The Heights March 20, 2017

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The Man Who Built BC Rev. J. Donald Monan, S.J. 1924-2017

BY CONNOR MURPHY News Editor University Chancellor Rev. James Donald Monan, S.J., a pivotal figure whose 24-year tenure as University president transformed Boston College from a commuter school into a nationally recognized institution of higher education, died Saturday in Weston. He was 92.

Born in Blasdell, N.Y., on New Year’s Eve 1924, Monan entered the Society of Jesus in 1942, at the age of 17. He attended Canisius High School in Buffalo. A graduate of Woodstock College—a now-defunct Jesuit seminary located in Woodstock, Md.—and the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium, Monan was ordained a priest in 1955. The recipient of 13 honorary degrees, Monan served on the boards of dozens of organizations and institutions.

Monan became BC’s president in September 1972 after serving as academic dean and vice president of Le Moyne College in Syracuse, N.Y. He was a noted Aristotelian philosopher in addition to his leadership in higher education.

“Fr. Monan devoted more than four decades of his life to Boston College, playing a decisive role in its reorganization and increased recognition in American higher education,” University President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J. said to University Communications. “He has left a lasting legacy, and earned the gratitude and respect of the entire Boston College community for his leadership during his years as president and chancellor.”

“It is well acknowledged that during Fr. Monan’s more than twenty-four years as President of Boston College the university grew in strength and stature, confirming its leadership in Jesuit higher education and providing an important presence of the work of the Church in the Archdiocese of Boston and well beyond,” Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley said in a statement on Saturday.

What leadership it was. Two years before Monan arrived, in April 1970, students went on strike in the face of tuition hikes, as BC faced a budget deficit of a few million dollars. By the fall of 1972, BC was more than $30 million in debt. Monan restructured the Board of Trustees to include more business-oriented members and lay people, and in 1973 hired Frank B. Campanella as BC’s first executive vice president, a role that would focus specifically on fiscal matters and University administration.

Campanella served in that role until 1991.

BC began to use depreciation accounting in 1974, a more fiscally savvy technique that BC said at the time was “unheard of in a university setting.”

BC’s endowment was just $5.7 million when Monan took over. In April 1976, BC undertook a capital campaign that sought to raise $21 million. It ended up at $25 million. By 1982, BC could boast 10 years spent in the black, and the endowment at the end of the 1981-82 school year reached $36 million. In 1989, after an aggressive capital campaign raised $136 million, the endowment hit $250 million. It passed $350 million in 1992, and $500 million in 1995—by the time Monan became University chancellor in 1996, it stood at $590 million.

Monan gained a personal reputation during this time as remarkable leader in American higher education. In 1983, he was elected the head of both the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. When he announced his resignation in 1994, then-chair of the Board of Trustees Geoffrey Boisi had kind words as Monan transitioned to his new role as chancellor. Boisi said that Monan had tried to resign on multiple occasions, but the Board never accepted his resignation.

“In one sense, we view this as an evolutionary transition,” he said to The Heights.

“We’re pleased we’re going to continue to have a close relationship with him. He is one of the best chief executive officers of any institution in the country.”

And students recognized those contributions.

“Father Monan revolutionized BC in so many ways,” Nancy Drane, former UGBC president and BC ’94, said in 1994. “I don’t think most students realize how respected and admired Father Monan is at other schools. We were privileged to have been here while he was president.”

BC also undertook an extraordinary physical change during Monan’s tenure. In 1974, the University acquired Newton College of the Sacred Heart, which became Newton Campus . The Hillside residence halls Rubenstein and Ignacio, with the capacity to hold 748 students, began a “building explosion” when they opened in 1975. They also helped the number of on-campus residents to surpass the number of commuter students for the first time.

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COURTESY OF THE OFFICE OF UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS

Top: Monan shows plans for the Law School’s new building to Law School Dean Richard Huber.

Middle: Monan stops to interact with a group of students on the old Dust Bowl in the 1970s.

Bottom: Monan poses with Harvard President Derek Bok (left) and Mother Teresa at Harvard in 1972.

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things to do on campus this week

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The Sports Business Society and the Career Center will hold a Sports Business Society Networking Night where students can connect with representatives from a variety of sports-related companies and learn about internship opportunities. The event will take place tonight from 6 to 8:30 p.m. in the Murray Function Room.

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The Career Center will host an AHANA Networking Night where students can meet alumni of color from different industries in order to learn more about different career paths and engage in conversation about being AHANA in the workplace. The event will take place on Tuesday night from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Murray Function Room.

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The Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life will hold its inaugural Wolfe Lecture on Religion and Public Life with keynote speaker Alan Wolfe, the director of the Center and a political science professor. The lecture, titled “The Roots of Trumpism,” will take place on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in Fulton 511.

NEWS Cronin Strives to Save the Date With Annual Talk BRIEFS

By Sydney Koehler

Beloved Custodian Dies

Thomas Walsh, a beloved custodian at Boston College known as “Tucker” to family and friends, passed away on March 10. A funeral will be celebrated today at St. John Evangelist Church in Wellesley.

Walsh, who was born with special needs, joined the BC staff in 1965. His family encouraged him to get a job at the University for a few weeks so he could work on his professional and social skills, but his few weeks turned into a few decades.

“Tommy loved to interact with people, and BC was the perfect atmosphere,” Gerard Boyle, director of custodial services, said to The Chronicle. “He lived to come to BC, not just to work but for the hockey and football games and other events.”

Walsh spent most of his time working in McElroy Commons, engaging in conversations with students and staff while he worked.

While attending BC, Walsh’s nephew, Timothy Walsh, BC ’99, nominated his uncle for membership in the Golden Key National Honor Society, and Walsh was accepted.

Walsh’s combination retirementbirthday party was attended by some 400 people, and he was given a BC hockey “National Champions” cap signed by men’s hockey head coach Jerry York.

Despite leaving his position at BC, Walsh continued to keep close ties, especially through his attendance of sports games. In 2015, he was named BC Football Season Ticket Holder of the Year.

“I saw him at a football game last fall,” Boyle said. “He loved to see BC play, but also to run into people he knew—his eyes would just light up.

BC was always in his heart.”

Math Profs.

Win Award Ian Biringer and Dubi Kelmer, both assistant professors of Boston College’s department of mathematics, earned the CAREER Awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The five-year awards support early-career faculty who the NSF decides “have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.”

Kelmer, who joined the BC faculty in 2011, researches homogenous dynamics and its application to number theory. Biringer joined the BC faculty in 2012 and studies hyperbolic geometry.

“Awards like this are important for early-career faculty because they allow them to focus on longterm projects,” Kelmer said to The Chronicle.

For Kelmer, the CAREER Award will help him travel to various conferences and to collaborate with a wider reach of colleagues. Biringer plans to use his award to both help support his projects in hyperbolic geometry and also fund summer workshops and research groups for graduate students and post-doctorals who are interested and invested in mathematics. ”The workshops will give the participants an introduction to a current and exciting field of mathematics,” he said. “I’m enthusiastic about these summer programs, and I think they will be useful in developing the careers of the young participants involved.”

In the past six years, BC math faculty members have won a total of six CAREER Awards.

For The Heights

A few years ago, Kerry Cronin was meeting with a group of graduating seniors—student leaders, some of the most accomplished kids at Boston College, people with their lives together. But when she asked who they were dating, she quickly realized none of them had had a relationship. They were all just hooking up.

In her famous “Save the Date” talk Thursday night, usually held around Valentine’s Day but rescheduled this year due to a snow day, Cronin highlighted the characteristics of hookup culture at BC and what’s missing in students’ romantic lives as a result.

After reading up on hookup culture and what it entailed, Cronin began doing her own investigative work into the matter.

“I started walking around campus asking people about it,” she said. “Now that seems awkward. And it is.”

Despite the awkwardness, Cronin said, these conversations were helpful for her in understanding what a typical BC student experiences in their relationships.

Generally, in regards to dating, “students in Boston College find themselves in any of three categories,” Cronin said.

The first category she deems ‘pseudomarried couples,’ who are in committed relationships and often spend all their time with their significant other.

“The problem with pseudo-married couples is that, even if people pretend to like you, people hate you,” she said.

The second category encompasses those who are ‘opting out’ by choosing— for one reason or another—not to participate in hookup culture. Often, they don’t want to get involved in a pseudo-married relationship, but also aren’t interested in

merely hooking up.

The third category consists of people who are participating in hookup culture.

According to Cronin, she defines hooking up as “a physical or sexual interaction in which there is no perceived emotional content and no perceived intention of a follow-up.”

The word ‘perceived’ is the most important.

“When I’ve talked to students who’ve hooked up with people, they’ll often say ‘I have no idea what the other person was thinking or feeling, and mostly, I don’t know what I was thinking or feeling,” she said. “And for me, in the field of philosophy, this is a problem: when you don’t know what you think or feel about what you just did.”

According to Cronin, there are four different types of hookups, and then an infinite number of reasons that they happen.

The first is the pure hookup, in which you “never see that person—or pretend to never see that person—again,” she said.

“You pretend you’re on your phone, but you’re not. The ‘BC-lookaway’ is real.”

Second is the regular hookup, which occurs when both partners enjoyed it the first time, so it happens again.

The third is friends with benefits, and the fourth is “the hookup with hope,” which is a result of one person’s intention to turn a hookup into something more.

According to Cronin, she’s received recommendations for additions to her list as she has traveled to different schools as a guest lecturer, such as the “revenge hookup,” the “‘I’m bored’ hookup,” the “snow day hookup,” the “ego boost hookup,” and even the “birthday hookup.”

The reason, she said, for the prevalence of hookup culture is that people view oldfashioned dating as high pressure.

“People do all sorts of strange things

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Cronin gave her famous dating talk on BC’s hookup culture on Thursday night. in order to act like they’re dating without actually dating,” Cronin said.

She decided to combat this problem, in her own small way, by creating a dating assignment for her 15-person senior capstone class one year.

“It may have gotten a little out of control since then,” she said.

According to Cronin, in her first trial, only one student completed the assignment by the end of the semester. The rest, after weeks of complaining that they “couldn’t think of anyone,” came up empty-handed.

She eventually heightened the stakes of the assignment by threatening to flunk students who didn’t complete it, and would only give them two weeks to go on a date and report back to the class. She made a list of instructions for asking someone on a date: you must ask in person, they must know it’s a date, and they must be a legitimate romantic interest. It can only last 60 to 90 minutes, and the person who asks must pay. And it has to be during the day.

“You need to learn how to send and

receive signals,” she said. “Saying to someone, ‘I’d like to take you out to dinner in the North End’ means ‘I’d like to marry you.’”

By the end of the fourth or fifth semester she had taught that senior capstone class, people were taking the class because they knew Cronin would make them go on a date.

“But I realized that what students were telling me was that it’s really counter-cultural to ask somebody on a date at BC,” Cronin said. “And that’s because hookup culture promises a lot of things. But I would suggest that, at Boston College, we make a little more room for dating.”

According to Cronin, many BC students aren’t attracted to dating because, due to the intensity of college life, relationships tend to move too fast.

“We need to make more room for the type of dating that’s just reconnaissance work. Information gathering,” she said.

“We need to make space to just ask a question—to say, ‘who are you?’ and ‘I want to get to know more about you.’” n

At Student Town Hall, Tough Conversations Post-2016

By DJ Recny Executive Assistant Boston College’s Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life hosted a small group seminar titled “What Now?” on Thursday night which focused on how people can have better conversations with people on the other side of the political spectrum. Suzanne Hevelone, Boisi Center program coordinator, and C. Thomas Fraatz, a graduate research assistant, led a discussion about different ways students can converse about difficult topics, particularly in the wake of the divisive 2016 presidential election.

The forum began with introductions from Hevelone and Fraatz and then transitioned into a discussion featuring current undergraduates and undergraduate research assistants. The conversation began with Sara Elzeini, MCAS ’18, who spoke to her positive personal support system at BC, while challenging both herself and the other students to under-

stand the importance of understanding others perspectives.

“Getting other perspectives is how you grow,” she said. “Being willing to engage in conversations and having that maturity level is really important to growing. It’s a give and take relationship.”

Maura McSweeney, MCAS ’18, related her philosophy major to how the need for perspective is what is important in politically-charged conversations.

“These difficult conversations need to be had,” she said. “I think part of the issue is that we end up talking to people on the same side of the aisle as us. We need to try as hard as we can to understand why that person [we are talking to] feels the way we do.”

Akosua Achompong, MCAS ’18 and 2017-18 UGBC president, spoke about the nature of how people react when they begin having difficult conversations. Although she emphasized her enthusiasm for having difficult political conversa-

tions with anyone from her friends to her Uber drivers, she chose to speak to the fact that it can be challenging to converse civilly with someone who does not share the same intrinsic values as yourself.

“There are things that are fundamentally right that people discuss as politics,” she said. “Some people don’t see it that way and that can be very frustrating. But other times it makes me ask, ‘What else do you think?’”

This prompted Fraatz to pose a silencing hypothetical question: “What are we going to think about in 30 years from now that people are going to think is bananas?” Further emphasizing the need for an open mind, he referred to what is know as “the half life of knowledge,” the amount of time that it takes for half of what we know to be disproven.

Jokingly, he said that in the fields of political science, it seems to be about nine minutes.

He then circled back to the necessity of an open mind in difficult

conversations.

“What if our mind is the one that is supposed to be changed?” he said.

“When you sit back and listen, you realize that this person who has a totally different idea than you isn’t Satan himself.”

McSweeney seemed to agree with Fraatz.

“I think there is a real danger to ascribing immorality to someone who doesn’t agree with you,” she said.

As the conversation came to a close after an hour and a half, Hevelone wanted to impress upon students that this type of productive discussion is exactly what the Boisi Center is all about.

“We think that it’s really important for undergraduates to come together and have a place to talk about these difficult subjects,” she said. “Conversations about Donald Trump can be very polarizing, but we still want people with different opinions to get together and have conversations of substance.” n

POLICE BLOTTER: 3/15/17 – 3/17/17 Wednesday, March 15

1:00 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a fire alarm at O’Neill Library.

8:32 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a medical incident at the Upper Dorms Roadways.

1:56 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a traffic crash at an off-campus location.

12:18 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a traffic crash at McElroy Lot.

6:09 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a traffic crash at the Comm. Ave. Garage.

Thursday, March 16 10:07 a.m. - A report was filed regarding damage to property by graffiti at the Merkert Chemistry Center.

7:01 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a minor in possession of alcoholic beverages at an off-campus location.

7:41 p.m. - A report was filed regarding lost property at Boston College Police Headqurters.

—Source: The Boston College Police Department

CORRECTIONS If you could create your own holiday, what would it be?

“I’d go to the Maldives and scuba dive.”

—Lasse Alhmann, MCAS ’20

“International Ice Cream Day.” —Kendall Trovato, MCAS ’20

“I really like chocolate so maybe National Chocolate Day.” —Scott Henderson, MCAS ’19

“National Bring Your Dog to Work Day.” —Lizzie Toepler, MCAS ’19

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

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MONDAY, MARCH 20, 2017

Monan’s Legacy at Boston College

Rev. J. Donald Monan, S.J. hired as BC’s 24th president, inheriting DWFIGV FGƂEKVU and an endowment of just $5.7 million.

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Doug Flutie wins Heisman Trophy after his Hail Mary pass against University of Miami.

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Corcoran Commons opens, and Alumni Stadium expands from 32,000 to 44,500 seats.

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Monan Leaves Extraordinary Legacy Monan, from A1 Walsh Hall opened in 1980, bringing on-campus housing to capacity to 5,392 students, or 50 percent of the undergraduate population. Robsham Theater opened in 1981, giving space to artistic talent at BC—the music department was added in 1988, and a full theatre department was created in 1993. In 1981, BC opened the $28 million state-of-the-art Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill Jr. Library, featuring a computerized catalog that was a pioneer for its time. In 1985, Monan oversaw the purchase of 66 Commercial Ave. In 1988, BC opened Voute Hall and 80 Commonwealth Ave., which was later renamed Gabelli Hall.

The same year, Conte Forum replaced McHugh Forum as BC’s center for hockey and basketball. When 90 St. Thomas More Rd. and Vanderslice Hall opened in 1993, BC reached 76 percent on-campus housing capacity.

Corcoran Commons opened in 1994, adding an entire dining hall to serve Lower Campus.

BC also gained a national reputation during Monan’s tenure for academic and athletic excellence.

Under Monan, the University helped found the Big East Conference in 1980—the Big East’s relationship with ESPN aided college basketball’s rise to prominence in the United States, and put BC on national television regularly.

Doug Flutie’s 1984 Hail Mary pass and subsequent Heisman Trophy win are often credited for an increase in applications, but by 1981, more than half of applicants were in the top 10 percent of their high school classes.

In 1986, Barron’s elevated BC from its “very competitive” classification of schools to “highly competitive,” and

in 1990-91 it further improved to one of the nation’s 44 “most competitive.”

BC ranked 40th in the 1996 U.S. News and World Report rankings—it now ranks 31st. When Monan started at BC, students came mostly from the Northeast—by 1996, BC was attracting students from all 50 states and 40 countries.

Flutie aside, many credit that reputation to steps BC took to create a world-class research university. In 1975, BC established its first endowed position: the Thomas I. Gasson, S.J. Chair in Theology. Faculty pay in 1972-73 was in the 50th percentile nationally—by 1980 it was in the 25th percentile, and by 1993-94 it was in the top 10 percent. The construction of the Merkert Chemistry Center in 1989 bolstered BC’s reputation in the sciences, and the Presidential Scholars Program (renamed for Gabelli in 2014) attracted high-caliber students from around the country and world with a half-tuition merit scholarship that was later elevated to full-tuition.

Monan was credited with quiet leadership in the greater Boston area.

In the 1999 edition of “Best of Boston,” Boston Magazine named Monan the city’s best politician. That year, he had played a key role in preventing the New England Patriots from moving from Foxborough, Mass. to Hartford, Conn. He was recognized for his leadership in 2015 at the opening of Monan Park, a baseball stadium in Dorchester used by Boston College High School and the University of Massachusetts Boston.

In an interview this weekend with The Boston Globe, Flutie recalled some fond memories of Monan, who accompanied him in 1985 when he met President Ronald Reagan and

House Speaker O’Neill at the White House.

“He was basically the icon of Boston College, especially through our year and through the ’80s,” Flutie said.

“He made that school what it became, there’s no doubt about that.”

Monan had a playful side—after a dinner with the football team on Jan. 1, 1985, he got up and sang “White Christmas,” Flutie told the Globe.

At Commencement in 1986, Monan insisted that honoree Lionel Richie lead Alumni Stadium in singing his megahit “We Are the World.” A lifelong hockey fan and goalie as a youth, Monan was known to skate in Kelley Rink when school wasn’t in session.

A modest, quiet presence despite his accomplishments, Monan was quick to downplay his personal successes.

“When I came to Boston College, I had not even the wildest dream that I would be here this long, but rather the understanding that I would stay as long as I could be effective,” Monan said in 1992.

Twenty years earlier, in his first interview with The Heights, Monan— smoking his trademark pipe—was asked how he would stay connected to students as president. He said that although he would necessarily focus much of his time on administrative and financial matters, he saw another set of responsibilities in his role.

“I will try and give all the time I can to students because after all students are what we are all about,” he said. “It’s frankly in many ways what can be the part of teaching and administration that is most enjoyable: just to talk to the people, to listen to them, get some of their ideas, get some of their enthusiasm. This is what can be most encouraging.” 

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LSOE to Add 9 Faculty

BY HEIDI DONG Asst. News Editor Beginning this year, the Lynch School of Education will hire three new faculty members every year for three years, for a total of nine new faculty hires. Two of the three new hires have been confirmed for this year, and one has been offered a position.

According to Dean of LSOE Stanton Wortham, the new round of hiring is in response to a recent spate in retirements. The authorization of nine new hires came after previous additions to LSOE faculty last year.

In fact, Wortham was among the three new faculty members who began this year. With the natural cycle of tenured faculty leaving at a rate of one or two every year, Wortham said that it is time for a new generation of professors to be hired.

“We’re excited about this new opportunity, and we’re excited that the University is supporting us,” Wortham said. “It’s nice to be able to bring in some new young people.

Almost all of them are going to be at the assistant professor level.”

The new hires will be professors who have just finished their degrees or are early on in their careers, and have just been trained in the “newest things,” Worthan said.

Andres Castro Samayoa and Jon Wargo have both accepted the offer to work at LSOE, and Gabrielle Oliveira is expected to accept.

Castro Samayoa is from El Salvador, and is currently finishing his doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania. He researches Hispanic-serving institutions, and has been hired to the department of educational leadership and higher education.

Wargo is an assistant professor at Wayne State University, and researches the intersections of language and literacy education, technology, and cultural stud-

ies. He is motivated by a strong passion for educational equity.

Oliveira is from Brazil, and is currently a lecturer at the Teachers College of Columbia. Her research and dissertation have focused on female Mexican migration to the U.S. Lynch plans to hire three people each to the educational research, measurement, and evaluation department; the counseling, developmental, and educational psychology department; and the educational leadership and higher education department.

“BC is an attractive place for a faculty person—excellent students, it’s got enough resources, in a good city—and because of that, we can pick really good people to come,” Wortham said.

When looking at prospective hires, Wortham outlines three crucial criteria— quality, diversity, and sense of community.

He describes a quality candidate as a smart, energetic researcher. He said that they aim to hire people who are not “too specialized,” because education is constantly changing, and Lynch is not looking for people who are too narrowly focused and unable to apply their speciality in different ways.

Wortham said the second criteria, diversity, is especially important to maintain Lynch as a rich and dynamic learning space.

During the hiring process, Wortham said Lynch is looking for people with different backgrounds and experiences, who may not have been born in the United States and may not speak English as their first language, and who come from underrepresented minority groups.

The third criterion is having a sense of community. While many top universities have very competitive faculty members who have the goal of furthering their own careers through their own research, Wortham said, BC, and Lynch in particular, are highly collaborative communities. 

Students Give BC Talks

BY CHRIS RUSSO Assoc. News Editor

AND DJ RECNY Executive Assistant Eight students spoke on Sunday night at BC Talks, an undergraduate lecture series held twice a year. The students at this event spoke about a range of topics, including the future of big data, the U.S. criminal justice system, and U.S. immigration policy.

Ameet Kallarackal, CSOM ’18, talked about his four “Life Hacks for the Static Soul”—mental tricks that he believes can guide people while they are outside of their comfort zones. He said it is important to do things that make people uncomfortable simply because they make people uncomfortable, and it is important to overcome that feeling.

“We have a tendency to ignore anything that makes us uncomfortable,” he said. “But fear and discomfort are the literal boundaries that we set for ourselves.”

Naren Briar, MCAS ’20, told the story of Alan Kurdi, an ethnically Kurdish boy who became famous for his drowning death in his attempted escape from persecution in Syria. Photos of the boy’s death led thousands thousands to condemn the Assad regime and the Islamic State in the Middle East, however, Briar said that the media ignored the fact that this boy was Kurdish and focused on his Syrian origins. This highlighted the desperate war Kurds are forced to fight and how ignored they have become, she said.

“No policy that endangers thousands of people can stand,” she said. “I refuse to believe that thousands of lives lost is just politics.”

Big Data has large implications—or so it seems. Naveen Senthilkumar, MCAS ’18, spoke about the importance that data algorithms play in people’s daily lives. For the most part, Senthilkumar said, the data that is collected daily across the nation is mostly ignored. But some of it, he said, is very important to analyze.

Kelvin Lin, MCAS ’19, argued that the U.S. criminal justice system is broken. He compared the state of affairs in the United States and Norway and found an alarming statistic: the five-year recidivism rate from state institutions in the United States is 76.6 percent, while a comparable recidivism rate in Norway is only 22 percent.

Lin said rehabilitation is the most important feature that should be implemented in prison systems. Criminals are released from institutions every day, and if they are not rehabilitated they are far more likely to commit another crime, according to Lin. Alesandra Greco, MCAS ’17, spoke about the dilemma of seriously-ill newborns

in American hospitals. The health care costs of these seriously-ill newborns are astronomical, often ranging into the millions of dollars for only a few weeks of treatment.

“The American health care system is a disgustingly lucrative market,” Greco said.

This, according to Greco, spurs several questions. On what basis can we justify this cost? And whose considerations must we take into account? She examined models that pit utilitarian considerations of society against the opinion that infants should not be reduced purely to their intelligence level.

“We must consider these things when dealing with these newborns,” Greco said.

“But I wholeheartedly believe that we are up for the challenge.”

Ian Wyllie, MCAS ’18, said it is easy to not see the people behind statistics every day. Wyllie studied in Uganda during the fall semester and worked at the Ugandan National NGO Forum in its policy and advocacy division. He said that people often see numbers of people who are poor, hungry, or displaced, but don’t consider the real people behind these numbers.

Wyllie pointed specifically to the Rwandan Genocide and how it is easy for people to look at a number of how many people died without putting it in context. There are real lives and faces behind these numbers, he said. He also noted that Western nations can easily find solutions to problems like these, but don’t realize that these solutions will not work everywhere.

Evan Peraica, MCAS ’17, spoke about the likelihood of mobility for immigrants in the U.S. His research showed that the U.S. has a great level of social mobility—even better than Europe. Immigrants in the U.S. are paid less than in Europe, but the U.S. has a higher rate of employment for immigrants.

His research showed that the U.S. has the least structural hierarchy and is most open with opportunity.

Joshua Behrens, MCAS ’18, argued that America has a complicated history tied into Cuba that led to the dictatorship of Fidel Castro. Behrens studied abroad in Cuba during the fall and was there when Castro died in November. He was surprised to see that many Cubans, including his host family, were genuinely upset over Castro’s death.

He said that there are misguided American narratives about Cuba and these narratives are far from the truth.

Behrens said the U.S. paints Castro as a harsh dictator, but stops its analysis there.

In reality, Behrens said, Castro was a Cuban nationalist who saw the Cuban people’s struggle resisting foreign interference.

“The one thing I learned in Cuba is that we as a country do not understand Cuba,” he said. 

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Monday, March 20, 2017

40 Hours EagleMUNC brings 650 high school students to Boston for a weekend of diplomacy, lobbying, and midnight crises.

courtesy of eaglemunc External affairs staff

By Archer Parquette Features Editor

Wearing a powdered wig and speaking in an English accent, John Colpoys, MCAS ’17, stands in front of a room packed with high school students and answers questions about Brexit.

“Rubbish,” someone yells.

Shouts erupt around the room, some outraged over the possibility of leaving the European Union, some raring for the chance to cut and run.

Just as the real Parliament had these same raucous debates last year, these high school students, under the direction of Boston College undergrads, are engaging in the same procedures.

They are delegates at EagleMUNC V, the fifth BC Model United Nations conference held from March 17-19.

The 2015 British Parliament is one of 17 committees occurring simultaneously at the conference, including a FIFA committee, those addressing climate change and gender inequality, and one simulating the MexicanAmerican War. In each of these simulations, high school student delegates engage in procedural debates, paperdrafting, and the eventual creation of a resolution meant to address a serious problem with global implications.

Just down the hall from the Cockney-tinged yelling of British Parliament, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees attempts to draft a resolution to address the humanitarian crisis presented by refugees.

Floor-to-ceiling windows line the back wall of the conference room on the third floor of the Westin Copley Place and provide a wide-ranging view of downtown Boston out to Back Bay and beyond. At the front of the room, BC students sit at a desk looking out at the rows of tables lined with high school students. They discuss the crisis, as the delegates representing each nation in the U.N. come up to them to ask questions and pass on important information. Earlier, they watched a virtual-reality presentation of what it is like to be in a refugee camp, something that immersed them in the difficult reality of the situation they are debating.

In suits and dresses, they cross back and forth in between tables, huddling to discuss compromises and possible deals, while lobbyists lurk in the background, waiting for the right moment to speak to delegates and pursue their company’s interests. The sound of a gavel from the front brings everyone to order as the unmoderated debate ends and a vote is called for the

next period of debate.

A few quick steps down the hall, in a small windowless room with pizza boxes and drinks littered around, BC students sit around circular tables, frantically talking, occasionally leaping up and rushing out. Rolled up shirt-sleeves, loose ties, reams of notepaper marked with wild jottings, and the glow of laptops characterize the rush of the situation. This is the crisis room. Each committee has its own set of BC directors and staffers working to adapt the simulation and present the delegates with new crises to overcome.

The night before, the Wall Street committee, which was already dealing with the 2008 financial meltdown, underwent a midnight crisis. One of the delegates representing a major bank stormed out of the middle of the meeting and, with no warning or preparation, the other delegates had to figure out who would take over the bank in his stead. The delegate, who had been posing as a high school student, was actually a BC freshman planted

by EagleMUNC to provoke this crisis and force the delegates to respond in a timely and effective manner.

In the second crisis room four stories above the other, the same mood of frantic and excited motion follows EagleMUNC staffers as they attempt to figure out the next step for their respective committees. Eric Sporel, MCAS ’18, is the director of the ad-hoc committee, which currently represents the Mongol government under Genghis Khan. He receives an update that the committee members haven’t done anything to deal with encroaching Chinese soldiers. That committee had already dealt with a crisis earlier, when Genghis Khan disappeared. This led to the unexpected need to find a new leader from among the delegates, which they managed to do. But after finding this new Khan, wily Genghis showed up again, beheaded his replacement, and retook his place as leader. With all these crises for the ad-hoc committee to manage, they have neglected the Chinese threat.

In a quick and decisive discussion, Sporel decides to tell the committee that the Chinese Army, 140,000 troops strong, is only two cities away

from the Mongol capital. Two staffers, one carrying a plush stick horse and the other carrying a toy sword, cross the hall toward the conference room where the committee is discussing Mongol affairs to inform them of the newest crisis they need to face. When given the news, delegates immediately bombard the staffers with questions of military might and strategic possibilities.

In the face of this rapid and complex action, Kerianne DiBattista, EagleMUNC’s Secretar y-General and MCAS ’17, maintains a calm demeanor, despite being responsible for the management of the entire conference.

“My favorite experience in EagleMUNC is seeing the conference come together each year and this one is the best because I was most

was a space for BC to really achieve something.”

From the club’s weak background he decided to create a conference and build up an entire organization.

It started small. The first year, the conference was held in Gasson Hall, brought together 100 delegates from 12 local schools, and only lasted one day.

“It was adorable,” Lord said. “We had a staff of people that my friends and I had basically begged to join and to participate for a day.”

That didn’t last long. After taking a year off to build resources and plan for the future, EagleMUNC returned and started a multi-day conference at the Westin Copley Place. Lord brought everything he could to involvement fairs, even a wacky inflatable flailing tube man to attract freshmen. “ We ’d g e t a s many signatures as humanly possible, attracting people with pretty friendly-aggressive recruiting tactics,” Lord said.

Started by a freshman and building from almost nonexi s te nt ro o t s , the club grew to one of the largest student organizations at BC. This year’s conference alone involved 150 BC student staffers, 70 high school teachers, and 650 high school students from as close as Newton and as far away as Greece.

In the first few years, Lord dealt with students quitting their positions when faced with the reality of the organization’s time commitment.

As a brand-new event that required extensive planning and work, he had to convince people that EagleMUNC was worth the effort. One major part of this was establishing the conference as something different and special.

Lord worked to make EagleMUNC a unique, creative, and worthwhile conference by instituting the 40Hour Simulation. At most Model U.N. conferences, delegates remain in character during the committee meetings only. In high school, Lord saw fellow delegates remain loyally in character during these meetings, but then immediately fall back into being high school students when it

“Our identity is trying to be the most innovative, creative conference in Model United Nations.”

—Braeden Lord, BC ’15

involved,” she said.

DiBattista joined EagleMUNC her freshman year, which was only the second time the conference had ever met. Starting as an entry staffer, she took a leadership role in her committee and worked toward her current position, in which she is responsible for managing all the day-to-day activities of the club.

As the Secretary-General of the fifth EagleMUNC conference, DiBattista has watched EagleMUNC grow over the years from what was once a small and newly-developing club.

Back in 2012, Braeden Lord, BC ’15, came to BC after participating in Model U.N. throughout his high school career. Unfortunately, he found that BC didn’t have much in the way of a Model U.N. group.

“The club was essentially fledgling,” he said. “There were no more than 15 active members. We attended conferences and vitally didn’t throw a conference, and I thought that

was adjourned. He wanted to create a simulation where the delegates felt like their character for the full 40 hours of the conference.

This means that delegates get emails for their character, such as one of the Wall Street delegates receiving updates on their stock’s value from Tokyo at 3 a.m., and that a delegate might get a call in the middle of the night about a hostage crisis that he or she has to deal with immediately.

“Our identity is trying to be the most innovative, creative conference in Model United Nations,” Lord said.

This new approach to the conference has allowed for events that break the conventional Model U.N. mold.

During the second EagleMUNC conference, the committee of U.S. senators had a post-meeting gala. They all remained in character within the social context and had to deal with lobbyists attempting to influence them throughout the event.

One important aspect of maintaining this unique approach to a Model U.N. conference, according to Lord, is to preserve institutional memory. Each year, a new SecretaryGeneral is appointed and must make important and quick decisions. Over the past five years, the club has grown dramatically from its humble beginnings, with each Secretary-General continuing to build upon the work done before.

Both DiBattista and Lord point to a sense of community as one of the best parts of EagleMUNC. When Lord first started pitching the newlycreated conference to students, he would always say that it is “awesome” and “for everyone.” It gives students the chance to be a part of a large and dedicated community that works for something they care about, and it has a place for people of all backgrounds: students interested in international politics, business students who want to get involved in the finance part of the club, or communication students who want to learn how to market and manage.

While high school students vote and write and work diligently to pass resolutions, and BC students scramble to deliver new crises and manage the rapid, immersive conference, Lord recalls one of the main reasons these students are drawn to EagleMUNC. “Boston College students are so beautifully desperate to give back,” Lord says. “This is a really cool way to give back to people from all over the world.” n

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Bringing Humor, Housing Together With @BC_ResLife

By Shannon Kelly Asst. Features Editor

If you take a left at the front desk and walk all the way down the hall on the fourth floor of Maloney Hall, there is a little unmarked room in the Office of Residential Life. Inside, there are lab coats, plastic beakers, and a periodic table on one of the white boards. This is not an impromptu science lesson, pushed out of Merkert for the sake of space. Rather, for two weeks only, it is the most important place on campus, one that decides the fates of almost every one of the 9,100 undergraduates at Boston College.

It’s ResLife’s room selection team’s inner sanctum, and the theme this year is chemistry. Every pick time and available room flows through this office, and five people—Greg Jones, Noor Ibrahim, Austin Hanlin, Samsul Mahmood, and Thomas Palanza, Jr.—work together to convey this information through the sassiest account on campus: @BC_ResLife.

Since March 2011, @BC_ResLife, the official Reslife Twitter account, has answered the questions of the BC student community and publicized events around campus. Live tweeting for room selection began in 2014, though it was noticeably more robotic than the gifs and comebacks that now characterize the process. For example, on March 17, 2014, @BC_ResLife tweeted “Mods are now officially Filled up.” But this year, its creators were more relatable. It tweeted, “MODs are gone …” with a gif of a machine crushing the words “hopes and dreams.”

“In recent years, it’s gotten a little more active,” Jones, the director of housing operations, said. “It used to be more of just like, ‘Oh, send us questions, we send responses, you know we’ll tell

you what’s happening and what’s being selected’ and that sort of stuff, but I think in the last two or three years we’ve gotten a bit more fun with it.”

Part of the reason for the development came when Palanza, a technology support specialist, stumbled upon an article on CollegeMagazine.com disclosing the 10 Twitter accounts necessary to BC students. @BC_ResLife was one of them, highlighting its light take on the room selection process. Palanza saw the shout out as a license to take it over the top, and the Twitter account turned more into what it is today.

During the two weeks when it is funniest and most important, @BC_ResLife averages around 15 to 20 new followers a day. Palanza noted that he does not track how many people unfollow the account after room selection is over.

Though room selection is one of the most nerve-wracking experiences for BC students, the five members of the team have different perspectives on what constitutes prime real estate on campus. This year, 2150 Commonwealth Ave., referred by ResLife as the Thomas More Apartments, was the last to fill up its six-person apartments on the first night of room selection. The dorm also fell behind for most of four-person selection, with 2000 Commonwealth Ave. staying at 0 percent capacity until all other rooms were filled. The Mods, as is typical, were the first to go.

“For us at least, [the Mods] are a paradox,” Palanza said. “We look at it, and it’s like, ‘This is some of the worst housing we have on campus,’ but people love it so much.” While the red-colored shacks, which have been labeled as “temporary housing” on the ResLife website since they were built, may not

Julia Hopkins / Heights Editor

The official ResLife Twitter account keeps students updated on housing vacanies using humor and abundant gifs.

attract the people who work in ResLife, some of that may be attributed to the supervising rotations they have to take during football season.

As for 2150, the room selection team has tried to understand students’ mentality about the dorm by talking with the student workers in the office. The biggest reason for students’ not picking 2150 is because it is considered too far from the rest of campus.

“For me that also is a very weird concept, because where I went to undergrad, we took buses to class, and our campus was split between three different cities,” said Noor Ibrahim, an assistant director of housing assignments and occupancy who attended Rutgers University. “I just

understand it as the culture here, just like there’s a culture of wanting to live in the Mods, there’s a culture of wanting to be closer—as close as possible—to everything.”

This year, the Mods filled up at 5:40 p.m., prompting the aforementioned crushed-dreams tweet. As each fiveminute slot contains three groups, the disappointment can be tripled. For some, the Twitter was a welcome boost to the devastating loss of a Mod. “We were all gathered around together,” said Basem Itayem, MCAS ’18, who had a 5:40 pick time. “We actually clicked on the Mods, and once we clicked through it, it said that there was no more, and it was just kind of a sigh

of sadness.”

Even with the surprise twist, Itayem thought @BC_ResLife’s final tweet on the matter was a humorous one.

“I thought it was pretty funny,” he said. “I could see how someone could get a little upset, but at the end of the day it’s housing. We’re still living with all our friends and everything so everything’s fine, but I thought it was pretty funny.”

For Jones, that’s exactly what he wants.

“We know that a lot of students take housing selection pretty seriously, and that it is a big deal for some students, and we just try to add a little levity to it,” he said. “It’s a little bit of trying to turn frowns upside down sort of thing.” n

Mods, Smoking Ham, and Cookies: The Last Housing Lottery Archer Parquette After a Spring Break spent loitering around post-industrial wastelands, considering the importance of concise sentence structure, and unintentionally frightening small children with my vaguely boogeyman-esque face, I made my Boston College return to great fanfare and jubilation among the peoples.

“Are you the one they call Archer?” a young man said to me as I sat wedged behind a table in the secluded back corner of Corcoran Commons, surrounded by other misanthropic recluses, eating my first dinner back on campus.

“I don’t know,” I said, a small piece of orange chicken falling out of my mouth and onto the table. We both ignored this piece of chicken that had clearly fallen from my tongue, onto my lip, and then onto the table in full view of the world, because it would have been weird to openly address it.

“I’ve just received news from ResLife,” this young man said. “You have received a Modular apartment for your senior year. Rejoice and be merry, you glorious columnizer, you.”

“I’m going to be a senior?” I said.

And like that, the young man disappeared just as mysteriously as he had arrived, undescribed and unnecessary.

I sat at the small table considering my housing victory. Then I accidentally made eye contact with some girl from one of my classes last semester and didn’t know if I should grimace in recognition or say something or just sit in a stew of my own social failures, so I looked down at my plate of orange chicken and pretended that I hadn’t seen her even though we both had clearly seen each other.

It was a truly classic and relatable scenario.

That was when I realized that I was about to write a column I had never hoped to write, something horrible, worse than the worst writing you’ve ever seen: a relatable column about BC. Oh God no. I was about to write about BC housing, just like every other schmuck.

First I would talk about pick times and blocking groups. I would relay my memories of freshman year housing anxiety, the fear and disappointment of dorm rooms past, and then I would talk about getting a Mod and being a senior and how I go to BC and matter so much and people care what I have to say. I almost puked up my orange chicken just thinking about it. What next?

A column about being a Superfan? About how the bus runs slow? About Late Night?

What kind of godawful, relatable,

chicken-turd columnist was I becoming?

“I need to get weird,” I whispered.

“Real weird.”

“Archer, you remind me of a small Mexican chihuahua,” a middle-aged man with slicked-back hair and large hearing aids screamed at me.

“Don’t drink that coffee,” another middle-aged man with a remarkably pleasant mustache said. “There was a fish … in the percolator!”

“Clumsy Twin Peaks references won’t cut it,” I said. “For this one, I have to take serious action if I’m ever going to escape cliché and relatability.”

I leapt up from my table and sprinted out into the cold. Rolling up a small slice of ham, I walked over to the Mods and began to look around. Sticking the rolled-up ham in between my lips and pretending to smoke it, I stopped in front of the Mod that I had just picked. My final home at BC. Three years of weird crap gone like that, I thought, exhaling ham aroma. My next year would be spent in this uncomfortable red cabin and it would go by even quicker than the ones before it. Then I’d be gone, this Mod would go to someone else, and BC would forget about me and the years I spent penning absurd and uncalled-for columns. And then I’d go out into the world, figure out a way to make money (probably working at a Family Video), grow old, physically fall apart, spend my sunset years hobbling around

my house muttering “I used to be a columnist,” and then die. Everything would be over before I had time to do half of the things I hoped to.

But hey, at least I got a freaking Mod to cheer me up.

“Are you pretending to smoke a rolledup slice of ham?”

I turned and saw Johnny ‘The Bologna King’ Zoozerino, my good friend and confidant, walking toward me.

“Well let me tell you, Johnny ‘The Bologna King’ Zoozerino, that is exactly what I’m doing,” I said. “I got a 4:15 pick time and managed to snatch up this prime piece of real estate right here, but instead of being happy about it, I’m just stupidly depressed about how fast my life is going by.”

Zoozerino nodded. He touched his index finger to his lips, indicating a pensive moment.

“Do you—” I began.

“Quiet,” he said. “Can’t you see I’m indicating a pensive moment?”

So I stood there in the cold, slice of ham between my fingers, and waited for Zoozerino’s wisdom to lift me from my Mod-induced despair.

“You want a Girl Scout cookie?” he said.

He pulled out a pack of Samoas and tossed it to me. I quickly removed the wrapping and ate one of the fine cookies.

“Good,” I said, speaking with a mouth full of cookie.

“Yeah, they make good cookies, the

Girl Scouts,” he said.

“Mmm.” “Still stuck in a pit of despair about the whole ‘I-got-a-Mod-but-then-I-realized-that-life-is-slipping-in-between-myfingers-and-everything-beautiful-decaysand-now-I’m-not-happy-about-the-Mod thing?’”

“Yup.” He shrugged.

“Have another Girl Scout cookie,” he said. “If life’s going by so fast, how about you stop wasting your damn time thinking about it and waste your damn time doing worthwhile crap. Be happy you have a Mod and shut up.”

“That seems to be oversimplifying a b—” “Shh,” he said. “Shhhhhhhhhhh.”

With that, he slowly walked backward until he was out of sight and I was left standing outside my future Mod with a pack of Girl Scout cookies and a salivasoaked slice of ham. After a second, I walked up to the front door, knocked, and stepped back as it swung open.

“I’m going to be living here next year,” I said to the confused woman standing in front of me.

“Oh, cool,” she said. “Are you excited?” “… yeah.”

Archer Parquette is the features editor for The Heights. He can be reached at features@bcheights.com

The Mursday Effect Chapter 7: On the Road (Kind Of) Joanna Oxford “The Mursday Effect” is a humorous piece created pseudonymously by two authors, with each devoting him or herself to an alternating chapter each week. The newest installment in the serial will appear in each Monday issue of The Heights. It can also be found online with the previous chapters.

“Where the hell are we going?”

Bridget yelled, the bumper of the truck now lost to the unforgiving asphalt.

“Where we’re going, we don’t need roads,” Darren said.

“Oh my God, shut up,” Bridget shot back. “We don’t have time for Back to the Future references.”

“I mean, technically he’s not wrong,” Retrograde said, hands clenching the steering wheel with white knuckles. “We are going in the harbor, so really, there aren’t roads. Good one, Darren.”

Bridget rolled her eyes as Darren flashed a satisfied grin.

“Do you have a charter or something? What kind of boat are we talking?

At this point, you could tell me we’re us-

ing a piece of broken-off ceiling tile from Walsh to get all the way to Nova Scotia,” Bridget said.

“That’s not a terrible idea, but that’s not what we’re doing,” Retrograde said, a smirk creeping up his face.

“Oh thank God,” said George, who we didn’t forget about but wasn’t necessary to the narrative until now.

“No,” Retrograde said, his smirk getting bigger. “We’re going to steal a boat.”

Normally this would be quite alarming, but everyone was pretty jaded at this point.

The quartet made it to the harbor, the New England Aquarium offering affordable fun for the whole family just steps away from historic Boston!

“Okay, here we go,” Retrograde said, making his way out to a dock.

“Hello, everyone! Welcome to our whale watching tour!” said a cheery guide dressed in all yellow.

“Yeah, we’re gonna have to ask you to get off the boat,” Retrograde said, the tiniest bit of authority in his voice.

“Okay, have a good day!” the teen said, dropping his air of care and

concern. “Do what you want. I get paid minimum wage—” “That’s great, see you later,” they all said hurriedly.

Having taken control of the boat, Retrograde fiddled with the standard navigation equipment that boats have.

After a few minutes, the boat lurched forward, entering the choppy waters.

After a half hour in the open waters, giant whales broke through the surface.

It was beautiful.

“What an amazing and powerful representation of nature,” Darren said.

“I actually am not going to tell you to shut up this time,” Bridget said, hardly believing the words coming out of her mouth. “Because it’s nice, but also because we have to stay on this boat for hours.”

Retrograde sat at the helm, pushing buttons and doing more nautical things.

He was like the old guy from Jaws.

After several hours of wandering around the boat, George came up to the deck to confer with his acquaintances.

“So, I was reading about Nova Scotia, and did you know that one of the guys

from The Mamas and The Papas was from there?” he said.

“I have no idea what you’re talking about,” Bridget said, clearly missing some gaps of knowledge about folk rock in the 1960s.

“Well, he is,” George said. “Maybe we can go to a museum while we’re there.”

“Museums are just curations of what people want us to see and not what actually happened,” Darren said.

Suddenly, Retrograde yelled from his perch in the boat.

“Nova Scotia, here we come!” he shouted, pointing to a green area in front of them.

“Wow, that wasn’t so bad,” Bridget said. “It’s almost as if someone condensed our entire journey for the sake of maintaining a word count.”

The four hopped off the boat, tying it to a worn-down rope.

“That’s not our problem anymore,” Retrograde said as he walked away. The boat was already drifting back out and nearing a jetty.

A sign toward the shore had WELCOME TO NOVA SCOTIA written in

Comic Sans. They had made it.

“Now what? Nova Scotia is probably huge!” Darren said.

“Compared with the rest of Canada, that’s pretty accurate. There’s almost 1 million people here, and it’s the secondmost populated area in Canada,” George said. He was trying out a new thing, in which he tried to be helpful and knowledgeable to befriend others.

“Luckily for us, I have a codebreaker with me. It shouldn’t be long before we find the code that tells us our location,” Retrograde said, puffing up his chest with importance.

He took out what looked like a regular piece of paper and placed it over the welcome sign. It now read “WEL VA TIA.” “Perfect!” he shouted. The others looked at him like he was crazy, which is saying something. “I know exactly where this is. On to Well Varied Tiaras.”

“Are you kidding me?” Bridget said.

“You just took out a piece of paper and covered up some letters.”

“I know,” Retrograde said. “But we’re going with it. Let’s go.”

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Thank You, Fr. Monan Rev. James Donald Monan, S.J., the 24th president of Boston College and its current chancellor, passed away on Saturday at the age of 92.

Monan was responsible for building much of the University as we currently know it.

He oversaw the construction of most buildings on Lower Campus and the purchase of Newton Campus.

Under his guidance, the number of on-campus students at BC surpassed the number of commuter students for the first time, and reached 76 percent by the end of his tenure. Thanks to Monan, students are able to live on campus in community with one another, and to form friendships and connections that last lifetimes.

When Monan became University president, Boston College

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faced a deficit of $4 million. By the time he left office, 1996, the endowment stood at $590 million, a testament to his extraordinary success.

“He will be remembered as the most influential figure in BC’s history.”

He help e d to make B C a nationally recognized research University with an o utstanding academic reputation. By the time he left office, BC had risen to 40th in the U.S. News and World Report rankings, and entered the category of “most competitive” schools, according to Barron’s.

Monan helped the University

rise in the ranks, establishing BC as one of the top academic and athletic institutions in the world.

Perhaps most importantly, Monan made it his mission to interact with students throughout his time as president. In an interview with The Heights in 1972, he stated that he found his conversations with students to be one of the most enjoyable aspects of his job.

Monan achieved enormous success during his time as University president, and will be commemorated for both his tangible achievements and his commitment to the Jesuit spirit that continues to inspire administrators, teachers, and students alike. He will be remembered as the most influential figure in BC’s history.

Thank you, Fr. Monan.

“When I came to Boston College, I had not even the wildest dream that I would be here this long, but rather the understanding that I would stay as long as I could be effective.”

- Rev. J. Donald Monan, S.J. in 1992

LSOE Hires Show Promising Future The Lynch School of Education recently announced that it would be adding three new professors each year for the next three years, for a total of nine new hires by 2019. This increased recruitment of faculty is in response to a series of retirements among the Lynch faculty, according to Dean of LSOE Stanton Wortham.

In de c iding who to hire, Wortham pointed to three essential criteria: quality, diversity, and sense of community. It is of course essential that the Lynch School seek top-quality educators, but also that these instructors are versatile and understand the constantly-changing field of education.

The Lynch School is also looking to hire faculty from diverse cultural

and ethnic backgrounds. This is a commendable approach to filling the vacancies that will contribute to the creation of a more inclusive campus and a better representation of minority perspectives in the field of education at Boston College.

Andres Castro Samayoa and Jon Wargo, two professors who have already accepted offers to teach at the University, have done research on Hispanic-serving institutions and the intersections of language and literacy education, technology, and cultural studies, respectively.

Diversified research such as this will help the Lynch School to expand its academic program and to make strides in new sectors of the broad spectrum of education.

While the Lynch School is not

expanding in size, the hiring of nine new professors represents an advantageous introduction of fresh ideas and perspectives to the institution. Because the field of education is always changing, it is important that the University look to bring in professors that understand the modern context of education.

Furthermore, as education in the U.S. continues to shift to better represent minority populations, so too should the makeup of faculty at educational schools such as Lynch nationwide. Therefore, Lynch’s decision to recruit diverse faculty members is a crucial step in improving the school’s effectiveness and progress in the modern world.

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Are You Going to Finish That Trash? T Is for Terrible The Final Countdown - Today is the day. All of the pent up agony and testosterone of the freshman class will soon erupt in elation ... or in despair. The fabled 8-man pick time, a magical and elusive blessing bestowed upon only a chosen few, will soon find its way to the Agora Portals of lucky groups of Eaglets.

Dreams will be realized and spirits will be crushed. Friendships seemingly cultivated and reinforced over multiple months will suddenly crumble and disintegrate into thin air. Awkward text messages and angry conversations will spread across campus like wildfire. The people you consider your closest companions might not be so close to you pretty soon. Think your direct is your best friend? If things don’t go as planned, you might want to think again. At around 1 p.m., a silence will befall Upper and Newton campuses. When the heavily-anticipated email hits the inboxes of the eagerly-waiting freshmen, two cries in unison will be audible across the Heights, one of pure joy, and another of misery.

Hundreds of freshmen have already forfeited control of their happiness to a random lottery system that in reality will have little bearing on their lives in four years. Regardless, 8-man pick day goes down as one of the most exciting and infuriating days of everyone’s freshman year, and it’s finally here.

Yogurt Parfaits - Normally, I would advise staying away from the fridge food in McElroy Commons, but one newfound delicacy has recently captivated my appetite. Sitting most commonly on the middle right shelf, Mac’s yogurt parfaits are something special. Combining succulent fruit yogurt and satisfyingly-sweet granola and raisins, this mixture made in heaven provides a quick and easy breakfast alternative to the long lines right before 9 a.m. classes begin. Kudos to you Mac, for once.

Rachel Loos Before coming to Boston College, I heard a lot of mixed advice on food and eating in college. Some warned me of the “freshman 15,” the weight gain some students experience after moving away from home. Others expressed worry at my not having enough to eat. My mom recounted her consumption of low-budget cuisine in college, featuring cans of Campbell’s SpaghettiOs and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. There seems to be two distinct issues: students are either eating too much or are unable to eat enough.

This year, as I have lived off campus on a tight budget and without a meal plan, I have had to get creative in order to eat. I have attended events solely to take advantage of the free food, bringing a Tupperware container with me to discretely store leftovers for later. Like I suspect many BC students have done before, I routinely steal food from the dining halls on campus. And recently, I have even begun eating food from the garbage.

A few weeks ago I was standing by the dirty dish carousel in Lower when I saw the most beautiful fruit salad in a plain white bowl, balanced delicately atop a tower of plates and used napkins. As the belt slowly carried the fruit to my left, I looked to see if anyone was watching, then I reached out and claimed it. I ate every single piece of delicious watermelon and pineapple in that bowl. A few days later, in the same area I found a cinnamon bun with a single bite missing. I was not ashamed when I plucked it from the carousel and gladly sunk my teeth into the sugary goodness.

Students frequently complain about the high prices and long lines that result from BC’s “declining balance” system instead of the meal “swipe” system used at most other colleges. But BC’s dining system probably contributes to less wasted food than at a buffet-style dining hall where students pile on food for a

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and universities in Massachusetts. The survey covered state and community colleges, so not exactly hoity-toity, private four-year institutions like BC, but I imagine a lot more students here are suffering from hunger than we realize.

So, we have two problems: too much food being wasted, and people going hungry. This seems like it would be easily fixed, but I’m not sure that it is. People aren’t exactly eager to eat food out of the trash, and those who do face a lot of judgment. Throughout the U.S. and the world, there are communities of people who live entirely on food rescued from the trash. This lifestyle is part of an ideology termed “freeganism,” that calls on people to recover wasted goods like food through “dumpster diving.” This can even be considered a crime in some places.

Currently, BC Dining has an initiative in place to donate leftover food. Partnering with the student volunteer group Every Bite Counts (eBC) and the food rescue organization Loving Spoonfuls, dining halls donate extra food to over 40 different homeless shelters, soup kitchens, and food pantries in the Greater Boston Area. But I think something needs to change if we hope to stop hunger at our university.

Perhaps eBC should survey food insecurity at BC and plan to bring a portion of leftover food to hungry students within our community. Maybe BC should stop requiring the purchase of meal plans for students living in certain residence halls.

I know people who have hundreds of dollars leftover at the end of the year, people who contribute to waste by purchasing tons of food that never is eaten.

Most importantly, I think we need to change our mindset on food and sustainability. I’m not your mother, I won’t tell you to finish everything on your plate, but it’s important that we are grateful for the food that we have. We need to be more conscious of how much we buy and throw away. And the next time you’re hungry, take a look in the trash before you head to the mile-long line at Eagle’s Nest.

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

Turkey’s Movement Toward Autocracy Rebecca Moretti

Why Is Your Phone On Speaker? - Oh, I see that your phone is ringing, it’s kind of loud in this public place, but I suppose you could go somewhere else and answer it. Oh, you’re not going to go anywhere else, you’ll just answer it right here? That’s interesting. Oh, why are you not putting the phone to your face? Oh, you’re putting it on speaker? Well, that’s gonna be tough, everyone in here is talking. Well, I guess not, because there you go, having this public conversation I’m pretty sure you didn’t intend to be public. I guess everyone in this room is going to participate in this conversation with your mother, since you didn’t really give them the choice.

I didn’t realize someone could be this oblivious to what is going on around them. I can’t say I’m happy I have to hear about your dentist appointment next week or your uncle’s upcoming wedding, but tell him I say congrats, considering apparently he’s my uncle now too, because this conversation is obviously applicable to my life. It’s too bad I won’t be able to make it.

flat rate. Because we have to pay for each item, people may be more careful how much food they consume, or don’t and then proceed to throw away.

I was initially excited to find this food, but my emotions quickly turned to outrage. Who in their right mind throws away a perfectly good fruit salad? If I, without trying, stumbled upon these two nearly flawless snacks, think of all the food that is tossed when I’m not standing waiting for people to drop off their “garbage.” It’s probably a lot, seeing as every year, retailers and consumers waste roughly one-third of all foodstuffs. Much of this food is doomed before it even makes it to stores due to demands for “blemish-free produce.”

But there is still a significant amount of food going to waste at BC. The Office of Sustainability claims that food waste “accounts for a major portion of trash collected on campus,” and the dining halls collected and composted nearly 300 tons of food in the 2015 Fiscal Year.

Supposedly the dining halls are working harder to compost food waste, as a new composting system was established in McElroy Commons last month.

Composting is a whole other issue that I have mixed feelings about. Last year, when I lived in the Sustainable Living and Learning Community in Edmond’s Hall (rest in peace), my roommates and I were encouraged to compost our food scraps in a special bin by our regular trash can.

This practice attracted a ton of fruit flies, and it sucked having to empty our can into the larger compost bin seven floors below us. Its putrid stench filled the entire hallway and once, when I was hungover, I opened the lid and actually threw up. But I digress …

Don’t get me wrong, composting is important. Instead of clogging up landfills with other trash, compostable food scraps are transformed into a natural fertilizer that can be used to enrich soil. But I worry that a lot of food being composted is perfectly edible. We should be doing more, especially when a lot of college students are going hungry.

A recent survey found increasing numbers of students experiencing food insecurity (and homelessness) at colleges

Those who believe Islamic values are compatible with the democratic West have long pointed to Turkey. On April 16, Turks will vote on a historic constitutional referendum which threatens to undo Turkey’s democratic, secular constitution in favor of a more autocratic system under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. During the past few weeks, Erdogan has been actively picking a fight with Europe over the referendum. He recently accused Angela Merkel’s government of “Nazi practices,” his comment coming after a few pro-Erdogan rallies in Germany organized by Turkish cabinet ministers were cancelled due to safety concerns.

The rallies were planned to garner support for passing the referendum.

About 1.4 million people of Turkish descent living in Germany are eligible to vote in the referendum, which, if passed, would essentially give Erdogan near-dictatorial powers. The Netherlands also prevented Turkish ministers from holding pro-Erdogan campaign rallies on Dutch territory. Erdogan responded by calling Dutch authorities “Nazi remnants.”

It’s no surprise that European governments are not particularly inclined to host these rallies on their soil. Moreover, many Westerners are shaking their heads at Erdogan’s emerging propensity to compare everyone to Nazis. Hundreds of Twitter accounts—including Justin Bieber’s—were hacked on Wednesday to post the hashtags #NaziGermany and #NaziHolland, and tweeted out links to videos of Erdogan. Still, this strange propaganda may be gaining the president support among some Turks, who view him as a nationalist, populist hero standing up to the European bully. Erdogan is promoting the idea that Europe doesn’t want him to gain more power because it would make Turkey more powerful as a result.

For instance, a video has surfaced of

young Turkish men burning what they thought was the Dutch flag, but is actually the similarly-colored French flag. Another misplaced target of Erdogan supporters’ ire is the orange, both the fruit and the color associated with the Netherlands. In a dramatic display of anger toward “Fascist Holland,” Erdogan supporters were photographed squeezing and even stabbing oranges in northwest Turkey. They were not making mimosas, but rather expressing support for the president’s anti-European rhetoric.

Clearly, orange is not the new black in Turkey.

On a serious note, protests such as these suggest that Erdogan’s recent behavior is working in his favor. Evidently, he captures something in Turkish society, and has won the hearts of people who felt excluded in the Western, secularized regime of Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the Turkish Republic.

Erdogan’s irresponsible rhetoric is only furthering the rift between Turkey and the European Union, which the country is still officially trying to join. On Friday, Erdogan threatened to flood Europe with Syrian refugees in response to a move seeking to suspend talks on Turkey’s membership in the E.U. Diplomatic relations with Europe are clearly no longer a priority on Erdogan’s list.

Although Erdogan already has much more de facto power than his title provides him, the proposition would officially give the president sweeping new powers, which he says would help him deal with things like Turkey’s troubled economy and terrorism.

The amendments would allow the president to enact legislation, declare states of emergency, and dismiss public officials and judges. They would essentially put an end to Turkey’s parliamentary system, and executive, legislative, and judicial power would be consolidated into the hands of the president.

The role of prime minister would be abolished, making Erdogan both head of state and head of government. Ironically, the current Turkish prime minister doesn’t seem to think his role is very necessary anyway, and has been campaigning for a “yes” vote alongside Erdogan. Perhaps most frighteningly, the bill would allow Erdogan to extend

his term in office until at least 2029. The European Commission released a statement Tuesday condemning the reforms as dangerously excessive.

Erdogan has been running Turkey since 2002, serving as prime minister for 11 years before becoming president in 2014. Although the role of president was traditionally viewed as ceremonial, Erdogan has managed to make it the dominant post during his tenure, maintaining his status as the most powerful man in Turkey. Moreover, terrorist attacks by the Islamic State and the PKK, as well as an influx of millions of Syrian refugees into Turkey, have convinced many that a more forceful executive is necessary.

Concerningly, the referendum is taking place during a state of emergency in which the independent media has been silenced and open debate restricted. Over 160 media outlets have been shut down since the attempted coup in July 2016, and over 140 journalists are currently in jail pending trial.

While Erdogan has been generally unpopular among more moderate and urban Turks, his Justice and Development Party (AKP) has a strong base of support among the country’s rural and religiously conservative population. The Turkish military is seen as the guardian of the secular constitution of Ataturk. With the upcoming referendum, Ataturk’s vision for Turkey is more seriously under threat than ever before.

Although Erdogan is highly influential, there still exists opposition both in the population and in parliament, especially from the Republican People’s Party (CHP) and the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP). In recent years, however, the AKP has purged over 100,000 civil servants without due process. It is growing more and more dangerous for moderates and supporters of Ataturk’s vision to express discontent with Erdogan’s government. Next month’s referendum will mark a historic decision for the country. Either the already authoritarian ruler will become a fully-fledged dictator, or Turkey will have another shot at a constitutional democracy.

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

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Joseph Staruski

What’s the state of the Boston-area transportation system? If you’ve ever taken the train into the city, you would probably know. A ride that would be 20 minutes by car takes the train roughly an hour. One time, it took me an hour and a half to get from Dorchester back to Boston College. That is unacceptable for a modern mass transit system in the 10th largest metropolitan area in the United States.

Another major problem with our transit system is its ability to handle winter weather. Many trains are still using direct current (DC) instead of alternating current (AC) because our cars were build in the late 1970s. DC power is no longer used in modern transportation systems because it allows even a small amount of snow to compromise an entire line. That is a problem in a location that gets an average of 44 inches of snow every year.

When the T is working, it’s slow.

The first time I took the train from BC, I was going to a Gary Johnson rally on the Boston Common, and I was so late that I missed the entire thing. Some people have to rely on the T for travel every day. I can only imagine how much time BC students with internships and service obligations waste on the train.

Having a bad public transportation system is bad for everyone—it contributes to traffic and pollution, makes it hard for people to get to work, and can make students late for school. “Every issue that Americans care about … is affected by transportation infrastructure,” claims professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter of Harvard Business School. It is certainly a huge detriment to a city to have an inefficient public transportation system.

Fortunately, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) has a powerful ally on Beacon Hill. Governor Charlie Baker has made it his mission to update the transit system. He got so frustrated during a winter storm in 2015 that he said he was “ready to strangle somebody,” which must have echoed the mindset of many T passengers that winter.

In his flurry of firing MBTA employees and ordering new trains for the Red Line, the Republican governor worked with Democratic supermajorities in the State Senate and House to temporarily repeal the Pacheco Law. This law made it extremely difficult to contract out MBTA services to private companies, and repealing it allowed for much greater efficiency throughout the underperforming, overpriced transportation system.

To put things into perspective, the Pioneer Institute, a local policy think tank, estimated that the privatization law cost the MBTA $450 million since 1997. Despite this unnecessary spending, the T still has failing trains and interrupted trips.

To be fair, privatization is not always a good thing, but with the T, it certainly is. Inefficiency is running rampant. Our trains are 35 years old, drivers are getting pensions twice that of other state employees, and I already mentioned the millions of dollars that have been wasted because of the pro-union Pacheco Law. Under these circumstances, change is not such a bad thing.

Other improvements to the T include new trains which will hit the tracks by 2019. They will hopefully improve performance in winter weather conditions as well as speed and efficiency.

The T, however, is still a far cry from its competitors around the world. The London Underground, for example, moves people 50 percent faster and offers Wi-Fi internet for its passengers. Other public train systems, like in Seoul, South Korea, have dirt-cheap fares, run quickly, and are spotless, according to Máté Petrány, a well-traveled blogger.

Bostonians will probably still have to put up with a little bit of gum under the seats for years to come, and Wi-Fi integration feels like a bit of a stretch, but soon enough our city will have some shiny new cars, and a little bit of snow won’t shut down half the system. This is good news for those who are thinking about working in Boston or getting an internship in the city. It’s even better news for Massachusetts residents who count on the T every day for travel to work or school.

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

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ike most people, Akosua Achampong, MCAS ’18, had an awkward experience at dinner the first night of freshman orientation. She was with her mom, her brother, her Orientation Leader, and a couple of other families. Somebody’s dad was asking questions of every student except Achampong, so much so that other people at the table started to get uncomfortable. Her OL made a point of asking her something about her high school career.

Achampong said she didn’t mind that the dad been leaving her out, but when she answered quickly and confidently, it got weirder.

“He looked at me like it was crazy that I had responded to her question in the manner that I did,” she said.

When they went up to the buffet for dinner, the dad started talking to Achampong in line. She must be pretty smart, he said, to have gotten into Boston College. It must have been her first choice. It wasn’t, she answered, but she got in and decided to come. Oh, wow, the guy said.

It annoyed Achampong. It’s impossible to prove, but the subtext was that he underestimated her because she’s black. You’ve got to wonder what he’d be thinking now. champong hasn’t been checking her email. After a whirlwind week last month, during which she won the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship and was elected next year’s president of the Undergraduate Government of BC, she had to take a step back, overwhelmed by an outpouring of congratulations. She told me this in a very matter-of-fact way, as if avoiding your email for weeks is easy to do.

“I’m a student first,” she said. Most students would be freaking out.

Akosua Achampong isn’t most students, though. It’s clear as soon as she starts talking. Ask her about her family or student activism or her favorite works of academic scholarship and she’ll reply with the same easy, casual erudition that makes people marvel. Her friend Maria Guerra, MCAS ’18, said Achampong is the type of person who goes out of her way for other people.

She’s a listener and a leader, and she’s expressive, a natural advocate.

Part of that stems from her upbringing.

Achampong was born in New Jersey, with two older brothers, to Ghanaian parents who immigrated to the U.S. in the ’80s. Her name, Akosua, means “born on a Sunday.”

They grew up in a community with other Ghanaian families, spending so much time with them that Achampong didn’t really feel American until she started going to school. She learned Twi, a language native to Ghana, as she learned English. Ghanaians value communal spaces—kids often call all adults “auntie” or “uncle”—and Achampong feels a natural tendency to want to spend time with people.

“When people ask me where I’m from, I just assume that they’re asking my ethnic background, so I say Ghana,” she said. “And they say ‘Oh, you were born in Ghana?’ And I’m like no, I was born in New Jersey.”

As the family’s only girl, her brothers would give her a hard time—older, bigger, and just two years apart from each other, they had a bond that she didn’t have. But then Achampong started reading—Dr. Seuss when she was young, then heavier topics like Sharon Draper’s Copper Sun, a story about the transatlantic slave trade—her first exposure to Afro literature. When she didn’t know a word she’d look it up, like every parent encourages their kids to do, despite the fact that they probably won’t.

Except she actually did, and it changed that relationship with her brothers.

“You can only cry so many times,” she said. “So I would just talk back. And if I could say something they didn’t fully understand, I’d be like, ‘Okay, I won this.’”

At the same time, she’d watch her brothers. If something didn’t work out for them, she figured it wouldn’t work for her. Watch, listen, and learn. Her parents encouraged her to express herself and articulate her feelings from a young age.

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Achampong, a communication major, always wanted to be a doctor, and you weren’t going to tell her otherwise, she said. And she wanted to go to Boston University—but when she visited, she hated it.

Someone told her about BC, adding that she probably wouldn’t get in.

“A lot of things that happen in my life end up being because somebody challenged me to do it,” she said, laughing—it goes back to the whole sibling thing. So she applied to BC, in a sense, to prove that naysayer wrong, with no intention of coming. But when she got in, she did some research, and ended up committing without even visiting.

Achampong arrived at BC at the end of the summer to find her roommate had already moved in, but wasn’t in the room—Tt King, MCAS ’18, was at practice. ing, next year’s UGBC executive vice president, grew up where the housewives are from, but you’d never guess it. Orange County, Calif., her home, was white and socioeconomically homogenous. Racism didn’t exist there, if you believed the locals. Her parents, though, were different: Her mom’s family emigrated from Germany toward the end of the 20th century, and her dad grew up in small-town West Texas. They kept an open mind about everything, with a strong matriarchal figure in her mom who never discouraged her from being outspoken.

But the uniformity of the O.C. was still the environment where she grew up. Almost every teacher she had up until college was white. Textbooks were written from a generally white, male perspective. She grew up Catholic, and religious life was the same for most families and generally maledominated.

“I didn’t start questioning it until I was in high school, just because you grow up and you sort of take in what’s around you and take that as truth,” King said.

The biggest change came in eighth grade, when King started performing with a group in Los Angeles, an hour and a half away. Not dance, exactly, but—and King prefaced it by saying “this is so bizarre”—professional-level color guard, kind of like acrobatics with flags. She hated it at first, but her older sister, Ashley, wouldn’t let her quit. She’s thankful for that, and the group became her people in high school. The kids were primarily immigrants from Mexico and Central America, exposing her to what it was like being a person of color. It wasn’t until she got to BC, however, where she started taking sociology classes and had Achampong as her roommate, that she began to develop a deeper understanding of race.

For King, color guard was an escape from the alternative reality of Orange County, and it seemed to fit in more with the values her family had instilled in her. It also gave King, who is a lesbian but did not come out until she was a freshman at BC, a glimpse into what she calls the “dark side” of the LGBTQ+ community. People often don’t look past the Pride parades to the statistics on sexual violence faced by trans people, she said. King had a friend who experienced an HIV scare. She knew people who’d been kicked out of their homes.

Before she came out, it set a tone for how she could be an ally to the community, and now it informs her identity and what she wants to do with her life—after she finishes her sociology degree, King plans to get a master’s in social work from BC. Steve Pope, a theology professor, met King at orientation. She came up to him after his lecture, introduced herself, and said she’d like to take his class. No freshman had ever said that to him at orientation be-

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fore. King took Pope’s Challenge of Justice course her first semester.

“She was one of the most articulate, well-prepared, intelligent students in the class, and it was mostly juniors and seniors,” Pope said.

King has since served as a research assistant for Pope and took his Religion, Justice, and Reconciliation class last summer in South Africa. He said she has a combination of three things: raw intelligence, drive, and compassion. The compassion, according to Pope, is the primary motivator for King’s academic ability. Other students are motivated by their resumé or law school applications. King loves to learn, and she wants to make a difference.

“She’s also intellectually, like, three years ahead of her chronological age,” Pope said. “I mean that intellectually, emotionally, and socially. When she was a freshman, she was operating as if she was almost a senior. And now she’s functioning as a grad student.”

“I have not taught many students as a brilliant as Tt,” he added. “She also is a person with incredibly sensitive social consciousness.”

During a diversity and inclusionthemed debate held the first week of the UGBC campaign, King gave a detailed response to a question about whether BC could reconcile its Catholic identity with support for its LGBTQ+ population. Marriage in the Church is not available to gay couples, but Catholic social teaching, she said, is pretty clear on its support for gay rights. For King, being Catholic and being a lesbian aren’t mutually exclusive. God’s her best friend, King said, but she’d like to be able to take her future family to church

light that I never knew people would see me in, and if they had I’d been very oblivious to it,” she said. “So I think that just made me feel very uncomfortable in myself and my own capabilities.”

She’d worry, for example, that if she went to a professor for help they might assume she wasn’t prepared for BC’s rigorous academic environment. She didn’t get involved in the same things she’d done in high school. She kept to herself, grappling with what it meant to be Ghanaian, black, and a woman, concerned that when she spoke in class what she said would be taken as the end-all-be-all experience of everybody with those identities. She was, in a word, overwhelmed.

When she started taking classes in the Africa and African Diaspora Studies Program, though, she found the tools to understand what was going on. She read W.E.B. DuBois in an intro class and Stuart Hall and Audre Lourde in another. For the first time, she saw the academic texts behind what she’d been feeling her whole life but had never been able to confidently put words to. Achampong developed a language, she said, an ability to articulate an identity rooted in blackness. She’d always been comfortable with her Africanness, but she now saw that despite the intertwining strands of being black and being African, they were distinct. Exposure to black novelists and scholars legitimately changed Achampong’s life, so much so that she started crying when she talked about them during her interview for the MLK Scholarship. unning UGBC is much more about people management than policy. Russell Simons, UGBC president and MCAS ’17, said that with an organization of about 170 students, being two of the most visible members means building relationships a n d c o m m u n i t y.

Much has been said about how difficult it can be not only to achieve concrete goals through administrative channels, but also to integrate UGBC with the rest of the student body. This year, UGBC has had a particular focus on improving transparency and marketing in the organization to make sure students know what they’re getting. It’s a constant concern that the leadership is always going to have on its mind.

Achampong is the current chair of UGBC’s AHANA Leadership Council, while King hasn’t been formally involved in UGBC. She spends much of her time on campus working in the Women’s Center. It’s interesting to think about how Achampong’s understanding of community would help her in coalition building as UGBC president, or how King’s work with programs like Bystander Intervention would guide her leadership of the Student Assembly. In addition to transparency and day-to-day logistics, they could also be extremely vocal advocates for issues that have, in the past, been sources of conflict or controversy.

Achampong and King were both involved with organizing the “Silence is Violence” march that took place late last September, and their campaign platform openly aligns itself with the goals of groups like Climate Justice at BC—which calls for the University to divest its financial holdings from fossil fuels—and calls for a revised free speech policy that would allow students to hold demonstrations without prior notice to the University. King is also a member of Eradicate BC Racism, which has a history of confrontation with administrators. A natural assumption would be that King and Achampong could have difficulty maintaining relationships if they

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If it were me, and I could change things, I would like to see [Tt] ordained as a priest.

She would be a great priest.

- Steve Pope, one of Tt King’s professors without it being an uncomfortable space.

So she’s figuring it out.

“She actually is tuned into where the spirit of Christ is active in the world,” Pope said. “If it were me, and I could change things, I would like to see her ordained as a priest. She would be a great priest.” champong and King are the first all-female team to lead UGBC, and Achampong is its first black female president. They have a sense of the history, Achampong said, but she hasn’t really been able to think about it yet. They didn’t run for these positions to be the first, although when they found out that they would make history, it pushed Achampong to do a little bit more.

It took some time for Achampong to understand how her identity fit in at BC, where as a freshman, she had a heightened sense that nobody knew anything about her. Like the dad at her table at orientation, people would project assumptions. She became hyper-aware that she was black.

People would express surprise that she did very typical things, as if black people all acted a certain way.

Achampong’s experience with race had always been influenced by her specific background as Ghanaian. Her parents grew up in Africa with the same assumptions about black Americans that white Americans often had. A high school friend once told her that her mother normally didn’t like black people, but because Achampong was African, it was different. And she encountered those tensions more fully when she got to BC. “It’s kind of being able to see myself in a

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find themselves at odds with the administration, but they don’t think so.

King said she learned a lot about Eradicate while organizing the solidarity march, and she started attending its potlucks and meetings, interested in seeing community organizing in action. She calls it a journey from a non-political person to a very political person. She developed relationships with administrators through her work in the Women’s Center, and then used those contacts while working on the march. And she thinks her membership in Eradicate won’t create a conflict. She hopes to bridge the gap between the school and students who feel like they aren’t being heard.

“When I walk into a room and I’m representing the Women’s Center … or I’m representing UGBC, or whatever, I’m not there as Tt, I’m there as a representative of whoever I’m supposed to be the voice for,” she said.

Achampong sees it the same way, as an almost religious calling to be an advocate— after all, she said, UGBC is an advocacy board. It doesn’t set policies by itself.

“To me, you can’t separate the Jesuit tradition from being an activist, like that’s just how I feel about it—reading St. Ignatius or doing PULSE or whatever that is, every single one of those classes was ‘think about people other than yourself,’” she said. “And that’s what I see BC as a place for. Obviously not everyone sees BC as that, but,”—and here she paused for a few seconds—“Jesus didn’t say, ‘Let them suffer,’ so here we are.” “[UGBC is] an advocacy board for students, and if they raise their voices for something and it just so happens to align with Climate Justice or it just so happens to align with non-debatable human rights, well—,” she said, trailing off.

Afua Laast, BC ’16, SSW ’17, served as UGBC’s vice president for diversity and inclusion last year. She’s also Achampong’s RA, in addition to being a leadership mentor for her. Laast said that because she and James Kale, last year’s ALC chair and BC ’16, were both seniors on the way out, much of the leadership in ALC fell to Achampong.

She said Achampong’s leadership style is building a team that allows people’s strengths to come through, and filling in the gaps herself. Achampong is also very direct, which Laast said is helpful in hitting deadlines and sticking to an agenda.

Through her roles in UGBC, she got close to some administrators despite the fact that she wasn’t afraid to tell them when she disagreed.

“Will it be tough to be more vocal and more in-your-face? Definitely,” Laast said.

“But I also think that the administration is very much aware that this is the role of UGBC … If you’re not an activist, then you’re not doing your job.” champong doesn’t feel pressure to excel as UGBC president. She doesn’t like to “half-ass” things, anyway, she said—feeling that pressure isn’t her style. But it’s also human nature to want to find acceptance with what you do, and please as many people as possible. At the end of the day, she’ll have to answer to administrators, her fellow UGBC members, and the students she represents. It’ll be in the back of her mind whether she’s doing something because she thinks it’s important or because she’s trying to please people. And at the end of next year, she hopes to feel like she’s been true to herself and her values, and maybe a little relieved—awake, as she put it.

“Do you ever do something, and you feel like it’s taking your energy? It’s draining you? It’s taking over everything, and when it’s done, you’re relieved?” she said.

“I want to feel like ‘Yes, we’ve done this.’

Awake in the sense of feeling proud of what we’ve been able to do as an administration, happy, feeling authentic to myself in what we’ve said and done. … I don’t want to feel like UGBC has taken from me. I just wanna feel awake.” 

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WOMEN’S HOCKEY

In Frozen Four, No. 1 Wisconsin Nets Late Goal to Defeat Eagles

BY SHANNON KELLY Asst. Features Editor Alex Carpenter and Haley Skarupa skated up the ice in the first minute of overtime against Clarkson University. Carpenter Boston College 0 crossed it over Wisconsin 1 to Skarupa, whose one-timer ended the tie in just 58 seconds. The two jumped into each other, followed by the rest of Boston College women’s hockey. The Eagles were going to the NCAA Championship for the first time ever.

But that was last season. Now, Skarupa was gone. Carpenter had graduated, too. And though it seemed that the game might go the exact same way as it did last season—BC had clinched the Hockey East title following two

overtime wins, both with game-winners by Andie Anastos—the Eagles’ opportunity drained as the clock ticked onward. With just 16 seconds left in regulation, the University of Wisconsin caught Katie Burt in just the right place. Mellissa Channell slapped the puck from in front of the BC blue line, evading the many Badgers and Eagles in front of the net. Katie Burt, who had 35 saves on the night, had a blocked view. The puck sailed through the air and past Burt’s glove side. All she could do was look back at it. The only goal of the night came with too little time.

After being kept from the championship for five years, Wisconsin (33-2-4) was staying another night in St. Charles, Mo., and the Eagles (28-6-5) were heading home.

With both teams fighting tooth and

nail to claim dominance, neither could come out on top. BC notched four power-play opportunities, with one being taken up by some 4-on-4 action, but could not come together. As the No. 1 power-play team in the nation, the Eagles met their match against Wisconsin, the top team on the penalty kill. BC’s best opportunity came when Ann-Renée Desbiens, the 2017 Patty Kazmaier Award winner, misplayed a puck that came down the ice. Coming out of her spot between the pipes, Desbiens crossed it in front of the goal, not seeing Makenna Newkirk waiting by the faceoff circles. Newkirk instantaneously fired off a shot, but it did not hit its target. Had the sophomore forward waited a hair longer to position herself,

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LaVar Pushes the Envelope

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Mellissa Channell (top right) sneaks the game-winning shot past Katie Burt (33).

MEN’S HOCKEY

RILEY OVEREND If you can’t seem to escape LaVar Ball in the news recently, you’re not alone.

Last month, the father of UCLA star and likely future NBA lottery pick Lonzo Ball made headlines by claiming that his son is better than Steph Curry. Then, he solidified his status as a helicopter parent by saying that Lonzo would “only play for the Lakers,” a statement he later revised after much ridicule. Last week, he told USA Today that he would have beaten Michael Jordan one-on-one in his prime. His cockiness has even been immortalized as a meme across the internet.

The media can’t stop criticizing him, but they also can’t stop listening.

It’s only a matter of time before LaVar inks a reality TV show deal for his family, which includes: his wife, Tina, a former college basketball player; his son, LiAngelo, a high school senior and UCLA commit; and his youngest boy, LaMelo, a sophomore sharpshooter who scored 92 points in a game back in February.

But all these outlandish comments have distracted from the fact that LaVar is quietly making history by sidestepping NCAA rules regarding amateurism. NCAA bylaws clearly state that a student-athlete is ineligible if he/she “permits the use of his or her name or picture to advertise, recommend or promote directly the sale or use of a commercial product or service of any kind.” So LaVar created the Big Baller Brand, the official brand of the Ball family, as a virtual middle finger to this outdated policy.

See, the moment Lonzo officially became a Bruin, he forfeited his publicity rights. Cleverly, though, LaVar still found a way to profit off of his college basketball success. On the Big Baller Brand website, he included pictures and videos of Lonzo, as well as UCLA-colored memorabilia available for purchase. Because LaVar doesn’t pay royalties to the university for selling these products, Big Baller Brand could be seen as being given improper benefits by the school.

Naturally, UCLA’s opponents didn’t turn a blind eye to this supposed NCAA violation. Rival USC complained about the Big Baller Brand, prompting LaVar to make some tweaks to the site before his son could be slapped with NCAA sanctions. Now, the online footage is limited to LiAngelo and LaMelo’s highlights. But despite requests from UCLA, LaVar refused to remove Lonzo’s name from the “About Us” section of the site, and the blue and gold apparel remain for sale.

“Violation or not,” LaVar told

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INSIDE SPORTS

ONE GAME SHORT With a loss to UMass Lowell in the Hockey East Championship, BC came up just short of a NCAA Tournament berth for the first time since 2009.

BY MICHAEL SULLIVAN

BY ANDY BACKSTROM

Editor-in-Chief

Asst. Sports Editor

BOSTON — March is all about Cinderellas, regardless of which NCAA Tournament you most prefer. And Boston College men’s hockey couldn’t decide if its special teams would wear the glass slipper or turn back into a pumpkin.

Boston College 3 Much of the Eagles’ chances for a 12th UMass Lowell 4 Hockey East Championship rested on the success of their uncharacteristically-poor power play—the unit ranked ninth in the country last year, but entered their title game against the University of Massachusetts Lowell a mere 41st. Throughout the first period of Saturday’s game, a 4-3 defeat, BC flipped back and forth between a revival of its once-great form, and a reminder of what the team had been for much of the back half this season.

Nine seconds after Jake Kamrass headed to the box for boarding, Austin Cangelosi perfectly tipped in a blast from J.D. Dudek to cut a 10 deficit. The firm plant in front of the net by Cangelosi had long been needed by BC (21-15-4), but rarely seen, throughout the season. Down

BOSTON — In Boston College men’s hockey’s semifinal victory over Boston University, head coach Jerry York’s group bent, but did not break.

The BU attack launched 22 shots Joseph Woll’s way in the final frame, two of which found the back of the net in the final five minutes, reducing a once three-goal lead. It all came down to one faceoff. Ryan Fitzgerald won the bout, smothered the puck, and ran out the clock, sending the Eagles to their 17th Hockey East Championship.

On Saturday against Massachusetts-Lowell, the script completely flipped.

Down two goals in the third period, BC, like Friday night’s Terriers, turned to desperation mode. York pulled Woll with about three minutes remaining, giving the Eagles an extra body on the offensive end. Shortly after, Fitzgerald netted a no-look wraparound goal. Yet the Eagles still trailed by one.

With 43 seconds to go, Savage delivered the puck to his Fitzgerald, who was positioned a few feet in front of the Hockey East emblem.

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ATHLETICS

BC Hires Parker Executive Search in AD Hunt

BY ANNABEL STEELE Assoc. Sports Editor Boston College has taken a major step forward in the process to hire its new director of athletics, hiring Parker Executive Search to aid in the search process.

When outgoing Director of Athletics Brad Bates was hired by BC, the University didn’t seek the help of a search firm. Leo Sullivan, thenvice president of human resources, singlehandedly conducted the search for Gene DiFilippo’s replacement back

in 2012, eventually hiring Bates. In spring 2014, Sullivan stepped down from his post, but remains a senior advisor to University President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J. It is not uncommon for schools or organizations to hire a search firm to aid in the process of finding a new executive. Notably, Bates has accepted a position at a similar firm, Collegiate Sports Associates.

Parker Executive Search seeks out successful, currently-employed athletic directors and high-level executives. BC represents a step up for

some of the candidates mentioned

by The Heights as ideal fits for the University. The two suggested frontrunners, Ed McLaughlin and Boo Corrigan, currently work at Virginia Commonwealth University and Army, respectively. When the firm contacts potential candidates, it describes the job opportunity and asks whether the potential candidates may be interested in the position. Candidates who indicate that they are considering the position are added to the shortlist.

Meanwhile, BC will also put together a list of its own candidates. In

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a couple of weeks, Parker will present its list to BC, and BC will present its list to Parker. Candidates who appear on both lists are the likeliest targets.

Candidates of interest are contacted and interviews are scheduled.

Parker Executive Search has a successful track record placing qualified personnel at sports organizations in the professional and collegiate levels.

In addition to conducting the searches for high-ranking NCAA positions and league commissioners, Parker

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No. 1 Cardinals Stay Perfect With Sweep of Birdball

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BY RILEY OVEREND Sports Editor A week removed from a tough series at No. 2 Florida State, Boston College baseball was thrown right back into the fire against No. 1 Louisville.

Th e Cardinals entered the weekend as the hottest team in the country, and after sweeping the Eagles to stay perfect on the season, they’ll leave with the same designation.

B C (6-11, 1-5 Atlantic Coast) tried to avoid a three-game sweep on Sunday, when Dan Metzdorf squared off against Louisville’s Nick Bennett.

The Eagles’ Sunday starter had one of his finest outings of the year against a high-octane Cardinals (19-0, 6-0) lineup, allowing just one earned run over six innings of work. But it was actually a Metzdorf error that gave Louisville the lead for good in the sixth inning, as he couldn’t handle a sacrifice bunt. With two men on and one out, Josh Stowers hit a routine ground ball to Anthony Maselli at third base. The junior couldn’t make the play, though,

“(C)USA! (C)USA!” - For the second year in a row, Middle Tennessee advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Last year, the Blue Raiders busted millions of brackets by upsetting second-seeded Michigan State.

This time around, as a No. 12 seed, they took down Minnesota, marking Conference USA’s third-straight victory in the round of 64.

FREE AGENT, FREE FOOD - Colin Kaepernick cluttered newsfeeds this fall by kneeling during the national anthem as an act of protest. The former San Francisco 49ers quarterback has made his way back into the headlines—this time, by taking a stand. Through GoFundMe, he is raising money to send food and water to help the people of Somalia.

gifting the Cardinals a 3-2 lead thanks to a pair of BC errors.

Louisville tacked on two more insurance runs in the seventh inning off reliever Jake Alu. The sophomore right hander recorded two outs before a double and two walks loaded the bases.

Donovan Casey came in for Alu and surrendered a base hit up the middle that plated two runs. Although the Eagles cut into the deficit in the eighth, scoring one off of a Louisville error, they never threatened in the ninth and fell in the series finale, 5-3. The four errors by BC were a season high.

On Saturday, the Eagles nearly had their first signature ninth-inning comeback of the season. After being outplayed the entire game—Cardinal starter Kade McClure had a perfect game into the sixth inning—BC’s bats began to come alive in the eighth inning. Jake Goodreau doubled off the top of the wall following a Johnny Adams infield hit, placing two runners in scoring position with no outs. But after a groundout and a couple strikeouts, Louisville escaped the jam with only

one run allowed.

Down 6-1 going into the final frame, BC refused to fold against Cardinal reliever Riley Thompson. Michael Strem and Casey reached base to start the inning, and Gian Martellini drove both of them in with an opposite-field single. Mitch Bigras continued the rally with another single, setting up Johnny Adams for an RBI infield single that scored Martellini. Goodreau then struck out for the first out of the inning. With the score 6-4, Louisville got Maselli swinging and gunned down Bigras attempting to steal third to end the game on a strike-’em-out, throw-’em-out.

With sophomore ace Jacob Stevens starting on Friday night, the series opener was likely BC’s best chance at a win in Louisville this weekend. But neither the offense nor the bullpen showed up.

Stevens looked like his usual self early on, striking out four and allowing just four hits through six innings.

But the Cardinals broke the scoreless game in the fifth, drawing first blood

after Josh Stowers led off with a double.

Stevens induced a pair of fly balls for the next two outs, but a Logan Taylor ground ball up the middle brought Stowers home for the first run of the game. Colby Fitch doubled to center, scoring Taylor and giving Louisville a 2-0 advantage. With Brendan McKay on the mound for the Cardinals, they wouldn’t need any more offense. The Louisville ace struck out a whopping 12 batters over seven innings, and the bullpen shut the door to complete the shutout of Birdball. The 6-0 defeat was Stevens’ first loss of the year and the Eagles’ second time being shut out this season.

Overall, BC’s pitching staff looked improved—but against the nation’s No. 1 team, it wasn’t nearly enough. The Eagles get a short break from their brutal conference schedule when they take on Northeastern on Tuesday, but they must gear up for nationally-ranked Clemson next weekend. It’s been said before, but Birdball’s early-season schedule only reinforces it: the ACC is unforgiving. 

LACROSSE

Eagles Pick Up First ACC Win Against Louisville

SO MUCH FOR THE CARDINAL RULE - BC lacrosse defeated Louisville 14-11 on Saturday afternoon, moving to 5-1 in its past six games. The Eagles’ victory is their first within the ACC this season.

Head coach Acacia Walker’s group is now tied with the Cardinals for fifth place in the current conference standings.

BY ANNABEL STEELE Assoc. Sports Editor After losing its first two conference games of the season, Boston College lacrosse entered its matchup against the University 11 Louisville of Louis v ille Boston College 14 searching for a commanding ACC victory. Thanks to an offensive flurry in the first half, the Eagles found just that, earning a 14-11 win over the No. 15 Cardinals.

Since the beginning of the month, BC (8-3, 1-2 Atlantic Coast) has scored 47 goals over three games. That offensive strength showed itself once again today, as the Eagles dominated over Louisville (8-3, 1-2) for the first 20 minutes of the game and built up an early lead. First to find the back of the net was Kate Weeks, who scored the first goal of the game a little more than one minute into play.

Less than 50 seconds later, Sam Apuzzo found Kaileen Hart open. Hart beat Louisville goalie Brittany Read for the second goal of the game, bringing the tally to 2-0 in BC’s favor.

Over the next 14 minutes, the Eagles scored seven more goals, piling onto their lead and dominating play. Apuzzo, Weeks, Elizabeth Miller, and Kayla O’Connor each netted goals during this period—Miller’s goal was her first of the season. After O’Connor’s first goal, Louisville substituted Lexie Ball in for Read. O’Connor then welcomed Ball by scoring two straight on her. Read would check back into the game for the final

THUMBS DOWN GAME OF INCHES - Trailing by one goal in the Hockey East championship, Ryan Fitzgerald wound up and sent a slap shot toward Tyler Wall. But instead of hitting the twine, the puck bounced off the crossbar. As head coach Jerry York said in the postgame press conference, hockey, like all sports, is a game of inches.

LAVAR’S GONE TOO FAR - LaVar Ball has trash talked his way to being one of the most household names in today’s sports world. On March 14, Ball claimed that he would “kill Michael Jordan one-onone” back in his “heyday”. Someone needs to remind him that his “heyday” consisted of averaging 2.2 points per game at Washington State.

SCOREBOARD - Up 66-65 with less than 20 seconds left in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, Vanderbilt guard Matthew Fisher-Davis intentionally fouled Northwestern’s Bryant McIntosh. The Wildcats’ leading scorer knocked down both of his free throws, costing Vanderbilt the game. FisherDavis said after the game that he read the scoreboard wrong and thought his team was down one.

five minutes of the half.

For much of the first half, BC goalie Zoe Ochoa had relatively little to do.

Early in the half, a foul on Christina Walsh gave Louisville a free-position shot. Hannah Koloski took the attempt, but Ochoa denied her, recording her first save of the day. From then until the final 10 minutes of play, the Cardinals failed to test Ochoa. But in the last minutes of the half, Louisville fired shot after shot on Ochoa and halved BC’s lead.

With a little over nine minutes to play, Mary Kate O’Neill committed a foul, giving the Cardinals another freeposition shot. This time, Louisville didn’t waste its opportunity. Meghan Siverson hurled the ball past Ochoa to end the shutout and bring the score to 9-1. Next up, Allison Ferrara found the back of the net, followed by Koloski, cutting BC’s lead to 9-3.

Hart temporarily stopped Louisville’s momentum when she beat Read, newly subbed back in, for her second goal of the game. But Louisville refused to give up. Koloski and Siverson scored another goal apiece in the final minutes of the half, cutting BC’s lead to 10-5 at halftime.

Lauren Daly checked into goal for BC entering the second half, while Read got the nod again for Louisville.

Each netminder faced plenty of action throughout the half.

It didn’t take long for the Cardinals to test Daly. Stephanie McNamara fired a shot on Daly, but missed wide left.

BC failed to clear the ball out, however,

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Kayla O’Connor, BC’s third-leading scorer, netted five goals in the 14-11 victory. and the Cardinals retained possession.

Madison Hoover found Koloski open around the net, and Koloski snuck the ball past Daly for a goal.

BC responded by scoring twostraight goals. Hart won a draw control and took advantage of her possession, connecting with Weeks for the Eagles’ first goal of the second half. Freshman Kate Taylor tested Read next, but couldn’t find the back of the net. But O’Connor succeeded, bringing the tally to 12-6, BC. From there, it turned into a back-

and-forth battle for momentum. Louisville scored three-straight goals to cut BC’s lead to just three, but then the Eagles pulled away again with a couple of goals. With seven minutes to go, BC held onto its 14-9 lead.

But Louisville wouldn’t go down without a fight, making things interesting in the final minutes of play. Jillian Bolog and Koloski each scored, bringing the score to 14-11. The Cardinals managed a couple more shots in the final minutes, but couldn’t convert on any opportunities, giving BC the 14-11 victory. 

ATHLETICS

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rector of athletics in late summer 2015. During the one full year of his tenure, the Wildcats won a national championship for men’s basketball and reached postseason play in three other sports.

Smith has spent more than a decade as director of athletics for the Buckeyes. During his tenure, football has won five bowl games and a national championship, while

men’s basketball has qualified for the NCAA Tournament nine times, reaching two Final Fours and one national championship. Meanwhile, men’s volleyball, wrestling, women’s rowing, and individual athletes also won national titles.

Swarbrick has successfully managed the Fighting Irish’s transition into the Atlantic Coast Conference. In the 2013-14 season, 22 of Notre Dame’s

26 teams qualified for postseason play. Under Swarbrick, the Irish have reached 11 championships, winning three.

Parker Executive Search has also helped place successful head coaches in programs across the country. Notre Dame’s Brian Kelly and the University of Kentucky’s John Calipari are just two head coaches who were hired with the help of Parker Executive Search. 

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Number of goals lacrosse’s third-leading scorer Kayla O’Connor has recorded in the Eagles’ past two wins.

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Seconds remaining when Wisconsin’s Mellissa Channell broke a scoreless tie with a game-winning goal to down BC in the national semifinal.

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Number of shot attempts men’s hockey tallied in its 4-3 loss to Massachusetts Lowell in the Hockey East championship.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“With the turnover they had over the summer, to have the season they had is pretty special.

— UMass Lowell head

coach Norm Bazin, on the 2016-17 Eagles.

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LaVar Ball: Lowell Captures Hockey East Title, Ends BC’s Season Pioneer?

The Ball Brand, from B1 TIME, “if it’s really that serious, take my boy, I’ll come get him right now. See if you can win the NCAA championship on your own.”

Neither the NCAA nor UCLA had the guts to challenge that ultimatum—instead, they gave LaVar a pass, supposedly because Big Baller Brand qualifies as a family brand and not a personal one. With the brand surviving its first full year in the college basketball sphere, Lonzo is expected to be the first player ever drafted with his own personal brand. As many news outlets have pointed out, LeBron James signed a seven-year, $90 million deal with Nike before the 2003 NBA Draft, but there’s a catch: James didn’t have close to the same level of ownership that Lonzo will over his brand.

“You don’t have a brand—that’s a brand that Nike created,” LaVar said of James. “Try to go somewhere with that King sign and take it from Nike. You can’t do that. These triple Bs? They’re mine.”

Imagine a world where the best college athletes could form their own brands, where they wouldn’t be pigeonholed into signing with a multi-billion dollar company like Nike or Adidas right out of college, where the scale would be tipped back ever so slightly in favor of student-athletes. That’s what the future might entail if student-athletes earn the right to profit off of their name, image, and likeness. And that’s what we’re getting a glimpse of with the Big Baller Brand, which essentially serves as a clothing line for college basketball’s biggest star.

The NCAA would like you to believe that this professionalism ruins the sanctity of college sports, that the system as we know it would collapse if these athletes were compensated for some of their work. But UCLA is thriving in the face of Ball’s personal branding. The school is experiencing its best attendance numbers in nearly two decades, the team is a contender for the national title, and head coach Steve Alford is earning a whopping $2.6 million per year.

But is the Ball model really a viable option for the future? “[Nike and Adidas are] Blockbusters, and the Big Baller Brand is Netflix,” LaVar told Colin Cowherd. “And you know what happened to Blockbuster? If you don’t change, guess what’s going to happen. There’s a red box everywhere.”

That analogy is certainly an exaggeration. Big Baller Brand isn’t going to run mammoth companies like Nike and Adidas out of business. But the competition could make them sweat, and it could encourage athletes to gain more control over the fate of their finances.

Regardless, it’s a step in the right direction for college athletes while the bigger battles are being fought in the courtroom. Say what you will about LaVar—that he needs to shut his mouth, or that he’s hurting Lonzo’s chances of success in the NBA, or that Michael Jordan would embarrass him in a game of one-on-one. But exploiting his kids?

No, save that label for the NCAA.

Riley Overend is the sports editor for The Heights. He can be reached on Twitter @RileyHeights.

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MHOK vs. Lowell, from B1 5-on-3, thanks to Dylan Zink and Ryan Lohin. On this extended blessing, BC reverted back to its old form: sloppy passes, trouble staying upright, and failure to produce quality chances on the goaltender.

When Colin White sat for a two-minute elbow to close the frame, Lowell had every opportunity it needed to extend its lead.

But the Eagles displayed their best special teams talent in the most dire of times: the shorthanded goal. Graham McPhee, who has often been touted for his playmaking skills, but has struggled to get onto the scoresheet this season, provided that necessary spark.

McPhee forced C.J. Smith to turn the puck over at the blue line 30 seconds into the Lowell power play. He dashed down the ice and pushed it past Tyler Wall in net with a sharp backhanded move. With a drop to one knee and huge pump of the fist, McPhee embraced his teammates for the equalizer.

His goal should’ve provided BC with all the momentum it would need. But Lowell’s ultra-crisp passing in the second period made sure that wouldn’t continue. And now, despite outshooting the River Hawks 41-25, neither will the Eagles’ season.

Lowell’s third Hockey East Championship ends the 2016-17 campaign for the Eagles. Because of the vagaries of the PairWise Rankings, BC ends the regular season as the No. 16 team in the nation. Since the WCHA champion receives an autobid for the tournament, the cut line in stops at 15.

Thus, BC finishes one spot short, failing to reach the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2008-09. But with the youngest team in the nation, Jerry York had nothing but high hopes for his team.

“For them to be picked sixth in the league … which was probably pretty accurate, to achieve what we did achieve, a share of the crown, within a whisker of winning the Lamoriello Trophy,” York said. “I’m very proud of them.”

The Eagles didn’t capitalize on the boost from McPhee, playing back on their heels for much of the middle frame. Joseph Woll kept BC in the game as much as he could, with a couple of great saves. Though Matthew Gaudreau saved a clear look by Kamrass, the ensuing penalty came back to bite BC. John Edwardh cleaned up a rebound set up by Joe Gambardella to give the River Hawks a 3-2 lead. Less than a minute later, Gambardella struck back with one of his own from an extremely tough angle to double the lead.

BC never stopped fighting. In the third period, the Eagles outshot Lowell a whopping 15-2, putting up many quality chances on freshman goaltender Tyler Wall. On one in particular, Austin Cangelosi burst down the ice to send Wall into a split. Then, with

Woll off for an extra attacker, Ryan Fitzgerald gave the Eagles hope. His wraparound, no-look attempt knocked off Wall’s back skate and into the net to cut the lead to 4-3.

Fitzgerald gave BC one last opportunity with under 10 seconds remaining. But his final shot hit iron instead of twine.

“I thought our club did very well tonight, certainly a lot better than when we ended the season with two losses to Lowell,” York said. “It comes down to a Fitzy crossbar from sending this game to overtime.”

In 2016-17, the Eagles had placed as high as No. 7 in the PairWise Rankings, immediately prior to their opening-round game with Boston University in the Beanpot. As York stated, many predicted BC to finish in the bottom half of Hockey East. After all, the program had lost seven underclassmen to the NHL, highlighted by Mark Richter Award-winning goaltender Thatcher Demko. A February swoon in which BC went 1-5-2—including a sweep by Lowell and a last-place finish in the Beanpot, the program’s first since 1993—dropped the team to the precarious position on which it finished. But still, for the Eagles to be in this position at the end of the season given all the trouble they had was something to be admired, at least according to Lowell head coach Norm Bazin.

“With the turnover they had over the summer, to have the season they had is pretty special,” Bazin said.

In total, BC’s five-man graduating class of Scott Savage, Chris Calnan, Cangelosi, Gaudreau, and Fitzgerald combined for 52 goals, 94 assists, and 146 points in their senior season. Over the four years, that total jumps to 173 goals, 267 assists, and 440 points. The Class of 2017 finished with a record of 98-46-16 (56-17-13 Hockey East), a stretch that included three Hockey East regular-season titles, two Beanpots, and two Frozen Fours.

But the Eagles will likely return a lot of talent. Sophomores Dudek and Christopher Brown should step up as significant scoring threats, along with freshmen McPhee and David Cotton. In the back end, the Eagles will have Woll, the Toronto Maple Leafs third-rounder who some argue may be even better than Demko. And next season, barring any midsummer departures, BC brings in a new crop of star-studded players, led by projected top-10 pick Eeli Tolvanen.

Before he even thinks about next season, York plans to take his wife, Bobbie, on an extended vacation, a fact he emphasized in a red-eyed press conference.

But when he returns, the offseason will begin for the most dominant college hockey program of the 21st century. Unfortunately for Eagles fans everywhere, without an NCAA Tournament for only the third time in the 2000s, it’s much longer than they’re used to. n

Inches Away, from B1 Fitzgerald wound up and slapped the puck, sending it past a cluster of of River Hawks.

But instead of lighting the lamp, the puck dinged against the crossbar. BC whipped up a few more shots, tallying 15 for the period, but could not equalize.

As the clock ticked, the Eagles’ chances at extending their season dwindled. All that stood between BC’s offseason and a potential overtime-forcing goal was a faceoff. Austin Cangelosi, the nation’s best faceoff man, lined up against Nick Master.

The senior had won 15-of-25 decisions to that point, but as soon as the puck dropped none of that mattered. Master immediately cleared the puck into BC territory, clinching a 4-3 River Hawks’ victory and ending the Eagles’ season.

The Good Resilience In BC’s first two matchups versus Lowell, the Eagles were outscored by a total of five goals. Their lone scoring plays came in the third period, after the River Hawks had already established a lead in the first two periods. But on Saturday night, BC kept pace with Lowell throughout the entire first frame, scoring just as many goals in 20 minutes against the River Hawks as it had the entire season.

Not only did the Eagles get on the board early, but in doing so, they reduced multiple one-goal deficits. Lowell struck first blood, but a bit more than four minutes later, BC erased the River Hawk lead. Thanks to a Jake Kamrass boarding call, the Eagles got their first power-play opportunity of the night. And it wouldn’t take long for them to cash in.

Savage located J.D. Dudek in the left zone, who then blasted a shot toward Wall.

As the puck approached the freshman netminder, Cangelosi tipped it in mid-air, redirecting the shot and tying the game at one.

Around seven minutes after that, Lowell retook the lead, as the River Hawks moved the puck around the BC zone, before finding Chris Forney for the defensemen’s fourth goal of the year. Nevertheless, with time winding down in the opening period, McPhee forced a Smith turnover on the penalty kill near center ice and got the better of Wall on the ensuing 1-on-1.

The Eagles proceeded to hang around the conference’s No. 1 seed for the rest of the game, even coming close to capping off a late two-goal comeback.

Ryan Fitzgerald Fitzgerald lit the lamp twice in the semifinals and almost did so again on Saturday night. Less than three minutes remained in the final period when Savage set Dudek up for another open shot. The sophomore’s attempt was saved by Wall, but Fitzgerald

corralled the rebound to score on a no-look, between the legs wraparound.

The highlight-reel play put BC in position to force overtime. And the senior was a matter of inches from doing exactly that.

Fitzgerald whipped up a long-distance slap shot, which looked as if it was going in, but instead deflected off the crossbar.

“You know in this game, crossbars go in and all of a sudden, you’re advancing to a national tournament, and you’ve got a chance to do something special,” York said. “[But here, it] hits the crossbar and goes out the other way. It’s a matter of inches.”

Regardless of the All-Tournament Team forward’s misfire, his body of work in the last week of the season is commendable. Fitzgerald notched a third of his goals this season in the Hockey East Tournament.

The Bad Power Play Last season, BC was ranked ninth in the country on the power play. This time around, it has consistently struggled on special teams, dropping to a mere 40th in the field. But of late, it appeared as if York’s crew had finally found a solution. Coming into the championship game, the Eagles had racked up five power-play goals in the conference tournament. Six minutes into the first period, it seemed like that success was bound to continue. Cangelosi and Dudek capitalized on the one-man advantage, tag-teaming for BC’s first goal of the contest.

But later in the period, everything fell apart. Only seconds separated the penalties of Dylan Zink and Ryan Lohin. As a result, the Eagles had about a minute and 40 seconds up two men. Yet, even so, they could not get a shot by Wall.

The Eagles would go on to finish 1-of-4 on the power play.

The Ugly Second Period Collapse Often, when BC has lost games this season, it has given up goals in bunches.

Back on Feb. 10, Woll gave up three goals to Merrimack in the first 10 minutes. It even happens when the Eagles have the lead. For instance, take Friday night’s semifinal. BC was up three goals with five minutes to go, and just like that BU put together two goals in one minute.

At times, the defense appears impenetrable. But when opponents score once, there’s no telling when they’ll stop. Nine minutes into the second period, Matthew Gaudreau picked up a hooking penalty.

Soon after, John Edwardh made BC pay on the power play. But the worst was still to come.

A minute and a half later, Michael Kapla passed the puck to Joe Gambardella, who went top-right on Woll from the right zone.

Instead of being tied, the Eagles were now down two, a steep hole, especially against the 13th-ranked River Hawk defense. n

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Postseason Magic Ends for BC in Frozen Four Loss to Badgers WHOK vs. Wisco, from B1 the semifinals may have ended with an Eagles win in overtime.

Despite a near-spotless 40-1 record last year, BC’s season shows a tremendous growth in the program following the loss of six seniors, including Patty Kazmaier Award-winner Carpenter, potentially one of the best-ever players in women’s hockey. In the middle of the 2016-2017 season, Tori Sullivan and Toni Ann Miano left the team, citing undisclosed reasons and a violation of team policies, respectively. While the absence of two juniors could have spelled disaster for the Eagles, it instead granted the opportunity for underclassmen to step up and fill the roles. Serena Sommerfield, a sophomore who played forward during her first season, slotted into a pairing with Megan Keller.

In the semifinal game, two freshmen,

breakout stars Delaney Belinskas and Caitrin Lonergan, made up the second line alongside seasoned veteran Kristyn Capizzano.

The Eagles also showcased their often-overlooked players, depicting the depth that runs through the team.

Capizzano, who notched nine goals and 21 assists in the prior season, shifted over from a playmaker to a player. Instead of handing off the puck to others, Capizzano demonstrated an unmatched quickness and offensive pressure oneon-one against every goalie she faced, earning her 14 goals and 10 assists. Kali Flanagan, a junior defenseman, also flexed her offensive muscles, and was named to the United States Women’s National Team for the first time this year, though participation in the IIHF World Championship in Michigan is currently in question following salary negotiations between the players and

USA Hockey.

Anastos, BC’s “Captain Awesome,” finished the season with 42 points—16 goals, 26 assists—but her timing was always the most important. Her work led the Eagles through the trials of the Hockey East Tournament, earning them a spot in the NCAA Tournament and home ice against their quarterfinal competitor, St. Lawrence. She tacked on another goal during that game, a 6-0 thrashing that punched their ticket to St. Charles.

Last season, it was almost a given that BC would turn up at the Frozen Four. But that was last year. This year, the Eagles had to start all over. But they made it back to the Frozen Four. They shined a spotlight on players forgotten under the glamour of Carpenter and Skarupa, pulled up their young teammates, and put the pieces together for it to happen again. n

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In Hockey East Semis, BC Prevents Winless Season Against BU

By Michael Sullivan Editor-in-Chief B O STON — Ry an Fitz gerald waited until Jake Oettinger turned around. Refusing to take any chances, especially on Boston College 3 a shorthandBoston Univ.

2 e d at t e mp t , Fitzgerald needed to be absolutely sure that his heave landed on the twine.

The suspense of the puck flying in the air delayed Fitzgerald’s celebration. He, along with Charlie McAvoy and Christopher Brown, all just turned to wait.

But before the red lamp flashed, Oettinger’s head dropped to the goal line. And Fitzgerald welcomed all those who came in for the hug.

The suspense wasn’t as strong in the third period, though. That time, when Fitzgerald scored, he knew immediately. And the once hesitant redemption tour against Boston University had been affirmed.

With Boston College men’s hockey’s season on the line—not to mention his own college career—Fitzgerald scored two goals in the Eagles’ 3-2 win over the Terriers in the Hockey East Semifinals.

For Fitzgerald, who struggled through a cold February like the rest of the team, it provides a scoresheet manifestation of his hard work this season.

“I thought Ryan Fitzgerald has been outstanding [this season],” York said. “His goal production has been down because of crossbars and pipes, not because of lack of effort.”

The win is the first in four tries for No. 15 BC (21-14-4) against its archrivals from down Commonwealth Ave. In fact, in the first three games against No. 7 BU (23-11-3) and Oettinger, the Eagles only amassed a measly two goals total. And though the Terriers stormed back with two extra-attacker goals in the last three minutes—including a controversial ending—the early offense was just enough for BC. As strong and impactful as it was to get Fitzgerald going again, no player was as important as for BC than goaltender Joseph Woll. The freshman from St. Louis, Mo. put together his best performance this season—by far—with 42 saves.

During an electrifying back-andforth first period, in which the two teams set a fast pace, Woll deflected a couple of attempts, particularly from

Patrick Harper and Bobo Carpenter.

He survived all five Terrier power-play opportunities, including an almost four-minute stretch in the first period that featured a brief 5-on-3.

Late in the second, Woll staved off a massive scrum in front of the net for his most impressive save of the evening. Graham McPhee fell into Woll in the net, knocking him onto his backside. Clayton Keller, Patrick Curry, and Ryan Cloonan all crashed on Woll, but he extended just far enough to prevent the lamp from lighting.

“We know we have a very good goaltender, and we produced some runs for him tonight,” York said. “Some of those saves were spectacular.”

BU head coach David Quinn took the praise a step further.

“Joe Woll is a hell of a goalie,” Quinn said. “And he has been for a long time.”

Offensively, the Eagles ran counter to the strategy York and team captain Chris Calnan emphasized earlier in the week to beat BU: getting deflections and firm plants in front of the net. BC’s first goal was a snipe by Julius Mattila from the top of the left circle. The freshman from Finland launched one at Oettinger, taking

advantage of Terriers that played soft on him.

Fitzgerald’s first goal was of the same variety. Despite an Austin Cangelosi holding call, Brown worked around Chad Krys to dish the puck to a streaking Fitzgerald.

He moved around his potential future B oston Bruins teammate, McAvoy, to loft one up from the slot against Oettinger. That shorthanded goal, mixed with the the deficit, came back to sting BU. “I thought the shorthanded goal really changed the complexion of the game,” Quinn said. “I’ve mentioned it before, we’ve been playing with fire over the last few weeks, and tonight we played with an inferno.”

BC’s third goal, however, was of the expected variety. Fitzgerald tipped in a dribbling pass, again by Brown, that got through the Terriers’ defense.

Doyle Somerby didn’t get back in time to prevent Fitzgerald from tipping it in past Oettinger’s left. Now playing center instead of his typical right wing, Fitzgerald has done what he can to improve other parts of his game.

The fact that the posts and crossbars haven’t been going his way isn’t lost on the senior from North Reading, Mass. Yet it was a relief for him to get

a few goals, too.

“Anytime you can produce for your team it can be good,” Fitzgerald said.

As to be expected, the Terriers didn’t go quietly into the cold March night. After failing on two power-play opportunities—a unit Quinn said “let him down” in the game—Jordan Greenway pushed one over the head of Woll. Under a minute later, Woll gave up a rebound that Casey Fitzgerald tried to clear, but landed right onto the stick of Keller to cut the lead to 3-2.

On the game’s final faceoff, with 9.8 seconds left, Fitzgerald claimed to have tripped to fall onto the puck.

Instead of getting up to risk the shot on goal, Fitzgerald risked the delay of game penalty.

“It was a little bit of a broken play, and I just ended up on the ice,” Fitzgerald said. “I just hovered over it and protected it for as long as possible.”

The play caused a huge brawl between the two teams to end the game.

The penalties (and likely, suspensions) might stretch into a whole other scoresheet.

But, as Fitzgerald said, anything he can do for the team can be good. n

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After losing every regular-season matchup to Boston University, the Eagles struck with three goals against goaltender Jake Oettinger, one more than they had in their previous three games, at TD Garden.

Woll Ties Career-High 42 Saves as Eagles, Terriers Brawl to the End

By Andy Backstrom Asst. Sports Editor BOSTON — Boston College men’s hockey was 9.8 seconds away from a trip to its conference-best 17th Hockey East championship game. Up 3-2 against crosstown-rival Boston University, all the Eagles needed to do was to protect the puck. Ryan Fitzgerald did just that.

Literally.

After winning the game’s final face off, the senior forward took to his knees and shielded the puck from Jakob ForsbackaKarlsson and the surrounding Terriers, drawing out the clock. Time expired, but the contest was far from over.

As soon as the horn blared, all hell broke loose. Following the scrummage of the face off, Graham McPhee wrestled with Jordan Greenway, shaking the helmet off of the freshman forward.

Meanwhile, Brandon Hickey shoved Casey Fitzgerald from the back, sending the North Reading, Mass. native to the ice. Casey got to his feet and immediately fought back.

Then, his brother, Ryan, came to his side, attempting to tackle Hickey. But Fitzgerald went high, only scraping the helmet off of his enemy. As a result, Hickey escaped, pulling Casey with him. Hickey placed Casey in a headlock and threw him to the ground twice, before officials finally broke up the fight.

Something like this was bound to happen. After all, it was the fourth meeting of the season between the two—but unlike the other three, BC prevailed, 3-2.

Three Up 1) First on the Board In each of the No. 14 Eagles’ (21-14-4, 13-6-3) first three games versus No. 6 BU (23-11-3, 13-6-3) this season, they found themselves trailing. Back on Jan. 13, Forsbacka-Karlsson lit the lamp less than four minutes into the second period to take the lead. A day later, Patrick Curry lit the lamp close to the eight-minute mark in the second. It was even worse in the first round of the Beanpot. Once again, it was Forsbacka-Karlsson who struck first, but this time a mere four and a half minutes into the opening frame.

On Friday night, head coach Jerry York’s group flipped the script. About a minute and a half into the second period, Julius Mattila

split two Terrier defenders down the left side of the ice and launched a wrist shot past Jake Oettinger.

For Oettinger, it was only the third goal he had conceded all year to BC. While this was atypical for the Eagles, it has become more of a norm for BU in recent play. The Terriers have now allowed the first goal in each of their last nine games.

Except this time, it wasn’t just the first goal, it was the first three goals. Mattila’s goal jumpstarted the BC offense, as the Eagles would go on to score two more in the next 19 minutes of play.

2) Joseph Woll Joseph Woll was on the verge of his second career shutout—exactly one week removed from his first, which came in the Eagles’ Hockey East quarterfinal victory over Vermont. But in the last five minutes, BU pulled Oettinger and went full desperation mode. And it worked. Woll was greeted with a flurry of shots, two of which found the back of the net. The Terrier deficit was cut to one, keeping everyone in TD Garden on edge. Nevertheless, BC would close out the game, albeit controversially.

Aside from BU’s pair of late-game scoring plays, the freshman netminder was nearly perfect. Woll faced 44 shots, including 22 in the final period. He saved a multitude of shots, at times even using his body to cover the length of the goal line, as the Terriers tried to push the puck through crowds of defenders. None of his saves were more dramatic than the one he made toward the end of the second period.

McPhee accidentally plummeted into his goalie, as Charlie McAvoy sent a shot toward Woll. Consequently, Woll fell to the ice, but from his back, stretched far enough to prevent a mosh pit of Clayton Keller, Patrick Curry, and Ryan Cloonan from scoring.

In the postgame press conference, Terriers head coach David Quinn was quick to applaud Woll, not just for Friday’s performance, but for the season of work he has put in.

“Joe Woll is a hell of a goalie,” Quinn said.

“And he has been for a long time.”

Nearly two months ago, Woll recorded an identical save total against Connecticut: 42.

3) Penalty Kill Entering the game, BU was ranked 16th in the nation in power-play scoring,

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BU’s Brandon Hickey (4) and Charlie McAvoy (7) didn’t take kindly to Ryan Fitzgerald’s game-ending cover up of the puck. converting 20.5 percent of its chances. Not to mention that the Terriers went 4-of-7 on the power play in their quarterfinal series win over Northeastern. And when facing the Eagles this season, BU had already put up four man-up goals.

Yet its success came to a screeching halt on Friday. The Terriers had five power-play opportunities and could not cash in on a single one. Quinn’s crew even had a 5-on-3 for 20-plus seconds in the tail end of the first period, but still failed to lit the lamp. In total, the Terriers whipped up 13 shots on the power play. But it was BC’s 26th ranked penalty kill that stood tall. Like the first semifinal game of the night, neither team scored a power-play goal—the first time all four teams failed to do so since 2004.

Three Down 1) Penalties Granted that half of them came after the final horn, 18 penalties were called on Friday.

As expected, it was a chippy game between the Green Line rivals, but each penalty came with a cost, even though it may not show in the box score.

The Eagles killed each of BU’s five power plays, but Woll was on the receiving end of an array of Terrier shots. BC’s two penalties during the third period largely contributed to

the Terriers’ bombardment on Woll.

Yes, the St. Louis native handled the aggressive attack reasonably well, but a period like that takes a toll on a goaltender.

Especially when the team has to play a game the next night.

2) Late-Game Near Collapse The game appeared to be all but over. For 55 minutes, the Eagles had played, debatably, their best game of the season. But it looked as if BC was perhaps too comfortable with that 55 minutes of play—it seemed like the players were already thinking about the ensuing championship game against Massachusetts Lowell.

On the other hand, BU was still very much in the game. And it let BC know. First it was Greenway, who received an accidental feed from Keller in front of the net, and subsequently shuffled it in, ruining Woll’s shutout. One minute later, Bobo Carpenter split the Eagle defense, located Greenway, who then found Forsbacka-Karlsson. The sophomore’s shot was saved, but Keller swooped in for the rebound and score.

All momentum that BC had going into the final no longer existed. For the last minute or so, the team had to hold on to both the game and its season.

3) The Fight

BC played the last minute and 22 seconds scared. Not too long before, the Eagles were leading by three goals. All of a sudden, their season was in jeopardy. It all came down to one last face off.

Fitzgerald won the bout, but instead of clearing the puck, he smothered it with his body, effectively cheating the system and barring the Terriers from a chance to tie the game. What appeared to be an interesting tactic to run out the clock, really served as the instigator for a fight that was to come.

For college hockey, the brawl was as intense as it gets. Gloves were thrown, helmets were tossed, and players were being dropped to the ice. From the entertainment standpoint, it was exciting. On the other hand, from the hockey perspective, it was nonsensical. Both BC and BU’s seasons are still alive.

And they did not help themselves by picking up an assortment of penalties that were distributed following the fight, including game misconducts for Fitzgerald and Hickey.

Even more telling was Fitzgerald’s faceoff.

The senior was obviously not confident enough in himself or the rest of his line to hold the Terrier offense scoreless for 10 more seconds of play. n

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Watson Strengthens an Already Classic Female Disney Role

BY ISABELLA DOW

Asst. Arts & Review Editor

Most everyone knows the story of Beauty and the Beast, the one that makes us feel for candlesticks and teacups and watch an unconventional romance develop under the timer of a withering enchanted rose. Disney’s live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast opened this past weekend, and offered a fresh retelling of a beloved story that maintained the iconic elements of the movie while making morally-progressive aspects feature prominently.

When Belle’s eccentric father (Kevin Kline) is taken captive by the Beast (Dan Stevens), Belle (Emma Watson) takes his place and stays with the cursed manturned-beast, softening his feral roughness and eventually breaking his curse with their mutual love. As savage and intimidating as the Beast first appears, he proves to have a heart of gold, in stark contrast to Gaston (Luke Evans), the “brash and boorish” villager that disturbingly likens his relentless

pursuit of Belle’s affection to that of hunting big game.

Belle has generally been regarded as one of Disney’s more independent female characters. With her intellect, bravery, and compassion, she defies the helpless, shallow princess stereotype that modern audiences cannot stomach. But the liveaction movie expands upon Belle’s agency in a way that seems natural, not forced.

She is quick to blurt out that she is not a princess, and her outsider status as a capable intellectual in a small-minded village brings her closer to the Beast in a way that makes them seem more like equals and less like an example of Stockholm syndrome.

While viewers saw an even stronger character in Belle, the other characters were perhaps exceedingly similar to their original incarnations. The Beast was tough but lovable, Gaston was heinous as ever, and Lumiere (Ewan McGregor) shined with his charming personality.

While essentially all of the characters

were confined to their expected roles and personalities, the live action movie augmented the storylines with a clarification of the some characters’ backstories. But beyond that, there were few surprises in story or character in this movie remake.

With that said, one of the film’s strengths is its ability to avoid fixing that which is not broken. The poignant quality of having a morally good Beast be hunted down and attacked by an evil and brash Gaston was preserved, and even enhanced through its presentation using human actors instead of 1990s animation.

Of course, Beauty and the Beast also has a well-known soundtrack, full of catchy and appealing songs that enhance the course of the movie. The live-action film nicely portrays these classic Disney songs with musical numbers that are entertaining and fairly realistic. There are no pseudospontaneous, unrealistically elaborate choreographed scenes, such as one would see in High School Musical—this was to the benefit of the movie.

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One example of these well-done musical numbers included “Gaston”, a song meant to puff up the ego of the insufferable character, and was lead by Gaston’s lackey, LeFou (Josh Gad). The song embodied the merriment of the villagers with its humorous lyrics and simple yet coherent choreography.

Additionally, new songs to the franchise, such as the Beast’s emotional performance

of “Evermore,” helped bring new blood to the soundtrack and gave viewers familiar with the music and story a more robust entertainment experience.

The result of the enjoyable soundtrack and its interaction with the storyline is a film that maintains the familiar features of the original story, while presenting them in a fresh way. 

‘Iron Fist’ Lacks Force Behind Punches

BY BARRETTE JANNEY Heights Staff

When a billion-dollar business, a mysterious plane crash, and kung fu action collide, the result could either be an enticing drama or anti-climactic disorder.

Netflix’s newest release, Iron Fist, however, manages to straddle these polar avenues in a rollercoaster-esque whirlwind.

Based on Marvel Comics character Iron Fist written by Roy Thomas and illustrated by Gil Kane, this new web television series hit Netflix on March 17. The project is spearheaded by producer Evan Perazzo and features the talents of Finn Jones and Jessica Henwick, both best known for their roles as Ser Loras Tyrell and Nymeria Sand in HBO’s Game of Thrones. The show is the fourth in the series of Netflix originals that will culminate in a superhero mashup entitled The Defenders, which will include characters from shows Jessica Jones and Daredevil.

Iron Fist opens with a pair of bare feet maneuvering through the bustle of leathershoed Manhattan pedestrians. The camera pans up to reveal a disheveled Danny Rand (Finn Jones) searching for his destination. He finally enters Rand Enterprises, his family’s company, only to be deemed

homeless and consequently thrown out of the polished establishment. But these bodyguards are no match for Danny, whose 15 years away from civilization training to become the all-powerful “Iron Fist” clearly paid off in combat skills.

In a tornado of kung fu mastery, Danny defeats each of the many guards and slips into the penthouse office to speak to his childhood friends Joy and Ward Meachum (Jessica Stroup and Tom Pelphrey). His kind imploring about the state of affairs within his company is met with immediate hostility—the siblings do not believe this man is a part of the Rand family because the Rands perished in a plane crash 15 years ago. Despite his efforts to convince, he is officially tossed out and set to slumber in a park alongside a homeless man he befriends.

Danny, as viewers begin to learn, is of the persistent species. He continues with valiant tenacity to confront the Meachum duo with the truth that he is the real Rand child and not indeed dead. With equal perseverance, the two continually deny this and conclude that this must be a drastic prank on them or an attempt by some competitor to thwart their newly expanding business.

This mindset starts to evolve when

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Danny expresses intimate details about his life and friendships with the Meachums and exhibits superhuman powers, like somersaulting over a taxi charged straight at him, and his typically peaceful, childlike demeanor turns into (literally) glowing frustration.

Not all of Danny’s time, however, is spent begging the Meachums to accept his real identity. In his free time he meditates and practices the art of kung fu. It is through these extracurriculars that he meets Colleen Wing (Jessica Henwick).

While initially wary about Danny’s identity and offer to teach kung fu at her dojo, she witnesses the attempted assassination of him by several Meachum guards and begins to realize the true gravity of his situation.

While Iron Fist does aim for unique intrigue in theory, the arrow seems to just miss its target repeatedly. The creators bit off slightly more than they could chew in trying to execute such a scattered plot, situating possibly crowning moments in the most anticlimactic positions. Danny’s being followed is covered in such length that their eventual attempt to attack him fizzes out without much thrill.

And even when a fight scene would arouse interest, such involvement was lost in slow-paced choreography and unrealistic physical conventions. While the ingenuity of kung fu was channeled through intricate movements, the execution of such moves always acted in slow motion, with the camera capturing the action an additional one or two steps behind.

The overall visual audible appeal, however, did seize the overriding message of innocence and good prevailing against evil.

The sleekness of the cinematography played on the silky essence of the story’s protagonist, and strategically placed music at times aided the childlike wonder of a wandering boy and at other times cultivated anticipation for foreboding calamity.

Albeit the minor bumps in believability that are guaranteed with comic book adaptations, the plot itself does manage to hold a viewer’s attention. So if you happen to enjoy kung fu and outlandish storylines, or you just need a new show to binge, Iron Fist will undoubtedly have you clicking “Continue Watching” on Netflix until its very last episode. 

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TRENDS IN MOVIE MONEY

The weekend of March 17-19 has grossed a total of $256 million. Does anyone realize just how much money that is? That’s so much money. That’s pretty close to the entire GDP of Palau in 2016. That means the value of every new good and service of an entire country is roughly equal to the total revenue collected by 48 movies in the United States.

What’s worse? Disney is probably still pissed because The Beauty and the Beast didn’t make a billion dollars opening weekend. Anyway, surprise surprise, a new Disney movie led the charts this weekend. Moving on to more interesting things, we, the writers of your humble box office report, aren’t as irrationally angry this week. The reason for this is that the forsaken spawn of Twilight fan fiction, bad writing, and BDSM fetishes … oh wait … what’s that? Ah, yes our editors have informed us that the correct title is Fifty Shades Darker. Our mistake. Fifty Shades Darker has been pushed all the way down to 17 on the list of movie revenues. Taking its place are three films that range from good to great. Kong: Skull Island, our favorite Godzilla (2014) tie-in of 2017, Logan, Huge Jacked Man’s (Hugh Jackman) magnum opus, and Get Out, Jordan Peele’s directorial debut and huge success. Unfortunately, blood pressure remains high in the Arts Section because thinly veiled religious allegory The Shack came in at No. 5 on the charts. Why? Who knows? Go see The LEGO Batman Movie a third time. Or go see a good indie movie like The Last Word or The Sense of an Ending. Don’t go see The Shack.

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Murray, Crow Steal Hearts in ‘Deidra & Laney Rob a Train’

BY JACOB SCHICK

Assoc. Arts & Review Editor While the days of cowboys, horses, saloons, and quickdraws have come and gone, train robberies are still in style. The criminal masterminds behind serial locomotive larceny are two high school girls, one the valedictorian with dreams of a higher education, the other a shy entry into the Teen Miss Idaho pageant. Move over Jesse James and Butch Cassidy—the Tanner sisters are here.

Deidra & Lane Rob A Train is the latest in the line of Netflix original movies. The 100-minute comedy takes place in a small rural town in the Pacific Northwest. Deidra (Ashleigh Murray) and Laney Tanner (Rachel Crow) find themselves without a paddle when their mother Marigold (Danielle Nicolet) is put in jail. To have enough for her mother’s bail, Deidra recruits her sister to begin robbing trains.

It is very early in Deidra & Laney

Rob A Train, and the film is already making the audience think. This is not a happy-go-lucky, screwball by-the-books comedy. The characters in this film face real problems and have relatable motivations. A particularly poignant scene comes when Deidra, Laney, and their little brother Jet (Lance Gray) visit their mother in jail. Deidra tries in vain to get her mother to think or talk about her impending court case, but her mother instead only talks about how therapeutic cutting carrots in the jail kitchen is. At this very moment, the audience finds itself on Deidra’s side immediately. Deidra is a smart young woman, just trying to do the best she can while her mother is in jail. Marigold seems like the bad guy, as all she can be bothered to do is seem relieved that she doesn’t have to worry about her family, job, or bills while she in locked up. Yet, taking a step back, the audience might be too quick to judge Marigold. She is an overworked and unappreciated single mother of three.

Everything she has, she gives to her family. Deidra & Laney Rob A Train has almost no one-dimensional characters.

Few movies, especially comedies, can make that claim.

When Deidra and Laney actually start living up to the title of the film, a new character is introduced. Truman (Tim Blake Nelson), a “detective” working for the Pacific Northwest Railroad, is sent to investigate the robberies. From the girls’ point of view, as well as the point of view Deidra & Laney Rob A Train nudges the audiences toward, Truman is the antagonist. He acts like he is an actual police officer, insisting that everyone refer to him as “detective.” Truman’s role is to foil the Tanners’ plans. And how dare he? Deidra and Laney just want enough money to pay their bills and bail their mother out.

If they don’t get enough to keep the lights on and food on the table, child services will take Laney and Jet away from Deidra.

If they don’t get enough money for bail, Deidra will be stuck caring for her sib-

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lings and will be unable to go to college.

But, again taking a step back, Truman is just doing his job, if a little overzealously.

The Tanner girls are breaking the law. The things they take may be insured, but it doesn’t make it right. Deidra also makes others complicit in her crime.

Deidra & Laney Rob A Train is a great comedy, but besides that it is a thought-

ful movie. Every character, along with all of their motivations, are fully fleshed out. There are laughs to be had, but there is a lot more heart. An interesting story from multiple angles, the film could be watched over and over, trying to see things from different points of view. Deidra & Laney Rob A Train, even in 2017, makes train robbery seem cool. 

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Monday, March 20, 2017

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‘Food and Community’ Exhibit Reaps the Rich Historic Harvest of Heritage

By Caleb Griego Arts & Review Editor

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‘Masquerade’ Unleashes A Fresh Deluge of Dance Dance Ensemble, from B8 roar of approval as the dancers stepped to the edge of the stage, with some sitting and others standing. All together, they gave a swift salute to the side as the lights faded. This final visual image was strong and quaint.

“Silhouettes and Sand,” choreographed by Karen Krieg, CSOM ’19, contained six dancers with three en pointe.

This division created a compelling pairing among the movements of the six, as their movements often looked quite similar when lined together. The

complexity of the pointe work was more keenly visible as the numbers were split, allowing for the sprite-like qualities of the style to show through more clearly.

Each step was as purposeful as it was graceful.

Masquerade was a true showing of the eclectic dance stylings of Dance Ensemble. Its ability to take such varied techniques and meld them into one cohesive and engaging piece attests to their strength as an organization.

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No matter one’s place in this world, all people share a common culinary language. A dish can be worth a thousand words. Everyone eats and each person brings a unique flair to the craft of cuisine. Like oral tales, legends, and anecdotes, recipes are passed down and collected over time. Since the dawn of man, food has offered a foundation on which to build civilization. From the first fire pits to the finest French kitchens, a community that eats together, stays together. Ever yone gathers for the meal. Everyone stays for the company.

The Food and Community exhibit on third floor of O’Neill Librar y displays a melange of photos, books, and other food-related materials to attest to the connection between cooking and coming together. Many books in the exhibit turn open to photos of families eating dinner, facing each other as they fill their plates and spirits with each others’ company. Others depict the moments after dinner, the table is converted into a place of digestion and digression as children do homework and others play music.

On the wall of the display, photos pulled from Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio’s collection What I Eat : Around the World in 80 Diets illustrate differences and commonalities from gastronomy from about the globe.

Ancient high-relief sculptures depict feasts and classical-era frescos that document plentiful bounties. The understanding that food brings people and communities together makes itself manifest in their history, literally etched into stone forever.

Modern photos show traditional bread making in Africa, butchers curing fresh slabs of meat, and markets selling grains and vegetables. Steeped within food is a history, a craft and a commerce, that acts as the bedrock of human interactions in these unique scenarios. These photos help illustrate how food fosters human interaction on both personal and professional levels.

Various films and documentaries are also displayed to illustrate the intrigue food beckons artistically. This speaks to the separation of food from its relation to subsistence and speaks to how food availability has facilitated its conversion into an art. Whether through food-comedy Big Night, sushi documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, or City of Gold on food critic Jonathan Gold, the inclusion of these films speak to foods importance beyond the kitchen as it stems into other facets of life. Chefs are able to bring a level of attention and craft into their creation on a level primordial man would likely have never thought.

But the exhibit also pays close attention to the effect of globalization and the worldwide availability of food.

As the world becomes smaller and more accessible, foods from about the world will be more universally available for anyone who wants to diversify its palet.

The exhibit shows how lo cal communities continue, by their own accord, to uphold their unique relationship to food. Several New England-area cookbooks and descriptions illustrate this aptly.

Some of excerpts describe how many local towns continue to let their local markets dictate their consumption, like maple syr up, beans, and seafood. Additionally,

local restaurants and publications, like The Boston Globe’s recipe section, continue to hold fast to local staples.

Food is one way to ensure a local history is not lost in the larger global cultural market. Appropriately, one of the larger headlines of the exhibit read “The Dinner Table as Heritage.”

But these notions of abundance are contrasted by the reality that some people do not enjoy the availability of food the West enjoys. The exhibit contains descriptions next to many of the other works that highlight on the importance of charity with regards to food. Giving food helps brings security. Not only does it bring the malnourished subsistence, but it allows for energies to be channeled into other area s of pro duction, without fear of food insecurity.

When looking at food through this historical lens, the phrase “we are what we eat” adopts another compelling meaning. When we reach for our pots and pans were are often also reaching into our past.

Food is a sensor y experience that founds a crucial part of our interaction with the world. As infants, before words come out of our mouths and before we even dare to open our eyes, we can taste.

Speaking in those sensoy terms, we begin our foray into a language being spoken on our tongues rather than off of them. Before tackling our next meal with fork and knife in hand, the Food and Community exhibit asks that individuals mull over the story behind each legume, steak, or pastry.

For many throughout history, the most crucial part of any meal remains the same.

Who we pass the plate to is often more important that what is contained on it. n

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Through a melange of books, films, and photos, the intimate connection between food and community is illustrated in a touching way.

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From pointe to jazz, DE used different styles to affect different emotional sentiments.

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Soundtrack in Our Lives

There are songs in the film tradition that are immediately recognizable, with some even reaching the stuff of cinematic soundtrack legends. You hear “My Heart Will Go On” and immediately think of (the misuse of three hours that is )Titanic.

“Somewhere Over the Rainbow” reminds the listener of supernatural world of The Wizard of Oz. And for anyone that’s seen Pitch Perfect, one might recall an entire plotline influenced by the power of music in movies, as evidenced by The Breakfast Club’s “Don’t You (Forget About Me).”

But I’d like to discuss another area of the use of music onscreen: television show soundtracks. I’m not merely speaking of theme songs, because while a good theme song will embody the spirit of a show on the whole, it would be hollow without the smaller moments in every episode that develop a show’s depth. People will spend hours and hours (and hours) of their lives watching TV, whether by weekly episodes on cable, or on a streaming service like Netflix. And if you can commit to watching all those episodes as artistic installments in their own right, not just fuel for the binge-watching session for which you probably don’t have time, one might take notice of the fantastic music television shows use in their episodes. Often, those songs serve as the perfect catalyst to momentum or emotion that a TV episode is working to create, and the result has the potential to be as impactful as watching Mia Wallace and Vincent Vega dance to “You Never Can Tell” in Pulp Fiction (R.I.P. Chuck Berry). But a lot of times, those great moments in a TV show are forgotten in the show’s seasons, lost in the noise of other TV series that only fragments of the country watch. While it makes perfect sense that a song in a TV show episode does not achieve the same degree of recognition as that of a movie soundtrack, I would hope that the audience of a television show takes note of the striking relevance of the musical backdrop over which some of their episodes take place.

Whenever I get sucked into a TV show and pulled out to sea by its current, I make an effort to attend to the songs I hear in all of the episodes. I even have a playlist entitled “screen junkie” with all the agreeable or episodically important songs from my favorite shows. And I listen to it when I feel like reliving all the best moments of shows that have taken my heart and soul hostage. But there’s something quite satisfying and thrilling about remembering the fleeting, yet memorable moments of TV shows. A good television show can be an artistic companion to the viewer, an entity the viewer gets to know in-depth and perhaps identifies with or is influenced by as they watch characters.

In essence, a television show is full of moments that blend together, stand out, or are forgotten entirely, in much the same way life itself unfolds.

As the episodes come at the viewer every week (or at whatever pace your voracious appetite for TV requests), it’s easy to mindlessly write them off as nothing more than a few minutes of your life that you’ll never get back. And while that may be the precise appeal of television for some, one might consider the deliberate and carefully presented components of an episode that make the whole art form compelling enough on which to spend a significant amount of time. A TV soundtrack has the capacity to attach significance to moments on a show that might otherwise fall flat on their face.

I think recognizing the intrinsic value of music as it appears every week on your favorite shows will not only lend a greater appreciation for the characters and storylines we invite into our lives, but also foster a more mindful consideration of the addictive artistic medium that is television.

Isabella Dow is the asst. arts & review editor for The Heights. He can be reached at arts@bcheights.com.

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Dance Ensemble:

Eclectic Excellence BCDE’s ‘Masquerade’ was a enthralling and captivating display of talent.

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BY CALEB GRIEGO Arts & Review Editor Both within pieces and between them, Boston College Dance Ensemble exercises a certain level of craft. In a moment between pieces, rose petals remained strewn about the floor from the last performance. The Robsham stage remained open, however, as the girls silhouetted by the stage light swept the petals off stage with Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger” playing overhead.

The heavy guitar chords comically contrasted with the tender dances of the evening. The audience gave them a hearty set of applause as they went back for successive passes. This is a simple occasion emblematic of the character of Dance Ensemble in its latest show, Masquerade.

In dances and outside of them, the troupe allows the audience to find something at which to smile.

Opening the show was “Solo Dance,” choreographed by the group’s officers. The dance was an impressive display of layered movements and brisk synchronicity. The feel of the piece was as a moving picture as the shapes created by the dancers were embellished by bows and bends that revealed dancers in the farther back on the stage.

These dancers too, through the use of their

upper bodies, waved and whipped to make ornate the scene on stage. Collectively, the dancers lent themselves to this overarching movement, while individuals could be seen engaging in personal flair. This dance gives off the impression that there was something unique and engaging to be found on the face of every dancer should one look for it.

“Experience,” choreographed by Juliette Swersky, MCAS ’19, adopted a different kind of step. Quietly, as if rebuking sound, the dancers deftly pranced on stage. As the music swelled, the steps quickened, but remained just as silent and graceful. The bodies of the dancers sometimes adopted angular positions with raised shoulders and slanted arms. Additionally, the dancers formed strong lines and, at one point, a powerful diagonal spanning the entire stage, adding further to the angled nature. These movements in combination with the calculated steps gave the dancers the appearance of marionettes.

The use of rose petals in “Incomplete,” choreographed by Sara Barrett, MCAS ’17, added another level of emotional charge to the already passionate dance. Visually, the red petals contrasted beautifully with the dancers’ white dresses.

Quiet and moving, the piece had dancers

at multiple points pick up the petals and jettison them into the air. As the dancers transitioned into their next move, there was to be a point of contrast or mimicry, as they jumped into the air or fell to the ground, and the petals followed gravity.

Exploring ideas of control and resistance, “You Don’t Own Me,” choreographed by Kristen Brandenburg CSOM ’18, saw these ideas manifest physically. Paired off in twos, the girls were separated by dress, one sporting a sparkling gold dress and the other sparkling black. Throughout the song, the black exercised control over the gold, making her do as commanded through hand gestures. One particularly impressive action had the black pushing and pulling above the gold. The gold responded to these actions through undulations through their center of mass as they remained arched backwards.

To close out the first act, “Salute,” choreographed by Caroline Dorko and Michaela Etre, both CSON ’19, saw dancers sternly clad in camo. Highly choreographed to the song, the dancers moved with it and reacted to lyric moments quickly. This created a fun and pointed overall package for the piece.

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Malloy Talks Art’s Communion With Museums

BY ISABELLA DOW Asst. Arts & Review Editor If you’ve ever wanted to see Moses’ burning bush or pieces of Jesus’ manger, there’s a long history of collections at cathedrals that have allowed patrons to do just that. On Thursday, the McMullen Museum of Art hosted a fascinating lecture on the role of medieval cathedrals as museums, which was presented by the knowledgeable Dr. Mary Malloy. In it, the role of relics, usually the bones or other remains of saints, was explored as they were revered by medieval cultures across Europe and served as an important component to the preservation and creation of contemporary art.

Malloy highlighted the aspects of a museum that make it important to the societies in which it resides. Ranging from serving as inspirational and informational entities, as well as existing as community status symbols and businesses that help support the local economy, these qualities embody the value of museums. All of these features are evident in the robust and at times bizarre history of medieval cathedral artworks. This tradition commenced with a cathedral that was built in Venice to house a collection of relics that were largely stolen.

The cathedral aimed to house the bones of the four apostles, and to get the appropriate relics, elaborate measures were taken.

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Stealing the body of one saint, the relic hunters stole the corpse of St. Mark and replaced it with the lesser-known saint.

Then, they covered the stolen corpse of St. Mark in pork so authorities wouldn’t find it on the ship while it was being transported to the cathedral. This showcases the lengths people were willing to undertake to present these relics, which while amusing, also imparts a significance to these relics that goes beyond mere bragging rights over being able to house flashy items. The creators of these cathedrals also took an interest in secular art, which strengthens the history of the cultural appreciation for artwork in its own right. For example, a cathedral moved to steal four bronze horses from Constantinople, which demonstrates recognition of the power of these artworks to attract traffic to the cathedral and capture the minds and spirits of those who viewed them.

Malloy was quick to point out the multifarious import such relics represented for museums and other institutions. The economic value that these relics brought to cathedrals was significant as well. Though the idea of financial livelihood seems trivial in the presence of priceless works of art, the role of churches or museums as entities in need of revenue is noteworthy in their history and continues to the present day. In the past, visitors could pay a fee to touch or kiss various relics, for a variety

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Malloy articulated the intimately connected nature of art and religious spectacle. of purposes.

Malloy went on to discuss pilgrimages like those described by Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales. These were in fact taken, and people would visit these cathedrals for reasons such as buying indulgences, seeking cures to illness, or even having time taken off of their sentences in purgatory or civilian jail. The Vatican still houses relics today, and other exhibits relating to human remains, such as Body World or mummy exhibits, continue to be some of the most visited types of museum attractions around.

In a great number of instances, the relics that the cathedrals claimed to have were not in fact legitimate. Several supposed heads of John the Baptist were exhibited in cathedrals around Europe, and an absurd number of hands, arms, and teeth of his and other saints have

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been claimed as legitimate remains even when, logistically, that cannot be the case.

Additionally, an obnoxious number of cathedrals claimed to have pieces of the crucifix, as well as every odd item down to bits of the clay out of which Adam was created.

If the attendee believes that the relic or artwork is real, the power of the object becomes evident in the tangible and intangible reactions of the witness. Offering anything from spiritual fulfillment to concrete artwork to be viewed or touched, these relics are important components in the presentation of religious and cultural history.

The link between churches and the formation of museums is strong, and this interaction has created cathedrals and museums that millions of people still visit and enjoy to this day. 

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