Description: Prior to start of classes, selected Boston College students put in four days of volunteer service to renovate the Blackstone Community School. First Serve program.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/30/1990
Description: Boston College philosophy professor Mary Daly is denied promotion because of her controversial work in modern religious thought; she holds radical views about the Catholic Church.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/04/1989
Description: Boston College's 103rd commencement. Walter Mondale speaks to press on strategic arms reduction, before addressing Boston College commencement. He states the need to ratify the recently concluded strategic arms agreement with the Soviet Union. Graduates of the class of 1979 file onto field while band plays. Views of crowd, graduates. Speech welcoming friends and family.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/21/1979
Description: Boston College students protest speech on their campus by Oliver North who received a $25,000 fee. Crowd rowdiness, picketers.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/02/1988
Description: Republican presidential candidate Pete du Pont speaks at Boston College. States his opposition to INF treaty. Says "must defend freedom."
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/09/1987
Description: "The Simpsons" animated family is featured on Fox tv. Samples from animation festival. Karen Aqua teaches animation class at Boston College. Channel 25 logo.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/06/1990
Description: Speaker of the House of Representatives Tip O'Neill speaks at 1981 Boston College commencement ceremony. Discusses his graduation from Boston College in 1936; compares environment of the College in the depression. Discusses investing in education of young adults to keep up with economic and governmental demand. Footage of crowd; graduating students; group of students with top hats. O'Neill discusses inflated price of education and cuts to student aid. Crowd applause; faculty in commencement regalia. Closes with clips of reporter Sharon Stevens giving a summary of O'Neill's speech.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/18/1981