The Heights October 22, 2018

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Prof. Gips Celebrated at Memorial CELINE LIM / HEIGHTS EDITOR

Over 100 Students ‘Die-In’ on Anniversary of March The Black Eagles organized the protest and released demands.

By Jack Goldman News Editor

And Owen Fahey Heights Staff 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. Some students also hummed the melody of “We Shall Overcome.”

The demonstration began at 1:05 p.m. with 100 demonstrators and a small crowd surrounding them, but increased to over 150 protestors when class let out at 1:15. Student activists on the ground interlocked arms while those who stood held hands. Signs

with messages advocating for fair treatment were laid on the ground, as well as held by some protestors.

University Spokesman Jack Dunn reiterated the administration’s support for students of every background, laying out the steps BC has taken in reaction to the inciting incidents and student outcry that led to the “Silence is Still Violence” march and movement last year.

“All of us within the BC community condemned the racial incidents that occurred on campus last October, and BC administrators have worked closely with student leaders during the past twelve months to address mutual concerns regarding diversity and inclusion,” Dunn said in an email.

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. He also said that discussions between administrators and student leaders regarding diversity and inclusion matters have continued and will continue to take place.

Details on the survey were not made available to The Heights, but Dunn indicated that more information regarding the contents of the survey will be made available to students before its release.

By Jack Goldman News Editor

KAITLIN MEEKS / HEIGHTS EDITOR

BC Opens HEA Play 2-0

When Director of Athletics Martin Jarmond came to Boston College 18 months ago, his first move was to assess the macro needs of the institution’s sports programs.

In order to solve the largest issues holding the institution back, which were laid out in the pillars making up

the University’s new athletics capital campaign, Greater Heights, Jarmond realized he had been presented with a unique opportunity.

“When I arrived on the Heights, I knew coming in that we’re in a competitive landscape for facilities,” he said in an email. “I was aware of what was going but I was also was keenly aware that we couldn’t stop.”

BC had begun construction on the Harrington Athletics Village, the Fish Field House, and the Connell Recreation Center when Jarmond came to

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The playwright spoke about her ‘outsider’ experience on Oct. 18.

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Behind ‘Invisible’: The Many Sides of Migration

Big Tex: a Texas-Sized Affair Davy Crockett once said, “You may all go to Cape Cod, the Hamptons, Canada, and NYC, and I will go to Texas for Fall Break.”

I did like Crockett would and returned to the greatest state/country in the world to celebrate Columbus/Indigenous People’s Day. The trip, though spontaneous, was not without purpose—I was headed to the Oklahoma University vs. University of Texas game, better known to those who speak and walk slower as the “Red River Rivalry.”

Three days in Dallas promised me BBQ that’s cooked on an open fire, not a stove-top, and tailgates where parking spots aren’t paid for by parents who have an unhealthy interest in their kids’ social lives. The game promised me real football, football that forces fans to remain in the stadium past the first five minutes.

Most importantly, all of the wondrous two hours of blood, sweat, and football

By Jack Miller

Programs sat on a table next to the entrance of the Fulton Honors Library as former students, colleagues, friends, and family of the late professor James Gips arrived on Friday to celebrate his life. Gips, the John R. and Pamela Egan Chair of computer science, taught at Boston College for 42 years before he died suddenly this past June at age 72.

The booklets contained over 30 pages full of fond memories of Gips that students and faculty treasured, starting with the obituary the University published over the summer. Each memory hit personal notes with familiar and powerful themes—flannel shirts and pizza for Friday classes, mentorship for anyone who sought it, and Gips’ work to empower students with disabilities.

“Atypically for professors, Gips made a practice of sharing student evaluations of his courses on his website,” the obituary said. “That includes the full surveys from the last course he taught, this past semester.

Where the evaluation form asks students to suggest ways that the course could be improved, an impressive number of them answered ‘none.’”

The first speaker of the afternoon was Barbara Gips, his wife of 11 years. She shared stories about the full and loving relationships that he forged with everyone that he knew, starting with herself.

“He made me laugh daily,” she said. “I always thought that was an important thing in marriage—sometimes it was the same joke. He’d come home from BC and say ‘I’m going up to change.’ And then we’d both go,

‘A Moment in Time’: Jarmond on Campaign AD Martin Jarmond shares his motivations for ‘Greater Heights’

James Gips taught at BC for 42 years. He died at age 72 in June.

By Elizabeth Deese KAITLIN MEEKS / HEIGHTS EDITOR

WZBC Launches $30K Fundraiser for Renovation BC’s radio station is run by 12 students and a faculty advisor.

By Maddie Deye Heights Staff Boston College’s radio station, WZBC, has launched a fundraiser in order to help with an upcoming remodel of its studios in McElroy 107.

The fundraiser took place from Oct. 12 through Sunday, but there will be a

NEWS: Girls Who Code Founder

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link for donations on WZBC’s website up until Nov. 4.

“All of our equipment purchases and updates to that kind of stuff are done by us,” said Jackie Foley, the general manager of the station and CSON ’19. “We don’t like having to ask BC for more money, because they’re already giving us this beautiful space.”

The remodel will include updates to make the studios meet fire code, as well as the expansion of some

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FEATURES: Liz McCartney

Heights Staff Prior to the performances of her play Invisible at Robsham Theater, renowned playwright and screenwriter Tena Štivičić detailed the personal experiences and motivations that drove the conception of this particular story Thursday night.

Born in Zagreb, Croatia, Štivičić graduated from the Academy of Drama Art, Department of Dramaturgy, Zagreb. She moved to the U.K. and got her master’s from Goldsmith’s College, University of London. Throughout her years at the academy and the time following her graduation, Štivičić produced several theatrical performances. Her plays cover a myriad of topics, ranging from particular aspects of the human experience to broad sociological critiques. Her first play, the award-winning Can’t Escape

Liz McCartney, BC ’94, founded the St. Bernard Project, which has rebuilt over 12k homes.....A8

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Sundays, delves into the world of female versus male psyches, examining the processes of love and betrayal. Another of her most famous works, The Two of Us, challenges gender norms and brings into question the concept of a traditional family unit. Some of Štivičić’s other acclaimed works include Fragile!, Fireflies, PSSST!, and Perceval.

Originally published in 2011, her play Invisible follows the journey of four separate characters whose seemingly disparate lives are eventually driven together. Lara leaves home in search of a better life, as Anton is forced to leave his village and ends up in the city cleaning windows. Malik and Felix experience feelings of displacement and discontent. At its core, the story is about the convergence of different people and cultures, and understanding the many sides of migration.

As someone who has personally experienced the feeling of being an “outsider,” a feeling often induced by

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Fans of The Joy of Painting can attend CAB’s Bob Ross Paint Night on Monday from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. in the Vandy Cabaret room.

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Obama-era EPA head Gina McCarthy will be at the Yawkey Athletics Center at 6 p.m. on Wednesday. Throughout her tenure, the EPA worked to establish the Clean Power Plan, the Climate Action Plan, and the Paris Climate Agreement.

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Bill Punkert, BC ’68, will return to campus to speak about his career in the Navy and CIA. His talk, “My Life as a Spy During the Cold War and Beyond,” will be in Gasson 100 at 6 p.m. on Thursday.

NEWS Professors Address Catholic Church Abuse Scandal BRIEFS

BC Adopts Global Approach

Boston College is continuing to pursue global engagement by focusing on the Jesuit-Catholic aspects of its efforts.

Recently, BC has been escalating its involvement with other Jesuit-Catholic institutions across the globe, according to University Communications.

The University’s initiatives have been a part of its new new global approach, which is framed by its 10-year Strategic Plan, “Ever to Excel.”

The University’s efforts are being overseen by Alberto Godenzi, co-chair of the Global Engagement Committee, who is attempting to refine BC’s international strategy and ensure that it is being efficient with its use of resources.

BC has also recently joined the International Association of Jesuit Universities, which was formed in July.

The organization hopes to increase collaboration among all Jesuit institutions across the world and coordinates with the Jesuit Superior General, the global leader of the Society of Jesus.

This breaks from the more regional approach that schools have traditionally prescribed to.

Also notable is BC’s participation in the Strategic Alliance of Catholic Research Universities and its attendance at the International Federation of Catholic Universities General Assembly.

In 2021, BC will host a yet-to-benamed conference for Catholic universities from all around the world.

“Hosting such a high-profile event is a coup for Boston College. We will literally be opening our campus to the world, and welcoming leaders in Catholic higher education,” Godenzi said to BC News. “The assembly provides a setting for important conversations about the challenges—social, political, economic—that our institutions seek to address through our academic and formational missions.”

Full Trial Schedule Released The full schedule for the pending lawsuit against Boston College has been released, adding deadlines for both parties leading up to the March 7 pretrial hearing and April 22 jury trial.

The lawsuit alleges a breach of contract in the handling of a sexual assault accusation against the plaintiff, a former BC student.

The plaintiff must disclose his substitute expert witness and serve supplemental expert reports by the end of November. According to previous reporting by The Heights, the University has already stated that it will “fight to exclude” the expert witness’s opinion, arguing instead that only the five members of the disciplinary panel should give testimony. BC has until the end of the year to file its own supplemental expert reports. After resolving these issues, expert deposition will run until the end of February.

Following those submissions, the plaintiff has until Feb. 15, 2019 to submit a memo on the scope of the trial, while the University has until Feb. 25. After both submissions, the parties will reconcile any differences at the previously established March 7 pretrial hearing.

Any motions in limine by the plaintiff or opposition from the defense must be submitted by March 21, 2019 and March 28, 2019, respectively. Motions in limine are the final requests that certain testimony be excluded, which could include follow-up should the University continue to oppose the plaintiff’s substitute expert witness. Such an argument would come up at the final pretrial conference on April 4, 2019.

Both the proposed jury instructions and final witness and exhibit lists are also due on March 28. Jury instructions lay out the scope of the case and any relevant laws, typically in conjunction with “pattern,” or standard jury instructions that apply to all cases.

By Maddie Deye Heights Staff And Danny Flynn For The Heights

Four Boston College faculty members discussed reconciling their faith with an issue-laden church in a panel titled “Catholic Belonging in a Time of Scandal,” sponsored by the theology department, Jesuit Institute, C21 Center, and the Undergraduate Government of Boston College, on Monday.

Theology professor Stephen J. Pope moderated the panel and introduced the main speakers: associate philosophy professor Marina McCoy, theology professor Richard Gaillardetz, and philosophy professor Kerry Cronin. The group discussed their views on the recent sex abuse scandal within the Catholic Church that was outlined in the 2018 Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report and delved specifically into why and how they have remained Catholic in the wake of church scandal.

McCoy began the event by laying out why she believed the issue had more to do with larger societal questions than questions strictly pertaining to the church.

“For me, it’s a question of how do people belong to the human community, of all different kinds of communities, knowing what humans can be like,” McCoy said.

Gaillardetz discussed the scandal in terms of going to a restaurant where the chef promises nourishing and delightful dishes, but the wait staff leaves something to be desired.

“It turns out the chef is not real thrilled with this crew either, so the chef finds other ways to make sure that you do get the dishes that he has,” he said. “So you continue to come back, not because of the quality of service, but the food. And so at the end of the day, we consent to be troubled by the failings of the church, we consent to be troubled by its institutional dysfunctions, and we are determined to do everything we can to address those

things.”

Cronin talked about how she reconciles her outrage with her faith in the church. She acknowledged that in agreeing to be part of a religious community, she is accepting teachings that may not personally resonate with her, and is trusting in the clergy of the institution.

“I am, in a terrified way, remaining a part of the Catholic community, and I am scared,” she said. “And I presume that you [all] are there too, that you’re pretty scared as well. But I hope we can continue to have a conversation about it and spread our ability to love.”

Cronin closed out the panel by describing the day she saw a photo in The Boston Globe of Cardinal Bernard Law kissing the ring of the pope after being accused of covering up instances of child sexual abuse within the Archdiocese of Boston.

“I wept that day, and it wasn’t because it was a great ‘gotcha’ photo, but because it happened,” she said.

Pope wrapped the event up by talking about how to separate issues plaguing the church from the positive aspects of the entity. He noted that the church is not the same as its clergy. The majority of clergymen have not committed crimes, but the action of those who have shouldn’t dilute the greater meaning Catholicism brings into the lives of its believers. Despite the necessary separation of the church’s mission from the individuals carrying it out rightly or wrongly, the church still needs to change, according to Pope.

“It has to change the institutions that make clerical sexual abuse possible, and even more, the ones that make cover-up possible,” he said. “We all recognize the need for change. With these three panelists, you see people who love the church and who are troubled by what’s happening in their community. There are a lot of good people who care, who are hoping there will be change, and will change the church over the coming years and decades.” n

Girls Who Code Founder Speaks to BC Council of Women

By Katelyn Zilke For The Heights Founder and CEO of tech organization Girls Who Code Reshma Saujani spoke at the annual Council for Women of Boston College Colloquium regarding the efforts of her organization to close the gender gap in technology on Tuesday,.

The inspiration for Girls Who Code came out of Saujani’s failed bid for the United States Senate in 2010. After a campaign season of visiting New York City public

schools and seeing computer science and robotics classrooms full of boys, she asked herself where the girls were. That question marked the genesis of Girls Who Code.

She said that the number of women in technology has dramatically decreased due to the tech’s surrounding culture, wherein the problem of the gender gap lies.

“We have created a culture that celebrates that girls are not good at math and science,” she said. “It’s not true, and we are simply turning girls off.”

Despite culture turning girls away

from pursuing a career in this field, the technology industry needs workers. Saujani emphasized that there are currently 500,000 open jobs in technology—her solution, which is also the goal of Girls Who Code, is to cultivate a welcoming atmosphere for females in the field.

Saujani said that when the technology workforce equalizes, a greater diversity and abundance of ideas regarding what can be developed with technology can be produced. She told the stories of girls who graduated from the organization who went

on to use the skills they learned in Girls Who Code to make a difference.

Women who have graduated from this organization are building an algorithm to detect the benignity or malignancy of cancer and creating an app that works to stop bullying. Girls Who Code is equipping girls with the ability to produce technology that benefits and betters our world, according to Saujani.

“We cannot say that we can’t find [females in the technology field]. Now the opportunity for us is to hire them.” n

‘West Wingers’ Come to BC to Inspire Young Voters

By Jack Miller Asst. News Editor

With just under three weeks to go before the midterm elections occur, three former Obama staffers arrived at Gasson 100 to sell college students on engaging politics. Former Special Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy Director of Public Engagement Stephanie Valencia, BC ’04, returned to campus with fellow White House alumni Gautam Raghavan and Rumana Ahmed. They also promoted their new book, West Wingers: Stories of the Dream Chasers, Change Makers, and Hope Creators Inside the Obama White House.

“A majority of the stories are by women and by people of color—13 of the 18 stories,” said Dan Ponsetto, director of the Volunteer and Service Learning Center.

“Contributors also include immigrants, LGBTQ individuals, people with disabilities, Muslim-Americans, and veterans.”

The authors’ literary agent, Cindy Uh, BC ’04, was Valencia’s roommate at Boston College for all four years and served as the panel’s moderator. She began by quoting one sentence from each participant’s chapter, starting with Valencia’s.

“I sat on the edge of the bed in my hotel room, my wedding dress hanging nearby, and watched the television as Sonia Soto-

mayor walked into the East Room, flanked

by President Obama and Vice President Biden,” she said. In that moment, everything changed for me.”

Valencia joked that since the president had always been “the other man” in her relationship with her now-husband, it only made sense that her wedding collided with the nomination of the first Latina woman to the Supreme Court. Her chapter reflected both on the meaning she drew from this nomination as a young Latina and its influence on her community. While others may have been annoyed to see their work life seep into their big day, Valencia had the opposite reaction—all of a sudden, her wedding became the inconvenience.

As a compromise, she returned from her honeymoon early so she could attend the swearing-in ceremony and confirmation party. Next up was Ahmed.

“As we pulled into the front of the mosque, the marquee read ‘There is no progress without struggle,’” Uh read. “I smiled. In that moment, I needed the reminder. A few hours later, President Obama stood at a podium shoeless, as is customary in prayer spaces.”

In early 2016, Obama visited the Islamic Society of Baltimore, his first visit to a mosque in his eight years as president.

It was a politically charged decision for a politically charged moment: Donald

Trump, then the frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination, had proposed a travel ban for majority-Muslim countries just two months earlier. For over six years, Ahmed served in Presidential Correspondence, Public Engagement, and as a deputy national security advisor. Yet, the journey to Obama’s mosque visit didn’t arise from those jobs. It began as Ahmed was teaching at her Sunday school.

“I had never seen depression and fear on the faces of such little kids,” she said.

“It reminded me of when I was 11 or 12 and I felt the way they were, but for me it was personal. I remember post-9/11 my memory of my government was when I was put in an interrogation room at the airport. My mom was a single mom, and we had just come back from vacation and they were looking for a male terrorist, but just because my mom had a similar name it didn’t matter that she was female. ” So when Denis McDonough, thenWhite House chief of staff, asked to come to her class with his son as a trial balloon before a similar presidential visit, Ahmed jumped at the opportunity to push through the message she wished she could have heard all those years ago. “[It] was a perfect reminder of what the whole purpose of this mosque visit was, and it was at the heart of [the] speech that [Obama] gave,” she said. “Which was a

4:12 a.m. - An officer filed a report regarding an underage intoxicated person at Vanderslice Hall.

3:14 p.m. - An officer filed a report regarding a medical incident at Health Services

Wednesday, Oct. 17

9:48 p.m. - An officer filed a report regarding a fire alarm activation at Ignacio Hall.

POLICE BLOTTER: 10/14/18 – 10/18/18 Sunday, Oct. 14

2:01 a.m. - An officer filed a report regarding vandalim to a residence at Fitzpatrick Hall.

2:29 a.m. - An officer filed a report regarding an underage intoxicated person at Cushing Hall.

8:41 a.m. - An officer filed a report regarding assisting another agency with a traffic crash off campus.

reminder that we are not the first people to ever go through these challenges.”

Like his former colleagues, Raghavan’s chapter touched on the intersection of his personal identity and his role in the White House.

“I had 100 calls to make, but my shaking fingers dialed one I had memorized seven years earlier. I called [my husband] Andy. I don’t remember what I said or what he said, but it ended with me sobbing uncontrollably for all listening to see and hear.”

Until that day—May 9, 2012—Obama was publicly against same-sex marriage. Raghavan served as a liaison to the LGBTQ+ community as well as the Asian-American and Pacific Islander communities and had been legally married in the District of Columbia for about two years.

He felt challenged by the fact that the president’s political stance clashed with Raghavan’s, and other staffers’, lifestyles.

When Obama finally decided to announce his change in policy, Raghavan was among the first to know. The White House senior staff informed him of the impending news and immediately tasked him with creating a rollout plan for the public.

Five hours later, the West Wing came to a halt as every intern, assistant, advisor, and staffer turned to the nearest TV. n

Thursday, Oct. 18 9:34 p.m. - An officer filed a report regarding a well-being check at Boston College Police Headquarters.

—Source: The Boston College Police Department

CORRECTIONS What’s the craziest thing you’ve seen a professor do?

“He gave us wine at office hours and called it ‘sherry hour.’”

— Kathleen Allos, MCAS ’21

“In my zoology seminar, my professor made two students act as animals and two as zookeepers.”

— Soumil Prasad, MCAS ’22

“One of my professors brought dry ice one day and threw it at us. It evaporated.” — Navid Chowdhury, MCAS ’22

“My professor made a racist comment and didn’t realize it.”

— Chloe Zhou, LSOE ’21

Please send corrections to eic@bcheights.com with ‘correction’ in the subject line.

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Jarmond Talks Campaign Protest Causes Reactions Across Campus Jarmond, from A1 Chestnut Hill. Those three initiatives weren’t going to be enough to serve as the launching pad Jarmond needed to bring the Eagles to a new competitive level among its ACC competitors, Jarmond said.

It was that mindset that served as the inciting action behind Greater Heights.

“The campaign was really my idea from just knowing that we have a moment in time,” he said. “Of course, I had to learn more about what we were doing and where we were going, but I quickly learned that this was an opportunity coming off of the University’s capital campaign and being in between the next University capital campaign. Our time is now, and this is the perfect time to really highlight and continue the momentum and build upon what we’ve done.”

The campaign by its very nature is revolutionary—BC has never done a capital campaign geared solely toward supporting athletics. The primary reason now is the best time for doing so is that the University is in between college-wide fundraising cycles—Light the World concluded just two years ago—but Jarmond’s reasoning goes deeper than that.

“I think it’s important to have a separate campaign to show the importance of athletics and how integral it is to the fabric of this institution,” he said. “Some would say that athletics programs are the front porch to a University. I would argue that athletics is a central core to any institution, especially at this level.”

Jarmond cited the widespread interest among alumni, parents, fans, and the student body that brings tens of thousands of fans together around the Eagles.

A campaign such as this one sends the message to every BC fan that athletics is a priority—athletics has committed to trying to reach top-25 levels across every program, beginning with football and men’s basketball.

“We need to raise money, we need more resources to do the things that we want to do and accomplish for BC,” Jarmond said. “We have buckets of priorities that are facility enhancements, studentathlete formation, academic support … we have buckets but it’s going to be based on the individuals who want to direct their money towards a certain initiative. ...We are committed to running a successful athletics program that is competitive at the highest level That’s the tone I want to set.”

Ultimately, the department’s greatest concern is mobilizing the entire BC community. The fact that the capital campaign’s fundraising goal is lower than those of huge campaigns such as Light the World doesn’t mean the University’s fundraising apparatus is asking for lower participation.

“I want to look back and have it be successful and have raised more than $150 million,” Jarmond said. “I want to make sure we look back and see that we’ve exceeded our goal; I want to crush our goal.

I want this to be something that we look back at and say, ‘This really helped us get on more solid footing to be more competitive in some of the sports we need to be more consistently competitive in.’ This Greater Heights campaign is significant and it’s important to not just fans of BC athletics but the entire BC community at-large. …

It’s going to take an effort from all of us to really help position our athletics program for the future.” n

Themes Behind ‘Invisible’ Invisible, from A1

migration and new cultural contexts, Štivičić told the audience that she views this experience in a positive light.

Rather than an instrument of social change, Štivičić sees theatre as an outlet to think independently and critically. Problems like immigration are so vast and catastrophic that it can be difficult for people to wrap their brains around, let alone take action, according to Štivičić.

The process of immigration can induce intense feelings of displacement and turmoil within people. Štivičić described it as feeling “like other people are getting along with their lives very happily, but somehow you don’t know the password into that life.”

So she tried to determine how one can go about making these experiences more

relatable so that people will care enough to try to create change. While creating the characters of Invisible, Štivičić thought about how to provoke the audience to empathize with her characters and their migration challenges.

“It is an intensely, intensely unpleasant experience, but that is what it’s like to be trapped in a boat crossing the Mediterranean when there’s a hundred times more people and much worse conditions, and they are risking their lives,” she said.

“It’s hard to imagine what physically and mentally that might feel like.

“Good stories, good theatre, good films, have that power to pull you in to make you feel and see that journey and that experience through the point of view of the people that it’s happening to, and that’s where its power lies.” n

WZBC Campaign Ongoing WZBC, from A1 hallways to be more compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Other renovations include the addition of podcast studio and a larger space in order to host bands.

The current station is both on air at 90.3 FM and streaming online. Foley is encouraging students to participate in and promote the fundraiser for the upcoming remodel of the space as it approaches its $30,000 goal. In addition, students can get involved with the station if they are interested, as some programming and areas are intended to serve as training for newcomers to the station.

WZBC has a 12-person student board and is entirely student-run. There are program directors and a faculty adviser who can share their input with the board, but all programming is decided by students. One of the more unusual programs run on the station is called NCP, or No Commercial Potential. It explores the boundaries between what is noise and what is music.

Programming at the station runs from

about 8 a.m. through midnight every day and often goes until 1 or 2 a.m. There are about 100 active DJs who produce programming for the station, and several are community members who have hosted shows for over a decade.

Part of the history of space is reflected in the upcoming remodel process itself.

“One of the students who originally designed this place, Steve Briggs, is now an audio engineer [and] is coming back in a professional capacity to advise us on making the new station,” Foley said.

While the fundraiser and remodel are exciting, many students and faculty will be sad to part with the current space. Right now, the station has wood paneling that has been up since the ’70s, and is almost entirely covered by stickers and posters.

“There’s one from September 1996, which is basically when I was born,” Foley said.

“So it’s a balance of wanting to get set up for the future … but also, acknowledge our roots of this driving force and the Boston music scene and history.” n

Die-In, from A1

The Black Eagles released a set of demands Thursday evening in a letter addressed to University President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J.; Rev. Jack Butler, S.J., vice president of University Mission and Ministry; Patricia Lowe, executive director for institutional diversity; interim vice president of Student Affairs Joy Moore; Dean of Students Tom Mogan; and Provost and Dean of Faculties David Quigley.

“We, as students of Boston College, are not responsible for solving structural inequity,” the letter said. “Rather, we recognize the places for advancement in our community here at Boston College and are open to active listening. Despite this, we are exhausted of the repetitive and cyclical conversation.”

Moore made it clear that despite never joining an on-campus protest during her time at BC, she can still relate to what led to students feeling the need to demonstrate.

“I made it my mission to be visible and engaged. I never let anyone ... make me feel as though I was not welcomed or did not belong in the same way as they did,” she said in an email. “I had earned my place at BC just as they had and I went about my journey as an equal member of the community. I never felt marginalized because I always placed myself in the center. So, I can relate in a deeply personal way to what the demonstration meant to the students who participated. They chose to express their feelings by demonstrating peacefully and that is their right.”

The Undergraduate Government of Boston College committed its support to students protesting on campus, especially those that protested for the rights of students marginalized on campus.

“UGBC fully supports efforts like Thursday’s protest on the Academic Quad, that strive to keep systemic racism at the forefront of campus dialogue,” UGBC’s executive council said in an email statement to The Heights.

“The “die-in” served as a visually salient way of drawing attention to the continued fear, discomfort, and discrimination that students of color feel in our community. BC administrators have repeatedly expressed their opposition to all forms of prejudice and discrimination; however, statements alone will not succeed in changing our campus culture.”

The Black Eagles recommended that the University work with outside organizations such as the Southern Poverty law Center, the Anti-Oppression Resource and Training Alliance (AORTA), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored

People (NAACP), and the Center for Social Inclusion. The Black Eagles stated their appreciation for the University making efforts to “build a more inclusive community.”

Despite this, the group believes more needs to be done based on the action plan put out by the University on Feb. 6. The Black Eagles criticized the DiversityEdu module “for its lack of intentionality in terms of content.” The group also said it lacked the ability to facilitate reflection on “individual, community, and interpersonal experiences,” as well as “accountability mechanisms.”

Moore said in an interview with The Heights last week that the committee that initiated DiversityEdu, which was made up of students, faculty, and staff, understood that this was an introductory step that would not solve every diversity issue on campus. The UGBC statement noted that DiversityEdu will continue to be refined and improved based on student feedback, and that BC entered into a two-year contract with the company that put together the DiversityEdu module—in the hope that BC students would take the wheel in regards to creating the University’s own, individual module.

The Black Eagles also requested that the University continue to work on diversifying its staff. Specifically, the group asked that BC work on hiring “high ranking administrators of color to present the perspectives that are simply inaccessible to our current administration.” They also asked that the administration prioritize hiring black and LatinX professors within their efforts to hire AHANA+ faculty. The Black Eagles indicated their consternation with the idea that students can go through the curriculum at BC without taking a class taught by a professor of color. The group asked that BC introduce a platform that will transparently disclose hiring details.

In an interview with The Heights this past September, Vice Provost for Faculties Billy Soo said that the varying number of openings makes it difficult to overhaul the diversity profile of the University overnight.

He also noted that the pipeline of AHANA+ candidates is hard for BC to establish because of a nationwide demand for faculty of color—there aren’t enough qualified candidates to fulfill that demand.

The Black Eagles called for further support for the African and African Diaspora Studies (AADS) program. They asked for more resources, hiring control, and an increase in course offerings. The group also asked that the academic constrictions inherent to the program’s current setup be altered to be more student-friendly. UGBC’s Executive Council noted in its statement that it has received “encouraging” updates

from Quigley in regards to creating a fullfledged department for AADS. Finally, the Black Eagles requested that the University put together a plan for a student center that students will have an opportunity to utilize in “the foreseeable present.”

In the meantime, the group requested that intersectional resources be made available for students. The group closed by requesting a town hall meeting with administrators that would be open to the student body, faculty, and staff—they requested that this meeting take place by the end of November with a follow-up in the spring.

Administrators say there is a sense of confusion surrounding the idea that students should be “scared” of conversations with administrators about racial issues, which was referenced in the Black Eagles’ release. Administrators felt that with the creation of DiversityEdu and the upcoming Student Experience Survey, the University is working to try to bridge the gaps in understanding between it and students of different backgrounds by providing resources and listening to student requests.

Moore commented more specifically on her thoughts relating to student fears.

“I am sorry to hear that some students say they are afraid to enter into conversations with administrators,” she said. “All administrators are open to having conversations with students about racial issues and many do on a regular basis. They are committed to listening, learning and working together to improve our campus climate around diversity and inclusion.”

That communication is, beyond DiversityEdu tweaks, the Student Experience Survey, and the Provost Office’s work on diversifying the University’s pool of faculty, the primary step Moore will be concentrating on in the wake of the “die-in.”

“I would like to continue meeting with students and listening to their stories and experiences,” she said. “I would like students to be able to share with me and other administrators additional strategies to help us advance toward being a more welcoming and inclusive community. I look forward to us making meaningful and significant strides.

Patience and grace will get us there.”

Thursday’s protest was approved by the University. Moore and Mogan, as well as representatives from the Boston College Police Department were present.

The demonstration concluded at 2 p.m., when the protestors stood up and removed the tape from their mouths and began to sing “We Shall Overcome.”

The event took place two days before the one-year anniversary of the “Silence is Still Violence” march that took place on Oct. 20, 2017. n

Gips Remembered By Friends, Family Greater Heights, from A1 go, ‘But not too much.’”

From his triweekly lunches with his MIT fraternity brothers to his love of Disney World trips with his kids or grandson, Gips strived to live up to his self-appointed nickname of “Disney Dad.” Barbara recalled always knowing when his kids were on the phone thanks to the big smile creeping across her husband’s face.

Next up was Rob Fichman, chair of the Information Systems department, where Gips had spent his last 14 years.

He reflected on the influence his colleague had in the department’s creation, especially as its inaugural chairperson in 2004. Although there were only six potential Information Systems professors, Gips plotted to break away from the Operations, Strategy, and Information department.

“After a few years, I took over as department chair and he became a generous mentor to me as I began to face the challenges that come with that role,” Fichman said. “In fact, I spent the first few

years playing this game called ‘WWJD?’ … ‘What would Jim do?’”

Two representatives of the Campus School, Barbara Cataldo and Kristen Morin, praised Gips’s work to expand learning opportunities for many of their students. Cataldo, who joined as director of the Campus School in early May, said that while she never had the opportunity to meet Gips, she feels his influence every day. Gips developed EagleEyes, which allows for people to control their computer mouse by moving their eyes. Another project of his, CameraMouse, relies on head motion and webcams and is free to download. Morin, the marketing and outreach director at the Campus School and BC ’86, shared how his innovation touched her own life. Morin’s own son, Kyle—who is nonverbal and was diagnosed with a visual impairment, severe cerebral palsy, and spastic quadriplegia—used Gips’s creations during his 17 years at the Campus School.

At age 8, Kyle tested out the EagleEyes program at the Campus School to great success. The program isolated his chin and mapped its movement alone to the

mouse.

“The game was a matching game, where you flip cards—Memory, if you’ve ever played that—you flip them to match the words and the symbols,” Morin said.

“Somehow, our Kyle flipped through and got a score of eight out of 10. ... Kyle was playing the game just like his little sister, who was two and a half years younger at the time … Everybody was cheering for Kyle. We were speechless.”

Today the Campus School is full of students who pushed past previous limitations thanks to Gips, who ensured that CameraMouse, now sitting at 3.2 million downloads, remained accessible, free, and up-to-date for over 20 years.

The speakers were flanked by two pictures of the professor. In one of them, a smiling Gips holds up a whiteboard to showcase its nine-word message.

Ethan Sullivan, the associate dean of the undergraduate program in CSOM and BC ’94, wrote in the program that the picture is the best possible depiction of Gips’s life. The board reads, “My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

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At Catholic BC, Why Don’t More Students Join the DSA?

By Timmy Facciola Asst. Magazine Editor Boston College students have been making fun of Jesuit High School bros since before Saturday Night Live made it cool. Every day walking around campus in their lacrosse and football hoodies in purple, maroon, gray, and gold are retired Jesuit high school athletes, and their letters read Gonzaga, BC High, Straker, Loyola, Fordham Prep, Fairfield Prep, Regis, Dallas Jesuit, Xavier and, perhaps most striking since the recent controversy surrounding the Supreme Court nomination of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Georgetown Prep.

It is the first inclination of many to dismiss these Men for Others as privileged and immature, and fill their mouths with caricatured catch phrases like, “My dad’s a lawyer,” and “The market will regulate itself.”

But there is at least one student—a graduate of McQuaid Jesuit High School in Rochester, N.Y., and political science and perspectives double major, with rich, dark Italian hair slicked back and round Atticus Finch-style glasses trimmed with tortoise—who is especially skeptical about the market regulating itself.

Andrew Vaccaro, MCAS ’20, is president of the Young Democratic Socialists of America of BC, a college chapter of the largest organization of Democratic Socialist, left-minded, and labor-oriented activists known as the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).

The DSA first received mainstream media attention when Bernie Sanders ran in the 2016 Democratic primaries. The organization’s members favored the more grass-roots Sanders over Hillary Clinton, whom they feared was compromised by her ties to the political establishment.

When Clinton won the nomination, some progressives were particularly upset with the Democratic establishment and began to look to other parties and leaders, while others, like Vaccaro, fell in line behind Clinton.

“I thought Bernie was really cool. But when he lost, I didn’t take it that hard, Hillary was great as well,” Vaccaro said. “And then … when the election happened, it kind of broke my brain in ways that I didn’t expect. The fact that something like this could happen is indicative of something that is far more wrong than I ever actually appreciated.”

Once Clinton lost in November 2016, the DSA decided at its annual conference that it would focus its scarce resources on local midterm elections in which candidates were running as open Socialists. Young progressives were not just concerned that Donald Trump won, but that the electoral process had become monetized and manipulated by the wealthiest of Americans to a point of no return. It was time to start over, with local candidates on the radars of neither mega-donors like George Soros or

the Koch Brothers.

Around the same time, Vaccaro began asking his own questions about America’s political system, and turned to the colosseum of international political conflict, Twitter. “[The DSA] have a pretty active online presence. And then over the next couple months, I was reading a lot, I was looking into it more and more finding that they were making a lot of sense,” Vaccaro said. “The answers that the Democrats were putting out were insufficient, the Democratic Socialists had answers that were thought out and coherent.”

Vaccaro, who hopes to one day become a lawyer, is part of a movement of young people who feel failed by the system in 2016, and are curious about finding a new system instead of patching the existing one. Members of this movement don’t believe politicians when they say there’s no money in the budget to fund Medicare for All, and point to the U.S. defense budget, which is larger than those of China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Japan, India, France and the United Kingdom combined. The DSA is composed of many different people with a wide spectrum of progressive views, but the central demands shared by most include a significant increase in minimum wage, tuition-free college, and more access to affordable housing.

Despite Trump’s victory in 2016, for every farmer in Idaho disillusioned by an increasingly automated economy, there is a recent college graduate struggling to pay off student debt and buy her first home. The former waxes poetic about the past while the latter tries looks to the future.

To start working toward these goals, young people organized in cities and on campuses across the country. Josh Behrens, MCAS ’18, founded the Young Democratic Socialists of America of BC in spring 2017 and posted an invitation in the Facebook class pages.

“The first meeting had maybe 15 people,” Vaccaro said. “And then after that membership dropped radically, because it’s hard to start a student organization here.”

Now, the group’s membership fluctuates to up to 20 members and meets regularly to discuss topics ranging from socialist theory, to articles in Jacobin and Baffler, or to vent, “... and have just sort of a cathartic release that we couldn’t get just from talking to our peers,” he said.

In addition to readings, the tight-knit group also engages in direct action events with other politically-minded groups on campus and has helped organize marches for a $15 minimum wage, against gun violence, and in solidarity with counter protesters in August 2017, when Boston hosted a Freedom of Speech rally just one week after Heather Heyer was killed by a white supremacist at a similar rally in Charlottesville, Va.

Although very active, the attention Young Democratic Socialists of BC receive has paled in comparison to the headway that the DSA has been making in other parts of the country.

In November 2017, DSA-supported outsider and Socialist Lee Carter defeated the GOP-backed incumbent Jackson Miller for the 50th district of the Virginia House of Delegates without almost any support from the Democratic establishment. And the DSA echoed its victory cry this past June when its endorsement Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeated 10-term Democratic Congressman Joseph Crowley in the race for New York’s 14th Congressional District.

Carter, a former Marine, and OcasioCortez, a former bartender, are two unlikely candidates for a red or blue ticket in their districts. But by renouncing political action committees and focusing on local canvassing, each candidate was able to conjure in their constituents a hope that American politics could be more than a fat cat’s game of chess.

Vaccaro knows this hope exists in people, but he’s struggled to evoke it from students at BC, who, he finds, would rather stick to traditional party lines.

“I feel like even for people that study politics here, it’s almost like the veneer ... of a career in politics is attractive because you can work in politics, and you can also be wildly wealthy with an extravagant lifestyle,” said Vaccaro. “And that, I think, isn’t really primarily what working in politics, or having political goals should be about.”

According to the New York Times, 70 percent of undergraduates at Boston College come from the top 20 percent of income brackets, and within that 70 percent, 16 percent of the student body come from the top 1 percent and 2.8 percent from the top .01 percent. By the time they’ve arrived on campus, many students have grown accustomed to a certain way of life paid for by their parents’ jobs in the capitalist American economy. “[It’s] hard to question your role in the world in any way that’s going to be threatening because when all of your friends come from similar backgrounds, whether it’s white, upper middle class, upper class, you’re not really ever being confronted [by] existential questions about your role in the political community in the world in ways that you ought to be,” Vaccaro said.

But just because they’re 61 percent white and 70 percent privileged doesn’t mean BC students are incapable of engaging with Socialism. Some of the most successful Socialist countries–Denmark, Norway, and Sweden–are also white and privileged.

From Ocasio-Cortez to Albert Einstein to Martin Luther King Jr, Socialists are not united by racial, cultural, or socioeconomic backgrounds, but are bound at the core by a shared concern for the working poor and marginalized.

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Andrew Vaccaro, MCAS ’20, hopes to attend law school and become a civil rights attorney.

Despite the millions of capitalist-earned dollars used to build and maintain BC, its mission statement and the Jesuits who uphold its values are oriented toward the very concern for the marginalized shared by DSA members like Vaccaro. And while the DSA is a secular organization that holds positions on gay marriage and abortion contrary to Church doctrine, Vaccaro sees many more similarities than differences between the DSA and the Catholic Church.

In particular, Democratic Socialism has a lot in common with liberation theology, which traces back to Socialist revolutions that took place across in Latin America during the second half of the 20th century, and intertwines Christian concern for the poor with Marxist social analysis. The result is an array of critiques of capitalism, imperialism, and wealth inequality.

“Jesus cared for the poor and the people in society who needed the most help,” said Helen Haskim, treasurer of the Young Democratic Socialists of BC and MCAS ’21.

“At BC service is sometimes thought of as something to put on your resume. My mission is to help those who didn’t who didn’t grow within the circumstances I did.”

Vaccaro, Haskim, and the other BC members are unique from typical DSA members because they engage with thinkers beyond the usual suspects—Marx, Engels, Lenin—and discuss the efforts of Catholic worker movement activists like Dorothy Day, who, beginning the 1930s, shined a light on the connection between the poor workers neglected by capitalism and the marginalized helped by Jesus.

The club is also planning to read and discuss liberation theologist and martyr Oscar Romero, who was assassinated while celebrating Mass in El Salvador in 1980 after delivering a sermon pleading soldiers to stop defending a government that was violating human rights. Romero was canonized last week.

“One of the ways I sort of stand out, at least among Socialists and leftists, is that I consider myself to be religious,” Vaccaro

said. “I have sort of a fundamental belief that people are worth more than just being animals. People have an inherent worth that is elevated by their connection to God.” In high school, Vaccaro and classmates served as pallbearers for the funeral of a homeless man without a family to give him a proper burial.

“On the bus ride home … I couldn’t stop saying to myself that the world doesn’t need to be this way. It is a product of political neglect that there are homeless people to begin with,” Vaccaro said. “There’s more homes in this country than there are homeless people.

This is a decision that we’re all complicit in and seeing ourselves as part of a system that we can change, I think was the first step towards coming to radical politics.”

The seed of Socialism was planted when Vaccaro asked why things needed to be that way. It grew its first roots months later while Vaccaro was visiting the Vatican during the summer after graduating high school. He was in the Vatican gift shop getting an intricately decorative Eucharist set for his cousin who was being ordained a priest.

“You only get ordained once,” Vaccaro said.

After paying tourist prices, the family walked out and through a tunnel, where a homeless woman with a child reclined in her lap was sitting on the ground. His family walked right by her, and Vaccaro looked down at her before following them.

“Even now I can’t stop thinking about it because it’s such a such a grave injustice that we just spent all that money and then completely ignored this very clear example of someone in need,” Vaccaro said.

Vaccaro carried that memory with him to BC, to the first meeting of the Young Democratic Socialists of BC, to the small reading groups, to the direct action events, and will bring it back with him to Rome when he returns in spring 2019 to study abroad.

“Catholicism should be about that woman that’s sitting in the tunnel outside of the Vatican gift shop with her child,” Vaccaro said. n

Column: A Homecoming of Big Tex-Sized Proportions Crockett, from A1 were to be encased by the State Fair of Texas like a jalapeño cheddar sausage in the flaky bread of a kolache. Because of the State Fair, I was most notably promised wild shit and a self-induced stomach ache. And of course, because I write, I would get a good column out of it.

I have spent most hours of my life running through tumbleweeds in South Texas, but had never made the five-hour drive to see Big Tex, the giant cowboy statue that for some reason I picture endowed with a subtle cameltoe before which people prostrate themselves between carnival games and visits to the corndog ale stand. Big Tex stands 52 feet tall with one arm bent near his body, palm facing the crowd, and one hand hanging in an attempt to stiffly gesture passersby in, closer, with the most synthetic of smiles plastered on his face. If you subtract that Ronald McDonald-esque grin, his resemblance to Jesus of the Sacred Heart icons laminated and plastered on the walls of Catholic schools and smelly adoration rooms everywhere was uncanny—especially when he caught fire in 2012—the yellow-gold flames forming a halo around his head, emitting an erie black smoke, a combustion that took away his smile, then entire face, leaving him with only his steal insides. Now, there’s a new Big Tex, but you can still see flames haunting his predecessor’s massive frame.

During my life in Texas there had been no need for the state fair, but suddenly, as I now spend most of my time above the Mason-Dixon Line, it seemed like a crime that I had never been to the quintessentially Texas affair.

When the opportunity arose for me to go, I scoffed and thought about how I would write a scathing piece on the event in the voice of some educated snob examining the intricacies of Texas traditions with my East Coast-bred sardonic criticality, my somehow less biased, more cultured, recently obtained magnifying glass of certitude and erudition. I would write a piece from a position of refinement reporting on Texas’ appreciation for cultivating bunnies the size of labrador retrievers, for Texans’ tear-inducing and mood-creating love for their alma mater’s running across fake grass with a weird shape ball. I would do it all as a newly ordained outsider.

Then, I walked inside the gates. A sixty percent chance of rain was projected for the day, but besides dirty puddles that had accumulated over the years on the dented sidewalks, forming brewing houses for mosquito larvae and flesh-eating bacteria, there seemed to be no hint of rainwater at all—only sunniness and suffocating humidity.

The fair was advertised as taking place in Dallas, but was a little bit of a train ride outside of it. A sea of tall grass that gave way to the fairgrounds—plopped down in an eerily meticulous way. Surrounded by not much, the grounds exist in their own isolated comfort, ensuring that people don’t just stumble upon them, that they go to them with a pilgrimage-like purpose.

Every person, walking in a steady, speedy manner to get to the game, was wearing burnt orange or red, garnished with cowboy boots. The more people filled the crowd, the more I was forced to focus on their uniforms—the regularity

in their outfits made me see only their outfits—and I realized the people I was seeing in my peripherals could’ve very well been Cartesian wax figures under their cowboy hats and denim.

Once inside and settled down for a few hours, I naturally looked around for someone to critique, two bald heads and a brunette one were sitting in front of me, and only two of them came to watch the rivalry game together. The one freckled with sun damage stood motionless for the entire rollercoaster of 120 minutes, which included a surprise comeback by OU, and clutch field goal by a UT kicker named Cameron Dicker to win it all. His daughter looked curious by his side. I couldn’t help but see my own previously matted-brown haired head in her own, as she watched college football ensue with reverence, knowing she would be more fully a part of the festivities in a few years.

I had felt what she was feeling a million times when my parents took me to games, and in that moment between cheers and boos I became painfully aware that I would never truly be a part of the Texas college football tradition as I thought I would so many times as a little girl. At 20 years old instead of 16, the realization came with a sense of morbid finality.

The other bald head put a mariachi hat on himself periodically throughout the game.

I sat among OU fans—the result of a Craigslist fiasco—but my Texas loyalties and love for the underdog pushed me to root for UT, and, I would never admit it but at times, I watched myself root for whoever seemed to be doing best at any given moment. Touchdown OU? Booooomer Soooooners. Canon going off

on the UT-side? Hook ’em for life.

When it came time to escape the stadium, I ran out of the gates straight for a corn dog and not a beer. I waited in a line that, in Massachusetts, would’ve taken gourmet corn dog makers an hour to satisfy, but in Texas, where people are driven to action by food, cuisine, and deep-fried anything, I was shoved through the queue in five minutes and in five and threequarters minutes I sunk my teeth through the thickest crumbly cornbread until I met the juiciest dog. My eyes rolled to the back of my head and didn’t reorient themselves until the dog was gone and it was time to find more food.

I looked up and saw a building with the title “Wine Garden.” Thinking that where there is wine there is usually cheese and crackers, I walked in. Not Hill Country Merlots and Cabernets, but five rows of endless wire cages consumed the room.

Inside of them were bunnies of every variety: bunnies that could eat your average sized beagle, bunnies with hair longer than the corn dog line, bunnies with eyes the girth of limes—bunnies whose descriptions I’ll spare the reader of.

But the more I looked to critique, the more I realized I had nothing to critique.

Hot tubs being sold next to sterling silver horned frog charms, next to a football game, next to a fried butter stand, next to menacing green tractors, next to pig races, just didn’t seem that abnormal to me. I assimilated to the screaming-sweating crowds with ease, trying to figure out what I wanted to examine with my previously described magnifying glass and racking my brain for a scathing zinger for my private college’s private newspaper. I tried to think of how I would frame my

eminent column, but instead pushed the square frames of my sunglasses up my nose a little further with, when a chubby little kid with mustard where a mustache would be eventually complimented them.

Not wanting to come home empty handed, I made one last attempt to find something to shock me into a creativewriting spin: A venture to see an 8-foot butter sculpture of Big Tex. Sunburn in tote, I paced through the pig barn, and passed pigs trotting through dry dirt at the base of bleachers, being handed ribbons and applause. I thought to pause, but already knew the script of pig-related events due to my annual experience at the rodeo when I was a kid. I also knew that somewhere on those very grounds, armadillos were being bet on, teenagers were trying to wrangle calves in contests (be one of the first 10 teens to catch one—and you get to take it home), and toddlers were training to be bullfighters by hanging onto sheep (wearing helmets of course) for eight seconds.

But, I had seen it all and it was all uninspired, so I was in pursuit of dairy.

When I finally found it, I waited for the crowd to clear and stood in front of the mammoth, looking into his unsalted, tennis-ball sized eyes, trying to feel a hallowing smallness, and searching for stupefaction. All I felt was a blankness inside of me the color of Butter Big Tex’s smoothed skin. I wanted to pinch myself back into having an opinion, but my stomach was the only thing that was churning, and it was because of the fried s’mores.

Joan Kennedy is the Magazine editor for The Heights. She can be reached at magazine@bcheights.com.

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On Wednesday night, the MFA will host its second “City Talks,” a conversation with local entrepreneurs, city officials, artists, and thinkers on museum’s Collecting Stories: Native American Art exhibit. The event is from 7 to 8 p.m. and is free for members and nonmembers alike.

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On Wednesday from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the MFA, visitors will be treated to a workshop led by Poet in Residence Kathi Aguero.

The workshop “Poets in the Galleries” is designed to be open for drop-ins and free of charge. The sereies will run until Nov. 28.

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The Museum of Science is hosting Astronomy After Hours on Friday at 8:30 p.m. at the Gililand Observatory on the roof of the museum’s parking garage. The evening is free and open to the public. Attendees are encouraged to call the museum’s hotline at 617-589-0267 for more info.

At ISG Museum, ‘Common Threads’ Weaves Past and Present

By Mary Wilke Opinions Editor

Visitors to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum wander around a dark room on the second floor of the museum with bright, red headphones covering their ears.

Without the headphones, they hear the voices of David Lange and Sybil Kempson, the composer and libretto of the opera, true pearl: an opera, in five tapestries, respectively, as they explain the process of creating their opera on a video in a continuous loop.

This five-act opera could be considered the highlight of the museum’s new exhibit, Common Threads: Weaving Stories Across Time. True pearl was inspired by and written about the five 16th-century Flemish tapestries from the workshop of Jan Moy that have been on display at the museum since 1914.

They depict five distinct scenes from the life of Cyrus, king of Persia in the first century B.C., from his near-murder as an infant to Tomyris’ rejection of his marriage proposal and the war that ensued because of it. Each act of the opera accompanies

one tapestry—not necessarily meant to be viewed chronologically, the tapestries hang around the dark, gothic room out of order.

After having performed in the tapestry room at the museum, Lange realized that he hadn’t ever really looked at the tapestries. In that moment, he decided that he would create an opera about them with the hope that he would encourage visitors to see the details in the tapestries with a musical work.

The “in-ear opera” took about five years to create with the intention that it would only be heard through a headset before the tapestries. Kempson wrote the libretto for about two years.

Once she finished, Lange found his inspiration from her words and the woven images to compose the music.

The recording, done days before the opening of the exhibit, was conducted

by Stephen Drury and performed by the vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth and the musical group The Callithumpian Consort.

It’s shockingly modern and contemp orar y. Kempson w rote the libretto about the tapestries themselves, not about the scenes explicitly.

As the first act begins, the materials that make up the tapestries are listed: wool warp, wool and silk wefts.

The words and the various tones and inflections of the vocal parts are minimalist, rarely including any sort of fanciful or descriptions: Both the second and fourth acts contain the stark and bare lines, “Eagle / Grass / Sky / Sky / Sky.” There are plenty of instances among all of the acts that reflect a similar austerity.

“It’s not super expansive—it’s very focused and centralized. He [Lange] was trying to create a sound that would allow the viewer to really concentrate on the tapestry,” Pieranna Cavalchini, co-curator of the exhibit, said. “So, between the words of the libretto and the way the music has been composed, hopefully our visitors will have spent a lot of time actually looking at the tapestries and seeing them with new eyes through a contemporary lens.”

The opera and tapestries are the only part of the exhibit in the old wing—in the new wing’s Hostetter Gallery, there are seven contemporary works of art that employ that same theme of weaving together the past and the present, employing threads

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‘Common Threads’ transformed five tapestries that have been in the museum’s collection since 1914 through the music of true pearl.

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The exhibit blends lyrics with textiles, striving to close the gaps between traditional and modern art.

and tapestries to embody the strength of historical acknowledgement and the recognition of culturally significant occurrences.

The continuation of the exhibit through different locations within the museum just strengthens its overall message, closing the gaps between past and present, historic methods of art and modern interpretations and executions of traditional techniques.

Many of the artists whose works are displayed in the Hostetter Gallery have been in-residence at the Gardner in the past, which is how Cavalchini and Christina Nielsen, a former-curator at the museum, were able to reach out to them to contribute to the exhibit.

This part of the exhibit is “where the weaving became a contemporary catalyst for these artists,” Cavalchini said.

Themes of war, healing, and migration are depicted in various tapestries, made of metal (Many Came Back, by El Anatsui); various fabrics and animal hides as seen in Porter Series: Russie d’Europe (Man with Bed on Back), by William Kentridge; Standard Incomparable, organized by Helen Mirra; The Great Bare Matt,

Raqs Media Collective); and animated digital graphics (WarCraft, by Nevet Yitzhak).

Weaving is an art, not just for art’s sake, however—it’s an art for utility’s sake, which the museum recognizes and displays with certain works included in this exhibit, like Lee Mingwei’s interactive work, The Mending Project, and the international project organized by Helen Mirra, Standard Incomparable.

Most of all, however, the museum hopes that Common Threads will serve as a facilitating device that encourages visitors to acknowledge the connections between past and present, the overlapping and historical usage of certain mediums in artistic and practical ways, and the expression of personal beliefs and values through these beautiful fabrics.

Altogether, it’s not an overly extensive exhibit: there are 13 works, including the opera. But a visitor could spend hours in just those two rooms to really take in and appreciate the meaning in all of these works that weave together ideas through generations: as Cavalchini said, Common Threads is a “dialogue across centuries.” n

800+ Teams Compete in 54th Head of the Charles Regatta

By Alessandro Zenati Metro Editor

There are only a handful of places around the world that have their athletic fandom culture rooted firmly in one sport. Canada rules the rink, Italy fields the strongest starting 11, and the United States has an equal foothold on the baseball diamond, basketball hardwood, and football gridiron.

Even at the more granular level of cities, there are some sports that provide a valuable social and cultural substrate both for those who compete as well as those who spectate. For the city of Boston, rowing is arguably a sport that delivers on this promise through each passing season.

Every October, the Head of the Charles Regatta draws people from far and wide to battle for Charles River supremacy and interact with a community that shares their zeal for a sport with origins dating back to the ancient Roman funeral races, 13th-century Venetian canal regattas, and the first professional competitions on London’s River Thames.

Now in its 54th year, the Head of the Charles Regatta remains the largest two-day race in the world and one of the two premiere rowing-season events of the year alongside the Royal Henley Regatta in the United Kingdom.

The Charles River provides an iconic 3-mile-long racecourse that snakes through the city from the Boston University Bridge to Allston.

The riverbanks are accessible by foot and offer spectators inspiring views of the city skyline and competitors as they whizz by, silent except for the shouts bursting from coxswains leading each crew on their way toward the finish.

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The Head of the Charles is a 3-mile-long race course stretching from the Boston University Bridge all the way into Allston. Thousands of spectators lined the river in support.

With the majority of activities centered around Elliot Bridge just a stone’s throw away from the campus of Harvard University, the atmosphere at the Head of the Charles Regatta was a pleasant mix of collegiate competition and family fun.

There were over 800 schools, universities, and organizations in attendance alongside the hundreds of vendors showcasing all that a rower’s heart could desire, such as technical apparel, high-tech erg machines, and personalized nutrition options. The storied tradition of the regatta meant that many in attendance have seen the race grow through the years.

In addition to NCAA rowing teams from universities around the country, there were alumni boats holding onto their competitive spirit in eight-man, four-man, double, and single sculls.

The races began early in the morning on Saturday, and each was within 15 seconds of the other, giving spectators ample opportunity to experience the thrill of full-effort sprints down the course’s straightaways.

Boston College’s very own rowing teams competed in the Women’s Championship Fours, Men’s Collegiate Eights, and Women’s Collegiate Eights, placing 14th, 11th, and 11th, respectively.

The main walkways were sandwiched by an endless lot of trailers carrying rowing boats, each with a unique design and shape intended to shave off precious seconds in the heat of competition.

Athletes were seen stretching and hydrating in anticipation of their race start, as well as carrying the crew’s boat on their shoulders after complet-

ing their race.

There’s a special kind of interaction between spectator and competitor that often does not emerge from other sports. For visitors at the Head of the Charles Regatta, the event is undeniably a shared experience where conventional sports boundaries are torn down.

You could be cheering on a team of rowers from the Naval Academy and moments later find yourself standing next to them as they refuel with apples and granola packets.

This shared experience is why the regatta is not only for those directly involved in the sport. There were carnival slides, apple pie vendors, and interactive games for visitors of all ages.

Particularly with its prime location along the river, the two-day event was

perfect for families to stroll leisurely along that riverbank under a canopy of trees in chromatic transition from fall to winter.

There were ample food and beverage options available for the hungry and thirsty crowds. The Boston Burger Company and Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse dished out bountiful plates of American comfort food, while Night Shift Brewing poured out local IPAs all through the day.

The Head of the Charles Regatta holds its allure every year since it first blessed the Charles River in 1965.

Rowing has become a sport practiced by athletes of all backgrounds and gender associations, and many rowing organizations.

Herein lies the true beauty of the Head of the Charles Regatta: it is truly for everyone. n

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EDITORIAL

Monday, October 22, 2018

QUOTE OF THE DAY

Die-In Is Important Continuation of Last Year’s Movement

“It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.”

- Simone de Beauvoir

A group of protestors led an the letter, they reflected on the primary cause of the movement. hour-long demonstration on the first set of demands and the By working to concentrate the Quad to challenge “the various University’s responses and com- University ’s attention on the forms of oppression upheld mitted to holding themselves and issue of diversity, advocates are through a culture [of ] institution- the administration “accountable ensuring that the administration al passivity” at Boston College for specific steps and actions to adds to its efforts every year, Thursday afternoon. The “die-in,” achieve” those demands. getting closer and closer to the organized by the Black Eagles, a Last year’s march occurred ultimate goals of the movement. new organization, was held two with the intention that the UniAt the same time, the Unidays shy of the anniversary of last versity would do something in versity has taken concrete and year’s “Silence is Still Viosizable steps to address the lence” march. The “die-in” concerns outlined last year, was intended to show the including the addition of “Lasting change isn’t group’s continued dedicathe DiversityEdu module something that is resolved tion to the growth of that requirement and ongoing very movement. Fundaefforts to increase AHAimmediately....” mentally, it’s good that NA+ representation among students continue to make faculty. Lasting change isn’t it clear that the conversasomething that is resolved tion the movement started has response. The protestors pre- immediately—that’s why it’s good not ended and will not end. sented the administration with that the Black Eagles are building At last year’s “Silence is Still a list of demands, and the Uni- on their initial list of demands Violence” march, student lead- versity answered—whether the and reflecting specifically on the ers issued a list of demands groups in question find their administration’s responses, just to address racism on campus. responses adequate is a different as it’s a good sign that the adThursday night, the Black Eagles question altogether. In this case, ministration has made progress released another list of demands the die-in ensures that the Uni- on addressing those issues in the in a letter to administrators. In versity does not forget about the past year.

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While Boston College students have expressed a need for more comprehensive diversity, equity, and inclusion programs for decades, the events of last fall made it painfully clear that the University still has a long road ahead. As such, the Undergraduate Student Government of Boston College fully supports efforts like Thursday’s protest on the Academic Quad, that strive to keep systemic racism at the forefront of campus dialogue. The “die-in” served as a visually salient way of drawing attention to the continued fear, discomfort, and discrimination that students of color feel in our community. BC administrators have repeatedly expressed their opposition to all forms of prejudice and discrimination—however, statements alone will not succeed in changing our campus culture.

We were also encouraged to see the assessment provided by the organizers of the die-in on the University’s Feb. 6 Update to Students.

They accurately point out that the actions taken by BC so far, including DiversityEdu and an emphasis on AHANA+ faculty hiring, are hopeful, but should be seen as just the initial steps in more comprehensive, long-term efforts. To expand on this discussion, UGBC would like to provide a few more updates based on the conversations we have had this year with interim Vice President of Student Affairs Joy Moore, Dean of Students Tom Mogan, Provost and Dean of Faculties David Quigley, University Spokesman Jack Dunn, and other administrators and staff.

1. DiversityEdu will continue to be refined and improved for next year based on student feedback. We can confirm that the University’s contract with the company that provides the current edition of the module is only set for two years. After that, administrators have expressed to us their hope that the BC community could produce and implement its own, more comprehensive edition of DiversityEdu, produced in

collaboration with students, faculty, and staff. As this process begins, we will work to ensure student input.

2. The African and African diaspora studies program is one of the academic programs currently being reviewed for expansion by the University. As the Black Eagles’ release noted, an external review process occurred last semester, and we received encouraging updates from Quigley that BC is looking to move forward with a full AADS department. While we cannot say for sure whether it will be available by next year, we know that it is in the works.

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Accepting the Evil Millennial Man Police 69

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Benjamin Errichetti “Ugh. Millennials. Am I right? These young kids don’t know up from down nowadays! What’s going on here?!”

dessert for breakfast - Cake?

Ice cream? Brownies? At 9 a.m.?

Count me in. Why restrict yourself to “normal” or “healthy” foods for your first meal? Start your day off on the right foot and fill your body with sugar. You’ll never have as huge of an energy rush (and then as steep of a crash later in the day) as you do when you eat dessert for breakfast—that much sugar goes straight to your bloodstream when you haven’t eaten anything in at least 12 hours. oxford comma - Very much necessary. Always. Lists are infinitely clearer with the Oxford comma and infinitely more confusing without it. The ambiguity that comes with a list that lacks an Oxford comma isn’t worth it AT ALL. beluga whales - Arguably the most amazing underwater creature in the world, even considering that up to 95 percent of species in the ocean have not been discovered. They may not be exceptionally beautiful or graceful compared to other sea animals, but they really are awesome.

Their bulbous heads, unusually pigmented skin, and (notice the Oxford comma) overall happy demeanors contribute to their undeniable uniqueness and beauty compared to other sea creatures.

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losing all motivation in the middle of the semester - There’s nothing worse than realizing that you still have two months left of a semester while you’re slowly suffocating underneath the immense pile of work that you, for some reason, continue to avoid. Midterms can really take all of the spirit out of you. The productivity train is out of steam, and you’re barely halfway to your destination. SOS.

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and all they know is this new garbage. And

love Ovaltine, I could never have experi-

what’s with all these weird YouTube person-

enced the same childhood as my parents.

ality vlogger types that are so popular now?

That, for any parent, is inherently frustrat-

I grew up on YouTube, and I don’t recognize

ing. Not only does it signify a generational

any of the most subscribed channels any-

barrier between parent and child that can

more! What’s going on here?!

never really be overcome, but on a broader

person, and I began to realize every old

ing, and of the fact that the world you once

curmudgeon using minion memes on Face-

knew as a child is gone forever.

book to complain about the youth was once

As to the latter, it is a natural progres-

a part of the young rebellious generation. I

sion in a free market capitalist economy

began to think about how my older brothers

up comedian who really needs to retire. But

for older outdated business to go under,

probably had the same thoughts as they got

it seems to be a common sentiment among

and newer industries to replace them. The

older and I was watching Nickelodeon. Or

older people that “kids these days” are in

death of certain industries is an economic

how my Dad would look at the cartoons I

many ways unsatisfactory. And these days,

inevitability, not the result of millennial

used to watch with utter confusion and even

the “kids” are millennials.

interference. For example, the cable indus-

disgust. Or even how today we complain

I use the term “kids” loosely, as the

try is dying, not because young people are

about how smartphones are killing intellect

Pew Research Center defines millenni-

killing it, but because in comparison to the

and personal communication, in the same

als as individuals born between 1981 and

new streaming platforms that are pop-

way that Socrates complained about the

1996, which means the oldest of the lot are

ping up, cable is a lackluster product for an

invention of written language. It seemed as

approaching 40. You could argue that any

unreasonably high price.

though the generational divide was entirely

sort of generational divide is arbitrary and

For some people, this shift, as well as

merely a marketing tool for corporations. I

the broader sense of societal change, is a

also believe, however, that as children grow

manifestation of a fear of change.

up with different values than their parents

There’s a possibility that the notion of

arbitrary, or at the very least some sort of misunderstanding.

In some ways, the evil millennial man has always existed, and always will, even

and become contributing members of soci-

Mr. Millennial being an industry killer is

if with each passing generation the names

ety, general trends of the day do shift. Even

propaganda perpetuated by failing corpora-

change. There is an inherent conflict

if the idea of a “millennial” is made up, that

tions trying to vilify young people and

between the young and old in society. The

made-up idea does exist now, and as long as

keep old people on board for another cable

young will always bring new, disruptive

people believe in it, it has an impact.

package contract. The villainous nature of

ideas to a world dominated by the old. The

corporations and the many ways in which

young will always seem naive to the old, and

the millennial man—the bearded, glasses-

they manipulate the public, however, is

the old seem antiquated to the young.

wearing urban professional strutting in

outside the scope of this column.

What impact is that? What is affected by

tight jeans while waiting in line at a food

So, as it turns out, millennials are bad,

Perhaps you’re wondering, “Why should I care? I’m not even a part of this genera-

truck? What is all the hubbub about this guy

and old people are grumpy. But is it their

tion!” But generational conflict, by defini-

anyway?

fault? Are they wrong for being angry at the

tion, spans time. The millenials that are so

new generation and afraid of change?

vilified in the workplace now will soon be

No. That’s just human nature. My

the CEOs that sign our paychecks. Maybe

Well, mostly the ire of his parents. And apparently he’s killing a lot of industries.

These things actually stem from the same

friends and I were flipping through channels

they will think us lazy or entitled in some

place: fear of change.

the other day, and we happened upon Nick-

way. Not too long after that, our generation

As to the former, I think a lot of the

elodeon. This should have been a channel I

will occupy that space in society, and we’ll

stigma around millennials comes from the

was very familiar with—I spent a great deal

have kids, and those kids will be a part of a

fact that parents have a natural inclination

of my childhood here—but what I saw in my

strange new generation that we don’t under-

to impart as much of their own childhood

dorm was completely foreign to me.

stand. Taking a critical look at our present

onto their children as possible. Of course

And at first I was angry. How dare they

my dad wants me to drink Ovaltine and

change the things I liked! Why would they

watch The Twilight Zone—that’s what he

do that? They were good, and I liked them!

did, and in his mind, that stuff is amazing!

Then I felt bad for these young kids—my

To him, that is what being a kid is all about.

Nick shows were amazing and intelligent,

can help prepare us for the future.

Benjamin Errichetti is an op-ed columnist for The Heights. He can be reached at opinions@bcheights.com.

BC’s Greatest Tradition Wears Red

As everyone knows, Boston College is a big school of tradition: we have the convocation to graduation traditions on Linden Lane (although both the Class of 2019 and Class of 2022 never had their convocations and I’m not over it), Mass of the Holy Spirit, Showdown, the Mods (do those count?), and so many more that I’m probably just blanking on at the moment. I’m also the daughter of an ’87 Eagle and the sister of a ’16 and a ’22.

You could definitely make the argument that we’re a school big on family tradition, too.

On panels for the Student Admission Program (SAP), four SAP members get about 30 minutes to tell high school juniors and seniors (along with their parents) about BC, and why it’s been the best place for them, well worth the investment.

When the crowd gets quiet, one of the first stock questions from the admissions counselor is: “So, why don’t we ask the students what their favorite traditions at BC are?”

I’ve come up with a variety of answers over the years—Marathon Monday gets rather repetitive—and one of my absolute favorite traditions (not just one to please the audience) is arguably the BC highlight for October: the Welles Remy Crowther Red Bandanna 5K Run. We get the red bandanna football game to follow, also, with everyone in their own bandannas cheering on BC as they play some far superior team that we may occasionally have a chance to upset (USC, anyone?). But the run is something extremely special that can sometimes become overshadowed by the big Friday night game. The run provides an opportunity to reflect a

little more on the meaning of the red bandanna as opposed to its use as just a fun tailgate accessory, though the crowd does always look incredible.

Different student groups on campus, friends, families, high schoolers—all walks of life amounting to around 2,000 people total—find tradition and meaning in this red bandanna run.

This is my fourth year as a runner, and each year, I watch the Crowther parents get up to speak to the large body of students running, graciously thanking the groups that make the event possible and demonstrating sincere gratitude for this annual event.

“My personal favorite image of the run is of Linden Lane ... filled all the way to Gasson with a sea of runners who are almost all wearing their own red bandannas.”

Though they’ve spoken in countless places over the past 15 years since they discovered the red bandanna story, they still provide new inspiration in just a few brief minutes before the run.

Their words give me chills each time. The story of their son Welles, consistently told and retold not just at BC but in books, documentaries, and on ESPN, is inspiring each and every time I hear it. Around the time of Sept. 11, 2001, Welles had told his dad he was quitting his finance job to become a New York firefighter, planning to use the skills that saved the lives of so many people on that day. He was, by definition, a man for others throughout his entire life, and gave his life doing exactly that. To me, Welles is the exact embodiment of the ideal BC student.

Each year, so many members of the BC community stand in the

Privilege

Basically, I turned into an old grumpy

scale, it is indicative of the world chang-

That’s my impression of every old stand-

Annie Sheehan

Unapticipated extreme heat - It’s starting to get cold out there. The temperature has been getting as low as 34 degrees. As a logical, reasonable, normal human being, you’re probably also bringing out your fall and winter clothes, i.e. sweaters, boots, jackets, scarves, and the like. These are objectively the best kinds of clothes, but here’s the problem: People love to crank the heat up so high that, when you walk into any building wearing seasonally appropriate clothing, you will immediately become drenched in sweat. So enjoy that.

But things change, and, even though I do

quad wearing their red bandannas and t-shirts listening so intently to the Crowther family. It’s early for a Saturday, no doubt, but it’s well worth it. My personal favorite image of the run is of Linden Lane, right before the race starts, filled all the way to Gasson with a sea of runners who are almost all wearing their own red bandannas.

The red bandanna has truly become a symbol of BC, but this is when it is especially prominent. It’s students, families, and staff alike: serious runners and those who will stop after the first or second mile (probably me). Though the Crowthers’ speech and the memories are serious and sobering, the run itself becomes all smiles as you run down a shut-down Commonwealth Ave. (downhill first, starting off easy) and club lacrosse members cheer you on through the three miles around the res and up the hill to Co-Ro. The whole thing is quite short and not much of an event when you look at it from afar, but the meaning and reminder of how selfless of a human being Crowther was at a mere age of 24 is what gives this run significance.

It’s a humbling reminder of where we are in our lives, and it enables us to take a step back from the trivial things that stress us out so that we can take a look at the bigger picture. Especially in my senior year, those moments are proving to be more important (and more emotional).

And sure, you may not be a “runner,” you may not consider yourself capable of waking up before 9 a.m. unless you have a non-lecture class on a Tuesday, but this event is one that is well worth it. It’s something that I know I will remember as one of the best traditions of my four years here, but if you missed it this time around, just make sure you’re sporting that red bandanna Friday night.

Annie Sheehan is an op-ed columnist for The Heights. She can be reached at opinions@bcheights.com.

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Sabel Flynn

A few weeks ago, the Boston College Police Department knocked on my door because I overslept and missed an hour of my clinical. At that point I was already on my way in an Uber to the hospital, but someone at the nursing school was considerate enough to send someone to check on me.

This caused me to reflect on the role of police as a personal guard for the upper class.

Basically, unless you live above a certain income bracket, you generally do not think of police officers as your friends, and you definitely do not get considerate wake up calls from them. For most Americans, cops uphold strict oppressions that generally deny them upward mobility. And as the income gap widens and conditions of the working class deteriorate, Americans have become increasingly critical of the powers that be.

Modern American policing has seen increased militarization in response to recent social unrest, and the norms and expectations of our relationship with the police force have seen significant change since their initial inception. To understand our relationships with police, I believe it is important to place American police in historical context. Northern American states had a loose association of sheriffs’ departments deeply involved in community aid and affairs, while southern American states’ police forces were originally established as slave patrols tasked with capturing people escaping enslavement. Sociologists and legal professionals make the claim that modern American policing is closer in nature to these southern slave patrol terror groups than to the northern community aid groups.

The parallels between the slave patrol and modern policing are frightening and include mass incarceration and an extensive history of police brutality. Pre-Civil War slavery has ended, but the police forces in America maintain their steadfast commitment to brutalizing the working class and prioritizing the safety and comfort of the ruling class.

I often volunteer my time as a street medic, and I recently attended a counterprotest for a gathering of white supremacists. The police presence was unprecedented and unlike anything I have seen before. Not only the local police department, but also the state police, the National Guard, and the Depart of Homeland Security were in attendance. When I looked into my binoculars, I saw a person in uniform on top of a building, looking down the barrel of rifle.

The rifle was pointed at the counter protestors. All over the country, police are criticized for being complacent and ineffectual in making arrests of white supremacist mob members. I was angry that the cops were facing us and attempting to kettle us rather than the white supremacists engaging in mob violence against the counter protestors.

Among the counter-protestors, I treated three trauma wounds, including that of a profusely bleeding reporter who was struck on the head. I was shocked by police inaction as brawls broke out, but the experienced counterprotestor was familiar with standing toe to toe with independent and state arbitrators of violence and hate. This message became very clear to me at one point: When the white supremacist group and the police formed a line together and closed in on the counter-protestors side by side.

My reflection on that day has left me with a disturbing consideration: Police are more concerned with the control of and terror against peoples’ movements for social justice than they are with maintaining a safe society. Police represent the interests of the generally white and rich ruling class and suppress any movement that challenges them. Slave patrol cops terrorized abolitionist organizers, and modern American cops and the FBI have a history of terrorizing organizers for liberation movements.

The crowd dispersed, and cops fled in their riot gear, carrying rifles as the action concluded, while we chanted, “Who do you serve? Who do you protect?”

When you interact with police on campus, understand that while we are on campus, we are the people they arbitrarily serve and protect. The greater community of Americans, however, is oppressed and brutalized by this pervasive system of violence.

Why do we have a campus police? Do the police serve you? Consider these questions to form your own answer to the questions “Who do they serve? Who do they protect?”

Sabel Flynn is an op-ed columnist for The Heights. Ze can be reached at opinions@bcheights.com.

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Monday, October 22, 2018

‘If You Build it, They Will Come’: McCartney Rebuilds Communities CNN’s 2008 Hero of the Year shares her story of founding the St. Bernard Project, which rebuilds homes after disasters.

By Simran Brar For The Heights For many of us, our experience with superheroes—what they look like, what their powers are, what they do—often comes from the stories that we read. But heroes aren’t only found in far away places—as can be seen in the case of Liz McCartney, BC ’94, who was the 2008 CNN Hero of the Year and is now a nominee for CNN’s Superhero of the Decade award.

In the aftermath of the devastation from Hurricane Katrina, McCartney became a local hero to many in the affected communities. Completely captivated by the devastation that she saw, McCartney felt like she couldn’t simply stay in New Orleans for two weeks and then walk away. What was supposed to be a one-time trip down to the city to serve as a volunteer led to a lifetime commitment to serving in disaster recovery and the emergence of an organization dedicated to doing so. About 12 years later, the St. Bernard Project (SBP) has had well over 180,000 volunteers, rebuilt over 12,000 homes, and extended its reach far past New Orleans, currently serving 10 different communities, in addition to others it has helped in the past.

“I take the nomination as such an incredible honor,” McCartney said. “But I really view it as a tribute to all people who are doing such amazing work in disaster recovery. SBP is a huge collaborative effort with so many moving parts. … It’s not about me—it’s about these people and the people we help.”

About six months after the storm, McCartney and her then-boyfriend Zack Rosenburg, who is now her husband, traveled down to New Orleans along with her mom, with the intention of staying and helping out for a while. At that point McCartney realized neither how deeply impacted she would be by what she saw, nor that the experience would be the starting point of the next chapter in her pursuit of helping others.

“It was just the most shocking thing I had ever seen,” McCartney said as she recalled arriving in the devastated New Orleans. “To see that level of destruction and devastation six months after [Hurricane Katrina] was very eye-opening and helped me realize that this whole system of disaster recovery and response in our country, at the time, was really broken.”

Upon seeing first-hand the level of destruction that communities were being forced to live in and cope with, McCartney and Rosenburg were determined to find some way to help beyond what could be accomplished in a mere two weeks.

After returning to D.C., they spent time researching numerous organizations, but

failed to find one that aligned enough with their ideas and thinking. Instead, McCartney and Rosenburg decided to take a leap: In McCartney’s parents’ living room, the two, surrounded by her parents’ friends eager to donate, shared the stories of the people they met and the things they had seen over a giant pot of jambalaya, and the St. Bernard Project began to take shape.

Named after St. Bernard Parish, a small community right outside of New Orleans and the first site at which the couple volunteered, the St. Bernard Project began in the summer of 2006 with what McCartney and Rosenburg believed to be a well-thought-out plan in which they were going to open a tool-lending library, buy people furniture, and help families send kids away to summer camps so that the parents could fix their houses. Little did they realize how quickly well thought-out plans would disintegrate amid the level of devastation that New Orleans was facing at that point in time.

When she found out their plan wouldn’t necessarily work at that point in time, McCartney was forced to rethink. Starting by working on one couple’s home with four volunteers in the summer of 2006, the group dove right in as it realized that the community didn’t need all these big plans at that point—they just needed someone to help now. With the focus now shifted to home repair, by December of that the year project had four houses under construction and dozens of volunteers.

“Have you ever seen that really corny movie Field of Dreams? There’s this classic Kevin Costner line, ‘If you build it, they will come,’ and that was sort of our experience,” McCartney said.

McCartney said none it would have been possible without getting her start at Boston College.

Hailing from Washington, D.C., where she spent her elementary and high school years in Catholic schools, McCartney had always been aware of Boston College as a potential next step. On a trip to campus with girls from her high school, she instantly fell in love with BC, as she was encouraged by its strong sense of community and realized that BC was a place where friendships really mattered.

A couple of visits to Boston later, McCartney decided this was where she would start—which she may or may not have known at the time—what would be a lifelong journey committed to pursuing service. While academics and community were her primary motivators, highlights from BC’s football team before she applied only help to convince her more.

“I just remember seeing Doug Flutie throw that pass, and it was such an exciting moment, and I feel that it put BC not

only on the map nationally, but definitely for me too,” McCartney said, recalling the night Flutie threw his famous Hail Mary pass five years before she began her college process.

McCartney credits the Lynch School of Education for thoroughly preparing her for a full-time professional teaching job due to the experiences she had working in a variety of different schools over the course of four semesters before she graduated.

McCartney’s path to service began to really take shape during her time in Lynch, as she saw teaching to be a civic-minded profession and knew that BC was a unique place to learn the lessons and qualities needed in such a field.

Following her time at BC, McCartney decided to join the Peace Corps, and she was sent to work in Lesotho.

“My time in the Peace Corps was uniquely challenging for me, which certainly opened my eyes and helped me to see what life was like for people in southern Africa, which was very different from any of my experiences up until that point,” McCartney said.

Her position as a volunteer in the Peace Corps stationed McCartney within a cluster of rural villages, where her main duties revolved around outreach to rural schools in the surrounding areas. Specifically, McCartney helped teachers with their English and introduced them to new forms of teaching methodologies.

“I can’t say I was particularly good at any of those things, but you know, I tried, and I did what I was there to do,” she chuckled.

After spending nearly two years in the Peace Corps, McCartney returned to the states, ending up in San Francisco, where she taught elementary school for about four years.

But wanting to take a less traditional route in shaping kids’ experiences and education, McCartney returned to to her hometown of D.C., where she signed on with a nonprofit that provided after-school and summer programming for at-risk kids in the area, concentrating on working with kids from fifth to eighth grade.

“A lot of the projects we did with the kids [were] sort of technology-based, which we used as the hook,” McCartney said. “I was interested to figure out how you create engaging content for that population to get them to keep coming back.”

As she continued to explore the most effective methods in teaching younger kids, McCartney simultaneously completed her master’s in curriculum and instruction from George Washington University. Having completed her higher education degree and really developed a foothold within the nonprofit and the lives of the kids she was

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Liz McCartney spent nearly two years in the Peace Corps after graduating from LSOE ’94. helping in D.C., McCartney felt that she was where she was supposed to be—that is, until Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005.

McCartney and thousands of Americans journeyed down to New Orleans to help their fellow countrymen get back on their feet.

In 2008, McCartney’s efforts in New Orleans were recognized when she won CNN’s Hero of the Year award. Following the award, she continued what she had always done—rebuilding houses. With a footing in disaster recovery work, however, the St. Bernard Project decided to expand its reach. The decision, like most other big choices in life, was born over food—specifically in the line of a hot dog cart.

Recruited by some friends from the United Way, Rosenburg went down to Joplin, Mo., to aid in recovery following the tornado that hit the city in 2011. Upon arriving and directing his attention to the nearest hot dog cart, Rosenburg by chance met two community leaders in line and ended up forging a relationship with them—to the point that the St. Bernard Project decided to set up a site in Joplin.

As the organization grew, the St. Bernard Project began popping up in more and more disaster sites around the country to assist in whatever capacity of home repair needed. As the project began to grow, it also saw more success, with a major victory being its first closure of a site ever, which was actually the one in Joplin.

“In the nonprofit world, you always want to work yourself out of a job,” McCartney said.

But reaching that point of completion comes with its own unique challenges as well. Cli Roberts, the executive director of SBP’s Houston operation, explained

her experience of watching how natural disaster relief efforts were shared over the news when she was growing up: There would be a lot of buzz around the need for immediate relief funds, and people would typically donate, but then once the news of the storm’s devastation expired after two weeks, everyone, including herself, would forget about it.

Roberts is most most interested in the education component of SBP’s disaster relief—the organization tries to spread awareness of the extent of time over which disaster relief takes place, which often can be anywhere from months to years depending on the severity of the storm.

“With SBP, though, I feel that we put a lot of emphasis on getting the information out there about long-term effects of disaster and what long-term recovery actually looks like, which I think is super important,” Roberts said.

The need for disaster recovery will always be present, and so will SBP. Countless numbers of homes and lives have been re-built as a product of the work that SBP commits on a daily basis, much of which McCartney credits to the dedication of volunteers, donors, and staff. Amid her nomination, McCartney notes that what’s most important to her is continuing to repair the communities SBP currently serves.

“We’ve just been really lucky to have a lot of people come in,” McCartney said.

“They’ve done the volunteer work and seen the devastation and the impact [of] doing a couple of days, a week, a few weeks of service—and the impact that can have on somebody else’s life. And I’d say that having that group of people, who’ve come through and actually done the work and seen the impact it has had, has helped us so much in terms of building the organization.” n

Lest We Forget Exhibit Forces Boston to Confront the Past Sixty faces of Holocaust survivors line the Boston Common sidewalks as part of an international photography exhibit.

By Isabel Fenoglio

Assoc. Metro Editor

Sixty faces have lined the sidewalks of Boston Common since Tuesday. These are the faces of not ordinary people, but Holocaust survivors from all around the world.

The portraits are part of the international exhibit Lest We Forget, by the German-Italian photographer Luigi Toscano, which serves to pay testament to the voices of those forgotten and silenced by history.

Streams of light shoot through the massive mesh canvases, and the shadows of falling leaves and the occasional passerby reflect in the wrinkles and cracks of each face. Most of the subjects’ lips are closed, pressed firmly together in a proud pout, but few reveal flashes of teeth or the tease of a smile. What is most striking are the eyes, which stare fearlessly at viewers. The eyes reveal pain, and the blinding flash of the camera reflects in each pair of watery, shining pupils.

Lest We Forget forces viewers to confront the past, both to ensure that history will never repeat itself, and to raise awareness of the hatred and bigotry present in society today.

The exhibition will run through Nov. 10.

The timing coincides with the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, a Nazi program that vandalized and destroyed Jewish businesses, synagogues, and homes across Germany.

Deeply troubled by the horrors of the Holocaust since youth, Toscano has used Lest We Forget as an attempt to find answers, as well as express frustration at the world’s current social and political climate.

“I couldn’t believe that people could do this to each other,” he said. “When I was 18,

I traveled alone to Auschwitz, searching for answers. I thought I studied enough in school to understand the Holocaust, but when I got there, I realized I was wrong.

There was nothing there to help me.”

When Toscano decided to become an artist, he knew that he wanted to create something to memorialize the Holocaust, but did not know where to begin. Three years ago, he had an idea: to connect with and photograph survivors, and display their portraits outside to the public.

“In the beginning it wasn’t easy, people thought I was crazy,” he said. “But when I took the first pictures from five survivors and people were able to see my idea, the doors opened for me.”

Soon, survivors began reaching out to Toscano directly, and his network spread all over the world. Since 2015, Toscano has spoken with more than 200 survivors, coming from places ranging from Germany, Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, and Israel to Boston. Nine of the portraits in the Common are of survivors who now reside in the city.

“For me it was important, when I meet a survivor, not to just take their picture and leave,” said Toscano. “I sit and talk with them, and listen to their story, so I can tell it to the world.”

A small card is attached to the black frame of every portrait, with the subject’s name and story.

Israel Arbeiter survived Auschwitz, the Death March, and the loss of his parents and younger brother. He met his wife, Anna, in the Starachowice Ghetto, and in 1949, they migrated to Boston with their daughter.

Arbeiter went on to found the American Association of the Jewish Holocaust of Survivors of Greater Boston with Anna, and he has served as the president for 40 years.

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Toscano says that when meeting a survivor, he does not only take their picture, but listens to their stories in order to “tell it to the world.”

Their portraits hang side by side.

Stephan Ross migrated to the United States as an orphan, where he went on to become a youth counselor for the City of Boston.

“The survivor decides what they want to say and how they want to be portrayed,” continued Toscano. “I do not tell them to smile, pose, or look a certain way. The only thing that I ask is to look in the camera.”

Instead of exhibiting the photographs in a museum or gallery, Toscano chose to present them in public places. This is to ensure that the exhibit is accessible to everyone, regardless of age, origin, language, or education.

In September 2015, the inaugural display of Lest We Forget was presented in Mannheim, Germany, Toscano’s hometown,

for the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. Since then, the portraits have been exhibited all over the world.

Last January, the exhibit was shown at the U.N. headquarters in New York to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In April, it moved to the reflection pool outside the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. “For me it is important that everyone can see my concept,” said Toscano. “I am so excited to bring the exhibit to Boston—Boston Common is one of the oldest park’s in America.”

Toscano is currently working to bring the exhibit to more cities across America, including Chicago, San Francisco, and Pittsburgh.

“The problem is the funding,” said To-

scano. “It is not easy, but we try. Many cities ask me to bring the exhibition to them, and I want to, but I need support.”

Lest We Forget urges viewers to remember the past. The first survivor Toscano met with was Susan Cernyak-Spatz, who now lives in Charlotte, N.C. Toscano stressed that Lest We Forget is not only a call to remember the past, but also a call to action.

He went on to express dissatisfaction with the current political climates, both in America and Europe.

“I would like to stand up against antisemitism, racism, and against any kind of hatred,” he said. “I am not the typical guy who can go demonstrate on the street—I am too emotional for that. This is my tool, my pictures. This is my protest.” n

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NOT QUITE THERE BC is off to its best start in program history, but a weekend in North Carolina showed that the Eagles still have work to do.

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BY TAYLOR COVINGTON

Assoc. Sports Editor

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For now, the top team in the Atlantic Coast Conference isn’t in question, as the No. 3 North Carolina women’s s o ccer te am Boston College 0 hasn’t lost in a North Carolina 1 regular season conference game since 2016.

An insurgent opponent in No. 11 Boston College, however, made it well known that the pecking order could be vulnerable to a shake-up in the postseason. Thursday afternoon’s game between the two was evenly contested, with the Tar Heels holding a slight 5-2 edge in shots on goal, and it fittingly came down to one play in the fifth minute.

Eagles goaltender Alexis Bryant, in the midst of a resurgent fifth-year campaign, attempted to play a goal kick to defender Gianna Mitchell, her nearest teammate.

Br yant’s slow, loopy kick was intercepted by UNC’s star forward Alessia Russo, who sprung forward untouched with the ball, dribbled into the box, and scored the eventual game-winning goal past a lunging Bryant. It was the only mistake for a otherwise stout Eagles defense, and it cost the team a narrow 1-0 decision on the road.

It was a brutal moment for Bryant, who angrily pounded the ground after failing to come up with the mistakeredeeming save. It was a hole the Eagles (13-2-1, 5-2-1) could never dig out of, despite a pair of good looks and an inspired second-half push that came up shy. The Tar Heels (13-2-1, 8-0-0) now need just one win in their final two games to clinch the conference title, as BC dropped a game that would’ve given it a chance to play spoiler.

“I thought today was a battle of two of the top teams in the country,” Eagles coach Alison Foley told BCEagles. com after. “We had our chances and we didn’t convert, so this will leave us hungry for the next game.”

Foley’s offense was largely stifled throughout, failing to score a goal for the first time this year. It was a surprising twist for her team, especially due to the fact that they boast two of the top-four goal scorers in the conference. BC hadn’t been held scoreless since it dropped a 1-0 game to then-No. 16 Florida State on Oct. 16 last season.

UNC’s control of the ball was prominent in the first half, and although the Eagles managed to play

With just over five minutes left in Boston College women’s soccer’s game with Duke, the ball was deflected behind the Blue Boston College 1 Devils goal, Duke 2 presenting the Eagles with a perfect opportunity. The game was tied at one apiece, and in a tight contest with a ranked opponent, the corner kick, which BC has been prolific at creating goals from, likely represented the Eagles’ best chance of walking out of Durham with a win.

But, instead of playing the ball into the box and seeking the head of Gianna Mitchell—the Eagles’ biggest target in the box—Sam Coffey opted to play the ball short, a play call which proved to be a fatal mistake. The short pass was broken up and led to a quick Duke counterattack, which caught BC reeling.

Eventually, the ball was played to Kayla McCoy, the Blue Devils’ leading scorer, just inside the box with only Kayla Duran in between her and the goal. The senior forward calmly shifted the ball onto her left foot—wrong-footing Duran—and slotted the ball into the far corner, past a lunging Alexis Bryant for what proved to be the winning goal in a 2-1 game. The rest of the Eagles’ (13-3-1, 5-3-1 Atlantic Coast) defense, still out of position thanks to the corner kick, was nowhere to be found.

It was a crushing shift in momentum because BC, days removed from a narrow one-goal loss to North Carolina, had played well. The Eagles built an early lead on their hosts thanks to a relatively quick goal and defended admirably for the rest of the game.

What looked like an eminently winnable game as late as that fateful 85th minute corner kick ended up being BC’s second-straight loss to a top-10 foe, and the first time all season that its lost back-to-back games.

Olivia Vaughn helped the Eagles set the pace early on, with her ninth goal of the season creating a 1-0 lead just over nine minutes into the contest. On a counterattack, Sam Coffey sent a beauty of a long pass from behind midfield to find Vaughn. The junior forward took a couple touches into the box, then ripped a shot into the top corner past Duke (13-2-2, 7-11) goalkeeper Brooke Heinsohn.

BC defended well for much of the first half, holding the Blue Devils to just two shots on goal in the first 30 minutes. Eventually though, the Duke

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Delay Halloweekend, Give Crowther the Respect He Deserves

ANDY BACKSTROM When Boston College football defeated a reeling Florida State, 35-3, on Oct. 27, 2017, BC’s student section stormed the field. The celebration was slightly embarrassing—and not because the Seminoles were 2-5 at the time.

While the act itself might have

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looked a bit ridiculous, it was most definitely appropriate. The Eagles had just beaten FSU—a team that entered the season ranked No. 3 in the country and is routinely regarded as one of the best programs in all of college football—for the first time in eight years. Not only that, but BC’s 35 points were the most that it had ever scored against the Seminoles. Above all else, though, the lopsided victory marked the Eagles’ first ACC home win in three years.

Think about that for a second: Prior to the monumental victory, more than half of the student body had yet to see BC win a conference game in

Alumni Stadium. So, it wasn’t what the students did that bothered me—rather, it’s what they were wearing when they flooded onto the turf that served as a cause for concern.

Skeletons, tigers, hotdogs, Waldo, you name it. A number of costumes made an appearance under the lights as students, eagerly awaiting Halloweekend, stormed the field and enjoyed what could easily be a defining moment of their four-year stay on the Heights. That would have been all good and fine had it not been the fourth annual Welles Crowther Red Bandanna Game—an event designed to honor Crowther, a BC lacrosse

player, who died saving more than a dozen lives in the Sept. 11 World Trade Center attacks.

Personally, I have and will continue to echo former Heights sports editor Riley Overend’s 2017 column: Year in and year out, the game should be played as close to Sept. 11 as possible, in order to do the honorary event justice. But as long as it’s scheduled in October—specifically around Halloween—students have to respect the game, the red bandanna, and everything the paisley pattern stands for.

Ever since the event debuted in 2013, and the Eagles upset No. 9 Southern California, 37-31, on na-

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tional television, it has been viewed as the climax of BC’s season, regardless of the team’s success—at least from the students’ perspective. For one thing, it’s a night game, a staple of college football and somewhat of a rarity at a school like BC, which is often slapped with the 12:30 p.m. start time and, before last October, had a made a home for itself at the bottom of the ACC. Perhaps even more enticing, however, is the Eagles’ level of competition. talent and an underdog narrative, the memorializing event has everything a fan could ever want.

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BC Halts Skid With First-Ever Win Over UNC, Salvages Split

By Peter Kim Asst. Sports Editor

A home weekend against two North Carolina teams was a perfect opportunity for Boston College volleyball to get back on track. Both UNC and North Carolina State reside in the bottom half of the ACC standings, and both have losing conference records.

And the Eagles (13-9, 3-7 Atlantic Coast) managed to capitalize.

Although the weekend started with an ugly loss to N.C. State Friday night, BC finally managed to get back in the win column, sweeping UNC Sunday afternoon for its first-ever win over the Tar Heels.

In the first set against UNC, the Tar Heels pulled ahead immediately, as Skylar Wine struck for three kills to stake UNC to an early 8-4 lead. BC erased that lead moments later, as it rolled off six-consecutive points to take the lead at 10-8, then stretched the advantage to 14-11, following a service error. The Tar Heels slowly climbed back in, eventually knotting the set at 17 after McKenna Goss’ error, forcing an Eagles timeout in the process.

After the break in play, the teams continued to fire back and forth. In

the end, however, Jewel Strawberry was the difference for BC. After UNC seized a 24-23 lead, the freshman recorded back-to-back kills to give the Eagles set point, and then ended the set three points later with her sixth kill of the frame. The 27-25 set victory gave BC a 1-0 lead in the match.

The second frame was dominated

by BC. An early run gave the Eagles a 9-5 lead and led to a Tar Heels timeout. UNC briefly staged a rally, cutting the lead to two points, but from there it was all BC. The Eagles won nine of the next 11 points, as Clare Naughton recorded consecutive kills to stretch the lead to 17-9, and force UNC’s second timeout of the set.

The lull in play only helped BC, as it exploded out of the stoppage with an 8-3 run to finish the set. Fittingly, it was again Strawberry who sealed it with a kill, giving the Eagles a commanding 25-12 set victory and a 2-0 lead in the match.

Any thoughts of a Tar Heels comeback were squashed early in the third set. Three-straight errors from UNC attackers provided BC with an early 8-3 lead, and the teams split the next six points as the Eagles took an 11-6 lead into a Tar Heels timeout. UNC

briefly reduced the BC lead to two after Destiny Cox’s kill cut the deficit to 14-12, but Naughton hit back-to-back service aces to restore a five-point cushion for BC that it wouldn’t relinquish. Strawberry, Goss, and Sophie West tallied kills on three-consecutive points, and Naughton finished the set off with a kill to give the Eagles a 25-19 set victory and a sweep of the Tar Heels.

The weekend started inauspiciously for the Eagles against N.C. State.

In the first set, Cat Balido logged two early kills, but the Wolfpack rattled off four points in a row to take an early 7-4 lead. N.C. State extended the lead to 11-6 after Naughton’s attack error, and the teams split the next eight points as BC trailed, 15-10, at the media timeout.

The Eagles attempted to rally and cut the deficit to 23-20 on a kill from Carly Kutschke, but the Wolfpack finished the set three points later, with Kutschke’s attack error handing N.C. State a 25-21 set victory and a 1-0 lead in the match.

The Wolfpack jumped out to another fast start in the second frame, as it immediately claimed a 4-1 advantage after an error from Balido.

BC fought back and cut the N.C. State

lead to 6-5 after back-to-back kills from Strawberry, but the Wolfpack responded by winning four points in a row, going back up, 10-5, and forcing an Eagles timeout. The teams then traded runs, as BC drew within two points at 15-13 after Goss’s kill, only to see N.C. State go on a 6-1 run of its own to take a 21-14 lead. The Eagles wouldn’t draw any closer than seven points after that, as the Wolfpack won the set, 25-16, on a service ace from Kylie Pickrell.

BC answered in the third set. Unlike the first two, this one was evenly contested from the beginning. The teams split the first 20 points, but the Eagles were finally able to gain some separation with a 5-3 spurt, as Balido’s kill put them up, 15-13, and induced an N.C. State timeout.

The stoppage only seemed to help the Eagles, as they won four points in a row out of the break to claim a 19-13 lead and force yet another Wolfpack timeout. N.C. State did gain a little ground, moving with two points after Melissa Evans capped a 4-1 run, but BC was able to hold off the Wolfpack charge. Strawberry and Ally Mullen recorded crucial kills, and the Eagles took the set, 25-21, after a ball-handling error from Pickrell.

The comeback effort ended in the fourth set, and N.C. State closed out the match.

The beginning of the set, much like the third, was evenly matched.

The teams traded points and were knotted at 15 during a media timeout. Balido led the way for BC with four kills, while Teni Sopitan kept the Wolfpack in it with three kills of her own. But right after the break, N.C. State seized control of the set.

Sparked by two more Sopitan kills, the Wolfpack won four-straight points to take a 19-15 lead and didn’t look back from there. Mullen briefly cut the lead to three with a kill, but it was too little too late, as Lauryn Terry finished the match with her ninth kill to give N.C. State the set, 25-21, and the match, 3-1.

The weekend was certainly a mixed bag for the Eagles.

They snapped out of a lengthy losing streak with a dominant win over a struggling UNC team, but also played poorly against a mediocre N.C. State, hitting just .138 with 27 errors. As far as Eagles fans are concerned, BC’s up-and-down weekend was promising—at the same time, it’s still clear that the Eagles’ resurgence is far from complete. n

FIELD HOCKEY

Lytle Opens Scoring Gates, But Eagles Fall Short of Big Upset in Durham

By Andy Backstrom Sports Editor

For the third-straight game, Boston College field hockey midfielder Lucy Lytle opened the scoring gates, finding Boston College 1 the back of the Duke 2 cage 15 minutes into the Eagles’ Friday evening bout with fourth-ranked Duke. But, just like last week’s loss to North Carolina, the offense—despite outshooting the opposition—failed to provide any sort of insurance, and the Blue Devils recorded a pair of goals in the final stages of regulation to scoop up a 2-1 win, their seventh-consecutive victory.

BC hasn’t defeated Duke since the 2012 season. That said, of its past seven losses to the Blue Devils, all but one have been decided by one scoring play. Thanks to Lytle, that was once

again the case this time around.

The No. 11 Eagles (9-6, 2-4 Atlantic Coast)—who tallied six first-half corners—rattled off three in a row in the early portion of the first half. As they say, the third time’s the charm: Frederique Haverhals received an insert near the top of the circle and flung a shot toward Sammi Steele. After hitting Lytle’s stick, the ball deflected off the redshirt junior goaltender’s chest plate. Lytle, waiting patiently at the net’s doorstep, corralled the rebound and slipped a shot past not only Steele, but also a pair of Duke backs, handing BC a one-goal lead.

BC didn’t take its foot off the gas the rest of the period. In fact, the Eagles ended up outshooting the No. 4 Blue Devils (13-3, 5-1), 9-4, and doubling their corner output. Quite simply, BC was stitching together one of its better performances of the season, despite playing on the road.

The problem was, Joanna Kennedy—the Eagles’ freshman goalie, who was making her third career start—could only hold Duke scoreless for so long, and reasonably so. After all, Duke has the second-highest scoring offense in the ACC. Without a cushion, B C ’s lead crumbled in a matter of minutes. It all started in the 56th minute. Leah Crouse controlled a deflection, sped past the 25-yard line, and cut back toward the cage, evading two Eagles in the process. As she maneuvered her way through the BC defense, she took a generous touch—one that prompted Kennedy to come out of the net. But just before the goaltender could extinguish the potential scoring play, an off-balanced Crouse whipped a pass in the direction of Erin Scherrer, who ripped the ball into an open cage with ease.

About four minutes later, Crouse

jumpstarted another scoring play.

This time, Noor van de Laar intercepted a BC pass and, without hesitation, dumped the ball off to Crouse. The freshman sprinted toward the top of the circle before delivering a pass to Rose Tynan. As soon as the forward got her stick on the ball, she veered to the left, in attempt to hook a shot around Kennedy. She came up empty, but luckily for Duke, a foul at the tail end of the sequence gifted the Blue Devils with a penalty stroke.

Haley Schleicher made the most of the opportunity, firing a shot into the bottom left corner of the cage.

Kennedy dove the right way, but not in time to make the stop. Duke kept the Eagles off the board the rest of the way. When all was said and done, BC rounded out the second half with four corners, including one in the final 10 minutes of regulation, but the Blue Devils stood their ground.

The Senior Night victory pushes Duke’s record against ACC competition to 5-1. Head coach Kelly Doton’s team, on the other hand, slides to a meager 2-4 in that department, wrapping up conference play below .500 for the second-straight year.

After kicking off the ACC slate with a pair of wins, BC has proceeded to lose four consecutive matches. The collapse—although disappointing for Eagles fans—comes as no surprise, considering that the conference is the best in the sport, not to mention that BC has yet to tally more than three ACC wins in a season.

Not all is lost, though. The Eagles have three non-conference games remaining and a chance to enter the postseason with momentum on their side. Then, they’ll get one more crack at their conference rivals. And, at that point, one’s record—seeding aside—is practically obsolete. n

Ditch the Costume Friday Night and Wear Your Red Bandanna Halloween Can Wait, from A9 Over the course of the past four years, the game has played host to USC, FSU (twice), and Clemson. With an influx of NFL talent and an underdog narrative, the memorializing event has everything a fan could ever want.

But what makes it truly special is the iconography of the red bandanna.

As documented in ESPN’s The Man in the Red Bandanna, Crowther grew up donning the paisley cloth. Taking after his intends to honor “many groups and individuals from the BC community who epitomize the University’s mission of ‘Men and Women for Others.’”

The red bandanna itself is a symbol of service and sacrifice, as

well as a reminder that, even when the odds are against you, anything is possible. That’s why the Eagles’ victory over USC back in 2013 was so fitting—that’s why the event is so powerful.

There’s a reason why BC Athletics distributes thousands of Crowther-themed bandannas to students, alumni, and fans alike.

The event is only recognizable, and thereby effective, if everyone—particularly the students—participate.

Sure, the players wear paisley-patterned cleats, helmets, and gloves, but they’re not the only ones on camera and, more importantly, they aren’t the sole representation of the school.

BC’s student section already

pales in comparison to most ACC schools as is. It certainly doesn’t help that Alumni is the third-smallest stadium in the conference, but the school isn’t doing itself any favors by splitting the students in half, mitigated by the marching band. Showing up on time is hardly a priority. And when it comes to gameday apparel, the SuperFan shirt is sadly nothing more than an afterthought. As a result, students resort to wearing a mix of maroon, gold, and black—seemingly never the same hues. It’s neither aesthetically pleasing nor uniform. The Red Bandanna Game is supposed to be an exception to the rule.

Students might be wearing different color shirts, jerseys, and

sweatshirts, but everyone has a red bandanna. When done correctly, the sea of paisley is as cohesive as any student section in the country.

It’s what separates BC from other schools, not just in the ACC, but throughout the FBS. For some reason in college, Halloween spans like eight days.

I’m not complaining—free candy, amusing costumes, and a bevy of parties are all desirable. My point is, you can take one night—no, four hours—off and save the costume for the postgame, Saturday night, or the remainder of the “holiday.” The Red Bandanna Game shouldn’t have to compete with Halloweekend, because it’s all the more important.

Let’s go back to BC Athletics’

statement. The event sets out to honor those in the BC community who encapsulate the University’s mission of “Men and Women for Others.” Students should too. The Red Bandanna Game isn’t about kicking off Halloweekend on the right foot, it’s about celebrating the lives of those who have sacrificed everything for the betterment of our nation.

Leave your costume at home and wear a red bandanna on Friday night—not for me, but for Welles Remy Crowther, and everyone else that has served this country.

Andy Backstrom is the Sports Editor for The Heights. He can be reached on Twitter @AndyHeights.

SPORTS in SHORT ACC Men’s Soccer Standings Conference overall

Wake Forest North Carolina Louisville Duke Virginia Virginia Tech Notre Dame N.C. State Pittsburgh Boston College Syracuse Clemson

6-1 5-1 4-1-2 4-2 3-2-1 3-3-1 3-3 2-3-2 2-5 2-5 1-3-2 0-6

15-1 11-2-1 8-3-3 9-4-1 9-2-2 9-4-2 8-5-1 8-4-3 7-8

4-6-3 7-4-3

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Numbers to know

708

Days since the last non-conference win for men’s hockey, which came on Nov. 13, 2016 against Arizona State.

5

Current and former women’s hockey players named to the U.S Women’s National Team for the 2018 Four Nations Cup.

2

Goals conceded to North Carolina in the final 10 minutes by men’s soccer, a disappointing turn of events in a 2-0 shutout loss.

QUote of the week

“I think my birds in front of me played really well, they did a fantastic job.”

— Goaltender Maddy McArthur,

after recording her first career shutout in a 3-0 win over Vermont on Sunday.

THE HEIGHTS

MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2018

A11

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

McArthur Records First-Career Shutout in Win Over UVM

BY LUKE PICHINI For the Heights Five minutes into the second period, Boston College women’s hockey was beginning to impose its will on a Vermont Vermont 0 team that was Boston College 3 c l e a r l y o u tmatched coming into the game. The Catamounts had managed to keep the Eagles off the board in the first period, but it was clear that they’d merely prolonged what seemed inevitable.

BC started to launch shots with little opposition, and despite Catamounts goaltender Melissa Black’s best efforts, the Eagles grabbed the lead for the first time by finishing off a deflection.

With a one-goal advantage in hand, BC went on to roll the rest of the way, with freshman goalie Maddy McArthur recording her first shutout in a 3-0 win. The sixth-ranked Eagles (5-2, 2-0 Hockey East) continued their historical dominance of UVM

(1-2-2, 0-1-2), having now won 21 consecutive games against their New England foe.

The first period was a back and forth affair, one that didn’t resemble the final two-thirds. In the opening minutes, BC controlled the puck and possessed most of the offensive momentum, but the Catamounts held down the fort and didn’t crack. UVM also managed to find several chances on the other end of the ice, with both teams ultimately putting quality shots on goal. The Eagles also had to kill off a pair of penalties in the opening 10 minutes of the game to keep it scoreless. In a game that BC were favored to win by a sizable amount, this was a shaky start, to say the least.

Following the break, the tide began to swing in the Eagles favor in the second period, as they came out of the gate swinging and were able to consistently launch shots on goal.

Five minutes into the period during a power-play, BC peppered Black—who admirably blocked numerous shots—

but eventually conceded to Daryl Watts. Cayla Barnes and Makenna Newkirk provided the assists for the sophomore, who has four goals in six games.

The Eagles didn’t step off the gas pedal after that goal. Seven minutes later, Newkirk found the back of the net, scoring her second goal of the season. Lindsay Agnew and Megan Keller recorded their fourth assists of the season on the play. Up 2-0, the game was firmly in BC’s hands.

In the final frame, protecting a smaller-than-usual lead, the Eagles played smart, conservative hockey to keep UVM off the board. McArthur was called upon for 25 saves, including eight in the final period, and she didn’t falter once. The first-year goaltender is off to a tremendous start, having allowed one or fewer goals in each of the last five games. The 1.43 cumulative goals against average is also good for fifth in the conference, even more impressive with the fact that four of the five players ahead of

her are seniors.

“It means absolutely everything to me,” she said of the shutout. “I think my birds in front of my played really well today. They did a fantastic job of picking up the puck and really working hard to back-check through the neutral zone.”

In a last-ditch attempt to score, Black left the net in order to try to provide a boost for the offense. Unfortunately for the Catamounts, BC capitalized on the empty net and scored, icing another conference win—it was Caitrin Lonergan who tucked away the insurance goal off of a Watts assist.

Agnew, Barnes, and Newkirk each extended their point streaks to five games, a clear example of the Eagles’ dangerous offense—one that doesn’t just rely on one single threat.

“We want all our lines scoring, moving quickly, making plays, and giving our team an opportunity to win the game,” head coach Katie Crowley said after. Her team has scored two or more goals in each of their five con-

secutive wins and are climbing up the conference’s scoring offense ranks.

Ultimately, this was another solid win for the Eagles. After starting off the season with consecutive losses to Minnesota-Duluth, BC has now rattled off five straight wins. In a competitive conference like the Hockey East, every conference game counts, and this game was no exception. While there are still concerns about this team such as the Eagles’ inability to get off to a quick start, BC is rounding into form. The offense has proven to be incredibly balanced and McArthur has been a defensive force in goal, a welcome sight after the graduation of NWHL first-round pick and four-year star Katie Burt.

The Eagles will be on the road next weekend, facing conference opponents Holy Cross and Maine. There, BC will hope to pick up more conferences wins and add to its winning streak—a streak that seems much more reflective of the group’s potential then the back-toback losses to start the season. 

SAM ZHAI / HEIGHTS STAFF

KAITLIN MEEKS / HEIGHTS EDITOR

It was an impressive weekend for the Eagles, as Daryl Watts (left) scored twice and had an assist, while freshman Maddy McArthur (right) turned in her first shutout effort and recorded a pair of wins in net.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Bryant’s Fifth-Minute Misfire the Difference in Loss to Tar Heels WSOC Vs. UNC, from A9 more competitive in the second, they still failed to produce anything past a pair of quality shots.

The first was Olivia Vaughn’s shot in the 18th minute that nearly reset the scoreboard—teammate Sam Coffey slid to knock a ball through a pair of defenders and led Vaughn perfectly.

The junior forward loaded up a leftfooted shot and fired one high. Tar Heels goaltender Samantha Leshnak

minutes or so, at least since the last Russo shot, and finally had a corner kick. Coffey played the ball in and it kicked out to Duran, who was playing up. Her long-distance shot soared high, though, and the draw, or an overtime period, wasn’t in the cards.

The loss was the Eagles 18th in 19 matches with UNC, a remarkable dominance in a series between two teams. Finding success against the elite of the conference The starring player for the Tar

Heels this time around was Russo, who continued her hot streak in conference play with seven shots, three on goal. She was impressively Containing the elite forward was tough, but outside of her costly mistake, Bryant was able to come up with several key saves, absorbing one particularly fast-paced one from close range, then preventing a breakaway finish.

Winning the conference is largely out of the question, especially with the Tar Heels very close to finishing

off yet another undefeated ACC slate.

UNC has been practically untouchable in regular season play.

Still, the narrow outcome reflects the growth of the Eagles team from last year, bolstered by breakout performances and key freshman like Duran. The Tar Heels rolled to a 4-1 win on BC’s home field last season, but the Eagles were able to make the Chapel Hill faithful a little anxious, a rarity for a team that has lost just two games at home the last four seasons. 

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managed to get a hand on it, but it kicked off the crossbar and bounced back into play. Gaby Carreiro volleyed it back across the box and Vaughn had another look, but her follow-up effort was denied. Her initial effort was easily the most realistic chance at a goal for the Eagles, as it clanked off the bar.

The second was a shot that seemed destined to go in—it was from defender Kayla Duran in her 90th minute of play. BC had been pressing for seven

9

1.

TEAM SHUTOUTS

2.

3.

GOALS AGAINST AVERAGE, GOOD FOR FOURTH IN THE ACC

4.

ACC LEADING GOAL SCORERS Sam Coffey, 10 Kayla McCoy, 10

Masie Whitsett, 9 Olivia Vaughn, 9

NUMBER OF PLAYERS WITH 3+ GOALS

6

C O F F E Y | VA U G H N MITCHELL | CARREIRO LEIPZIG | K. JENNINGS

Eagles Drop Back-to-Back Games for First Time This Season WSOC Vs. Duke, from A9 offense, which had been red-hot as of late, found a way through. In the 33rd minute, McCoy had time and space to deftly find her target as she slipped a pass through to Mackenzie Pluck, who was making a run into the left side of the box. Pluck created something from nothing, converting from a tight 1-on-1 angle that snuck under Bryant at the near post, tying the score. It was surprising that Bryant wasn’t able to contain Pluck’s shot from the left side, as the freshman had to bend it around her with a left-footed shot.

Bryant and the rest of the Eagles backline managed to hold Duke for the rest of the half. Two minutes into the second half, Coffey was fouled just outside the box, earning a set piece in a dangerous location. Coffey’s shot was pushed wide by Heinsohn, though, to keep the score even. Just minutes later, a 22-yard drive from Vaughn crashed off the crossbar, adding to BC’s offensive frustration.

As the half went on, the Eagles kept finding scoring chances. Jillian Jennings sent the ball upfield, finding Elysa Virella, who returned a long ball to Jennings in the box. Her header

looked to be headed for the back of the net, but it instead bounced just inches wide of the right post.

The Blue Devils looked just as dangerous on the offensive end. Bryant made a stellar save on a shot by Duke’s Ella Stevens, then the Blue Devils failed to capitalize on a quick counterattack, with McCoy’s shot going wide.

It appeared as if the score was prepared to tip in the Eagles favor, as Jennings broke free from the Duke defense after a botched set-piece.

Her impressive run resulted in a good find of Coffey, but the sophomore

midfielder pushed her shot just wide.

Eventually, all of BC’s missed opportunities came back to haunt them, as the Blue Devils eventually found the match winner late in the game. The Eagles pushed hard for an equalizer in the waning seconds, but weren’t able to find a way through a resolute Duke defense.

In what is already one of the best seasons in program history, beating Duke or UNC would have signaled that BC is truly ready to compete with the elite top class of the ACC. And, despite looking competitive in both games, it’s likely disappointing

for head coach Alison Foley that the Eagles weren’t able to come away with at least one win—a season-defining upset of UNC, or a key ranked win over the Blue Devils would have provided a strong surge in momentum.

A team that’s currently ranked No. 11 in the country will understandably face high expectations. But, as this North Carolina road trip—even one that was decided by the narrowest of margins—illustrates, BC still has some steps to take if it is looking to make a run, whether it’s in the ACC Tournament or the even tougher NCAAs. 

THE HEIGHTS

MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2018

A11

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

McArthur Records First-Career Shutout in Win Over UVM

BY LUKE PICHINI For the Heights Five minutes into the second period, Boston College women’s hockey was beginning to impose its will on a Vermont Vermont 0 team that was Boston College 3 c l e a r l y o u tmatched coming into the game. The Catamounts had managed to keep the Eagles off the board in the first period, but it was clear that they’d merely prolonged what seemed inevitable.

BC started to launch shots with little opposition, and despite Catamounts goaltender Melissa Black’s best efforts, the Eagles grabbed the lead for the first time by finishing off a deflection.

With a one-goal advantage in hand, BC went on to roll the rest of the way, with freshman goalie Maddy McArthur recording her first shutout in a 3-0 win. The sixth-ranked Eagles (5-2, 2-0 Hockey East) continued their historical dominance of UVM

(1-2-2, 0-1-2), having now won 21 consecutive games against their New England foe.

The first period was a back and forth affair, one that didn’t resemble the final two-thirds. In the opening minutes, BC controlled the puck and possessed most of the offensive momentum, but the Catamounts held down the fort and didn’t crack. UVM also managed to find several chances on the other end of the ice, with both teams ultimately putting quality shots on goal. The Eagles also had to kill off a pair of penalties in the opening 10 minutes of the game to keep it scoreless. In a game that BC were favored to win by a sizable amount, this was a shaky start, to say the least.

Following the break, the tide began to swing in the Eagles favor in the second period, as they came out of the gate swinging and were able to consistently launch shots on goal.

Five minutes into the period during a power-play, BC peppered Black—who admirably blocked numerous shots—

but eventually conceded to Daryl Watts. Cayla Barnes and Makenna Newkirk provided the assists for the sophomore, who has four goals in six games.

The Eagles didn’t step off the gas pedal after that goal. Seven minutes later, Newkirk found the back of the net, scoring her second goal of the season. Lindsay Agnew and Megan Keller recorded their fourth assists of the season on the play. Up 2-0, the game was firmly in BC’s hands.

In the final frame, protecting a smaller-than-usual lead, the Eagles played smart, conservative hockey to keep UVM off the board. McArthur was called upon for 25 saves, including eight in the final period, and she didn’t falter once. The first-year goaltender is off to a tremendous start, having allowed one or fewer goals in each of the last five games. The 1.43 cumulative goals against average is also good for fifth in the conference, even more impressive with the fact that four of the five players ahead of

her are seniors.

“It means absolutely everything to me,” she said of the shutout. “I think my birds in front of my played really well today. They did a fantastic job of picking up the puck and really working hard to back-check through the neutral zone.”

In a last-ditch attempt to score, Black left the net in order to try to provide a boost for the offense. Unfortunately for the Catamounts, BC capitalized on the empty net and scored, icing another conference win—it was Caitrin Lonergan who tucked away the insurance goal off of a Watts assist.

Agnew, Barnes, and Newkirk each extended their point streaks to five games, a clear example of the Eagles’ dangerous offense—one that doesn’t just rely on one single threat.

“We want all our lines scoring, moving quickly, making plays, and giving our team an opportunity to win the game,” head coach Katie Crowley said after. Her team has scored two or more goals in each of their five con-

secutive wins and are climbing up the conference’s scoring offense ranks.

Ultimately, this was another solid win for the Eagles. After starting off the season with consecutive losses to Minnesota-Duluth, BC has now rattled off five straight wins. In a competitive conference like the Hockey East, every conference game counts, and this game was no exception. While there are still concerns about this team such as the Eagles’ inability to get off to a quick start, BC is rounding into form. The offense has proven to be incredibly balanced and McArthur has been a defensive force in goal, a welcome sight after the graduation of NWHL first-round pick and four-year star Katie Burt.

The Eagles will be on the road next weekend, facing conference opponents Holy Cross and Maine. There, BC will hope to pick up more conferences wins and add to its winning streak—a streak that seems much more reflective of the group’s potential then the back-toback losses to start the season. 

SAM ZHAI / HEIGHTS STAFF

KAITLIN MEEKS / HEIGHTS EDITOR

It was an impressive weekend for the Eagles, as Daryl Watts (left) scored twice and had an assist, while freshman Maddy McArthur (right) turned in her first shutout effort and recorded a pair of wins in net.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Bryant’s Fifth-Minute Misfire the Difference in Loss to Tar Heels WSOC Vs. UNC, from A9 more competitive in the second, they still failed to produce anything past a pair of quality shots.

The first was Olivia Vaughn’s shot in the 18th minute that nearly reset the scoreboard—teammate Sam Coffey slid to knock a ball through a pair of defenders and led Vaughn perfectly.

The junior forward loaded up a leftfooted shot and fired one high. Tar Heels goaltender Samantha Leshnak

minutes or so, at least since the last Russo shot, and finally had a corner kick. Coffey played the ball in and it kicked out to Duran, who was playing up. Her long-distance shot soared high, though, and the draw, or an overtime period, wasn’t in the cards.

The loss was the Eagles 18th in 19 matches with UNC, a remarkable dominance in a series between two teams. Finding success against the elite of the conference The starring player for the Tar

Heels this time around was Russo, who continued her hot streak in conference play with seven shots, three on goal. She was impressively Containing the elite forward was tough, but outside of her costly mistake, Bryant was able to come up with several key saves, absorbing one particularly fast-paced one from close range, then preventing a breakaway finish.

Winning the conference is largely out of the question, especially with the Tar Heels very close to finishing

off yet another undefeated ACC slate.

UNC has been practically untouchable in regular season play.

Still, the narrow outcome reflects the growth of the Eagles team from last year, bolstered by breakout performances and key freshman like Duran. The Tar Heels rolled to a 4-1 win on BC’s home field last season, but the Eagles were able to make the Chapel Hill faithful a little anxious, a rarity for a team that has lost just two games at home the last four seasons. 

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managed to get a hand on it, but it kicked off the crossbar and bounced back into play. Gaby Carreiro volleyed it back across the box and Vaughn had another look, but her follow-up effort was denied. Her initial effort was easily the most realistic chance at a goal for the Eagles, as it clanked off the bar.

The second was a shot that seemed destined to go in—it was from defender Kayla Duran in her 90th minute of play. BC had been pressing for seven

9

1.

TEAM SHUTOUTS

2.

3.

GOALS AGAINST AVERAGE, GOOD FOR FOURTH IN THE ACC

4.

ACC LEADING GOAL SCORERS Sam Coffey, 10 Kayla McCoy, 10

Masie Whitsett, 9 Olivia Vaughn, 9

NUMBER OF PLAYERS WITH 3+ GOALS

6

C O F F E Y | VA U G H N MITCHELL | CARREIRO LEIPZIG | K. JENNINGS

Eagles Drop Back-to-Back Games for First Time This Season WSOC Vs. Duke, from A9 offense, which had been red-hot as of late, found a way through. In the 33rd minute, McCoy had time and space to deftly find her target as she slipped a pass through to Mackenzie Pluck, who was making a run into the left side of the box. Pluck created something from nothing, converting from a tight 1-on-1 angle that snuck under Bryant at the near post, tying the score. It was surprising that Bryant wasn’t able to contain Pluck’s shot from the left side, as the freshman had to bend it around her with a left-footed shot.

Bryant and the rest of the Eagles backline managed to hold Duke for the rest of the half. Two minutes into the second half, Coffey was fouled just outside the box, earning a set piece in a dangerous location. Coffey’s shot was pushed wide by Heinsohn, though, to keep the score even. Just minutes later, a 22-yard drive from Vaughn crashed off the crossbar, adding to BC’s offensive frustration.

As the half went on, the Eagles kept finding scoring chances. Jillian Jennings sent the ball upfield, finding Elysa Virella, who returned a long ball to Jennings in the box. Her header

looked to be headed for the back of the net, but it instead bounced just inches wide of the right post.

The Blue Devils looked just as dangerous on the offensive end. Bryant made a stellar save on a shot by Duke’s Ella Stevens, then the Blue Devils failed to capitalize on a quick counterattack, with McCoy’s shot going wide.

It appeared as if the score was prepared to tip in the Eagles favor, as Jennings broke free from the Duke defense after a botched set-piece.

Her impressive run resulted in a good find of Coffey, but the sophomore

midfielder pushed her shot just wide.

Eventually, all of BC’s missed opportunities came back to haunt them, as the Blue Devils eventually found the match winner late in the game. The Eagles pushed hard for an equalizer in the waning seconds, but weren’t able to find a way through a resolute Duke defense.

In what is already one of the best seasons in program history, beating Duke or UNC would have signaled that BC is truly ready to compete with the elite top class of the ACC. And, despite looking competitive in both games, it’s likely disappointing

for head coach Alison Foley that the Eagles weren’t able to come away with at least one win—a season-defining upset of UNC, or a key ranked win over the Blue Devils would have provided a strong surge in momentum.

A team that’s currently ranked No. 11 in the country will understandably face high expectations. But, as this North Carolina road trip—even one that was decided by the narrowest of margins—illustrates, BC still has some steps to take if it is looking to make a run, whether it’s in the ACC Tournament or the even tougher NCAAs. 

The Heights

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Monday, October 22, 2018

FIELD HOCKEY

In Weekend Finale, Eagles’ Struggles Continue at Liberty

By Peter Kim

Asst. Sports Editor

Five minutes into Boston College field hockey’s non-conference matchup against No. 19 Liberty, the L ady Flames Boston College 1 won a penalty Liberty 2 corner. A layoff from Moniek van Aarle found the stick of Agueda Moroni, the NCAA’s leading goal-scorer in 2018. Given an early opportunity to show the Eagles (9-7, 2-4 Atlantic Coast) exactly what she could do, the senior star made no mistake, burying a shot past Joanna Kennedy to give Liberty a 1-0 lead.

It was not the start that BC—attempting to bounce back from a heartbreaking loss to No. 4 Duke Friday night—was looking for. It only got worse from there. Moroni continued to be a thorn in the Eagles’ side, eventually recording her second goal of the game on another penalty corner, nine minutes into the second half.

And the Lady Flames’ excellent defense continually frustrated BC, allowing a single goal to Lucy Lytle and then shutting the door, dooming the Eagles to a 2-1 loss and a winless weekend road trip.

Moroni got the game started by forcing a Kennedy save just 55 seconds into the contest, then followed up by scoring the opening goal of the game three minutes later.

After the scoring play, the game settled into a possession battle, as neither side had a chance for the next 15 minutes, until BC won its first penalty corner of the game 20 minutes in. Brigid Wood directed the insert toward Haverhals, whose shot resulted in Liberty keeper Allison Schaefer’s first save of the game.

The rest of the half was dominated by the Eagles. Another Haverhals corner-induced shot was blocked by a scrambling Liberty defender, Brooke Matherson pushed a shot high, and Fusine Govaert saw one more shot blocked with no time remaining, as BC went into the half, trailing, 1-0, despite outshooting the Lady Flames, 4-0, in the last 35 minutes of the period.

In the second period, the Eagles picked up right where they left off.

Six minutes in, Lytle drew another save out of Schaefer, and Haverhals sent a drive wide of the cage, as BC looked for an equalizer. But just as the chances began to mount for BC, Liberty doubled its lead. The Lady

Flames won another penalty corner, and the result was exactly the same as the first: Kendra Jones laid the ball off to Moroni, and the Lady Flames’ star slotted another shot past Kennedy, leaving the Eagles staring at a 2-0 deficit.

Now desperate for a goal to get back in the game, the Eagles pushed forward again. And when they did finally break through, it was Lytle—a senior midfielder who’s scored in four consecutive games—who provided the goal. Seven minutes after Moroni’s second goal, the senior took matters into her own hands, dribbling around the defense and firing a low shot past Schaefer to get BC back into the game.

The Eagles kept pressing for an equalizer. Wood watched as her shot was stopped by Schaefer, and Haverhals had a pair of strikes blocked. On the other end, Alivia Klopp’s attempt was saved by Kennedy, and Abby Julius had a penalty corner shot blocked.

In the final 50 seconds, the Eagles removed Kennedy in favor of an extra attacker, sending Jaime Natale in for one final gamble, but she wasn’t able to force the ball into the back of the net.

Jonathan YE / Heights Staff

Frederique Haverhals logged six shots, yet was held scoreless in BC’s loss to Liberty.

At the end of the day, it was Liberty’s excellent corner defense that proved to be the difference. The Eagles won 11 corners, compared to just five for the Lady Flames, but weren’t able to convert any, while Liberty capitalized on two such plays. The Lady Flames’ corner defense has been a strength all season, as they have allowed just seven penalty corner goals in 16 games this season.

The end result, though, was more of the same story for BC. Once again,

the Eagles outshot another ranked opponent, only to fail to convert their chances and eventually lose a close contest. BC clearly has the talent to succeed, but simply hasn’t been able to get over the hump lately, dropping four of its last six matches. With just two games left to play, the Eagles will have to start performing better offensively. If they don’t, the possibility of another early ACC Tournament exit, and even missing the NCAA tournament, looms. n

MEN’S HOCKEY

BC’s Non-Conference Woes Persist in Tough Defeat to Bobcats

By Bradley Smart Assoc. Sports Editor

Out of every team in the Hockey East conference, Boston College men’s hockey is second all-time in NCAA Tournament appearances Boston College 0 with 35. TrailQuinnipiac 1 ing only rival Boston University, the Eagles under Jerry York have set a precedent of consistently appearing on the sport’s biggest stage.

With York, BC has been able to claim at least a share of the last three Hockey East regular season titles and nine overall. It’s a remarkable run of success within the conference.

The last two years and the start of this season, though, have revealed a troubling flaw that poses a pivotal question—how good can a team truly be if they can’t win non-conference games? On Friday night in Hamden, Conn., that flaw was on full display, as the 18th-ranked Eagles allowed a first-period goal and never recovered, dropping a 1-0 decision to Quinnipiac, a team they’ve failed to beat in four historical meetings.

The non-conference struggles have been well documented, but the Bobcats (3-0) were a team coming off their first losing season since 1995-96 and also welcomed in a freshman class of 12 players, meaning that almost half their roster was playing at the collegiate level for the first

time. Yes, Quinnipiac returned seven of its top 10 scorers, but BC (0-3) did one better—it entered this season with the second-most returning production in the country. It hasn’t translated yet, though, as through three games, the Eagles haven’t recorded a win, and a chunk of the goodwill BC has in the polls—which was good enough to climb to 12th in the preseason—has started to erode.

The Eagles were outshot and committed two more penalties than their hosts, and those two infractions proved to cost them. After a back-and-forth first 17 minutes, BC defenseman Marc McLaughlin and Michael Kim were called for slashing in consecutive minutes. The Eagles were likely confident, as despite the 5-on-3 disadvantage, they’d successfully killed off all six penalties they’d faced thus far—while Quinnipiac was 0-for-6 in their chances.

A minute into the two-man power play, the Bobcats broke through. With Connor Moore, David Cotton, and Michael Karow on the ice for BC, Quinnipiac started cycling the puck around in the Eagles defensive zone. Chase Priskie, who scored a team-high eight power play goals last season, played it to Brandon Fortunato in the corner, then on the ensuing pass back, loaded up a hard right-handed onetimer. It flew into the top shelf past BC goaltender Joe Woll for Priskie’s second goal of the season, one that secured the Bobcats first 3-0 start since the 2015-16

team that won the ECAC and made a run to the national championship.

Priskie’s goal held up on the strength of a career day from Keith Petruzzelli, a sophomore netminder who displayed marked growth from last season. Petruzzelli played in just 11 games in his freshman year on campus, conceding 28 goals for a woeful 3.06 goals against average.

That version of the Wilbraham, Mass. native was nowhere to be found on Friday night, however, as he turned away 21 shots for his first career save.

Petruzzelli was largely protected well by the Quinnipiac defense, who played cleanly and avoided giving the Eagles much of a chance to find the equalizer.

The Bobcats committed a pair of penalties in the first period to give BC consecutive power-play chances, but the first featured a lone shot that was denied by Petruzzelli, and the second was more balanced, with looks for both teams.

An offsetting roughing penalty in the third was the only other trouble Quinnipiac got into—the same couldn’t be said for the Eagles. BC nearly allowed the game to get out of reach twice, as penalties at the end of the second and third from Cotton and Logan Hutsko saw a combined three shots on net—and two more were blocked.

BC’s first big chance came in the second period, when Hutsko took a pass near center ice and made a strong move

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Quinnipiac was excellent defensively, limiting BC to 21 shots in its 1-0 win over the Eagles.

to dance up the right boards. He skated in on Petruzzelli and attempted to beat the fellow sophomore with a point-blank wrister, but it was batted away to preserve the one-goal advantage. The next was almost 30 minutes of game time later, when the Eagles turned in arguably their best offensive shift. Oliver Wahlstrom was denied at the right post, though, and the failure to convert good looks would haunt BC. The loss was particularly jarring for the Eagles, who were hoping to erase some of the lingering effects of being shut out and then losing a shootout to start the year in Wisconsin. The Bobcats were picked to finish seventh in the ECAC and are far

from the powerhouse they were when they knocked off BC in the Frozen Four, but many still expected the Eagles to bounce back and win. BC is winless through three games for the first time since 2001-02, a season that ended in disappointment— they went just 18-18-2 and bowed out in the Hockey East quarterfinals.

It’s early to even think about writing off the Eagles, but the truth is that BC hasn’t been able to find success out of conference in two-plus years, and that means postseason play hinges entirely on winning the conference tournament, which is no easy task, as the last two years have revealed. n

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Eagles Crack in Final Minutes of Regulation Against Tar Heels

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BC matched UNC with nine shots, but wasn’t able to find the back of the net.

All year, Boston College men’s soccer has competed admirably against a tough slate of ACC opponents. In fact, each of BC’s first 12 matches were decided Boston College 0 by one goal or North Carolina 1 less.

But on Friday night, that streak came to an end. North Carolina avenged its 2016 ACC Tournament loss to the Eagles, scoring twice in the final 10 minutes of regulation to secure a 2-0 victory. The two-goal decision marked BC’s (4-6-3, 2-5 Atlantic Coast) third loss in a row and second shutout defeat of the 2018 campaign.

Scoring chances were at a premium in the first half, as neither team registered a shot on goal. No. 5 UNC’s (11-2-1, 5-1) best opportunity came in the fourth minute, when junior forward Jelani Pieters raced down the left flank before lifting a tantalizing cross that Nils Bruening failed to put on target. BC’s closest call occurred in the 17th minute.

After a sloppy UNC turnover, Simon Enstrom delivered a beautiful pass that set up freshman midfielder Kristofer Konradsson with plenty of space at the top of the penalty box.

Despite scoring his first two career goals in BC’s previous match against

Connecticut, Konradsson did not carry over his shooting momentum and pushed his shot into the side netting.

What the first half lacked in quality, it made up for in physicality. In just the 10th minute, UNC junior Jeremy Kelly completely crunched BC midfielder Joshua Forbes. Kelly only received a yellow card, much to the debate of many Eagles’ player and coaches. Throughout the rest of the half, Enstrom was frequently challenged, as was the rest of the BC attack.

The second half did not start much differently than the first, as the game continued in its defensive, messy way.

Yet the pace and intensity of the match increased dramatically after a controversial call in the 69th minute.

BC players clamored for a handball to be called on a UNC defender in his own box, but the referee elected not to blow his whistle. Immediately after this incident, BC defenders blocked two powerful UNC shots at the other end of the pitch.

Unfortunately for the Eagles, they could only hold on for so long. In the 80th minute, Nils Bruening scored his sixth goal of the season, heading home a cross from Jack Skahan. It was UNC’s first shot on goal the entire match. Just over four minutes later, it was Skahan who took matters into his own hands and finished off a beautiful

through ball from Pieters. He calmly slotted a shot past a charging Antonio Chavez Borrelli to cap the Tar Heels’ second and final scoring play of the night.

BC’s only two shots on target came from Konradsson. UNC goalkeeper James Pyle easily saved both attempts.

Although they displayed great passion and desire, the Eagles failed to mount a late rally, and the visitors comfortably saw out the rest of the game.

That said, BC mirrored UNC’s shot total of nine and, for the most part, held its own throughout the match.

“It was just a matter of the couple chances UNC had,” Eagles associate head coach Bob Thompson said. “I thought we did really well as a team and we were really organized. I just think it’s the last 20 minutes in every game, there’s a little bit of fatigue, and we’re making a couple of mistakes at the end of games.”

Earlier this week, head coach Ed Kelly told reporters during his weekly press conference that the Eagles are one of the toughest teams in the conference and, at the moment, can play with anybody in the country.

They certainly can—after all, they’ve given a pair of top-five teams a run for their money. But at this juncture, morale victories fail to bolster a BC team’s NCAA Tournament resume, especially one that’s badly in need of a few more signature wins. n

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‘Beautiful Boy’ Uncovers Ugliness of Addiction

BY KERRIANNE RILEY For The Heights Addiction is an all-encompassing disease. It affects not only who it has taken over, but everyone else who is involved. In Beautiful Boy, Steve Carell as David Sheff begins his emotionally exhausting journey to get his son back. His son Nic, played by Oscar-nominee Timothée Chalamet, goes from being the artistic, kind, and quiet high schooler to a methamphetamine addict, continuously unable to get clean. The drugs and Nic’s usage over time become more intense as the void that needs to be filled inside of Nic grows. David is left to wonder what he did to create this hole

inside his son. The film follows David’s desperate endeavor to find any trace left of Nic who repeatedly is, “tak[ing] the edge off of stupid all-day reality” to the point of self-destruction.

Directed by Felix Van Groeningen, the film is based on the real-life story of David Sheff, a freelance writer, and his son Nic, composed in a series of memoirs. The moments including Nic are not for the faint of heart. There is no glorification of “getting clean” or the demons faced when battling addiction. It is honest, real, and potentially eye-opening to those unaware of the addiction crisis that is present in the country currently, avoiding the trepidation to discuss and display it.

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Told through a series of flashbacks and music-based montages, Beautiful Boy walks through David Sheff ’s coping process, virtually grieving the potential loss of a son who is barely alive. Through overdoses, highway-side breakdowns, and countless doctor visits, both Sheffs are drained. David’s pleas fall on deaf ears.

Nic’s life becomes a countdown to the next high, and the fall that occurs once the drugs wear off and the nerve damage begins. As both men struggle to find a better day, Nic’s half-siblings, step-mother, and mother all watch his self-destruction and the “psychological terror” that takes over, as David calls it.

Nic displays an excellent visual regarding emotional manipulation and compulsive lying that often comes when dealing with addiction. He is off getting high when he is supposed to be at his recovery meetings and even finds reasons to jump from city to city when he needs to get away from David’s careful eye. As Nic rapidly falls apart, David goes through his emotional journey, shifting between denial, hope, anger, and desperation. Karen, Nic’s stepmother, tries to be sympathetic, becoming one of the greatest silent supporters, but it leads to him snapping at her, screaming in her face while David watches in horror. At the end of one of David and Nic’s disputes, the son looks at his father teary-eyed. “I’m doing it for you,” Nic utters. David eventu-

ally helps Nic come to the conclusion that becoming sober must be done to better and save himself.

Beautiful Boy tries to explain the harsh realities of addiction, but Carell’s and Chalamet’s acting falls short. The aesthetic distance is too great for a film that relies on such an emotional narrative to carry it. Lost in coastline drives and downtown streets of San Francisco, there is little to be praised about the film outside of the light it sheds on the aforementioned drug epidemic taking place currently. There is no tapping into the full potential, as Carell and Chalamet play it safe. Chalamet breaks through to the audience more, especially during his drug usage scenes, but not enough to gain all of the audience’s empathy.

Overall, Beautiful Boy is a good film, it is just not great. The ending is not satisfactory as it feels rushed after the previous 30 minutes felt drawn out. There are highlights to focus on, namely the evidence of the paternal love David has for Nic, but only so much of David and Nic’s story is portrayed well through Carell and Chalamet. It sheds light on the damage done with each injection, but little is fully ever understood as to why Nic fell into this addiction and how ultimately things have progressed. There are many questions to be asked that hopefully are answered in the memoirs written by the Sheffs. 

Greta Van Fleet Revitalizes Rock on Debut Album

BY KAYLIE RAMIREZ Assoc. Arts Editor

What is there to do in Frankenmuth, Mich.? With a population of just over 5,000, there is only one answer to that question: Relaunch rock ’n’ roll by stripping it back down to its raucous, bluesy beginnings.

Greta Van Fleet, a band of brothers and childhood friends from the small Michigan town, experienced a whirlwind of fame once bigtime publications got wind of its hauntingly authentic sound in 2017, when the band released its first EP, From the Fires.

Almost a year later, the young rockstarsin-training have traded in their training wheels for major record deals, cross-country tours, and a debut album that perfectly encapsulates their mobilization for a rock revival: Anthem of the Peaceful Army, an 11-track modern manifesto that declares rock music a force to be reckoned for the first time since The Strokes and The White Stripes captivated the hearts and ears of the world in 2001.

Slow, evocative tones compose the first minute of the opening track, “Age of Man,” but menacing guitar riffs don’t trail far behind. Above all else, Greta Van Fleet is a guitar band. Long instrumental pauses in between verses in the first song don’t feel awkward or underutilized without a flashy extra flare—guitarist Jake Kiszka makes sure every bridge has good bones.

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out of the ’70s with its groovy basslines and esoteric lyrics, but some of the members have just barely graduated high school. Yet the band’s classic sound is comforting to millennial audiences who grew up on their parents’ favorite Beatles and Stones songs, and the substance of its music is a breath of fresh air for the present rock genre, which has long been plagued by alt-rock bands that only want to sing about sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll—think The 1975, The Neighbourhood, and FIDLAR. “The Cold Wind” is carried by chilling, eloquent lyrics such as “Keep the children snug as the wagon rolls on / When the cold wind blows most of them will be gone.” Avoiding trite themes in its lyrics positions the group among modern rock giants The Black Keys, Arctic Monkeys, and Cage the Elephant.

“When the Curtain Falls” opens with a guitar- and drum-driven melody that sounds like it could have been pulled straight from a Led Zeppelin track. Jake Kiszka ramps up a riff that plays tag with Danny Wagner’s syncopated drumming, mimicking the drum groove John Bonham made famous, before the first verse even starts. “Watching Over,” a single from the album, adds to its Zeppelin vibe with hard stop guitar revs and ferocious vocals. Jake Kiszka’s guitar solos on the track prove to be some of his best yet, winding through experimentation with morphing and inversion while keeping pace with Josh Kiszka’s primal screams.

Greta Van Fleet is much more than a Zeppelin offshoot, and the band proves it in its debut album. The acoustic building ballad “Anthem” is exactly what it claims to be, an anthem for the chaos of the present.

“Your opinion only knows the one thing / That you seem to want to have most,” Josh Kiszka croons in the second verse, displaying wisdom far beyond his 22 years.

“Constant comparisons to classic rock giant Led Zeppelin have prevented the band from defining its own sound in the past, but slower tracks and relevant reflection help Greta Van Fleet break down those barriers and expand its repertoire.

A classic rock scrapbook would not be

complete without a tribute to psychedelia, and Greta Van Fleet pays homage to the classic rock fiend on twin tracks “Lover, Leaver” and “Lover, Leaver (Taker, Believer).” The latter builds on the hellfire love song with an added instrumental guided through space by a strange voiceover and eccentric bursts of sound, much like any given Pink Floyd song. Screaming slide guitar toward the end of the track showcases the depth of Jake Kiszka’s mastery of guitar.

Greta Van Fleet rose from the ashes like a phoenix on From the Fires, but Anthem of the Peaceful Army assembles a tracklist that proves the band’s rock residency will be anything but transient. 

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The devil of Hell’s Kitchen is back in black on Season 3 of Marvel and Netflix’s hit show Daredevil. While it has been a while since Season 2 aired, Netflix’s The Defenders features a team up between Daredevil and other Marvel heroes who held their own Netflix shows. Despite the hype surrounding The Defenders, and the excellent cast of characters, it was painfully mediocre. Thankfully, Netflix and Daredevil are taking this hit in stride and coming right back with another awesome season of fist-fighting, detective work, and great acting.

Daredevil picks up right where The Defenders left Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox), recovering from wounds he suffered in a building collapse. Murdock spends the

first few episodes of the season attempting to revitalize both his mind and body. In the aftermath of the finale of The Defenders, Murdock’s hearing is severely impaired, and for the first time since the accident that took his sight as a child, he actually feels disabled. While he does regain his hearing, he is still not quite what he used to be, and without his bulletproof suit of armor that was destroyed in the events of The Defenders, he is more vulnerable than ever. It was very refreshing to see Daredevil have a hard time taking on plain old street thugs, as opposed to in previous seasons, where he takes on bullets to the chest and still beats up a dozen armed men.

Murdock is struggling to heal not only his body, but also his mind. Cox’s acting here is the standout performance of the season so far. The events of the previous

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two seasons as well as The Defenders have left our hero searching for a new identity.

In previous seasons, Murdock’s Catholic faith has kept him morally grounded, but in Season 2, he has a different relationship with God. He used to believe he was a servant of God, but now he likens himself more to the biblical figure Job, who was punished despite his service to God. His crisis of faith causes him to throw away his lawyer life and commits fully to his vigilante justice, with less of a moral compass. He neglects his friends Foggy (Elden Henson) and Karen (Deborah Ann Woll) despite their continued care for his wellbeing. This grizzled, beaten-down, Murdock is both original and compelling. His mental conflict, broken down in moving dialogue between him and the nun who raised him (Joanne Whalley), is easily the most interesting character development the show has in its three-season run.

On top of the moral and physical changes Murdock is going through, the show also revamps its cast of villains.

While The Defenders and Season 2 of Daredevil had Murdock face down a crime syndicate of self-resurrecting ninjas known as The Hand, Season 3 goes back to the show’s more grounded roots. Vincent D’Onofrio returns for his third season as Wilson Fisk, aka Kingpin, crime lord of Hell’s Kitchen. Fisk took a back seat in Season 2 after Murdock put him in prison in Season 1, but now he is back, and D’Onofrio is delivering a truly moving take on the Kingpin’s motivations. Unlike the comic book iteration of

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If you’ve been a frequent peruser of YouTube for the past few years, you may have come across the channel Filthy Frank, which focused on George Miller (and a few others) doing some pretty strange and ridiculous things while clad in tight-fitting, brightly colored full-body spandex suits. In the past few years, however, Miller has separated himself from this channel and its decidedly niche audience to move forward with a musical career. Titling himself “Joji,” he’s moved away from the random and weird antics of his past to focus on more serious and nuanced music, which is usually described as a mix of trap and R&B. “TEST DRIVE” is a solid start to his musical career , and if the rest of the songs on his upcoming album are of the same quality, Joji might have a breakout release on his hands. Like many of his other songs (like the hit “DANCING IN THE DARK” released about a month ago), it has a lowkey, sad beat and meaning, as Joji sings of a relationship that slowly is breaking apart. The hooks and melody are catchy, lending much to the replayability of the song. It’s not a totally new step forward for his music, but if you like Joji, you’ll definitely be satisfied with his newest release. 

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Kingpin, who is obsessed with power and money, D’Onofrio’s Fisk is only concerned with the protection of the love of his life, Vanessa (Ayelet Zurer,) who Murdock forced out of the country back in Season 1. Now that he is out of jail, Fisk’s only concern is getting revenge on Murdock for taking the love of his life away from him.

The contrast between Daredevil’s new lack of a moral direction and Kingpin’s clear newfound goal makes for a fresh feel in their seasons-long rivalry.

Season 3 also brings along a new villain, Benjamin Poindexter (Wilson Bethel). Fans of the Daredevil comic books (or that god awful Ben Affleck movie) will recognize this to be the secret identity of the iconic Daredevil villain Bullseye. At the start of the season, “Dex” is a skilled and deadly FBI agent with a troubled past who is assigned to guard Fisk. As he and Fisk begin to converse, Dex’s mental instability begins to come into the light, and Fisk begins to twist him into the sharpshooting menace that comic book fans are all too familiar with.

With other Marvel Netflix shows such as Luke Cage and Iron Fist being canceled in the last few weeks, many were rightfully concerned with the future of Daredevil, but after having watched only the first five episodes of the show’s new season, you can tell that fans have nothing to worry about.

Great writing, Cox’s excellent acting, and some of the coolest action sequences without guns since The Dark Knight have Daredevil sitting pretty among Netflix’s best original series. 

The 1975 released a music video for the track “Love It If We Made It” on Oct. 15. Written by lead singer Matty Healy and directed by Adam Powell, the video expands upon the millennial angst present in the song’s lyrics.

The video is a compilation of clips superimposed with a blinding array of neon colors. The effects of the colors are beautiful—and give the video a familiar The 1975 aesthetic—although they can be slightly jarring. The video even comes with the warning: “This video may potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Viewer discretion is advised.”

These clips not only depict colorful silhouettes of The 1975’s members playing and dancing to the song, but they also show glimpses of various current events and pop culture references. The beauty of the vibrant colors filtered over the video is juxtaposed by both the content of the clips—which show violence, pollution, protests, destruction, and much more—and the stylistic glitches and distortions during the transitions.

Each of the clips is quite short and choppy, but their brevity is not to be mistaken for a lack of significance. Every one contains a cultural reference or actual footage of current events.

A minute into the video, Healy belts the iconic lyric “modernity has failed us.” In the background is Harvey Weinstein walking with a police escort. In October of 2017, allegations of sexual assault and sexual abuse surfaced from dozens of women against Weinstein. Nearly three minutes into the video, Brett Kavanaugh, the newly appointed Supreme Court justice, is shown giving a speech with President Donald Trump standing just behind him. As this image is shown, Healy mutters “liberal kitsch.”

Healy then snarls the rest of the bridge’s lyrics before aggressively belting, “I moved on her like a bitch,” a direct quote from Trump in a TV interview back in 2005. The clip of him jumps to footage of anti-Trump protests requesting his impeachment as Healy continues with the lyric, “Excited to be indicted.”

The video has an eye-popping, multicolored composition, and the lyrics are an aggressive, angsty chant. Together, they combine to form a spectacular video that is not only consists of a fun piece of electropop, but contains important commentary on the failures of modern society. 

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In order to spread awareness about upcoming events, Music Guild has ramped up its social media, posting frequently on its Facebook page.

Moon and Rodger have toyed with the idea of bringing back old programs that engage audiences online. Tiny Dorm Sessions, riffing off NPR’s Tiny Desk series, take digital crowds that are far too large to pack into a Mod common room inside the dorms of Music Guild performers for intimate jam sessions.

The most recent session, posted nine months ago, features Katie Kelleher, a member of Shady Lady and Small Talk and BC ’18, singing solo with an acoustic guitar on her couch.

The camera cuts to dream catchers and succulents that line the walls of her room, adding a personal touch to the video.

Music Guild also plans to forge stronger relationships with listeners

around campus by bringing back a program it calls “What You’re Listening To,” an impromptu questioning of people walking around campus with headphones in that was introduced

by Tabitha Joseph, BC ’16. The Music Guild members stop random people and ask mobile music listeners to share what they are listening to in that moment, then take a picture of them and post it to the Music Guild Facebook page.

“A lot of people misunderstand the purpose of the guild in the sense that they think, ‘Oh like I don’t play music’ or ‘I don’t really listen to that much music—I can’t be a part of it,’” Rodger said.

That is not to say that high levels of commitment don’t exist among members.

Rodger estimates that there are roughly 60 members who come to events consistently and 15 who serve as e-board members for the club.

Many members establish strong

connections within the club that create higher levels of commitment organically and result in the formation of bands that work tirelessly to bolster the BC music scene. Currently, Shady Lady, Unit One, and newcomer Merchant dominate the band scene, but dedicated soloists also deck the lineup at the organization’s open mics and events.

Stavros Piperis, MCAS ’19, and Mac Porter, MCAS ’21, both competed last year in the Singer Songwriter competition, a Music Guildsponsored soloist competition that runs adjacent to Battle of the Bands at Arts Fest, and have continued their involvement at Music Guild showcases this year.

Various BC bands have continued playing together after getting their start at Music Guild events, including Juice and Small Talk, both of which are on U.S. tours right now. Juice has taken off since the last of its members graduated in 2016, releasing a four-

song EP titled Workin’ on Lovin’ on June 14 and performing on The Today Show as radio host Elvis Duran’s “Artist of the Month.”

Small Talk released Aquarium this year—the angsty single that shares the album’s name currently has over 120,000 plays on Spotify.

While Music Guild alums continue to find success during life after BC, Rodger and Moon agree that Music Guild’s biggest triumph on campus is its ability to foster lasting relationships between members.

Rodger and Moon met during their freshman year by coming to open mics and showcases, and they now see the same thing happening with freshmen in the club, a special full-circle moment for the two seniors and their peers.

“Music is this other way of communicating with somebody,” Rodger said. “Once you play a song or a set with somebody, you are instantly connected to them.” n

‘Invisible’ Brings Class Disparity Into the Light

By Jacob Schick Arts Editor

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of people that we pass by every day. We don’t take much notice of them, whether they are dressed for business, leisure, or hard physical work. Everyone lives in their own small bubble, taking a passing fancy only in those who catch their eye. Tena Štivičić, in her play Invisible, attempts to capture the threads that connect the seemingly disparate lives at either side of the social and financial stratosphere.

The Boston College theatre department presented this nuanced and compelling drama last week on Robsham’s main stage. Set against a backdrop of grey synthetic rectangles, the scenes of Invisible could be transformed into a variety of environments through the use of projection across these huge slabs of wall. The costume work is simple, but effective, and the props add to the play without distracting from the action on stage.

The play follows the lives of a number of eastern European immigrants as they work to make their way to London, escaping their tumultuous and dangerous lives back home. In addition to the immigrants, Invisible keeps an eye on a London businessman, struggling with his career and unfulfilling marriage. The play makes this division between the characters whose lives are so high above everyone else’s that they don’t notice those beneath them and the characters who are invisible right from the playbill.

The cast section is divided in two. One half says “Fortress Europe,” listing the names of the native Londonians—the other half says “The Others,” and contains those characters who are just struggling to get by. Everyone does a very good job in becoming their character, not simply pretending to be someone they aren’t. While audience members might

see familiar faces up on stage, they will quickly lose them in complexities and nuances of the show.

While Invisible does play much as expected in terms of portraying the struggles of the working class characters, it adds an interesting twist. The lives of the immigrants, like Lara (Nicole Hayes, MCAS ’20), Anton (Dustin Uher, LSOE ’19), Dane (Matthew Dolly, MCAS ’21), Mykola (David Lewis, an administrator in Information Technology Services), Stefan (Nick Borbolla, MCAS ’21), and Sera (Rachel Chan, MCAS ’20), are much more fulfilled and meaningful.

They gather around their dinner table to share a meal of gherkins—Lara has been trying to find a jar of them that tastes like they do at home. They practice their English together, and spend time talking about each other’s days. These people are coming to England essentially alone, but manage to find purpose and family in each other—except in the case of Sera, who has come in search of her husband, only to find that the phone number he gave her was invalid, decimating her chances of reconnecting. While they do not live in luxurious surroundings, they do their best to create a home and a community from which they can draw purpose and strength.

On the other hand, the characters like Felix (Michael Mazzone, MCAS ’19) and Ann (Allison O’Brien, BC ’22) lead empty lives full of meaningless career goals and flimsy personal relationships.

It’s clear the Felix and Ann don’t love each other—they don’t even like each other very much. Felix is easily enthralled by the promise of greener pastures from Gerry (Sam Szemerenyi, MCAS ’20), and Ann remains cold and standoffish toward her husband under the guise of furthering her own career. While the immigrant characters struggle toward greater financial and social status, we watch the lives of those who have it trickle away in disappointment. n

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Invisible shows the disparity in life between members of different social groups.

House of Blues Hosts Electric Mitski Show

By Emily Himes Asst. Arts Editor

An enthusiastic crowd filled the House of Blues on Saturday night as Mitski’s opening act took center stage—two women stood in matching overcoat sets, one in gray, the other in brown. They stood perfectly still, before erupting into dance, and breaking into flawless harmonies layered over an electronic beat. Hana Elion and JJ Mitchell of Overcoats gave a captivating performance, highlighting a blending of a variety of styles to create something truly unique.

The duo’s electronic style was beautifully

accented with notes of powerful, almost folksy, bluegrass vocal stylings, accompanied by a single percussionist. The dreamy, mellow beat and production throughout their set invigorated the audience, but one could easily imagine hearing the duo’s crooning over a minimalistic, acoustic guitar.

In one of the highlights of the night, Overcoats payed homage to women through their song, “The Fog.” Over the heavily produced track, Mitchell held the mic to her lips, and simply spoke, “The future is believing women.” The lyrics of the song centered around freedom from an abusive relationship, and the entire audience revelled in this

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powerful statement.

Suddenly, under ambient purple lights, a wall of guitar shook the ground and signified the opening chords of “Remember My Name,” as Mitski took the stage, to roaring cheers from her devoted fans. Riding the waves of the release of her most recent album, Be The Cowboy, Mitski’s powerful, evocative lyrics and gorgeous, dulcet voice flowed ethereally from song to song.

The screens behind the band showed in black and white as a loophole spun, giving the stage a psychedelic feel. Breaking into her next song, “Washing Machine Heart” with robotic dance moves, Mitski crooned the lyrics her new song. One of her most popular, songs, “Nobody,” a power-anthem and ode to loneliness, elicited a wave of dancing from the crowd. The singer has stated in interviews that Be The Cowboy is a bit of a character study, where she explores her own identity as an Asian-American woman, but through the lens of a repressed, icy woman. Nowhere is this more apparent than in her song, “Me and My Husband,” where she embodied the character of a repressed suburban housewife whose emotions are strained. This was apparent through her strange, exaggerated dance moves—stilted, yet somehow wild and unpredictable.

With the next song, her face went deadpan, and she began to pace back forth

across the stage. As she picked up speed, her face remained blank, as she crooned her melancholy yet humorous song, “Why Didn’t You Stop Me?” In a more moving moment of the night, the singer thanked her audience, admitting her terrible fear of people.

“I’m actually terrified of people, because I know what they’re capable of,” Mitski said.

“But when people like you come out here, and allow me to exist, it reminds me of what people are capable of, in a positive way.”

For a moment, her band stepped away, and Mitski briefly exited the stage, only to return with her own acoustic guitar for a beautifully raw, stripped down performance of her song, “A Burning Hill.” Finally, Mitski ended her show on a beautiful, emotionallycharged note, with her atmospheric ballad, “Two Slow Dancers.”

Violins and a sole piano accompanied Mitski as she closed the show with the haunting lyric, “We’re just two slow dancers, last ones out.”

Throughout the night, from fierce, uptempo songs, to more delicate, soft ballads, each of Mitski’s songs was steeped in meaning, mixing crushingly sad and humorous lyrics. Mitski flawlessly conveys a sense of incredible emotional vulnerability which few artists touch on in quite the same way. n

Movies Jacob Schick

Until this week, I thought I understood what a Boston movie was. Boston movies are so ubiquitous in the film industry that they are almost a genre all on their own.

They all feature establishing shots of the city, tracking shots of “real Bostonians,” an emphasis on family and loyalty, and— most importantly—the accent. This phenomenon is so well-known, it’s the subject of an entire Saturday Night Live skit called “Boston Accent.” I had seen them all, too.

The Departed, Good Will Hunting, Mystic River, The Town, Gone Baby Gone, Black Mass, Spotlight, Ted, Ted 2. I’ve seen them all, and I’ve seen the ones that no one realizes are in Boston—The Equalizer and The Equalizer 2. The Verdict. The Social Network. So, you’ll forgive me for deluding myself into thinking that I knew, that I understood, what a Boston movie was. I was wrong.

Last week, I watched a movie called Oxy Morons. This movie was released in 2010 and was directed by Johnny Hickey.

You’ve never heard of this movie because it only premiered at Showcase theaters in the Greater Boston area. You’ve never heard of this movie because it was made with nearly no money. You’ve never heard of this movie because it stars no one whose name you could toss out to impress your friends. You’ve never heard of this movie because it’s not even rated. I only heard about it because I was going to interview the director about his upcoming movie, The Habit.

So I watched Oxy Morons. It’s free to stream online, there’s a website for it and everything. And this movie blew me away—this is a real Boston movie. This is the movie that other Boston movies could only aspire to be, and I’m convinced that the rest of them are posers.

First, Oxy Morons follows a pair of adult brothers as oxycodone hits the streets of Boston. Danny (Johnny Hickey) and Jason (David Burns) grew up in and still live in the projects in Charlestown—across the river from the North End. When oxycodone becomes prevalent in pharmacies and drug stores around Boston, the two begin to rob them at gunpoint, selling the high strength narcotic as a better and more powerful alternative to percocet. They also begin using it themselves. The movie follows Danny through a downward spiral of crime, addiction, tragedy, and misfortune. For context, Oxy Morons is semi-autobiographical, so nothing in the film is something that Hickey hasn’t personally experienced or known someone who has. The movie is brutal and hard to watch. It’s difficult to watch the raw violence, the gritty underbelly of high strength narcotics, and their effects on those who use and abuse them. It’s not an easy watch, but I would recommend it to anyone who thinks they can stomach it.

But there are a couple of things that make Oxy Morons the most Boston movie of all the Boston movies.

Thing the first: The accents. Yes, I know that the other movies have the Boston accents. What they don’t have, are the actors who talk like this in real life.

I spoke with Hickey and he sounds just like he did in the movie. You can’t get any better than real.

Thing the second: The establishing shots. Other movies might show you Fenway or Prudential Tower. Oxy Morons shows you the orange line crossing the bridge. It shows you the beat-down projects in Charlestown. It shows you the harbor facing Seaport and the back part of the North End. It shows you the correctional facility in Barnstable. If you’re making a crime movie about Boston, these are the things you need.

Thing the third: The lingo. This might be the most important thing here. There is a scene in Oxy Morons in which one character asks another to “hand me the tonic.” He is referring to a 2-liter bottle of soda. No one except a very small portion of Bostonians says tonic when they are talking about soda. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon don’t say tonic in their movies. It’s really the little things.

But the Boston hook aside, watch Oxy Morons. It’s very good, and it’s a very critical and open-eyed look at what painkillers do to marginalized communities.

Jacob Schick is the arts editor for The Heights. He can be reached at arts@ bcheights.com.

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BY KAYLIE RAMIREZ Assoc. Arts Editor

Boasting one of the largest email listservs on campus, Music Guild has a reach so endless that it has become an entity unto itself, a subconscious presence felt and heard on a daily basis at Boston College.

You’ve undoubtedly seen the name on laptop stickers in your Philosophy of the Person class, in headlines on posters scattered along the walls of O’Neill, or in a Facebook post your random freshman year roommate liked recently.

From casual open mics sprinkled throughout campus to the Battle of the Bands competition on the Arts Fest mainstage, Music Guild has worked tirelessly to carry live music to Eagles’ ears since 1981.

Co- presidents Nicole Rodger and Rachel Moon, both MCAS ’19, describe the club as a “music collective” that hosts events for musicians, listeners, and music lovers.

“Essentially it’s a group of likeminded people who work together to foster this music community on campus,” Rodger said. “This is [a club] for people who are loosely creative and want to make music with other people.”

Music Guild hosts a number of events throughout the year, each furthering its purpose of bringing those with musical inclinations together from all corners of campus.

The most formidable event the club hosts each year is Battle of the Bands, a two-round competition sequence where BC acts audition and compete for a chance to open at Modstock that year.

Rodger and Moon credit the collaboration efforts of the Campus Activities Board (CAB) and the Arts Council for making Battle of the Bands the Arts Fest staple that it is today.

Shady Lady, of which Rodger and Moon are both members, won the competition last year after less than a semester of playing together.

Collaboration efforts play a large role in other events the club holds, including the Avid Listeners BC x Music Guild Fall Showcase, which was held on Friday. Jammin’ Toast, which is considered a “sister club” of Music Guild, meets ever y Saturday and simply gives musicians from all different backgrounds the opportunity to collaborate in a very non-committal, low-stakes setting.

In the past, Music Guild has also collaborated with The Laughing Medusa, BC’s women’s literature and arts journal, to hold larger events at Fuel America, the BC student-frequented coffee shop with somewhat of a cult following.

Furthering the club’s recent attempt to expand its reach into the city of Boston, Break the Bubble, a play on the common phrase “BC bubble” that is used to describe BC’s students unwillingness to explore the city of Boston, was started in 2015 by “the

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slot to perform covers or originals to the crowd of mostly Music Guild members and the occasional passerby. On the weeks Music Guild doesn’t host an open mic, it invites its members to go to Franciscan Children’s Hospital in Brighton to play music with the patients.

Planning these events is no small feat—an extensive amount of planning, marketing, and mobilizing goes into each event.

First, the e-board has to craft the lineup for an event, which requires careful balancing between genres and acts. The lineup is then advertised on posters around campus in the weeks leading up to the event.

On the night of a show, Music Guild supplies its members with the equipment they need to perform, including drum sets and amps, and spends a few hours setting up and running soundche ck s b efore an event. Members are also responsible for carrying the equipment from the organization’s practice room in Carney Hall to wherever the event is taking place, which is usually the

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father of the Guild,” John Guzzi, former president of Music Guild and BC ’15. Each spring, a lineup of BC acts pack up and spend a day performing outside of Faneuil Hall for tourists passing by and BC students dedicated to the cause.

Music Guild showcases are held each semester on campus and feature a lineup of roughly six student bands.

Last year the club mixed it up by moving the event that usually occurs in the Vandy Cabaret Room to the Rat and rebranding the spring showcase as “Rock The Rat.” In order to meet time constraints, there is a vetting process for artists who wish to perform at showcases— Music Guild will generally require a submission prior to the event to ensure the band will deliver a quality performance.

Open mic nights are the most frequent and most open Music Guild events. Held every other Thursday in various locations across campus, the open mics are the most casual form of performance.

Each performer gets a 10-minute

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Vandy Cabaret Room.

Music Guild hosts a number of different genres at any given show.

Although many of the acts perform within an indie rock framework, some of the frequent performers vary their individual styles with folk influences and even elements of R&B: At last year’s Battle of the Bands, rapper Phenom V (Emmanuel Laguerre, BC ’18) was one of the standout finalists, and folk trio Alpacka, headed by Brendan Ronan, MCAS ’19, is an act to look out for this year. Many artists follow the traditional setup of a drummer, one or two guitarists, a bassist, maybe a keyboardist, and a lead singer thrown in there somewhere, but the individuality lies in how the different acts use their instruments to create a distinct sound.

“A big thing is [the music] is all just guitar-driven, which you probably don’t hear in the Billboard [Top 100] stuff,” Moon said. “It’s not a lot of electronic stuff—we go back to the roots basically.”

“There’s lots of ‘Wonderwall,’” Rodger joked. “Actually last open mic—a funny little anecdote—we had two different performers play ‘Free Falling’ by Tom Petty.”

Not all Music Guild performers come bearing a six string that has only seen the likes of classic rock covers and ’90s soft rock riffs—Laguerre’s Battle of the Bands set relied heavily on an electric guitar to create the backbone of his hip-hop beats. Using a similar approach, the up-and-coming R&B duo of Cannon Few, a staff writer for The Heights and MCAS ’20, and Tanner Kellan, MCAS ’20, mesh acoustic riffs with R&B lyrics, whether covering Mac Miller or playing original music.

Music Guild is somewhat of an anomaly on the arts scene at BC due to its relaxed approach to commitment.

Unlike a cappella groups or chamber music ensembles, Music Guild does not hold any mandatory gatherings for its members, and instead invites anyone to come jam at any of its events, whether as a performer or an onlooker.

At the moment, the Music Guild e-board is focusing its attention on attracting a wider audience to its events.

“Music isn’t really a part of BC culture at the moment,” Moon said.

“Music and art [are] so important, but they’re so sparse here—[we] have got to do anything we can to grow it.”

Music Guild relies heavily on grassroots marketing to pull crowds to its events—word of mouth is one of the main ways music enthusiasts hear about Music Guild happenings.

Friends of performers make up a majority of the audience at showcases and open mics alike, creating a very supportive environment for the musicians to express themselves. Ultimately, Music Guild wants to provide a space where its musicians can be heard by as many people as possible.

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ALBC and Music Guild Showcase Student Singers, Bands

BY KAYLIE RAMIREZ

Assoc. Arts Editor

Avid Listeners of Boston College (ALBC) and Music Guild brought together musical minds from all corners of campus for a joint showcase on Friday.

Seven student acts jammed together in the Vandy Cabaret Room to unify listeners and performers in their shared love of music.

ALBC’s Evan Kielmeyer, MCAS ’20, introduced Alex Moran, MCAS ’19, and Nicole Rodger, MCAS ’19, to kick off the night with coffeehouse set from the duo.

A highlight of the set was a cover of Ray LaMontagne’s “Jolene,” a pleading ballad that played nicely on Moran’s acoustic guitar.

“This is what you all will probably recognize, so sing along,” Moran said to introduce a cover of CeeLo Green’s

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“Crazy.”

The two musicians ended with a fresh take on Cage the Elephant’s formidable 2009 hit “Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked,” a rendition that retained all the energy and kick of the original.

Mac Porter, MCAS ’21, followed in the same style, taking the stage accompanied only by an acoustic guitar. The Singer Songwriter finalist opened his set with a mashup of an original song titled “Different Times,” Post Malone’s “Better Now,” and Drake’s “Marvins Room.”

The artist went on to perform covers of Ed Sheeran’s “Give Me Love” and Justin Bieber’s “Love Yourself” before closing with fan-favorite original “Too Young to be Alone,” a track from his recently released album Seven.

Soloist Stavros Piperis, MCAS ’19, also split his set between originals and covers, including a slow, crowd-pleasing

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cover of Harry Styles’ “Meet Me in the Hallway.” The 2018 Sing It to the Heights winner bookended his set with a debut of his new track “Time and Time Again” and a performance of “The Way,” a song that the tight-knit BC music community quickly recognized.

The duo of Jake Abrams, LSOE ’20, and Lexi Kelly, LSOE ’19, closed out the acoustic portion of the night with a relaxed combination of covers and originals. Abrams shined during a performance of his recently released original “grayscale,” showing the raw emotion of the song on his face while delivering the lyrics that repeat “Stay focused, stay focused / This love won’t go unnoticed.”

A sultry cover of Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” energized the growing crowd and provided the perfect segway to the electric latter half of the show.

Last year’s Battle of the Bands winner

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Shady Lady was the first band to perform.

Moran returned to play bass for the currently all-female group, and Rodger took the mic for a second time to sing the band’s indie rock lyrics.

Caroline Rooney and Rachel Moon, both MCAS ’19, stunned the audience with their intricate guitar riffs throughout the set.

Stevie Walker, MCAS ’21, made her debut as Shady Lady’s drummer and jammed perfectly with the band through its sixth song, “Ride or Die,” to which the full room danced along. Merchant made its debut at the event, opening its set with a seven-minute jam sesh that mingled refined guitar riffs from Dan Pflueger, MCAS ’20, and jazzy bass from Adin Henderson, MCAS ’21.

“Yes, we have originals even though we formed last night,” guitarist and vocalist Peter Toronto, MCAS ’20, said

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before the new band was halfway through its set.

Merchant’s last song, “Ghost,” gave the members an opportunity to showcase their individual musical talents—drummer Arthur Brenninkmeijer, CSOM ’22, kept a steady beat going while Toronto, Pflueger, and Henderson gave rousing solos.

Unit One pulled in the crowd with rambunctious originals for the final set of the night. Bassist Nick Sucre, MCAS ’19, and Josh Mentzer, MCAS ’19, grooved through the second song, “Good Dance,” a track the band released on Oct. 5. Moon returned to deliver impressive guitar riffs and vocals for the band’s seven-song set.

The large crowd danced and even faux moshed throughout the final set, moved by the perfect combination of listening and playing at the ALBC- and Music Guild-sponsored event. 

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