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Nicknames for Boston College graduates[edit]

Re: "Stemming from its nickname as "The Heights," persons affiliated with Boston College are known as Heightsmen and Heightswomen, or invariably as Heightsonians. Other monikers include Boston Collegians and Eagles, though the latter is usually reserved for members of the university's athletics teams. The following is a partial list of notable alumni, including both alumni and faculty." -No one referes to any one affiliated with Boston College as heightsmen, heightswomen, or anythign else. There is a university a cappella group, called The Heightsmen, and that's the only group of people that has such a reference. It's incorrect as is.

Heightsonians? Does anyone really ever call them Heightsonians? Also, I'm pretty sure Jack Kerouac never went to BC at all. His biography page says he got a scholarship offer to play football there, but I've never heard anything about him attending BC.

While there is indeed a BC a capella group called "The Heightsmen of Boston College," that group dates only to 1990 and is in fact named after what used to be a common term to describe BC students and alumni. A look through past editions of The Heights (BC student newspaper) will confirm this. I recall my uncle using the term "Heightsonians" in old BC cheers. An internet search will also reveal some contemporary usage of these terms:

John Hume[edit]

Presumably, John Hume's picture is featured because he has served on the BC political science faculty, not because he was awarded an honorary degree. If every honorary degree recipient were pictured, this would be a long (and somewhat irrelevant) list indeed. 136.167.69.145 18:33, 20 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Jack Kerouac[edit]

According to Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jeck Kerouac by Gerald Nicosia (ISBN 0-520-08569-8), Kerouac enrolled at BC and practiced with the football team during the summer of 1940 (Nicosia goes on to note that, even after he matriculated at Columbia, Kerouac frustrated his coaches due to "continuing flirations with Boston College" over the course of his freshman year). Since "Alumni" are technically "former students" (including presumably summer term students), Kerouac's inclusion in this list seems fair. 136.167.69.145 20:17, 20 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Enrolling and practicing with the football team doesn't make one a former student, hence he is not an alumnus (see this official BC source for clarification). For one thing, enrolling doesn't make one a student, attending classes does. It's common for incoming freshmen to enroll at one school while they're wait-listed at another. If they are accepted and enroll at the the school that wait-listed them, that doesn't mean they're an alumnus of the other school. And practicing with the football team in 1940 is rather irrelevant as that doesn't make Kerouac a student. Unless there is a source that clearly indicated that he studied at BC he shouldn't be included on this list. - Pal 16:26, 27 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Steve Lacy[edit]

The link under Media/Communications doesn't go to the young Steve Lacy, but instead, to the older musician. I'm not sure how to fix that, but it definitely needs to be fixed. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.41.11.213 (talk) 12:39, 23 December 2006 (UTC).[reply]

John Lapierre[edit]

He should be included as he is a moderately famous RNA president and BC alum.

Bernard Lonergan[edit]

I removed Lonergan from the list of current BC Theology professors. Though a former faculty member and still hugely popular among BC theolgians, Lonergan himself has been dead for over 20 years. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.199.40.184 (talk) 13:16, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Categorization[edit]

I have moved all people who are exclusively actors (that is, not actor/playwrights) from the arts and literature section into the entertainment section, since the vast majority of actors were already in the entertainment category. The distinction between those categories seems a bit vague in general, and I suggest there should be some kind of guideline established to determine who gets placed where. BeechenGreen talk 21:04, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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