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Thursday, March 22, 2012
Vol. XCIII, No. 16
Stokes still on schedule
Player charged with invasion of privacy Jaryd Rudolph will attend hearing in April
By David Cote
By Greg Joyce
News Editor
Heights Editor The inside of Stokes Hall is beginning to take shape and the project remains on schedule, according to Project Manager Ed Stokes. Construction will be completed in October, the building will be ready for occupants in December, and it will open for classes at the beginning of the spring semester in January 2013. Higher-than-normal temperatures and little snowfall during the winter allowed more rapid progress on the exterior of the building, which is now nearing completion. “The weather this past winter has helped us out a lot, but the first winter was very challenging,” Stokes said. Most of the masonry and steel framing on the exterior has been completed, giving the building its final shape. Construction on the exterior walls was relatively unique, using a support system involving both steelreinforced concrete masonry and steel framing. “Most buildings, you can just put
Jaryd Rudolph, a member of the Boston College football team and A&S ’14, has been charged with allegedly using his cell phone to audio-record a consensual sexual encounter between a female graduate student and his roommate in February. Rudolph will appear for a court hearing in April regarding the allegations. He is currently on University probation, and has been suspended from the football team. “Due to legal and privacy issues, BC Athletics has no comment on the situation other than to confirm Jaryd has been suspended from the football team,” said Chris Cameron, associate director of athletics, in an e-mail. The Boston Globe has reported that Rudolph shared the recording with at least one teammate. When the female student found out about the recording, she filed a complaint with the BCPD. After a closeddoor hearing, a clerk magistrate in Brighton District Court ruled that “there was sufficient evidence to warrant a criminal charge,” according to the Globe. “The student was issued a summary suspension at the time of the allegation and remains on University probation,” said University Spokesman Jack Dunn. “He was
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Construction on Stokes Hall benefited from the mild weather this winter and remains on schedule for completion in October 2012. The building will house classrooms and faculty offices.
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CSOM earns top-10 ranking in the US ‘Bloomberg Businessweek’ moves the Carroll school up seven spots this year By David Cote News Editor
Just weeks after the announcement of Boston College’s first top-10 graduate school, the Graduate School of Social Work, a second BC school made a similar list. According to the Bloomberg Businessweek 2012 rankings, the Carroll School of Management (CSOM) is the ninth best undergraduate business school in America. CSOM, which enrolls roughly 2,000 students, the second most of any school at BC, moved up to ninth from 16th place last year. “Our focus at the Carroll School is for our undergraduate management students to share an experience that features Boston College’s strong liberal arts tradition, our commitment to student formation,
and an excellent management education,” said Andrew Boynton, dean of CSOM, in a statement. “This ranking helps validate our distinctive strategy.” Schools ahead of BC on the list include Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, Cornell’s Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. Eight of the top 10 schools from 2011 remained in the top 10 in 2012. Bloomberg bases its rankings on student satisfaction, post-graduation outcomes, and academic quality, according to their website. The facilities and resources within Fulton Hall, as well as career placement excellence, earned CSOM its highest marks. To determine the rankings, approximately 86,000 seniors at 140 universities received a 50-question survey covering topics like teaching quality and recre-
ational facilities. In the end, about 28,000 students responded to the survey, totaling to roughly a 32 percent response rate. In addition, Bloomberg polled 749 corporate recruiters from a variety of businesses that hire new college graduates. Around 250 of the recruiters responded. Data from 2010, 2011, and 2012 were combined to determine each school’s specific rank. The 2012 data makes up 50 percent of the score, while each of the previous years makes up 25 percent. According to the rankings, CSOM had an 85.9 percent job placement rate and a $60,047 median starting salary in 2011. Top employers for CSOM graduates included Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Deloitte, and Barclays Capital. Bloomberg also estimates that 44 percent of CSOM graduates find jobs in financial services, 36 percent find jobs in accounting, and 9 percent find jobs in consulting. CSOM offers its students six different concentrations, features five research centers, and emphasizes business ethics for all students. n
‘Apprentice’ winner speaks about his success Rancic’s lecture gives students a unique perspective on their time in college By Therese Tully Heights Editor
“It’s okay to fall down, it’s okay to make mistakes, but when I was growing up, it was never okay not to try,” Bill Rancic said to a full house in the Murray Function Room. The talk, titled “You’re Hired!” was hosted by the Student Organization Funding Committee (SOFC), the UGBC Senate, Compass, the Boston College Entrepreneur Society, and the AHANA Management Academy. Rancic, winner of the first season of The Apprentice and lifelong entrepreneur, was met with a warm welcome by the crowd. He proceeded to share with BC students his long history of entrepreneur-
ship, starting at age 10 when he sold pancakes to his grandmother’s friends. Rancic outlined not only his own successes, but spoke about the mindset and the strategies he used to achieve this success. “When you are an entrepreneur, maybe it’s a blessing, maybe it’s a curse, but you are never satisfied,” Rancic said. He continued to talk about something that rests heavily on the minds of many college students who are currently seeking jobs and internships—networking. “I called every buddy and every business connection I had,” Rancic said. Rancic spoke about stopping at nothing to see his dreams come to fruition. daniel lee / heights editor
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Bill Rancic (above), winner of ‘The Apprentice,’ visited BC on Tuesday evening for a lecture.
photo courtesy of meg dalla tezza
Kelly Dalla Tezza, BC ’11 (above), won a Fulbright Scholarship last spring to study in Bahrain.
University mourns the loss of BC grad and Fulbright scholar By David Cote News Editor
Kelly Dalla Tezza, BC ’11, died Friday in a tragic car accident while working in Morocco on a Fulbright scholarship. Dalla Tezza, who graduated from Boston College last May with a degree in Islamic Studies and Civilization, won a Fulbright grant to study the success of women in Bahraini politics and examine the prospects for similar success in other countries of the region. The accident occurred near Rabat, Morocco, where Dalla Tezza spoke at a Fulbright conference on Friday, according to CBS Baltimore. While driving back from the conference, a tire blew out in her car and she lost control of the vehicle. The other passengers of the car survived, but Dalla Tezza did not. Dorothy Smith, a close friend of Dalla Tezza’s and BC ’09, remarked that she was “an amazing young woman.” “Most of all, I think she made the most of all her life experiences—she truly embraced time in different Middle Eastern countries and had an ability to make connections with a diverse group of people,” Smith said in an e-mail. “She was
beginning a distinguished career and we often talked about different opportunities for her in the future.” “We shared so many things in common: our neighborhood in Baltimore, interest in politics, love of the Middle East, sense of adventure, and even the same job at our local garden center. Many people will be missing Kelly.” Dalla Tezza came to BC in the fall of 2006 after graduating as the salutatorian of her Maryland high school. She spent her junior year abroad in Spain and Jordan, and wrote her senior year thesis on Jordanian national identity and the Palestinian refugee crisis. She excelled in Arabic language classes, and showed a passion for the language beyond the norm. Ryan Folio, A&S ’12, became close friends with Kelly during their Arabic studies. “I said then, and will say now, that she was undeniably the best Arabic language student that I have come across in my time at Boston College,” Folio said in an e-mail. Atef Ghobrial, a part-time professor in the department of Slavic and East-
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