In a panel discussion at the June 2007 reunion, five members of the Golden Anniversary Class of 57 talked about their favorite professors, commuting to school, the dating scene, athletics, and attending college during the 1950s.
Boston College mens ice hockey coach Jerry York talks about being appointed the youngest college coach in the USA at age 26 and his current status as the winningest coach in Division I hockey.
While studying student reaction to an experimental science curriculum, the Lynch Schools Michael Barnett found that students who had viewed a science fiction movie were more influenced by it than by the material in the curriculum.
NBC newsman Tim Russert moderated a discussion on April 23 in Conte Forum with presidential candidates Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) and Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) entitled Catholic Senators and Presidential Candidates: Their Faith and Public Policy.
There is no biblical book that has been so maligned and so poorly understood and so viciously used as the Book of Jonah, says T. Anthony Perry, a literary scholar who has taught at the University of Connecticut and at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Theres considerable doubt and confusion in the modern world about objective values, and about how we can find them if they do exist, says Robert Kane, a philosophy professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
Cardinal Godfried Danneels, Archbishop of Malines-Brussels, a leader in drafting the Sacrosanctum Consilium, which established modern liturgical practices as part of Vatican II, asks whether the documents profound intentions have been realized.
The widespread view that there was a profound conflict between science and theology in 16th and 17th century Europe is based on the controversies over Copernicus and Galileo.
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