The Carroll School of Management will offer a minor program in management and leadership designed for A&S students who imagine (or hope or fear) they may one day work as executives. CSOM’s undergraduate program was ranked ninth in the nation by Bloomberg Businessweek. In other rankings news, GSSW placed 10th in the U.S. News quadrennial ranking of social work schools. Edmond’s Hall won the spring energy reduction competition among student residences. The spring issue of Elements, the undergraduate research journal, included reports on the “untouted success” of democracy in Namibia; the effects of air pollution on lichen diversity in the tropics; race relations in Renaissance Venice and Shakespeare’s Othello; and “The Emergence of Fatherhood: The Reversal of Parental Roles for a New Age,” among other bon-bons. Juniors Chris Osanto and Kudzai Taziva were elected UGBC president and vice president, respectively, under the tagline “Because YOU matter.” Taziva, it’s probably safe to say, is the first UGBC executive ever to list Harare, Zimbabwe, as “hometown.” Osanto claims Clark, New Jersey. Bradley Schaeffer, SJ, a member of the Board of Trustees since 2004, resigned his appointment after it was reported by the Boston Globe that while head of the Chicago Jesuit Province in the mid-1990s he had failed to appropriately monitor or restrain a priest who had been accused of child abuse. The man was later convicted on state and federal molestation charges. Boston College and the city of Newton announced that the University will provide local public schools with $300,000 worth of computer upgrades and education-related technology over the next three years. Sandra Dickson ’13, a nursing student who assists faculty with research on urban literature and on refugee issues, was named winner of the 2012 Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship. Another junior, Rui Soares, won the Oscar Romero Scholarship. He is a pre-med student and the director of the 4Boston volunteer program. Thomas Chiles, who is part of a team of campus scientists developing bio-markers that track cancerous cells, was named the DeLuca Professor of Biology. James Woods, SJ, was celebrated on April 17 in Conte Forum for his 44 years as dean of the Woods College of Advancing Studies. The University reduced the number of business reports printed from its central computing center from an annual volume of 3.4 million pages per year to 220,000 in 2010. James Cleary ’50, a board member from 1972 until 1996 who brought into being Pops on the Heights and other fundraising initiatives, died at age 86. Boston College’s “fundraiser of the year” award is named for him. Trustees set an institutional operating budget of $862 million for 2012–13, raising tuition to $43,140 and allocating need-based undergraduate financial aid in the amount of $90 million. The average need-based financial aid package is expected to exceed $34,000 in grants, loans, and work-study salary. Seven weeks after Woods College student Franco Garcia went missing on February 22, his body was found in the Chestnut Hill Reservoir. Garcia disappeared after he left a Cleveland Circle bar alone. Sun-curled flyers bearing his image and police contact information became a campus feature. The state medical examiner ruled his death an accidental drowning. Long-time faculty member James Skehan, SJ, was honored by the earth and environmental sciences department on April 25, his 89th birthday, with the unveiling of a bust of the noted geologist and author of scientific and popular volumes on the geological features of New England. Tony Taccone ’72, the artistic director of the Berkeley Repertory Theatre received the alumni arts award at the 14th annual Arts Festival. Among other accomplishments, Taccone commissioned Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer-winning Angels in America and codirected the world premiere. Boston College’s squash team (a phrase you’ve never before seen in this magazine) won the club division in this year’s national competition at Princeton. The Eagles were awarded something called the Chaffee Cup after defeating Bucknell 6–3, whatever that score means in squash terms. In other entirely unforeseeable sports news, William Hogan Jr. ’33, wearing a jersey numbered 100, threw out the ceremonial first pitch at Fenway Park on April 14, his 100th birthday as it so happened, just as this year marks the 100th birthday of the latterly much admired home of the Red Sox. Escorted to the mound by three generations of descendants who bear his name, Hogan, who had worked on his pitching with rehab staff at his retirement home, positioned himself about 10 feet from home plate, grabbed the back of a folding chair with his left hand and completed a right-handed pitch—to reliever Mark Melancon—on one bounce. “Let me throw you another one,” he insisted to Melancon, this time connecting on a shorter bounce, before leaving the field, the ball lolling in the basket of the walker he pushed.

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