The Dust Bowl

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• 19 October 2006 - Students and administrators attend rallies held in the Quad (space between Lyons, Gasson, Devlin, and CSOM) and community meetings to address a lack of protocol for hate crimes. Fliers that promoted white supremacy were found in several buildings days after the rallies. (Pilar Landon, "Hundreds rally against racism Two days after rally, racially-charged fliers found," The Heights / Photo by Chris Huang)
• April 2012 - United Front organized a rally to raise awareness of the injustice of the Trayvon Martin shooting. Participants wore hoodies and held signs with messages such as “Do I look suspicious?” and “It’s not just black and white–we want to end the injustice!” (Samantha Costanzo, "Students rally for Trayvon Martin," The Heights)
• September 2012 - Three students shared their experience with racism on campus at the first BC Ignites. The program was styled after the Women’s Resource Center’s annual “Take Back the Night.” (Mary Rose Fissinger, "BC Ignites hopes to spark conversation," The Heights)
• November 2014 – “Boston College students marched across campus to gather in front of BCPD headquarters in protest of the grand jury decision not to indict Ferguson officer Darren Wilson [who murdered Michael Brown]”. (Julie Orenstein, "BC Students Protest Ferguson Ruling on Campus," The Heights)

• 22 October 2018 - Student protesters staged a “die-in” on the Quad on Thursday afternoon to challenge “the various forms of oppression upheld through a culture [of] institutional passivity” at Boston College, according to a release from the Black Eagles, the group that organized the protest. Over 100 students laid down on the pavement that crosses diagonally between Gasson, Lyons, Fulton, and Devlin Hall, with another 50 student activists holding hands and standing next to those demonstrating on the ground. The majority of demonstrators taped their mouths shut to show “the institutional silencing that happens at Boston College,” according to the release. […] Dunn noted that the collective efforts of administrative and student leaders led to the creation of the DiversityEdu module and the Student Experience Survey that will be emailed to undergraduate students on Oct. 29. (Jack Goldman and Owen Fahy, "Over 100 Students ‘Die-In’ On Anniversary Of March," The Heights; Featured Image by Kaitlin Meeks / Heights Editor)