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I’ve had my assistants send a message to my friends at the Office of Residential Life to find out.

I recommend giving these a listen: Ride – Nowhere / Seefeel – Quique / Verve – A Storm in Heaven / Boo Radley’s – Giant Steps

I think it’s Canada Gosling.

To build a well-off society in an all-around way, and to move towards prosperity are laudable goals. Let’s all ensure, with all of the means at our disposal, that our representatives carry out the goals they proclaim.

Sadly, I cannot. There are limits even to my knowledge. However, you can probably call the service number on one of the machines with it and see if they can tell you more.

Not this semester. My friends in the Digital Studio have been a little understaffed recently, so they’ve had to scale back on workshops. I’m told that they have new staff coming on board this summer and should be able to ramp up for the Fall. I’ll be sure to pass on the demand for digital art workshops!

Unfortunately, this sounds a bit like a homework question, so I’m going to decline to answer for now. However, I will note that my friend’s proof above is not the correct path. The correct form of the equation is E=M*(C^2), but the helper has assumed (or incorrectly stated), that E=(M*C)^2 in their proof. You cannot root both sides cleanly: √E=(√M)*C.

These are all correct. I’m honestly unsure that P can equal √E. But any physics faculty member can probably help answer that definitively.

I’ve heard rumors of some elderly walls grumbling about the lack of Latin, but it seems like it’s been a boon for the Church in encouraging new parishioners in many locales around the world, which was one of its intended effects, I believe. For more details, check the 1,172 items we have in our collection on the topic: bit.ly/BC-vatican-2

Sadly I’m don’t travel around much (although I have been known to go to some Boston-area conferences in the past). I’m going to have to sit this one out I think.

You had better check in with the Office of International Programs right away! Phone: (617)-552-3827; Email: oip@bc.edu

Trust is the soil of love. Without it, love withers and dies. Real talk: when someone can’t trust someone who loves them unconditionally, there are two possibilities: one, he doesn’t love you, or two, something in his life damaged his ability to extend trust. Trust is risky, and takes the willingness to be vulnerable. If he can’t do that, move on. There’s a third possibility, and it’s the hardest one to look in the eye: you don’t love him unconditionally; you love a version of him that you want him to be.

The Bapst Library, named for the first president of Boston College, served as the original Library, and in 1993 was designated as the Art Library. Bapst now supports the (increasingly) interdisciplinary teaching and research needs in the areas of Art, Architecture, Museum Studies, and Photography. While the Burns Library is located in the same building, it operates separately and houses a range of rare books, special collections, and archives. Burns Library is best known for the strengths of their Irish and Irish American collections and those which reflect Boston College’s Jesuit, Catholic heritage, including British Catholic authors, and also houses the University Archives.

The Left is the less common hand to write with.

IDK, but if it is, the seed of the idea will be in one of these papers in arXiv: bit.ly/reimann-geometry. Good luck to you!

I’m sure there are as many perspectives on this as there are books about Reformation. At present, there are 3,851 items on the subject of reformation just in BC Libraries (bit.ly/BC-reformation). It might be hard to establish a definitive yes/no answer, but if there is one, reading 3,851 books is probably where to begin.

Hooray! It’s such a joy to cheer people’s victories! (I’m sorry I had to redact the name: I have a strict policy of anonymity.)

I would perhaps encourage a different view from the typical conservative/liberal dichotomy. “Political Correctness” is the effort of some to use the terminology that various groups prefer when being the topic of discussion. It is always going to be fraught with disagreement, exception, and change. At one point the correct term was “Native American”, although many now prefer “American Indian”; at one point “transvestite” was acceptable, though now the term is “transgender”; “Negro” to “Black” to “African American” and (for some) back again to “Black”; “oriental” to “Asian American” to actually using individual’s ethnicity of origin, etc. Political correctness is all about respecting the dignity of the group or of the individual when speaking to or about them. To that extent, respecting human dignity through “policial correctness” is a shared value between conservatives and liberals.

Some people benefit from the existing order, and are apt to celebrate those who defend it. Plenty of smart thinking is against the grain, though: Freud, Einstein, Jane Addams, Martin Luther King. We think of them as “the order” now, but they took a whole lot of flak for their disruptive ideas. In fact some (especially King) are misremembered as defending an order, when most of what he said & wrote criticized it.