the New England market this fall. Provost Bert Garza announced that Boston College will seek to fill 44 faculty positions in 2008–09, including 19 that have been created as part of the University’s strategic plan for academic growth. University trustees approved an operating budget of $772 million for 2008–09, and an undergraduate tuition of $37,410. A state agency has reduced the ankle challenging, mud splashing adventure of a jog around the Chestnut Hill Reservoir to a carefree trot along a 10-foot wide paved and stone-dust track.