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UGBC president Thomas Napoli, MCAS â&#x20AC;&#x2122;16, and vice president Olivia Hussey, MCAS â&#x20AC;&#x2122;17, successfully saw to the purchase of printers to be set up in Corcoran Commons, working to fulfill a campaign goal for more accessible printing locations around campus.

UGBC has coordinated with IT Service to place printers within Corcoran Com-

mons and McElroy Commons.

The proposal, which was originally part of Napoli and Husseyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campaign platform last year, was drafted in May. The University has already purchased the printers , but action has been delayed by logistic and bureaucratic holdups within administration, Hussey said. She was told that the devices were originally planned to be installed by Sept. 1. â&#x20AC;&#x153;By the end of the summer, it seemed like it was a go, and it was happening,â&#x20AC;?

Hussey said.

This Sept. 1 deadline was not met, in part due to UGBCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rejection of the administrationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proposal that concerned where the printers would be located and who would be involved with the setup and maintenance of the devices.

Though there have been issues concerning aesthetics in the dining halls,

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Printers on the first floor of Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill Library are currently the closest to Lower Campus.

9`Xj `eZ`[\ek i\jgfej\ ]fid j_lk [fne# le[\i i\m`\n Df^Xe Z`k\j ZfdgcX`ekj i\^Xi[`e^ XZX[\d`Z ]i\\[fd# Xefepd`kp `e glcc`e^ YXZb e\n ]fid 9P :8IFCPE =I<<D8E E\nj <[`kfi At the beginning of the semester, a form was created for students to report incidents of bias. Several weeks later, that form was shut down for what its creators call a process of review. The review will start soon, Dean of Students Thomas Mogan said, and will be done by a committee that includes representatives from student life and members of

the faculty. There is not yet a date set for the formâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s return.

The form, which began in the Office of the Dean of Students, was originally meant to establish a clear line of communication between the students and the administration. It served as a place for administrators to collect data on biasbased incidents at Boston College, particularly microaggressions and other acts which otherwise would go unreported.

The form also gave students and faculty

the option to report other members of the BC community anonymously.

Part of the reason the form was removed was due to complaints from faculty about academic freedom, Mogan said, with concerns being raised about how the reporting protocol would apply to faculty in the classroom. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be looking at the bias response protocol and reviewing it to make sure that it is consistent with existing policies and procedures that the University already had in place,â&#x20AC;? Mogan said.

He could not elaborate on the exact nature of the complaints, or where they

originated, but noted that the problems revolved around the application of the protocol to academics. In addition, because the form was anonymous, it was difficult to tell whether submissions were actually from BC students.

The vast majority of the submissions received were not things that could be further investigated, Mogan said. The review process will examine whether it is worthwhile for the form to be anonymous. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We received a lot of submissions that were inappropriate or not actionable,â&#x20AC;? Mogan said. Â&#x201E;

Freshman forward Jeremy Bracco has decided to leave Boston College and sign with the Ontario Hockey Leagueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kitchener Rangers, CollegeHockeyNews.comâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mike McMahon reported Wednesday morning.

BC Hockey confirmed the news shortly after. Head coach Jerry York will not be commenting on Braccoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s departure at this time.

In five games with the Eagles, Bracco notched three assists but no goals. The freshman had initially started on BCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s primary scoring line with sophomore forwards Alex Tuch and Zach Sanford.

For BCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s series against Colorado College this past weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a two-game set which the Eagles won handily, 3-0 and 5-0â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Bracco had been replaced

by Adam Gilmour, Tuch and Sanfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s linemate from last season, moving down to the third line with Colin White, his former U.S. National Development Program teammate, and Ryan Fitzgerald.

Bracco, the 61st overall pick in the 2015 NHL Draft by the Toronto Maple Leafs, had been rumored to abandon his commitment to BC over the summer and sign with the Maple Leafs.

At this moment, it is not certain if Bracco has signed a entry-level contract with the professional club. Â&#x201E;

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After the Bapst Art Gallery was shut down due to issues with accessibility, among others, there has been a push for a dedicated

space for the display of student and faculty art, Vanessa Maramba, a graduate assistant in the Boston College Arts Council, said.

Through the eďŹ&#x20AC;orts of the Arts Council, the OďŹ&#x192;ce of Student Involvement, and Space Planning, a gallery was created in Carney Hall Room 203. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really for the students and faculty, so we are very open to what people would like to display,â&#x20AC;? Maramba said.

Prior to the ďŹ rst oďŹ&#x192;cial exhibit, a temporary exhibit called Artifact by students in the

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A temporary student exhibit is now on display in Carney, ahead of the galleryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s official opening.

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Mark Noll, professor at the University of Notre Dame, will speak in Devlin Hall 101 on Thursday, Oct. 29 at 5 p.m. He will address the role of the Bible in the early America, exploring Christopher Columbus’ arrival at the continent, the American colonies, and the American Revolution.

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The Center for Human Rights and International Justice is sponsoring an event titled “Tough Choices: Teaching about Race, Gender, and Class Oppression on a Predominantly White Campus” on Oct. 30, in Campion Hall 139 at 12 p.m.

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C>JF< ^iX[ i\Zf^e`q\[ Natalie DiFusco-Funk, BC ’03, LGSOE ’08, has been nominated by the state of Virginia for the National Teacher of the Year Award. She was recognized over seven other Virginia teachers, all of whom won teacher of the year awards in other regions of the state.

She has called teaching fifth grade her dream job, according to The Washington Post.

At a reception last week in Richmond, Va., Governor Terry McAuliffe praised DiFusco-Funk.

“As the 2016 Virginia Teacher of the Year, Natalie will represent the tens of thousands of outstanding classroom educators whose creativity, content knowledge and love of teaching have made Virginia’s public schools among the best in the nation,” McAuliffe said.

:<F nXiej f] f`c mfcXk`c`kp At the Boston College Chief Executives Club last Thursday, ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan Lance warned the audience to be prepared for volatility in the oil industry.

Lance, the second speaker in this semester’s series, said that the oil industry will need to reinvest heavily.

At the talk, Lance also said that the Obama Administration should ban crude exports in order to revitalize the United States domestic energy industry.

“Allowing exports would ... help save existing jobs and create new jobs,” he said. “Now, if we could only get the administration to act. That’s number one on my wish list.”

The series brings prominent CEOs to speak. Travis Kalanick, co-founder and CEO of Uber Technologies will speak next on Dec.1.

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Four and a half years ago, Molly McAleer, BC ’06, launched a culture website for young women with actress Zooey Deschanel and producer Sophia Rivka Rossi. The site has been sold to Time, Inc., though the terms of the deal were not disclosed. According to the Wall Street Journal, one person familiar with the purchase said it was valued at about $20 million.

Seventeen million distinct people view HelloGiggles each month—three out of four of whom are women under age 35. One thousand paid contributors generate content for the site, which has 22 employees. Time also owns Entertainment Weekly and Sports Illustrated, along with other national media sources.

The website is divided into topics—news, culture, friends, work, love, style—and its founders’ goal was to create a positive space for young women. The partnership with Time will allow them to expand into video, according to the Los Angeles Times. In a statement, Deschanel said that the purchase makes it possible to inspire and support more young women.

“We just felt like in order to be in the place our contributors wanted to go, we should partner,” Rossi said to the Los Angeles Times.

“We’re excited to use the [intellectual property] of our contributors and expand into TV, online video, and film.”

What are Boston College graduates doing in the world of startups? Bill Clerico, MCAS ’07, raised over $75 million in investor funding for his payment processing company WePay. Tom Coburn and Jonathan Lacoste co-founded Jebbit, an online advertising platform and were named to the Forbes “30 Under 30” list of marketing innovators.

Current student Riley Soward, CSOM ’18, co-founded Campus Insights, a college-focused marketing research startup.

BostInno recently named him one of Boston’s top-25 young entrepreneurs.

With its recent successes in entrepreneurship, BC is trying to entice more students to get involved in entrepreneurial opportunities. With an eye toward increasing student participation in the startup community, BC’s Shea Center for Entrepreneurship will hold its dedication ceremony and inaugural symposium, Thursday, Nov. 5 to Saturday, Nov. 7.

The Shea Center was endowed this year after the University received a gift from the family of the late Edmund H. Shea Jr., a prominent San Francisco Bay Area venture capitalist and entrepreneur. Three of Mr. Shea’s granddaughters have attended BC. “The Shea Center is the com-

ing together of three things: the entrepreneurial activity going on on-campus in the past decade, the activity going on in the world, and now this incredibly generous family,” said Jere Doyle, executive director of the Shea Center and BC ’87.

The Shea Center seeks to help students and alumni who have started their own companies, but its larger goal is to prepare students to enter careers in small businesses or startups.

“We have very well-rounded students here, but I think they, in general, have tended to be a little bit risk-averse—they’ve tended to go right to big companies,” Doyle said.

The Shea Center’s plan involves encouragement and academic opportunity. The B C Venture Competition, which annually awards a $20,000 grand prize to the best BC studentled venture, recently merged with the Shea Center. The Shea Center also sponsors the Elevator Pitch Competition, where students have one minute to pitch their company or product idea to a panel of judges, with the winner receiving $500.

In addition, students can now concentrate in entrepreneurship in the Carroll School of Management. Courses include entrepreneurial management, venture capital and private equity, and the elective technology and economic development. As part of that course, students

spend a week in Ghana to meet with business leaders. Students who are not in CSOM can take up to eight business classes and can choose from classes in the entrepreneurship concentration.

Next week’s events are another key part of the Shea Center’s plan to reach the broader BC community.

“The symposium is a big celebration of entrepreneurship at BC,” said Kelsey Kinton, assistant director of the Shea Center and BC ’12. “Now we have the resources to continue to do what we’ve been doing, but on a larger scale and including more students.”

The symposium starts next Thursday at 4:30 p.m. in Robsham Theater. Phil Schiller, the senior vice president of global marketing at Apple and BC ’82, will deliver a keynote address.

“He’s been part of building Apple into one of the leading technology companies in the world,” Doyle said. Schiller started working at Apple in 1997, when Steve Jobs returned as CEO. After the talk, Doyle will moderate “Innovation Meets Entrepreneurship,” a panel featuring Schiller, Bijan Sabet, BC ’91, who co-founded venture capital firm Spark Capital, and Niraj Shah, CEO and co-founder of Bostonbased e-commerce giant Wayfair.

“On Thursday, we have the founder, the funder, and this incredible marketing guru,” Doyle said.

On Friday, the Shea Center

will host two panels. The first is focused on funding businesses, and the second is the young entrepreneurs panel, which will focus on starting a business. Together, the events planned for Thursday and Friday are designed to cover the broadest scope of material possible—from starting a business to growing it into something like Apple or Wayfair, and the steps in between.

Robbie Li, CSOM ’16, chairs Start @ Shea, the student organization that works with the Shea Center to connect students’ entrepreneurial projects with the resources of the center. He has noticed significant growth in BC’s interest in startups and entrepreneurship, and sees the Shea Center’s role in nurturing that growth as key.

“I think the most important thing Shea does is that it connects entrepreneurs on campus to form that community that we lack at BC,” Li said. “We’re working on redefining what entrepreneurship means at BC so that it is relevant for all students across the different schools.”

That is the ultimate goal of the symposium, too.

“It’s an opportunity to bring people on campus who want to share their experiences with the student body, and it gives students the opportunity to meet them,” Doyle said. “There’s no better way to learn about entrepreneurship than to listen to entrepreneurs tell their stories.”

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By Olivia Morley For The Heights Proceeds from the Boston International Fine Art Show’s (BIFAS) Gala Preview, which was held in Devlin Hall last Thursday evening, will benefit the McMullen Museum as part of the museum’s expansion and relocation to 2101 Commonwealth Avenue.

“I think [the money’s] going to see us continuing lectures and tours and concerts of the same kind that we do now,” said Kate Shugert, the museum’s manager of Publications and Exhibitions.

“At the new museum, we’ll have a much larger platform.”

The gala, which was attended by about 350 people, was the kick-off event for the 19th annual BIFAS. Other BIFAS events were hosted over the weekend at The Cyclorama, Boston Center for the Arts—they included booth talks with artists, panel talks with experts, and a presentation given

by Boston College professor Jeffery Howe on the stained glass of John La Farge.

“Our new windows were a revelation to most there, and I was able to make many aware of the treasures that are often overlooked in our locale,” Howe said.

Howe attended the gala, where

he spoke to attendees about the McMullen Museum’s mission and its plans to relocate. He also curated the museum’s current exhibit, titled “John La Farge and the Recovery of the Sacred.”

The exhibit features two large stained glass windows, which were donated by Newport, R.I., gallery-owner William Vareika, BC ’74, who Howe said is the world’s leading collector of works

by John La Farge.

“Vareika basically saved the windows from being sold off as individual windows,” Shugert said. “They needed a ton of restorations.”

Vareika is affiliated with the Boston-based public relations agency, Fusco and Four, which organized BIFAS this year. Its owner, Tony Fusco, contacted the museum and collaborated with its staff members to organize the gala.

“We are very grateful to the organizers of the Boston International Art Show for choosing the McMullen Museum as the beneficiary of their gala,” Howe said. “It is a great honor, and a recognition of the important role that our museum plays in the Boston art community. Although they are a commercial organization, they value education and mission of our museum to expand

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the knowledge and appreciation of art.”

Gala guests got a first look at BIFAS artwork while wine and cheese were circulated. Ticketholders had the opportunity to view and purchase artworks before other BIFAS attendees.

“It was really a visual feast,” Shugert said, explaining that several gallery representatives and artists were present at the event to talk with attendees.

First-tier tickets cost $125, and allowed attendees to enter the event at 6:30 p.m., while sec-

ond-tier tickets cost $250, and allowed guests to enter at 5:30 p.m.

Those who purchased tickets in the highest tier, or “benefactors,” paid $1,000 to attend the gala.

There were four benefactors at the event, Shugert said.

“It was definitely a success,” Shugert said. “I hope that the museum continues its relationship with Fusco and Four. It was a great way of starting a new relationship because we’re a very small staff. It was kind of a perfect example of the collaborative nature of the McMullen.”

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Saturday, Oct. 24

Sunday, Oct. 25

12:01 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a BC student who was placed under arrest by the Newton Police Department for operating under the influence of alcohol.

12:12 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a suspicious person in Edmonds Hall.

3:21 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a firm alarm activation in Merkert Chemistry Center.

12:19 a.m. - A report was filed regarding medical assistance provided to a student who was transported to a medical facility from Cheverus Hall.

10:16 p.m. - A report was filed regarding arson in Walsh Hall.

12:39 a.m. - A report was filed regarding vandalism in Walsh Hall.

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“Contemporary Issues in New Media” class will be on display from Oct. 26 until Oct. 30.

This exhibit is made up of a combination of wall pieces, sound art, and video.

Chong’s work on display is titled “The Pilgrim,” and will run until Dec. 4.

An opening reception will be held Nov. 2 from 3 to 5 p.m.

“It is inspired by some etchings I found made by Rubens in the early 17th century about the life of St. Ignatius of Loyola,” Chong said.

He explained that he had discovered the etchings during his education and later when revisiting his notes, saw the etchings.

“I found a whole collection of etchings made by Rubens and decided that I could use that narrative of the story of the life of St. Ignatius to talk about what it would mean to search for meaning in the 21st century,” he said.

Chong explained how he scanned the images of the etchings from the Burns Library and subsequently printed them on canvas to form the basis for his oil paintings.

“I was trying to recast the life of Ignatius from the perspective and concerns of modern generations,” he said about “The Pilgrim.”

When he found out about the new Carney Gallery, Chong approached Sarah McDermott, director and program administrator of the Boston College Arts Council, to display this

collection.

“I always felt that it fits with the overall goals and vision of Boston College, a Jesuit University that is trying to infuse within the students Jesuit values,”

“I was trying to recast the life of Ignatius from the perspective and concerns of modern generations.”

—S ammy C hong , v i siting professor, about his exhibit, “The Pilgrim” in the new art gallery in Carney Hall

he said.

Though he did not create the collection for this purpose, it was a coincidence that the subject he was painting fit so well with the values of BC, and he decided to give it a try, he said.

Chong encouraged everyone to use this space to their advantage and to be proactive in creating artwork in any form, whether it be paintings, photos, prints, sculptures, or installations.

He also commented that this new gallery will be a good space for the display of 3D art such as sculpture and installations, as there are not many areas on campus where such works can be exhibited.

“I encourage everybody to do work that they feel confident about that is solid in terms of concept and in terms of execution to be seen by the larger Boston College community,” he said

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By Becky Reilly =fi K_\ ?\`^_kj When Simona Petrova’s daughter disagrees with her, Petrova never resorts to “because-I-said-so” parenting.

Instead, she encourages her daughter, if she thinks she knows best, to write a rebuttal to her mother and engage diplomatically.

Tonight, the Boston College Model United Nations team and the Islamic Civilizations and Societies Program hosted Petrova for a talk entitled “The UN at 70”. Petrova discussed the history of the UN, its new Sustainable Development Goals, and her personal path to a diplomacy career. As she admitted to doing with her daughter,

“The UN at 70 is facing many challenges, and it can only be successful if we the people, the ‘we the people’ mentioned in the charter, want it to succeed.”

—Simona Petrova, director of the Chief Executive Board S ecretariat at the United Nations Petrova encouraged students to explore diplomacy.

Petrova, a Bulgarian national, has spent almost 25 years at the UN and currently serves as director of the Chief Executive Board Secretariat. A graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts, Petrova worked for the Bulgarian National Commission for the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and negotiated

the establishment of UN offices in an array of post-Soviet countries through the UN Development Program (UNDP).

Petrova found the climate of diplomacy and Fletcher far different from that of her native country.

“Because I grew up in a society where this was not an option, we were basically told in a communist country, ‘Well, this is right, this is wrong.’ And we accepted it,” Petrova said. “I was like a kid in a candy store because I was allowed to speak up in class … and no one was going to kick me out.”

On Sept. 25, the UN launched its 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, an extension of its Millennium Development Goals, which expired this year. Both sets of goals set checkpoints for social and economic development in the world, which guide UN and national planning.

Petrova explained that the two sets of goals differed mainly in the amount of work and involvement they entailed. The Millennium Development Goals, she explained, were formed by a few countries and targeted developing countries.

The Sustainable Development Goals are, on the other hand, a product of two years of work in the General Assemblies, with input from all 193 member states. They are, Petrova said, “explicitly universal.”

“The UN at 70 is facing many challenges, and it can only be successful if we the people, the ‘we the people’ mentioned in the charter, want it to succeed,” Petrova said.

In a new age of globalization, Petrova said, the UN has found success in partnering with wide-reaching international corporations to deliver aid. In one example, Petrova remarked that the most effective way to deliver HIV/ AIDS treatment to remote villages was through Coca-Cola’s pre-existing system. Petrova noted how the growing efficiency of the international community

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Simona Petrova explained the two sets of goals that the United Nations has laid out in its 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. can make previously insurmountable goals foreseeable.

“You are the first generation that can see extreme poverty eradicated,” Petrova said.

But above all else, Petrova emphasized the importance of new entrants to the field of diplomacy and urged students interested in international

relations careers to consider it.

She also noted the importance of women in the diplomacy process, especially because she grew up during a time when few women held such posts.

She asked students to continue to participate in international relationsfocused activities and conferences and to stay engaged with the international

community. In Petrova’s eyes, the current generation of new diplomats is inheriting a world formed by an adolescent UN that still has potential to enact positive change.

“It’s up to women, [and] it’s up to young people like you who are interested in international relations to make the best of it,” Petrova said.

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By Brigid Kelly =fi K_\ ?\`^_kj An event this Friday is offering the Boston College community a space for reflection on the shootings this past June at a church in Charleston, S.C., in which nine people were shot dead during a religious gathering. Rev. Dr. Gregory Groover will speak at the Diversity and Justice Series Event titled, “Bearing Witness: Reflection on the Emanuel AME Church Shooting.”

The event, sponsored by the Graduate School of Social Work, will be held from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Heights Room at Corcoran Commons.

Groover serves as the President of the Black Ministerial Alliance. He is the pastor of The Historic Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal Church. In addition to being a minister, Groover is a social worker—he earned his master’s in Social Work from Columbia University. “ This correlation of two back-

grounds brings a unique perspective of being a minister of the community with the background of understanding social work,” said Paul Kline, a member of the Diversity and Justice Committee in the School of Social Work, which organized this event. “Our profession seeks to advance the cause of justice in all that we do. Rev. Groover’s presentation and presence will provide us with an opportunity to discover new pathways for social change through advocacy and action.”

Since this talk is open to the entire BC community, Kline hopes there will be a widespread discussion about race in America, not limited to those with a

social work background. Kline outlined two main objectives of this talk. First, it will explore how the killings are a manifestation of a larger racism problem. Second, it will address how wthe BC community can pursue the cause of justice in response to the shootings.

As a social worker and minister, Kline said, Groover can promote healing and recovery for those that have faced racially motivated crimes In this talk, Groover aims to explore pathways to healing for survivors of shooting violence, while also furthering the discussion about pathways to healing and recovery through conversations Kline said.

Kline said Groover’s background as both a social worker and minister creates a union of wisdom and experience regarding racism “Social workers are deeply involved in addressing the most stubborn and thorny social problems that create barriers to true freedom and healthy development,” Kline said.

“Chief among these is our country’s history of slavery and racism. We look forward to Rev. Groover deepening our understanding of how this terrible crime is rooted in our nation’s history and ongoing failure to eradicate the systemic and personal pathologies that produce such acts.”

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SARAH MOORE I sat sprawled across my striped comforter last Thursday afternoon, frantically listing off necessities over the phone to my mom a few states away. My requests for makeup remover and baking supplies echoed over the chorus of Justin Bieber’s latest single that played in the background. I flipped through my notebook, hoping my mom might hear the pages and misleadingly think that I was doing my homework and wasn’t just waiting for the weekend. As we finalized the list of things she so generously would bring up for me on her trip to Boston the next day she noted that Halloween was quickly approaching and asked if I needed anything from the closet downstairs.

Oh God...the closet downstairs.

Hidden in the depths of my basement, behind doors and through hallways, sits one weathered wooden door. Scratched and damaged after a strenuous existence, that door has held back evidence of some of the most questionable decisions throughout my 20 years. I was genuinely surprised that my mom would even offer to search through its depths, through the terrifying history that was middle school Sarah Moore, but she was right—Halloween was approaching and I still needed to finalize a few costumes.

I’ve decided that the costume closet is a space unique to my humble, suburban home. It is probably a product of me being an only child and thus having an excess amount of space for an excess of toys, or maybe I spent more hours than I remember playing dress up and my mom decided that my girlish game deserved its own sanctuary.

Regardless, the costume closet houses the physical reminders of my embarrassing preteen tendencies, from rouched, spaghettistrapped homecoming dresses to overworn, size-five, clunky, jelly sandals.

I heard my mom flipping through hangers and searching through drawers. I could see the tule and tackiness overflowing out of the closet—the button-up chef dress I wore sophomore year of high school with, of course, a matching hat, the grossly shiny eskimo suit I begged her for as an eighth grader, and the white stockings that I put on after I left the house en route to my first party as a freshman. Not the spookiest Halloween costumes, but all horrifying.

Just this week, as my mom resurrected some of my alarming past, MBTA workers coincidentally exposed some of Boston’s scary history.

During underground construction on the Government Center T Station, which has been closed since March of 2014, a few workers recently uncovered two costumes that had been tucked away in a hollow section of concrete for at least 60 years. The costumes, more eerie than embarrassing, are blue and red capes sewn on to masks and adorned with white stars. Though hauntingly representative of the city’s past, rich with American tradition and a focal point of the nation’s history, no one knows their original source.

Although this isn’t the first discovery in the depths of Boston’s underground since the construction began—they found a century-old newspaper too (how appropriate)—it definitely is the most shocking.

Although a T spokesman told The Boston Globe that there would be no investigation into the source or history of the costumes at the moment, they remind the city that no matter how many years or layers of concrete have accumulated little hints of history are never fully covered. In a way this find uncovered Boston’s own costume closet and the city, like me, is confronted with evidence of its questionable past.

Who did I think I was, dressing up in costumes fit for a 25-year-old when I barely looked 15. I cringe as I see those pictures now—honestly I thought I deleted the majority of them on Facebook—but they have their way of scaring me when I least expect it. As questionable as the past may be though, this costume discovery reminds us all that even the most embarrassing elements of our past make their way into our personal history. I’m sure the costumes of this weekend will end up in the cluttered craziness of my closet at some point. No matter how spooky they may seem in the future, they are still laughable ghosts of Halloweens past.

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A set of 58 shiny, new bikes recently made their Boston debut. Clad in black, grey, and yellow, early risers were eager to take their seats and lock into the stationary fleet.

At 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday, this set of Bostonians was the first to find its “Soul” at the opening of the new Back Bay SoulCycle studio at 500 Boylston St. “[We’re] always looking to open in active and vibrant communities like Boston,” SoulCycle’s PR coordinator Kristyn Clark said. After opening a studio in Chestnut Hill in March 2014, the first in the Boston area, the city’s SoulCycle community began to build.

“We couldn’t be more excited to expand our footprint in Boston,” she said.

“First stop—Back Bay!” Clark explained that in addition to toning muscles and burning calories, the class is designed to benefit the mind through mental and emotional release. “Instructors deliver inspirational messages that leave you feeling stronger and more powerful after every ride,” she said.

According to its website, SoulCycle believes that fitness can be joyful. “We climb, we jog, we sprint, we dance, we set our intention, and we break through boundaries,” the website says. The activity is a fat-burning, full-body workout that includes hand weights as well as choreography aimed to tone core muscles. The company believes that its workout does not just help improve one’s physique, but also one’s mind.

Clark dispelled the misconception that SoulCycle is only for one type of person, noting that men and women, old and young, athletes and non-athletes alike can all “find their soul” in the studio. “Our youngest rider is 12 years old and our oldest is 80,” she said. “We see people from all walks of life.”

One of the company’s largest target clientele is young adults, and many Boston College students frequent the company’s Chestnut Hill studio.

Izzy Fuchs, MCAS ’18, started attending classes at SoulCycle after she stopped rowing crew due to medical reasons. Fuchs was instantly hooked due to the class’s team atmosphere. “It was exactly the athletic, team-bonding experience I was looking for,” she said. Fuchs tries to go to the studio in Chestnut Hill between two and three

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On Wednesday, a handful of Bostonians found their ‘Soul’ at the company’s newest studio at 500 Boylston St. in the Back Bay. times per week to recharge and clear her head between classes.

Although Mary Royer, LSOE ’17, enjoys the convenience and free cost of attendance of spin classes at the Flynn Recreation Complex on campus, she prefers attending classes at SoulCycle.

“It’s just a very different experience as compared to traditional spinning, so the two cannot really be compared,” she said. “It depends on what you’re looking for on any given day.”

Royer enjoys the style and organization of the classes that SoulCycle offers. “The workout itself is intense and difficult, but the atmosphere, music, and instructors are enough to distract you from how much you’re sweating,” she said. She believes that the workout is a unique experience, and said she has not met anyone who did not immediately fall in love with the workout

after his or her first class.

Like many B C student s , Royer prefers the convenience of SoulCycle’s Chestnut Hill location, but still plans to make her way to Back Bay. “I would like to visit the new studio and meet the new instructors,” she said. “However, because the Chestnut Hill studio is so close, I think I will still mainly go there.”

Fuchs prefers to exercise off campus as a way to explore the area around her, and is looking forward to the Back Bay location. “The Copley location is great,” she said. “It is the perfect place for a morning workout, then an afternoon exploring Back Bay.” Fuchs plans to visit the new studio this coming weekend, where they will be hosting a Halloween-themed opening party that will be open to the public.

Although Royer prefers the acces-

sibility of the studio in Chestnut Hill, she is very about the addition of the new location in Back Bay, and hopes it will create a larger SoulCycle following in the Boston area.

“New York City has 16 studios, and until now, Boston only had the one located in Chestnut Hill,” she said.

“New York has a huge Soul following, and I could see the same happening in Boston.” She believes that the new city-central location will help create the following she imagines.

With the addition of the Back Bay location, SoulCycle has already been rumored to be expanding across the B oston area , and plans to open a studio in Beacon Hill in 2016, according to Boston.com. Clark said that the company is currently focused on building the SoulCycle community in Back Bay.

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Before we head up to his office, another waiting patron approaches him. The man is also expecting a meeting with Fasten. Levitskiy directs him to a different floor.

The r ide- shar ing app Fa sten launched four weeks ago, and what developers Kirill Evdakov, Vlad Christoff,

and Levitskiy have been most surprised about the enthusiasm with which the startup has been welcomed. “We didn’t know how hungry the market was,” Christoff said after explaining that the company spent next to zero dollars on marketing.

Boston is the first city to host Fasten.

The developers attributed the appeal of the city to its cold weather, lack of automobile owners, and large amount of college students on a budget. Evdakov noted that Boston is a great place for Fasten, as opposed to over-priced and overcrowded San Francisco, for example, because now most new tech companies start in Beantown before they expand to the West Coast.

From a practical view, the application of the service is not much different from its competitors, Uber and Lyft.

One of the main differences, Levitskiy noted, is the metered fare that can be viewed in real time, similar to a taxi.

The founders admitted, however, that the technology is not revolutionary.

“We’re not trying to show you a whole new experience,” Evdakov said.

Instead of dramatically changing the software, Fasten seeks to change the way ride-sharing companies are managed—not from a technological standpoint, but on a customer service level. “We don’t look at it as a technology,” Christoff said. “Yes, the technology makes the connection. But here today, it’s a human driver, in their own car, with a human passenger. It doesn’t get any more human than that.”

Fasten’s main goal is to offer the customer cheaper rides, while allowing drivers to earn more money. The Fasten team believes the solution is simple. “We keep less for ourselves,” Evdakov said.

The concept can be viewed as a chain of customers—the riders are the drivers’ customers, and the drivers are

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Fasten launched just four weeks ago in Boston, and is looking to compete with other popular ride-sharing apps, like Uber and Lyft.

the company’s customers. Fasten views the treatment of its drivers equally as important to the success of the business as it does the happiness of the actual riders.

“We make a connection,” Christoff said. “We put the rider in that driver’s seat. But, it’s that driver’s vehicle. They provide the service. They pay all the expenses associated with it … So it’s only fair that the driver makes his or her fair share that is proportional to what they do.”

The company’s ideology is centered around giving users and drivers more control. The app’s metered-fare in real time, as well as one’s accessibility to delete items from his or her ride history, are both testaments to Fasten’s goal.

Fasten also criticized Uber for its use of surge charging. “The company makes more money off of providing a worse service,” Evdakov said.

Instead of automatically increasing prices for customers who are in an area that demands more drivers than the company can supply, Fasten gives riders an option to wait for the supply of drivers to increase, or pay slightly more to broaden the surrounding area from which the request will pull from. “You have all the control,” Levitskiy said.

The man who approached Levitskiy in the reception room was a prospective Fasten driver, eager to sign up. The three developers later tell me about the line of drivers that develops outside the Fasten office on most mornings, and the call Levitskiy received one Friday from a group of six drivers insisting on starting work that Saturday, despite his push to meet them on Monday during business hours. “For four years, nobody knew how unhappy [the drivers] were … now everybody gets a choice,” Christoff said.

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By Pasquale DiFilippo Heights Staff Riley Soward, CSOM ’18, chose Boston College because he knew he wanted to get involved in startups.

“When I was growing up, I wanted to be an inventor,” he said.

Soward, a California kid, credits his interest in startups to his experience in high school interning for an app focused on marketing toward other students. He decided to get out of his comfort zone in the Bay Area and make the transcontinental move to Boston College, where he was impressed by the faculty’s dedication to its students, as opposed to research.

Even as a college student, Soward has seen immediate success in the Boston business world. He was recently named to “Boston’s 25 Startup Founders Who are 25 and Under,” by BostInno—a feat that he said was completely unexpected.

“I only found out after a friend I have at a startup in Boston emailed me the link and just said, ‘Congratulations,’” he said, laughing.

He described the startup scene at BC and in Boston as an inviting culture and the startup ecosystem as collaborative and less competitive than in the Bay Area.

“Here everyone is rallying around companies that the community feels is going to take off,” Soward said. “I really like that kind of mentality and community that exists in Boston.”

Soward was attracted to BC because he wanted to get involved with

startups on campus, and he specifically mentioned the Boston College Venture Competition (BCVC). BC, not traditionally known as a school associated with entrepreneurship, has recently taken steps to improve its reputation as a startup powerhouse. This fall, the Carroll School of Management launched the Edmund Shea Center, which provides students the skills needed to launch their own business ventures and careers at startups.

“I think it’s cool a University where entrepreneurship is becoming so interesting to a lot of individuals,” Soward said.

After just a year and a half at BC, Soward has lived out the plans he made en route to the East Coast. Soward’s own startup, Campus Insights, seeks to understand how students interact with a company’s product or service.

Campus Insights provides video feedback of users completing tasks on apps for clients. “These videos allow our clients to get a candid look into how college kids use their products,” Soward said. Campus Insights then generates reports and gives companies feedback on how college students naturally interact with its products.

Soward’s startup will also provide recommendations to companies on how to improve and expand on their products. Soward’s venture is currently working with companies that are prevalent on college campuses, including Venmo, LUVO, and Pingpad. Despite these successful relationships, one of the major difficulties Soward highlighted was that,

as a startup founder, it’s difficult to track your progress and see if you’re doing the right thing.

Soward believes he was led to the startup space from a young age, when he enjoyed taking ownership of projects and creating ideas that he would then attempt to put into practice and grow.

His startup took off after a meeting with a BC alum in a coffee shop in downtown Boston.

In the following months, Soward has grown his business out of his dorm room along with his brother, Stephen Soward, a senior at the University of Michigan.

The pair worked on the initial project for Campus Insights over Winter Break last year.

Soward embraces the challenge of juggling schoolwork along with managing his own business. “For me, I certainly enjoy being in a classroom, but also building something tangible outside of class,” he said. In this regard, he believes that starting a business in college is the optimal time to take advantage of numerous opportunities.

“It gives you a safety net,” he said.

“While you’re in college you can turn your free time into a company, which is a great opportunity.”

Soward believes that college students should play to their strengths when developing their own businesses. “As a college kid—what is something you can do today?” Soward said, who relied on his people skills, rather than technical skills to create Campus Insights. “For Campus Insights, our competitive advantage is that we have access to college students

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Riley Soward, CSOM ’18, was named to ‘Boston’s 25 Startup Founders Who are 25 and Under.’ and more candid interactions.”

Looking to the future, Soward hopes to continue to grow his business beyond BC. He wants to ensure that Campus Insights is sustainable, so he recently brought on Ameet Kallarackal, CSOM ’18, to the team. Soward explained the two have worked together on projects in the past, and Kallarackal has always been interested in startups. Soward isn’t sure if Campus Insights will choose to put technology behind his product in the future, or whether his company will continue to brand itself as a consulting firm. He hinted that as Campus Insights

takes off, it could potentially offer its services to those outside of colleges and universities.

Based on the success of his startup thus far, Soward believes that publicity has driven more traffic to his website than ever before. He is very excited that Campus Insights is starting to get recognition outside of the Boston area, and he hopes the buzz after the BostInno ranking is just the beginning for his business.

“It’s difficult to track our progress and have tangible victories,” he said. “But this was certainly a tangible victory.”

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ARCHER PARQUETTE Mike’s Pastry is a staple of Boston’s North End, a place with cannolis you’d kill a shark with your bare hands for. It is a place I have never been before, and knew I had to go if I was ever going to pass my brutal bi-monthly Metro-BostonWorthiness and Podiatric Health Test. I was initially scared to go, seeing as Halloween was approaching.

A man of mystery like myself never knows quite what to expect around Halloween.

Upon the midnight dreary before my visit to Mike’s, while I pondered weak and weary over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten columns, suddenly there came a tapping as of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

“I feel the pressure, under more

scrutiny / and what I do, act more stupidly,” the voice said from beyond my door.

“Shut up,” I screamed hysterically, throwing open the door to my room.

“What are you doing? I have to get my rest so I can be at the top of my journalistic game when I visit the legendary Mike’s Pastry tomorrow. Stop rapping at my chamber door.”

But there was no one in the hall.

“That’ll be enough of that,” I said, speaking entirely through my nose.

I turned back around and returned to my dark and musty room where I soon fell into a fitful and restless sleep, visions of vampiric, Frankensteinian, raven monsters flitting through my dreams.

The next morning I was ready to get off campus and away from the creepy Halloween hijinks that was infiltrating every part of Boston College life.

I hopped on the T and made my way to the North End. I’m always astounded by the fact that people actually drive through those painfully narrow and crowded streets.

As I walked toward Mike’s a raven swooped down, cawing loudly and

flying over the heads of the many pedestrians.

“Don’t worry folks,” I said. “It’s just a reference, it can’t hurt you.”

I was quickly insulted over 30 times by a crowd who’d had just about enough of my crap.

I lowered my head and kept walking. I reached Mike’s Pastry soon after it opened. A line had already formed inside, a disorganized throng of pastry-loving people. My patience wore thin quickly, but I held out for the sake of journalistic integrity. This is the biggest downside of a visit to Mike’s Pastry, long lines and sheep-like gatherings. Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with people, all our mouths agape and dripping saliva over the cannolis in the display cases is not a pleasant time. It’s also a breeding ground for stank.

As I waited, I decided I would get some chocolate chip and Florentine cannoli. Eventually I reached the counter and made my order.

“Would you like to try our pumpkin-spice cannoli?” the server asked.

“Halloween special?”

Knowing I would be unable to salvage any remaining self-respect if

I started eating anything pumpkinspice flavored, I shook my head.

“Never,” I said, before pointing at the chocolate cannoli and saying.

“More.”

As I left the shop I clutched the string-wrapped box of cannoli to my chest, glancing anxiously left and right, sure that something strange and Halloween-tastic would occur.

“Hey Archer,” someone across the street said.

I looked and saw a man who looked exactly like me except better-groomed, better-dressed, more pleasant, nicer-smelling, and generally more likeable. He smiled that damnably charming smile of his.

“Hey, Evil Archer,” I said. “How ya doin? Got anything going on over Halloween?”

“Nah,” he said. “How was Mike’s Pastry?”

“Scrum-diddly-umptious, my old friend.”

Evil Archer nodded, flashed me a thumbs up, and disappeared in a cloud of smoke. A bat appeared and flew away into the misty October skies.

All in all it was an uneventful

Halloween week. But at least I would now finally be able to eat one of the famed Mike’s Pastry cannolis.

Lifting a perfectly-formed Florentine cannoli to my disgusting, drooling mouth, I took a bite and realized why people were willing to wait in line. The things were fantastic. I immediately scarfed down another and within seconds regretted it. Word to the wise: each Mike’s Cannoli is roughly 500 calories, eating more than one within a two minute period is a bad idea. But it was worth it.

From my Halloween-infused time spent at Mike’s, I’ve come to one conclusion: you must just be plain stupid if you live near Boston and never visit Mike’s Pastry. Not only is the cannoli mind-boggling, just being in the North End is exciting. So sometime after Halloween take a Green Line to Haymarket Station and walk over to one of the finest pastry shops in Massachusetts.

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This past weekend, Copley Square transformed into a maze of white tents devoted to the seventh annual Boston Book Festival. The attendees, often weighed down with bags of books or dressed up as their favorite literary characters, swarmed booths devoted to local literary staples, such as the Brattle Book Shop and The Boston Globe, and crowded in front of signature food trucks, such as Roxy’s Grilled Cheese and The Chicken and Rice Guys.

As they browsed through the booths, music radiated from the Berklee Festival Stage, on which many Boston-based groups performed throughout the day.

The festival, started in 2009, is a nonprofit event organized by a six-person team made of two full time staff members, a part-time employee, and three interns. Norah Peihl, the deputy director of the festival since 2011, highlighted the recent physical growth of the event as it encompasses more geographical space over the course of a weekend.

“We’ve pretty substantially expanded our footprint in Back Bay to extend beyond the immediate Copley Square area,” Peihl said.

Because the Boston Public Library was under renovation last year, the

festival had to explore other options for venues that were close to the public garden.

These venues, often rooms in churches within walking distance of Copley Square, hosted both free and ticketed events featuring authors, journalists, or other members of the field, which drew huge crowds of spectators and fans alike. Keynote speeches, of which there were a record eight this year, allow the Boston Book Festival organizers to add more evening programming and creatively expand the duration of the festival. This year the festival began on Friday night, with an interview of the celebrated author Margaret Atwood.

While speaking more about lengthening the festival, Peihl mentioned the possibility of “having a cool after-hours event at the public library, or a pub crawl with a literary focus that could happened either as a cap off for Saturday, or the Friday night before [the festival] starts.”

The Boston Book Festival has also began to partner with other organizations over the past year, such as the French Cultural Center and Consulate. “[We’re] looking for organizations we can trust to do their own programming in a way that will complement the Boston Book Festival,” Peihl said.

This year, the partnership entailed

three sessions focusing on books and research involving French culture, including an interview with New York Times correspondent Elaine Sciolino regarding her latest book, The Only Street in Paris. Her interview drew a warm crowd of Francophiles and French citizens alike, and covered everything from the importance of independent bookstores and French butter to the trials of journalism and making one’s home within a new culture.

The Boston Book Festival is certainly an organizational feat for such a small staff that must raise funds for the festival each year and constantly scout out new venues for its expanding events schedule. The closing keynote on Saturday night featured author and musician Amanda Palmer with her husband, the well-known author Neil Gaiman, and drew an impressive crowd of eager listeners who lined the sidewalks bordering the Old South Sanctuary in order to get a seat.

During the talk, Palmer discussed her memoir The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help, touching on some of the more complex problems of communication and vulnerability that people face in the modern world.

With the success of this year’s festival behind them, the organizers of

the Boston Book Festival are already looking toward the future. The Boston Book Festival will focus on its new stand-alone children’s festival, Hubbub, which takes place in June. Hubbub, a children’s version of the festival, will feature more interactive events geared toward younger readers, without de-

tracting from the children’s and young adult events that already exist within the Boston Book Festival.

“The whole idea of having two landmark events over the course of the year is a switch for [the Boston Book Festival], and will expand the kind of offerings we can give people,” Peihl said.

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Festivalgoers flocked to booths devoted to literary staples, like the Brattle Book Shop.

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Now, faculty members and students will work together to review the form, though there is no set deadline for the form to be reinstated onto the website.

The premise of the form was flawed from the beginning—the anonymous style makes it easy for people to abuse the site. Despite the good intentions of those who began the form, its original form made it prone to inappropriate commentary.

Those reviewing the form need to consider whether making the form anonymous is worth it, in light of submissions that cannot be seriously considered.

The administration initially worked hard to publicize the form.

The same transparency ought to be afforded the process to review the form. Students will be using the

form, so they should see why and how it is being reviewed. Input from the community could be helpful to change the form, as well—though some students are involved, a reporting form that will affect campus climate ought to have as much input as possible.

The broader question remains how to address the ambiguity (and trade-off ) in discouraging bias while promoting diversity of thought.

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Cfn\iËj le`ejkXcc\[ gi`ek\ij Xi\ nXjk\[ jkl[\ek ]le[j The promise for printers in Corcoran Commons has been a recurring theme in presidential campaigns for the Undergraduate Government of Boston College over the last couple of years. And, while this year’s administration has been successful in actually purchasing the equipment, they have, as of yet, been unsuccessful in installing the equipment where it belongs.

Along with issues related to how the printers will impact aesthetics in Lower, the larger problem is finding electrical outlets, wireless Internet routers, and zoning laws to align to allow for the installation.

While these are understandable setbacks, they are issues that should have been addressed before the printers themselves were purchased. Without installing the printers, the administration and UGBC are essentially sitting on

dead money—they were purchased with the student activity fee, and any expenditure of these funds should be used to benefit the BC community. More transparency from the University on the hold up should be an immediate fix—students should know why an advancement promised almost two months ago still has not come to fruition.

Members of UGBC who were involved expected the printers to be installed Sept. 1. They were able to hold up their end of the bargain, yet the University has delayed their efforts. The printers will hopefully be installed at the beginning of next semester, executive vice president Olivia Hussey said. This Executive Council should be commended for their ability to buy the printers, yet this is only half the battle—the connectivity and installation issues are another issue still to be solved.

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Starting next week, a newly renovated gallery that will display both student and faculty art will open in Carney. The gallery will accompany campus art that has been displaced by the Bapst Art Gallery closing, and will be open to students, faculty and staff to enjoy.

The main problem with the art gallery existing in Carney is that the building does not receive similar foot traffic that recent art showings in Devlin and O’Neill have had. Carney is out of the way, and the room is not always open to student access, which means that students cannot

serendipitously decide to go view art in the middle of the day with a guaranteed open door.

The renovated space contains plenty of opportunities for other art events, though. While it might not be the best area for an open gallery during the day, the area has enough space and lighting to accompany different, scheduled events at night.

While Carney might not be standing much longer, this is the perfect opportunity for Boston College to use the space to its full capacity, supporting a program that deserves attention from the BC community.

The views expressed in the above editorials represent the official position of The Heights, as discussed and written by the

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Thursday, October 29, 2015

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-Biff, Back To The Future (1985)

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR A response to ‘The Heights’ coverage of Coates’ talk I truly did not intend to write. Today’s “At Coates talk, protestors surface narrative of BC racial hypocrisy,” however, forces me to pick up my pen. While I do not want to criticize Shannon Longworth and Kelsey McGee, who wrote the story, their piece is indicative of a liberal hegemony that pervades so many college campuses around the country nowadays. We have become so accustomed to one point of view that we refuse even to consider any other than the orthodox “progressivism.” Of course, one might say, Miss Longworth and Miss McGee were trying only to report on what happened at the “Coates talk.” Yes, but that fails to address such descriptions as speaker Ta-Nehisi Coates’s giving his talk “…in a hall lined by portraits of Boston College’s 24 white Jesuit presidents…”

There is no reason for the portraits’ description in supposedly objective reporting.

When I read that, I did start to wonder when being white became a crime. Rather than objecting to the color of someone’s skin, shouldn’t we look more at that person’s character, morality, or even basic common sense? I seem to recall someone saying that he wished his children to be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their characters. Yet the modern liberal mindset

seems not to heed Dr. King’s words but to jump in, without thought, to condemn “white privilege” and “inherent racial hypocrisy,” without ever judging people not as racial beings but as people. The liberals’ obsession with race is not only erroneous but ultimately tiring. Miss Longworth and Miss McGee clearly sympathize with Mr. Coates and his opinions; one wishes he could not tell their sympathies so obviously. The writers also detail the goals of “Eradicate Boston College Racism,” a group whose members showed up in droves at the event, but there is no alternative point of view, no defense for the university. One sees in this story less of a news article and more of a polemic. I am not surprised, but I am disappointed. If the liberals’ relentless attacks on white people, on Christians, on conservatives, and on any dissenters from their absolutist dogmata do not end, I will not be surprised to find the whites and the Christians as the ones turned away from lunch counters and buses in the future, and the liberals will chuckle as their own power rises exponentially.

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THE ONLINE BUZZ Printing reader comments from www.bcheights.com, the Online Buzz draws on the online community to contribute to the ongoing discussion.

In response to “LTE: A Response To ‘The Heights’ Coverage Of Coates’ Talk” by Karl Salzmann, which ran on Oct. 23:

people featured in the article are trying to address.

This letter and the message behind it is typical of the easily identifiable crowd that has demonstrated time and time again that they are missing the point in discussions of race. The same crowd of people that hears “Black Lives Matter” and unfailingly retaliates with a knee-jerk “All Lives Matter” response out of fear, ignorance, and a complete misunderstanding of the issues.

Don’t be afraid, nobody is calling you a racist, not yet at least. The liberals are not trying to police your speech like you claim they are (although it is kind of hypocritical of you, given that this is clearly a sad attempt at muzzling them via what is frankly some strange fear-mongering reminiscent of a Rand novel at the end there). Nobody is going to lynch you for being white, or conservative, or Christian. But what you are guilty of is being complicit in, and now explicitly defending, a system that has unremittingly favored being white, or conservative, or Christian. Consider this, why are you so content with and ready to defend the status quo, while these people are actively seeking change while risking sanctions by the BC administration and others? Obviously there are always going to be people dissatisfied with the way things are, but these are not people who are seeking to get a leg up on you. They want equality. While there is something to be said against the growing trend in some progressive circles of policing speech, this is not an instance of that trend.

“Rather than objecting to the color of someone’s skin, shouldn’t we look more at that person’s character, morality, or even basic common sense?”

This is easy for someone of privilege to say. But it is also agreeable; obviously this is the goal of liberals/progressives too. As of now, however, that is a fantasy perpetuated by people like you because you are comfortable in it. Women, people of color, and other minority groups are discriminated against every day on the basis of gender, race, sexual orientation, etc. People with “weird” names are demonstrably not placed on equal footing in hiring processes. Women in the workplace find it hard to ask for raises, speak up in meetings, etc. etc. because they don’t want to come off as “bitchy.” Young black men are very much not judged by the content of their character by the rotten institution that is American Law Enforcement.

They are judged by, and unfortunately murdered because of, their race. As a person of relative privilege, you get to just be you. Other people don’t. In this system that you are so eager to defend other people have to modify their behaviors according to what is essentially their disability. That’s what the

Normally, I make it a habit to disregard bigotry.

Not only because it is usually rooted in deeply entrenched beliefs that do not admit common sense, but because engaging in discussions with people who are intolerant of the opinion of others lends relevance to their ignorance. Yet, when I found myself reading Mr. Salzmann’s response to the Heights coverage of the Coates talk, I could not help but feel the need to write a response. Why? Because it did not seem fair to the rest of the student body to have the issue of racism be framed in such a simplistic duality. Meaning the issue of racism should not be reduced to a “black vs. white” dichotomy in which the only vocalized opinions are from extremist. I would say more, but I do not want to project my personal opinions in abstractions that have the appearance of rational positions.

All I’ll say is that what makes a community is not the contingency of the past, but the possibility of a shared future. We are all individuals here, and what matters more than the circumstances that brought us, is the time we spend together.

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Ç<D@C< 9IFNE I’m glad this was written. Serves as a great example of how some rationalize the ritualized oppression around them when they don’t even explore the underlying facts. Totally using this for a social studies project.

The obvious obliviousness is terrifying. I hope it’s ignorance and not indifference because it means there’s potential for you to learn. You must have written this just to write it because you’re writing on a social issue but ignoring foundational historical implications.

My favorite part was when you turned to your own life for anecdotes ... Because Italian/Germans suffered systemic oppression in the same way people of color and women did, and continue to do, right?

So then your next argument is: there should be no reason people of color complaining because Germans and Italians turned out okay? You have no experiences in your life that can even begin to align with marginalization, microaggression, constant, mindless attacks on the mere existence of racism such as this one). I’m sure it sounds intelligent to you, but please. Read this in like four years and see if you learned anything worthwhile. If this article still makes sense to you, Boston College and your family failed to educate you on the world that exists outside your neighborhood and BC. ÇK@QQP K@<Q8QL

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TOURS GOING THROUGH BAPST - If you’re a tour guide, and you’re looking to do your job correctly, there can be nothing better than taking your group through the Bapst Art Library—most importantly, through Gargan Hall. There are few moments during a tour that you can so succinctly say, “Look at my school! Look how great things are here!” For Boston College students studying in Gargan Hall when the tours walk through, you might be met with varying levels of disgust at the disturbance, or nostalgia at the days in which you were still touring schools, completely unsure of what the future was going to hold for you.

Work on the side of the latter. And, even a step further, when those parents whip out their enormous phones, iPads and cameras that they barely know how to use, make sure you make a funny face for the picture. If you spend enough time in Bapst, and make enough funny faces, your legacy will live on in so many households across the country as “the kid” in that picture.

HALLOWEEN IS HERE - After almost two months at school, things on the weekends can get repetitive, annoying, and flat-out boring. Parties blur together to an amalgamation of Justin Bieber’s terrible music, low lighting, and too many bodies pressed against one another—to many repeated lines of, “Where’s the beer?” “Do you want to leave?” and “It’s too hot.” Halloween always comes around at the perfect time to shake things up, and this year, it’s on a Saturday. That means that for three nights—Thursday, Friday, and the formidable Saturday—it’s going to be madness on and off campus.

For as many cats and Hawaiian tourists that there’ll be, there will be clever group costumes that will make you appreciate the nights even more, even if some are repeated (keep a close eye out for the general themes and plays on: Netflix and chill, Scream Queens and new Star Wars characters). Add in the fact that there’s a home football game this weekend, too, and you just have a recipe for the change in the social scene that people are going to be looking for.

BC FOOTBALL - Here’s hoping they actually pull it together this upcoming this weekend when they get home. Weren’t we supposed to be good this year or something?

MIDTERMS, AD INFINITUM - Now that they’ve started, they’re never really going to end. You thought they were. You thought you just had to “get through this week” and then you’d be golden for some breathing room. But nope, that’s not the case. The thing is that there’s always going to be a big paper, or test, or group project coming up, and there’s no escaping until you go home for Thanksgiving Break.

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Wickedness, arrogance, pride, Donald Trump: what do these four nouns have in common? If you ask one of my professors, a hell of a lot. While discussing the adversaries of God as portrayed through ancient Jewish texts, my professor found it appropriate to insert the name of a presidential candidate. It was a statement as equally shocking as it was casual—my professor seemed to expect the class to conform to his opinion to the longstanding lessons of the Old Testament.

This moment is not unique in the classrooms of Boston College. On numerous occasions, I have become distracted by an unrelated imposition of professorial political certitude. When such political address comes in the form of a punctuated, “humorous” aside, it can pack an agitating punch to both dissidents and supporters alike. Off-putting jokes and jabs are insulting to students (even if we agree with them) and may lead us to question the reputability of the professor’s subsequent lessons. There are, however, varying ways in which professors at BC incorporate their political viewpoints in the classroom, some of which are better than others.

Indeed, there are professors who are more subdued about their sharing tactics (or lack thereof). There is the professor who “unwillingly” exposes his political beliefs (“I hate to impose my beliefs, but … ”), or the professor who dodges disclosing her political opinion by framing it as factual evidence (“I am just showing you the facts, and you can decide what to think … ”). The lattermost example is noteworthy because it occurs when political implications intertwine with syllabus material—an inevitable occurrence as courses begin to unravel socioeconomic inequality, human rights, and environmental crises.

Political opinion often involves deepseeded moral values, and therefore its discourse presents a challenge to professors whose lessons are related to popular political topics. Professor Timothy Crawford of the political science department is no stranger

to this responsibility. He teaches courses that are often explicitly relevant to contemporary political events, and therefore views it as inevitable for his personal political biases to “creep in.” For this reason, he transparently shares his stance on topics in which he is well versed. “I sometimes present [my perspective] to students overtly as ‘here is my view.’

I then usually try to situate my view in the context of a debate, and do some justice to the alternative perspectives,” Crawford said in an email. Crawford discloses his level of uncertainty/confidence regarding these topics to students, citing reasons and evidence behind his thinking.

I find Crawford’s approach to incorporating personal viewpoints in political science classrooms as a fair model for BC professors of other disciplines who wish to do the same. Crawford believes that regardless of a professor’s expertise, when discussing big issues of the day, it does not breach professional acceptability for professors to openly share their political viewpoints with students. He believes that it is reasonable to expect faculty to express political attitudes during momentous junctures, citing events such as assassinations of major figures like Osama Bin Laden or the entrance of the United States into war with another country. I agree that such sharing is acceptable, and aim to stress the importance that professors carefully consider just methods of introducing it. The success of that introduction is rooted in the professor’s willingness to allow it to blossom into discourse. If a professor’s syllabus timeline does not allow for inclusive, class-wide debate, it’s best to leave any political commentary out.

Discerning political opinion from coursework becomes messier when the class topic is implicitly related to politics. In disciplines such as sociology and environmental science, the underlying foundation of the class is often directly associated with one side of a disputed bipartisan issue.

Stephanie Schopf, a senior sociology major and MCAS ’16, recalls a time when a professor was remarkably upfront about his political stance with students. On the first day of an African Diaspora Studies elective, Schopf said, the professor presented a series of disputable statements such as, “men and women have equal rights today,” “homosexuals and heterosexuals have equal rights today,”

and “racism does not exist today.” He went on to recommend that his class would be a poor fit for any student who interprets these statements as true. Schopf, who identifies as “very liberal,” found this practice useful in that her professor openly put his opinions on the table, and then entered into further discourse under the assumption that white, heterosexual men have the advantage. Yet one can’t help but wonder about those students who found their interests impossible to pursue because of the professor’s join-or-leave tactics. Had he not stamped out competing viewpoints in his class, it is possible that healthier, more fruitful class-wide debate could have occurred.

While a level of transparent sharing may be appropriate—if not necessary—in some classes, it is possible that the same level of transparency is not relevant in all disciplines.

Communication major Kelly Mallory, MCAS ’16, does not find it appropriate for professors to express their political viewpoints under any circumstance. “The professor is the academic filter through which classroom learning takes place,” she asserted. “So, professors’ opinions can severely dictate how information is learned, absorbed, and then used to make decisions in the future.” Ultimately, Mallory believes that when a professor allows any level of political bias to infiltrate into a learning environment, he or she may be depriving students of realizing total gains from the class by making them feel uncomfortable.

The bottom line is that irrelevant political commentary distracts students from coursework. Whether I want to stand on my desk and applaud the likeness of Donald Trump to Satan, or storm out of the classroom in disgust, the point is that I lose focus. Still, it is not necessary to enact a general prohibition of political discourse in Boston College classrooms. With Professor Crawford’s approach in mind, it is possible for professors to directly address their political viewpoints to students in an intentional and disciplined manner.

As the primary and presidential elections approach, I challenge professors to consider methods fostering an environment where political matters can be respectfully shared and debated.

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ERIC ZHANG During reflection last week, a member of my 4Boston group had an entertaining aside to share with everyone: “Jesus himself probably wouldn’t go to Boston College,” he said, “because Jesus could do a lot more with the tuition money to help other people than he could with his diploma.” The statement garnered some hearty laughter, and a few humorous responses. But I am more struck by the ironic digression, and what it means for all of us at BC. There are, of course, an innumerable number of specific ways to help people in society—but, for the purpose of this column, I’ll just be focusing on the most generic methods we can consider: giving aid to those worldwide that are underprivileged, poor, or sick through monetary means. Give Well is a vetting group dedicated to measuring the efficiency of charities, and it estimates that the most cost-effective groups can save a life for donations under $5,000. Whether this is providing anti-mosquito bed nets to prevent malaria or funding the distribution of various vaccines, there is enough research today to show that money in the right hands can make a direct impact on a life.

Let us use that $5,000 as our figure for how much it costs to save a life. It costs roughly $260,000 over four years for a student to attend BC. Over these four years, we gain a host of memories, valuable connections with professors and alumni, and ultimately, a prestigious degree from an excellent university. It also comes with the knowledge that, hypothetically, the money could have been used to save 52 lives. Is college worth that much?

Naturally, a lot of us will take those degrees and graduate with a goal to contribute to society. Through our education and the resources granted to us, we talk a lot here at BC about “setting the world

aflame” and giving back to those less privileged than us. But it is impossibly difficult to measure the “good” we do as professionals, whether that’s being a teacher, an accountant, or an entrepreneur. We’re all providing services that society demands, but do we necessarily need the BC degree to do so? Could we have gone to state schools and saved a few hundred thousand dollars? After all, that is a lot of lives saved if we donated that money. But, okay, perhaps I’ll give our education the benefit of doubt. It’s too hard to quantify the exact benefit we bring upon society with our occupations. But what about the little things?

The little things, like the MacBooks I see littered in front of me as I sit in Bapst writing this column. Those cost anywhere from between $1,000-$3,000. Sell two laptops, and we could hit that $5,000 figure. Wouldn’t it be the right thing to do to sell our laptops and use the desktops in the libraries? Maybe we wouldn’t get to watch Netflix before bed, but aren’t we saving lives? What about the hundreds of flat screen TVs that populate common rooms throughout campus? Taking all our commodities, our spending habits, our necessities of life—they add up to $5,000 pretty easily.

I’m not trying to guilt-trip anyone. I take Ubers, I own a MacBook, I splurge on White Mountain. It’s much easier for us to do these things than to think of a child, thousands of miles away from us, that desperately could use clean water, mosquito nets, or vaccines.

In the film Schindler’s List, Liam Neeson plays Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who employed thousands of Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust in order to insure their safety from the Nazis. At the end of the final act, Schindler breaks down, realizing that all of his material possessions, from his car to his rings, could have been used to save more lives. He could have used the money to better bribe the Nazis into sending him more workers—but he didn’t. As viewers, we easily sympathize with his pain, quickly reassuring ourselves that if we were in the same situation, with lives to save during the Holocaust, we obviously would’ve

done the same. But why is that ideologically different from the kids thousands of miles away from us now that need our help?

Okay, now let’s say we all start donating. We start selling our laptops, TVs, excess articles of clothing. We donate the money and start saving lives. Still, how much do we keep for ourselves? Do we adopt the Jesuit ideal of taking a vow of poverty and give up nearly everything we have? When is it okay to feel satisfied and say, “I’ve given enough?” Suppose there’s a billionaire, who, once a retired man, spent $500 million (half of his whole net worth) saving lives under our $5,000 per life figure. That’s 100,000 lives. The contributions he’d be making would be astounding. But let’s say that with the rest of his wealth, he bought himself a few islands, various private jets, and a lavish mansion in Long Island. Would we, as outsiders, judge him for being selfish? He could have saved so many more lives! He has no right to own those islands or jets. But how many jets is he allowed to own before it’s okay? No jets? Should he donate everything he has until he’s penniless? Has he earned the right to splurge a little because he’s already donated $500 million? Tough to say.

Ultimately, I think only we can be the judges of our own morality. Only I can look at what I own, what I’m willing to sell, what I’m willing to donate. I could give up everything and take a vow of poverty, but it would be unfair and unreasonable to judge everyone else for failing to do so. It’s hard to ask everyone here to drop out and go to a state school. It’s incredibly challenging to make these decisions. I don’t believe there’s a right or wrong decision, because everyone’s moral compass is different. Giving up certain material possessions will cost us. We might not be able to study as well without laptops, or focus as well without daily lattes and mochas. But does it cost as much as a human life? Can we even measure a human life? To be honest, I don’t know. But maybe it’s something we should all start thinking more about.

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K_\ ]Xlo _fm\iYfXi[ DAN GAZZOLA There’s a new threat on campus for Boston College students. Whether it’s walking in between classes, jogging to campus from the reservoir, or simply sitting outside enjoying the weather, BC’s campus is no longer safe. The safety of the students is threatened by a new mode of transportation. The mini segways that have arrived are dangerous for all—in the literal sense, and in the metaphoric. They are a testament to how lazy our generation has become. How we’re not looking to work anymore—we’re just looking to glide. And, instead of embracing our struggle, we’re opting for the path of least resistance—even if least resistance is lazy.

The name people use to refer to the vehicle isn’t accurate at all, it’s irksome. It rolls on the ground—it doesn’t float in the air. Stop calling it a “hoverboard.” The thing lacks any practical use. It can only move slightly faster than a walking pace. It cannot navigate curbs. It runs on battery, and therefore is subject to dying in the middle of the day. It cannot possibly handle New England winter weather.

What’s the point of investing in the segway if it’s not even going to be all that useful?

Simply walking place to place seems like an infinitely better alternative. You get to your destination at about the same speed, curbs aren’t an issue, and you don’t have to worry about face planting due to an exhausted battery. Besides that, biking, skateboarding, scootering: almost anything seems like a healthier, and quicker alternative.

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Excluding the negative practical aspects of these two-wheelers, we also run into the issue of what they say about our generation. The image that is portrayed by using these things instead of walking is not a positive one.

How far are we willing to go to support our lazy tendencies? It’s ridiculous that people are willing to spend around $300 in order to avoid the minor physical taxation resultant of walking, biking, or boarding. The stereotypical rant about our generation is that we don’t know how to work and put forth effort in order to get what we want.

Older generations frequently comment about how “in their time” they had to put time and dedication into what they aimed for. In comparison to our day, the implication is that everything is handed to us. We don’t have to break a sweat to progress in life. As obnoxious as these comments may be, summarizing all our accomplishments as halfheartedly achieved, how can we deny them when we partake in products like the mini-segways?

Using these two-wheelers as a substitute for walking is certainly a concern, as the question becomes: Where will things end? How do we know if we’ll ever be able to satisfy our craving for being lazy? The “hoverboard” alludes to meaningless, apathetic lives—lives in which little is actually felt.

If engineers develop a machine that can carry us to the top of a mountain, we miss out on so much. We won’t take in the small beautiful things on the trip up—the birds singing, or the trees rustling. We will be too busy getting from point A to B to acknowledge what is happening around us. The rewarding sensation of hiking the trail ourselves will no longer exist. We can’t continue to develop interventions that reduce the way in which we experience life. If we wish to live a vibrant life, we have to be the ones to live it. We have to be the ones that refuse to embrace inventions that do our living for us.

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Thursday, October 29, 2015

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t ďŹ rst glance, the new Wahlburgers in Fenway might look like any regular fast-food joint.

Walk through the doors of the Wahlberg brothersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; latest creation and the ďŹ rst thing you will see is a large kitchen with employees quickly shufďŹ&#x201A;ing around to serve â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wahlfavesâ&#x20AC;? to take-out customers. But if you make your way around the corner toward the back of the room, you will see a full-service restaurant and barâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with

a number of mementos from Mark, Donnie, and Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s childhood in Dorchester, Mass., and movie posters of Mark Wahlberg in Invincible, Ted, and Lone Survivor up on the walls. Snippets of the brothersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; A&E reality show about the business also play on the ďŹ&#x201A;at-screen TVs behind the bar. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People get excited when they come in here,â&#x20AC;? said Michael Walsh, the assistant general manager of the Wahlburgers in Fenway. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They love the Wahlberg family and want to come here for a chance to see them.â&#x20AC;?

The new restaurant is the ďŹ fth and latest Wahlburgers location.

The ďŹ rst opened in Hingham, Mass. in 2011, and has since expanded to LynnďŹ eld, Mass., Toronto, and Coney Island in New York. The Fenway location is the third Wahlburgers to open in Massachusetts, and the brothers plan to open a fourth spot later this year at Logan Airport inside Terminal C. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Hingham location was very successful, but when the TV show came on and everyone fell in love with Paul, our numbers have skyrocketed,â&#x20AC;? Walsh said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The family is

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the driving force behind this.â&#x20AC;?

Walsh explained that much of Wahlburgersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; success can be attributed to the popularity of Donnie and Mark, but Paul Wahlberg is the secret sauce behind the restaurants.

Paul has been in the restaurant business for more than 30 years, and is the executive chef who runs the operations of the three Massachusetts locations. All nine of the Wahlberg siblings are involved with Wahlburgers, and they occasionally visit the restaurants and interact with customers.

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ahlburgers features a large menu with a variety of burgers, chicken sandwiches, hot dogs, tater tots, house-made salads, and frappes. But many customers often choose among the Wahlberg brothersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; own creationsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Donnieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s BBQ Bacon Burger and Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Burger with his signature wahl sauce are popular items. Markâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Thanksgiving Day sandwich, which includes fresh-ground seasoned turkey, stuďŹ&#x192;ng, Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s orange cranberry sauce, roasted butternut squash, and mayo is another favorite menu item. Walsh also explained that the

winners of the Food Network show Cupcake Wars design the cupcakes at the Fenway location.

The newest Wahlburgers oďŹ&#x20AC;ers an outdoor patio and full bar, serving a number of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wahlbrewskisâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wahlcoctions.â&#x20AC;? The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fenway Fizzâ&#x20AC;? is a sparkling specialty cocktail available only at the Fenway location. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our menu is diďŹ&#x20AC;erent,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think many people would call it fast food, but the product we put into it is much more than that.â&#x20AC;?

The restaurant gets all of its hamburger patties from Creekstone Farms in Nebraska, and the meat from the grass-fed cattle is shipped to New Jersey before being distributed to the various Wahlburgers locations along the East Coast each day. Walsh also explained that Wahlburgers â&#x20AC;&#x153;government cheeseâ&#x20AC;? refers back to when the brothers were kids growing up in Dorchester, and the family didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have very much money.

Mark, Donnie, and Paul held an exclusive opening party on Oct. 1 at the new Fenway location. The Dorchester nativesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;now largely known as Hollywoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beloved burger brothersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;walked the red carpet with other reality show cast members and local celebrities, such

as Rob Gronkowski, outside of the soiree before taking pictures and signing autographs. The new spot on Brookline Ave. is just three blocks away from Fenway Park, and is â&#x20AC;&#x153;holy groundâ&#x20AC;? for Red Sox fans, Walsh said.

Families, college students, and young adults living in the popular Fenway neighborhood have been regular customers over the past month, and Walsh expects the restaurant to have lines out the door once baseball season returns.

Looking forward, Wahlburgers is expanding quickly. The brothers are in the process of opening new restaurants in Philadelphia, Orlando, and Las Vegas in the near future.

Based on the success of the TV show and the restaurants, Walsh said the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s business plan is to open 10 new locations each year.

In the meantime, though, Walsh said the Wahlbergs are thrilled to finally have a restaurant in Bostonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;just a few miles from the brothersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; original stomping ground in Dorchester. For the Wahlbergs, family is everything. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the one thing they strive for, and everyone understands when they come in hereâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all about family,â&#x20AC;? Walsh said. Â&#x201E;

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Cfn\i gi`ek\ij p\k kf Y\ `ejkXcc\[ Printers from A1 the current delay stems from ITSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s difficulty finding areas where electrical outlets, wireless Internet routers, and zoning laws align to allow the installation of the printers in Corcoran Commons.

Scott Cann, the technology director, is working with the University and its Space Planning team to find solutions to some of the issues he has been facing with installing the devices. He says there has been a large push from ITS within the last eight to 10 weeks to get the devices installed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not so much aesthetics as it is the various complexities associated with installing technology in buildings around campus,â&#x20AC;?

Cann said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are many considerations when thinking about printer placement in high traffic areas and we need to coordinate our efforts with our partners in Space Planning.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;To my understanding, dining is on board and ITS is on board, so there seems to be another hold-up to what is causing this [delay],â&#x20AC;? Hussey said.

Dining Services, however, has yet to meet with UGBC. Megan Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill, associate director of

Dining, believes that UGBC has taken the correct route of action and plans to be consulted once the logistical kinks have been worked out.

In the spring of 2015, UGBC Senator Matt Hugo, MCAS â&#x20AC;&#x2122;16, and the Campus Improvement committee drafted a proposal for additional printers around campus, but it was received with negative feedback by ITS and the administration for financial and logistical reasons.

Last year, the administrationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s solution to the problem was increasing the number of printers in Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill Library, UGBC senator Joey Dorion, MCAS â&#x20AC;&#x2122;17, said.

This did not ease the studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; concerns, however, with the continuing lack of accessibility to printers on Lower and Upper Campus.

When student complaints and suggestions persisted on UGB C â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s suggestion website Campus Voice, the Student Assembly realized more action needed to be taken, Dorion said. When Napoli and Hussey were elected president and vice president of UGBC, they knew they wanted to address the issue in order to improve the day-today lives of students.

Before UGBC learned that

the University created funding for the printers this past spring, the student organization planned to pay for the printers and start a private program, as the group thought the administration would only have financial concerns. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This has been on every platform for the last 20 years, but we were really committed to actually making it happen,â&#x20AC;? Hussey said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is not just another campaign promise to get people excited. This is something that could actually make a major difference in the daily lives of students.â&#x20AC;?

Cann is hesitant to give an exact date for the installation of the printers as the plans and logistics are still not finalized.

Hussey, however, hopes to have the pilot program fully installed by the start of second semester. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The reason that we want the student body to know about the issues holding up the printers is due to our strong commitment to full transparency,â&#x20AC;? Hussey said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;While in the past, UGBC often only shared positive news and successful initiatives, this year we are striving to communicate to student initiatives we havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t yet accomplished, and the obstacles we are facing.â&#x20AC;? Â&#x201E;

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THE HEIGHTS

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Thursday, October 29, 2015

REASONABLE DOWD

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I was a few minutes early for my senior seminar on Tuesday. Most of us milled around on Twitter, passing the time before we’d avoid our professor’s eye contact after the first question. But one brave soul ventured out into the land of small talk.

“Will you get many trick-or-treaters?” he offered.

Prof. Lewis’ eyes widened with more than a hint of trepidation. He confirmed that he lives in a high-traffic neighborhood, in terms of kids dressed up hankering for some candy. It was a brief window into the looming realm of adulthood.

Indulge me for 300-ish words if you will, and I promise, we’ll eventually get at the “true meaning of Halloween.”

When I was six, I was Frankenstein (more accurately, Dr. Frankenstein’s Monster) for Halloween. Our kindergarten teacher marched us out of our classroom full of blocks, trains, and single letters and paraded us around the grade school. They made a show of us, all the “older” kids “oo”ing and “ahh”ing at us, while we shouted inside our little, silly heads, “We’re human beings! I’m a human being not a dog!” Same thing when I went around the cul de sac on the big night. I’m a monster, not your buddy!

I’d learned my lesson. The next year, I dressed up as Darth Vader, as I continued my quest to capture man’s goal of conquering death, all in a youth-small boy’s costume. You can mess with Frankenstein’s Monster, but no one messes with Vader unless you want a force-choke to the throat.

And it sort of worked. The mask helped, but it was itchy and hot and I couldn’t see anything. Worthy trade off though.

The next few years are a blur. I was, in general order: a pirate, a classic red power ranger, a ninja turtle (we’d return over and over again to turtles), Gandalf, a geezer, and a nerd. Admittedly, I got less adventurous.

It became about the candy, not having to worry about bugging mom to get dessert because you were set for three weeks if you rationed properly. As my trick-or-treating radius grew from the old cul de sac, to the neighborhood, to the suburb, to the county, it became less and less about the costume.

You had to dress in something light, so you march up and down the hills with ease, so you freely whack your buddy with a full pillowcase of candy at the end of the night (that’s when the ninja turtle shell came in handy).

We remember our firsts. We remember how we think the first band you really fall in love with will be the next Beatles. We think the first quarterback we really buy into (Sam Bradford, tragically) will be the next John Elway. We remember our first real costume.

Back at home, every trip down to the unfinished part of the basement was a chance to relive those early costumes, to try to fit into them again. I found myself skipping down to grab the next gallon of milk, but would sometimes stop to peek into the bin of costumes we’d collected over the year.

I wasn’t, obviously, able to bring that bin to college. Imagine me walking into a forced triple freshman year with a suitcase, a desk lamp, and a bin of costumes—not the most ideal first impression. And despite my insistence, my friends and I have never gone trick-or-treating. I can imagine you’re shaking your head and saying to yourself, “Ryan!

What about the parties? I like to party.”

We’re at a weird place when it comes to experiencing Halloween. We’re not knocking on doors, and we’re not opening doors either. We’re in the either, fenced off from the normal rituals mixing sugar and disguise. Or maybe we’re fenced in from corrupting the honest, pure youths of Chestnut Hill/Newton. But whether we trade sugar for a grain-based solution, the charm of Halloween is still the same.

Despite my wayward ways through middle school of greed and reckless consumption, the charm of Halloween was and still lies in putting on a mask, and probably other stuff.

And we don’t put on masks on Halloween to hide or obscure ourselves. I think we do it to present more of ourselves than we usually do—to give everybody a glimpse into our sense of humor and heroes.

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The young creative director of worldwide Balmain brand, Olivier Rousteing, has found a way to merge high-fashion and social media, though it has ruffled some feathers.

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ARIELLE CEDENO By the looks of his Instagram, Olivier Rousteing, the 29-year-old creative director of Balmain, is nothing short of a social media sensation. With 1.5 million followers on his personal account and 2.6 million followers on the Balmain account, snapshots of the young, pouty Rousteing with a flurry of celebrities, supermodels, and Kardashians—Rousteing’s self-described #BALMAINARMY—have catapulted the traditional French fashion house into the world of pop culture.

Rousteing has become, in many ways, a creative director for the social media age.

Rousteing took the helm of the 70-year-old luxury house as creative director, the highest creative position at a fashion house, at a mere 25 years old, making him one of the youngest creative directors in fashion. He has since transformed the house into a cohesive, global brand—taking it beyond the stuffiness of the French fashion tradition and into the brash world of tabloids and Instagram and celebrity. For some, Rousteing’s unapologetic marketing strategy—using celebrity endorsement and social media to up the brand’s coolness and ubiq-

uity—has reduced the house’s credibility and exclusivity. When Rousteing cast Kim Kardashian and Kanye West as the faces of Balmain’s menswear advertising campaign last December—announcing the couple as “THE BALMAIN LOVE” on Instagram—he was making a statement about Balmain’s brand: a brand that is young, relevant, rebellious, and most of all, a brand made for the Internet age. Rousteing is not making fashion for highbrow critics, he is making fashion for the masses—the #BALMAINARMY— and, thus far, the masses are responding favorably.

In a recent profile in The New Yorker, Rousteing, in conversation with Balmain’s public relations director, Txampi Diz, asks, “Who would you rather have in the front row? A celebrity or a critic?”

It seems as though the Balmain celebrity has effectively replaced the need for the Balmain critic, as sales for the house have continued to grow 25 percent per year since Rousteing’s first year as creative director, according to The New Yorker.

Whatever the merit of Rousteing’s strategy, it seems to be working. Rousteing represents a democratization of the world of luxury, as he makes the venerable French house as accessible to fashion world elites as it is to Reality TV stars—and now, with the coming November launch of the Balmain x H&M collaboration collection, the Instagram

masses can also have their own piece of Rousteing’s Balmain world.

While Balmain is not the first luxury house to partner with the Swedish fastfashion retail giant—it started with Karl Lagerfeld in 2004—this time somehow seems different. Rousteing is connecting with an already existing, 2.6-million strong audience, and it seems like the natural progression in his democratizing efforts. The capsule collection effectively encapsulates what Rousteing’s Balmain is all about: deconstructing exclusivity, blurring the lines between fashion and popular culture, pushing the boundaries of luxury, and diversifying the brand’s audience. Vanity Fair aptly called Rousteing “the new face of fashion populism.”

The collection was revealed last week in New York, in true Balmain fashion: celebrities lined the front row, Instagram’s most popular faces walked the runway, and the Backstreet Boys performed. The show was live streamed on Periscope, and just in case you missed the live stream, the entire event was documented by those in attendance on Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat. The event saw Rousteing’s #BALMAINARMY in full force, resulting in a spectacle that was a moment for both fashion and social media. Between the runway show, the ad campaign fronted by fashion’s current it-girls, Kendall Jenner, Gigi Hadid, and Jourdan Dunn, and the forthcoming music video starring, yet again, Jenner, the

Balmain x H&M fanfare—what Rousteing has designated the #HMBALMAINNATION—seems to have just begun.

While Rousteing has successfully created a media frenzy surrounding the capsule collection, the fashion seems to be lost in the endless sea of hashtags and Kardashians. The New York launch was a perfect example of creating fashion for the sake of social media, which seems to be an unfavorable consequence of Rousteing’s democratizing project.

Regardless of his controversial marketing strategy, though, Balmain brings to the light the tensions between the old exclusivity of a luxury house and the modern accessibility of a global brand.

Rousteing also raises important questions of what it means to be a creative director in the digital age. With the recent stepping down of Raf Simons, creative director of Dior, and Alber Elbaz, creative director of Lanvin, the responsibilities and obligations of a creative director represents a point of contention for the fashion world. Indeed, it was Simon’s resignation that led Suzy Menkes, Vogue’s international editor-at-large, to morbidly proclaim: “the fashion world is crashing.”

With Balmain’s recent global success, though, it seems as if Rousteing hasn’t noticed.

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THIS WEEKEND in arts

BY: CHRIS FULLER | ASSOCIATE ARTS & REVIEW EDITOR

ACOUSTICS HALLOWEEN INVITATIONAL (FRIDAY, 7 P.M.)

OPEN-MIC SPOOKTACULAR (THURSDAY, 7 P.M.)

Boston College’s Acoustics and Dynamics, Boston University’s Treblemakers, and Fairfield University’s Bensonians will join forces Friday night in McGuinn 121. Admission to the a capella coalition is free.

The BC Music Guild will be holding an Open-Mic Night Spooktacular Thursday night in the Vanderslice Cabaret Room. Attendees are encouraged to come in costume. Anyone is welcome to perform.

BOSTONIANS INVITATIONAL (FRIDAY, 7 P.M.) The Bostonians, BC B.E.A.T.S., and Emerson’s Acapellics Anonymous will come together Friday evening in Cushing 001. It’ll be a spooky night full of singing and scares. Admission to the event is free.

‘BUG’ (THURSDAY-SUNDAY) BC’s Contemporary Theatre will be putting on BUG in the Bonn Studio Theatre. Peter, a Gulf War veteran, and Agnes, a waitress with a cocaine habit, are brought together in a seedy Oklahoma City motel room for a night of terror.

WARNER BROS. PICTURES

‘BURNT’ (OPENS FRIDAY) Chef Adam Jones loses his Paris restaurant because of his abusive drug usage and erratic behavior. Jones moves to London in an attempt to rebuild himself and his career, hoping to eventually open a new restaurant in Paris.

DANCE SHOWCASE (FRIDAY, 7 P.M.) The South East Asian Student Association and Conspiracy Theory will be hosting a dance showcase this Friday evening in the Heights Room. F.I.S.T.S., Full Swing, and Synergy will also be performing at the event.

‘OUR BRAND IS CRISIS’ (OPENS FRIDAY) American political strategist Jane Bodine (Sandra Bullock) is hired by a Bolivian presidential candidate who has dipped heavily in the election’s polls. The opposing candidate, however, is brewing up his own team of elite strategists.

‘SCOUTS GUIDE’ (OPENS FRIDAY) Boy Scouts Ben, Carter, and Augie find the true meaning of friendship when their town is overrun by an infestation of zombies. Together, the three boys have to figure out how to stay alive and save the day.

Thursday, October 29, 2015

THE HEIGHTS

B3

A FULLER PICTURE

The Disappearance of St. Ignatius

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his is, as you can probably see, quite ridiculous and mostly fictional. The question you may—respectably, understandably—be wondering is, why? Just why? What are these meddling kids up to? And our response would be … sometimes the best way to tell a story, to say what you want to say, is to dress it up as something else. So without further ado, this is the story of how four Boston College students—Fred, Daphne, Velma, and Shaggy—and their talking eagle Baldwin saved BC on All Hallows Eve. It’s Oct. 31: the Day of the Dead, All Hallows Eve, Halloween.

The leaves continue to fall and the seasonal chaos has begun to spread across Chestnut Hill. Ghouls and ghosts are rising and dressing up across campus, ready to set out into the night. But trouble is afoot.

The St. Ignatius statue is missing, today of all days. Early in the afternoon, University President Rev. William P. Leahy calls Boston College’s preeminent mystery solvers—Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Baldwin—to find and return the statue before the clock strikes midnight, and the spirit of St. Ignatius is lost forever.

The gang stumbles toward Gasson 100. The lights are off, but the dim radiance from the spotlights outside beam into the hall enough to illuminate the portraits of BC presidents past.

Baldwin looks up as the eyes stalk them across the hallway.

This is not where they wanted to be on Halloween. Sure, they are used to being given assignments like this, but this isn’t how they pictured their evening. Daphne wants to hit up the third floor of Walsh before going to a Mod later. Fred is good with this plan, as long as he’ll be with Daphne. Velma just wants to stay in to get an early start on her honors paper, but the rest of the gang is adamant about going out for Halloween, so per usual she sacrifices her personal happiness to fit in with the crowd.

Shaggy just wants to go chill behind College Rd., but he knows he’ll have to swing by the Mod to get the goods first. Baldwin is just along for the ride. Initially, and somewhat oddly for an eagle, it was hard for Baldwin to make friends and he didn’t like trying new things. So he went along with the only gang who was willing to live with an eagle.

They wait patiently for a minute.

Leahy suddenly materializes out of thin air with a snap. He sports a luxurious tuxedo, a cape, and plastic fangs. His hair is slicked back and dyed black. He leans against a lectern.

“Hey there, gang. I’ve got a big one for you tonight.”

“Yeah? Just make it quick, Father. We’ve got plans tonight,” Fred says, peering at Daphne out of the corner of his eye.

“This can’t wait. You’ve got to get to the bottom of this soon as possible. It’s too important. The statue of St. Ignatius has been stolen, ripped right out of the cement.”

“Wait a minute, you made us come here on Halloween to find that stupid statue?” Daphne sneers. “This definitely could’ve waited until tomorrow. It’s not like Stokes is on fire. We’ve got better things to do.”

Count Leahy swells up ...

“Daphne, that statue represents all this school stands for.

It’s what sets us apart from all the other schools in this city.

Without it, the spirit of St. Ignatius wanders through the void.

The Ignatius statue represents the pensive mind in all of us. It reminds us of our faith, our reason, and our call to serve. Tonight of all nights, when the dead and the demonic are so close, we need Ignatius. We need to refocus our attention on the spiritual aspect of Halloween and remember that it’s not just an excuse for you students to run about causing havoc.”

“All right, Father. We’ll find the statue, but gang, let’s be quick about it. We’ve got to get to that party,” Fred says. “Do you have any clues for us?”

But he’s gone., evaporated from whence he came.

“He does that a lot,” Shaggy comments.

“All right gang, let’s start in the Mod lot,” Fred announces.

“Let’s be honest, some guys probably got pretty drunk and thought it’d be funny to steal the statue.”

“Right man, definitely,” Shaggy groans. “But let’s stop by Lower first, I’m starving.”

The gang runs by Lower sto satisfy Shaggy’s munchies.

Baldwin finds a box of Baldwin Bites on his way down and devours it whole. Eventually they work their way to the Mod parking lot. There, the gang finds a trail of crushed concrete that leads from the elevated parking lot across the Mod lot toward Alumni Stadium.

“Strange, but it seems that something more devious is afoot.

This seems like it took a bit more effort than your average drunkard has in them,” Velma proposes. “Who do you think could have done it?”

The gang looks befuddled.

“You’d probably need the strength of a dozen dudes to move that statue all this way,” Shaggy blurts out.

“I’ve got it!” Fred shouts. “It’s got to be Addazio. He’s got the

strength of a thousand dudes.”

“Right! Great idea, Fred!” Daphne exclaims. Fred blushes.

“Maybe he thinks the statue will lift the kicking curse,” Velma continues. “Let’s head to Alumni. He’s probably still there lamenting over yet another loss. All it takes is a quick walk through the Mods, and we’ll be ready to g—OH MY GOD!” But before the gang can skip on over to Alumni, find Addazio, put an end to the mystery, and still make it to the party relatively early (11:30), they hear a shout from the Mods.

They hear howls and a long screech within the red maze.

Baldwin (the mascot) scrambles up to them, tattered and beaten The very real Baldwin—the friendly, always frightened neighborhood eagle—bristles his feathers at this imposter. The mascot gestures demonstratively at a horde of ghouls behind him.

Daphne points a freshly-manicured finger right past Shaggy, where two kids wearing identical football jerseys stand motionless in the doorway of Mod 4B. “Come play with us,” they sneer, challenging the freshmen outside their Mod to a game of BP. “Run!” Fred shouts.

The ghoul chases the crew around the Mods, shouting profanities all the while. Thanks to the homogeneous uniformity and disorganized nature of the Mods, the crew gets lost several times before finding themselves out of breath, all the way at the student entrance of Alumni.

“Well, that was convenient,” Fred remarks, taking out his Eagle ID and handing it to the security guard, who promptly swipes him in. The rest follow suit.

“Wait,” Daphne interjects once inside the stadium. “Do you hear that? I’m gonna check it out. That really creepy sound is coming from the end of that eerily dark tunnel. Here, take my flashlight and phone—I’m going in.”

Her friends exchange exasperated, knowing glances before following her into the tunnel and onto the turf field. There, at the far end of the field, is a hulking figure kicking 5-yard field goals—hundreds of balls lay just short of the goal post.

The figure spins around in an angry flurry, revealing his face. It is Coach Addazio, dressed as Hulk Hogan—impressive handlebar mustache, bandana, and all. Peering at the students he says, “YOU JUST DISTRACTED ME, BROTHER. NOW IT’S TIME TO THROW DOWN. WHATCHU GONNA DO?” “Sorry, Coach,” Fred says. “We don’t mean to bother you while you’re grieving.”

Addazio’s expression changes instantly from menacing to horrifically maniacal. “Hi, I’m Steve. Wanna plaaaaay?”

“Uhh, no thanks.” Fred looks at him confused. “We just wanted to know if you had any information about the disappearance of the St. Ignatius statue. With all due respect, you wouldn’t have been up to any deviant behavior after another soul-crushing game?”

“And uhh yeah, we’d totally understand. No hard feelings.

Just here to help,” Shaggy adds.

“No, of course not. In fact, I’ve been too upset to leave this stadium. See this football?” he says, picking up the ball at his feet.

“This embodies everything. The team, the sport, the lifestyle. All of it. That’s why I’ve been standing here, kicking field goals. I wouldn’t take my anger out on your stone overlord Ignatius. Besides, that guy was a total Dude. Did you know he was an absolute baller before the whole conversion thing? Now, would I harm the Ultimate Dude, the only thing that keeps me going game after game, disappointment after disappointment?”

The kids exchange sympathetic glances. He is telling the truth. Addazio is off the hook.

Skipping the Maloney elevator, the gang trudges slowly up the Million Dollar stairs. Suddenly, a rope lasso traps and encircles Fred and Daphne, forcing the entire group into that familiar awkward situation where everyone is victim to their two friends’ palpable sexual tension.

“Like, YES, finally!” Shaggy shouts with an exaggerated roll of his eyes and the start of a dramatic slow-clap.

A voice shouts for the shadows, “OH MY GAWD YOU ARE TOO CUTE, YOU SHOULD TOTALLY DATE!” Emerging from just outside of the soft glow of the BC bluelight safety system, philosophy professor Kerry Cronin is dressed as a much cuter version of Lewis Carrol’s storybook

villain Queen of Hearts.

“Wait, You did it! You must have stolen Ignatius to distract us from our night of meaningless hookups and Rubi-driven debauchery!” Fred says, seemingly and rarely flustered.

“Wait, what? Of course not? I’ve just been sitting here, springing out from the bushes anytime I want to congratulate people on their cute couples costume. I have cameras set up all over the place to help increase my field of vision in this covert operation. You can check them if you still think I dared to leave my post to steal Iggy.”

Though the kids believe such a lame excuse could never be fabricated, Velma offers to check Cronin’s security tapes. They check out. Unfortunately, she isn’t the thief.

“Boy, I’m stumped. And hungry,” Shaggy says. “I’m gonna run back to Lower and get mozz sticks. Anyone wanna come?”

Baldwin nods emphatically. They wander toward Lower. An early steak and cheese beckons. Velma says she’ll head to O’Neill to figure it out on her own if she has to. Fred and Daphne glance at each other awkwardly.

“Let’s just go to the party, maybe someone will know something.” Daphne says.

The gang heads its separate ways.

Not much time passes, though, before the Gasson bell tolls.

Fred and Daphne look up from solo cups, Shaggy and Baldwin from two large steak and cheeses. Velma races out of the library, toward Gasson. The rest aren’t far behind.

The gang races to the top of Gasson tower. They reach the landing where the bell now rests, swaying only slightly. And leaning against the edge of of the landing, is St. Ignatius.

“You have left me, forsaken me,” a voice whispers through and around the walls.

“Jeepers! It’s the ghost of St. Ignatius!” Shaggy shouts.

“Cool it. We all know ghosts aren’t real.” Daphne cautions.

“Oh, I’m as real as any of you. I’m the spirit of this school and I am angry!”

“Why are you angry?” Velma asks.

“Halloween used to be an important ritual. Back in my day, we celebrated the cycles of the seasons and honored our fallen comrades and ancestors. Nowadays, all these kids do is dress up as slutty pumpkins and partake in grave sins. Scary movies stir all you kids up in a frenzy, and you don’t respect the holiday, you don’t respect the school. So I’m leaving. And when Leahy and the coven of trustees finds you kids up here at the scene of the crime, you’ll be expelled. You won’t meddle in our affairs any longer.”

Baldwin caws upward. Spooked, he flies upward toward the top of the tower. Fred makes a go to grab the statue.

“Baldwin!” Shaggy shouts.

The gang hears a tussle up by the rafters. Baldwin and another figure crash down to the landing. Baldwin flaps away from the figure, tearing off the figure’s mask in the process.

“The mascot?” Shaggy exclaims.

Sprawled on the floor is the man behind the mascot. He lies there dazed and confused, but soon he comes to.

“Why’d you do it?” Fred asks.

“I can explain,” Velma inserts. “The only thing that stands between the BC Eagle and the image of the school is St. Ignatius here. With the St. Ignatius statue on campus, Jimmy here would never become the perfect symbol of BC happiness. He wanted to constantly fiend for fun, to never take anything too seriously, and to forget our Jesuit roots. By destroying the St. Ignatius statue and placing the blame on us, the Baldwin mascot—and no offense Baldwin—would become the primary symbol of BC. The pensive, thoughtful student that Ignatius inspires would have been done away with forever and unruly fun would have reigned over the BC student body.”

The mascot sits up against the wall.

“And I would have gotten away with it too! If not for—” “—us meddling kids,” Daphne finishes.

Velma wonders aloud. “Are we still going to the party?”

Fred glances at Daphne, and says, “Nah, let’s just hang out—us five. Like the good old times.”

“Late night?” Shaggy asks with a grin.

Daphne smiles. “Yeah, late night.”

“Baldwin Bites!” The real eagle shouts.

“Sure, Baldwin Bites,” Daphne chuckles.

I don’t know why I have an Instagram.

I’ve never taken a picture with it or posted anything at all, for that matter. I started following a few people, realized I didn’t care, and now I barely go on it. If I do, it’s usually to browse John Boyega or Daisy Ridley’s pages to see if they’ve posted anything new (You know … Star Wars stuff). The other night, I saw something really strange on the search page when I went to type in Boyega’s profile. Right under the search bar, among a slew of “trending tags,” there was a major spoiler from Sunday night’s episode of The Walking Dead, plainly laid out for any unfortunate fan that hadn’t had a chance to see the episode in the hour since it aired.

I haven’t watched the show in years, but I was furious that this spoiler had just sprawled out in front of me. Why in God’s name should the search page on Instagram ruin someone’s evening like that? Someone that regularly browses Instagram shouldn’t be immediately vulnerable to massive spoilers for one of the most watched shows on television without so much as a warning. I know a lot of people would say to me, “You should know the risks you take when you log onto social media,” but honestly, this is unacceptable.

It used to be that you had to go out of your way to spoil a plot point for yourself.

I remember browsing the Wikipedia pages for the Game of Thrones books. To my dismay and idiocy, I came across a description that laid out five major characters’ deaths. Like I said, that was a bold and idiotic move on my part, but obviously I was going to come across a spoiler there.

IGN’s reviews for movies, video games, and TV shows very aptly say “spoiler-alert” at the top of the page. If you head down to the comments section, a zoned-off space for people to talk about whatever they want, you’re going forth at your risk of coming across spoilers. If you’re browsing a show’s Reddit page the night an episode airs and you’re trying not to run into spoilers, you’re just an idiot.

But coming across major spoilers on the general search page for Instagram?

That’s almost as bad as spoilers being posted to the front page of Google. Such a large quantity of people decided to post a spoiler publicly that it became a “trending tag” almost immediately after the episode ended. What was the point of posting these spoilers? A lot of the posts that I saw weren’t funny. They weren’t trying to be funny. The posts that I saw merely conveyed that the character had died. These people were posting the mere plot point, not commentary, not something humorous about it. They just wanted to put the information out on the Internet.

It’s not like this is the first time I’ve seen this either. When a certain character on Game of Thrones died at the end of the last season, his or her death appeared under the Facebook trending bar the day after the episode aired. And it’s not that I’m saying that these plot points can’t be discussed publicly. These types of conversations just need to give the show and viewers some time to watch an episode. We don’t all have the time to sit down every Sunday night and watch television. Just because someone does have the time on a particular night to watch a show, it doesn’t mean that person gets the right to publicly post a plot point for something that just happened an hour ago.

This is insane to me. What if, in 1980, when The Empire Strikes Back came out, you walked directly out of the film and screamed to the crowd of people waiting to go in that Darth Vader was Luke Skywalker’s father? You would have gotten the crap beaten out of you on the spot. What’s the difference between that and what happened on Sunday night with The Walking Dead? All that’s missing is a physical presence. I was on a public forum. I don’t follow The Walking Dead’s or AMC’s Instagram.

No one I follow posted the spoiler. And yet, it was just thrust in front of me like it was this morning’s news. I could’ve been trying to see cute pictures of cats on my way home to watch The Walking Dead and my evening would have been decimated.

This just adds another point to my evergrowing list of problems with social media.

A lot of people just blurt out whatever the hell they please without realizing the consequences of their actions. These people didn’t contribute to a substantive conversation about the show. They didn’t share any humorous point about the character’s death. They just (in a really pathetic and cowardly way) shouted out to the world that they had watched that episode of The Walking Dead and that they comprehended the plot. Congratulations, anonymous Instagram users, you can keep up with the rest of us and ruin all the fun for everyone else at the same time. Good on you.

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THE HEIGHTS

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Thursday, October 29, 2015

, J\Zfe[j Ă&#x160;Jfle[j >ff[ =\\cj >ff[Ă&#x2039; fe `kj j\Zfe[ XcYld 9P C<@>? :?8EE<C =fi K_\ ?\`^_kj Just when we thought the poppunk scene was dead, 5 Seconds of Summer revitalized the movement, bringing it to heights the genre hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t reached in years.

Joining One Direction on tour in 2013, band members Luke Hemmings, Calum Hood, Ashton Irwin, and Michael Clifford immediately jumped to the forefront of the mainstream pop-punk revival. With a â&#x20AC;&#x153;fandomâ&#x20AC;? that rivals that of any

other group, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no surprise that 5SOSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; sophomore album, Sounds Good Feels Good, is projected to sell 175-185,000 U.S. copies within its first week, a ďŹ gure that will easily reach the top of the charts. And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when 5 Seconds of Summer embraces the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s melodic, sugary pop-punk roots that the album really shines.

Sounds Good Feels Good opens with mall-punk track â&#x20AC;&#x153;Money,â&#x20AC;? an upbeat, riďŹ&#x20AC;-heavy song that echoes Put Up or Shut Up-era All Time Low. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impressive how well the band plays their target audience. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Moneyâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

opening lyrics describe a girl in â&#x20AC;&#x153;black jeans, white tee, black converse,â&#x20AC;? a straight address to the majority of their fans. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kinda Hotâ&#x20AC;? follows, Sounds Good Feels Goodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ rst single, released mid-July. Peaking at No. 22 on Billboard, the single earned a fair amount of success, partly due to the surrounding scandal. Immediately following the trackâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s release, the Internet was abuzz comparing it to My Chemical Romanceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s anthem, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Teenagers.â&#x20AC;?

Bassist/vocalist Michael Clifford addressed the similarities, claiming

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that the use of 12-bar blues and the same key were pure coincidence. In an individual context, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an entirely reasonable mistake, but unfortunately, the verses of the albumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s next track (and coincidentally, the albumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only other single), â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hey Everybody!â&#x20AC;? sound eerily like Duran Duranâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hungry Like the Wolf.â&#x20AC;? The boy band leaned a little too heavily on their inďŹ&#x201A;uences while trying to age-up their sound for a sophomore release.

The pace of the album then slows with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jet Black Heart,â&#x20AC;? an emotional, almost soulful cry for a second chance at a broken, failed romance. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Catch Fireâ&#x20AC;? is placed perfectly as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jet Black Heartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sâ&#x20AC;? successor, serving as the optimistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interpretation of the same situation. Related lyrics make the punk and pop (respectively) tracks a cohesive narrative.

5 Seconds of Summer likes pairs. The band likes to pair two different songsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;one usually more upbeat than the otherâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;about the same thing. And while it may have originally been a stab at originality, it really just serves to show that the band is far better at the sugary stuff.

The album then returns to more rock-based tracks with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Castaway,â&#x20AC;? a chant-driven break up anthem. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fly Away,â&#x20AC;? Sounds Good Feels Goodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s next song, is a true revival of mid-2000s

pop-punk, with a combination of chanting, lyrics, and pure energy that would please any All Time Low or Yellowcard fan. The album then changes pace with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Invisible,â&#x20AC;? the Sounds Good Feels Good alternative to their self-titled debut albumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hit, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Amnesia.â&#x20AC;? Successor â&#x20AC;&#x153;San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;? continues the albumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trend of paired tracks, as it is the only other song that heavily features acoustic guitar.

The bubbly tune reminisces on the good times of a past relationship, and proposes a fresh startâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;maybe serving as the continuation of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Castaway.â&#x20AC;?

Sounds Good Feels Good closes with combination track â&#x20AC;&#x153;Outer Space/Carry On.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Outer Spaceâ&#x20AC;? is again the plea of a boy wanting his girl back, but the intriguing combination of what sounds like a toy piano and intense electric guitar chords refreshes the story.

Sounds Good Feels Good isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t revolutionary by any standard, but it was never trying to beâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the album is catered to 5 Seconds of Summerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fan base, and while punk fans may sneer at their music, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re taking millions of record sales to the bank. The bandturned-boy-band is sitting high on a new brand of pop-punk. Truly, they are â&#x20AC;&#x153;the kings and the queens of the new broken scene.â&#x20AC;? Â&#x201E;

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Enter BRADLEY COOPER, wearing a leather jacket.

Now, enter Bradley Cooper in a leather jacket on a motorcycle with a shiny set of sharpened knives cradled tenderly under his arm. Immediately, his self-assured swagger, coy smile, and odd collection of cutlery identify him as one of two stock characters: heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s either a style-savvy drug addict ready to shank someone in the nearest dimly-lit alleyway, or that stereotypical bad boy whose apathetic exoskeleton conceals good intentions and a feverish desire to redeem himself through his craft.

Or maybeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as is the case in John Wellsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; most recent dram-com Burntâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a dull combination of those two predictable personas (except, well, he can cook).

Cooper plays the ďŹ lmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wayward protagonist Adam Jonesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a self-made sous chef who disappears from the forefront of French cuisine at the pinnacle of his culinary career. After spiraling into a bleak lifestyle of desiredriven debaucheryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;submitting, of course, to his love of drugs, alcohol, and womenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Jones seeks to reinvent himself by striving to earn the coveted third star from the well-revered Michelin reviewers.

Less than 15 minutes into the ďŹ lm, the audience has already ďŹ gured out

the rest of Jonesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; story. Lacking the much-needed elements of surprise that Wells should have peppered throughout the ďŹ lm, Burnt fails to deliver in shock value, as the viewers fully anticipate Jones attempting to â&#x20AC;&#x153;turn over a new leafâ&#x20AC;? by opening his own gourmet restaurant, meeting a strong-willed woman who is going to â&#x20AC;&#x153;turn his life around,â&#x20AC;? and setting out to embody other trite cliches that might also begin with the word â&#x20AC;&#x153;turn.â&#x20AC;?

Jones returns to Europe in search of his chef pals from the good olâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; daysâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a ragtag group of guys whose lives have been, for the most part, ruined in some way by Jones and his drug addiction. Despite the bad blood between Jones and his former friends, he somehow wins them over with grand plans of culinary glory.

Oddly enough, the former addict easily coaxes his wealthy friend Tony into funding the entire ordealâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a feat that takes little to no eďŹ&#x20AC;ort on Jonesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; part, save the trouble of plastering a smile across his handsome face and uttering a simple â&#x20AC;&#x153;please?â&#x20AC;?

Apart from the ďŹ lmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all-too-familiar storyline, the art production of Burnt is impeccable. Wells serves up an aesthetically pleasing product whose vibrant colors and dazzling cinematography attempts to hide an otherwise bland plot. The audience indulges in frequent montages of ingeniously choppy clips showing

high-stress kitchen chaos. The swift movement of chefs weaving around each other to create the perfect dish is like a well-choreographed ballet, captivating the audience with each ingredient added and every order prepared.

In addition to being a visual treat, Burnt boasts a mostly refreshing and humorous script. With witty oneliners and snarky side comments from Cooperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s character, the movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sarcastic tone helps to signiďŹ cantly spice up the story. Despite the ďŹ lmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one-dimensional characters, the casting was excellentâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Cooper

provided the realistic tantrums of a troubled man, while Miller was a force of feminine power in an otherwise subservient role.

The several aspects of the ďŹ lm that made this movie sizzle, however, did very little to negate the disappointment of a poorly-executed plot. Leaving many loose ends and underdeveloped plot points, the ďŹ lm felt like an abridged version of a movie that was originally made to be much longer. The dialogue disappoints at times, especially when the characters keep mentioning the â&#x20AC;&#x153;drugs, alcohol, and womenâ&#x20AC;? Jones

used to doâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as if both the audience and Jones himself needed the constant reminder that the guy used to be a total badass.

Overall, it is diďŹ&#x192;cult to digest such a horriďŹ cally hackneyed plot.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty much a re-imagined, realistic rendition of Pixarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ratatouilleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that is, if the animated childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s classic replaced its cute CGI critters for more references to drugs and meaningless sex.

Simply stated, Burnt doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the raw, rare qualities of a good ďŹ lm that critics crave; rather, it barely passes as well-done. Â&#x201E;

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Green manages to bring the concept to life and right into the audienceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kitchen with Our Brand Is Crisis.

Starring Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton, the ďŹ lm takes place during a Bolivian presidential election where two of the leading candidates enlist the help of American political strategists to aid their respective campaigns. Our Brand Is Crisis manages to showcase the nature of the American political system during election season by presenting its backroom

wheeling-and-dealing in a foreign setting, instilling in the viewer eerie familiarity with the heinous electoral climate depicted.

In the ďŹ lm, the damaged but brilliant â&#x20AC;&#x153;calamityâ&#x20AC;? Jane Bodine (Sandra Bullock) ďŹ nds herself in a self-inďŹ&#x201A;icted retirement after she was the subject of a major scandal. Having been away from the field for six years, she reluctantly joins the campaign of Senator Castillo, a Bolivian presidential candidate whose numbers

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have been nose-diving, after learning that the opposition enlisted the help of her long-time rival Pat Candy (Thornton). The ensuing campaign evolves from ensuring Castillo the presidency to a personal duel with her nemesis, whom she blames for her unstable mental state and her tarnished reputation.

Our Brand Is Crisis becomes another illustrious chapter in the anthology of Bullockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s career, alongside hits like Gravity, The Blind Side, and Speed. It serves as a proper marker for her star power, as she seamlessly becomes her character so profoundly that toward the end of the ďŹ lm, the audience can identify Bodineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mannerisms and quirks. Bullock, just like the ďŹ lm as a whole, can be brilliantly funny and devastatingly touching.

The ďŹ lm, much like Greenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s other works, serves as a quasi coming-ofage story. Bodine, although belatedly, enters into a phase of rapid change where her every belief and motive will be challenged, leaving her broken down to the core. She always looked to the future, with her mind never on where she was or what she was doing. She ďŹ nds herself at a crossroads: will she retain her materialism and selďŹ sh

pursuit of victory?

Bullock and Thorntonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interactions are undoubtedly the highlight of the ďŹ lm, as their chemistry is astounding. Whenever they engage in conversation, the audience feels as if two experienced generals are interacting during a tense stalemate.

Their back and forth bickering brings out a refreshing witticism that toes the line between brilliant insight and fall-out-of-your-chair hilarity. One scene perfectly sums up their relationship as both parties, in their respective buses, ďŹ nd themselves side by side on a mountainous road, and, as it would be expected out of the uber-competitive individuals, they proceed to race each other to a surprising end.

Our Brand Is Crisis stands out from your average one-time-isenough ďŹ lm because not only does it manage to capture the audienceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attention immediately, but also manages to retain it throughout its 108-minute running time. A ďŹ lm with its own unique charisma, it successfully conveys a message to the audience without being overly pedantic: something is rotten, yes, but it is not beyond our means to overcome and improve upon it. Â&#x201E;

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;HELLOâ&#x20AC;?

ADELE

Last Friday, the world watched as Adeleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest single hit Youtube, her first since â&#x20AC;&#x153;Skyfallâ&#x20AC;? back in 2012. The single, already met with acclaim and receiving over 25 million views within a day of its release heralds her new album 25.

As a video, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Helloâ&#x20AC;? frames Adeleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reďŹ&#x201A;ections on relationships as she conducts past and hypothetical conversations with her ex. The sepia tones and prominently featured retro phones lend the video a nostalgic sensibility, although the song has a somewhat less acoustic and more updated pop quality than her previous work.

As is typical, Adeleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s verses are subdued and low-voiced, while she belts out the refrain conďŹ dently. Accordingly, her verses are complemented by close-ups and intimate detail shots, while in the most openly emotional sections of her song, she gives an active depiction of singing or talking.

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After a slow start to the game, in which the Crimson and Eagles could only manage three shots combined—all of which were

blocked—senior forwards Jake Freeman and Michael Innocenzi linked up at the half hour mark to give Harvard the 1-0 lead.

Freeman played a through-ball past the BC defense to Innocenzi, who put one past BC goalie Alex Kapp for his second goal of the season.

Kapp was not teste d too much in the first half, only facing two shots on goal, one of which was the lone goal and the other a shot that Kapp saved with a

minute left in the first half.

While both teams had four shots and two corners apiece in the opening 45 minutes, BC had the better chances offensively.

Henry Balf, Mohammed Moro, and Ike Normesinu forced Harvard goalkeeper Evan Mendez into three saves, all of which came within a four-minute stretch in the final 15 minutes of the half.

Harvard came out firing in the second half to put the pressure back on BC to start the second

half. In the first seven minutes, Freeman had two shots blocked and the Crimson won three corner kicks, yet the Crimson couldn’t find the back of the net.

After a brief lull, Harvard doubled its lead in the 67th minute. After the Crimson won a throw-in in the attacking third, sophomore defender Justin Crichlow sent a long throw into the box, where 6-foot-2 midfielder Daniel Smith rose up to flick the ball. It fell to Oliver

White for the finish, giving him his third goal of the season.

Harvard controlled the second half, getting off seven shots in the second half. Outside of the goal allowed, BC’s defense stood the test, and Kapp only had to make one save.

The Eagles did manage to get one goal back as they made a late attacking push. After Mendez saved a Balf shot, BC won a corner in the 88th minute. Zeiko Lewis’ delivery found Enstrom,

who scored on a header to cut the deficit in half.

Despite having two fewer shots on goal and not troubling Kapp, the Crimson made the most of their opportunities, converting 50 percent of their shots on target.

The wait for Ed Kelly’s 300th career win will continue, as the BC head coach has been sitting on 299 wins for the past three games, all of which he has lost.

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Steven Daniels (52) had a career day, but the offensive line showed its inexperience in BC’s loss to Louisville.

LOUISVILLE, Ky.—The mood was somber in the shadows of Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium, the air so thick that it could be cut with a plastic knife. Besides the whizzing and whirring of an equipment truck, it was quiet, even though there were people all around.

The general public had long since left, leaving parents and friends of Boston College football waiting patiently outside the black metal gates, still decked out in their finest maroon and gold attire. They held pom-poms and wore ribbons, waved signs and proudly sported the colors, but their facial expressions didn’t match the excitement of their accessories.

Dozens of hulking men in blue sport jackets and khaki slacks funneled out of the locker room tunnel, one by one, and away up the stairs. Eyes locked on the ground, they varied in body shape and type, but their faces all read exactly the same.

Pain. Anguish. Heartbreak.

The Eagles were defeated— more than just the scoreboard showed.

Players dried their eyes before making their way over to speak with the media. One sobbed as he embraced his parents, hanging lifeless in their supportive arms. Administration and additional party members shuffled onto the buses softly, only holding muted conversations among themselves when the team was out of earshot.

It was the type of flight home on which you put in earphones, put your head down, and keep it that way until you get off the plane.

These were some of the toughest men at BC—but here they were, thoroughly broken.

The Eagles (3-5, 0-5 ACC) never really had any business winning over the University of Louisville (3-4, 2-2). Prior to the season, this game and last week’s game against Clemson University were the two games BC was expected to lose.

This was not a close loss in the traditional understanding of the term—Louisville dominated BC’s offense from start to finish. The only touchdown drive BC constructed started inside the Louisville red zone, while its other seven-

point score came from a punt block returned for a touchdown.

But the fact of the matter is that BC could have, and perhaps should have, won this game. The defense forced five turnovers, and the front seven looked unstoppable. Senior linebacker Steven Daniels had the game of his life on Saturday, coming up with four tackles for losses and some thundering hits in the backfield to establish the tone.

For at least the third time this season, the Eagles were handed a gift in the final minutes of the fourth quarter by the opposition, who basically begged BC to take the game away. When Brandon Radcliff fumbled near midfield with just a few minutes remaining, Louisville writers in the press box groaned, sensing that the Cardinals had just blown the game against a team that had gotten outplayed from the start.

But anyone who has seen mere minutes of BC football this year knew exactly how that game would end.

Troy Flutie, who came in for an injured Jeff Smith during the second half, significantly underthrew Elijah Robinson on BC’s best chance to move the chains on that final drive. With the pressure closing in on Flutie, he floated a wobbly pass over the middle.

While it might have been catchable, Robinson had to uncomfortably reach back toward the line of scrimmage for it. He reached and missed, letting the ball bounce gently off his fingertips and onto the turf. With that easy conversion opportunity went BC’s hopes for victory.

“I didn’t step into it, and it was short,” Flutie said. “It was a huge missed pass.”

But the loss could hardly be blamed on quarterback play. While both Flutie and Smith struggled themselves, the BC offensive line performed miserably. The line, which debuted two new starters— Aaron Monteiro at left tackle and James Hendren at right tackle—at the beginning of the game, couldn’t open holes for the running game but looked like Swiss cheese when Smith or Flutie dropped back to pass. While the line has actually looked much better since the debacle against Florida State in week three, the new group just didn’t gel

today and took a major step back in terms of development.

Little explanation was given for the change, and neither of the new starters appeared first on the depth chart at any point during the week.

“It’s not acceptable,” Addazio said. “Eight sacks. We have to play so much better up front than we did today.”

Myles Willis echoed his coach’s statements following the conclusion of the game. As one of the upperclassmen leaders of this young offense, Willis appealed to the linemen on a few occasions to try and light a fire under the struggling unit, to no avail.

“We just gotta have more pride,” Willis said. “We have to do a better job of protecting the quarterback.”

It is so out-of-character for a team coached by Addazio, an offensive line specialist, to struggle so mightily on the front line. It is so out-of-character for BC, which has rightfully earned the nickname “O-Line U” over time, to look so helpless in the trenches.

And while blame hasn’t always been on the offensive line, it’s always been on someone. It was the running game against FSU, special teams against Duke, the coaches against Wake Forest, and just about everyone against Clemson.

The past four weeks, at least one unit has shouldered most of the criticism in BC’s losing effort.

This week just happened to be the O-Line’s turn.

“It’s on us as an offensive line,” left guard Harris Williams said.

“It’s on us, and we’re gonna take it on our shoulders. It’s definitely not anybody else’s fault but us.”

Williams spoke with a tremble in his voice about the ineffectiveness of the offensive line on Saturday. He did not hide, and he took the blame on behalf of the entire unit. Speaking about the line’s struggles, he then said something that the entire team was likely thinking about the loss.

“It’s something that’s getting at us really deep in our hearts.”

BC was defeated by Louisville on Saturday, in every sense of the word. It’s too late for the Eagles to win back the game against the Cardinals, and the same might just go for their pride.

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In fairness to Bracco, his style of play was simply not fit for college to begin with.

He’s only 5-foot-8, which won’t match up well against men who are almost four years older than he is—think defensemen like the Chicago Blackhawks’ Mike Paliotta, the 6-foot-3, 203-pound bruiser who bodied the Eagles into submission for Vermont in last year’s threegame Hockey East Quarterfinal. Bracco is not the dynamic skater that Johnny Gaudreau was—bigger bodies will demolish him. He will, however, thrive in the OHL against players who should be closer to him in the size department.

Most importantly, this decision comes down to a

detriment of Bracco’s character.

According to several sources, Bracco was at practice as early as yesterday. From many reports, BC’s staff—and more importantly, his teammates—had no idea that he would be on his way to Kitchener only one day later. As Demko made it clear earlier today on Twitter, that’s not a guy that you want on your team. He retweeted reputable team insider @bchockeyblog1’s angry comments about how Bracco abandoned his team and coaches.

It’s hard to blame a kid for picking what, in his opinion, is the right choice for his professional career. And if Bracco thinks that’s through the OHL, then, for his sake, I hope it’s the right decision.

But it’s hard to believe he wouldn’t have gotten effective training at BC. There’s plenty of time to spend in the weight room with BC’s … decent facilities. Many players have rolled through Kelley Rink on the path to excellent NHL careers, whether they stay four years (Kevin Hayes, Brian Gionta, Cory Schneider) or just

one (Hanifin, an All-Star in all likelihood).

And we can’t forget that much of that has to do with the greatest coach in the history of the sport. York, who will be the first man to pass 1,000 wins in college hockey later this season, consistently emphasizes putting the team over one’s individual accomplishments. If Bracco was willing to give up his commitment after playing a mere five games in college, it’s doubtful that he would fit with that mission. York’s success is built on that mission, and keeping a guy who cares more about his career than the team will only hinder BC’s quest for a sixth national championship.

Over the summer, many people in the BC hockey community were thankful that Bracco didn’t turn into Milano.

In the end, he turned out to be much worse. But BC will be just fine.

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Saturday’s game against Louisville was particularly instructive about this point. Though the 17-14 score looks like a shootout compared to some of BC’s other contests, seven of the Cardinals’ points came off a BC fumble returned for a touchdown.

Both of BC ’s touchdowns were direct results of its defense and special teams’ efforts, and

the offense could not move the ball when it had to in the fourth quarter.

Part of the reason the Eagles could not gain any momentum in the fourth quarter against Louisville was that Troy Flutie had to fill in for the injured Jeff Smith.

Though feeble with anybody behind center, BC’s offense has been slightly better with Smith this season. The freshman’s speed adds a different dynamic to the attack, which needs any and all dynamics it can get.

Smith will not suit up for this week’s tilt, but the Eagles may have the best chance that they will have all season at getting off the conference schnide when they take the field against Virginia Tech on Saturday. For

one, BC is at home for the first time in three weeks. Second, Virginia Tech is a slightly worse, if less extreme in its composition, version of BC. The football analytics site FootballOutsiders.com ranks BC as the 51st best team in the country and Virginia Tech as 52nd.

Virginia Tech gives up 5.7 yards per play on defense, gains 4.7 on offense, and its head coach Frank Beamer prides himself on his team’s special teams even more than Addazio does.

“Coach Beamer, I have all the respect in the world for him,” Addazio said. “He is a great football coach and a great man.

He does a great job with his program. They’re tough. They are great on special teams. We’re

playing against, in my opinion, an elite program and one that is highly motivated right now because they have had some real disappointments. This is a great challenge for us. It just is, given the fact that we have our own challenges, our own injuries to overcome and youth.”

Because of said challenges, Las Vegas still considers BC a slight (1.5 point) underdog to the Hokies despite the location of the game. Yet, BC’s opponent is almost irrelevant to its chances in any particular game.

The defense will be great, and the offense will probably need to make some plays late to win that it is probably incapable of making. You already knew that, though.

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Last week against Duke, senior QB Michael Brewer returned for his first start since breaking his left collarbone in the OSU game. The gritty pocket passer provides a steady veteran presence at the helm of an offense that struggled at times during his absence. Redshirt junior Brenden Motley filled in admirably as the starter for six games, even boosting the ground game with his running ability, but threw seven interceptions and completed just 56 percent of his passes.

Brewer made an immediate connection with his 6-foot-7 tight end Bucky Hodges, throwing three touchdowns to the imposing red zone target. Virginia Tech also boasts sophomore receiver Isaiah Ford, who has amassed 564 yards and seven TDs this season, as a reliable target on the outside.

While the running game hasn’t exactly struggled this season, averaging over 170 yards per game, it has risen to a new level recently with the emergence of freshman Travon McMillan. Over the last three games, McMillan has rushed for 337 yards and averaged a robust 6.02 yards per carry.

With a full complement of players, the offense looked excellent in the 45-43 quadruple-OT loss to Duke.

It showed a new ability to execute sustained drives, with three scoring drives of over 10 plays, including a touchdown drive that lasted 20 plays and almost 10 minutes. While such lengthy drives are not likely against BC, the Hokies should at least have elevated confidence in their offense’s sustainability.

The tandem of McMillan and Brewer figure to lead the offense on Saturday. Though BC allows just 1.9

yards per carry to opposing running backs, look for Beamer to stick with McMillan to build at least some semblance of an offensive balance.

The run game will likely not be more than a diversion for the BC defense, with Brewer using the threat of runs to open up play action passing. These passes should create throws down the middle of the field to Hodges, who figures to generate mismatches against the Eagles’ man defense.

Expect Brewer to focus on minimizing turnovers, accepting some short drives as opposed to gifting BC’s offense a short field. Beamer can put Brewer in the shotgun to give him more time to read the defense before the rush gets to him, aiding in the effort to produce safer throws. Without this concerted effort, Brewer might be exposed to the pass rush frequently, as his line has surrendered 21 sacks on the season.

While the offense figures to hold its own, the defense looks poorly positioned for a matchup against such a run-heavy team. Beamer’s defense ranks 85th in rushing defense, allowing 177.8 yards per game, along with 11 TDs. The advanced numbers on how methodical run offenses, like BC, fare against the Hokies are misleading.

Football Outsiders’ defensive rankings show that Virginia Tech has allowed just 8.2 percent of opposing drives to last at least 10 plays, a seemingly impressive 11th in the FBS. This ranking is rendered less impressive by considering that they have allowed 4.65 yards per carry.

With such a high average, opponents don’t need 10 plays to reach the end zone against the Hokies. The strength of Beamer’s defense is the secondary, which has allowed opponents to complete just 49.8 percent of passes. Even this number comes with a caveat, as these completions have gone for an average of 14 yards, the

For the first time this season, I watched a BC football game from my couch instead of the press box. It didn’t help my perception of how this team will do against Virginia Tech. The offense, which appeared to make some strides against Clemson, looked atrocious versus Louisville, mostly due to poor offensive line play. And with Jeff Smith likely out due to a concussion, this week’s game becomes even more impossible for an offense incapable of finding its identity.

Prediction: Virginia Tech 10, BC 7 JACK STEDMAN CHRIS PETERSEN / AP PHOTO

Virginia Tech’s Michael Brewer could pose a problem for BC’s defense. seventh worst mark in the FBS. On Saturday, look for Virginia Tech to load the box against BC with eight or nine defenders, looking to stop the run game. Even with such an intense commitment, they will still likely give up a fair amount of rushing yardage. More concerning for the Hokies are BC’s play action passes.

While Troy Flutie, starting for the injured Jeff Smith, has been far from impressive this season, he has shown an ability to hit long passes on play action throws. Most of these plays develop because a defense has overcommitted to stopping the run, leaving a free receiver.

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Even Flutie can make these throws and these plays provide the main avenue for BC to quickly move the ball.

With its penchant for surrendering lengthy completions, Virginia Tech must remain disciplined in the secondary, not helping too much against the run game. Otherwise, it might allow BC’s offense easy chances to keep the Eagles in the game.

A loss in this game could further increase the cacophony surrounding Beamer. Perhaps, for the sake of both his reputation and his beloved program, now would be a convenient time to step away, before Harvey Dent’s prophecy comes true.

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ABC, TNT, TBS, ESPN, ESPN2, and NBCSN. You’ll be tested on this later. And don’t forget ESPNU, either. I want you committing 100 percent of yourself to this cause.

At the beginning of each day, make a composite schedule of what you’re going to view. Don’t waste a single second on anything other than sports.

Are you still breathing? I understand this is all coming at us hot and heavy. It’s good to check your pulse every once in awhile, just to make sure. The inevitable last-second game-winners and heartbreaking finishes are going to do a number on your health.

This sports extravaganza is not for the weak.

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Frank Beamer is notorious for celebrating 0-0 games after regulation, and there’s a real possibility that that will happen again this Saturday. However scary that may seem, BC’s defense is good enough to shut out the Hokies and the offense is bad enough to put up a goose egg. The Hokies will kick the game-winner in overtime. This will be one frightening scene as both teams dig their own graves and fight to the death. Happy Halloween!

Prediction: Virginia Tech 3, BC 0

tough loss, and with the amount of games, that’s bound to happen.

Eat your sorrows away. And if anyone asks you what you’re going as for Halloween, just turn around and point to the name on the back of whatever jersey you’re wearing.

PRO TIP NO. 5: Buy a portable iPhone charger. When you’re at Alumni Stadium, Conte Forum, or Newton Field for a home game, you’ll need a fully charged phone so that WatchESPN and NBC Live Extra apps can be running at all times.

Congratulations! You’ve made it through the definitive how-tosports guide with minimal sweating and you’re now stockpiled to embark on a mystical journey of soul-searching and sports fandom.

Just remember to exhale every once in awhile.

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Asst. Sports Editor When Steve Addazio name drops the fourth-string walk-on quarterback in his weekly press conference, you know this team has been seriously derailed by injuries. The Eagles are the only team with a sub-.500 record ranked in the top 10 in total defense in the NCAA. That statistic won’t change much this week.

BC will limit the Hokies to under 20—and one of VT’s touchdowns will come from defense or special team— but will likely be limited to under 10 themselves.

Prediction: Virginia Tech 17, BC 6

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MICHAEL SULLIVAN Well, this one’s gonna sting.

After a swift blow to Boston College’s pride last summer, when Sonny Milano suddenly de-committed from the program three days prior to school starting, head coach Jerry York has been burned by another highly-touted freshman. Jeremy Bracco, the speedy forward from Freeport, N.Y., has decided to bolt for the OHL’s Kitchener Rangers on his path to the NHL. In five games, Bracco showed flashes of brilliance working with Alex Tuch and Zach Sanford on the first line. He didn’t notch a goal, but had three assists, all coming in the same game against Colorado College.

This shouldn’t come as a surprise.

Many were shocked that he had come to BC in the first place instead of opting for a potential AHL contract with the team that drafted him, the Toronto Maple Leafs. His potential impact on the team was a large reason why BC was ranked No. 1 overall entering the season.

But don’t worry about their prospects from here on out. The Eagles will do just fine without you, Jeremy.

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, bud.

Last season, as we all know, BC was built on its impressive stock of top-notch defensemen. When Steve Santini went down in December, the Eagles filled in with Teddy Doherty.

That experiment worked. Doherty excelled in the role, while it led Noah Hanifin to pick up more minutes. The latter, now a member of the Carolina Hurricanes, showed significant improvement over the course of the year.

Had one of BC’s few top forwards fallen to injury—and based on their play in 2014-15, I’m limiting that list to Tuch, Sanford, Ryan Fitzgerald, and Adam Gilmour—the Eagles would’ve really had issues. No disrespect to last year’s senior class, but the likes of Michael Sit, Destry Straight, and Cam Spiro don’t scream “elite players on a championship team.” If one of those four had gotten hurt, York would have had a big problem filling that gap in productivity.

That isn’t the case this season.

The Eagles have plenty waiting to replace Bracco on the top line. Tuch and Sanford, the star sophomores, are back playing with Gilmour, their former linemate. So far, they’ve returned to that same high quality that they played at last season.The elder Fitzgerald is still here, too.

But look at the newcomers and the up-and-comers. Juniors Austin Cangelosi and Chris Calnan have looked impressive in their first few games. Two of BC’s freshman forwards, Miles Wood and Colin White, have excelled early on—they’ve played much better than Bracco has, I must add. Christopher Brown, himself, has been surprised with how quickly he has adjusted to the college game.

This also gives a prime opportunity to Chris Shero and J.D. Dudek to step into more minutes and increase their values. They may be playing on the third and fourth lines, but their ceilings aren’t as third- and fourthline players, the way Straight, Sit, and Spiro were destined to end up.

Maybe, however, BC’s forward talent won’t even matter given the way its defense has played. Before we get too carried away, let’s recognize the teams BC has played—Army, RPI, Wisconsin, and two against Colorado College, which have a combined one win. Not exactly offensive juggernauts.

Nevertheless, we can’t ignore the performance that Thatcher Demko has put up so far this season. The junior goaltender has been a brick wall, giving up three goals in five games.

Demko has shut out his opponents in each of his last three games, making him only the 21st netminder in NCAA

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9-7, lost to Wake Forest 3-0 and lost The defense, through eight to Louisville this past week 17-14, games, has allowed 4.0 yards per and adding up those losing marplay, ranking sixth-best in the nagins does make the “three games tion. The offense, meanwhile, has by eight points” statistic accurate. gained 3.6 yards per play. That Yet Addazio’s Eagles are 3-5, and mark easily slots the Eagles’ offense See BC Preview, B9 in 128th place among all Division

9P :?I@J EFP<J ?\`^_kj JkX]] While not nearly as dramatic a subject matter, the message of Harvey Dent’s quote from The Dark Knight— ”You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain”—applies quite well to endgame scenarios for some of the most iconic college sports coaches. These men devote their entire adult lives to building a program, from struggling underdog to national powerhouse. Despite all of their in-game successes, these men have a particular weakness: they don’t know when it’s time to quit.

Frequently, the game passes them by, with the legendary figures suddenly unable to adapt to new recruiting or coaching tactics. The last few years of their reign are painful, with their team falling into disarray. Once revered, they face scathing attacks and calls for their firing.

Virginia Tech’s Frank Beamer appears to be stuck in such a downward spiral. Heading into Saturday’s matchup

at Alumni Stadium against Boston College (3-5, 0-5 ACC), this iteration of the Hokies (3-5, 1-3 ACC) bears little resemblance to the powerful teams of Beamer’s past.

After winning at least 10 games every season from 2004 to 2011, Beamer, coaching his 29th season in Blacksburg, Va., has sent out perhaps his most disappointing team in 2015. Not since 1992 has one of Beamer’s teams had just three victories this deep into the fall.

He also seems out of touch with today’s recruiting practices. With the 69-year-old coach unable to adapt to the modern, 24/7 recruiting cycle, Virginia Tech’s talent level has fallen in recent seasons. The calls for Beamer’s head have poured in since the seasonopening, 42-24 drubbing at the hands of Ohio State.

Even amid all the turmoil swirling around its coach, Virginia Tech should have enough talent to remain competitive against a reeling BC team, losers of four straight and owners of an offense

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=fi jgfikj ]Xej# `kËj k_\ dfjk nfe[\i]lc k`d\ f] k_\ p\Xi JACK STEDMAN It’s finally upon us, the greatest time of the year.

Most of you, however, were probably too busy preparing a Halloween costume to realize what this upcoming weekend actually means.

I’m talking sports. And not just your dad’s Sunday softball league type of sports. I mean the face-melting, hookyourself-up-to-an-IV-of-pure-sportingenjoyment type of sports, coming at you live straight from your TV. With the start of the NBA season and game one of the World Series on Tuesday, the NFL nearing mid-season, the NHL underway as of this month, and the MLS playoffs starting this week, we’re in full gear, folks. Multiply that times two with both college and professional sports happening, and it’s a real doozy. Try not to

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overdose.

For me, it all started a couple of weeks ago. On a Friday night, I covered a Boston College men’s soccer upset victory over Virginia. The next day, I watched the first official men’s basketball practice at noon before coming back to my dorm to watch the BC football game. And on that night, I made my way over to Conte for the first men’s hockey exhibition. In the span of 30 hours, I had seen it all. The sequence of events brought a tear of joy to my eye.

That was just the beginning.

You’re probably filled with many emotions—happiness, anxiety, fear—and you might even be a little hesitant. You might be thinking, “This is all too much for me, I don’t know how to handle it.” Well fear not, comrade, because I’m here for you.

I’ve got you covered with my definitive how-to guide—filled with pro tips, little nuggets of wisdom, and straight facts—for navigating this most wonderful time of the year.

I’ll get you started nice and easy. Step One: Sit on the couch. Step Two: Firmly grasp the remote. Step Three: Turn on TV. Step Four: Never leave.

I’ll allow some exceptions to this last

rule, mainly that you can get up to go the bathroom (only at breaks in game play) or to go get food (must be pizza, chicken wings, or buffalo chicken dip). Other than that, grab a pillow and blanket because you’re sleeping there. It’s easier to go right to sleep after those late West Coast games then to have to get up and get to a bed, anyway.

You have to have the perfect set-up.

Adjust the TV at optimal eye level for optimal comfort. Leave space next to the TV for a laptop, so you can stream another game at the same time.

Now that we’re situated, it’s time for the first pro tip.

PRO TIP NO. 1: Spend the morning hours doing rigorous finger exercises.

That’ll come in handy when you’ve got multiple games at once. Timeouts don’t last long, so you’ll have to switch over from a World Series game to an NBA game pretty quickly. Locate the “last” button on the remote, now, and practice hitting that as many times as you can.

In a couple days, you’ll be flipping channels like a champ.

PRO TIP NO. 2: Get out your calendar. See Sunday, Nov. 1? You might have

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some things to do that day. I don’t care, cancel them all, because this is the first day when the big four sports all play on the same exact day, barring a sweep in the World Series. If neither the Mets nor the Royals can do it in four games, then game five will come on an NFL Sunday, alongside a few games each from the NBA and NHL. Soak it in—it only comes once a year.

The big four gets most of the love, but don’t forget that the MLS playoffs are also here. And if you’re related to BC in any way, which you probably are if you’re reading this, then I recommend supporting the New England Revolution or the Montreal Impact. Both teams feature BC grads Charlie Davies and Kyle Bekker, respectively.

Okay, it’s getting pretty confusing now, with five sports in the mix and only one pair of eyes to watch them all, so here comes another pro tip.

PRO TIP NO. 3: Keep a TV guide with you at all times, whether it be the app or the hard copy. Memorize that thing, know every game on CBS, NBC, FOX,

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