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Thursday, February 13, 2014
Vol. XCV, No. 8
University, parents aim to keep Campus School at BC Connor Farley | News Editor
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We plan to take all of the reasons we love our school and translate them into a sustainable program on behalf of the Campus School.
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- Kristen Morin, co-chairwoman of the Parent Advisory Committee
After months of shared deliberation between the Boston College Campus School, the parents of Campus School students, and the BC administration, the University has announced plans to keep the Campus School on BC’s campus. In November 2013, Campus School Director Don Ricciato signed a letter of intent to explore a potential affiliation with the Franciscan Children’s Hospital’s Kennedy Day School (KDS) in Brighton, which oversees approximately 70 students with multiple disabilities from ages 3 to 21. If the affiliation had gone through, it would have meant the Campus School relocating about two miles off campus. After holding several conversations with parents of Campus School children throughout the semester, University officials have decided to work with parent leaders to create a long-term strategic plan that would avoid relocation and ensure the continuation of services for special needs students at BC. The decision was reached after University President William P. Leahy, S.J. asked Ricciato, Interim Provost Joseph Quinn, and Vice President for Human Resources Leo Sullivan to organize monthly meetings with Campus School parents, during which sustainability plans could be discussed. Through conversations with volunteers, parents, and others who advocated for the retention of the Campus School’s current loca-
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University addresses financial aid
Team drops from UGBC elections BY NATHAN MCGUIRE
Enrollment Office clarifies FAFSA, CSS
Asst. News Editor
BY CONNOR FARLEY News Editor On Feb. 3, U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) issued a public letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan claiming that 111 of 200 colleges and universities were using misleading information about the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) in a report conducted by the House Committee for Oversight and Government Reform. The schools drawn into question by the Committee were accused of misleading prospective students to believe they had to submit fee-based financial aid applications in addition to the FAFSA to qualify for any aid at all. Boston College was one of the 111 schools Cummings cited as only vaguely explaining that students only had to fill out the FAFSA to apply for federal aid. Although the letter claimed that universities may be setting financial hurdles as a means to discourage low-income students from applying, and thus allowing colleges and universities to not have to dole out as much institutional aid, the University holds otherwise. “It’s actually the opposite,” said Bob Lay, Dean of Enrollment Management
See FAFSA, A4
EMILY SADEGHIAN / HEIGHTS EDITOR
On Tuesday evening, former U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe discussed the state of polarization and lack of bipartisanship in Congress.
Former U.S. Senator talks bipartisanship BY CAROLYN FREEMAN For The Heights
Former U.S. Senator from Maine Olympia Snowe spoke about polarization in the United States on Tuesday night in a Chambers Lecture Series event. Snowe began her political career in 1974 in the Maine House of Representatives, winning her late husband’s seat at the age of 26. She later served in the Maine State Senate, before being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1978. She served for 16 years in the House and then began her tenure as a U.S. Senator in 1994, a position she held until December 2012. In total, her career in government totaled nearly 40 years.
Her speech was characterized by her insistence that progress cannot come when Congress is so polarized. She discussed how Congress became so polarized, and what should be done to diminish this problem. In 2013, she published Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress, which aims to explain how the Senate and Congress in general work. “More than ever, we need to have these conversations in order to have a better understanding of one another and of the issues and problems that are confronted in our states,” Snowe said. “What can we do to make the government work again?” Polarization will not diminish in the
short term, she said, and bipartisanship must occur outside the institution. She said her travels across the country led her to believe that change must occur from outside the government, not within. In her travels, she also observed widespread fear that this partisanship would become an institutionalized part of our culture. She said that she reassured those concerned that it is possible to move past partisanship. “Yes, we can defeat the machinery of partisanship and we can bridge the political divide, in spite of what the polarized voices of the political classes have you to believe,” she said. Snowe used the budget as an example
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STM professor Rev. Daniel Harrington, S.J. dies at 73 BY JULIE ORENSTEIN Assoc. News Editor
When Rev. Daniel J. Harrington, S.J. was a boy, he believed that he could never become a teacher or priest because he had a stutter. He believed this until the day he read a passage from Exodus in which Moses says, “I am slow of speech and slow of tongue,” after which Harrington thought, “If Moses could do it, maybe I can.” “Whenever I stumble, I go back to Moses,” Harrington said in a 2012 interview for the New England Jesuit Oral History Program. “I often regard reading that biblical text as the seed of my vocation as a Jesuit priest and biblical scholar.” Harrington, a New Testament scholar,
author, and professor in the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry (STM), died Feb. 7 at age 73 after a nearly five-year battle with cancer. Harrington spent almost six decades in the BC community, both as a student and as a professor. Born in Arlington, Mass., he attended Boston College High School on a full scholarship and immediately entered the Society of Jesus upon graduating in 1958. He later received a bachelor’s degree from Weston College, a master’s degree from BC, a doctorate from Harvard University, and a bachelor’s and master’s of divinity from the Weston Jesuit School of Theology and BC. He was ordained in St. Ignatius Church in 1971. Over his career as a theological scholar, Harrington authored more than 60 books,
hundreds of articles and essays, and upwards of 50,000 abstracts and 25,000 book notices for the STM journal New Testament Abstracts (NTA), of which he was general editor from 1972 until November 2013. He was also the editor and a contributor to the 18-volume Sacra Pagina commentary series on the New Testament. Christopher Matthews, professor of New Testament in STM and Harrington’s co-editor of NTA for 28 years, said that one of Harrington’s most apparent talents was a capacity for sustained academic work, in addition to a regular course load as a professor. “Most admirable—not to say amazing—is that Dan seemingly accomplished all of this
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On Friday, Feb. 7, BC professor and New Testament scholar Harrington died at 73.
Less than two days after officially launching their campaign for UGBC president and executive vice president, Michael Moazampour and Robert Watt, both A&S ’16, dropped out of the race late Tuesday morning in order to support the team of Nanci Fiore-Chettiar and Chris Marchese, both A&S ’15. The Elections Committee (EC) confirmed in an emailed statement on Tuesday evening that Moazampour and Watt had dropped out of the race. The team notified the EC of their decision on Monday night. “Throughout these two weeks, we have gotten to know the opponents quite well, so much so that Robert Watt and I are stepping out of the presidential campaign in full support of Nanci and Chris,” said a statement posted to Moazampour’s Facebook wall at around 11 a.m. on Tuesday. This latest development in an election that was initially uncontested leaves two teams vying for students’ votes. Fiore-Chettiar and Marchese were originally the only candidates who filed for the election by the initial Jan. 16 deadline. In coordination with Fiore-Chettiar and Marchese, however, the EC extended the deadline. One week later, two more teams declared their candidacy— Lucas Levine and Vance Vergara, both A&S ’15, and Moazampour and Watt. Fiore-Chettiar and Marchese and Levine and Vergara rallied their supporters at the EC’s campaign kick-off event on Sunday evening. Moazampour and Watt, however, turned out few supporters—they received no votes in the straw poll at the conclusion of the event. According to Moazampour, who said it was a strategic decision, his campaign decided not to invite their supporters to the event. “Nanci and Chris continuously impressed us with both their friendliness, humility, knowledge, and passion,” Moazampour said in an email. “We considered the impact of our running, and found that splitting the vote, especially our strong sophomore base, would be unjust to such kind hearted people. If anyone deserves it the most this year, it is Nanci and Chris.” According to Marchese, Moazampour and Watt reached out to him and
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