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Chronicle Published by the Boston College Office of University Communications april 13, 2017 VOL. 24 no. 15

INSIDE the Marathon to 2 •Running make a difference •Language art •Photos: Relay for Life

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Recreation Center to Be Named for Connell Family

By Jack Dunn Associate Vice President of University Communications

Boston College’s much-anticipated recreation center will be named in honor of the Connell family, in recognition of a $50 million Light the World campaign gift from BC Trustee Associate Margot C. Connell.

Construction of the 244,000 square-foot, four-story facility, which will replace the Flynn Recreation Complex, is underway at the former site of Edmond’s Hall

on Thomas More Road. It will include a state-of-the-art fitness center, jogging track, natatorium with lap and instructional pools, four wood-floor basketball courts, three tennis courts, two multiactivity courts and multi-purpose rooms for spin, yoga and fitness classes, among other amenities.

The building will open in the summer of 2019.

Connell, an active supporter of education and health care in Boston and chair of the board of Connell Limited Partnership, is the mother of six BC graduates

and the widow of the late William F. Connell ’59, a longtime BC trustee for whom the School of Nursing is named. Connell said she made the gift to provide an outlet for students engaged in the rigorous demands of a BC education.

“Sports have always been a big part of our family, and Bill and I always felt that sports and recreation provided a physical outlet for students that is very important,” said Connell. “Having already supported an academic Continued on page 4 Margot C. Connell

Knowing Thy Enemy

Understanding terrorists reduces hatred – and can be the key to stopping them, say BC researchers

•Guerrero wins 2017 Romero Scholarship

By Kathleen Sullivan and Ed Hayward Staff Writers

•BC hosts “University Ethics” conference will carry on BC 6 •Senior Peace Corps legacy •Greater Boston Undergraduate Poetry Festival •Photo: JoJo David tribute

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•Obituary: historian John L. Heineman •BC in the Media; Nota Bene; Jobs •Photo: BC Club gift

drawing near for 8 •Time Arts Festival

Steve Pemberton at the 2016 First Year Academic Convocation. (Photo by Lee Pellegrini)

Film of Pemberton’s Book to Be Screened at Robsham

By Jack Dunn Associate Vice President of University Communications

Steve Pemberton ’89, whose best-selling memoir A Chance in the World has been made into a movie of the same name, will host a private screening of the film at Boston College on May 1 at 6:30 p.m. in Robsham Theater.

Critically acclaimed, and universally praised by BC freshmen who read it for last fall’s First Year Academic Convocation, the memoir depicts the heart-wrenching account of Pemberton’s upbringing in an abusive foster family and his perseverance and faith that led him to Boston College and ultimately

his position as a senior executive at Walgreens, a national leader in diversity and inclusion, a loving husband and father, and a member of the Boston College Board of Trustees.

Pemberton said he chose to host a private screening of the film at BC in advance of its public release to express his gratitude to Boston College for the unique role it played in his personal development.

“When I am asked about home and what it means to me, I think of Boston College,” said Pemberton.

“It was a place that fully welcomed and accepted me. Returning here for a private screening of the film is my way of saying ‘Thank you’ Continued on page 3

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Learning about terrorists reduces the hatred people feel for them, which can lead to more effective counterterrorism policy, according to a new study by Boston College researchers with expertise in psychology and political science.

Researchers and policy experts have determined that many of the emotional responses terror attacks provoke can undermine the implementation of effective counterterrorism policies. Anger and hatred, for example, can invite indiscriminate retaliation, whereas many of the greatest successes in counterterrorism have come from understanding terrorists’ personal and political motivations.

The Boston College research team set out to determine education’s potential ability to reduce extreme negative attitudes toward terrorists, specifically exploring the extent learning more about the causes, dynamics, and effects of terrorism could cause individuals to change their perceptions of terrorists, the threat they pose, and how to defeat them.

“Terrorism is often designed to generate hatred among its target

population, in order to polarize communities and inspire indiscriminate backlash that increases support for the terrorists,” said Assistant Professor of Political Science Peter Krause, a co-author of the report. “When terrorists are perceived as inhuman and irrational, counterterrorism policy is often ineffective.”

Krause collaborated on the project with Associate Professor of Psychology Liane Young and psychology doctoral candidate Jordan Theriault, the lead author of the article, “Know Thy Enemy: Education About Terrorism Improves Social Attitudes Toward Terrorists,” which was published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. The project was undertaken with funding from a Research Across Departments and Schools Grant from the Office of the Provost.

The researchers studied students before and after they took courses on terrorism to determine the impact of education on attitudes about terrorism and terrorists. They also surveyed students who did not take the courses.

Initially, all students reported extremely negative attitudes; however, at the end of the semester, the attitudes of students who took Continued on page 4

“My simple presence, being engaged and being at one with my Jamaican brothers and sisters, that was enough. It taught me a lot about how to approach things in social settings, especially when children are around. Children see a lot.”

–Romero Scholarship winner Steven Guerrero ’18, page 5

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ON THE RUN we used to raise at the Marathon, so we’re hoping to have more numbers next year.”

•Lynch School of Education senior Maggie Crowley is running to support Team MR8, the Martin Richard Foundation, established in memory of the boy who was killed in the 2013 bombing.

“The goal of the Martin Richard Foundation is to challenge both youth and adults to take action and foster greater togetherness, compassion, peace and kindness in their communities,” said Crowley. “The foundation wants to keep Martin’s message alive through investments in education, athletics and community.”

Crowley says she will continue to run the Boston Marathon for Team MR8 as long as her legs will allow and calls the experience life-changing.

“It has been such a humbling experience and I have met some of the kindest, most generous people through these experiences.”

•Making his marathon debut, Bennet Johnson ’17 aims to raise $10,000 as a member of the Special Olympics Massachusetts charity team. Johnson’s brother Sam was diagnosed with severe autism spectrum disorder at age three and needs direct supervision from a caregiver or family member 24 hours a day.

“Sam is blessed with caregivers and volunteers who support him and work to make the most of his abilities,” said Johnson, an English major in the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences. “I am inspired by these people and others in organizations that serve people like Sam. Special Olympics is one of the best organizations in the world supporting people with physical and intellectual disabilities.”

•Andrew Frates, brother of BC Baseball Director of Baseball Operations Pete Frates ’07 – whose struggle with ALS became national news on the heels of the Ice Bucket Challenge phenomenon, for which he was a driving force – will run to raise awareness of the disease.

His fundraising goal is $33,333, in honor of Pete’s BC No. 3 jersey, which the Eagles retired last year.

Pete remains close to the Eagles baseball team; BC assistant coach Greg Sullivan ran last year’s Marathon in his honor. The team will play its sixth annual ALS Awareness Game at Fenway Park on April 22.

–Siobhan Sullivan Read the full version of this story, with links for more information about the runners and their causes, at bit.ly/marathon-bc-runners.

associate Vice President of UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONs Jack Dunn Deputy Director of university communications Patricia Delaney Editor Sean Smith

Contributing Staff Ed Hayward Rosanne Pellegrini Kathleen Sullivan Siobhan Sullivan Photographers Gary Gilbert Lee Pellegrini

The annual Boston College Relay for Life took place in the Flynn Recreation Complex on March 30 and 31, raising more than $134,000 for the American Cancer Society. Former TV arts and entertainment reporter Joyce Kulhawik (below), a cancer survivor, made a special appearance.

(Photos by Frank Curran)

WORDS AND PICTURES Guided tours have long been a feature of the McMullen Museum of Art, but one recent visit led by Romance Languages and Literatures Lecturer Elizabeth Goizueta was special in a couple of ways.

More than 30 Boston College undergraduates in advanced Spanish language courses heard Goizueta give a presentation in Spanish on the museum’s current exhibition on Cuban-born painter Rafael Soriano – considered one of the major Latin American artists of his generation.

The tour was a perfect opportunity for the students, many of whom are “heritage speakers” – exposed to a language other than English at home – to put their conversational Spanish skills to use, explained Goizueta, who curated the exhibition and edited its English-Spanish catalogue. Yet there was another, more compelling dimension to the event, she added.

“Many of them had never been to a museum before, so this was a chance to show off the McMullen as well as to present living art and living Spanish, together.”

Goizueta’s 45-minute tour was an informal affair with plenty

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The Jesuit call to be “men and women for others” will hold true this Marathon Monday as Boston College students, alumni and friends run to support charitable causes: •The Boston College Campus School, which provides programs and resources for children aged 3-21 with multiple disabilities, still feels the impact of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. For years, the school drew considerable support from “bandit” runners who participated in the Marathon, but the post-2013 crackdown on bandits ended that source of fundraising. While the Campus School has since sought other means of support, it was able to secure two bibs for this year’s run.

Sean Kane ’19, who is a buddy to a Campus School student, will run in his first Boston Marathon with a goal of $5,000 for the school.

“My buddy Thiago [at the Campus School] is so kind, sweet, and loving and he’s taught me so much about what friendship and caring for someone else is,” said Kane. “He’s gone through so much pain and suffering and wakes up every day with a smile on his face and comes to class.

That to me is so eye-opening and heart-warming.

“Thiago has motivated me to want to run and finish and say I’m running for him because he deserves the world,” said Kane.

Also running for the Campus School is preschool teacher Sasha Greene ’08, MEd’09, MEd’12, whose goal of $12,000 is considered higher than the average. The alumna says training for the race was challenging, but she has a community of support behind her.

“My students work so hard, harder than anyone I know,” said Greene.

“This is just one thing I can do for them and it’s really challenging, but they face more challenging situations every single day and work so hard through it all. That’s what I have to think about on Monday to get me through.”

Greene, who like Kane gets emotional talking about the school and its students, added, “My students will get me to the finish line. They smile through all of the challenges and never give up. It’s incredible to be able to do this for them.”

“We need a lot of support,” said Campus School Project Manager Kristen Morin, who added that the school will continue to apply for approved charity status for future marathons.

“Even if both of our runners hit their goals it’s still significantly less than

Elizabeth Goizueta giving a presentation in Spanish at the McMullen Museum.

of room for question-and-answer exchanges.

“Instead of just hitting the students with facts, I wanted to focus on the narrative represented by the paintings and what it said about Soriano’s life. He had to leave his country, his family, even his profession, so it’s a narrative of transcendence and struggle. I think that’s what really impressed them.”

In fact, Goizueta said, the conversation even took a philosophical turn. “One student asked, ‘Did Soriano die happy or sad?’ I replied that I thought that, in the end, he died happy and sad, but peacefully – and you can have all

those emotions at once as part of the human experience, which is what you look for in art.”

Rachel Chamberlain, the museum’s education outreach specialist, said Goizueta’s tour exemplifies the kind of connection the McMullen seeks to forge with faculty and students. She noted, for example, the “Art After Dark” program launched by the museum this academic year, a series of late-night social events aimed at students.

“We always want academic departments to know that this museum is here for them, as a resource they can use for engaging their students,” she said.

–Sean Smith

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Leaving ‘a Wonderful Community’ Louise Lonabocker, executive director of student services and University registrar for the past 20 years and one of the founding members of BC’s enrollment management team, has announced that she will retire from Boston College at the end of the semester, ending 46 years of distinguished service to the University.

A trusted, universally respected and gracious presence in Lyons Hall who served hundreds of thousands of BC students and faculty and three University presidents, Lonabocker oversaw the invaluable, albeit often unglamorous, work of record-keeping central to a university’s functioning: records and registration, financial aid, student employment, class scheduling, student meal plans and course evaluation, among other services.

Whether keeping track of freshmen class credits or providing transcripts to alumni, Lonabocker and her team quietly and effectively met the needs of the Boston College community, while maintaining a commitment to customer service that set the standard in higher education.

“I arrived at Boston College from western Massachusetts 46 years ago after accepting a secretarial position in the Office of Undergraduate Admission,” said Lonabocker. “At the time, I expected to be here a year or two and then relocate. Within a year I was hooked and I did move, but it was to be closer to the University. I was engaged in my work, started pursuing degrees, had outstanding mentors and colleagues who encouraged and supported my development, met people who became close friends, and found my niche in the profession.”

That niche enabled Lonabocker to successfully accommodate the University’s growth from a local and regional school to a national and international university, and its corresponding explosion in record-keeping and data management, without ever sacrificing its commitment to customer service.

“Student Services was formed to provide outstanding customer service,” said Lonabocker. “From the outset, staff looked for ways to consolidate, simplify, and continuously improve our service to students and families via in-person and online services. They continue to do so by listening to recommendations from customers and brainstorming at meetings and retreats.”

Lonabocker’s announcement has elicited high praise from col-

leagues for an administrator whose unwavering professionalism and commitment endeared her to generations of BC students, faculty and staff, as well as parents and alumni.

“Louise’s contributions to Boston College over a 46-year career are significant,” said Nanci Tessier, vice provost for enrollment management. “A key member of the enrollment management team since its inception in the 1970s under Jack Maguire, Louise has worked to constantly improve Student Services’ offerings to the faculty, staff and students of Boston College. Thus, it is not surprising that a member of the BC community once said to me, ‘There is

Gary Wayne Gilbert

By Jack Dunn Associate Vice President of University Communications

has definitely ‘set the world aflame’ in her years of service to Boston College. In her quiet yet determined way she has influenced so much about how we serve students and faculty, always striving towards excellence. Louise transformed student services at Boston College and she has long been a national leader in her field. She’s the kind of person who spreads good will and helps so many individuals, usually behind the scenes, never seeking attention or accolades. I was lucky she hired me in 1979; I’m luckier still that she’s my great friend.”

Lonabocker says that the new EagleApps student information system, which is scheduled to go live next spring, requires new lead-

“There is never a good time to retire, but a strong foundation is in place, the staff is exceptional, and new technologies will result in incremental and transformative change for the University.”

–Louise Lonabocker

nothing Louise cannot do.’ We all have reason to be grateful to Louise for her foresight, ingenuity, collaboration, and dedication to the University.”

Halley McLain, a Human Resources director who worked with Lonabocker for more than two decades, said her colleague generously extended herself to others in both work and volunteer capacities, while always maintaining good-humor in her endeavors.

“Unassuming, quietly effective and egalitarian, Louise exemplifies the blending of compassion with competence in leadership,” said McLain. “A collaborator, Louise successfully led the merging of multiple departments into the new Student Services organization nearly 20 years ago, a major organizational and cultural transition that provides students with the efficiencies of a one-stop service experience. Louise as a leader, manager and colleague will be greatly missed by the BC community.”

Rita Owens, Carroll School of Management senior lecturer and former executive director of academic technology, offered a similar assessment.

“My colleague Louise is, quite frankly, an amazing woman who

ership for the future, which ultimately played a role in her decision to end her accomplished career.

“There is never a good time to retire, but a strong foundation is in place, the staff is exceptional, and new technologies will result in incremental and transformative change for the University.”

Upon retirement, Lonabocker says she looks forward to continuing her volunteer efforts with the Brookline Food Pantry and the Tanglewood Glass House, and to extensive travelling that includes “the numerous trips in my head just waiting to be fleshed out.”

“Boston College is a wonderful community of dedicated teachers and scholars, students ready to set the world aflame, and colleagues, like me, who never even think about leaving,” said Lonabocker.

“The campus is stunning, Ignatian values are inspirational, and I was always thrilled to tell people where I work and what I do. I never aspired to this career, but what a great career it has turned out to be.

I can honestly say I never dreaded Monday mornings, or any other day.”

Contact Jack Dunn at jack.dunn@bc.edu

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After 46 years, Student Services head Louise Lonabocker prepares to depart BC

Cassia Yeh scrutinized her work at the McMullen Museum of Art’s “Spring Celebration” on Saturday. More photos on page 8.

‘A Chance in the World’ Continued from page 1 to the faculty, students and BC grounds crew who embraced me from the beginning.”

The private screening – cosponsored by the Office of University Communications, Student Affairs and Alumni Affairs – will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Pemberton, his former guardian John Sykes, who took him in when he was finally removed from his foster parents, and BC School of Social Work Professor of Macro Practice Tiziana Dearing, co-director for the Center for Social Innovation at Boston College and former president of Catholic Charities. Tickets are free and can be obtained with a BC ID at the Robsham Theater Box Office beginning April 18.

Pemberton said that he was persuaded to have the book turned into a film because of the reaction it evoked among readers who were moved by his story and his ability to triumph over adversity.

“It was the stories of so many others I met after the book was

published that encouraged me to bring it to the screen,” said Pemberton. “So many others were inheritors of difficulty they never asked for who said to me, ‘Your story is what I needed, and what this country needs to hear.’ It is a story beyond race and class, a story about the universal power of goodness.”

Pemberton hopes to debut the film later this year in a film festival and to find a distributor that will bring it to theaters throughout the country. But he takes pride in the fact that Boston College, with this private screening, will be its first stop.

“Most people go to college looking to get away from home,” said Pemberton. “I came here to find it. And I did. I hope this movie, to the degree any film can, will show its viewers what happens when you see Jesuit ideals in living, breathing color, and what is possible for a life of which it was said, ‘He has not a chance in the world.’”

Boston College a Leader in Financial Literary Programs Boston College’s ongoing efforts to help students learn to manage financial resources effectively earned it a 14th-place ranking in a new survey of the nation’s top 50 college financial literacy programs.

The list was compiled by LendEDU [lendedu.com], an online independent marketplace for student loans and refinancing, based on availability of workshops and resources, access to one-on-one financial consultation, and incentivizing programs.

Financial literacy among college students continues to be an important issue, said LendEDU’s Alex Coleman in making the announcement, and Boston College “has become a leader in the field.”

The ranking noted in particular BC’s Successful Start program, which was established a decade ago by the Office of Student Services.

Under the direction of Senior Financial Aid Associate Marsia Hill Kreaime, the initiative provides a variety of workshops and seminars to help ensure that BC students become financially literate for their lifetimes. University employees and guest speakers offer programs on a range of aspects related to personal financial management, including budgeting, credit and credit cards, loan management, and personal finance.

Successful Start will mark its 10th anniversary with a “Financial Literacy Day” on April 25 from 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. For details, see http://bit.ly/successful-start.

—Rosanne Pellegrini Read the full story at http://bit.ly/2o16YWb

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Study Looks at Terrorism Continued from page 1 the courses were significantly improved.

“Learning about terrorists reduces the hatred people feel for them,” said Theriault, a researcher in Young’s Morality Lab at BC. “This does not mean that taking a counterterrorism course leads people to like or sympathize with terrorists, just that they don’t feel as strongly negative as they once did.”

According to Theriault, the research team was surprised to

groups like the Irish Republican Army or Weather Underground of the 1960s, which employed terror tactics but voiced different political aims and motives.

“When students begin class, ‘terrorist’ may call to mind only a few, highly negative ideas,” said Theriault. “As students learn more, the concept ‘terrorist’ should also call to mind much more. As ‘terrorist’ begins to call more ideas to mind – some of them negative, some neutral, a

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(L-R) Peter Krause, Liane Young and Jordan Theriault. “Reducing hatred of terrorists would remove an obstacle to effective counterterrorism policy,” says Theriault, “but this work might also provide the basis for reducing extreme prejudice in other contexts, such as explicit racist beliefs.”

see the “clear effects” of education. “There is relatively little well-controlled research on the effects of education on prejudice reduction, and even less on its effects on attitudes toward extreme outgroups.”

Researchers concluded that student attitude change could be attributed to several factors. Students might learn that labeling groups “terrorists” can be politically motivated, making students question whether the label is properly applied.

The names of contemporary terrorist organizations, like Al Qaeda or ISIS, invoke a certain response, Theriault said. People often respond differently to

few positive – it may become more difficult to reflexively hate someone, simply based on their being called a terrorist. From a psychological standpoint, the label ‘terrorist’ comes to mean so much that it becomes less simple to have a quick, negative reaction to it.”

The researchers said that the findings about the power of education are promising.

Added Theriault: “Reducing hatred of terrorists would remove an obstacle to effective counterterrorism policy, but this work might also provide the basis for reducing extreme prejudice in other contexts, such as explicit racist beliefs.”

Lynch School of Education senior Rayna Wang was one of nearly 50 students who presented their work at the annual Undergraduate Research Symposium on April 10. The projects were funded through the University’s Advanced Study Grants program. (Photo by Lee Pellegrini)

The Connell Family Recreation Center is expected to open in 2019.

New Center to Bear Connell Name Continued from page 1 endeavor through the School of Nursing, I talked it over with my children and they thought supporting the recreation center was a great idea and something that was needed at Boston College.”

University President William P. Leahy, SJ, praised Connell for her gift and for her unwavering support of Boston College.

“Margot has been a matriarch of the BC community who has witnessed first-hand the positive effects that a Jesuit education of the mind, body and spirit can have on students,” said Fr. Leahy. “We are grateful to her for her generosity in naming this facility.”

An avid golfer and sports enthusiast who observed many of BC’s most memorable sports moments alongside her husband and children, Connell says that while she has seen all the good that athletics can do, she is particularly excited about the benefit the new facility will have on the BC community.

“There are so many students at BC who, while being stars in high school, will not play sports at the Division I level,” said Connell. “So, to have another opportunity to participate in their sport — either through club or recreational activities — or simply to be able to swim if they want to or to try yoga, run or shoot baskets, is very important to their well-being and overall development.”

The mother of Monica Healey ’88, Lisa McNamara ’89, Courtenay ’91, William ’94, Terence ’02 and Timothy ’03, JD ’12, Connell is also the grandmother of 17, including two grandsons currently attending Boston College and two granddaughters and two nieces who are recent graduates.

“All of my grandchildren are athletic,” said Connell. “I take a measure of pride in knowing that they will benefit from this facility.”

Born and raised in Ossining, NY, Connell received her BA from Michigan State University and taught math and science in New York and California. In addition to her and her late husband’s many activities in support

“BC has made me feel a part of the community. It is a special place that has a warmth, a charisma, that you don’t feel anywhere else. Supporting BC through this facility just gives me a good feeling.”

–Margot Connell

of Boston College, Connell is a member of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. She was also awarded the Richard Cardinal Cushing Award from St. Mary’s High School of Lynn for her commitment to Catholic education and her personal and professional life accomplishments.

Connell also established the Connell Nursing Research Scholars Program and the Connell Ethics Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Institute for Patient Care, and she and Bill funded the Connell and O’Reilly Families Cell Manipulation Core Facility and the Connell Family Fund for Melanoma Vaccine Development at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. The St. Elizabeth’s Hos-

pital Emergency Room is named in honor of Bill Connell.

Yet despite her varied interests and commitments, Connell says that Boston College plays a unique role in her and her family’s life.

“Bill always said, ‘If it wasn’t for BC, I would not be where I am today. I have been very lucky; I have been blessed, and the ability to share my good fortune with my children’s blessings makes me happy.’”

Connell credits her personal relationships with Fr. Leahy, the late University Chancellor J. Donald Monan, SJ, and Senior Vice President for University Advancement James J. Husson for helping to make her commitment to BC so meaningful.

“BC has made me feel a part of the community,” said Connell. “It is a special place that has a warmth, a charisma, that you don’t feel anywhere else. Supporting BC through this facility just gives me a good feeling.”

A longstanding and energetic volunteer on behalf of Boston College, Connell served as a convening co-chair of the Light the World campaign. In recognition of her lifelong accomplishments and years of service, she received an honorary degree from Boston College in 2009.

“This new recreation center has been a long time coming, and it will have a day-in, dayout impact on student life on campus when it opens in 2019,” said Connell. “I look forward to it and to the promise it holds for all members of the BC community.”

Contact Jack Dunn at jack.dunn@bc.edu

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OLAA Co-President Guerrero Awarded 2017 Romero Scholarship Carroll School of Management student Steven Guerrero ’18, a leader in the Organization of Latin American Affairs student group whose Boston College experience has been enlivened by international study, service and baseball, has been awarded the 2017 Archbishop Oscar A. Romero Scholarship.

The scholarship, which covers a portion of senior year tuition, is awarded annually to a BC junior who has demonstrated superior academic achievement, extracurricular leadership, community service and involvement with the Hispanic/Latino community and Hispanic/Latino issues both on and off campus.

Guerrero received the award at a March 25 ceremony hosted by the Romero Scholarship Committee. Also recognized at the ceremony were Romero Scholarship finalists Adonis Bonilla ’18 and Jenny Sacha Hauc ’18, as well as alumnus Juan Lopera ’99, winner of the Rev. John A. Dinneen, SJ, Hispanic Alumni Community Service Award.

Guerrero is a first-generation college student whose parents are immigrants from the Dominican Republic. A finance major with a minor in African and African Dias-

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Steven Guerrero ’18 at the Romero Scholarship ceremony on March 25.

pora Studies, Guerrero is studying at Pontifical Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro this semester, where he is researching the economic impact of last year’s Summer Olympics on Brazil. In addition to his interest in Brazil as one of the world’s major emerging economies, Guerrero also chose the country for the language challenge: A native Spanish speaker, Guerrero is taking a class to learn Portuguese.

When Guerrero returns to campus in the fall, he will serve as copresident of the Organization for Latin American Affairs (OLAA), a student group he has been involved with since freshman year.

“It has a special place in my heart,” said Guerrero. “I like the space they have created for Latinos on

campus.”

Among other programming, OLAA sponsors the annual Latino Family Weekend, a three-day event celebrating Latino heritage that includes a culture show with Latin American music, dance and poetry, as well as a banquet, Mass and a brunch.

Last year’s family weekend was particularly special for Guerrero because his parents attended. “It was neat to be able to share our culture together at my university and for [my parents] to be able to see that students, administrators and others hold that culture very closely to them. They were very proud and very excited to be there.”

Service has been a big part of Guerrero’s BC experience. As a

PULSE student, he volunteered at Nativity Prep, an all-boys Jesuit school in Boston. “I really enjoyed it. It serves underrepresented kids from the inner city. A lot of kids from my background – Dominican, Hispanic, Cape Verdean – are getting a chance to get a good education.”

He also volunteered on a service trip to the Mississippi Delta, where he assisted students in an underfunded elementary school.

According to Guerrero, one of his more formative experiences while at BC was the Jamaica Magis trip, sponsored by Campus Ministry. As a teaching assistant at an elementary school in Kingston, Guerrero encountered a young student, a rambunctious boy who was often a challenge for the teachers. The young boy didn’t talk to Guerrero, but would sit next to him whenever he got the chance.

Guerrero noticed the student was quietly observing him.

At the end of the week, the teacher told Guerrero that the young boy was behaving the best he ever had and wondered what Guerrero said to him.

“That was a key moment for me,” recalled Guerrero. “My simple presence, being engaged and being at one with my Jamaican brothers and sisters, that was enough. It taught me a lot about

how to approach things in social settings, especially when children are around. Children see a lot.”

Guerrero credited current and former BC faculty members and staff for serving as mentors for him, including Amy LaCombe in the Carroll School, Jamaica Magis trip coordinator Michael Davidson, SJ, and former English Department faculty member Erin Wecker, now at the University of Montana. “Their generosity and kind-heartedness has helped make my BC experience very memorable and very manageable.”

Guerrero has been playing baseball since he was four and is currently an outfielder on the BC Club Baseball team. A selfdescribed “inner-city kid” from Boston, Guerrero says he found an important outlet in sports, particularly baseball. He participated in The BASE, a program that combines an elite baseball league with academic tutoring and enrichment programs to create pathways for success for urban youth.

In the future, Guerrero says he would like to open his own business, perhaps a mechanic shop. He also would like to start a nonprofit, similar to The BASE. “I want to take the Heights to the streets.”

Contact Kathleen Sullivan at kathleen.sullivan@bc.edu

Scholars, Educators Discuss ‘Culture of Ethics’ Nearly 200 scholars and educational leaders from more than 30 colleges and universities convened on campus last week for the national conference “Toward a Culture of University Ethics.”

The researchers and veteran higher education administrators explored ethical issues that arise on campuses, assessed the role of university culture, and discussed new ways to improve policies and practices that affect students, faculty, staff, and leadership, according to the event’s organizer, Canisius Professor of Theology James F. Keenan, SJ, who also directs the University’s Jesuit Institute.

“Before we ever articulate a professional code of conduct for each community within the university, I think we need to develop a culture of awareness among faculty, staff, administrators and students, that for a university to flourish, it needs to recognize the integral, constitutive roll of ethics in the formation of a flourishing community,” Fr. Keenan said in remarks to open the conference, which ran from April 5-7.

The conference was designed to “kick off a national conversation on the topic of university ethics,” said Fr. Keenan, author of the

book University Ethics: How Colleges Can Build and Benefit from a Culture of Ethics, noting that attendees included “an extraordinary group of national leaders.”

Speakers included Pulitzer Prizewinning author and National Humanities Medal recipient Taylor Branch, whose remarks were presented by BC’s Lowell Humanities Series. Renowned for his landmark trilogy of the Civil Rights era America in the King Years, Branch also wrote “The Shame of College Sports,” an influential 2011 cover story for The Atlantic.

Former Brown University and Smith College president Ruth Simmons delivered the keynote address on “Race, Gender, and Ethics at the University.”

As part of a panel focused on leadership, former Wheelock College President Jackie Jenkins-Scott, the first woman of color to hold that post, said the underrepresentation of women in leadership positions is tied to their underrepresentation within faculty ranks.

“Why does the progress of women in the enlightened community of academia remain so painfully slow?” Jenkins-Scott said. “Gender stereotypes about women leaders and their potential remain intact.

Because there are fewer women leaders, younger women – unlike younger men – lack role models and mentors to guide them. Women are often overlooked or excluded.”

The uneven playing field, she said, raises a host of ethical issues that must be addressed by the entire academic community.

“Women continuing in lower status is not a women’s problem to solve, but a centuries-old ethical issue that like an anchor in sand holds everyone back,” Jenkins-Scott said.

“It is a problem that needs a collaborative effort. Care enough to look seriously at politics and practices that are inequitable. Looking at the men in the room, join women in pushing for change…Compensate women who have been excluded by creating opportunities for them to learn and grow, and support leadership training.”

The conference was co-sponsored by the Jesuit Institute, Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, Institute for the Liberal Arts, and Lowell Humanities Series.

–University Communications Read the full version of this story at http://bit.ly/ethics-conference-report

Top: Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences sophomores Carly Sullivan (far left) and Evey Satterfield in conversation with “Toward a Culture of University Ethics” conference organizer James Keenan, SJ, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch (far right). The conference included a variety of topics and discussions (below). (Photos by Gary Wayne Gilbert)

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BC to Host Undergrad Poetry Festival on April 25 The spoken word will be celebrated on campus by undergraduate student poets representing some 20 Boston-area colleges and universities, at the annual Greater Boston Intercollegiate Undergraduate Poetry Festival. The free, public event will be held on April 25 at 7:30 p.m. in the Murray Function Room of the Yawkey Athletic Center.

All participants read their original work at the event, which highlights students’ talent and devotion to poetry. A chapbook of poetry by participating student poets is published in conjunction with the festival.

The evening will begin with a keynote address by Andrea Cohen — a local writer with extensive publications — who directs the Writers House at Merrimack College and the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge. The recipient of a PEN Discovery award and Glimmer Train’s Short Fiction Award, Cohen is the author of Unfathoming, Furs Not Mine, Kentucky Derby, Long Division and The Cartographer’s Vision. Her poems and stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, Threepenny Review, Atlantic Monthly and New Republic, among other publications.

Cohen is “a master of concision, a poet of intense brevity and utility,” according to Associate Professor of the Practice of English Susan Roberts and organizer, who took the festival organizational reins from Professor of English Suzanne Matson during Matson’s sabbatical.

“Her poems are largely made up of short lines (with genius line breaks), a focus on interior music and repeating sounds that make her images both unique and potent. She’s also funny in a wry, effective way, able to define the human predicament in a fresh voice.”

Sherry (Yu-Hsuan) Hsiao, a BC senior from Taiwan who began writing poetry as a fourth grader, was selected to present her poem “Twenty Minutes to Jing An.” She describes the poem as portraying her relationship with China but hopes it also resonates with audience members.

“Its inclusion in the festival encourages me to continue writing from different perspectives, and I hope ‘Twenty Minutes to Jing An’ allows readers who are unfamiliar with China to gain a better understanding of the country’s culture.”

Her inspiration for the work “came from hearing the words, ‘Next stop: People’s Square,’ while I was on a metro ride in Shanghai last summer,” she explained. “I knew immediately that I needed to write something about China, about Mao Space — Mao’s for-

mer residence in Shanghai — being surrounded by skyscrapers in downtown Shanghai, about the complexities of China’s national identity.

“As a Taiwanese person who grew up in China but received an American education, I feel like an outsider no matter which culture I’m writing about. But I hope that through my writing, I can confront my own ambivalence toward each culture, and help others become conscious of those same intricacies.”

The final stanza of her poem reads: Next stop: the train churns on, towards a Communism in which only Americans still believe.

The train churns on, towards Mao Space in the heart of the city. And hidden behind balconies Of hung laundry, The student cheers for this moment in time When he can finally watch history repeat.

After graduation, Hsiao — a psychology major with minors in English and psychoanalytic studies — plans to return to Taiwan to pursue a project that encourages writing: She hopes to start a book club and writing workshop.

“I am incredibly grateful for the opportunities BC has given me to develop my writing, whether it’s through my writing workshops, writing for The Heights, or papers for class. I hope to always find the time and energy to continue reading and writing. I like writing poetry because it allows us to capture a single feeling or moment in our everyday lives, sort of like a painting or a photograph.”

This spring marks the 12th consecutive year that Boston College hosts the event, which rotated among a dozen participating schools from the mid-1980s to 2001, and then was suspended until 2006. With campus support, it was revived that year by Matson, with Boston College as the host institution.

Roberts looks forward to welcoming Cohen to campus. “Having dealt with many issues and even controversies within the current American poetry scene, I think she’ll be able to offer the students at the festival a look at what a gifted wordsmith can still do, how poetry can still surprise and be an effective — even necessary — force in our current discourse.”

Sponsors include Poetry Days, the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences Deans Office and Boston College Magazine. For more information see www.bc.edu/poetryfestival.

–Rosanne Pellegrini

Serving the ‘Mission of Peace’

China-bound senior will further Boston College’s Peace Corps legacy Jared Collier ’17: “The whole idea – as has always been the case with the Peace Corps – is to be a cultural ambassador who represents the goodwill of the United States.

So while I look on this as a chance for personal growth, I know that there is a larger imperative to which I’m committed.”

(Photo by Linda Hexter)

By Sean Smith Chronicle Editor

When Jared Collier ’17 told his parents that following graduation this May he would be heading to China as a Peace Corps volunteer, his father asked why he didn’t want to work someplace like South America. “‘Because, Dad,’” Collier recalls himself saying, “‘that’s too close.’”

Collier, a linguistics major from Salt Lake City, views his upcoming 27-month stint teaching English in the Peace Corps as a “synthesis” of the many insights and experiences he has accumulated during his undergraduate years at Boston College – and an opportunity to serve the Peace Corps “mission of peace,” he adds.

In doing so, Collier will be helping further Boston College’s legacy one of the country’s top producers of Peace Corps volunteers. With 19 alumni volunteering worldwide, BC ranked 13th among medium-size schools (between 5,000 and 15,000 undergraduates) on the Peace Corp’s 2017 Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges and Universities list, which the organization compiles annually.

BC has appeared on the Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges and Universities list each year for the past decade. Since the organization’s founding in 1961, 786 alumni from BC have traveled abroad to serve as volunteers.

Collier finds it unsurprising that so many BC graduates have found serving in the Peace Corps an inviting prospect. When you’re in an environment like the Heights, opportunities are rife to learn about and discuss social justice issues on a global scale, he says – and to challenge your perceptions and beliefs.

The liberal arts perspective that BC inculcates in its students, says Collier, can “inspire an ambition toward multilateral reflection upon our experiences, thereby insinuating critical judgment into our daily actions.”

During his undergraduate years at BC, Collier has sought out many experiences to help him expand his worldview: the Jemez Pueblo and Arrupe service trips in, respectively, New Mexico and Mexico; the “Writing Out of Place” workshop in India; a summer program in Ecuador through the McNair Scholars Program.

Collier had considered going to graduate school, but found himself wanting to build on the

service and international aspects of his BC education. As he considered the idea, the Peace Corps emerged as a particularly attractive possibility: a long-term immersion in a different culture, and a means to develop selfreliance and teaching skills.

The application process for the Peace Corps, which includes a 500-word essay and an interview, offers prospective volunteers three choices for a posting.

Collier put China as his number one preference. The fact that he had little familiarity with the country made it all the more appealing, he says.

“I have a lot of friends from China here at BC, and through them I’ve been able to learn something about the country and its people. The thought of being there, embedding myself in the culture, just intrigues me: I’ll still be an outsider in many ways – it would take a lifetime to become an ‘insider’ – but I feel I’ll learn

so much.”

Collier will work as an English teacher at a high school or twoyear college or technical school.

He’ll also be developing a community project – his idea is to organize sessions for reading literature (such as Harry Potter books). He is uncertain exactly what his accommodations will be like, but it might involve living with a family that has an extra room.

“Whatever the arrangement is, you live in solidarity with the community,” he says. “The whole idea – as has always been the case with the Peace Corps – is to be a cultural ambassador who represents the goodwill of the United States. So while I look on this as a chance for personal growth, I know that there is a larger imperative to which I’m committed.”

Contact Sean Smith at sean.smith@bc.edu

Christopher Huang

More than a dozen alumni of the student instrumental and jazz ensemble BC bOp! came to the group’s April 1 performance in Robsham Theater to present a special tribute to Campus Minister JoJo David, who died in 2016. David was the ensemble’s vocal coach and was regarded as a friend and mentor by many members.

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obituary

Historian John Heineman, 81 A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on Tuesday for Professor Emeritus of History John L. Heineman, a highly regarded scholar of modern Germany and Nazi Germany, who died April 6.

He was 81.

Dr. Heineman, who taught at Boston College for 40 years, chaired the History Department from 1970-76 and pursued research in modern Germany (1803-present) and the Third Reich, as well as the history of warfare, the intellectual history of western Europe and religious and Church history.

But he was particularly interested in the Nazi era: He taught a course, Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich, using a large collection of mostly unpublished primary source documents he had translated. These documents, which he later put online [www2. bc.edu/john-heineman], included material on the Nazi seizure of power and the treatment of Jews during the Third Reich.

Interviewed by The Heights shortly before he retired in 2003, Dr. Heineman said he became fascinated with German history somewhat unexpectedly while an undergraduate at the University of Notre Dame when he took a trip to Europe – a journey made possible by a $500 bequest from his great aunt, who stipulated he use it for travel.

Signing up for a Catholic student tour, Dr. Heineman visited Ireland and England with great anticipation, but came away “faintly disappointed.” Arriving in Germany, however, was “an almost mystical experience” that deepened in the days he spent there.

“I came back absolutely convinced I wanted to be a German historian,” he recalled.

After earning his degree from Notre Dame, Dr. Heineman went to Germany on a Fulbright grant and later received a full scholarship to study German history at Cornell University. Searching for a dissertation topic, Dr. Heineman was drawn to the story of Constantin Von Neurath, who had served as foreign secretary during the last years of the Weimar Republic and stayed on after Adolf Hitler came to power. He did extensive research on Neurath and later published a comprehensive biography, Hitler’s First Foreign Minister: Constantin Freiherr von Neurath.

To Dr. Heineman, Neurath was an all-too-common example of “decent and honorable men” who served “the evil that was National Socialism.” The fact that

BOSTON COLLEGE IN THE MEDIA Asst. Prof. Peter Krause (Political Science) discussed potential fallout of the US airstrike on Syria with NBC Boston.

Should the Social Security Trust Fund be allowed to invest in stocks? In a piece for The Wall Street Journal, Drucker Professor Alicia Munnell, director of the Center for Retirement Research, argued that it would reduce the need for benefit cuts or tax increases.

Prof. Thomas Groome (STM), director of the Church in the 21st Century Center, wrote an op-ed

Germany’s pre-World War II foreign policy did not change following the ascension of the Nazis was because Neurath and other professional diplomats who, although not party members, continued to run the Foreign Office, he said.

“Born for another century, relying with too much trust upon an outmoded code of doing one’s duty,” wrote Dr. Heineman, “Neurath never successfully defined the nature of the challenge that faced him.”

Dr. Heineman was wary of drawing historical comparisons with current events. Asked by The Heights in 2003 about the parallels between Saddam Hussein and Adolf Hitler, he replied that using “historical analogies and similes for similar situations while you are teaching history is to create a distortion of the past.”

“The circumstances that brought Hitler to power in the 1920s and ’30s are not the same ones that brought to power Saddam Hussein,” he added. “The chief function of a historian is to recreate history the way it actually was, and that is without the hindsight of the future.”

In 1997, Dr. Heineman was selected for a teaching award from the Boston College Phi Beta Kappa chapter. In an interview with Boston College Chronicle, he said he relished the honor because it had been given by students in recognition of his teaching – his “greatest love,” he called it.

“I’m very much aware that my function up there is to inform, partially to entertain, partially to inspire,” he said, “but also to give them a model of analysis of how a reasonably intelligent person can look at data and make sense of it.”

Dr. Heineman is survived by his wife, Helen; his sons John, Michael, George and Joseph; 10 grandchildren; and siblings Margo Daniels, George, Charles, Ellen Colemire, Robert and Teesie Eck. –Sean Smith

for the New York Times on how Democrats should change their strategy and tactics to regain the Catholic vote. He discussed his Times piece on WBUR’s “Radio Boston.”

Visiting Asst. Prof. Peter Moloney (History) wrote on evolving attitudes toward Brexit among voters in Northern Ireland and Scotland in an op-ed for the Boston Herald.

Prof. Robert Bloom (Law) was among the experts interviewed by the Boston Globe about the testimony of the prosecution’s star wit-

QUOTE/UNQUOTE “[James] Madison’s notes help us see that the framers were too busy writing the Constitution that would save the country to draft the type of airtight document that originalists perceive.

The first draft in early August had 23 articles. The president was elected by Congress to a single seven-year term. The Senate appointed the Supreme Court justices and made treaties. There was no vice president. There were lots of issues that they hadn’t figured out or were at odds on. They sent issues out to six small committees that came up with various parts in the final three weeks. The process was so complicated that, in late Lee Pellegrini August, Madison — who became sick serving on three committees — stopped bothering to write his notes. At a moment in the convention when delegates were settling issues that we debate today, such as the Electoral College and presidential treaty powers, we have no contemporary notes from Madison. Madison worried that if ‘the present moment be lost it is hard to say what may be our fate.’”

–Founders Professor of Law Mary Sarah Bilder, in an op-ed piece for the Boston Globe “Ideas” section, “The Constitution Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does” [http://bit.ly/bilder-constitution-globe]

ness in the murder trial of ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez. Bloom also was featured in a New Haven Register story in conjunction with his testimony last week on the use of jailhouse informants in a Connecticut murder trial.

Prof. Maxim D. Shrayer (Slavic and Eastern Languages) penned the essay of the month in Mosaic magazine. In addition, he wrote on the question of whether it is time to consider an elegy for Russian Jewry in Tablet Magazine.

Expansion and differentiation without a well-defined strategy could mean a “period of anarchy” for global higher education, according to a report from the Lynch School of Education Center for International Higher Education. Research Prof. Philip Altbach (LSOE), the study co-author, discussed its findings with Times Higher Education.

Center for Work and Family Executive Director Brad Harrington commented for CBS News on companies’ growing shift away from employees working remotely.

JOBS The following are among the most recent positions posted by the Department of Human Resources.

For more information on employment opportunities at Boston College, see www.bc.edu/offices/hr: Assistant Director of Marketing and Communications, Residential Life Director of Development, Law School Emerging Technology Analyst, Information Technology

NOTA BENE

Communications Specialist, Academic Affairs/Provost Intern (various positions), Athletics Manager, Data Center Operations, Information Technology Prospect Management Analyst, University Advancement Teacher of the Visually Impaired, Academic Affairs/Provost Gift Management and Reporting Assistant, University Advancement Senior/Web Developer, University Advancement Associate Director of Digital Marketing, University Advancement

Boston College Club co-founder John E. Joyce ‘61, MBA ‘70 (above left) and club officials recently met with University President William P. Leahy, SJ, and presented a check for $410,000 to BC for inner-city scholarships.

The club has now donated $7 million to BC, funding a total of 89 scholarships. (Photo by Lee Pellegrini)

Associate Dean for Undergraduate Student Services, Academic Affairs/Provost General Service Worker, Dining & Catering/Auxiliary/Public Safety

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Greater Boston Intercollegiate Undergraduate Poetry Festival April 25, 7:30 p.m., Murray Function Room, Yawkey Athletic Center

See story on page 6

By Rosanne Pellegrini Staff Writer

A campus appearance by Emmy-winning network television executive Tracey Wigfield ’05 highlights the 19th Boston College Arts Festival on April 27-29, the annual showcase for the University community’s artistic talents.

Festival participants once again include some 1,000 BC students, faculty, staff and administrators.

More than 80 events – most of them free – will feature artists with diverse talents and highlight performing, visual and literary arts programs. The festival is open to the public as well as the University community.

Wigfield, writer and co-producer for the popular NBC series “30 Rock” – and creator of the network series “Great News” (premiering April 25) – will be honored with the Boston College Arts Council Alumni Award for Distinguished Achievement at a public ceremony on April 28 at 4 p.m. in the Stokes Art Tent on Stokes Lawn.

She also will take part in a careerrelated interview program titled “Inside the BC Studio” (April 27, 3 p.m., Stokes Art Tent), at which she will be interviewed by Professor of Theatre Scott T. Cummings; a program featuring selections from “30 Rock” and “Great News” as well as “The Mindy Project,” in which she acted and also was co-executive producer and writer (April 27, 6 p.m., Stokes Art Tent); and a panel discussion (April 28, 2 p.m.,

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Tracey Wigfield ’05 will receive the Alumni Award for Distinguished Achievement at the Arts Festival.

Stokes Art Tent) on the business of television production with accomplished alumni Vanity Fair television writer Richard Lawson ’05 and Independent Television Festival Executive Director and New York Picture Company Producer Philip Gilpin Jr. ’03.

“Tracey Wigfield is an ideal role model for young women today,” said BC Theatre Department Chair and Associate Professor Crystal Tiala, who chairs the Arts Council. “Post-graduation, Tracey began as an intern and within 10 years became an Emmy-winning writer, comedian, actress and producer. She has the tenacity, talent, and intelligence that make her extremely successful. Plus, she has a kind and giving heart that makes us all happy to witness her rise in the entertainment industry. Tracey has set the bar for excellence very high indeed.”

[Read about Wigfield and past alumni award winners at www. bc.edu/offices/artscouncil/festival/ guests.html] The April 28 Arts Council awards will also be presented to recognize artistic accomplishments and contributions of nine BC students and Andrew Tavarelli, a professor of the practice in BC’s Art, Art History, and Film Studies Department. During his long and accomplished career as a painter his work has been shown nationally in 27 solo and numerous group exhibitions, and his works are in many public and private collections in the US and abroad. He has taught painting and drawing at BC for 40 years, served as department assistant chair and directs the Senior Project Program for studio art majors. [More at www.bc.edu/offices/ artscouncil/awards.html] Children and family entertainment will be a major part of the festival schedule on Saturday, April 29, from noon-5 p.m.: performances of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” (by BC students in the Theatre for Youth Class) and “Peter and the Wolf” by the BC Chamber Music Society, as well as arts and crafts, face painting, a dance workshop, story hour and an instrument petting zoo.

Other Arts Festival events include: dance showcases featuring BC faculty and student choreographers; BC Underground, a collaborative arts event with spokenword artists, rappers, break dancers, DJs and electronic music art-

Photos by Lee Pellegrini

ists; BC’s Best, presenting student musicians who perform original works in a variety of genres; and a Jane Austen–Edgar Allan Poe “Smackdown,” in which English faculty members and students will debate the merits of these authors – “the gloves come off in this hour-

long rumble that will drag literary analysis into the era of professional wrestling,” according to organizers.

For event locations and updates, see www.bc.edu/artsfestival or call (617) 552-ARTS (2787).

Contact Rosanne Pellegrini at rosanne.pellegrini@bc.edu

SPRINGING ON SATURDAY The McMullen Museum of Art welcomed visitors of all ages to its “Spring Celebration” on April 8. Events and activities included making Easter baskets for an Easter egg hunt, storytelling, various games and arts and crafts, and live music. The celebration was held as part of the museum’s Second Saturdays program.

Photos by Frank Curran