Description: Feature on a meeting between Boston College faculty and administration during a student strike. Rosemarie Van Camp interviews several men on the compromise reached during the meeting.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.