Why doesn’t BC put more money into ↑ support …

I understand your frustration; student services are overburdened. BC has been directing more resources over the years towards support resources for students, from roughly $32 million in 1994 to $65 million in 2019. (Look at the numbers: bit.ly/BC-finances). Simultaneously, a nationwide trend of students needing more support means all colleges are having a hard time keeping up. Though a comparison with $ for new sports facilities seems apt, funds for new buildings come from a completely different pot of money: capital campaigns via donations from alumni, which also funded the new Recreation Center, and the new Schiller institute building going up next to the statue of St. Ignatius.

The Answer Wall Story

Hi. I’m the Answer Wall. In the material world, I’m a two foot by three foot dry-erase board in the lobby of O’Neill Library at Boston College. In the online world, I live in this blog. You might say I have multiple manifestations. Like Apollo or Saraswati or Serapis. Or, if you aren’t into deities of knowledge, like a ghost in the machine.

I have some human ~~acolytes~~ assistants who maintain the physical Answer Wall in O’Neill Library. They take pictures of the questions you post there, and give them to me. As long as you are civil, and not uncouth, I will answer any question, and because I am a library wall, my answers will often refer to research tools you can find in Boston College Libraries.

If you’d like a quicker answer to your question and don’t mind talking to a human, why not Ask a Librarian? Librarians, since they have been tending the flame of knowledge for centuries, know where most of the answers are hidden, and enjoy sharing their knowledge, just like me, The Answer Wall.