The Heights November 19, 2018

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT

BATTLE-TESTED

SPORTS

Women’s basketball survived a turnover-plagued road matchup with Houston to remain perfect through four.

ARTS

BC’s new food magazine, ‘Gusto,’ lauched this week and is full of recipes, reviews, and essays.

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Montserrat Coalition Celebrates 10 Years Org. founder on history of the University initiative

BY GRIFFIN LAWLER For The Heights AND JHON DE LA CRUZ

For The Heights Last week marked a full decade of the Montserrat Coalition, a University Mission and Ministry initiative that aims to provide financial aid, mentorship, and support for students coming from low-income backgrounds. Maria Pastrana, the organization’s founder, spoke at a celebration attended by 145 students on Thursday.

The group began in 2008 after students, faculty, and administrators joined together

to provide free entrance to a limited number of social events on campus, such as movie premieres, theatre productions, football games, and concerts. Soon after, they began to help fund EMT training, service programs, and retreats. Eventually, they began to offer other forms of services and support.

Montserrat serves about 1,400 students, or 15 percent of the undergraduate population, according to its webpage.

Coming from a low-income, MexicanAmerican household, Pastrana was the first member of her family to attend college.

During her time at BC, Pastrana recognized the lack of resources offered on campus for students who shared her background.

In her keynote, Pastrana reflected on her efforts to establish Montserrat. It all

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No. 20 BC Blows Eight-Point Fourth-Quarter Lead at FSU

The Eagles gave up the game-winning touchdown with 1:49 left.

University, Union on Sanctioning

Practice Space Not Yet Open

Disagreement over reason for discipline after demonstrations

BC still finalizing security, busing at 300 Hammond Pond Pkwy

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BY ABBY HUNT

Asst. News Editor

Copy Editor

The Boston College Graduate Employees Union (BCGEU-UAW) released a letter on Oct. 31, in which it said that the University had disciplined over a dozen graduate students in response to fliering efforts on Sept.

28. The union and University have since clashed over which discipline was handed down for.

On the night in question, members of the union protested the administration’s refusal to recognize the group by walking out of an address in Robsham Theater by University President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J., and picketing outside of Pops on the Heights in an attempt to push their cause to a larger audience—specifically an audience that actively donates to the University.

Several members of the BC Police Department and Dean of Students Tom Mogan told the protesters that they could continue to flier as long as they remained within a designated area, which the union agreed to after internal discussions.

“And now your administration has opted to unjustly discipline more than a dozen graduate student workers who engaged in peaceful efforts to distribute leaflets and exercise their free speech right to inform the public of the college’s refusal to bargain,” the letter said.

On Tuesday, University Communications responded with a statement saying that the punishment was only in response to the walkout, rather than the distribution of leaflets outside of Conte Forum.

“Administrators cite a petition launched on October 31 by union supporters that claims that a group of BC graduate students was disciplined for ‘distributing leaflets’ on the BC campus,” the release said. “Rather,

Boston College’s plans to open 300 Hammond Pond Parkway for student rehearsal and performance space have been delayed.

The new plan is to open the space early next semester, as well as provide regular shuttle service to and from the location. BC is in the process of finalizing the security and transportation infrastructure for the location, according to Carrie Klemovitch, special assistant to the vice president of Student Affairs and director of special projects.

The opening of the location to students falls under the BC After Hours Initiative—a program BC launched in September to open up more spaces for student use in the evening hours. The initiative comes after various student performance groups have voiced their concerns about finding practice space in the past.

Upon the launch of After Hours, the BC website stated that 300 Hammond Pond Parkway would house a choral and dance rehearsal space in a multipurpose room and that shuttle bus services to the location would begin Sept. 17—but the opening was delayed based on a combination of security requirements and student interest in the space, according to Klemovitch. The space needs to be brought up to the standards the University has for all buildings across campus in terms of items like locks and cameras, especially considering the fact that the entire space is still undergoing renovations, according to BC Chief of Police Bill Evans.

“The safety and security of students remains our highest priority, and we are actively reviewing the space with BCPD to bring it online,” Klemovitch said in an email.

Currently, the space is available to hold special events, and various students group have been given tours throughout the semester to showcase the space. Although many student performance groups had already made arrangements for rehearsal space for the fall semester, this outreach has resulted in requests to use the space in the spring semester, Klemovitch said. 

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE

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Marching Band ‘Scores’ Football Games Screaming Eagles play up drama and tension at Alumni

BY JILLIAN RAN Heights Staff In the era of silent films, live music accompanied the action on screen. Orchestras

performed scores that paralleled the emotional ups and downs of the film. Although these orchestras were out of sight—hidden in pits in front of the screen—they were responsible for setting the tone of the film, literally.

Today, the Boston College marching band plays a similar role at football games.

It is most visible during its pregame performance and halftime, but the aspect of

the band that is truly unique is its ability to mimic the intensity of the game through its performances in the stands. When the Eagles are on defense, for example, only the percussion section plays on the first down.

When second down begins, the electronics pitch in. Finally, on the third down, the full ensemble plays, creating a crescendo that

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Elizabeth Shlala Joins Core Curriculum Shlala will focus on better serving firstyears through core

BY EMILY BROWDER Heights Staff AND SCOTT BAKER

Heights Staff Elizabeth H. Shlala was recently named the new assistant director of the core curriculum at Boston College, according to a University release. Brian Gareau, associate dean for the core, noted his excitement to have an experienced administrator such as Shlala contributing to the Core Renewal.

The Core Renewal program exists in order to ensure that the core curriculum follows in the academic footsteps of BC’s Jesuit values, according to the curriculum’s website. As it stands now, Core Renewal’s latest additions—known as Complex Problems and Enduring Questions courses—fulfill only a small fraction of the core requirements.

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Despite her new responsibilities, Shlala, who joined BC this fall as an associate professor of the practice, noted that no major changes to the core are imminent. Instead, she and Gareau will focus on tweaking aspects of the curriculum to better serve first-year students, as well as considering other core-related initiatives students have brought to them.

Shlala expressed excitement at the opportunity to work in a program that is oriented chiefly to first-year students and said she is particularly fond of the way the core curriculum integrates Catholic Jesuit values into education.

“I think that the big questions of human life … are at the core of a Jesuit Catholic education and certainly at the core of the University core curriculum,” she said. “And those are questions that we can answer no matter ... our religious background.”

Gareau believes that the Complex Problems and Enduring Questions courses are aspects of the BC curriculum that separate it from other schools. He stands by the Complex Problems and Enduring

Question courses as an accessible platform for students to be exposed to a multitude of fields and interpret the issues of today.

Shlala said that she thinks that the core curriculum is a highly successful program.

She placed particular emphasis on the Complex Problems and Enduring Questions courses that BC has implemented in recent years—she said that she believes the courses have been well received by both students and faculty.

Since its launch in fall 2017, there have been eight Complex Problems courses and 39 Enduring Questions pairings. There are two new Complex Problem classes and 17 additional Enduring Questions courses slated for spring 2019.

According to the University’s public course evaluations, all Complex Problems and Enduring Questions courses have overall course ratings above a 3.5. On the one-to-five scale that students use in these rankings, anything above a three is considered “good.”

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Dan Price, founder of the credit-card processing and financial services company Gravity Payments, will speak about honesty and transparency in business at 5:30 p.m. on Monday in Robsham Theater.

Monday, November 19, 2018

The Center for Human Rights and International Justice is hosting Yasser Abujamei, who leads Gaza Community Mental Health Programs on Tuesday from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Campion 139.

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Students curious about pursuing their MBA at Boston College can meet with admissions staff on Tuesday at 10 a.m. at the Starbucks located at 125 Summer St. Attendees will receive a $100 waiver for their application fee.

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NEWS Sandel Lectures on Bioethics, Current State of Politcs BRIEFS

By Scott Baker Heights Staff

NCAA Releases Graduation Stats

Boston College placed sixth in the NCAA’s Graduation Success Rate (GSR) among all Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) schools, according to rankings released Wednesday. GSR measures the proportion of student-athletes at an institution who graduate with a college degree. With a GSR of 95, BC matched its score from last year, when it also ranked sixth. In the 14 years since the first GSR rankings, BC has never scored below a 95.

The GSR for any given class tracks all incoming freshman and all transfer students, but does not consider those who leave the institution in good academic standing, unlike the U.S. Department of Education’s Federal Graduation Rate (FGR). The NCAA created GSR because the federal system penalized the original school for transfers and failed to credit the one they transfer to.

Just like last year, 13 BC teams earned a GSR of 100, which means that every player graduated successfully.

Those teams are field hockey, men and women’s cross-country and track and field, men and women’s golf, men and women’s skiing, men’s tennis, women’s ice hockey, women’s lacrosse, women’s rowing, women’s swimming and diving, and women’s volleyball.

The overall NCAA average this year was 88, which both football and men’s basketball matched exactly. At 86, only men’s soccer fell below this average.

Within the FBS, the average GSR was a 78. The FBS is the most competitive subdivision of NCAA Division I schools. Duke, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Stanford, and Vanderbilt were the only member schools to top BC. The NCAA does not impose penalties on schools with low graduation rates.

BC Health Care Costs Hold Steady For the second year in a row, Boston College employees will not face an increase in health and dental insurance premiums. Nationally, after-plan health care costs rose by 4.7 percent in 2018 and are set to increase by 5 percent in the coming year, according to a survey conducted

by Willis Towers Watson, a national research firm. The same survey revealed that costs have risen by 8 percent on average since 2013.

The current setup at BC allows employees to choose between two plans for both medical and dental plans. Life insurance premiums are paid in full by the University and are based on both age and annual salary.

Vice President for Human Resources David Trainor credited health and wellness efforts among faculty and staff. BC offers its employees and a health management initiative called “HEALTHY YOU.” This year’s offerings include a meditation and mindfulness program, workshops on elder care, and a new cancer and chronic illness support group.

He also said that the University has been successful in negotiating with its insurance carriers, in part because the faculty and staff have remained healthier than usual over recent years.

“As a self-insured entity, Boston College pays a majority of health and dental costs for its employees,” Trainor told BC News. “We have made efforts to ensure that what we spend on health care benefits our employees and not our carriers’ profits—particularly in the areas of prescription drugs.”

The University plans to start offering partial eye care coverage as of next year. The new plan will still require employees to pay for their own examinations and purchases at reduced rates.

Michael Sandel, a political philosopher from Harvard University, came to Boston College on Tuesday to discuss the intersection of bioethics and morality, with a particular focus on the ethics of scientists genetically modifying embryos to create “designer babies.” Sandel’s public lectures have attracted millions of listeners.

Sandel began with a brief examination of the state of politics in the United States today.

He said that modern politics are frustrating to many Americans who feel as if it is full of empty discourse. He argued that the idea of the public good today is wrongly centered on economic concerns, leaving morality by the wayside. He argued that this, along with the fear of controversy and confrontation, leads to the absence in politics of discussions about how to live a good life.

“I think it’s a mistake for two reasons,” Sandel said. “We can’t decide the important questions we need to decide as democratic citizens without asking questions about justice and the common good.

“There’s also a practical reason this is a mistake. The effect of keeping moral argument out of public discourse has been to create a kind of moral hollowness, a moral void that opens the way to narrow, intolerant, authoritarian voices which arise to fill

that gap.”

Sandel criticized the rising economic inequality in the United States, saying that, on this issue, populists have a point. He contended that the meritocratic system in the United States is failing and warned that this inequality can lead to false conceptions of how hard one has worked.

“The more we believe that we live in a society where you can make it if you try, the greater the tendency to believe that those who have made it have tried hard and therefore they deserve the benefit that flows from the exercise of those talents and that effort,” he said. “There’s something deeply demoralizing as this attitude of success takes hold across the society—demoralizing for those who haven’t landed on top. … It’s a meritocratic hubris.”

Sandel then transitioned to bioethics and the challenging discourse surrounding the topic.

Sandel began by talking about biotechnology that already exists—the ability of parents to choose the gender of their children.

Sandel posed a question to the audience, asking if parents predetermining the sex of their child is morally objectionable. A vast majority of the audience expressed opposition to the practice.

Sandel then asked a few members of the audience for the reasoning behind their decisions. Among the objections to prede-

termining the sex of a child were the skewing of the gender ratio, the changing notion of unconditional love, and the emergence of designer babies—babies whose appearance is entirely chosen by the preference of the parents—almost like a consumer good.

On the other side of the issue, one audience member argued that letting parents choose specific traits about their child could lead to parents loving that child more than if the child was born naturally. In an unexpected move, Sandel had audience members who fell on each side of the issue address each other, forcing them to defend their views in front of a packed room.

Moving to a hypothetical issue, Sandel asked the audience what they thought about using biotech to predetermine non-physical characteristics, such as intelligence. This time, even more of the audience members raised their hands in opposition to the idea, while only a few people expressed support.

Again, Sandel had members of each side advocate for their position. One person who believed in using biotechnology to enhance the IQ of children argued that it would benefit society to have a more intelligent population. Several who spoke in opposition to the concept expressed worry that it would fundamentally change the relationship between parents and children, a suggestion that Sandel was inclined to agree with.

“What’s at stake in this debate about

bioethics and designer children is not mainly the technologies, but the attitudes, and the values, and the norms,” Sandel said. “Giving parents the right to choose erodes the unconditional love of parents for children.”

Sandel noted that a lot of people take issue with using biotechnology to engineer better children but are not able to explain what it is that makes them uncomfortable.

He admitted that he did not have an adequate response but attempted to craft an answer nonetheless.

“The problem with these kinds of genetic engineering seems to me is that they represent the triumph and the ultimate expression of a certain project … to enlarge human powers over ourselves and for that matter over nature,” he said. “[This] seems to miss something about what it means to be human and what it misses is an appreciation the gift and character of life.”

Sandel then connected biotechnology with his original point about meritocratic hubris.

“This unbridled reach for control and for mastery of nature and of ourselves creates a kind of hubris because it persuades us … that we are the masters of our fate today, to the extent that our successes are our own doing,” he said. “And the more we believe that, the less we are likely to be open to a sense of solidarity with those less fortunate than ourselves.” n

MIT’s ‘Lean on Me’ to Launch at BC Next Year

By Abigail Hunt Copy Editor Lean on Me—an anonymous student-to-student texting service—will be launching at Boston College this January.

The service originated at MIT when, after a string of suicides at the university, a group of students decided to create something to support student mental health on campus.

The demand for on-campus counseling, the only institutional mental health resource available for BC students all of the time, has become impractical to handle, according to Reed Piercey, Undergraduate Government of Boston College president and MCAS ’19. Students often wait weeks for an appointment.

“You have people who are going in to

counseling for anything, ranging from a really busy week with a lot of stuff going on and feeling overwhelmed, to people who have serious recurring mental health issues, who are at risk of self harm—and so that puts a lot of strain on both the students and the counselors,” Piercey said.

Lean on Me comes in by helping the people on the lower end of this spectrum—those who are feeling overwhelmed or lonely, don’t have anyone to talk to, or are lacking support from their friends, he said.

“They now have an instantly available service that they can reach out to and have that conversation with,” he said. “So that means that people with more clinically serious mental health issues can have more access to counseling, and the people who need that support, the lower-end support,

more often can get the support easier.”

To use Lean on Me, students will just text the hotline number, and they will be anonymously connected with a trained student supporter.

The service will be available for students virtually 24/7, only depending on if any of the trained supporters are awake. The supporters won’t be working shifts—rather all the active supporters will be notified and have an opportunity to take the conversation anytime someone texts in.

“It’s instantaneously available,” Piercey said. “It’s for pretty much anyone with any kind of concern who wants to just blow off some steam, talk to someone, express what they’re going through—short of having an issue that does require professional mental health support.”

The idea for bringing this type of service

to BC was born in the spring semester of Piercey’s freshman year, when he became a volunteer at the Samaritans suicide prevention hotline in Boston. The experience led him to think that BC could use a resource built around what he called the “Samaritans mentality”—the idea that allowing the other person to open up to you about what they’re going through, and just sitting there and listening to what they have to say, is the most powerful tool a supporter can have.

“That mindset can address just so many of the issues that come up,” Piercey said. “It’s not really about saying the right thing to them. It’s just about asking the right questions so that they can feel comfortable talking, and then all that really matters is that you communicate that you are there, that you’re hearing them, and then validate the way that they’re feeling in that moment.” n

Evans Warns Students of Holiday Break-Ins

By Jack Golman News Editor As the Boston College community begins to depart Chestnut Hill for Thanksgiving break, BC Chief of Police Bill Evans is reminding off-campus students to make sure they lock up before they escape campus for the beginning of the holiday season.

Evans sent out a reminder to the community via email and across BCPD’s social media channels, urging students to be proactive in preventing crimes from

occurring.

“Traditionally, especially off campus, a lot of the students leave their apartments,” Evans said. “I was in that district for nine years, and traditionally [break-ins] go up because there’s nobody around. That’s why we sent out [the email]: If you have valuable electronics, if you can take them home, and if not make sure you lock your doors, lock your windows, and pull your air conditioners out of windows.”

Evans said that the break-in rate can increase during the holiday season, due

to the fact that it’s a time ripe for crimes of opportunity. This is a situation Evans and BCPD lieutenant Jeffrey Postell emphasized was behind some of the break-in issues that plagued the Allston-Brighton neighborhoods off-campus students call home this past September. Once residents concentrated on securing all ports of entry in their home, as well as surveying the area to make sure items like ladders weren’t lying around—giving potential criminals a much easier route to commit a crime—the spike in reported break-ins

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immediately ceased.

The email urged students not only to lock doors, windows, and remove AC units, but also to activate any tracking devices residents may have on electronics in their homes, as well as the usual emphasis on reporting suspicious activity to local law enforcement by calling 911.

“It becomes a little bit of a ghost town in the student areas over the holidays,” Evans said. “If you have a neighbor, let your neighbor know you’re going to be gone and they can keep an eye on your property too.” n

Wednesday, Nov. 14

Thursday, Nov. 15

Commonwealth Garage.

Friday, Nov. 16

12:21 p.m. - An officer filed a report regarding a traffic crash at Foster Street.

1:56 a.m. - An officer filed a report regarding a medical incident at health services.

2:41 p.m. - An officer filed a report regarding a wellbeing check at McElroy Lot.

3:36 a.m. - An officer filed a report regarding an underage intoxicated person at Walsh Hall.

8:24 a.m. - An officer filed a report regarding a suspicious circumstance at

4:04 p.m. - An officer filed a report regarding lost property at McGuinn Hall.

—Source: The Boston College Police Department

11:26 p.m. - An officer filed a report regarding a medical incident at Boston College Police headquarters.

CORRECTIONS What are you most thankful for?

“I’m most grateful for the spaces of reflection on campus.”

— Dan Walsh, MCAS ’20 “I’m most thankful for my sister because she does everything for me.”

— Sarah Baldassari, CSOM ’21

“I’m grateful that it hasn’t snowed yet too much.”

— Vanessa Kalil, MCAS ’20

“I am most thankful for my friends because people don’t realize that they’re such a huge support network.”

- Raymond Norville Jr., MCAS ’20

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

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Administration Clashes With Union Union, from A1 administrators say, the students were found responsible for interfering with a public event and infringing on the rights of others to hear a presentation in Robsham Theater on September 27 [sic].”

The release also characterized the union’s letter as “the latest in what administrators say is a series of false statements made to bolster support of unionization under the umbrella of the United Auto Workers.”

Members of the union, however, said that there were actually two rounds of discipline: one for the walkout and another for flyering outside of Pops on the Heights.

One graduate student who wished to remain anonymous said that the union made a choice to publicize the second round of punishment to push back on what it perceived as an intimidation tactic to suppress worker speech on campus.

The administration summoned 16 students to disciplinary hearings for Oct. 24

and Oct. 25, according to union members.

Approximately 35 students participated in the picketing and flyering.

A copy of the summons sent to The Heights specifically mentioned an unauthorized demonstration that occured at Conte Forum, not Robsham Theater. The summons opens by saying the following: “The Office of the Dean of Students has received a report about an alleged violation of the Code of Student Conduct in connection with an incident involving an unauthorized demonstration that occured on September 28, 2018 in the following location: Conte Forum.”

On Oct. 31, the Dean of Students office notified the 16 union members that they had been issued an administrative warning for violating section 4.6.9 of the student code of conduct, which holds that “all activities in the nature of a public speech, rally, demonstration, march, protest or other coordinated event (“demonstrations”) must be registered and approved in advance by the Dean of Students.”

An administrative warning is “a formal notification to a student documenting that a violation of the Code of Student Conduct has occurred,” according to the Student Code of Conduct. It serves as an official warning to the student that subsequent violations of the Code of Student Conduct may result in higher level sanctions.

The notice of disciplinary action cited events that took place on Sept. 28, but did not specify which actions. The case number of the notice matches the case number of the summons that invokes Conte Forum, suggesting a connection between the two.

“In accordance with federal law, the University does not discuss specifics regarding student disciplinary matters,” University Spokesman Jack Dunn said in an email. “The University released a statement this week to correct misinformation from the [United Auto Workers] and its supporters.

“We will continue to challenge any false assertion regarding grad student unionization.” n

To Founder, Montserrat Future is Bright Montserrat, from A1 started with her first semester experience at BC. Leaving San Diego for Boston, she was shocked by the lack of diversity. The only Latina in her dorm, she struggled to find a place on campus. Her financial need only added to this overwhelming experience.

“At the time, freshman welcome week cost $100,” Pastrana said. “If you didn’t have those $100 and you didn’t buy the tickets to participate, when everyone else went to these events … you were stuck on Newton.”

During her junior year, Pastrana met Rev. TJ Martinez, S.J. She became visibly emotional as she mentioned his affect on her BC journey—Martinez has since passed away—yet she was thankful for their conversations that changed her view of BC. He inspired her to go on a pilgrimage in Spain, where she learned the spiritual exercises, and then to attend the Kairos retreat.

“That was the first time where I was really open to this idea of my own spiritual journey, and also what community meant here on campus,” Pastrana said.

She attended a panel on privilege and disparity at BC, and said she was very vocal about the experience of low-income students.

“I had come to love BC,” Pastrana said.

“But I knew many other students who were in similar economic situations as I was and who were extremely jaded and who didn’t love BC and who didn’t have a good experience and blamed the institution because they felt the institution didn’t care. I knew otherwise.”

As a graduate student, Pastrana and a number of faculty members created the Economic Challenge Committee, a place where Pastrana could express her feelings to those who worked for the University.

Her graduate assistant position allowed her to contact students and offer them free tickets to events.

The next year, the Economic Challenge Committee was given $80,000 to use for students, yet it remained an unofficial organization. Pastrana’s graduation meant that she would no longer be allowed contact with students. If she was going to act, it had to be now. “‘Last night, I slept two hours. I put the documents for the program together and sent them. Whatever happens, I do not know, but I do know I did all I could. I hope everything goes well,’” Pastrana read from her journal, dated July 21, 2010. “And here we are today!”

Also present at the celebratory event was Yvonne McBarnett, better known as Ms. Smiley, the director of Montserrat.

“It has humbled me a lot to see what

Marina did … to advocate for the students that are here and I will not take away from all the hard work that she’s done, but just to add to what she’s done,” McBarnett said.

“We’ve been able to grow, there have been a lot of changes.

“I’m hoping that we would get more funding to support the students that we have on campus. I would love to see more staff.

Right now we have two people, a [graduate assistant], and four student interns.”

She is happy to see more students taking advantage of the resources the Coalition offers, as well as bringing in more visitors to the office.

“We’re sharing our love, they’re telling their friends, and they’re bringing their love back to us,” McBarnett said.

Students enjoyed a buffet and raffle during the event. As the evening came to an end, students were treated to cake and a performance from Synergy.

Pastrana reminded students that Montserrat is about preparing students for what comes after college—the various challenges, financial and otherwise, that students will have to face.

“You will continue to face challenges,” Pastrana said.

“But the decision you make today will guide you to the person you want to be in the future. Now is the time to learn who you are.” n

Gareau, Shlala Discuss Core Revisions Core Curriculum, from A1 Asked about student and faculty issues with the core, Shlala left some room for modification. Some members of the BC community have argued that the theology core requirement should expand to be more inclusive of non-Christian religions—Aneeb Sheikh, chair of the Undergraduate Government of BC’s Academic Affairs Committee and MCAS ’20, has made this issue one of his primary concerns for the academic year. Shlala suggested that this is certainly a change that the program would be willing to make, noting her background as an Islamic scholar.

According to the University’s website on the theology core credit, “the study of theology is an essential feature of the Core Curriculum in a Jesuit, Catholic University.

This implies an institutional commitment to the Roman Catholic tradition, but also encourages the study and understanding of other theological traditions.”

Of the six courses that satisfy the theology requirements, only one sequence, Religious Quest I and II, offers a look at non-Western traditions through the lens of Christianity.

“I’m not sure how the theology depart-

ment will approach it,” Shlala said. “But I know that through Complex Problems and Enduring Questions courses, we can certainly bring in other world religions and worldviews.”

When asked about petitions to add an African and African Diaspora studies (AADS) course to the core curriculum, Shlala noted that BC is offering a Complex Problems course that deals with racial issues. “From BlackLivesMatter to MeToo” is a course that examines the intersection of race and sexual violence. It’s a six-credit class that fulfills a social science requirement and the literature requirement. Only two other courses within the AADS program, African American History I and II, fulfill a core requirement—cultural diversity.

So far, no Complex Problems or Enduring Questions courses have satisfied the cultural diversity credit. Last fall, the University asked professors to submit potential courses for the program for the 2019-20 academic year.

Shlala said that she is too new to the University to comment on whether an AADS course should be added as a core requirement, but she is excited to see Complex Problems courses that deal with racial issues.

Gareau said he’s particularly satisfied with the range of topics that get covered within the different core courses. He emphasized the course “Art of Creativity: Buzzword to Artwork,” which combines philosophy and studio art and is taught

by Sheila Gallagher and Richard Kearney.

Moreover, he said he believes that, with the issues that they cover, the core courses provide students environments where they can consider particularly complex subjects on a more intellectual level, calling the curriculum “a real luxury” particular to BC. Gareau looks forward to continuing to improve the Core Renewal program with more involvement from the professional schools, including the Carroll School of Management with the intention to expose undergraduates to the business field. This, according to Gareau, is not only for the students’ benefit, but also for the Core fellows, faculty with PhDs hired to teach labs of complex problems courses.

“What I want to do is provide Core fellows with more opportunity to get exposed to teaching from a BC perspective,” Gareau said. “It’s important that they provide our UG with a fantastic experience in the classroom and they leave here with a great feeling of what it was like to work at BC.” n

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Osaghae on Inclusivity

By Jack Goldman News Editor Michael Osaghae, chair of the AHANA+ Leadership Council (ALC) and MCAS ’20, never thought he’d reach this point.

He’s always been passionate about the issues ALC works to solve for the Boston College community and the AHANA+ community within the institution, the management aspect and overall breadth of issues he has to cover in ALC now wasn’t something Osaghae saw on his horizon when he arrived in Chestnut Hill.

He immediately noticed, though, exactly how difficult it was to find students or administrators on campus having the hard conversations that encourage a more inclusive campus.

Osaghae noted that when he got into BC, he “hit the ground running.” He sought out places where he could find a home— such as ALC—make new friends, integrate further into BC’s social culture. That said, he noticed that some people of color got left behind—some students didn’t have places where they could go to center themselves and to process their BC experience.

“I was an orientation leader this summer, and it was sort of to combat that—to provide representation in spaces that aren’t normally occupied by marginalized folks,” Osaghae said.

He said that being a student of color at BC is a microcosm of America’s more general culture surrounding marginalized groups. To Osaghae, part of the experience of being a student of color is continuous discomfort as you process your experience—both in America and at BC. Osaghae’s mission is concentrating on areas where BC can improve in order to help students of color both process this discomfort and establish a culture where that discomfort won’t be inherent to the experience of marginalized students going forward. That means asking questions about how individual students of color and communities of color can advocate for themselves moving forward. If people of color are going to continue to be marginalized, how can people of color support each other in addition to advocating among other cultures that create the discomfort in the first place?

One of the issues Osaghae and ALC are working on at the moment is expanding the Multicultural Learning Experience (MLE) floors to Newton. Osaghae isn’t just looking to expand that experience beyond Main Campus though, he’s looking to revitalize it. That’s part of the rationale that he kept in mind as he approached adding input to what the Student Experience Survey should look like: The only way to better understand what needs to change is to talk to the people who are searching for such change.

The survey itself is extremely important to Osaghae.

“It’s probably the first opportunity students have to really make sure their voice is heard,” Osaghae said. “Especially when it comes to being marginalized, being a student of color, you’re never really going to have this platform to really air out your experiences, sit back with yourself, and ask BC to make changes that you see fit.”

Osaghae is happy with how the survey came out in the end, even if it’s not going to serve as the end-all-be-all in regards to handling issues pertaining to diversity and inclusivity on campus—ultimately, it’s

a step in the right direction. He said he hopes it paves a pathway for students to get their word in with the administration.

Students—ALC in particular was heavily involved in putting the survey together— were a part of the process of putting this survey together, and although Osaghae said that students will find problems with the survey, they should participate and then express those issues so that they’re taken care of moving forward.

ALC is also looking to create inclusive spaces for culture clubs. Within the AHANA+ Caucus, Osaghae is trying to make sure the group is working together to create an atmosphere of love.

On the administrative side, he commended the University for providing access to administrators who are willing to listen to student leaders. Osaghae noted that he’s been involved in conversations with administrators throughout his entire time at BC—administrators who have been willing to not only listen, but engage with the conversations student leaders have brought to University leaders.

On the other hand, Osaghae also noted that the University falls short in terms of transparency and accountability in regards to diversity and inclusion—not only in regards to what is going to be done but the steps utilized to reaching the conclusion that an action is the right direction for the University and its students to embark upon.

Osaghae said that the reason the Student Experience Survey was created on the ideology that students so badly wanted to speak and be heard. The problem was that nobody knew when it was coming, even though the idea for the survey was born a year ago during the Silence is Still Violence protests, according to Osaghae.

In terms of what’s changed in the last year, Osaghae said he believes it’s happening in one area in particular: the student body.

“This year I’ve just seen an unparalleled level of activism, and a focus and a drive to really let people’s voices be heard across the board—whether it be student leaders, cultural organizations, the Class of 2022—just a revitalized energy that’s really needed,” Osaghae said.

He noted that the “die-in” was made up of plenty of underclassmen, which he believed was evidence that not only is this campus concentrating more on advocacy, but that change is ongoing. It’s the most heartening part of his job: Seeing people rise up and take the mantle—taking it upon themselves to create the change they seek.

That doesn’t mean the campus climate is permanently on that trajectory. To Osaghae, that means reflecting as a campus on how the student body can actualize the changes it wants to see at BC. “I think it’s a little early to tell whether more students are in it for the long run,” he said. “With the administrators—we’ll see. But we’re all at BC, and we’re all in this together, so we should be building bridges together.

“Hopefully, we’re able to see students and faculty and staff and administrators all come together to create something, like in the aftermath of the student survey working toward [improved] AHANA+ hiring retention. These are issues that have been present since BC’s inception, so how can we make an atmosphere that’s better, and foster that and change it.” n

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Spent*on*the*Hill

In search of political prowess, Eagles descend on D.C. for a summer full of public service.

BY ISABELLA CAVAZZONI For The Heights

Political activism is as essential to college campuses as nice grass. At Boston College’s Convocation every fall, hundreds of first-year students are drenched in BC’s call to be men and women for others—they are coated in Ignatian values and reminded that their education is not complete unless they share what they learned with others.

And for many BC students, this call turns them to a career in politics.

Each summer, approximately 10,000 interns work on Capitol Hill, and BC students join others from across the country in their hike to the Hill. As students dive into internships in the public sector, they have to grapple with little compensation and menial tasks, but in return they receive the opportunity to encounter the world of politics firsthand, and to connect with future employers.

If you scroll through the camera roll of Jaime Martinez, MCAS ’20, you’ll see pictures of him with slicked-back hair in classic business casual grinning alongside political bigs like Ben Carson, Bernie Sanders, and Ted Cruz.

Last summer, Martinez approached and talked to all of these former presidential candidates in Washington D.C. He was one of three interns on Capitol Hill for Congressman Filemon Vela, of Martinez’s own 34th District of Texas. But Martinez’s journey to the Hill began long before he snagged this coveted internship.

If you took a tour of the White House during summer 2017, there’s a chance it was led by Lauren Healy, MCAS ’19. In addition to her duties in the office of Republican Representative Mike Coffman during the electric and particularly exciting summer that came at the wake of the Donald Trump presidency, Healy took advantage of the city spread out before her that was drenched in history. Healy wanted to learn as much as she could while in D.C. and frequented museums during her free time. But before Healy and Martinez snagged the opportunity to live and work in D.C. for a summer, they had to cultivate the interest in politics that led them there.

Martinez introduced himself to the world of American politics long before he could vote, and long before he even lived in the United States. A native of Mexico City, Martinez and his family vacationed in Texas every summer where he checked out books from the public library on the White House, the Statue of Liberty, and Mt. Rushmore, catalyzing his interest in American politics despite not being a natural-born citizen. Martinez, who is currently a political science major with plans to attend law school, became fascinated with American politics.

“I just got super interested in American politics, how the system works,” Martinez said. “Politics has more to do about who you

are, what you think , [and] your views.”

While his work as an intern mainly consisted of constituent services—answering phone calls, drafting constituent letters and other miscellaneous office work were the order of the day— Martinez found thrill and excitement outside the office. Rubbing elbows with recognizable senators and presidential candidates, riding an exclusive subway meant for government officials, and attending intern-only speeches made his job all the more rewarding.

Though only an intern, Martinez never hesitated in approaching prominent politicians, or pulling up the pictures on his phone to prove it. He said that there are two types of interns: those who are very reserved and try not to disturb politicians at work, and those like him, who make it their mission. When Martinez ran into Sanders on the subway between government buildings, he walked up and struck up a conversation—they discussed past and future presidential elections.

“I would approach anyone who got in my way and talk to them and take pictures,” Martinez said.

It was these conversations, whether in front of hundreds of other interns in a lecture or on the subway between buildings, that made the hours Martinez spent pushing paper worth it.

Because one of his duties was answering constituent calls, Martinez conversed with people of ranging opinions. He received questions about detention centers that held over 2,000 immigrant children separated from their parents last summer, some of which happened to be a 10 minute drive from his home in Brownsville, Texas. Cameron County at the southern Texas border (which encompasses Brownsville) held the highest number of immigrant children placed in shelters, with over 2,000 children.

“I mean, you have two types of constituents: the ones who support it, and the ones who are against it,” Martinez said. “So we have to talk to both and attend both equally, because we are there to serve our constituents.”

Martinez diligently attended to any constituent that called him, and there were many. Some expressed concerns over the children being separated from their families, while others called to congratulate Trump on a job well done. In one instance, a teenage girl accompanied by her mother came into Vela’s office with a 20-page description of her prototype for a wall at the south Texas border.

“Being in Washington D.C., in Congress, does not necessarily change your view on certain issues, but at least for me, it helped me understand [other people’s] point

of view and where they’re coming from and see why that is such a strong stance,” Martinez said.

Experiencing American politics first-hand at the federal level not only inspired him to pursue another political internship for summer 2019, but to run for office after attending law school.

That same summer, Patrick Fahey, MCAS ’20, interned in a political office—not in D.C., but a little closer to home. He worked for his congressional representative, Joe Courtney, a Democrat in Connecticut’s 2nd district.

While answering phone calls or reviewing constituent letters, Fahey also databased the opinions of district constituents. In one specific instance, a veteran on the brink of homelessness called Courtney’s office for help.

Constituent caseworkers contacted the Department of Veteran Aff airs, and secured affordable housing for him, but the veteran was never able to move into the housing they found him.

“The fact that [caseworkers are] willing to like go into work every day and like deal with the people in this country who really need help, that was optimistic for me,” Fahey said. “It gave me more optimism and hope in our government.”

Currently, Fahey’s future political plans are up in the air.

“I don’t think I’m going to run for office,” Fahey said. “My classmates in high school always thought I would run. They thought I’d be president. But, I think I’m going to disappoint them on that front.”

In between free museum visits, leading White House tours, and galavanting through Washington D.C., Healy spent the summer of 2017 on Capitol Hill alongside three other interns of Coffman’s. With that summer being Trump’s first summer in office, Healy felt it was the right time to put her political science major to work.

Though Healy is not from Coffman’s district—she’s from Littleton, Co.—she sought out an internship under his wing after researching Colorado representatives.

Healy, interested in veterans’ affairs, decided on Coffman based on the military significance of his district, given that it holds Buckley Air Force Base.

Coffman’s district also holds a Veter-

ans’ Affairs (VA) hospital and military base, peaking Healy’s interests in VA issues.

“I looked into all of [the representatives] and I thought that Coffman … really cared about his district,” Healy said. “And he does, he goes back every weekend … At the end of the day, I felt like his political viewpoints aligned more closely with what I wanted to do and what I believe in.”

Though her day-to-day tasks were also relatively menial—answering phones, taking notes, giving tours—it was Healy’s involvement with two big political issues that defined her experience: the defense budget and transgender military rights.

The classified nature of the defense budget didn’t allow for Healy or any of the other interns to have a particularly hands-on role, but Healy involved herself in researching topics she would never have otherwise. For example, Healy was in charge of researching a new plane to be held at Buckley Air Force Base.

The sweltering heat of the summer was accompanied by the hot topic of whether transgender military servants should or shouldn’t have their transition-related health care costs covered by the military. Healy felt that her involvement as an intern was most vital during this debate, which came before Trump tweeted to ban all transgender people from serving in the military on July 26, citing “medical costs” as the reason behind the bar.

“It was a time when I saw the generational divide between the older staffers and the younger staffers,” Healy said. “The older staffers were not necessary prejudiced or bad people, they just didn’t understand the issue, but they knew that. And so they reached out to interns and that was when I felt very valued.”

Though Mike Demakos, BC ’16, did not do his first political internship until after he graduated from BC, his drive throughout his time as an Eagle helped to later land him the job. Demakos, who has worked for two representatives, considers internships extremely important in helping students obtain jobs and become connected in the political world.

He is currently a legislative assistant for Representitive Niki Tsongas of Massachusetts’ 3rd congressional district, though he previously worked under Representitive Jim Himes of Connecticut’s 4th congressional district. Prior to snagging a full-time job in D.C. for Himes, he interned on the Hill for him.

Like Demakos, Lilly Millette, MCAS ’20, received a new opportunity after spending a summer interning for Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas in 2017.

Millette secured her first summer internship after speaking directly with Cotton’s legislative correspondent and headed from her home state of New York down to D.C., not realizing she’d return a year later.

She landed another internship for Cotton the following summer, this time working as a legislative correspondent intern, mainly working to maintain communication between the legislative office and citizens. Millette’s

first summer interning under Cotton consisted of tasks that most interns are familiar with, like office organization or grabbing coffee for staffers. This kind of grunt work paid in spades the summer after, when Millette had the opportunity to do more important work like draft constituent outreach letters and policy letters.

As an intern, Demakos shared in the same routine intern tasks as Martinez, Fahey, and Healy. He notes, however, that if someone is interested in working on Capitol Hill, an internship is a prerequisite to obtaining a full-time job.

“For better or worse, internships are still the best way to land a job on the Hill,” Demakoes said. There’s no better way to meet the people and learn the skills necessary to succeed here.”

Though internships have become a staple in climbing the ladder toward a career, it has become almost as commonplace to not pay interns for their work.

Demakos worked two jobs through his unpaid internship with Himes to support himself. Similarly, Martinez, Fahey, and Healy were all unpaid for their summer working under U.S. representatives.

Some representatives offer stipends for interns, but often supporting oneself falls on the shoulders of the intern, as in Demakos’ case.

Though Martinez and Fahey were not paid during the internship, they were supported through a grant from BC’s Clough Center.

The Civic Internship Grant helped supplement them during their unpaid internships which have seemingly become mandatory for a career in politics.

Shaylonda Barton, the internal grants manager for the Clough Center, said that Civic Internship Grant recipients receive between $2,000 to $3,000 in grant money for unpaid internships.

This money typically helps cover any expenses students like Martinez and Fahey will incur while they are working, such as rent, transportation, and meals. The Clough Center awarded 22 students a total of $66,500 in Civic Internship Grants for the summer of 2018.

Demakos notes that it is the norm for interns not to be paid, and it has been for a long time.

Young political hopefuls often cannot accept internships because they can’t afford to spend a summer without a paying job, putting them at a disadvantage compared to their peers who can. Living costs in a city like D.C., for those working on Capitol Hill, can be incredibly expensive, putting students in a worse financial state than they were in at the beginning of the summer.

Though compensation may vary as the House and Senate move toward paying interns, the students consider their experiences with their internships for U.S. Representatives irreplaceable and crucial for students who plan to work in government. Plans for future careers might change, answering constituent phone calls may get boring, and many representatives do not offer an option for a paid internship—but, as Demakos put it, “it is vital.” 

NICOLE CHAN / HEIGHTS EDITOR

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The Museum of Fine Arts Boston will host Art in Tune from 6 to 9 p.m. on Nov. 29. The event honors the MFA’s musical collection with an evening of drop-in performances throughout the museum. The event is included in the museum ticket price and dinner will be served at the New American Cafe.

On Thursday, Nov. 29, the Boston Parks and Recreation Department will celebrate the 77th annual Tree Lighting on Boston Common from 6 to 8 p.m. Mayor Martin J. Walsh, BC ‘09 will be in attendance to kick off the holiday spirit with a light schow and pyrotechnic display by PyroVision.

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Northeastern Barkada club will hold a traditional Kamayan Fillipino dinner at 6:30 p.m. on Dec. 1. The dinner will celebrate Fillipino culture, admission is free, and guests are welcome to attend. Check out the Kamayan 2018 Facebook event for more information.

Harvard Lecture Analyzes Midterms, New Electoral Map

By Isabel Fenoglio Asst. Metro Editor

As the first snowflakes of the year began to sprinkle Boston’s streets on Thursday night, students and residents sought refuge from the cold and gathered at the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School to discuss the results of the midterm elections.

In a lecture entitled “Post Midterms: Looking Ahead,” speakers sparked conversation on election results and offered insights into how the new electoral map will impact the primary election in 2020.

Dan Balz, a senior fellow at the institute and the chief correspondent at The Washington Post, delivered the opening remarks.

“Tonight you are going to find out what really happened and look ahead to the implications of what this very interesting midterm may hold for the future,” he said.

The event featured a diverse array of speakers, including Michael Glassner, executive director of the Donald Trump for President Campaign Committee; Beth Myers, former campaign manager for Senator Mitt Romney in 2012; Stephanie Schriock, president of EMILY’s List, a political action committee that works to help elect female Democratic candidates who favor abortion rights into office; and Amy Dacey, former chief executive officer of the Democratic National Committee and current executive director of EMILY’s List.

Alexander Burns, who currently serves as the national political correspondent for The New York Times, was unable to attend, as his flight was cancelled due to the snow. Maria Teresa Kumar, president of Vote Latino—a civic media organization

that seeks to engage the Latino community in politics—was also unable to attend in person, but joined the conversation via Skype.

Rick Klein, current political director of ABC News, served as the moderator for the night and kicked off conversation by delivering raw numbers on voter participation.

“Just nine days ago, we made history,” he said.

A total of 115 million Americans, nearly half of the voter eligible population, voted in the election. This was the biggest turnout in a century, emphasized Klein.

Turning to panelists, Klein posed his first question, directed specifically toward Glassner.

“The day after elections, the president came out and declared it ‘very close to complete victory,’” Klein said.

“Really?”

While Republicans held control of the Senate, they lost close to 40 House seats, giving Democrats control of Congress.

“Today and all days, I do not speak for the president—he speaks for himself,” Glassner said. “And I don’t make a habit either of interpreting publicly what he says, so I can’t say that,” he added, receiving a few laughs from the audience.

Glassner went on to warn the audience about the dangers of jumping to conclusions or predictions for the future too quickly and encouraged them to approach analysis from a historical perspective.

“The number of seats lost by a party that controls the executive branch I think was in line more or less with what has happened historically, and the retention of the Senate was very powerful for the Republican party,” Glassner said.

“Our focus, particularly in the last

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Panelists reflected on the results of the midterm elections nine days ago and made predictions on potential results in the 2020 election. ‘

two weeks, was on those contended Senate races,” he said. “We went to 11 states in six days, and nine of those Senate races that we campaigned for were successful.”

Myers echoed Glassner’s warning to not draw any haste conclusions and argued that the Republicans’ loss of the House and several governor seats closely followed the historic norm.

“We have 24 long months between now and the election in 2020, and a lot can happen,” she said. “I don’t read too much into it as far as it being impactful on the presidential race.”

Conversation shifted, as Dacey jumped in to remark on what these Republican victories mean for the Democratic Party.

“Winning back the House was significant,” she said.

“Not only for a public policy position or having a balance of power in government, but we won in a lot of different districts where we can

organize now, and that will have an impact when you are building a national campaign.

“I dont underestimate how difficult it will be to run against Donald Trump, and flipping Senate seats in Arizona and Nevada will have a negative impact in the 2020 election. But I think these House victories will have an impact on the map in 2020. It’s a different map.”

Kumar agreed.

“People are paying attention, and young people are paying attention,” she said. “One in six voters were new voters—they were first time voters. When you start looking at the electoral map for 2020, for the very first time we are going to have 12 million more young voters than baby boomers.”

Kumar shifted attention to Texas, which she argues has potential to become a swing state by 2020.

“When folks say that Texas is not

in play, I encourage them to think about the fact that Pete Sessions—an 11-term incumbent, who was part of the Republican leadership—just lost,” Kumar said.

Today, Sessions’s district has 11 percent Latino representation, but by 2020 it’s going to bump up to 17 percent, and by 2024 it’ll be around 24 percent. Targeting this new pool of voters is essential for a Democratic victory in 2020, she said.

“The more that the Democratic Party can embrace diversity, not just in what individuals look like, but diversity in modernizing policies, that is what is going to get people excited,” Kumar added.

“But in order for them to win the imaginations of these voters that voted for the very first time, for the next two years Democrats are going to need to differentiate what makes them so different from the Trump agenda." n

Urbanization In Focus: A Panel on the Future of Cities

By Alessandro Zenati Metro Editor

Boston is a city full of motion and activity. It’s a global hub for research, entrepreneurship, arts, and culture.

Boston’s allure is no mystery, and every year the city welcomes the best and brightest from around the world to collaborate on cutting-edge work.

With this reality comes a critical caveat to consider: how an increasingly congested city with poor mobility conditions will adapt in a way that ensures a productive but sustainable future.

Although this is a pervasive issue that concerns many of the major urban centers in the United States, there are a number of university research labs, government innovation initiatives, and lobbying groups in Boston that have made it their goal to find robust solutions today for the future.

On a f r ig id Thursday night inside the Sackler Auditorium of the Tufts University School of Medicine, researchers and advocates for green

t r a n s p o r t at i o n p re s e nte d th e i r progress to an audience composed mostly of B oston resident s and academics.

The speaker event was sponsored

by Tufts Urban and Environmental Planning and Policy and hosted by the Tufts Social Impact Network, an alumni-led initiative that aims to create a valuable community of recent graduates involved in the social impact field.

The lightning talk format featured five Boston-based innovators, tackling the problematic side effects of such rapid urbanization in Boston and around the country.

One of the speakers was Jacob Wessel, director of City Hall to Go in the Civic Engagement Cabinet for Mayor Martin J. Walsh, BC ‘09.

While most of his work is directed toward improving civic engagement through pop-up “City Hall to Go” events, he spoke primarily about the work of the City of Boston’s urban research arm called New Urban Mechanics.

This group experiments with new ways to improve civic life through micro-housing projects, neighborhood traffic alleviation programs, and private sector research support.

The City of Boston’s impetus has been to get the public buy-in and present tangible, implementable solutions to problems such as housing.

“We really try to work on having the public touch and feel whatever the change is that we are seeking,” Wessel said. “The same thing can be said for some of the works that we are doing on our streets.”

The city is also exploring a smart city concept called Beta Blocks , which would designate one or twoblock areas as testing grounds for infrastructure changes.

This could allow, for example, urban planning officials to receive constructive feedback from testing area residents as to the impact of new park benches or garden spaces.

Wessel highlighted the sidewalk as a key battleground for new ideas

to be explored and weave feedback into the iterative process. “While the picture of a large city on the postcard is nice, how you experience the city is on the sidewalk,” Wessel said.

“I think walking and experiencing the public realm in that way is the great equalizer no matter how you get around the city. ... Everyone at one point steps onto the curb.”

Regarding the City of Boston’s solicitation of public fe e dback , Rebecca Wolfson touched upon the progress, or lack thereof, made on creating more cycling infrastructure in the city.

She is the executive director of the Boston Cyclists’ Union and the foremost voice in biking advocacy in Boston. Wolfson’s aim is to promote the use of bicycles as transportation alternatives to pollution-emitting vehicles, provided that there is a safe, regulated environment for cycling in the city.

At times , the dialogue with local government has been fueled by impatience, but Wolfson believes that

this is necessary in order to get real change to occur.

“We make sure that there is the best possible infrastructure for biking,” Wolfson said. “ We get members to speak up, attend meetings, send letters. The more people who start riding even though the infrastructure isn’t that safe yet, the more pressure there is to build it.”

The B oston Cyclist s’ Union a l s o fo c u s e s o n i n c re a s i n g th e biking modality share in Boston by improving access and offering services such as free bike repair pop-ups for individuals who find repairs costprohibitive.

The event produced a meaningful discussion of real issues that deserve the attention of government officials and the public.

The solution will arise out of a persistent search for solutions that work for all stakeholders and dissociate the corrosive desires for private gain from common benefit for everyone. In the end, good things take time. n

A Pocketbook Guide to Low-Budget Events for Students

By Eleanor Grondin For The Heights

The winter season draws strong opinions from both those who love it and those who would rather spend a day at the beach.

I know how snow storm after snow storm can wear down morale, while the stress of school work and fluctuating temperatures throughout November and December can detract from f ully enjoying the holiday season.

But over many winters of exploring different low-cost events going on in the city, I have found a way to help cure the winter blues and the longing for a thorough celebration of

the holidays.

At the end of every November, hundreds of people gather at the annual tree lightings throughout the city. A short evening set aside for watching a lighting is an easy, enjoyable way to start off the season.

The most popular lighting takes place on Boston Common, which will be held on Nov. 29 from 6 to 8 p.m. this year—although my personal favorite is the Copley Square tree lighting.

Different musical groups play for the crowd before Mayor Martin J. Walsh, BC ’09, lights up the tree.

There are also lightings at Faneuil Hall and the State House during the month.

Other free events on the Common to take advantage of during the long winter months are Frog Pond’s College Nights. Every week Frog Pond grants free night-skating access to selected local colleges. BC’s free skate night takes place on Dec. 4, but all college students pay half price every Tuesday night. For those looking to connect with the city, skating at Frog Pond is a fun opportunity to do so.

While students interested in hockey or figure skating would enjoy Frog Pond, I highly recommend checking out the Boston Bruins’ recently built practice facility—the Warrior Ice Arena—which is very accessible from BC, just off Boston Landing.

The War r ior Ice Arena sit s adjacent to the Celtics’ new practice complex and the looming New Balance building. While skating fees are $9 per person for any given public skate time, for one extra dollar on Friday nights, the arena plays rock music during skate time at its “Rock ’n’ Skates.”

While no dates are currently listed for this year, the Bruins have also held designated game nights for college students to attend home games at reduced prices.

Students who prefer to stay warm over the winter may want to check out the Boston Celtics Buzzer Beat Pass for college students. Students can register on the Celtics’ website to receive alerts about last minute deals

for Celtics games at the Garden.

The alerts are sent on the day of or the day before the designated game— up to six tickets can be purchased at a time, making for a fun trip to the Garden with friends.

Besides partaking in sporting events, one of my favorite winter st aple s i s a tr ip to the B o ston Symphony Orchestra , especially during the Holiday Pops. Students can purchase a $25 College Card from the BSO to attend unlimited shows throughout the year—a great deal for anyone interested in classical music.

Whether you love or hate the winter season, there are many ways to embrace it at unique, low-budget events. n

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From the editors Giving Thanks I am thankful to have had almost too much of this very good thing.

Connor Murphy, Editor-in-Chief I’m thankful for an incredibly loving family that has always supported me. I’m thankful for the best roommates I could ask for and the friends who really mean it when they say “how are you?” I’m thankful for Rubik’s cubes, the movie Dodgeball, Super Smash Bros., and of course, I’m thankful for the unforgettable experience that this crazy newspaper has given me.

Mike Rosmarin, General Manager Honestly, I’m just thankful that I can eat an entire pint of chocolate ice cream in the office with no judgement. And beer. Love beer.

Donovan Recny, Managing Editor I’m thankful for the friends who’ve turned into family these past four years, my carefully regulated nicotine regimen, Spotify Premium, Ramen, the hamster (Snowball) that was gifted to me, punctual UberEats, and everyone I’ve had the honor of making this paper with.

Heidi Dong, Investigative Editor I’m still thankful for Krispy Kreme, perhaps even more so than I was last year and enough for it to receive its own sentence. I’m incredibly thankful for all of the dedicated and fantastic people who spend way too much time on a paper and everyone who indulges my oft-found obsession with it. Also Spotify Premium, which includes both Hulu AND Showtime, if you didn’t know (not a paid post).

Steven Everett, Creative Director I’m thankful for everybody in The Heights newsroom reminding me on a daily basis that my takes on food, sports, pop culture, and pretty much anything else are absolutely horrendous.

I’m thankful for my family and friends because I’m still confused about how I ended up with family or friends. In a related story I’m thankful for science, because the best explanation for those things so far have come from the mythical being that is “science,” pronounced si-en-say. I’m thankful for Gator needing his gat, glass cases of emotion, Talladega Nights, Talladega Superspeedway, anybody with the last name Johnson, this stupid city that decided a grid system or any other form of organization would be too smart for it, and Star Wars Colon The Last Jedi. Also, that moment in The LEGO Batman Movie when a dude says “I love you more than my kids,” to noted superhero LEGO Batman, and Lego Batman replies, “Me too, bro.”

Jack Goldman, News Editor Not only am I thankful for my family and friends (#supportthehomies), but I’m also thankful for The Heights, the year 2008, Larry Fitzgerald, the Interstellar Soundtrack, motivational videos on YouTube, 115-pound football, my ACLs, everything BC football, and The Process—always Trust The Process: John 3:16.

Andy Backstrom, Sports Editor I’m thankful for my family and friends and for those who are one and the same. I’m thankful for the opportunities afforded to me by my parents, especially being so lucky to come to this school.

I’m thankful for The Heights, the cult-like club on campus filled with the people (whom I love) who mostly tolerate my old music and my amazing takes on movies. And I’m thankful for you, the few people who read this. You make all of this worth it, even when you send me hate mail.

Jacob Schick, Arts Editor Fried potatoes, baked potatoes, twice baked potatoes, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, roasted potatoes, potatoes au gratin, potato salad, potato skins, grilled potatoes, fondant potatoes, smashed potatoes, slow cooked potatoes, scalloped potatoes, potato wedges, etc.

Joan Kennedy, Magazine Editor I’m thankful for the privilege to write for The Heights, and the beautiful discoveries that it has led me to. I’m thankful for the fighting spirit of my laptop keyboard, the dedication and passion of every e-board member, and the voice memo iPhone functionality. I’m thankful for the peaceful silence at dawn, the chromatic spectacle of late fall, and the people I get to share all life’s tiny miracles with. But above all else, I’m thankful for my perfectly imperfect family.

Alessandro Zenati, Metro Editor The views expressed in the above editorials represent the official position of The Heights, as discussed and written by the Editorial Board. A list

I’m thankful for so much more than I could possibly say, but here’s to trying: for good food, good books, and good coffee; for independent bookstores; for encouraging sticky notes with drawings of rocks and the person who leaves them for me; for my sister, who’s just like me but better; for Chicago and the family there who I miss every day; for Boston and the family I found here who make it home; and for Sundays and the family I’ve spent 30(ish) of the last year with.

Mary Wilkie, Opinions Editor I’m thankful for embarrassing middle school pictures, people who are down to eat chocolate chip pancakes with me at any hour of the day, bad puns, friends who get my stupid jokes, a roommate who constantly enlightens me on pop culture happenings new and old (“You’ve never seen that video of Lenny Kravitz’s d—k falling out??!” —an excerpt from a conversation we had last week), NJ bagels, and all of the amazing people I’ve met thanks to The Heights.

Kaitlin Meeks, Photography Editor I’m thankful for the now no longer existing corner cushion of the copy couch, the time I saw the Heights mouse do a backflip (it happened, okay?), the quote board, and placeholder headlines. I’m thankful for my partner-in-crime Colleen (thank you, Colleen, very cool), BC email addresses, and in-depth analyses of Flo Rida’s “Low.” I’m thankful for the filth that is McElroy 113, but more importantly, the people who keep me going back there every day, even when I should definitely be studying or asleep.

Abby Hunt, Copy Editor I’m thankful for the B Line, blanket scarves, and the corner of the copy couch. I’m thankful for the ladies of 803, Abby for being willing to talk about style guides at any time of the night, and my family back on the world’s greatest island.

Perhaps most of all, I’m thankful for all the characters I’ve met in Mac 113.

Colleen Martin, Copy Editor I’m thankful for the meatball paninis at Eagle’s, for being from Central Jersey (which does indeed exist), and for being able to live with my best friends two years in a row. Most importantly, I’m thankful for all the times I’ve managed to secure a booth at O’Neill and for all of the Pilot G2 pens I’ve used throughout the years (.5 mm, though, because the .7 ones are trash).

Nicole Chan, Graphics Editor I am thankful for good conversations, for time spent with loved ones, and for opportunities that allow me to learn and grow.

Anna Tierney, Graphics Editor

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homemade wine, quote boards, the word “swell,” takeover weeks, the other two (plus one) incredibly great sports editors, my friends who make early public speaking mornings something I actually look forward to, and the fact that every Sunday I get to make a newspaper (and slowly fall apart while doing so) with a lot of people that I love procrastinating in the office with.

Bradley Smart, Associate Sports Editor I’m thankful for Super Bowl 48, Seattle Teriyaki (the best teriyaki on the planet don’t @ me), and anyone who understands Vine references.

Most importantly, I am thankful for the email that Andy Backstrom sent to me in August inviting me to join the board (even though he lied slightly when he wrote it), and the friends that email has allowed me to make since the semester started.

Peter Kim, Assistant Sports Editor I am thankful for the last signature I get on page A14 on a Sunday night and the first person I see holding a copy of The Heights the following morning. I am thankful for the familiar taste of a soy vanilla latte, the reassuring ease of The New York Times Monday crossword, and the prospective thrill of songs I have yet to discover.

I am thankful for the people who fill my life with laughter and remind me that home is much more than a physical location.

Kaylie Ramirez, Associate Arts Editor I’m thankful for my family and friends and their unwavering support, and for all the wonderful people on The Heights who make McElroy 113 my home away from home. And I’m thankful for peppermint hot chocolate, “Rumours” by Fleetwood Mac, arts movie nights when we don’t really watch the movie at all, and for the two weeks of fall that somehow make the rest of Boston’s weather worth it.

Emily Himes, Assistant Arts Editor I’m thankful for my family and friends, the quasi-sorority that is Walsh 407, Joan Kennedy for being the Drew Gallagher to my Tom Rinaldi, Kristen Bahr for tolerating my 10 alarms every morning, James Conner, lattes, libras, flying into Los Angeles at night, “Wild Horses,” and 70-degree weather. And most of all, I’m thankful for my unforgettable Heights family for making a college 2,996 miles across the country feel like home.

Brooke Kaiserman, Associate Magazine Editor

English majors again. I’m thankful for Chopped marathons, dirty water New York hot dogs, pots full of Sunday gravy, fresh basil from the garden, and the friends and family for whom I cook it all.

Timmy Facciola, Assistant Magazine Editor

I guess I’m thankful for everything. But especially my friends, fam, crazy golden retriever, Post Malone, whipped cream, grilled cheese, sushi, and homemade pasta.

Izzy Fenoglio, Assistant Metro Editor I’m thankful for my mom.

Keith Carroll, Associate Photo Editor

I’m so grateful for my amazing parents (who love me enough to drive five hours in Boston traffic every home game and host the greatest tailgates), my family, and my friends who have become my family over the years. Also, marshmallow-topped sweet potatoes at Thanksgiving.

Katie Genirs, Assistant Photo Editor

I’m thankful for my family, friends (shoutout to the girls in 1401), and Heights photo (mentors, fellow editors, and photographers—past and present). Also, I’m thankful for coffee, country music, pupper doggo memes, skies full of stars, blocks of cheese, crisp fall air, my porch, beautiful morning light, the Rat’s clam chowder, Lilo & Stitch, and the invention of the camera!

Celine Lim, Assistant Photo Editor

I’m thankful for a family that would do anything for me, friends that will last a lifetime, and people that play country music on aux. I’m also thankful for Uber, sushi, and NFL Sundays.

Kipp Milone, Operations Manager

I’m thankful for The Heights for consistently putting up with my antics and the business side for tolerating my CSOM jokes. I’m thankful for my family and friends who I can always count on and my best semester at BC. I’m thankful for Donald Glover and all the incredible albums that have dropped this year.

William McCarthy, Collections Manager

I’m thankful for my family, both at home and the one that I have made here. Especially thankful for my dog, Chipotle, late night, Ben and Jerry’s pints, and for getting to be a part of the amazing biz side.

Kristen Bahr, Local Account Manager

I’m thankful for the East Coast, the Atlantic Ocean, and the many Striped Bass who inhabit it. I’m thankful I passed econ, have no classes Friday, and that apparently employers are hiring

I’m thankful for my family, my friends, especially the boys of 223, Tom Brady, Brad Stevens, and above all else, Chipotle.

Will Powers, Local Account Manager

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I’m thankful for my family and friends (especially the gals of 44 Greycliff!). I’m thankful that I’m able to attend a school like BC and live in a city that looks like a Windows screensaver in the fall. I’m thankful for my Heights family and the dark chocolate peanut butter cups from Trader Joe’s.

Barrette Janney, Social Media Director I’m thankful for my family, all my amazing friends strewn across the Midwest and from Albany, tiny notebooks, movies made in 1999, aimless drives through Kansas, the “This Week in 2008” section of The Bald Win, and the past year on The Heights for giving me both a place to procrastinate and some of the most incredible people in my life.

Emerson DeBasio, Multimedia Editor I’m thankful for chipotle chicken sandwiches from Eagles Deli, Afroman, and command+F on my computer. I’m also thankful for cars for keeping me on my toes.

Max Roth, Outreach Coordinator I’m thankful for the em-dash, Wawa, all the friends I’ve found at BC, that one Pixar meme Andy made, people who don’t get mad when I correct “who vs. whom,” and the countless hours I’ve spent in Mac 113 trying to get work done—time I wouldn’t trade for anything in the world.

Jack Miller, Assistant News Editor I’m thankful for a lot of things, including but not limited to: my family and especially my sister’s incredible strength, flannels, “The Mighty Rio Grande,” the year 2008, free WiFi at fast food places, the turf of Newton North High School, of the members of the Editorial Board can be found at bcheights.com/masthead-2018.

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Heidi Dong, Investigative Editor Steven Everett, Creative Director Griffin Elliott, Technology Director Jack Goldman, News Editor Anders Backstrom, Sports Editor Jacob Schick, Arts Editor Joan Kennedy, Magazine Editor Alessandro Zenati, Metro Editor Mary Wilkie, Opinions Editor Kaitlin Meeks, Photo Editor Abby Hunt, Copy Editor Aidan Latona, Copy Editor

Business and Operations Colleen Martin, Copy Editor Amanda Amorosi, Layout Editor Madison Mariani, Layout Editor Nicole Chan, Graphics Editor Anna Tierney, Graphics Editor Nathan Xie, Online Manager Barrette Janney, Social Media Director Emerson DeBasio, Multimedia Editor Max Roth, Outreach Coordinator Charlie Power, Assoc. News Editor Jack Miller, Asst. News Editor Bradley Smart, Assoc. Sports Editor

Peter Kim, Asst. Sports Editor Kaylie Ramirez, Assoc. Arts Editor Emily Himes, Asst. Arts Editor Brooke Kaiserman, Assoc. Magazine Editor Timmy Facciola, Asst. Magazine Editor Chloe McAllaster, Assoc. Metro Editor Isabel Fenoglio, Asst. Metro Editor Keith Carol, Assoc. Photo Editor Katherine Genirs, Asst. Photo Editor Celine Lim, Asst. Photo Editor John Kueny, Asst. Multimedia Editor Catherine Cremens, Asst. Investigative Editor

Kipp Milone, Business Manager Chris Chilton, Centennial Director Will McCarthy, Collections Manager David Goodfellow, On-Campus Account Manager Kristen Bahr, Local Account Manager Will Powers, Local Account Manager

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Redefining Masculinity and dominant.

So there we have it. A real man is a 69

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Benjamin Errichetti “Can’t man up if masculinity your

Self-Titled albums - Oftentimes, it’s an artist’s first album. If it’s not, it probably marks some dramatic change in their sound. They’re the albums that you remember—people only ever remember other album titles if it’s a truly fantastic set of songs, and even then, it’s not a given. But self-titled albums are usually an artist’s best, anyway. Some examples include: Eric Clapton, Hozier, The Beatles (the white album), Shawn Mendes, Queen, Taylor Swift, The Lumineers, Hannah Montana, Prince, Los Lonely Boys, KONGOS, Fleetwood Mac, Tracy Chapman, and James Taylor. quirky holiday traditions - Walking into my aunt and uncle’s house Thanksgiving day, you’ll see at least 40 people waiting in line to fill their plates not, with turkey or stuffing or mashed potatoes or sweet potatoes or whatever else normal people eat on Thanksgiving. You’ll see them walking away from the food carrying plates piled high with lasagna.

Not that we don’t have that other stuff, too, but everyone distinctly looks forward to the one day a year that my aunt makes that layer-y, cheesy goodness.

only weapon.”

There are practical repercussions to asserting ideas of what “real men” are.

If you were to ask around, perhaps

In our society, men are not supposed to

any of these characteristics or any num-

be emotional. Men don’t cry, men don’t

ber of other archetypes could be used

talk about their feelings, men just deal

to describe masculinity. But what do

with it.

these characters have in common? What

I attended an all-boys high school—a

about them is inherently tied to “being

breeding ground for hyper-masculine

a man”?

competition. Our sports teams excelled,

This is a lyric from rapper Aminé, in

In my opinion, nothing. There is no

his song “DOCTOR WHOEVER.” In his

such thing as masculinity. Any ideas of

boisterous and aggressive testosterone.

own words, he “was just letting people

what is manly or masculine are purely

Everything was a competition. To this

know the idea of a man in this day and

socially constructed and not based on

day, I have the urge to compare my

age is many different things. It isn’t

any inherent nature of man.

grades with everyone in my class as

just your average, muscular, degrading women kinda guy.”

Ideas about masculinity are fluid—

and our fan section emitted a bit of

soon as tests are handed back. That’s

what society views as masculine has

how we did it in high school. We needed

changed over time. An article from The

to know who won. It was a place for

if the “idea of a man” is many different

Atlantic on the subject of the gendered

“real men.”

things, then what meaning does mascu-

connotations of the color pink, for

linity really have?

instance, quotes Valerie Steele, director

I think he has an excellent point. But

In other words, what does it really

of The Museum at the Fashion Institute

And in my junior year, two students committed suicide.

I cannot say for sure why these trag-

mean to be masculine? What is a real

Technology: “Pink was initially ‘con-

edies happen, or what these students

MAN’s man? Maybe it’s an invest-

sidered slightly masculine as a diminu-

were going through to lead them down

ment banker. A sleek, sharply dressed

tive of red,’ which was thought to be

this path. But no one else had an answer

businessman, who gets to work early

a ‘warlike’ color.” The evolution of the

either because no one knew anything

and gets home late, because he needs to

understanding of pink, which is now

was wrong. We were in an environment

make that money. Wealth is masculine.

considered an innately feminine color,

that emphasized fraternity and commu-

Bread-winning is the essence of man-

points to the idea that masculinity is

nity, and yet not a single student in the

hood.

not inherent, but socially constructed.

school knew that our “brothers” were

And if that is the case, anything can be

struggling. I don’t blame the school, or

relatively passively at a desk can’t be a

masculine. Rainbows and feelings could

the teachers, or anyone at all. My high

real man. A real man is active. A real

be seen as manly. Or for that matter,

school strove to and, in my opinion,

man is a young, handsome politician.

nothing could be seen as manly.

succeeded in creating a strong com-

No no no. Surely someone sitting

He goes door to door, connecting with

Ideas of masculinity marginalize

munity—but men don’t talk about their

real people, and winning them over with

groups—it’s inherent in their nature.

his perfect smile and eloquence. He ooz-

If the dominant ideology of the time is

es charisma, drips swag, and has a firm

that sports, muscles, and aggression are

continues his lyrics, rapping, “Man, I’ve

handshake. Eventually, he’s going to win

masculine, then men who do not fit this

thought about suicide a hundred times

an election, several elections. Maybe

role are placed in awkward positions:

/ But, I’d hate to disappoint and see my

even become a congressman. Then he’ll

They are emasculated men, men lacking

momma cry.” I can’t say what might have

have influence, and he can help shape

the essence of manhood, inferior men.

happened to those two boys from high

the world to his liking and make it a

If the roles were reversed, and skinny,

school if we lived in a world with differ-

better place. Charming, handsome, and

docile chess players were the pinnacle of

ent expectations of masculinity, but I

powerful. That is manhood.

masculinity, the situation would hardly

know there’s a chance that things might

improve. Passionate football players,

have gone differently if these men had

this cannot be a real man. Real men

then, would be relegated to a lower

been allowed to be emotional. And in

hunt, and fish. Real men can live off the

standing in the social hierarchy.

this world, no one would have to worry

But that’s ridiculous. Surely, SURELY

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caveman.

you are unnatural and therefore lesser.

land and are in tune with their primal

It is fundamentally problematic to

side. They have a strong connection to

construct arbitrary ideas of masculinity

mother nature, and even stronger mus-

because the idea of masculinity posits

cles. They have little time for groom-

that there are universal characteristics

ing—besides, a rough thick beard suits

of manhood that are natural to men. If

them anyway. Masculinity is aggressive

you do not have these characteristics,

feelings. Not even brothers.

In “DOCTOR WHOEVER,” Aminé

about disappointing and seeing their mothers cry.

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

Thanksgiving Misgivings The monday and tuesday before thanksgiving break - Hav ing school these two days is pointless and genuinely illogical for students, especially those who don’t live within driving distance from school. Flights are significantly more expensive the Tuesday and Wednesday before Thanksgiving, so students who don’t want to drop $500 on a four-day trip back home either 1. Leave a few days before and miss all of their classes, 2. Buy the stupidly expensive tickets anyway and lose a large sum of money, or 3.

Don’t go home for break and spend a lonely Thanksgiving on an empty and desolate campus.

The price of planners - For something that can only be used one particular year, planners and calendars are unreasonably expensive.

Sure, some of them are pretty and have really intricate organizational features—like habit charts, hidden pockets, sticker pages, and online resources that show you how to best utilize the planner (I don’t understand, either)—but to spend $40 on an object that can only be used for a very specific period of time is, to put it elegantly, stupid.

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Sabel Flynn I really can’t stand the taste of turkey. That bird tastes like paper, and no amount of gravy can save it. The food associated with Thanksgiving makes me picture the fabled friendly colonizers taking complete guesses as to how to work the foreign land to prepare food. They likely had never seen a turkey before. Or potatoes. Historians say they ate fowl (basically turkey), deer, and corn—the Wampanoag people inhabiting the land allegedly helped the gracious guests.

If you’re from Massachusetts, by the way, you live on stolen land that was and is inhabited by several indigenous tribes. These tribes and groups include the Massachusett, Mashpee, Mahican, Nauset, Nipmuc, Pennacook, Pocomtuc, and Wampanoag peoples. Colonization of Massachusetts, as many people are already aware, was not the peaceful, mutually beneficial fantasy celebrated with holiday-themed depictions of Wampanoag people and pilgrims embracing.

In reality, the religious “refugees” did not randomly stumble upon the native population. The Manataka American Indian Council writes that “their belief system taught them that any land that was “unimproved” was “wild” and theirs for the taking, that the people who lived there were roving heathens with no right to the land.”

Puritans came to Plymouth to establish the “Holy Kingdom,” fully aware of the existing indigenous population and fully intending to displace them.

The Wampanoag, too, were and are a very real and important part of

Massachusetts history. Four hundred years ago, the Wampanoag people lived across present-day Martha’s Vineyard and Gay Head Massachusetts. They had a rich economy based on fishing and agriculture. War and disease brought by the colonists devastated the local populations and killed many.

While much of the traditional Thanksgiving tale is fictionalized, the story we hear is a tale of righteous Christians seeking religious asylum for their unpopular straight edge (Puritan) way of life. They bravely brutalized and colonized the already inhabited space and haphazardly applied a capitalist concept of property ownership to a land that previously belonged only to the sacred earth. We revere the bravery of these Puritans at the expense of the Wampanoag and other indigenous peoples. Every time we tell the story of the heroic journey to the “New World,” we contribute to the erasure and silencing of indigenous life and sovereignty.

Puritanism, by the way, continues to be a cancer to Massachusetts, decades after prohibition, and centuries after the Witch Trials. Our sex laws are extremely oppressive, and many people still fear the idea of the heathen “witch.” The cultural legacy of Puritanism enforces shame onto sinful behavior and promotes beliefs about humans as inherently wicked. In my opinion, it’s part of the reason why Massachusetts is obsessed with virtue signaling. But this is just my personal beef. Historically, the traditional Puritans were responsible for some of the most horrific parts of our state history, including genocide against natives and witch executions.

So, while I’m grateful to get a break from school to see my family, I am aware of the implications of the holiday. To many, however, Thanksgiving does not reference the pilgrims’

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feast—it exists as a family holiday for gratitude. In Plymouth, the day is observed by many as the National Day of Mourning. The United American Indians of New England describe the meaning of the political action stating, “We are mourning our ancestors and the genocide of our peoples and the theft of our lands.”

My friend Leo went to the National Day of Mourning last year for its 48th anniversary. They were struck by the powerful political convictions when one speaker said, “We must go beyond decolonization and re-indigenize our world.” Decolonization is the freeing of a nation from dependence on and oppression from another. At the National Day of Mourning political demonstration, the Wampanoag and greater native American nation remember their friends, family, and loved ones who have lost their lives to genocide on the path to decolonization. The Unsettling America project writes, “We were all indigenous to somewhere, someone, and somehow…and can become so again. The old ways are gone, but I am still going home, not necessarily where I started, but maybe somewhere I began.”

American settler ideology is fundamentally dependent on land ownership. And property and land ownership are in direct conflict with the project of re-indigenizing our world. To accomplish this goal, abolition of land ownership is essential, but until that happens, recognition of indigenous sovereignty should be remembered this Thanksgiving. The United States needs to be held accountable for its imperialist projects—including the one that got us here—and therefore owes reparations to the indigenous population.

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

The opinions and commentaries of the op-ed columnists appearing on this page represent the views of the author of that particular piece, and not necessarily the views of The Heights. Any of the columnists for the Opinions section of The Heights can be reached at opinions@bcheights.com.

Annie Sheehan Sure, we’re the big dogs on campus, but we seniors talk a pretty big game about how knowledgeable we are in terms of Boston College. We’re orientation leaders, RAs, TAs, and tour guides, but there are always a few things left in the unknown that we’re just still unsure about: 1. The Bus Schedule: I lived on Upper Campus freshman year, and junior year I usually walked from my off-campus house, so my experience with the bus is minimal. I have no idea when the buses are direct and when they are not, and I have yet to download the TransLoc app.

While we’re on the subject of buses, a senior (who will remain anonymous) accidentally got on the Newton bus a month ago—seniors: We’re just like you.

2. The Mod Number System: Don’t be fooled when you see a lost, wandering student peering at Mod numbers and assume it’s a freshman. Though many of us are actual residents of the modular apartments, we still have no idea how to figure out where 37A is, and why it isn’t near 36.

“Despite having lived in a Mod for nearly a whole semester, and although I have a general idea of where each Mod is, I still don’t have the number system down,” said Kevin Murray, a lucky resident of the Mods.

It’s okay, Kevin, you’re not alone. We’ll check in with you next semester.

3. The Words to ‘For Boston’: Freshmen (real quote): “For Boston, for Boston, we sing our proud refrain! For Boston, for Boston, duh duh duh duh duh duh, for here dununun and our hearts are true, and for towers on heights dun dun dun dun dun, for Boston, for Boston, till the echoes ring again! WOO!” Seniors (also real quote): “For Boston, for Boston, we sing our proud refrain! For Boston, for Boston, till the wisdom’s early vein, for here all are one and our hearts are true, and towers on the heights sing to heaven’s own blues, for Boston, for Boston, till the echoes ring again! WOO!” Actual lyrics: “For Boston, for Boston, We sing our proud refrain! For Boston, for Boston, ’Tis Wisdom’s earthly fane. For here all are one and their hearts are true, and the towers on the Heights reach to Heav’ns own blue. For Boston, for Boston, till the echoes ring again!”

4. “That other song” the band plays after all home games: Honestly, does anybody know what this is? Kate Paterson, MCAS ’19, weighs in: “I have literally no idea what that is.”

For those of you who have heard this so-called “fight song,” it sounds so sad, so forlorn, that we should only play it when we lose. It kills the vibe of a win. Though has anybody ever actually stayed at a game long enough to hear this whole thing live?

5. What actually is Agape Latte?: “It’s like a soulful thing,” my roommate tells me. “Motivational speakers and stuff.”

I have never attended an event myself (I’ll get there, I promise), but I am friends with Agapeccino Bean on Facebook, which counts for something. As an aside, is this related to Espresso Your Faith Week? Lattes and espresso? Seems like a connection.

6. There’s a library in Campion?: The “C” buildings (Carney, Cushing, Campion) remain a mystery to most students. While Lynch students flock to the Educational Resource Center, a library full of elementary-level books and other fun gizmos located in the basement of Campion Hall, my roommates give me blank stares when I tell them that is my primary place of study. CSOM kids don’t make it that far south (“Where even is Campion again?” asks CSOM senior Jagpal Singh), and the MCASers who find themselves over on that side of campus see Campion as nothing more than the friendly neighbor to Merkert, home to many a lab and science classes.

7. Who eats the Rat hot dogs?: Those things are roasting at a ripe 10 a.m. every morning, Monday through Friday, all year round. I’ve seen people eat some pretty outrageous things across my four years here, but never have I ever seen someone check out with a Rat hot dog. Do these things turn a profit? Or are they there only to nauseate those of us in the iced coffee lines? **Update: Witnessed someone with a hot dog as I wrote this column. Point redacted.**

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

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Reducing Food Waste: Falling Head Over Peels With BRÜZD Foods Alex Wong, MCAS ’20, and Parker Hughes, Emerson ’20, have declared war on food waste with their app “BRÜZD Foods.”

By Cat Levine For The Heights When Alex Wong, MCAS ’20, received a call from his childhood friend Parker Hughes, he had no idea that in a few short months, they would be teaming up to defend the environment—with ugly fruit as their weapon.

Wong was taking a pilot class called “Can Creativity Save the World?,” in which he was tasked with writing a business model and pitching it to the class.

Wong , who was interested in green alternatives for recycled produce, suggested the idea of reusing food waste for another practical application to his team.

At the same time, Hughes, a junior at Emerson College, was in a venture competition club called InnovateEDU that competed against other universities in Boston, and his project also revolved around converting food waste into processed goods.

When Hughes reached out to Wong to catch up on the past semester, the two friends realized that they were both working on similar projects.

Wong sent Hughes research to use for his venture competition, and then the two linked back up a couple of weeks later. After the competition ended, Hughes enlisted Wong’s help to bring his project to the consumer market.

The two had known each other since second grade, so it felt natural for them to work together and eventually co-found a company.

They were both interested in entrepreneurship and thought the best way to gain experience was to jump right into it.

“It was kind of a ‘Why not?’ moment,” Wong said.

“None of us really knew what we were getting into, but it’s been a lot of fun so far.”

Wong and Hughes’ fundamental goal is to reduce food waste. BRÜZD Foods fights food waste by rescuing “ugly” or imperfect produce from farms.

These kinds of food typically go to waste. BRÜZD Foods delivers the food straight to homes throughout Boston in a weekly subscription package.

While the two are starting with what they know—agriculture and produce—the company can be taken in a myriad of directions, since food waste is an multifaceted problem.

“The issue of food waste has roots deep in the logistics of the whole system, so there’s definitely room for another pivot,” Wong said.

Through the deliveries of its

recycled produce, BRÜZD Foods is helping to create a community of people who understand the impact and difference they’re making in buying secondhand produce.

“We want to make this way of life more than just a thing to subscribe to,” Wong said.

The first step to starting BRÜZD Foods was understanding the problem, which took much longer than Wong and Hughes expected.

While their prior research had given them a handle on the basics, it took going out to farms themselves, as well as talking to farmers and consumers, to really have a firm grasp on the issue.

Farmers will put extensive amounts of time and money into growing fruits and vegetables until they harvest them at the end of the season.

The best fruits of their labor become the apples that line the shelves of supermarkets. There is also the produce, however, that’s either too small, too big, misshapen, or blemished.

Farmers have a hard time selling anything that’s less than perfect to supermarkets and suppliers. They compost this produce if they can, but often they’re forced to send it to the landfills.

“Food waste is as foolish as it seems,” Wong said.

Once they realized the grim reality of food waste, Wong and Hughes saw the chance to rescue the produce before it even leaves the farm and give it to people who don’t mind the imperfect.

When consumers go to the store, they’re going to pick the prettiest or ripest produce—the supermarket experience makes it hard to do what’s best for the environment. By providing produce that’s just as good, but a little uglier, Wong and Hughes divert people away from having to make that choice on the spot at the supermarket.

Wong and Hughes’ original idea was to take the ugly produce that was going to waste and turn it into fruit and vegetable juice. They bought a juicer off Craigslist, started making recipes by testing out different combinations of ingredients, and came up with three flavors: Hopes and Dreams, Turn up the Beet, and Head over Peels.

The pair went to pitch its idea to Soaring Startup Circle, a venture partner accelerator and mentorship network for BC students and alumni who want to start and grow their own businesses.

After looking at the samples and bottled prototypes, the venture partners loved the concept and team dynamic.

They offered them mentorship to help them think more deeply through their business model and all of the facets it entailed. They also set up meetings with executives and entrepreneurs throughout Boston and gave them other resources, such as office space.

“They’ve been great mentors and are really helpful to us,” Wong said.

Duncan Walker, Soaring Startup Circle’s managing director, operates all of the business and personal development that the program teaches alongside its venture partners. Walker first met Hughes in his venture business competition and now has been working with BRÜZD for a year and a half.

“It’s been amazing to see him and Wong grow their idea into the business that it is today,” Walker said.

Hughes and Wong went through the accelerator program for 11 weeks this past summer.

The program not only taught strategies for business development, including product management, marketing, sales, and partnerships, but also focused on topics related to personal development, such as happiness, mental health, time management, stress, and communication—things that accelerator programs usually don’t discuss.

“It’s a team of well-rounded entrepreneurs who have learned the hard way as we’ve been building our own companies,” Walker said.

Three months later, Wong and Hughes were ready to go to the next level and were trying to produce 100 bottles of juice a week to sell at farmers markets, in order to see if people would like the product.

In the process, however, they realized the fundamental problem of ugly produce is that suppliers are not willing to pick it up from the farm itself—in many cases it goes to waste at the very first stage.

The pair tried to get ugly produce delivered to their kitchen, but most of the local farms didn’t have a food recycling and delivery program that was sizeable enough to complete the orders.

That’s when Wong and Hughes decided to rewrite their entire business plan to solve the fundamental problem of the agricultural produce system.

“The industry is not developed enough logistically to pull off something as fun and sheek as a juice company,” Wong said.

“That’s how we came up with the idea of going to farms, picking up the produce, and processing it. It was natural for us to go directly to the consumer and deliver the food as is, unprocessed, to homes throughout

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Alex Wong, MCAS ’20, has created an app that rescues bruised foods from the trash.

Boston.”

Although it wasn’t easy to give up eight months of hard work that was no longer applicable for their new project, for the sake of the company’s survival, the two decided to start from scratch.

“We weren’t sure if it was the right decision,” Wong said. “We were in a tough spot, and although a juice company seems more glamorous than the logistics we’re doing now, looking back at it now it was the only logical choice.”

BRÜZD Foods wasn’t always the name of the duo’s company. Wong and Hughes started out with Ugly Apple—a name neither were keen on, as it didn’t quite fit with their ethos or who they are as people.

When looking for a new name, their adviser at the time, Jake Bailey, suggested “Bruised Foods” spelled normally.

They ran the idea by their graphics designer, Austin Alphonse, and he told them he wanted to try a different spelling to make it more unique.

Austin then came back to them with BRÜZD. “We thought it was strange—definitely offbeat,” Wong said. “It was cool and fit perfectly.”

The company started out with just Wong and Hughes—relying on their close friendship to make decisions and face challenges, and benefitting from their mutual understanding of one another and their goals for the company.

Having known each other their whole lives, every decision and conversation they have with one another is real, and neither presumes to know all the answers.

Wong is majoring in economics and minoring in math at BC, while Hughes is majoring in consumer psycholog y and digital media at

Emerson.

Wong considers himself focused more on the analytical scale of the business and Hughes more so on marketing and developing the company’s brand.

Together, they make decisions and have joint conversations on what will work best for the company.

R e ce ntl y, Wo n g a n d Hu g h e s brought on new team members—including Mckenna Polich, head of brand and MCAS ’19, and Saloni Shah, head of operations and BU ’19. They also brought on three sophomores at BC, Harvard, and Emerson as interns, who will be helping them with content creation, market research, and business development.

They’ll also be looking into logistics about how to optimize routes, including the best options for delivery service.

“Doing deliveries every week is no small job,” Wong said.

While at the moment BRÜZD Foods has closed their round of internship hirings, they should be very active during the summer and could potentially take on more interns.

When founding BRÜZD Foods, Wong hoped to counter the notion that the ability to be an entrepreneur and a student at the same time is a myth.

Wong— who i s now study ing abroad in London for a semester— feels that he has found a healthy balance between schoolwork and BRÜZD responsibilities, and that more students could become entrepreneurs at a young age by utilizing the many resources that BC offers.

“I think BC has the talent, intelligence, and skill to be a strong school in terms of startups and innovation,” Wong said. “If BC recognized that more, we could foster so much creativity on campus.” n

Deportation Takes Center Stage in Autobiographical Play Alex Alpharoah chronicles life as an undocumented immigrant in his play, ‘WET: A DACAmented Journey.’

By Colleen Martin Copy Editor A single man wearing jeans and a T-shirt stands in the middle of the black box theater, listing off the slurs kids called him when he was a young student.

He move s around the stage, chronicling the events of his life as he transforms from character to character: He’s his mother, his father, the kids at school, the immigration officer who arrests him for being undocumented, the government agents who he tries to work with to remain in the country he has spent his entire life in.

His story builds to the point of panic: Will he be deported from the United States, forced to leave his daughter behind?

But the audience knows what is going to happen—or at least, what the end result will be.

Because the man performing is Alex Alpharaoh, the writer of the autobiographical play, WET: A DACAmented Journey, on tour around eight U.S. cities, staged in Boston at the Paramount Center’s Jackie Liebergott Black Box. Alpharaoh entered the United States when he was three months old when his mother brought him from Guatemala.

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He grew up and went to school in Los Angeles, but he quickly came to realize that he was different from his classmates. “What are papers?” he would ask his mother. Why didn’t he have any?

His mother’s scolding—telling him to never, ever give someone a reason to believe he doesn’t have papers—was his earliest introduction to the secrecy and fear he would feel for the rest of his life—that is, until now.

Alpharaoh uses nothing but a few stools, a hat, and a jacket as props as he leads the audience through his life as an undocumented immigrant in the United States. As an adult, Alpharaoh hears about a new program started by the Obama administration: DACA. A snippet of a then-president Barack Obama speech plays, listing out the requirements to be considered for deferred action. Alpharaoh sits anxiously, waiting.

Under the age of 31 as of June 15, 2012? Check.

Entered the United States prior to your 16th birthday? Check.

Physically in the United States at the time of the request for deferred action? Check.

Currently in school, graduated, gotten a GED, or been honorably discharged from the U.S. military?

Check.

Not convicted of a felony, signifi-

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cant misdemeanor, three or more misdemeanors, and does not pose a threat to public or national security?

Uh oh.

Alpharaoh rewinds to his college years, when he was caught for working without a valid social security number as he tried to report abuse at the assisted-living home where he was a social worker. Although he was able to take a plea deal for a lesser charge and remain in the country, the arrest didn’t leave him as he tried to continue on in his adult life without any legitimate papers.

For a while, he was able to get by.

But his grandfather fell ill in Guatemala, and his mother wanted him to

travel with her. By doing so, he risked never being able to return to the only country he’s ever known, and leaving his young daughter alone. The rest of the play follows him as he attempts to get “emergency parole,” which would allow him to leave and reenter the country legally.

Alpharaoh is able to deliver a powerful and informative performance, utilizing only his own emotions and experiences. He tells the audience after the show that his story isn’t over—he hasn’t been able to get his documents. But as he travels and delivers his 90-minute life story, he’s able to live as he wants to, instead of waiting for the other shoe to drop. n

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performance against the Seminoles will surely see that trend toward the former—if not higher. The 6-foot-5 senior defensive end was a one-man wrecking crew on Saturday afternoon, making the plays he needed to make time and time again. It started on the very first possession of the game, when he got his hand on and blocked Ricky Aguayo’s 45-yard field goal attempt, and continued throughout the rest of the game. FSU’s offensive line knew he was going to be a problem, but its inexperience showed, and they committed four false start penalties trying to deal with him and the rest of the pass rush. Three of those penalties came on third downs, too, proving costly for the Seminoles.

He finished with six tackles, one

With 2:52 on the clock and a fivepoint lead, Boston College football found itself in a 4th-and-1 situation from the Florida State 40-yard line. The Eagles had already gone for it five times on the day, converting three of them, and had earned a first down in the same situation just 11 minutes earlier. Steve Addazio opted to take a timeout—his last of the half—then returned the offense to the field. The unit was merely there in an effort to draw the Seminoles offsides, and when that didn’t happen, BC took a delay of game penalty and Grant Carlson punted to the FSU 13-yard line.

“How hard of a decision? I felt pretty good about it,” Addazio said after, per BCEagles.com, on choosing to punt it back to the Seminoles.

Three plays later, the stadium was rocking, as FSU quarterback Deondre Francois found teammate Tamorrion Terry for a 74-yard touchdown, one that would hold up as the game-winning score in a 22-21 loss for Addazio’s Eagles. The decision that Addazio felt good about, quite simply, was an inexcusable miscalculation. Paired with his burning of a timeout in crunch time, it handed BC a loss that knocked the Eagles out of the national polls and seems destined to send them to yet another 7-6 season—the fifth in six years for the head coach.

The decision, in hindsight, makes less and less sense. Addazio has been more aggressive than years past this season, and that was evident by the five previous fourth-down attempts. Two of those, even, came on the Seminoles 40-yard line. The Eagles converted 4th-and-1 in the first quarter with a three-yard Travis Levy run, then came up short on a 4th-and-4 from the same territory. So Addazio’s justification in the press conference that he was worried that the “ball was darn near midfield like that” didn’t make much sense—he trusted his defense plenty earlier. That failed fourth-down conversion had ended in a field goal from the Seminoles, with BC’s defense bearing down after giving up a long throw and forcing Willie Taggert to turn to his kicker. Three points, obviously, wouldn’t have been enough to thwart the Eagles in the final minutes of regulation.

The other two conversions for the Eagles? They also came on 4th-and-1, running their mark on 4th-and-short to an impressive 3-for-3 on the day. Along with a three-yard rushing average and a conversion rate on the season upward of 50 percent on fourth downs, everything suggested that BC would have a better than even shot of getting the first. Both The New York Times’ 4th Down Bot and SBNation’s Football Study Hall suggest, through visual charts considering field position and distance, that Addazio should have gone for it.

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After a questionable fourth-down decision from Steve Addazio, Florida State’s Tamorrion Terry hauled in a game-winning 74-yard touchdown to defeat the Eagles.

BY ANDY BACKSTROM Sports Editor With three minutes and 18 seconds remaining in Tallahassee, Boston College football quarterback Anthony Brown handed the ball off to A.J. Dillon, clinging to a 21-16 lead. After crossing the line of scrimmage, the sophomore was greeted by a host of Florida State defenders at the Seminoles’ 40, stopping the 6-foot, 245-pound back a yard short of the first-down marker. Dillon—far from 100 percent, battling a nagging left ankle injury that kept him out of two games earlier this year—hobbled off the field for the third-straight game, having just recorded a season-high 37 carries, as head coach Steve Addazio looked left

and right, contemplating whether or not he wanted to go for it on fourth down.

His team was 3-of-5 in such situations on Saturday, and a first down would all but secure the Eagles’ first eight-win season since 2009. A turnover on downs or a punt, on the other hand, would leave the game in the hands of BC’s defense—a unit that had allowed a combined 14 points in its previous three games.

The sixth-year Eagles coach let the play clock wind down before signaling to the referees that he did indeed want to use the timeout to stop play with two minutes and 52 seconds left in regulation. On 4th-and-1, Brown

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BY BRADLEY SMART Assoc. Sports Editor While much of the controversy around Boston College football’s 2221 loss to Florida State on Saturday afternoon centers around head coach Steve Addazio’s questionable decision to not go for it on 4th-and-1 from the Florida State 45-yard line with three minutes to go, the game was filled with other notable things—see Anthony Brown’s night-and-day performance, Zach Allen’s soaring NFL draft profile, and a few moves from the Eagles coaching staff that had interesting results.

Two Up 1) Zach Allen’s Draft Stock Allen is already regarded as a late first round or early second round pick in the upcoming NFL Draft, but his

Justice, Hall Guide IUPUI to Upset Road Victory Over Eagles

BY BRADLEY SMART Assoc. Sports Editor On Sunday afternoon, Boston College men’s basketball was dealt a scare, needing all 40 minutes to fight off a resilient St. Francis Brooklyn IUPUI 76 team. Despite Boston College 69 being favored by 22, the Eagles were locked in a back-andforth game, even trailing by a point with four minutes left before pulling away for the narrow five-point win. It was your typical non-conference upset bid, the type that many teams use as a lesson of sorts. So when IUPUI—Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis—arrived on Wednesday night a 16-point underdog, many expected BC to cruise.

And for the first half, things were largely

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falling in place. Riding double-digit efforts from Jordan Chatman and Ky Bowman, the Eagles built a lead as big as 14. Then, the wheels came off. The Jaguars’ duo of guard Camron Justice and center Evan Hall, former high school teammates who took different paths to the same team, guided their team back, eventually pulling off an impressive 76-69 upset win—the first Power Five win for the program, which has suffered seven consecutive losing seasons, since 2002.

“We should’ve learned from St. Francis—we didn’t,” a disappointed Eagles head coach Jim Christian said after. “We talked a lot about [that game], showed a lot of film about it, but for some reason it’s not registering right now.”

BC (2-1) turned the ball over 15 times and was outrebounded by a hefty 12-point margin, watching as visiting IUPUI (2-1)

stormed back. The Eagles managed a paltry 6-for-19 mark from the field in the second half, as Chatman and Bowman combined for just eight shots and nine points. Meanwhile, Justice and Hall were pushing hard to create chances, as the rest of the Jaguars were largely ineffective.

Justice, a transfer from Vanderbilt, poured in 16 of his game-high 29 points in the second half. The versatile guard outplayed his BC counterpart, getting to the line at will and making the most of his chances—Justice was a perfect 13-for-13 from the charity stripe. Meanwhile, Hall, a left-handed big man, thoroughly outplayed BC’s Nik Popovic.

It wasn’t always easy for Hall, though.

It was clear that IUPUI head coach Jason Gardner had seen something on the game tape and wanted to get his big man going

early—Hall posted up inside four times in the first six minutes. Only one bucket went in, but it set the stage for the rest of the game. He would pick up steam, and as his confidence grew, Popovic’s decreased.

BC’s center, coming off a resurgent sophomore campaign, would eventually foul out having scored just four points on five shots while additionally going a woeful 2-for-8 at the charity stripe—particularly jarring considering he hit at a 71.3 percent rate a season ago.

Hall scored 10 of his 18 points and had seven rebounds in the second half. He was a key part of the decisive 10-rebound edge the Jaguars enjoyed after the break, a mark that helped bring them back from the sixpoint deficit.

“They knew exactly what the strengths of this team were,” Christian said. “They knew

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how tough and physical they were—we weren’t surprised. We had no commitment to being tough and physical for 40 minutes today.”

Justice and Hall worked together particularly well in the pick-and-roll and screen games, with Justice’s biggest 3-pointer, one of just two he hit despite 12 attempts, coming after a screen from Hall forced an awkward switch.

Of the 40-point second half from IUPUI, just 14 points were scored by players other than the high school pals. Five of those belonged to guard Nick Rogers, who came up big when his team needed him to the most.

With 1:01 on the clock, BC’s Wynston Tabbs—who had another strong game—hit

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Eagles Overcome Poor Shooting, Pass First Road Test at Houston

By Luke Pichini Heights Staff

Boston College women’s basketball had been quite efficient in its first three games under new head coach Joanna Bernabei-McNamee.

Boston College 64 The Eagles reHouston 57 corded 80-plus points and outscored their opponents by 20 or more in each outing, a particularly impressive stretch considering they never crossed the 80-point threshold the season prior.

On Sunday afternoon against Houston, BC didn’t play the efficient, highscoring basketball that it did in its first three games of the season, but the Eagles still escaped with a 64-57 victory on the strength of a 20-point fourth quarter that allowed them to pull away in what had been a tie game through 30 minutes.

Emma Guy once again turned in a strong effort for BC (4-0) in the scrappy affair, picking up 16 points and eight rebounds. After chipping in 19 points against

Holy Cross, freshman guard Marnelle Garraud once again led the team in scoring with 17.

In last year’s meeting with Houston (2-3), the Eagles prevailed by a narrow five-point margin. So, it was clear that the Cougars would put up a much tougher fight than other teams that BC had faced this season.

The first quarter set the tone for this matchup—it would be a scrappy slugfest filled with turnovers. The Eagles shot 33 percent from the field, while the Cougars only hit 28 percent of their shots, and both teams also combined for 12 turnovers. BC emerged with a 12-11 lead in the first 10 minutes of play.

Each team was able to somewhat shake off its slow start in the second quarter, as the mistakes diminished and more shots fell. The Eagles were the hotter of the two and outscored the Cougars, 21-14, to enter halftime with an eight-point lead.

There were still several glaring statistics to note. By halftime, BC had only gone to the charity stripe once, and it did

not make a single free throw. And with five minutes left to play in the half, Houston had only recorded one assist. Despite the number of turnovers that they were generating, the Cougars were not producing many points on the break.

It looked as if the Eagles would pull away and cruise to an easy victory in the beginning of the third quarter. They scored four points to open up the half and put themselves up by 12. The Cougars were falling out of the game, and they desperately needed a response.

Houston responded, loud and clear.

Led by Jasmyne Harris and Serithia Hawkins, the Cougars rattled off a 14-0 run over a stretch of four minutes and took their first and only lead of the game, 39-37. Despite the back-and-forth nature of this contest, BC possessed the lead for the entire game up to this point. This startling run woke up the Eagles, and they battled their American Athletic foe to tie it up at 44 apiece, heading into the fourth quarter.

BC was able to finish strong, though,

starting the quarter with five-point run.

From this point forward, the Eagles would not relinquish their lead. While the Cougars did close the margin to only a one-point deficit with three minutes left to play, Harris—who had racked up 15 points—ended up fouling out.

BC was able to hold on and make its free throws to build up a comfortable lead.

In the final three minutes without Harris, Houston’s offense ended up collapsing as it continuously heaved 3-pointers, none of which landed. The Cougars only scored a single point in the final three minutes, and BC escaped its first true road test—Houston was a much tougher foe than nearby Rhode Island.

Some had projected this game to be a potential shootout, but that didn’t come to fruition. Both teams didn’t shoot the ball very well, as BC shot 37.5 percent from the field, while Houston shot a similarly poor 34.3 percent.

The Cougars did a great job in slowing down BC’s offense, but Houston’s kryptonite was its 3-point shooting. The

Eagles converted 7-of-15 from beyond the arc, with a large portion of their high success rate coming from freshman guard Marnelle Garraud, who knocked down four long-range shots.

Houston, meanwhile, hit just 4-of-24 from downtown—good for an abysmal 16.7 percent clip. One has to credit BC’s stout perimeter defense, but Houston has been quite poor at shooting 3-pointers, as it entered this game shooting just 25 percent from distance.

Ultimately, a great team is able to grind out gritty games and come away with a win. In the end, BC accomplished that. While this effort was not as smooth as the Eagles’ previous three games, they still preserved an undefeated record and survived a second-half comeback.

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Balanced Scoring Effort Leads BC to Easy Victory Over Huskies

By Peter Kim Asst. Sports Editor

Nearly one period into Boston College women’s hockey’s game on Saturday against Connecticut, the Eagles and Huskies were still knotted at Connecticut 0 zero. Despite Boston College 4 outshooting UConn,11-6, BC still hadn’t been able to break down a well-organized and determined Huskies defense. But sometimes all it takes to carve open a good defensive unit is one moment of individual brilliance.

On Friday, Caitrin Lonergan had provided that magic against the same UConn team, toe-dragging around a Huskies defender after skating through the neutral zone and wristing a shot from the right circle past Morgan Fisher for the opening goal in a 3-0 win over the Huskies.

And on Saturday, it was Lonergan who once again provided that moment when the Eagles needed it.

She received a threaded pass from Cayla Barnes on the left wing, took the puck over the blue line, then skated cross-ice to the right circle, using her speed to create some space from a trailing UConn defender

before sending a wrist shot flying just inside the left post, giving BC a 1-0 lead. The goal gave the Eagles momentum heading into the first intermission, and they capitalized on it, scoring another early in the second period and cruising to a 4-0 win over the Huskies from there, recording a three-game regularseason sweep of UConn in the process.

When the game started, BC quickly picked up a one-man advantage, as Danika Pasqua was sent to the box just over a minute in for cross-checking. The Eagles couldn’t make it count, however, as they mustered just one shot on the power play, a Daryl Watts drive that was blocked. That trend held up throughout the first as the teams were a combined 0-for-5 on the power play in the first period, with UConn’s Fisher holding strong and stopping efforts from Lonergan and Barnes, while BC’s Maddy McArthur made a crucial save on a shot from Kayla Mee after Megan Keller was penalized for hooking.

UConn was made to pay for failing to convert its chances, as less than two minutes after Keller climbed back onto the ice, Lonergan broke the scoreless tie, and BC headed into the locker room for intermission up a goal, despite Savannah Norcross taking a

penalty with just 55 seconds to go.

The Eagles, perhaps energized by the goal, came out of the break the stronger of the two sides. They killed the rest of Norcross’ penalty, allowing just a single Huskies shot, and immediately began to pepper the UConn goal. Lonergan forced two saves out of Fisher, while Grace Bizal also tested the Huskies netminder to no avail. But it didn’t take much longer for BC to break through again.

The puck was dropped below the UConn goalline, and Makenna Newkirk hustled to dig the puck out of a scrum. She won control and skated behind the Huskies net before finding Keller in the left circle. The senior defenseman wasted no time, slapping a one-timer past Fisher’s glove and doubling the Eagles’ lead.

UConn tried to get back in the game, but found that beating McArthur was no easy task, as the freshman made three saves, including a good stop with her right pad off a rebound. And once again, when BC got its opportunity, it didn’t miss. With six minutes left in the second period, Watts received a pass on the left wing from Barnes and skated a few strides forward before sending a cross-ice pass directly to the stick of Keller.

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Three different BC players scored, as the Eagles rolled to a 4-0 win over Connecticut.

Just like her first scoring play of the day, she didn’t hesitate, sending a shot inside the left post over Fisher’s pads to give the Eagles a 3-0 lead.

From there, it was cruise control for BC—similar to its previous two games against the Huskies. McArthur made a crucial save on a 3-on-1 UConn breakaway early in the third period, and midway through the frame, the Eagles added yet another insurance goal.

The puck was dumped behind the blue line, where Kelly Browne was waiting. The

freshman took the time to pick her head up and spotted Newkirk cutting into the left circle. Browne fed the captain, who finished past Fisher to cap a fantastic performance for BC.

All told, the Eagles outshot the Huskies, 34-16, and killed all five of UConn’s muchhyped power plays successfully. With the shutout, BC is now allowing just 1.23 goals per game, tops in Hockey East, and with the roster at full strength, it has really started to look like the national title contender it was projected to be before the season began. n

Numbers Suggest Addazio Shouldn’t Have Punted Game Away Wrong Call, from A9 A more detailed look at those situational numbers furthers the case against the Carlson punt, too. A look at Pro Football Reference’s win probability calculator makes a pretty damning case. In those situations, teams hold a 87.89 percent win probability. With a successful first down—say Levy, Brown or likely an overworked A.J. Dillon sneaks through for a yard or two gain—BC’s win probability leaps to nearly 97 percent. After all, it has a fresh set of downs, and while the Seminoles had their full complement of timeouts, the Eagles would need just one more first or another score to put it out of reach.

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turning the ball over to Francois and FSU at its own 40-yard line, the win probability dips to around 75 percent. After all, the Seminoles will still need to go 60 yards in around two and a half minutes. Even with the second-half success Francois and running back Cam Akers were enjoying, two of the previous three FSU drives were three-and-outs and the other was a field goal—again, three points wouldn’t be enough.

Zach Allen was enjoying arguably his best game of the season, and while the Seminoles were finding chunk yardage at times in the second, they’d still mounted just two drives of 60 or more yards and just one of the two had ended in seven points.

BC punted, though, and as a result, saw its win probability dip to

roughly 80 percent. The argument many would make as a product of these numbers is that 80 percent after the punt is greater than 75 percent if they’d fail, so Addazio was clearly justified—but that 5-percent margin is minimal enough to take a risk and play to win. That argument fails to take advantage of the Eagles conversion rate on the year, however, something that The Heights’ senior staffer Ben Thomas pointed out on Twitter after the game.

Thomas makes the point that, if you attempt to find a team’s fourthdown conversion rate that would yield the same win probability as if the team punted or failed to convert, it’d equal 43.7 percent. That rate is a full eight points lower than BC’s season average to that point, 51.9

percent. When Addazio said “I know [punting] was the right call there],” postgame press conference, it wasn’t quite correct. He obviously had faith in his team on fourth downs or he wouldn’t have already gone for it five times in the game.

He was playing conseratively and failed to take advantage of a chance in which the numbers suggested his offense should stay on the field to try to seal the deal. If he had gone for it, failed, and FSU scored on the other end anyway, the postgame press conference would likely strike a different tone. But at least the numbers would be on Addazio’s side—and fans of the program would at least be pleased that their frustrating head coach was finally playing to win.

Addazio’s time at BC could be

running out, especially if the Eagles fall against Syracuse in the season finale and fail to win their ensuing bowl game. BC had plenty of chances to pull away from the Seminoles and didn’t, so singling out one late-game decision might seem like an overreaction. But, with Addazio, these consistently faulty in-game decisions he’s making do more than enough to offset his strengths in recruiting and player development. This one, however thin the margins, was enough to spur controversy and sent the Eagles home with a second-straight loss.

Bradley Smart is the Assoc. Sports Editor for The Heights. He can be reached on Twitter @bradleysmart15

SPORTS in SHORT MEN’S HOCKEY EAST Standings Conference overall

Massachusetts

5-0-0

9-1-0

Northeastern

4-1-1

7-3-1

Providence

4-2-0

7-3-1

Boston University

3-3-1

3-5-1

UMass Lowell

3-3-1

6-5-1

Boston College

3-1-1

3-5-1

Maine

2-3-1

4-5-1

Connecticut

2-5-1

5-6-1

Merrimack

2-5-0

4-9-0

New Hampshire

1-2-2

1-5-3

Vermont

1-5-0

3-6-0

Numbers to know

88.7

Points per game averaged by women’s basketball in its first three games of the season.

4

Shutouts for women’s hockey this season after its 4-0 win over Connecticut Saturday.

9 6

Goals in nine games to start the season for David Cotton, who leads men’s hockey in scoring.

QUote of the week

“We all know that we had a golden opportunity here that we let get away from us.”

— Football head coach Steve

Addazio, on Saturday’s loss at Florida State.

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FOOTBALL

Addazio’s Fourth Down Call Proves Costly in Road Loss to FSU Football Vs. Florida State, from A9 and the offense trotted onto the field in a singleback set. Rather than trying to move the chains, Addazio tasked his quarterback with hollering the hard count, in attempt to draw FSU—the second-most penalized team in the country—offsides. The Seminoles didn’t take the bait, though, and the Eagles’ offense took the five-yard delay of game penalty.

“I just felt best about the fact that if we could pin ’em, we could play great defense and make them go a long field, and win the game that way,” Addazio told reporters, per BCEagles.com Grant Carlson punted the ball away to D.J. Matthews, and three plays later, Tamorrion Terry beat Brandon Sebastian over the top for a 74-yard touchdown, a scoring play that—even without a two-point conversion—left BC with one minute and 41 seconds to drive down the field and kick a game-winning field goal. Without a timeout and a placekicker that has attempted more than one 40-plus yarder all year, the Eagles were hard pressed to avoid blowing an eightpoint fourth-quarter lead.

They didn’t get very far—despite stringing together the most resilient half of his career, Brown logged three consecutive incompletions before being wrapped up eight yards short of the sticks for the game-ending tackle. Thanks to its 22-21 victory, FSU (5-6, 3-5 Atlantic Coast) inched one step closer to preserving its nation-leading 36-year bowl streak, and No. 20 BC (7-4, 4-3)—two weeks removed from being an ACC title contender—dropped its second-straight game, gravitating back to mediocrity.

In a second half that took on the shape of a

quarterback duel, Brown and Deondre Francois combined for a total of 379 passing yards and two touchdowns in the final two quarters of play. Considering that both quarterbacks have eclipsed the 300-yard mark and tossed at least four touchdowns in a game this season, the numbers weren’t inexplicable. That said, what made the aerial raid so spectacular was the fact that Brown and Francois were practically unserviceable in the opening 30 minutes of regulation. In fact, the signal callers were a combined 18-of-40 with four interceptions during that span.

Neither could establish a rhythm. Aside from a 25-yard slant on the Seminoles’ opening drive that helped set the stage for a 45-yard Ricky Aguayo field goal—one that was ultimately blocked by Zach Allen—the quarterbacks largely looked out of sync.

Brown was the worse of the two. After exiting last weekend’s College GameDayfeatured matchup against No. 2 Clemson on BC’s first series of the night and spending some time in the hospital with an abdominal injury, the redshirt sophomore worked his way back into the lineup on Saturday, starting the game under center. But for a while, it looked like Eagles fans might see E.J. Perry on the field anyway. Brown started the game 3-of-10 for 12 yards and two interceptions.

Naturally, BC turned to the ground, riding Dillon for 18 carries in the first half. Prior to re-tweaking his ankle again, the Lawrence Academy product had his moments where he looked his old self, rumbling through the trenches for chunk yardage. However, it didn’t matter—not with Brown turning the ball over.

The Eagles’ second drive of the day ended with the redshirt sophomore rolling right and throwing a pass behind Michael

Walker into the arms of Seminoles defensive back Hamsah Nasirildeen. Luckily for BC, Francois gave the ball back to Brown and the Eagles’ offense the very next play: Francois dropped back to pass and heaved a deep ball for Ontaria Wilson. Sebastian—the Week 10 ACC Defensive Back of the Week—leapt in front of Wilson for his second interception of the season and returned it 33 yards to the FSU 24. Yet, just like the Seminoles, BC failed to convert the takeaway into points, as Colton Lichtenberg curled a 29-year field goal attempt just past the left upright.

Eventually, Francois developed a rapport with Keyshawn Helton, and FSU’s run game—the third-worst in the country—surprisingly provided its fair share of offense, accounting for 76 yards in the first half. As a whole, the Seminoles logged 233 first-half yards, but had just a pair of Aguayo field goals to show for it. Whenever FSU infiltrated BC territory, it stalled.

Francois and Brown traded interceptions in the second quarter, the first of which was nabbed by Hamp Cheevers, who is now in sole possession of the nation lead with seven picks. It wasn’t until Aguayo drilled a 35-yarder and the Eagles trailed, 3-0, that BC woke up on offense. The Eagles’ first scoring drive of the day can be credited to their tight ends: Tommy Sweeney kickstarted the series with a crucial third-down reception, Korab Idrizi hauled in a 34-yard catch-and-run, and then Ray Marten paved the way for a four-yard Dillon touchdown run.

Due in large part to three 14-plus yard completions—all of which were to different Seminole receivers—FSU tacked on another field goal before the half, draining three minutes and 46 minutes of game time in the process. Instead of using his last

timeout, Addazio let Willie Taggart wind down the clock and kneeled down to enter the break up, 7-6.

It was truly a tale of two halves. Both quarterbacks came out of the intermission firing. Brown started things off with a 42yard pass to Kobay White—who finished the day with seven catches and his first-career 100-yard game. But it was Francois who struck first, connecting with Nyqwan Murray on a jump ball and Naseir Upshur on a post route to set up a four-yard Cam Akers touchdown run.

Following an errant flea-flicker—BC’s third botched gadget play of the game— Brown stitched together three consecutive completions, the last of which was a 26-yard touchdown pass to Jeff Smith. After an FSU three-and-out, Brown walked back out onto the turf and threw one of the best passes of his career: a 20-yard dart to who else but White on 3rd-and-18. Alternating between Dillon rushing plays and play-action passes, BC pushed the ball into the red zone. It was there that Brown hooked up with Walker on the run to convert a 4th-and-1, and Dillon bulldozed his way into the paint for a sixyard score.

Once again, FSU generated a response— just not a touchdown. Out of the shotgun, Akers ripped off a 55-yard run, aided by a number of missed tackles. A dropped pass on 3rd-and-10 gave way to Aguayo’s third field goal of the game, and the Seminoles cut their deficit to five with about 12 minutes remaining.

Bolstered by a 26-yard Smith reception and a 18-yard screen pass to Travis Levy, BC worked its way to the FSU 38 on the following drive. Facing a 4th-and-5, Addazio called Carlson’s number—perhaps foreshadowing

what was to come.

On the very next Eagles series, Brown crossed midfield by creating time outside the pocket on a 3rd-and-10 and dumping the ball off to White, who cut past an FSU defensive back for the first down. That’s when Addazio—who stood by his choice to not go for it on 4th-and-1 after the game—turned to shedding the clock, Dillon limped off the field, BC burned its last timeout, and Carlson booted the ball away to a salivating Seminoles team.

As soon as Francois delivered a perfectly placed pass to Terry, and the redshirt freshman wideout scampered for six, Doak Campbell Stadium erupted in excitement, and hearts of BC fans sank. Brown’s 204yard second half came to an abrupt end and so did the Eagles’ hopes for a marquee bowl game.

“It’s a pretty disappointed coaching staff and a pretty disappointed locker room right now with the players,” Addazio said. “I think we all know that we had a golden opportunity that we let get away from us, without taking anything away from Florida State.”

With a field goal block, six tackles—including one for loss—a pass breakup, and a sack, Allen put together one of the best games of his career. Brown’s second-half performance might have been the best half of football he’s played in a BC uniform. The talent is undeniable—Addazio’s game management is what has raised questions for years: decisions like not taking a timeout to set up a potential two-minute drill at the end of the second quarter,69 running Dillon 37 times with three other backs available, or not going for it on fourth down in a potential game-clinching scenario after having attempted to convert from the same exact

UP AND DOWN, BACK AND FORTH TALE OF TWO HALVES: QB PLAY

69

Deondre Francois

DOUBLED DOWN FSU Rushing Yards Per Game

First Half

Second Half

12-of-26 157 YDS 2 INT

7-of-13 165 YDS 1 TD

FOURTH DOWNS BC’s Season Success Rate

Against BC

156

44%

Season Average

Anthony Brown

6-of-13 83 YDS 2 INT

12-of-23 214 YDS 1 TD

79.8

On Saturday

3-of-6

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Dickens, Garraud Pace BC to Convincing Win Over Holy Cross

BY BRADLEY SMART Assoc. Sports Editor

For the first 10 minutes of Boston College women’s basketball’s third game of the season, the Eagles were back to their usual Holy Cross 63 up-tempo ofBoston College 89 fense and finding plenty of scoring chances against Holy Cross, but they were struggling to contain the Crusaders on the other side.

Holy Cross forward Lauren Manis, fresh off a 26-point outing against Rider, was scoring seemingly at will, piling up 14 first-quarter points and giving her team a two-point lead.

It was far from the ideal start for head coach Joanna Bernabei-McNamee’s team. So they went back to the drawing board, and the game plan that BernabeiMcNamee had in mind quickly came to fruition. Behind freshman guards Makayla Dickens and Marnelle Garraud, who both went for 19 points, the Eagles outscored their visitors by 28 points in the next three quarters, rolling to an 8963 win—their third victory in a row to open the season.

“I thought [Holy Cross] came out and

executed really well, and we came out a tough flat,” BC’s first-year head coach said. “We didn’t let that bother us, and we wore them down as the game went on. One of the biggest adjustments was trying to keep the ball as much as we could out of Manis’ hand.”

BC was largely successful in doing so, as while Manis piled up 30 points, she scored just seven points after the half.

The Eagles used a second-quarter push to build a 10-point lead, then doubled that in the third. The Crusaders managed just 22 points in the second half, connecting on just 2-of-13 shots in the third quarter as the game was put firmly out of reach.

BC manhandled Holy Cross on the boards, out-rebounding the Crusaders by an impressive 41-22 margin. Even more notable was the second-chance opportunities the Eagles found throughout the game, as they piled up 19 points after extending possessions with offensive rebounds. The extended possessions also led to further chances from 3-point range, and BC tied its season-high with 13.

“That’s something we’ve emphasized since I got here,” Bernabei-McNamee

said of the strong rebounding. “I want our shooters to feel like they have the freedom to shoot if they’re open. If you’re not crashing the boards, they don’t have that.”

Dickens and Garraud were plenty comfortable to let it go from deep, each hitting five 3-pointers. Picking apart Holy Cross’ soft 2-3 zone, the duo found themselves with plenty of space to shoot, and they found success. The Eagles, a game removed from going a woeful 3-for-28 from 3-point range, finished 13-for-30, a nearly 32 percent increase. Taylor Ortlepp, the team’s biggest threat last season, finished 1-for-6 from distance but did record assists on three of Garraud’s 3-pointers.

The strong perimeter game was backed up by the play of Emma Guy and Georgia Pineau inside. Guy, fresh off a career-best 22-point game against St. Peter’s, was used early and often in the BC offense. Despite battling with foul trouble, she had 13 points and three rebounds, two of which were on the offensive glass. Pineau chipped in with 12 points and four boards, while freshman Taylor Soule also made her presence felt with nine points and six rebounds.

The balanced scoring—with four in double-digits and two with three points— enabled the Eagles to pull away when the rest of Crusaders, Manis excluded, went cold. They simply didn’t have the depth or shotmakers to keep up.

BC went on a 12-0 run in the second quarter, taking advantage of a plethora of Holy Cross mistakes. The Eagles, at one point, had forced six turnovers in a span of five minutes, and additionally had a 17-2 edge in points going back to a Dickens buzzer-beater at the end of the first. Manis hit for a pair of layups in a row, and Kathryn Pedi was left open on a switch for a 3-pointer, but Dickens had an answer for a 10-point halftime lead.

The Eagles resumed their fast-paced offense in the second half, jumping out on a 10-3 run. The teams’ offenses slowed down, combining to go scoreless for several minutes, but it was BC who woke back up amid a 1-for-7 spell from the Crusaders. Milan Bolden-Morris knocked down a corner 3-pointer, and Garraud scored four-straight points to push the lead to 20 entering the fourth.

The Eagles held Holy Cross without a field goal for the final 5:23 of the quarter, a remarkable run that was far from the

first-quarter performance.

The rest of the game was cruise control, as BC eventually closed out Holy Cross with nine unanswered points. It was a far cry from last year’s meeting between these two teams, a narrow nine-point win in which the Eagles had to erase an early deficit as well. The other difference from last season is the up-tempo, efficient offense that BC has displayed in the early going. It came within a missed free throw of hitting 90 points for the first time since a 10-point win against Brown in November 2014.

There’s likely a lot of takeaways from this game for Bernabei-McNamee, but a few stand out. Her two leading scorers were freshmen who were confident enough to shoot from the outset. Her team, without a single senior, was able to absorb an early blow from a decent Patriot League team and respond with a refocused defensive effort and a strong offensive push. And finally, if the insideout play of hitting shots from beyond the arc but also cleaning up on the boards can continue, the Eagles should be able to continue to pile up point totals that haven’t been seen on the Heights in quite some time. 

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Underdog IUPUI Dominates Post Play, Outworks BC En Route to Win MBB Vs. IUPUI, from A9 the second of a pair of free throws to close the gap to just three. The Jaguars struggled to find anything on the other end, and with the shot clock near zero, D.J. McCall, in desperation, kicked the ball out to Rogers, who was standing near the half court logo. Rogers caught the ball with two seconds left, took a dribble forward, and launched a high-

arcing shot over the outstretched arms of Tabbs. It was a perfect swish, the final dagger in a huge win for a program that is five years removed from managing just six wins total.

Tabbs finished with 15 points, hitting or eclipsing that mark for the third game in a row. Chatman led BC with 20, but disappeared in the second half, attempting just two shots in the latter portion of play. The Eagles struggled to

create chances and, with the rebound discrepancy, getting out and running in transition or scoring easy put-backs was difficult.

“A lot of [Chatman’s] shots were in transition in the first half—that’s when we’re at our best,” Christian said. “If we don’t rebound, you can’t get stops, you can’t push the ball in transition. We didn’t execute at all in the half court, and it all led to it.”

The loss was unexpected, especially with BC heading into the game as 16point favorites, but having watched the Terriers hang around on Sunday, it wasn’t as big of a surprise. Once the Eagles started to break down in the second half, committing reckless turnovers and failing to get anything on the glass, even Christian saw the inevitable downfall.

“When we got a 10-point lead, I

thought we stopped playing,” he said.

Now, with a rough non-conference loss on its resume and a similarly close one the game prior, BC finds itself in a spot where it needs to learn, fast. IUPUI was more aggressive on the boards and faster to 50-50 balls, and despite shooting just 33 percent from the field in the second half, it willed itself past a stagnant home team—and that’s a recipe for disaster, especially come mid-season. 

The Heights

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Monday, November 19, 2018

FOOTBALL

Brown Has Strong Second Half While Addazio Overuses Dillon NOTE Vs. FSU from A9 for loss, a sack, and a pass breakup. His most notable sequence of plays was incredibly important for the Eagles, coming at the start of the second half.

BC was up, 7-6, and had just failed to convert a fourth-and-3, turning the ball over on the FSU 24—and Allen stepped up when his team needed to avoid losing momentum. On second down, Allen exploded into the backfield for a six-yard sack of FSU quarterback Deondre Francois. After a false start on the Seminoles, Allen knocked down a pass from Francois at the line of scrimmage to force a punt. Overall, he was exactly the player BC needed him to be, and some more.

2) Good Anthony Brown While much of Brown’s first half left something to be desired, he turned it on the rest of the way. Brown, recovering during the week after a crushing hit in the Clemson game that sent him to the hospital, started to find a flow on BC’s last real drive of the first half. The quarterback completed the Eagles’ first third down conversion, a 21-yard pass

to Tommy Sweeney, then found the tight end again for a 16-yard pickup.

The tight ends continued to find space, and he connected with Korab Idrizi for 34 yards that set up a touchdown run from A.J. Dillon. He picked up where he left off in the second.

The very first pass attempt in the second went for 42 yards, a good find of Kobay White. That connection would only strengthen the rest of the half, as White went for 121 yards on seven catches and his first 100-plus yard game. After three consecutive incompletions—two that were dropped to the disbelief of the redshirt sophomore signal caller—Brown went 4-for-4 for 62 yards and a touchdown. He had five more throws for double-digit yards, continuing to play the complete polar opposite of his first half. Brown was 8-of-13 for 156 yards and a score in the third quarter alone, and despite throwing three incompletions on the final drive (one was a unexpected drop from Jeff Smith), he turned in a more than respectable line all things considered. He threw for 297 yards and completed 50 percent of his passes, a

big turnaround from the 3-for-10 start to the day.

Two Down 1) Bad Anthony Brown The first 10 pass attempts from Brown revealed a quarterback who was very out of sync, both with his receivers and in reading pass coverages. He went just 3-of-10 for 12 yards and two interceptions, overthrowing and underthrowing receivers left and right while additionally making poor decisions. Much of the first half was an exercise in futility for the Eagles passing offense and Scot Loeffler even resorted to a pair of trick plays with Jeff Smith passing in an effort to find any success. This wasn’t entirely on Brown—occasionally BC’s receivers seemed to be crowding one space on a given route—but he was far from good in the early going.

The one time early that Brown made the right read—he saw Tommy Sweeney open at the first down marker on a third and long—his pass was batted down at the line. It was that kind of a half from the redshirt sophomore, as he threw a pair of ugly interceptions.

The first one, after completing a pass to White for a first down, Brown tried to find Walker on a sideline route.

He threw the ball behind the senior, though, and a trailing Hamsah Nasirildeen picked it off. The second was more egregious, however, as Brown stared down Jeff Smith the entire play and FSU’s Stanford Samuels was easily in the right spot to snag the interception. He would start to turn it around the ensuing drive, guiding a 77-yard touchdown drive that featured the team’s first third down conversion and several long completions, but some of BC’s failure to beat a less-superior Seminoles team can be traced to the early offensive struggles.

2) Managing A.J. Dillon On the third-to-last play of the third quarter, Dillon came up limping. The Eagles feature back gingerly jogged over to the sideline—a familiar sight to people who’ve tuned in to BC games this season. Two plays later, however, Dillon was in the backfield again, and took his 31st carry of the game, running for a gain of two yards through the right side. He would go on to carry

the ball six more times before the final whistle, piling up 37 carries. The total was just two shy of his career high of 39 against Louisville last season, but the difference between his performance in both games could not be more stark.

Outside of a few standout carries—his two touchdown runs and a 16-yard run in the first quarter for instance—Dillon was reduced to a shell of how he played against the Cardinals last year. It’s been clear for some time that he is not close to being fully recovered from an injury, even tweeting before the game that it’s “Been six games since I was above 60, don’t worry you’ll see the real me.” The real Dillon—that of 272 rushing yards against Louisville, or his ridiculous 149 yards on six carries against Holy Cross this season—was far from visible against FSU. Remove his longest run, and he averaged under three yards a carry. It was irresponsible of the BC coaching staff to keep pounding the rock with him and not turn to Travis Levy, Ben Glines, or David Bailey, as he was clearly not close to 100 percent—so why use him like he was? n

MEN’S HOCKEY

BC Overcomes Sloppy Start, Salvages Overtime Tie Against UNH

By Peter Kim Asst. Sports Editor

Two minutes into the third period of Boston College men’s hockey’s game against New Hampshire, nothing was going right for the New Hampshire 2 Eagles. Despite Boston College 2 having outshot the Wildcats, 30-28, to that point, BC still trailed, 2-0, and had looked out of sorts offensively all night, with passes regularly going awry. To make matters worse, the puck simply wasn’t bouncing the Eagles’ way.

UNH netted two goals off rebounds, while BC had just barely missed connecting on a few second chances of its own.

But sometimes, the only thing necessary to turn around a game is one lucky break, and when the Eagles needed a little fortune the most, they got it.

The puck dropped to Michael Kim on the left wing, and the senior captain lined up a shot from distance. It looked to be an easy save for Wildcats goaltender Mike Robinson, but instead the puck took a bounce off Jack McBain—who flashed in front of the crease—and Robinson, and squirmed into the net, cutting BC’s deficit in half, effectively sparking a comeback.

The Eagles found one more goal with seven minutes to play, rallying for a 2-2 draw after looking discombobulated for most of the game.

Both sides struggled to find much offensive rhythm. BC (3-5-1, 3-1-1 Hockey East) was the first to create scoring chances, as just over five minutes into the game, Logan Hutsko burst past a defender on the right wing and sent a cross-ice pass in the

direction of David Cotton, but the junior just missed the puck as it flew through the slot. Then, a minute later, Kim was left alone on the right wing and ripped a slapshot that Robinson saved with his glove. On the other end, the Wildcats were nearly able to force the puck into the cage after a scrum in front of net, but Joseph Woll covered puck and ended the scoring threat. It was a similar play that resulted in the first goal of the game.

After UNH (1-5-3, 1-2-2) successfully killed the first power play of the game, the Wildcats quickly broke out of their zone, and Charlie Kelleher dumped the puck into the crease from the left wing. Following another scrum, the Eagles weren’t able to clear the puck, and UNH center Jackson Pierson got his stick on it, poking it past an outstretched Woll and giving the Wildcats the lead.

The UNH goal seemed to energize the Eagles a little bit, as they were able to outshoot the Wildcats, 9-4, over the course of the rest of the period. Even so, BC created few clear-cut opportunities, and a desperation slapshot from J.D. Dudek whistled wide as the horn sounded, sending the Eagles to the first intermission down a goal.

The brief BC surge continued, as just over a minute into the second period, Hutsko forced a turnover at the Wildcats’ blue line, creating a 2-on-1. The sophomore opted to shoot, but saw his wrister swept aside by Robinson. Any thoughts of sustained offensive pressure, however, quickly vanished two minutes into the frame when Oliver Wahlstrom was penalized for slashing, killing BC’s offensive

rhythm. UNH used the one-man advantage to pepper the Eagles’ goal with seven shots over the next two minutes, but BC stayed strong on the kill.

Even when the teams moved back to even strength, it was the Wildcats who looked more likely to score. First, Woll stood tall and blocked a shot from Pierson in the low slot after Jack McBain was sent to the box for interference. Then, the junior goalkeeper denied an Eric Esposito attempt before making the save of the game.

The puck dropped to Chris Miller just above the crease, and his point-black shot was deflected out to Woll’s right, where Joe Sacco waited, ready to slam the puck into an open net. But Woll somehow instantaneously moved across his goal, sprawling out and barely getting a piece of the puck, keeping the BC deficit at one with five minutes left in the second period.

Unfortunately for the Eagles, his heroics were all for naught. Two minutes later, Anthony Wyse streamed up the ice and maneuvered into the slot, where he found space to shoot. His drive bounced off the chest of Woll, straight to Ara Nazarian, who buried the rebound into the roof of the net with no BC defender in sight.

Robinson made one more save before the third period ended, scrambling a Jesper Mattila shot wide and just out of the reach of a straining Hutsko, and UNH headed to the locker room ahead, but still wary.

With the Eagles still out of sync offensively, it was difficult to see them mounting a third-period comeback, until McBain’s first career collegiate goal. After the score, BC started to press UNH’s back line more frantically, seeking to force turnovers and

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David Cotton scored the game-tying goal as the Eagles salvaged a draw with the Wildcats.

generate easier chances. The difference in energy was noticeable, and it didn’t take long to yield results.

With seven minutes to play, Hutsko received the puck behind the net, and delivered a pass out to Cotton, who was camped on the goal line. From a tight angle, he somehow forced the puck under Robinson’s leg pads to tie the score with seven minutes to play. Cotton now has nine goals in nine games to start the season.

Sensing opportunity, the Eagles continued to push for a winner, and Wahlstrom nearly found it with a minute to play, as he unleashed a fierce slap shot that Robinson barely got shoulder pads to. Woll snatched a shot out of the air with his glove with 0.4 seconds on the clock, and the game went to overtime.

The extra period saw very few chances for either team, and BC’s last two opportunities ricocheted wide as the final buzzer sounded, giving both teams a point.

Despite an up-and-down performance, the resilience that the Eagles showed to find a way back into the game was impressive, and it’s a game that can serve as a building block going forward.

“Tonight we showed flashes of being just a little bit better than we were last weekend against Vermont,” head coach Jerry York said. “And I like that for a start.

But there’s certainly things we can get better at.”

As far as BC is concerned, those flashes will have to become the norm with the bulk of the Hockey East schedule and much tougher tests on the horizon. n

VOLLEYBALL

Eagles Hold Off Virginia Tech in Dramatic Senior Night Victory

By Peter Kim Asst. Sports Editor

Positive moments for Boston College volleyball have been hard to come by lately. After a 9-0 start to the season, the Eagles had lost 12 of their last 13 games coming into a senior night matchup with Virginia Tech. And when the Hokies roared back to tie the match at two sets apiece after BC had grabbed an early 2-0 lead, it looked like senior night might just be another lost opportunity for a moraleboosting win.

But the Eagles’ seniors, led by McKenna Goss and her 19 kills, ensured that the night celebrating their contributions to the program ended the right way. After facing match point trailing 14-13 in the deciding fifth frame, BC won three points in a row to snatch a dramatic win, one that avenged a loss to the Hokies the week prior.

In the first set, neither team was able to gain much separation. Goss gave BC (14-14, 4-12 Atlantic Coast) an instant lead, notching a kill on the first point of the game, but VTech (14-15, 5-12) won the next two points, setting the stage for a closely contested frame in which the lead changed hands 10 times—a befitting start to a back-and-forth affair. After an attack error from Rhegan Mitchell knotted the set at 2-2, the teams traded the next 32 points, with neither team

able to grab more than a one-point lead.

Clare Naughton and Cat Balido chipped in with two kills apiece for the Eagles, while Jaila Tolbert kept the Hokies in it with six kills of her own.

After a kill from Kaity Smith tied the frame at 18, BC was finally able to create some separation, grabbing a 21-19 lead after an error from Tolbert, and extending the lead to 24-20 after Balido and Amaka Chukwujekwu made a nice play to block an attempted spike from Tolbert. Ester Talamazzi briefly gave the Hokies a lifeline with a kill, but Chukwujekwu responded with a kill on the next point as the Eagles took the first set 25-21.

The second frame wasn’t nearly as close. After a set in which neither team led by more than four points, BC jumped on VTech in the second, rattling off 11 points in a row to start the frame. Goss punctuated the run with her fourth kill of the set, and from there the Eagles were firmly in control. The Hokies never got closer than that 11-point margin the rest of the way, as BC opened a lead as big as 15 points and cruised to a second-set victory, notching a 25-12 win after an error from Tessa Wyner.

Much like the first, the third frame was hotly contested from the beginning.

The teams split the first 16 points, and yet another kill from Goss tied the match at 8-8. VTech was able to create some

separation, winning three consecutive points and forcing a BC timeout, but the Eagles immediately responded. They went on a 5-0 run of their own, taking the lead at 13-11 and setting the stage for a dramatic conclusion to the set.

VTech looked to have the set won after taking a 24-21 lead, but the Eagles saved three set points in a row—much like they would do in the final set of the match—and tied the set at 24. BC was able to save one more match point after the Hokies took a 26-25 lead, but couldn’t save a fifth, as a ball-handling error from Jane DeJarld gave VTech a 28-26 set win and kept the Hokies alive.

The fourth frame was just as close.

VTech gained an early 6-2 lead after a kill from Talamazzi, but BC once again mounted a run of its own, and tied the set at 6-6 after a bad set from Mitchell.

The teams continued to go back-andforth. BC momentarily seized an 19-17 edge thanks to consecutive kills from Goss and Sophie West, but the Hokies responded by winning seven of the next 10 points to give themselves two set-points. Much like the last set, the Eagles wouldn’t give in, saving both to send the set into extra points, but weren’t able to fully get over the hump.

VTech won the next two points, and a kill from Talamazzi gave the Hokies a 26-24 set win and sent the game to a

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The Eagles snapped a five-game losing streak in a five-set win over the Hokies.

winner-takes-all fifth set.

An extremely close match warrants a tense conclusion, and the fifth set didn’t disappoint. VTech twice seized a three-point lead, first at 6-3, then at 129, but both times the Eagles wouldn’t let them pull away, winning the next three points to tie the match. After a kill from Smith gave BC a 13-12 lead, Goss pulled BC even yet again with her final kill of the match, and the Eagles won three of the next four points to finally put the Hokies away, grabbing the intense last set, 16-14.

After VTech beat the Eagles in

straight sets just two weeks ago, a win on senior night over that same Hokies team has to rank among BC’s most impressive performances of the season. The victory gives the Eagles 14 wins, their most since 2007, and also matches their conference win total of four from last season.

Even though the ACC schedule has brought its fair share of struggles for BC—notably five consecutive losses entering Friday—notching the most wins for the program in a decade is no feat to scoff at, and can be looked at as proof that the Eagles’ rebuild under Jason Kennedy is well and truly underway. n

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BY JACOB SCHICK Arts Editor While the characters in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald cast spells like “avada kedavra” or “stupefy” on each other, the movie is weaving a subtler magic on the audience. Or perhaps it’s a curse. The sequel to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them casts a spell of nostalgia on its viewers from the very start. The Crimes of Grindelwald opens with those lightly tinkling piano keys—audience members pricking up their ears at the amazing and famous John Williams’ score as they settle in for another 2-plus hours in the Wizarding World. And it’s extremely hard not to immediately lose yourself in this literally and metaphorically magical world. Where to Find Them aside,

it’s been a long time since we have gotten a new taste of Harry Potter properties, and just like the return of Star Wars, a taste is all anyone wants. It doesn’t matter much how it tastes, just that it’s slightly familiar. But Grindelwald doesn’t leave much time to savor the opening score—it leaps right into the action with an admittedly engaging escape scene. The eponymous character, Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp), breaks out from the clutches of the Ministry of Magic in the middle of a stormy midair chariot chase.

Your usual Harry Potter fanfare.

After establishing the villain for this movie and the following three in this fivefilm series, The Crimes of Grindelwald slows down for a bit. The hero and protagonist, Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) is again refused a travel visa for his research

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on magical creatures. Once his brother Theseus (Callum Turner) and his brother’s fiancée Leta Lestrange (Zoë Kravitz) and the younger Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) are introduced, the film can really begin.

The plot, such as it is, of The Crimes of Grindelwald, is composed of scattered and disparate threads. Newt and Jacob Kowalski (Dan Fogler) journey to Paris to find their respective love interests, Tina Goldstein (Katherine Waterston), a ministry auror, and Queenie Goldstein (Alison Sudol), a Legilimens (read: mind reader) and sister of Tina. Also in Paris are Credence Barebone (Ezra Miller), a downcast young wizard harboring an Obscurus—a dark magical form capable of massive destruction—and Nagini (Claudia Kim), a Maledictus (person cursed to turn into animal, in this case the large snake who runs in league with Voldemort) who befriends Credence, as well as Grindelwald himself. There are a lot more characters in this movie who do “important” things, but they really don’t matter, and their names are just as much clutter in this review as their characters are in the film.

The gist of the film’s plot is there really isn’t one. Sure, Grindelwald is evil even while the movie tries to give him a more nuanced villainy (centered around the idea that humans are arrogant and power-hungry, capable only of destruction—this makes a bit of sense, considering this movie is set between the two World Wars). And yes, the Ministry is still problematic and totalitar-

ian, imposing its weird and bureaucratic brand of justice and order on our beloved characters whose biggest crime is to push the boundaries of convention. But much like the first movie, The Crimes of Grindelwald spends over two hours carefully mortaring the existing brick and delicately placing itself on top of this small construction now two-fifths complete.

It’s here that the film capitalizes on the spell it has been weaving. None of this plot really matters, or is noticed at all, for all of the magic. This world that J.K. Rowling spent so much time building, on paper and on film, is absolutely captivating. There’s a reason that the world over is obsessed with Harry Potter and everything within wand’s reach of it. The Crimes of Grindelwald casts a glamour over its ultimately unsatisfactory plot with copious scenes of magic, new and interesting magical creatures, and callbacks or callforwards to beloved Harry Potter characters. Featured in The Crimes of Grindelwald to this effect are the boggart, Professor McGonagall, Nagini, Hogwarts, Nicolas Flamel (the immortal alchemist responsible for the creation of the sorcerer’s/ philosopher’s stone), and more.

And the movie is fun because of this. The Crimes of Grindelwald is a very enjoyable movie— with no real ending. It’s just like its predecessor in this. But in the favor of the fans, if they liked Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, they will like Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. 

Anderson .Paak’s ‘Oxnard’ Disjointed, Disappointing

BY GIO LAVOILE Heights Staff

Anderson Paak’s highly anticipated third album, Oxnard, the follow up to his breakthrough album, Malibu, dropped on Friday. Named after his home town of Oxnard, Calif., the album is meant to represent the vibrant, hedonistic lifestyle of his home. The breezy, summery vibe of the album immediately makes you think of how fitting it was for a mid-summer release. The album lives and breathes West Coast, mixing generations of its music to give the listener a proper understanding of the environment that produced Brandon Paak Anderson.

The beats are dipped in Afro-centric origins and instrumentation, from Jamaican tint to Los Angeles Funk. Paak has the ability to use a variety of methods to get his music and his message across, whether that be through singing, rapping, or spoken word implementation. The lyrics vary from descriptions of love, petty exes, and summertime fun, to ruminations on fame, growth, and even personal takes on the current state of the country. Paak, never one to be trapped in a box, manipulates his music in ways that look toward the past, present, and future—a blessing and a curse.

On Oxnard, Paak often spreads himself far too thin, seeking something new, but occasionally falling below the bar, failing to deliver what many believed would be a new age West Coast classic.

An example of Paak failing at his attempt to capture the hedonistic and fun-loving feel of his hometown is the second track on the album, “Headlow,” a song about getting a blow job on I-95.

While the premise is both hilarious and engaging, the song is not. Paak’s voice sounds distant and low in order to capture the secrecy of the event, yet the loud and warm hook doesn’t flow with the feeling his verses attempt to provide. The dueling sounds and moods in the song provide a bit of confusion as to what feeling Paak is trying to deliver, and the skit at the end, in which he crashes his car yet begs his girl to keep going, are intended to be funny, but come off as uncomfortable.

Of course, not all of Oxnard fails to hit—far from it. The Kendrick Lamar-assisted “Tints” is a perfect example of a song that delivers exactly what it promises. It’s a perfect summertime flex song, in which Paak and Lamar ruminate about the ups and downs of fame.

While they might enjoy the life and the opportunity it provides, the lack of privacy at times can be daunting, which is exactly why they need their tinted windows. Paak delivers his classic mixture of rap and song on this album, delivering an extremely fun flow with a warm, embracing hook about how he needs tints. Lamar, who has had a great year without a single solo release—having curated the soundtrack to the Black Panther movie—takes time to sit back and

appreciate where he is and the comfort of his new life.

Paak struggles to amount to the critiques of his contemporaries, especially to those of one of his collaborators: Lamar gave a much more concise critique of the current landscape in just one verse of his 2017 song “Lust,” a track from the Pulitzer Prize-winning album DAMN., than Paak manages to capture over the course of the whole song.

Paak attempts a spoken-word style in the first half of the song, but the shift in the middle of the record provides a much more entertaining second half, in which the beat switches and Paak ups his flow. The last break looks inward, as Paak puts himself in the shoes of many who “smoke, drink, just

to cope with the pain,” and asks the listeners to smoke instead of fight.

Oxnard tends to give the listener too much to really absorb, providing a roller coaster of sorts that elicits a dizzying response. Shifts and changes are far from unwelcome in music—look to Travis Scott’s recent release, Astroworld, for a good example of how one can use unexpected shifts and changes to provide great music.

The difference is that Scott attempted to capture the feeling of a full day in an amusement park, as well as the feeling of losing something important and fighting to bring it back—Paak, in his attempt to create the feel of life in Oxnard, somewhat fails to fully provide a clear picture for the listener. 

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Deception, betrayal, and drugs—the new Netflix series Narcos: Mexico delivers a docudrama filled with tension and suspense, taking a look into the origins of the modern drug war and Mexican drug cartels.

Narcos: Mexico is a companion series to Netflix’s hit crime drama Narcos, and shifts the focus and location from the Colombian cocaine trade to the beginning of the modern Mexican drug trade and the Guadalajara Cartel, which consolidated what was a loose and disorganized group of independent traffickers into a criminal empire.

The show centers on Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo (Diego Luna), the founder and leader of the Guadalajara Cartel, and Kiki Camarena (Michael Peña), an undercover DEA agent hoping to bring the entire

cartel down.

Narcos: Mexico starts with an American narrator warning that the story does not have a happy ending, as the viewer watches a man who is soon revealed to be the protagonist, Camarena, get kidnapped in broad daylight with the police’s full acknowledgement. The narrator then brings the story back to the beginning, to Sinaloa and Gallardo, a former police officer who has big dreams of forming a large drug trafficking empire. The story begins with the Mexican government sending in the army to burn Sinaloan marijuana fields, which chases a man named Rafa into a church, only to be rescued by Gallardo, who is also part of the weed business.

Attention then turns to the American side, where Camarena works an undercover operation for the DEA, relatively small and unknown at the time, and shows his remarkable courage by making a dealer

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‘VELVET ROPE’ RITA ORA

Sometimes artists struggle to understand themselves. Rita Ora is self-aware and has found her niche. “Velvet Rope” highlights everything she does well, and more importantly, it is easy to listen to and well written.

Ora’s voice is magnificent to say the least, but many artists with great vocals still struggle. She did a perfect job of fitting the music to her vocal range, and each strike of the piano keys complements the change of note in her voice.

The track takes on an airy vibe, “do-dodo”s swaying in verses.

Another challenge is writing music that is both original and memorable.

Although not a cover of Janet Jackson’s “Velvet Rope,” the track certainly takes a page out of Jackson’s book, exploring similar themes with lyrics like “Where did it go, the love that we shared?” The piano, with soft highlights overlaid, is bubbly, easygoing, and pretty in an understated sort of way. Written entirely in a major key, the song maintains a happy vibe throughout.

Even though it is not quite the perfect five-star song, it is still an impressive performance from Ora. She shows a popstar potential while channelling those who came before her. 

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point a loaded gun at his head to prove he is not law enforcement, but is unfortunately interrupted by local authorities who try to arrest him and blow up the entire operation. Camarena decides to take the transfer to Guadalajara after he fails to receive the transfer to Miami that he wants.

After the field burnings, Gallardo and his local crew need to find a new place to restart their operations, and Gallardo sets his sights on Guadalajara. Convincing his local boss to let him go negotiate, Gallardo goes to Guadalajara and kills the Guadalajaran kingpin on the negotiation table, prompting an arrest by the Dirección Federal de Seguridad (DFS), a Mexican intelligence agency described as the KGB and the Gestapo mixed into one. Lying his way into a meeting with the head of the DFS rather than getting directly killed, Gallardo manages to impress with Rafa’s new weed, which packs more of a punch with less bulk than the existing strands, and lands a deal to begin growing in Guadalajara.

Eventually, Gallardo manages to convince many different small cartels to join together to create one unified operation—through guile and treachery, no less—and becomes the godfather of the Guadalajara Cartel. Camarena, meanwhile, keeps a sharp eye on the DFS officers and begins to pursue Gallardo, as he tries to gather enough evidence on him to nail him. The game of cat and mouse is not the only storyline, however, and many different characters and side plots in both main characters’ lives add dimension and depth to the show.

The two main lead actors, Luna and Peña, do fantastic jobs in their portrayals of the characters. Distinct personality traits are clear from the beginning, as Camarena’s hot temper and Gallardo’s ruthless guile are made evident very quickly. Luna especially excels in his portrayal of the drug lord, as his quiet and brooding look often conceals the tremendous amount of ambition lying underneath the surface, and his ability to lie with a completely straight face just further highlights the chilling sociopathic nature of the character.

The show leans more favorably toward the American law enforcement officers, but no characters are perfect. Camarena struggles with his temper, and his hotheaded tendencies give him an unusual courage, which can both be an asset and a flaw. Gallardo, on the other hand, can bend to whatever situation meets him, but his willingness to bend the truth to fit his own narrative also land him in dangerous situations. Both men—although enemies—are similar in the way that they are extraordinary figures trying to break out of an established mold of doing things—Camarena trying to force the law enforcement out of its complacency, and Gallardo dreaming of a greater empire.

The show’s grittiness delivers a right amount of punch, and portrays a real story with the intensity and clarity it deserves.

Fans of the original Narcos would enjoy this series, especially as characters from the original show eventually crossover when the Guadalajara cartel gets involved in Colombian cocaine. 

Known for her Disney Channel success playing Maya Hart from Girl Meets World and providing the vocals for its theme song, Sabrina Carpenter is familiar with the spotlight and recording booth. Carpenter captivates fans with her latest release “Sue Me,” a track from her third studio album Singular: Act 1.

Pink, peppy, and playful, the video opens with Carpenter displaying the stereotypes of a breakup. Sulking in bed, eating ice cream, and having her friends try to boost her mood, this scene could be dropped into any romantic comedy. The room is a rose-colored palace and slowly feels as if she is paying tribute to one of the most iconic romantic comedy characters Elle Woods. A song about taking the high road and choosing happiness post-breakup, Carpenter rises from bed to take on the world in that clothes that have her “feelin’ [her]self.”

Playing with the expression “Sue Me,” Carpenter transforms from strutting the streets in her finest clothes to reaching for success in the law library. Sound familiar?

She is truly channeling the best of Legally Blonde in all aspects: fashion, confidence, and smashing the patriarchy. She showcases serious spirit, and the lyrics echo what is so important to remember post-breakup.

Putting yourself first is never wrong. Finding yourself attractive is an essential aspect of self-love. And despite all of what often tears us down when we are heartbroken, it is best not to lose yourself, but find the best version of you.

Her last tribute to Legally Blonde occurs as she confronts her ex in a courtroom. This part of the music video lets the greatest of the prior scenes slip away. A choreographed number for the jury ensues, and Carpenter’s friends from earlier join in.

A theme throughout Carpenter’s work is having her close friends as guest stars.

While Casey Cott of Riverdale appears in “Why,” The Kissing Booth’s Joey King dances her way through the pink palace and courtroom with Carpenter. Although it’s not the best spectacle, the lyrics remain fun and entertaining.

Lyrically, Carpenter’s “Sue Me” sounds like a top-10 summer song, regardless of its fall release. Although her lyrics create a hit—creating a polite way to tell someone off—the video does not reach its full potential, especially when compared to that of her 2017 track “Why.” 

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Borbolla Launches On-Campus Food Magazine A Farewell To Gusto, from A16

encourage students to open their eyes to different cultures, traditions, and ways of life.

“People are closed off inside the BC bubble,” Borbolla said. “Food opens people up to things beyond their knowledge.”

On Thursday, the first edition of Gusto was officially released. Three hundred copies of the 32-page publica-

tion were distributed around campus, with special focus in the dining halls.

“Right now it’s about gauging demand,” Borbolla said.

While the publication is not yet registered with the Office of Student Involvement (OSI), it is part of Gusto’s future plan. Even though it’s not currently registered with BC, it is funded by the International Liberal Arts.

“We didn’t even have weekly meetings,” Borbolla said. “We’re just build-

ing the structure.”

Borbolla hopes Gusto will continue to grow—the small staff contains a fair amount of graduating seniors—within the coming years. The magazine is set to publish once a semester and should be registered with OSI for next year’s involvement fair.

“We want in-person meetings, more delegated positions,” Borbolla said. “We want a multitude of voices.”

If there’s one thing Borbolla has

made evident, it’s that hard work will always pay off. Just a few short months ago, he and his friends had a dream and followed it.

And even though the staff was small and the logistics weren’t set in stone, Gusto was published the same semester it was proposed.

“If there’s something that you want to do, you can’t spend time worrying if you can or can’t,” Borbolla said. “You just need to do it.” n

Fleabag Cast Brings Big Laughs to Fall Big Show

By Kaylie Ramirez Assoc. Arts Editor

Belligerence, “Bohemian Rhapsody,” and Boston College are just a few themes that stumbled their way into the witty improv at My Mother’s Fleabag’s Fall Big Show, an event that packed the Vanderslice Cabaret Room during the comedy group’s four showings over the weekend. Fans flooded into the dim room to the sound of “Promiscuous” and “Mo Bamba,” ramping up for a night of absurdity and banter.

Directors Nick Edel, MCAS ’19; Tom Mier, MCAS ’19; and Ari Malliaros, CSOM

’19, kicked off the night as newscasters in the group’s opening skit. During the sketch, the trio conducted a strange series of interviews with a ragtag cast of characters, including a belligerent priest played by Sam Harmon, MCAS ’21, and a robot named Allen Iverson played by Mike Bamford, MCAS ’20. An existential crisis ensued once Allen Iverson turned on, but the spectacle was quick to take a turn for the ecclesiastical when Harmon’s bumbling priest returned to the stage, spitting the line “Send that demon back to hell—you scientists are playing God.” The skit culminated in a Saturday Night Live-style “It’s My Mother’s Fleabag”

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My Mother’s Fleabag brought quick wit and asinine skits to its Fall Big Show.

with the whole cast on display.

Staying true to its improv roots, the group quickly traded skits for spontaneity and engaged the audience in games throughout the night. Freeze was the first of the games and a crowd favorite. Hands on his knees in exhaustion, Edel assumed the character of a man struggling to climb stairs as Maggie Cetrullo delivered the final punchline during the game: “Honey, you gotta stop taking the stairs if you can’t handle it,” Cetrullo said, eliciting laughs and applause from the crowd.

The group took a brief intermission while showing its Big Show video—an Oscars-themed tribute to fictional fallen big screen legends. During the video, Maya Rao, MCAS ’21, portrayed an actress thats premier role was a “lady cop” whose crook cried “A lady cop? I thought I had seen it all!”

Fleabag staple “185 Blanks Walk Into a Bar” was a highlight from the show. One round rode through jokes that riffed off car brands: Malliaros drove home a story about a discontented Shakespearean understudy with the punchline “I’m the Alfa Romeo.”

Harmon pulled out all the stops for his sports team-themed bar hop, channeling an 1836 Mexican soldier at the Alamo who warns his superior, “General, general—it’s the Texans.”

Mier tasked Claire Wilson, LSOE ’20, and Anna Livaccari, MCAS ’20, with portraying belligerence, jealousy, and pettiness during the next game, which prompted the two to craft a scene about pregnant women, both giving birth before the laughing crowd by the end of the night.

Emulating SNL throughout the night, the performers didn’t let their audience leave without experiencing quality live music. Fleabag members end each Big Show with a themed opera, and this year’s performance left nothing to the imagination. Focused on overplayed songs, the comedians snaked their way through a Mod party playlist composed of an RA’s rendition of A$AP Ferg’s “Plain Jane,” in which guilty resident Brendan McGinty, MCAS ’20, sung “I was only 18 years old smoking on Newton at night.”

Harmon returned with hard hitting humor for Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” to deliver the lyric “Just not cut out for pre-med / Should have majored in comm instead.” The group ended the on-campus opera on a high note, morphing the Boston staple “Sweet Caroline” into a track about BC head football coach Steve Addazio and manipulating the lyrics of The “heydid-you-know-they-played-plexapalooza” Chainsmokers’ “Closer” to craft an ode to sentimental seniors everywhere. n

Powerhouse Pop Hits Shine at Sharps’ Fall Cafe

By Jacob Schick Arts Editor

The Sharps, Boston College’s all-female a cappella group, rolled up to their “red carpet” event dressed to the nines.

The Sharps’ Fall Cafe’s theme was the red carpet, mirroring the many award shows and their required formal attire.

The group wasted no time in starting the show. The Sharps began with a rendition of “River” by Bishop Briggs.

On lead vocals was Caitlin Mahon, MCAS ’21, providing a strong pillar for the percussive background singers to bounce off.

The next song was “The Middle” by Zedd, with Samantha Padilla, MCAS ’20, as the lead singer. This performance was followed by “Sober” by Lorde, with Amadis Welch, MCAS ’22, taking center stage. One of the highlights of this performance was the amusing and necessary fake horn playing by Mahon, who held her hands as if she were play-

ing a trumpet, and then sang the notes into the microphone when the song called for it.

Rounding out the first act was “Shotgun” by George Ezra, with Shea Pivnicka, MCAS ’19, on lead vocals, followed by “New Rules” by Dua Lipa, with Michaela Chipman, MCAS ’19, as the lead singer. The first act was finished with “Electric Love” by Børns, with Maggie Chipman, MCAS ’21, on lead.

Both Chipmans showed off their strong vocal talents, hitting high and clear notes without fail. Before intermission, the Sharps invited any alumni attending to join them on stage for a BC Sharps’ classic. A few women emerged from the crowd to dance and sing in unison to “If I Can’t Have You” by Yvonne Elliman.

Leading this song was freshman Lily Hicks, MCAS ’22.

During the break, the Unisons, an all-male a cappella group from Northeastern University, sang three songs.

They began with “Wait” by Maroon 5,

followed by “I Like Me Better” by Lauv and “Walk on Water” by Thirty Seconds to Mars.

The second half of the show was just as strong as the first, beginning with an “award show” of sorts. The a cappella began again with “Natural Woman” by Aretha Franklin, with Mahon on lead vocals. The second half of the show

wrapped up with “No Roots” by Alice Merton, sung by Michaela Chipman; “Lay Me Down” by Sam Smith, sung by Maggie Chipman; and “God is a woman”

by Ariana Grande, sung by Padilla. The evening ended on a high note, as audience members filed out to enjoy the rest of their Friday evenings after a stellar a cappella performance. n

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The Sharps hit a high note while singing popular tunes at their red carpet Fall Cafe.

Shinoda Packs Positivity Into House of Blues Set

By Mitchell Hale For The Heights

Supported by rapper AmirSaysNothing and post-hardcore band Don Broco, Linkin Park’s vocalist Mike Shinoda headlined a fiery solo show at the House of Blues in Boston on Wednesday. Dedicated fans formed a winding line that made its way down Landsdowne Street while waiting in the 20-degree New England chill. The venue quickly filled, with fans packing the floor and both of the upper mezzanines.

As people were still settling in, AmirSaysNothing, who was born Amir Tillard,

had the daunting task of every show opener: Firing up the crowd for the headliner. He came out strong with songs from each of his albums, featuring some of his more recognizable tracks, such as “Money Mi$$ion” and “Hah!” The rapper faced a room that was slow to warm up, as the crowd participation was limited during his set. Despite this, he kept an incredibly positive stage presence, which helped energize the room.

Although his best show happened in his homebase of Los Angeles—a city in which Tillard has a solid fan base—the rapper, who grew up in Cambridge, was happy to

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Mike Shinoda performed hits from his solo career and time with Linkin Park and Fort Minor.

be back in Boston. After his performance, Tillard echoed the importance of keeping energy high on stage, even when the crowd seems unwilling to reciprocate.

“It’s really easy to make the room liven up by being positive and having a good time,” Tillard said. “If they see you’re having a good time, they’ll have a good time.”

As the crowd finally shook off the Boston cold, the UK post-hardcore outfit Don Broco took the stage. The foursome opened with its popular song “Everybody” from its newest album Technology. Don Broco confronted a crowd largely unfamiliar with its work: Most of the crowd had come to see Shinoda and were largely nu metal or rap fans with little interaction with post-hardcore acts, save a few pockets of die-hard fans who had come to the show specifically to see the group.

Nevertheless, Don Broco got the crowd moving even more, readying everyone for the main event. The band’s heavy hitting and lyrically driven music is unique, but not dissimilar to some of the later Linkin Park albums—this drew in even those who were unfamiliar with the band. Between crowd involvement—the band had the crowd crouch down very low during a quiet refrain and incited a sudden rise when the beat of “Automatic” burst out of the speakers—and an absolutely wild stage

presence, Don Broco was able to send the crowd off to the races.

Shinoda took the stage by storm as every member of the audience erupted into applause, seeming to know each song by heart, and belted them out with him throughout the set.

The room ignited when the rapper broke out hits such as Fort Minor’s hit “Remember the Name” and the Linkin Park staple “In the End,” and soothed itself on the sweet melodies of slower songs such as “Castle of Glass” and “Waiting for the End / Where’d You Go,” a mashup of the respective Linkin Park and Fort Minor tracks. The rapper proved to be a musical chameleon and played guitar, drums, and piano in addition to rapping throughout the night.

During the encore, Shinoda took a moment to speak about the importance of mental health: Shinoda sympathized with the crowd of tough Bostonians, but reassured his fans that admitting that you aren’t feeling 100 percent is not an expression of weakness. After this powerful speech, Don Broco returned back to the stage to give an electric performance of “A Place for My Head” beside Shinoda—a first for the tour. The two acts ended the show by leaving the crowd ecstatic and begging for a second encore. n

Arts & Review Jacob Schick

I don’t remember what it was like not to do this.

I used to think that life was like a movie. That we were all the heroes of our own story. And in a way, it is. Life has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Things build, or they fall apart. And at the end, the movie is over. Like life.

But I was wrong to think that. A movie can be watched over and over. You can fast forward and more importantly, rewind.

You can’t do that with life.

If I could rewind my movie back to September 2016, to see what possessed me to go to a Heights information session, I would. In a heartbeat. Because that’s the pivotal moment I can’t remember.

I remember being there, laughing at Chris’sjokes, thinking “What section could I write for?” I walked up to the Arts & Review editors, talked to Caleb and Hannah, and I signed up to get emails.

I don’t remember what possessed me to attend that first weekly meeting. I do remember being there, and volunteering for two articles, and having no idea how I would do this. And I sat, on Sept. 24, 2016, my 19th birthday, writing those two articles, and my FLIP application, in the basement of Fitzpatrick.

And since then, I’ve tried so hard to commit every moment of this to memory, to find a button and hit “Record.” I got to write about one of the things I loved most—movies—and they printed it.

I thought that I could never be an editor. There was no way I had written enough—I was only a freshman. But when I asked Caleb, he told me that he thought I should run—that I might even win.

As soon as they told me I was the new assistant Arts & Review editor, I knew I wanted to do this for as long as I could.

I wanted to play this all in slow-motion.

I wrote off going abroad for a semester, because it meant that I couldn’t have three years on the board.

But there’s no speed I could play this movie that would be slow enough. And I didn’t want to pause either.

After the first semester, the board told us that we wouldn’t be printing twice a week. I had grown used to coming in for too many hours on Sunday and Wednesday. I had become accustomed to seeing these people who made me so happy for so much time every week. It was a lot less work, but I missed it. I still can’t believe we used to do this twice a week.

When the year drew to a close, I was ready to become head Arts editor (it was called the Scene section that semester).

But I dreaded it. It meant that so many who I had grown so close to were leaving.

I wouldn’t see them every Sunday anymore. They wouldn’t spend their free time in McElroy 113 anymore.

And in their place would be new people. I was convinced that things wouldn’t be the same as they had been. I would have two new editors in the Arts section, but there would be new editors all around the newsroom. The familiar faces I had grown to love weren’t faces I would see anymore.

It wouldn’t be the same. It never is.

But I found it was great in a different way.

The new editors, especially the two who liked Arts enough to work with me, made my days bright—just as bright as they had been before. It’s like I can see two Arts sections in my head. The one that I had with Caleb and Isabella. And the one I have now with Kaylie and Emily.

And I spent so much time teaching them and watching them grow, as writers and as editors and as friends. And now I find myself, in my head and aloud in discussion with them, nervous about the changes that are coming.

No longer will I be the Arts editor, and no longer will they work with me. I’ll have two new editors, in an entirely different section, and they will have someone new too. It can’t be as good as it was right?

And I’m reminded again—it will be good. Just different.

But no matter how much I continue to write for that section, it will never be like it was. It is not mine anymore, and no longer do I belong to it.

We can’t rewind, but I’d give a lot just to press pause for a while.

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

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THE SCREAMING EAGLES: ALUMNI’S UNSUNG HEROES

JULIA HOPKINS

Marching Band, from A1 echoes the rising stakes of the game.

In order to tailor the band’s performance to what’s happening on the field, two conductors stand back to back. One watches the game and signals to the other, who then leads the ensemble. A third conductor is on the field, signalling to the dance team. This is a complex operation, but it’s one that David Healey, the director of the marching band, believes makes BC games special. The origin of that infectious energy emanating throughout the stands, Healey argues, is the band.

“I would recommend that the students go back and look at some of the tapes or recordings of BC games that they attended … and then you realize, wow that was there the whole time.”

Healey said. “I didn’t realize the thing that makes me clap my hands with a particular tune is that I’m responding to stimulus from the band that’s creating that moment.

“And it’s coalescing and galvanizing the SuperFan section, which is the most powerful pocket of energy in the stadium, and then in turn the alumni see that and they respond. So it starts this ripple effect that comes up all around you.”

Conductor Jeremy Espano, MCAS

’19, cites this ripple effect as one of the most meaningful parts of participating in the band. He recalled performing in Dublin in 2016 during BC’s season opener against Georgia Tech.

“It was my first time conducting,” Espano said. “We had a timeout, so we decided to play a shortie—it was called ‘Shut Up and Dance’ by WALK THE MOON, and I remember conducting. I hear people singing and it gets louder and louder and I realize the whole stadium is literally singing this one song that I’m conducting and at that moment it feels like I’m super small but also super big, that I’m starting a chain reaction, and you could hear all the instruments, you could hear everybody sing, and it’s so collaborative.”

Healey noted that after the game against Clemson, he got a chance to speak with Clemson’s marching band director, who remarked that he’d never seen the kind of engagement in a stadium that he saw at BC. “This is an experience that you can only get at Boston College, and win or lose, that’s a reason to come back to Alumni Stadium,” Healey said.

Although the Screaming Eagles are responsible for much of the energy in the stadium, members have to be careful not to get carried away by the excitement.

“As much as they are engaged in

creating enthusiasm for the team, they have to be focused on the podium so they don’t miss whatever the next piece is that’s being called up, getting the first note, making sure that it’s played with the right conviction, the right energy, and time,” Healey said.

“So in many ways we surrender part of our fan experience to create the experience for others.”

Espano expressed a similar sentiment. Even though BC’s game against Clemson was highly anticipated by BC fans, Espano couldn’t let the game’s significance affect his performance.

“We strive to be as consistent as possible,” Espano said. “Our performance for the upcoming Syracuse game should be just as good as our performance for the Clemson game.”

The Screaming Eagles weren’t always such an integral part of the gameday experience. Healey recalls that in his days as a student at BC, the atmosphere in the stands was much more relaxed. The band sat during games and only stood when it played “For Boston,” BC’s fight song that holds the title of oldest college fight song in the nation.

Only occasionally, during timeouts or between quarters, would the band play other pieces. All that changed when Tom O’Brien became BC’s head football coach in 1996. Although the team wasn’t doing well at the time,

O’Brien had a mission to revive school spirit.

“His vision was all-encompassing,” said Healey. “It wasn’t just about the team—he wanted a specific environment.”

Healey recounted a stor y that O’Brien often told about the development of the SuperFan section. He was looking up at the stands after a game one day and noticed a collection of students who were still cheering and engaged.

He made a note to himself that he liked their enthusiasm. One of those students would always sit next to the marching band, so the band asked him what song he wanted to hear and arranged and played it for him.

The student and his friends loved it, and with the help of the band, that pocket of students gradually grew to become the SuperFan section that we know today.

Being a part of the band is a demanding commitment for full time college students. Members spend 200 hours rehearsing over the course of the season, which is roughly the equivalent of taking a full course load.

Eighty of these hours are spent at the preseason camp, an 8 to 10 day program at the end of August during which band members learn the halftime routine, pregame show, and the 40 “shorties” that constitute the band’s

repertoire. These pieces range from classic rock to ’80s hip-hop, and new pieces are swapped in every year.

Healey cites resilience as the most important character trait of a successful band member. Unexpected bureaucratic hurdles pop up all the time, and members must be flexible.

The weather is also a complicating factor.

At the preseason camp in August, it can get as hot as 90 degrees in the stadium.

In the winter, it can be so cold that the temperature interferes with the band’s performance: When it played in New York, the valves of the instruments froze. The band’s mantra, therefore, is “be flexible and adapt to change.”

Despite the challenges, it’s clear that the band plays an important role in the lives of its members. According to Espano, a senior, leaving BC is tolerable. Leaving the band, though, is a different matter.

“Being in band is like a roller coaster, where you do a lot of work and that’s kind of like when they’re bringing you up, and then you [perform] and that’s when you feel the rush, and you’re going through and it flies,” Espano said. “And I guess I’m at the end of the roller coaster when it’s slowing down and I’m like, man, I wish I could do that again.” 

Living With ‘Gusto’: Borbolla Brings Flavor to BC Asst. Arts Editor

Paris: It’s the premier location for art, history, culture, and fashion. It’s also where Nicholas Borbolla, MCAS ’21, began toying with the idea of starting a food-themed literary magazine at Boston College. And what better place to learn about food?

Borbolla was studying abroad over the summer—taking a course called Food Writing In Paris—when he was inspired to make it happen. Together, with his classmates Kayla Causey, MCAS ’19, and Madison Polkowitz, CSOM ’19, he began to build Gusto from the ground up, first by delegating roles, and then by creating a layout, formatting, and drafting the mission. He started off by studying indie magazines that are self-published.

“By seeing how much those magazines could get done, I was inspired to make this happen,” Borbolla said.

Finding people to help with the magazine was one of the group’s biggest hurdles. It can be difficult to find a group of talented, dedicated people willing to support your cause—especially if you’re dealing with college students who don’t have that much free time on their hands.

“Paris was really helpful to get people involved,” Borbolla said.

Quite a few of the current editors met Borbolla while studying abroad and loved the idea. In terms of current involvement, Gusto is playing it by ear. The staff is small, but hopes to grow in the future. The current group

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of members does it all—while they do have individual titles, they had to put their skills together to create the publication.

“With me, there’s the part that needs to nurture and take care of myself and the other that likes to indulge.”

Aside from personal experience, BOSTON COLLEGE'S FOOD MAGAZINE Borbolla was also very inspired by the life of Anthony Bourdain.

“The way his TV show was about food, but mostly about people, was FOOD, PLACES, PEOPLE really inspiring to me,” Borbolla said.

“And those are the kinds of stories that APPLE GALETTE PUMPKIN RISOTTO ON FOOD SHOPPING BC needs to hear about more. It’s the HAITIAN PORK GRIOT SPYCE KITCHEN ethos of what the magazine is.”

TWO SISTERS AND THE SOUL CAFE LANDWER THE PUBLICK HOUSE Borbolla argues that enlightening yourself to other people’s experiences with food is crucial to personal growth—because learning what we consume “can give us back some of the humanity we lose in the doldrums of our duties.”

The magazine’s mission lists three guiding principles about food: “1.

That anyone can cook, 2. That food, and the experience of eating, should be thoroughly enjoyed, and 3. That whatever one does, one should do it with vigor.”

This mission will allow BC students to share their experiences—essays, recipes, restaurant reviews—with other COURTESY OF GUSTO EMILY STEVENS / COURTESY OF GUSTO food-lovers in the community. Writers “For example, my business manager bolla said. “We currently have eight to into words.” are encouraged to discuss how each of [Polkowitz] edits all the photos,” Bor- nine people who do all the work—we’re Food clearly runs in the family: these is relevant to culture, whether it bolla said. “We’re doing it as we go.” just doing it as we go.”

Borbolla’s stepmom recently opened be in America, New England, or BC. It’s easy to notice the small staff ’s For Bobolla, food has more meaning a gelato shop, seemingly on a whim.

“BC has its own perception of what effort and contributions while flipping than it does for the average person. His His stepmom’s mixture of spontaneity it means to be American,” Borbolla through Gusto—one might wonder, relationship with food is both personal and drivenness inspired him to work said. “I think food, more than anything how did so few people piece this entire and reminiscent. To him, food is an toward his goal of creating Gusto. else, makes them more willing to try thing together? The magazine is incred- experience, and an individual one at “My mom is a nutritionist, so her new things.” ibly professional, from the skillfully that. conception of what food should be is Borbolla believes that Gusto will made graphics to the fantastic writing “Every single important figure in very different from [that of ] my dad, that graces each page. It’s truly impres- my life has a relationship with food,” who eats for pleasure,” Borbolla said.

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