Promontory

A new 10-foot bronze

Satellite

In southeast Washington, D.C., Casey Fullerton’s classroom is a BC campus

Invasive procedure

Crafting a better DNA delivery system

Mazel tov

BC launches Jewish studies program

Running time

Team Hoyt in a film for the disabled and everybody else

Act One

For freshmen, a show of their own

Q&A: Airborne

Professor Arthur Lewbel is notably proficient in econometrics, among other things

Disambiguation

Welcome to Wikipedia’s Boston College

The late show

Weekends at the Chocolate Bar

Study plans

Trends in majors and minors

Campus digest

Open source

Boston College's public museum

Once removed

The children were disturbed, the parents hard to read. Was this family safe?

Admission

Poem by Franz Wright

A reader’s notes

Love and death

From the McMullen Museum

A 17th-century workhorse ritual book

Cover photo by Gary Wayne Gilbert

Bard of brokenness

Craig Finn ’93, of the Hold Steady, writes and sings rock-and-roll dime novels of pain and redemption at the junction of suburbia and the demimonde. He’s being described as the new Springsteen. He’s a happy man

by Tim Heffernan

The long march

In 1965 Congress enacted a revolutionary voting rights act. Do we still need it?

Playland

BC's new practice rooms are filled with the sounds of music day and night

Photographs by Gary Wayne Gilbert

A dream of war

In 1962, the author, a young American Army officer, served as a military advisor in a small civil conflict in Southeast Asia

by Martin J. Dockery '60

Catholicism 101

Challenges to a theological education

by Cardinal Avery Dulles

Before we fight

The Church’s stance on war and peace

by Todd D. Whitmore

What gives?

The states of charity

Courtside

Forensic Accountant John A. Damico '67

"Women in the Church," "Course correction," "Primed for prime time," "The Daly effect"

Old Soldiers