CSOM Associate Dean Richard Keeley announced this week that he plans to go by the title “R. Keeley” for the upcoming school year in support for the acquitted R&B star R. Kelly. Keeley says that he is also encouraging students to join him in supporting the popular music icon. “It doesn’t have to be anything major,” said Keeley in an interview, “it could be something as simple as wearing a do-rag on every Wednesday or maybe putting on a few of R. Kelly’s hits on your speaker systems every weekend.”
Keeley claims to be a long-time fan of R. Kelly’s, citing that his single “I Believe I Can Fly” got him through some of the toughest times in his life. “I still get a little choked up if that song comes on my iPod Shuffle,” said Keeley. “I believe I can fly, I believe I can touch the sky,” Keeley quietly sung to himself with his eyes closed near the end of the interview.
Dean Keeley also said plans were in motion to have R. Kelly to perform at the school’s spring concert, and also to rename the Honors Library to the “Robert Kelly Honors Library”, where students can study peacefully to the soft sounds of the R&B singer’s early albums. “I’ve met R. Kelly on a couple of occasions, and he really is a great guy,” said Keeley. “The man can put on a great concert, and there’s no song I love more to work to than “Ignition”, so hopefully I can have the Honors Library jazzed up within the year.”
Keeley has met some opposition from his colleagues about the project, citing that it is distracting him from his work. “I can hear him just playing R. Kelly songs in his office for a good majority of the day, so I can’t imagine that he is getting much work done in there” said Keeley’s secretary. “And it is very distracting now that he gives his speeches to a hip-hop beat.”
Despite the criticism, Keeley says that he’s not going to “flake out on his homeboy” and push for the library project’s completion as soon as possible. “I hope students will join me in celebrating this great musician and man this upcoming school year by showing their support for him and the Honors Library project” Keeley said as he got up to leave. “Peace.”
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Friday, January 4, 2008
BC Freshman Appalled at School Policies
BC Freshman Tony Daniels was shocked last Friday when a Xavier RA informed him that he would have to stop drinking alcohol and meet with his building’s RD to discuss possible punishment after a large party held in Daniels’ room was broken up. Daniels was also clearly shaken when he was told a note would be sent home to his parents informing them of the offense.
“I always thought that college was, you know, separate from the drinking laws of the United States, like an unwritten rule or something,” said Daniels, who appeared nervous and emotional at the time of the interview.
"This sucks,” Daniels added.
Although most school officials agree that drinking policies are pretty clearly defined and the dangers of alcohol are well communicated to the students, most acknowledge that some students slip through the cracks when it comes to alcohol awareness. A staff member within the student development office who elected to remain nameless said, “AlcoholEdu is great and all, but once in a while you’re going to have a Tony Daniels come strutting in the place thinking its all one big joke. Well its not, and he knows that now.”
Daniels represents a growing number of students seemingly unaware of the drug and alcohol policies of Boston College. Programs such as AlcoholEdu and “Nights on the Heights” have been launched on the BC campus to both inform students about the dangers of drinking and provide them with alternate activities to drinking on the weekends. But with a mere 80% required to pass on the AlcoholEdu course final, it isn’t surprising that many students feel left in the dark.
"I mean, they come out with movies like Animal House, and you think to yourself ‘man, college is gonna be wild’, but then you come in here and get written up for having like 20 people in your good-sized regular triple? C’mon, there was like at least 4 times that many in the Animal House. It’s just not fair,” Daniels ranted in the interview.
Instituted by many colleges throughout the United States in the past decade, AlcoholEdu has recently come under fire after a widespread poll shows that a mere 3% of college students say the skits in the program reflect an average party that they attend. Words such as “forced” and “phlegmatic” were most commonly used in describing the program among students polled, and many confessed to falling asleep to the droning monotonous voice present throughout most of the steps.
“I heard that I have to take that stupid AlcoholEdu thing over again, be on probation for like three months or something, and I’m gonna have to call my parents eventually and tell them what happened, so I’m really bummed out right now. That stupid party is gonna ruin my life for the rest of the semester,” mumbled Daniels as he stared at the floor. When asked what he was going to do this upcoming weekend or if any of the “Nights on the Heights” activities appealed to him, Daniels replied with a hearty laugh; “I dunno, but honestly, I’m probably just gonna end up drinking somewhere else.”
“I always thought that college was, you know, separate from the drinking laws of the United States, like an unwritten rule or something,” said Daniels, who appeared nervous and emotional at the time of the interview.
"This sucks,” Daniels added.
Although most school officials agree that drinking policies are pretty clearly defined and the dangers of alcohol are well communicated to the students, most acknowledge that some students slip through the cracks when it comes to alcohol awareness. A staff member within the student development office who elected to remain nameless said, “AlcoholEdu is great and all, but once in a while you’re going to have a Tony Daniels come strutting in the place thinking its all one big joke. Well its not, and he knows that now.”
Daniels represents a growing number of students seemingly unaware of the drug and alcohol policies of Boston College. Programs such as AlcoholEdu and “Nights on the Heights” have been launched on the BC campus to both inform students about the dangers of drinking and provide them with alternate activities to drinking on the weekends. But with a mere 80% required to pass on the AlcoholEdu course final, it isn’t surprising that many students feel left in the dark.
"I mean, they come out with movies like Animal House, and you think to yourself ‘man, college is gonna be wild’, but then you come in here and get written up for having like 20 people in your good-sized regular triple? C’mon, there was like at least 4 times that many in the Animal House. It’s just not fair,” Daniels ranted in the interview.
Instituted by many colleges throughout the United States in the past decade, AlcoholEdu has recently come under fire after a widespread poll shows that a mere 3% of college students say the skits in the program reflect an average party that they attend. Words such as “forced” and “phlegmatic” were most commonly used in describing the program among students polled, and many confessed to falling asleep to the droning monotonous voice present throughout most of the steps.
“I heard that I have to take that stupid AlcoholEdu thing over again, be on probation for like three months or something, and I’m gonna have to call my parents eventually and tell them what happened, so I’m really bummed out right now. That stupid party is gonna ruin my life for the rest of the semester,” mumbled Daniels as he stared at the floor. When asked what he was going to do this upcoming weekend or if any of the “Nights on the Heights” activities appealed to him, Daniels replied with a hearty laugh; “I dunno, but honestly, I’m probably just gonna end up drinking somewhere else.”
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