BOSTON COLLEGE ALTERNATIVE TOUR VIDEO

The alternative campus tour video aims to give insight, perspective and education on some of the opinions of marginalized voices at Boston College. Through this video we hope to demonstrate the TRUTH about matters of heterosexism, racism, sexism, classism and other forms of oppression that plague the Boston College environment. Boston College has a strong history of student activism against these forms of oppression and we seek to highlight this history while also exposing realities and stories of marginalized people. We seek to promote these "alternative" realities that are constantly silenced or worse yet denied by the hegemonic adminstration of Boston College and by many members of the student body and faculty.

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[abc123whydo]

@shogan41 I agree 100%...well said.

[gobellz12]

also this is the most biased thing i have ever seen. you make it sound like BC is finding out where all the gay kids live on campus and burning crosses outside their dorms. Learn to live in the world that you're in. Work to make it better, sure, but don't bitch about shit that you know won't change.

[gobellz12]

I go to BC and have a few things to say. If you think the school isn't accepting of gays, I don't know what you were expecting. Sorry we don't have gay fiestas in the quad everyday where we go around blaring daft punk and complaining about the "heterosexist" school we attend. Don't go into a large place like BC with all of its history and think you can change it with BS youtube videos. Gays always have something to complain about. Would it not be weird if the school was filled with transgenders?

[shogan41]

I do not get this at all. There are PENTY of colleges where gay students and organizations are tolerated, recognized, funded, encouraged, exalted and treated like a privileged caste. In fact, it's hard to find a college where this isn't the case. So if you want to be an open, militant, recognized and a specially honored gay person, why go to Boston College? Sounds like these students have an axe to grind with Catholicism. They're not looking for acceptance, they're looking for a fight.

[miimster]

i recently visited bc and the jesuits described the school as extremely open and accepting of who you are, regardless of sexual orientation. i don't know if bc has changed since 2007, but for those who say that lgbt students should know better than to attend a catholic university, keep in mind that bc claims to welcome the lgbt community. students are not expected to be catholic at bc, but to be respectful and caring of others. im disappointed to see that bc contradicts its teachings.

[Jukeboxheroswsprod]

i don't get this vid. im not gay or any of that wierd stuff.. I just have a dream to play for boston college's womans ice hockey team!!! WOO!!!!

[pcronin16]

I am an epic liberal from a jesuit high school in San Francisco (frosh now at BC). What I started to befriend the administration or jesuits at my HS, a lot of my views of the overpowering administration lowered. I had to learn that as a jesuit school, we had to follow the Catholic teachings. I did, however, have a sexuality class that would have given the pope a heart attack. Keep rockin on!

How ironic that people call you whiners, and yet they whine when they do so....

[jsh394]

clearly the point isn't to represent the majority of BC student opinion, but to represent alternative opinions so one can have a more plural understanding of what it's like to attend BC

[jsh394]

except that all the people in the video are or were BC students

[daveab424]

agree