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Freshman class welcomed with annual ‘First Flight’ BY CAROLYN FREEMAN Heights Staff Throughout high school, students’ educational careers are largely distilled down to their GPAs and SAT scores. When author Dave Eggers addressed the Class of 2018 at last Thursday’s First-Year Academic Convocation, he challenged the crowd of students to resist all of those numbers and rankings. This year, The Circle by Eggers, whose grandfather attended Boston College, was distributed to the incoming freshmen at orientation. The book,
which is about a woman who works at a technology company that soon makes her life public, is a cautionary tale about the far reaches of technology in personal lives, meant to set the academic theme of the year. In years prior, the annually chosen convocation books have included Run by Ann Patchett and Dreams From My Father by then-Senator Barack Obama. Rev. Joseph Marchese began the event with a brief talk during which he emphasized the importance of creativity and mentioned how The Circle will
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Focus reset for Women’s Center at BC BY MARY ROSE FISSINGER Special Projects Editor
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engineer a very successful transformation and maturation of Boston College,” Quigley said. “Boston College today is not the same place it was when I arrived, and it has been fascinating to be witness, as the new University emerged from the old,” Hafner said in an email. In addition to teaching, Hafner was heavily involved in other aspects of the undergraduate academic experience, including the University Fellowships
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Two A&S seniors bring Wall Street to campus BY CONNOR FARLEY News Editor
Freshmen lined Linden Lane prior to filling Conte Forum for Dave Eggers’ convocation address.
Thirty-one years after it was founded, the Boston College Women’s Center is experiencing a growth spurt of sorts. The recent name change from Women’s Resource Center to the simpler Women’s Center is indicative of a maturation and expansion of the institution that has provided support, information, and programming to BC students for several decades now. If there is a face to put to these changes, it is Rachel DiBella’s. She is fresh off a growth spurt of a more professional nature, having been named the University’s first-ever Assistant Director for Sexual Violence Prevention and Response after serving two years as a graduate assistant for the Women’s Center. She assumed her new role in June and has since then spoken to over 600 members of the BC community about the best ways to reduce the incidence of sexual assault on campus and respond effectively when it does occur—evidence of the more visible and proactive role the Women’s Center hopes to take this year. Last spring, Vice President for Student Affairs Barbara Jones reorganized the division and made the Women’s Center its own freestanding department in order to increase its visibility and reinforce its significance to the community, according to Associate Vice President for Student Affairs Katie O’Dair. Around the same time, the “resource” was dropped from the name with the aim of accurately reflecting the breadth of programs and support available at the center. “I think removing ‘resource’ takes away the assumption that what we’re doing is medicalizing women’s issues,” said Director of the Women’s Center Katie Dalton. Dalton, who has been director since 2007, used the elevation of the center to a freestanding department and the appointment of DiBella to make this summer a time for reflection on what the Women’s Center has been in the past and what it wants to be moving forward. A “thinking group” of 13 faculty
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David Dansky and Richard Kim, both A&S ’15, are aiming to land students at top finance jobs.
After having spent the past summer completing internships on Wall Street, two Boston College seniors have launched a feeder club for undergraduates of all academic backgrounds to land competitive jobs at the frontier of investment banks and sell-side firms. The BC Investment Banking and Sales and Trading Club (IBST)—started by David Dansky, A&S ’15, co-led by Richard Kim, A&S ’15, and run by three additional student officers—aims to provide undergraduate students, regardless of their major, a pipeline to high-caliber banking internships and jobs by preparing them for banking-
specific interviews and sharing their experiences as former interns and future analysts. “In the world of sales and trading, [banks] are just looking for smart kids— the people that are hungry to learn and very driven,” said Kim, a mathematics major and pre-med student. “I think there’s a lot of that out there.” Despite initial plans to apply immediately to med school following his undergraduate career at BC, Kim began taking an interest in sales and trading after some exposure to the financial realm through his roommate, Dansky. Having completed an internship within the sales and trading division of Citi this
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Hafner steps down from position as Vice Provost BY JULIE ORENSTEIN Assoc. News Editor After serving as a member of the Boston College faculty and administration for over 40 years, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Academic Affairs Donald Hafner stepped down from his position, effective Aug. 31, with his full retirement from the faculty to come in the spring. Joining the BC faculty in 1971 as an instructor in the political science department, Hafner taught in fields related
to international politics and American foreign and national security policy. He took his knowledge of these topics to a position as a foreign affairs officer working on the SALT II talks with the U.S. Arms Control & Disarmament Agency, which he held this position from 197778 before returning to BC. Hafner’s initial arrival at BC concurred with a time of major change for the University in the early 1970s, which involved all undergraduate programs becoming coeducational by 1970, Rev. J. Donald Monan S.J. becoming Uni-
versity President in 1972, and, perhaps most significantly, the University facing intense financial pressures. “His career—43 years and counting at Boston College—really coincided with this remarkable period for the University, and he, along with the wonderful generation that he came in with, were in large part responsible for the ascendancy that we’ve all benefited from in the last few decades,” said Provost and Dean of Faculties David Quigley. “I would say that Don Hafner had a particularly important role in helping to