The Heights September 18, 2017

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Four Boston College Students Attacked in Marseille They were hospitalized with injuries, but all released last night.

BY CONNOR MURPHY News Editor Four Boston College students were hospitalized early on Sunday in Marseille, France after being sprayed with acid, University Spokesman Jack Dunn confirmed Sunday. As of publication, they have been released from Hôpital de la Timone in Marseille.

The students have been identified as Courtney Siverling, MCAS ’19; Charlotte Kaufman, LSOE ’19; Michelle Krug, MCAS ’19; and Kelsey Kosten, CSOM ’19.

The attack happened around 11 a.m. local time in Marseille, according to The New York Times, just outside of MarseilleSaint-Charles train station. The acid was a weak solution of hydrochloric acid, thrown from a water bottle, according to a Facebook post by Krug.

French authorities arrested a 41-yearold woman in the attack, according to USA Today. Terrorism is not suspected, a spokesperson for the police prefecture in Marseille

confirmed. The suspect has “a psychiatric history,” according to French police.

“It appears that the students are fine, considering the circumstances, though they may require additional treatment for burns,” said Nick Gozik, director of BC’s Office of International Programs. “We have been in contact with the students and their parents and remain in touch with French officials and the U.S. Embassy regarding the incident.”

According to the Associated Press, two of the students suffered face injuries. One of those was a minor sight injury, according to French television station France 3, and she

will visit an eye doctor tomorrow. The other two students who were with them were treated at the hospital for shock.

Kaufman, Krug, and Siverling are currently enrolled in BC’s Paris program, and Kosten is a student at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark.

“Our first priority is to make sure that the students are safe and to attend to any medical concerns that they might have,” Gozik said in an email.

The U.S. State Department issued a short statement to The Boston Globe.

Dunn said the three studying abroad in Paris planned to stay Sunday night in Mar-

seille and return to Paris on Monday.

Krug posted a Facebook status Sunday evening, saying that she and her friends anticipate a quick recovery. She also implored people to send thoughts and prayers not only to the four, but also for the attacker to “receive the help she needs and deserves.”

“Mental illness is not a choice and should not be villainized,” Krug wrote. “I’d like to thank the US Consulate, French police, and all of the wonderful people who helped us today and made us feel safe. Looking forward to continuing this incredible opportunity to live and study in France!” 

Union Passes 270-224, Gains Bargaining Rights Out of 778 eligible voters, two-thirds went to the booth.

BY CONNOR MURPHY News Editor The Boston College Graduate Employees Union – United Auto Workers won its bid Wednesday night with the National Labor Relations Board to establish collective bargaining rights with the University.

The final tally was 270 votes in favor and 224 against.

“I was pretty confident that we would win, but this is still such a great feeling, such a great victory,” said Victoria Gabriele, a second-year Ph.D. student in physics.

The vote is the culmination of a yearslong organizing process for the union. BC is the latest in a string of private universities whose graduate employee unions have successfully voted for collective bargaining. BC filed a motion to have the vote delayed and the NLRB’s decision allowing the election reviewed, but the Washington, D.C., NLRB this week denied the motion. Provost and Dean of Faculties David Quigley, on Aug. 21, released an open letter outlining its opposition.

Vice President for Human Resources

David Trainor published an open letter to BC faculty Aug. 29 with recommendations for how faculty should talk to their grad students about the election and what they could and could not say. In the letter, he said that the United Auto Workers had promised graduate employees at some schools certain increases in compensation or benefits once the union had formed.

“It is perfectly acceptable for faculty supervisors to inform graduate students that in collective bargaining neither side is required to agree to what the other side proposes, although the parties must bargain in good faith,” Trainor wrote.

“We are disappointed by the results of the election, and will review our legal options with the NLRB in Washington regarding the regional director’s decision to approve the election,” University Spokesman Jack Dunn said in an email. “We remain committed to supporting all of our graduate students, whose contribution to the mission of the University we value and appreciate.”

Asked about the relatively close vote, Gabriele said union members would now have to work together with any graduate employees who might be opposed.

“We’re going to have to find a way to work together, figure out what their issues are, and figure out something that works for everyone,” Gabriele said. 

BC Plans No Changes to Sexual Assault Policies Admins have voiced concern about remarks from Sec. of Ed.

BY KATHERINE MURPHY Heights Staff While addressing students and faculty at George Mason University on Sept. 7, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos voiced her dismay at the current system of how sexual assault is handled on college campuses, and announced upcoming changes to policies set under President Barack Obama.

Melinda Stoops, Boston College’s Title IX Coordinator and associate vice president for Student Affairs, voiced concerns about the uncertainty about the changes DeVos plans to make.

“I think what is anxiety provoking for everyone is that she didn’t provide a clear direction of what’s going to change and so it put us all on notice that a change is coming but we’re not sure what that is going to look

like,” Stoops said.

DeVos—whose confirmation hearing came down to a first-ever tie-breaking vote for a Cabinet nomination, by Vice President Mike Pence—said she believes that the current laws, which are derived from a “Dear Colleague” letter put out in 2011 by the Obama administration, provide an excess of government involvement in the guilt determination process.

“Washington has burdened schools with increasingly elaborate and confusing guidelines that even lawyers find difficult to understand and navigate,” DeVos said.

DeVos also said that the current laws do not provide proper due process or adequate services to victims of rape or to those accused.

“Survivors, victims of a lack of due process, and campus administrators have all told me that the current approach does a disservice to everyone involved,” she said.

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Rush Hour Brandon Wimbush and Josh Adams each eclipsed 200 yards rushing in a 49-20 blowout of the Eagles in the Holy War, B1.

Beaumier to Serve as Liason to Trustees He will replace Devino as V.P. and University Secretary.

BY COLE DADY Heights Staff Rev. Casey Beaumier, S.J., Ph.D. ’13, was elevated to Vice President and University Secretary last week.

In his 11th year at Boston College, he will take on various responsibilities in this new capacity.

Beaumier inherits this role from Rev. Terrence Devino, S.J., who will now serve as a retreat director at the Eastern Point Retreat House in Gloucester, Mass., as noted by University Communications.

Beaumier will remain in his current roles as the director of the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies and of BC’s Loyola House residence, a community for male BC students considering a vocation within the Society of Jesus. He also lives in CLXF on Upper Campus as the Resident Minister.

Among his new duties, Beaumier will work with the Board of Trustees Committee on Nominations and Governance every quarter. He will be the liaison between the University and the board when nominating new trustees and selecting commencement speakers. Every month, there will also be a

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Father Casey (right) serves as the director of the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies. meeting among the University vice presidents, which he will lead.

He will also help contribute to the maintaining relationships with the University’s key associates as an official representative of the school.

If the inaguration of another Jesuit university’s president occurs, he will stand in for University President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J. as BC’s representative if he is unable to attend. If there is a funeral for a friend of BC, he will likely represent the school there.

“I enjoy meeting, greeting, and

tracking people,” Beaumier said. “In this role, I will work with friends and family of the University, and that’s a real pleasure.”

Although he predicts his schedule this year will be quite busy, he is driven to better the mission of the University.

He is happy to do whatever he can to help BC in its Jesuit and Catholic mission.

“There’s a real energy and lots happening on campus,” Beaumier said. “I’m really excited to be a part of it.” 

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The Office of Student Affairs will host an event celebrating Constitution Day today from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Maloney Hall fourth floor reception area. There will be United States trivia, a postcard project for the children of Charlottesville, and a reading of the Constitution.

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On Wednesday from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., the Office of Health Promotion will host its 7th annual Healthapalooza, a celebration of student health. The event, which will take place on O’Neill Plaza, will feature free massages, food samples, and an opportunity to win an iPad mini.

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On Thursday from 12 to 2 p.m., dairy workers from Ben and Jerry’s will be on the Academic Quad discussing the agreement they drafted with company executives, “Milk with Dignity.” The agreement, which has yet to be enacted, calls for more protection and fair treatment for farmworkers.

NEWS After Two Hurricanes, Affected Students Reflect BRIEFS

By Chris Russo

BC, ITTB Sign Memorandum

Boston College and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) signed a memorandum of understanding, the first step in exploring a strategic partnership between the two institutions, University Communications announced on Thursday.

“The multiplier effect of a BC partnership with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay is significant,” BC School of Social Work Dean Gautam Yadama said to The Chronicle.

IITB was founded in 1958, and is now regarded as one of the top technical universities in the world. A partnership between the universities could bring enhanced research, project development and implementation, coursework and field education, and knowledge sharing. The agreement also presents both institutions with the opportunity to collaborate on renewable energy initiatives that will help improve life in the lowresource areas of rural India.

“BC School of Social Work is already collaborating with the IITB to examine the impact of deploying seven million solar lamps to rural households in India,” Thomas Chiles, Vice Provost for Research and Academic Planning, said to The Chronicle. “Our partnership with IITB offers a powerful illustration of how universities can collaborate to liberate the productive capacities of poor households and communities.”

Chiles added that BC faculty from a variety of disciplines will collaborate with IITB to address the problem of energy poverty in India. This research partnership will also give both IITB and BC students the opportunity to work in the field assisting faculty in finding solutions and also testing those solutions.

“Simply stated, this memorandum of understanding embodies the type of research that Boston College envisions and seeks to foster in the future with the new Institute for Integrated Science and Society,” Chiles said.

Moore Promoted On Thursday, University President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J. announced that Joy Haywood Moore, associate vice president for Alumni Relations and BC ’81, will be the new University Commencement director.

“Joy has extensive experience in planning major events, and she knows Boston College well,” Leahy said to The Chronicle. “I appreciate her continued generosity and commitment to Boston College.”

Moore was presented with an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from BC in 2010 and in 2011, joined the Advancement Office as the director of stewardship and donor relations. She had also spearheaded the University’s 150 on the Road service campaign. The campaign provided over 450,000 meals for families in Africa.

Previously, she had worked as interim and deputy head of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa and also held a variety of leadership positions at the Archer School for Girls in Los Angeles and Dana Hall School in Wellesley, her alma mater. She had also served as a trustee for the National Coalition of Girls’ Schools and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.

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Hurricane Harvey tore through 300 miles of the Texas coast last month, destroying homes, businesses, and displacing over 1 million people. Just two weeks later, Hurricane Irma attacked the Caribbean Islands, Cuba, and much of Florida. Although Irma was downgraded to Category 2 by the time it reached Florida, storm winds reached up to 105 m.p.h, and surges of up to 4 feet flooded downtown Miami. The hurricanes left behind tens of billions of dollars in damage and forced millions of Americans to evacuate.

Various groups at Boston College have made efforts to provide assistance in the recovery for the hurricanes. The Volunteer and Service Learning Center will coordinate a point drive this week to support families affected by the hurricanes. At this weekend’s home football game against Notre Dame, the University will raise money for hurricane relief efforts. In addition, the Office of Campus Ministry is planning to add several new locations to their Appalachia Volunteers service trip in Texas and Florida. No new destinations have yet been confirmed.

Harvey hit Texas just as students were moving onto campus. Blake Gould, MCAS ’19, planned on leaving for BC on August 26, but due to the serious forecast of the storm, his parents convinced him last minute to leave on the 25.

“In one evening, I had to pack everything that I was going to be able to

take,” he said.

Gould’s parents told him not to worry about packing too heavily because they would come up to BC the first week to bring the rest of his belongings. Little did they know the flooding would be so severe that Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport would be closed for a week, with no commercial flights arriving or departing.

Gould arrived at BC with a small carry-on and a backpack containing enough clothing for a week. He couldn’t move into his off-campus home until Sept. 1, so he stayed in friend’s rooms both on and off campus over the course of the week. He described his week as hectic, as he rolled his suitcase with him often, moving from one room to another.

“It was almost uncomfortable at some points,” he said. “But I had a good group of guys that I was able to reach out to. They offered up their homes to me without a second look.”

Due to the severity of the flooding and damage in Houston, his parents were not able to come to Boston to bring his belongings when he moved into his offcampus home.

Despite the tumultuous situation he faced on campus and at home, Gould made it a point to attend all of his classes, which he said served as a distraction from what was going on at home. Many of his teachers knew where he was from, and he would tell his story to his classmates.

Houston received over 50 inches of rain during the week of Harvey.

Kingwood, the area of Houston where

Gould is from, is bordered by a lake and several reservoirs. Many of the town’s restaurants and businesses are located along the water and were destroyed by flooding, Gould said.

His family decided not to evacuate from their home because they believed they were far enough from the reservoir that flooding would not be an issue. They soon discovered they were wrong, as water began to flood their backyard. They then decided it was time to evacuate.

Luckily, their house was built high enough that water did not reach the first floor, but their elderly neighbor across the street was not as lucky. She had several feet of water flooding the first floor of her home.

After evacuating the area for three days, Gould’s father and two younger brothers went back home to assess the damage. Besides a torn-up backyard, their house was intact. They saw the damage that was done to the neighbor’s house across the street and decided to help her with her rebuilding. They are helping her repair the first level of her home.

Gould stayed in communication with his friends throughout the entire storm.

Many of their homes were severely damaged from flooding. Some attend universities close to Houston, so they were able to come home and pitch in with the recovery efforts in the neighborhood.

“Everybody has really made an effort to come together and help each other out,” Gould said.

Two weeks after the devastation of Harvey, Irma hit Florida and surrounding islands.

“It was very hectic before the storm,” said Sergio Farina, CSOM ’20 and a Tampa native. “There was nothing left on the shelves. Everyone was going nuts to get a survival kit.”

Farina’s family evacuated a day before the storm hit Tampa, staying in South Carolina in an effort to avoid the storm.

Soon after the storm hit Florida, however, it also hit South Carolina, causing flash floods and trapping Farina’s family there.

Farina said the power is still out in much of Tampa and there was severe flooding close to the coast. His home was not damaged greatly during the storm, but his roommate, who has a house in Miami, believes his house could be destroyed, but his family has not been allowed back to see the extent of the damage yet.

Sage Francis, MCAS ’19, is from Coral Gables, Fla, which is just southwest of Miami.

Both of her parents evacuated and stayed with family in Charlotte, N.C. Her home was not damaged during the storm, but her childhood home farther south was hit hard and sustained damage.

Coral Gables, known for its tree-lined streets, now faces a problem as many of the trees have fallen and are blocking roads.

Francis’ high school’s football field was destroyed during the storm. A sailboat was picked up from the storm surge and sprawled across the field.

“It’s weird to see the videos of [the damage], but knowing that everyone I know is safe is nice,” Francis said. n

Portico, Globalization Among Most Enrolled Courses

By Abigail Druhot Heights Staff Scheduling courses each semester is overwhelming for many Boston College students. Fitting in core courses, major or minor requirements, and electives can be daunting. In the midst of this chaos, some courses and professors prove remarkably popular.

One of the most enrolled courses this semester is Portico, required of all freshmen in the Carroll School of Management.

Portico provides freshmen with a transition into the business school with activities like four-year planning, advising, and guest speakers. As CSOM continues to grow in size—enrollment was under 2,000 five years ago and is now over 2,200—the Portico program will have to accommodate more students. Portico has been an integral part of the CSOM experience, and although the class structure this year looks similar to last year, there have been changes over time.

“If you were to look at eight years ago versus this year, the course would look much different,” said Ethan Sullivan,

CSOM’s assistant dean for undergraduate curriculum. “Incremental improvements lead to big improvements over time.”

One of the other most commonly taken classes is microeconomics. With wellknown professors like Can Erbil, Tracy Regan, and Richard Tresch, it’s a class many freshman enroll in during their first semester at BC. Erbil said in his 21 years of teaching he’s learned a lot about accommodating a large 300-person lecture.

“I am always walking around the lecture hall, stopping at different spots,” he said. “My goal is to make the lecture hall feel smaller and have a closer interaction with my students.”

Regan expressed the same sentiment regarding accommodating a large lecture hall.

“I try to make my class feel smaller by making it as interactive as possible,” she said. “I regularly ask questions to the class and ask them to do the same of me.

It’s great to have so many perspectives in one room that can enrich the curriculum for everyone.”

Both Erbil and Regan are passionate about the benefits microeconomics can

provide for all students, regardless of their major or career path.

“The success story of the biotech industry in the Boston area is partially due to a reliable ecosystem, which provides finance and further research avenues,” Erbil said.

Regan believes that behavioral economics complements psychology and marketing. She also said that economics is useful to many of her students who are on a pre-med track.

“Understanding the business side of things is becoming increasingly important to medical professionals as they operate their own private practices or ultimately work in hospital administration,” she said.

Globalization is another popular history course, satisfying the cultural diversity core and half of the history requirement.

This semester there are four sections, each holding around 250 students.

Catherine Warner, a visiting assistant professor, describes the course as a process that produces new types of connections.

“It poses problems and opportunities that people around the world are grappling with in their lives in very diverse ways,” she said.

Warner believes the course also positively affects other areas of students’ academic and professional lives.

“We focus on learning to read and evaluate primary sources in order to develop evidence-based analytical thinking and argumentation,” she said. “I believe this will be a useful skill for students in many different courses.”

Another one of the most common courses is Atlantic Worlds, which also serves as half the history core requirement.

Chris Staysniak, a part-time professor teaching Atlantic Worlds, hopes that students take away life-long skills from the class that prepare them not just for the rest of their BC curriculum, but also the rest of their lives. He wants them to retain “analytical reflexes,” or asking themselves “How did things get to be this way?”

Staysniak also credits his teaching assistants with a large part of the success of the class.

“They are less my supporting cast than they are my co-stars,” he said. “Their more individualized attention and instruction is central to the student’s experience of the course.” n

POLICE BLOTTER: 9/13 - 9/15 Wednesday, Sept. 13 11:52 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a suspicious circumstance at Campion Hall.

3:44 p.m. - A report was filed regarding an actual fire at Middle Roadways.

9:07 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a fire alarm activation at Reservoir Apartments.

Thursday, Sept. 14

a fire alarm activation on 300 Hammond Pond Parkway.

an underaged intoxicated person.

Friday, Sept. 15

2:36 a.m. - A report was filed regarding an underaged intoxicated person in Xavier Hall.

11:51 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a medical incident at Gasson Hall.

1:43 a.m. - A report was filed regarding an underaged intoxicated person at Modular Apartments.

9:09 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a

2:02 a.m. - A report was filed regarding

—Source: The Boston College Police Department

CORRECTIONS If Boston College was a food, what would it be?

“A screaming Eagle from Eagles.”

—Ernie Violet, MCAS ’20

“A grain bowl.”—Michelle Kondratiev, MCAS ’21

“Buffalo chicken sub from Eagles.”—Greg Erikhman, MCAS ’19

“A lobster roll.”

—John Mooers, MCAS ’19

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

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UGBC Budget Set at $327,976 for 2017-18 School Year

By Chris Russo Assoc. News Editor The budget for the Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC) is set at $327,976 for the 2017-18 year.

This year’s budget is just $23 less than the 2016-17 year. The most notable budget increase is for the the Council for Students with Disabilities, which received $13,128, a $5,107 increase from last year.

The Executive Office has a $49,000 budget, which includes $12,500 for established programming, a $19,000 salary for the graduate assistant who aids UGBC, and the stipends that the executive mem-

bers receive. The stipends remain the same as last year. Akosua Achampong, UGBC president and MCAS ’18, will receive $4,000. Tt King, UGBC executive vice president and MCAS ’18, will receive $3,500. Each of the vice presidents will receive a $2,000 stipend.

UGBC’s Diversity and Inclusion branch received the largest amount of funding, at $108,798. These funds will go toward the GLC Formal, ALC Ball, ALC Boat Cruise, and ALC Showdown, which are some of the largest events UGBC hosts.

The budget for Student Initiatives is $56,650, an increase of $1,349 from

last year. Over $40,000 of the Student Initiatives budget will go toward new programming, which will include an event featuring former presidential candidate Ralph Nader this fall, as well as a women in politics event series, a succulent sale, FitFest, as well as several small-scale events. The funding for the AHANA Leadership Council and the GLBTQ Leadership Council both decreased this year, after increasing for at least two years.

Last year, ALC received $37,815. This year it will be allocated $35,735 to host guest speakers, embark on initiatives to connect international, commuter, and Woods College of Advancing Studies students, host

a variety of events on campus, and attend retreats and conferences off campus.

GLC’s budget decreased by $1,750 to $27,465 this year. The budget will fund guest speakers, a town hall each semester, an alumni reception, and the annual Pride Week, among other events.

The Student Assembly will receive $5,000 this year to fund SA initiatives and shuttle buses during breaks. The Communications Division will receive $19,000 for promotional supplies and social events, including a new Valentine’s Day event.

The Student Organizations division will be given $3,550 this year. Operating expenses in this category increased this

year because of an increase in the cost of the Student Involvement Fair. New student groups were added to the fair, causing it to become more expensive to hold.

“I think a good step forward in this year’s budget was looking at areas where money wasn’t spent last year and allocating that money to [Council for Studnts with Disabilities],” said Colin Vergilio, UGBC vice president for financial affairs and CSOM ’19. “The division has been growing its presence on campus over the past couple of years, and the work they’re doing really resonates with UGBC’s mission of advocacy.” n

Students Talk Updated Demonstrations Policy

By Connor Murphy News Editor

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Meet Kelly Hughes, New Head of Appa

By Joan Kennedy Assoc. Copy Editor Surrounded earlier this semester by fires and fireflies, s’mores and substantial conversations about the essence of sandwich-ness, Kelly Hughes, Boston College’s new Appalachian Volunteers (Appa) Program director, watched everyone on the first Appa trip leader retreat laugh, sensing a connectedness between, and with, the students. In an interview, she spoke of the satisfaction she gets from watching students come together and share stories.

“In one of the Gospels, Jesus goes ‘I will give you life and I will give you an abundance of it,’” Hughes said. “I kept thinking, ‘This is abundant life.’”

Hughes graduated from Providence College, where her faith came alive. She met her role model, who was, unsurprisingly, a campus minister. Through him, she encountered the presence of joy in a life of faith and was first provoked to ask questions and “wrestle with God,” while receiving love and support. When her friend in college was diagnosed with terminal leukemia, Hughes’s campus minister helped her navigate physically and spiritually through suffering, driving her to the hospital and pushing her to understand and connect how to find love in tragedy. Through his ministry, she found her calling.

“I thought, I don’t know what this is, but I want to do this for the rest of my life. I recognized this was the thing worth giving your life for,” Hughes said.

Hughes threw her whole self into her

faith by creating a peer ministry program at Providence, whose leaders with which she still keeps in contact today. She then furthered her faith through education, graduating from BCs School of Theology and Ministry. She was struck by student engagement at BC, specifically students’ fierce commitment to knowing their place at the University and the world at-large, and their willingness to ask provocative questions.

That’s what drew her to Appa. The alternative Spring Break, which began when Gregg Cassin, BC ’80, and 19 other students piled into a car, headed to rural Kentucky, asked an important question: What if you gave up bikinis and bellinis on the beach to help serve others?

Hughes hopes to keep seeing students ask questions, even as simple as “So what?”

She wants to take people’s engagement in faith and justice and see them apply it to every aspect of their lives.

“These questions are the stuff of our hearts, of our minds, of our souls,” Hughes said. “It’s the questions that fuel this really transformative time.”

Hughes loves the sense of freedom and wistfulness evoked by her favorite song—”Born to Run,” by Bruce Springsteen, which can be heard dancing from her office in the basement of McElroy and springing from the unrolled windows of her car. Music reminds her of how she started in ministry—her humble beginnings in the occupation being that of “choir girl.” Hughes believes that music can be a connection to people and God, a means of finding authentic friendship. She finds God in the moving world around her, not in stagnancy or

harshness.

“The educational components of the program—both what happens before the trip, and what happens during and afterward—are critical and require intentionality and planning. Kelly brings a fantastic spirit and a creative mind to Campus Ministry, and we’re excited for the ways that she will engage with our student leaders to bring these important pieces of Appa’s mission to life,” said Ryan Heffernan, Appa’s previous program director, in an email.

An avid storyteller herself, Hughes is interested in hearing the stories that make students. The candor and honesty of these conversations, not coffee (although she does have a Keurig in her office) gets Hughes out of bed in the morning and perpetuates her movement.

“I’ll never forget the conversation I had with a teenager during my year of service where she looked me in the eye and said, ‘I hear what you’re saying but I don’t understand. My father has cancer, how can you tell me to have faith? How can you tell me right now there is a God when all I know is pain and suffering?’”

Hughes said.

Hughes is interested in walking with students in whatever they may be going through. Come May, she hopes to have a greater understanding of students from BCe and the way in which Appa invites students to participate in social justice.

She hopes to see greater collaboration in building Appa as a part of the University.

“If I’m sitting here a year from now, I hope there’s other people on my couch,” Hughes said. n

After the Office of the Dean of Students updated the demonstrations policy of the Code of Student Conduct earlier this month, several students impacted by the policy or involved in the update said they were pleased with the clarifications but still hopeful for additional expansions of student free-expression rights.

The update clarifies an important point of contention in the old policy: whether students could individually register demonstrations.

Last year, several members of Eradicate Boston College Racism were sanctioned for holding unregistered protests, largely, they said, because they were confused about whether they could individually register on behalf of a non-registered student organization. Dean of Students Thomas Mogan said that the policy has always existed but was unclear in the old text.

“It’s great to see the intentional speech surrounding the parameters of registration and other requirements,” Undergraduate Government of BC president and executive VP Akosua Achampong and Tt King, both MCAS ’18, said in an email. “However, there is always space for improvement and as the representatives of the student voice we are open to fielding feedback from all members of the Boston College community and continuing to work with administrators.”

Craig Ford, GMCAS ’22, who was the executive director of the Graduate Students Association last year and advocated for a more permissive policy, said in an email that one of the biggest differences with the update is that “now generally applicable policies that were once available only after students would meet with Dean Mogan are—finally—generally available.”

“But—we should be clear—these adjustments hardly qualify as ‘changes’, because the policy has not, in fact, changed,” Ford said.

Ford highlighted that the updated policy still allows BC to withhold permits for demonstrations that could disrupt University operations or conflict with BC’s Jesuit, Catholic mission. He said that although these clauses were not written in the last iteration of the policy, they “are more like announcements of previously used criteria for declining to

approve a demonstration.”

Mogan has said repeatedly that the limitations in place are largely about ensuring the safety of participants.

“I think the changes in the policy, in some ways, definitely do align with the recommendations that we put forward,” said Cedrick-Michael Simmons, a Ph.D. student in sociology who was one of the seven Eradicate members sanctioned last year. Simmons’s specific sanction was disciplinary probation. Simmons was referring to recommendations made by Eradicate and the group Faculty for Justice, which put a plan forward after suggestions made by UGBC did not result in changes. Like Ford, he cited the clarifications on who can register a demonstration as a positive.

“It’s unfortunate that those positives had to come as a result, or in connection with, people like myself and a few others being treated like crap, to be honest,” Simmons said. “This isn’t a situation where administrators should be celebrated … it’s a matter of they did what they were supposed to do all along.”

“It’s not like BC has all of a sudden gone against the grain … it’s that BC has caught up, or almost caught up, to where other students are at,” he added.

Both Ford and Simmons said they were disappointed that the updated policy does not include some kind of advisory board on free expression, which Ford said could make the demonstration registration process more “communal.”

“As I’ve stated publicly in the past, freedom of expression is a Jesuit and Catholic value, and it is one that we are called to discern together as students, faculty, staff, and administrators,” Ford said.

Simmons said the idea of an advisory board is to make sure that oversight of the demonstration registration and other free expression-related processes has the possibility of some kind of appeal or review.

Mogan said his office plans to establish a Student Advisory Board to provide feedback on initiatives, policies, and overall student experience, although it is unclear if it would have an involvement in free-expression issues.

“Until there’s a semblance of some kind of shared governance … then we’re probably going to be in the same situation we’re in, because it’s not about just what’s in the policy, it’s about how it’s implemented,” Simmons said. n

DeVos Statements Will Not Change Assault Policies, Admins Say DeVos, from A1 upcoming changes, BC’s Title IX team is prepared to handle any alterations that the government makes to the current laws.

“I have a group of people that meets monthly that’s a Title IX hearing committee and we had met shortly after that speech so we discussed that there and we will be con-

tinuing to discuss it,” Stoops said.

Stoops explained that the “Dear Colleague” letter that DeVos talked about changing is not the only sexual assault laws that BC follows.

“Title IX is only one of several guidelines we follow, which is something we need to keep in mind, I really believe that we have a strong policy, our policies comply with the

law,” she said. “They comply with the Violence Against Women Act, and so at this point we do have strong policies in place and we’re not going to do anything at this point in time.”

Katie Dalton, director of the Women’s Center, also said that the current policies would not change.

“The Women’s Center is committed to maintaining the University’s current policies

regarding sexual misconduct, all of which comply with the law and are fair to all parties,” she said in an email.

Before making radical changes to the laws, the Department of Education will hear feedback from experts on changes they might make.

“There’s going to be a comments process where they’ll put forward information for

people to review and comment on, which is a good thing,” Stoops, who oversees the Women’s Center, said.

“The (Women’s) Center knows that the University will closely monitor any legal developments, but at this time, does not have plans to change current policies or current response to sexual violence on campus,” Dalton said. n

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‘Little Cloud’ Floats Onto The Street for New Installation

By Madeleine D’Angelo Metro Editor It’s not every day that you come face to face with a cloud. But now, if you’re wandering down The Street at Chestnut Hill, perhaps on your way to Shake Shack or Star Market, you’ll come face to face with a giant one, staring you right in the face with a giant smile.

This is Little Cloud, The Street’s newest public art installation. A 10foot-tall sculpture, Little Cloud takes the shape of a picture-perfect cloud, with a little tuft of cloud resting atop its main body. But the installation isn’t fluffy or wispy like the clouds floating above us. The sculpture is made of pure white fiberglass, so that it’ll stay intact until its duration on the The Street concludes in December. On its front side is a face, a little curving smile framed by two large black dots for eyes, and two blushpink dots just below on its “cheeks.”

The Little Cloud rests atop a white platform, smiling at passersby and exuding the seemingly simple, but often difficult to capture, feeling of pure happiness. The cloud’s effect is a mixture of ethereal and playful, a shockingly complex mix of emotions that is elicited from such a straightforward creation. But this effect, evoking powerful and positive emotions through a universal symbol, is exactly what FriendsWithYou, the artistic duo behind Little Cloud, intended.

Formed in 2002 by artists Samuel

Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III, FriendsWithYou is an art collaborative focused on creating feelings of “magic, luck, and friendship” through its works.

In the past, these works have criss-crossed the globe and included everything from more physical works such as the glowing Supermoon in South Korea or a Light Cave in Michigan, to Light Spirit, a virtual reality experience. Now working together for almost 16 years, Borkson and Sandoval explained to The Heights in an email that they have created a body of work that they hope combats the “isolating social arrangement of modern culture” with pieces that show “a space or an object that is meant to be shared.” Regardless of the specific piece, the themes that the artists work to express concern their search for “communion” and their strain against “isolation.”

“We live in an age of a perpetual precarious condition,” Borkson and Sandoval said in an email, “whether it be economically or ideologically, that is very hard to assimilate, and we are seeing the struggles first hand.”

In this case, their response to the struggle question is a cloud, a universal beacon of lightness and optimism.

It’s an example of how the duo prefers taking universal ideas that are sometimes difficult to express, and transforming them into “very much accessible language.” For Borkson and Sandoval, the symbol of the cloud has a become that kind of language, a “recurring icon” that carries a specific

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After its installation in early August, FriendsWithYou’s Little Cloud sculpture will continue to be on display until December. and profound message that one might not first expect. “[The cloud is] a symbol of uplift and simplicity; animism brought to the breath and atmosphere to the lightness of a burdened reality that we can all aspire to,” Borkson and Sandoval said.

Even though the image of the cloud was already a motif of Friend-

sWithYou’s work, it took Borkson and Sandoval a few months to develop the best way to fit their concept into the Chestnut Hill community. And for a duo used to dealing with “complex, interactive performative work,” creating Little Cloud didn’t pose too much of a challenge.

Borkson and Sandoval do, however, have specific hopes for the

impression that Little Cloud might make on the people who visit The Street, explaining that they hope visitors “take a second to stare into this icon and share the serenity that it projects.”

Perhaps them, after absorbing a sense of calm from Little Cloud, viewers will send it back into the world around them. n

Examining Education Platforms in Boston Mayoral Race

By Molly Duggan Heights Staff As the preliminary election for the Boston mayoral race on Sept. 26 draws closer, it is important to compare two of the frontrunners, current Mayor Martin J. Walsh, WCAS ’09, and Tito Jackson, on an issue that concerns all students: education.

With the consistently rising cost of tuition in all levels of schooling, a good education has become less of a right and more of a privilege. The top universities in the country cost tens of thousands of dollars per year, and to even have a chance at getting into them, one must invest their money in countless additional ways, from paying for private schools to hiring an SAT tutor. Walsh and Jackson both have platforms that seek to make education more accessible to all, and each raises past education efforts in citing why they are a good candidate for Mayor of Boston.

Walsh notes a significant accomplishment in his education record: This year alone, he has increased the Boston Public Schools’ (BPS) budget by $40 million, making it larger than ever before. Walsh’s campaign website also notes that since he has taken office, BPS’s graduation rate has been at an all-time high. According to the BPS website, the graduation rate for the class of 2015 “achieved an historic increase, rising four percentage points from the previous year to reach an all-time high of 70.7 percent.” Walsh’s

campaign also notes that during his time in office, “BPS has taken a targeted approach to closing opportunity and achievement gaps by allocating $1.1 million in the FY18 budget to help more than 2,500 students experiencing homelessness.” Walsh has also extended the school day, totaling an extra 20 days each year.

Jackson, however, calls attention to cuts in the 2016 budget for “programs for students with autism and who have experienced trauma.” According to The Bay State Banner, this is in reference to the fact that “last fiscal year, the city reduced per pupil funding allotments for children with autism and socioemotional needs.” The budgets for each individual school are established by taking into account the number of students enrolled on what category they fall under, “such as special education or low-income status.” Some argue that the budgets were reduced because of a decline in enrollment of students who fall under these categories.

One of Walsh’s prominent accomplishments in the realm of education during his time in office has been the creation of the Boston Bridge program, which originally provided tuition-free education at Bunker Hill, Roxbury, and Mass Bay community colleges.

Now, the program also provides free education at four-year state colleges and universities where, after attending community college, students can obtain the last two years of their degree.

There were 50 students enrolled in the program in 2016, and according to

Walsh’s campaign website, “97 percent of them are on track to finish their first year of study.”

Jackson’s campaign website notes another plan that could benefit the young people of Boston. He argues that, “Education doesn’t stop with college acceptance and matriculation; we should also teach trade skills that will lead to profitable careers and pay living wages.” Should Jackson become mayor, he says that he would advocate for the creation of partnerships between trades and schools in order to “build pathways for anyone seeking training.”

Jackson also cites expertise gained during his time as Chair of the Boston City Council’s Committee on Education, noting his opposition in 2016 to Massachusetts Ballot Question 2 in his education platform. A “yes” vote to this question would have supported a proposal to authorize as many as 12 new charter schools by the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education per year. Jackson believes that charter seat expansions should be reconsidered because of their negative impact on public schools and existing charter schools. Jackson opposed Question 2 by participating in debates, speaking at rallies, and utilizing social media. He then went on to write the Boston City Council Resolution opposing Ballot Question 2, which passed with overwhelming support.

Jackson also details other aspects of his education platform, citing his commitment to provide free M7 bus passes

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For the two frontrunners in the Boston mayoral race, education is a central concern. to all high school students, as well as provide resources for the instruction of music, art, and computer science.

He also argues for the importance of “meaningful wraparound supports,” specifically advocating for a nurse in every school.

Another unique aspect of Jackson’s education platform is that it displays a commitment to inclusivity. In a press release, Jackson noted that he is committed to ending the achievement gap, and will ensure that schools are safe

havens, especially for DACA students.

Walsh has also had a track record for promoting inclusivity. While in office, he has proposed legislation to “fund quality universal pre-K by redirecting surplus revenue from the Convention Center Fund.”

Education is clearly an issue that is important to the two frontrunners, as it is an integral part of each of their platforms. Election Day, Sept. 26, looms near—soon candidates will see if their efforts have paid off. n

With Mylestone, Your Memories Will Live on Forever

By Nathan Xie Heights Staff On his usual flights from Boston to New York’s LaGuardia Airport, Dave Balter started noticing the tens of thousands of headstones lining the endless fields of cemeteries nearby.

On the approaching descent, Balter decided to play a little game.

He wanted to see how many people he could count that were visiting deceased loved ones in the cemeteries.

For his first flight coming in, he saw none. Then, second, third, and fourth flights went by—also none.

“After about 20 flights, I never saw a living visitor, which sort of triggered this moment—we have this legacy way of memorializing deceased loved ones,” Balter said.

“Why don’t we do this anymore?

Maybe we’re a transient society or cemeteries are just creepy and,

frankly, we don’t like going to them.”

In the digital age, our stories are becoming defined by digital photographs, among other technological devices and functionalities.

Coming to this realization, Balter—the CEO and co-founder of Mylestone—entered the funeral industry, affectionately also known as the death industry.

His goal: to revolutionize the antiquated field by creating more efficient methods to memorialize deceased loved ones.

After basing the startup in Boston, where he had already founded Intelligent.ly and was well integrated into the tech and startup community, Balter and his team soon discovered that the death business is technophobic.

And individuals with recently deceased loved ones rarely call call numerous funeral homes to compare prices.

“People aren’t going to go around

calling funeral homes and asking: ‘Hey, what type of technology do you have?’” Balter said. “So, they basically have no requirement to change.”

After visiting many funeral homes, Balter and his team realized how slow the process is—several times, family members would get stuck deciding which photographs of their loved ones they should memorialize.

“That triggered us—wait a second,” Balter said. “If one of the problems we started having was that people had too much digital clutter—way too many photos—but they still liked thinking about the stories of their lives, what if we gave them a tool that made it easy for them to do that? That’s what transformed us into this.”

Mylestone’s founders now focus on the living market, on the people that want to reflect on their lives or or share their memories. Balter

underscores the storytelling and narrative aspect of these moments that Mylestone will magnify.

“Most of us are not fantastic writers and storytelling is an art,” Balter said. “So what we end up with is people saying ‘too much time’ or ‘too hard.’”

Mylestone bridges that gap by attaining access to the client’s photo library. A biographer from Mylestone will be assigned to inquire about your photos via text.

Then, the story steadily comes to fruition with minimal work and effort on the client’s part. Mylestone strategically matches you to one of approximately a thousand writers or biographers, helped with pictures you provide.

“We usually start with a picture out of the album,” Balter said.

“You’ll get a text that usually says, ‘Hey! Check this [photo] out!’”

Once enough information has been collected, the assigned writer

will get back to you with a story to accompany your memories and photo albums.

Balter detailed how Mylestone focuses on preserving of the living—people like to relive their own stories and photographs.

Moreover, Balter described how memorializing these photographs preserves your story for friends and family.

“It’s kind of fun to look at your photos and have somebody actually ask you questions about things and tell you what they think is interesting,” Balter said. “It’s a very different way of engaging with that library.”

In a technologically driven society, many of us want our stories preserved.

Mylestone intends to magnify and share these idiosyncratic stories and redefine how we preserve memories and share our stories more than just by scrolling through a photo album. n

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Set the Oven Aflame: The Birth of BC’s First Cooking Club

By Archer Parquette Features Editor Freshman year at Boston College is rarely a time of culinary excellence.

In fact, it is usually a time of culinary mediocrity, if not outright failure. Your average freshman eats three meals a day at the dining hall, growing less and less enthusiastic with every piece of orange chicken. Maybe they throw in some variety with a Pelon burrito or a couple Slim Jims from CityCo. Lying in bed watching reruns of Parks and Rec, belly full of your third steak and cheese this week, chomping on that Jim of Slim and deep-sea diving through the last Dorito crumbs in the bag, you’ve probably longed for a homecooked meal.

One night, Patricia Jackson, CSOM ’20, decided to do something about it. She whipped up everything she needed to craft a succulent chicken parm—the chicken, the parm, the whole works—and prepared to unleash the art of cuisine on an unsuspecting campus. A slab of chicken, carefully breaded, with cheese curdled from the milk of faraway bovine perfectly laid across it, and the final ingredient—can we even speak of it without shedding a tear? That godly gift given to undeserving humanity—tomato sauce. It was ready. It was perfect. It was time to cook.

So she put it in the microwave. It didn’t work out great.

Because, seeing as she was a freshman, the options were limited. Forced triples in CLXF can’t exactly fit a full kitchen set. Even those luxurious Chevy quads don’t get a cooking setup. Freshmen who’ve spent years learning the art of crafting the perfect coq au vin, the delicate beauty of a perfectly-seasoned ciceri e tria, and the subtle nuances of the much-neglected pappardelle arrive on campus with a mandatory meal plan and a roommate who eats Domino’s in his underwear every night.

The only options left to the young chef are a sojourn to the mythic Shaw House to use its oven or a visit to the Resident Minister. Shaw House remains a frightening place, known mostly

through legends and tales, which the naïve freshmen often avoid. And the social interaction necessary in order to ask a Resident Minister if you can cook in their suite is often too much of an interpersonal struggle for an awkward 18-year-old.

Unless you’re one of the lucky few who knows a senior willing to let you cook at their dorm, your culinary life is finished. This is when most freshmen toss in the towel, join the line at Eagle’s Nest, and let their dreams of Texas Tommys and savory haggis die.

Jackson wasn’t about to let that dream die. She had known cooking for too long. When she was just a kid, her grandmother introduced her to the most grandmotherly of cooking activities—baking cookies. They worked together and Jackson found that it was surprisingly fun. She wasn’t just molding dough and flipping oven knobs. She was turning raw materials into a finished product that people could enjoy, something that would bring people together.

So she stuck with it and the cooking habit grew.

“Cookies turned into cakes, cakes turned into macaroons, macaroons turned into actual food,” Jackson said.

She made real entrees and grew as an amateur chef. So it made sense that when she came to BC, she was interested in finding a club where she could practice this passion. But that turned out to be a lot harder than it first seemed.

Walking through the Student Involvement Fair, she spotted clubs with a culinary theme, such as baking, but nothing to address the simplest of foodmaking activities—actual cooking. BC didn’t have an organization devoted to people who just wanted to make food.

As a freshman, Jackson didn’t see much she could do about that, so she let it go and went about her merry way without the club she had been looking for.

The culinary black hole of a freshman year at BC—with its microwaved chicken parm, an abomination that should offend chickens everywhere— was set to swallow her, until a Facebook group post offered a glimmer of light.

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Jackson, CSOM ’20, joined the newly-created cooking club last spring and is stepping up to the role of president this fall.

That black hole might not be a place of such darkness and extreme gravitational pull that escape is not possible. David Eng, a CSOM student who transferred to Northwestern University, wanted to start a cooking club and was looking for help. Just like that, Jackson broke free of the black hole and sped back toward the interstellar light of home-cooked meals.

She contacted Eng, went in for some casual interviews, talked about her passion for cooking and ideas for the club, and managed to snag the spot of vice president. Eng pulled in others, establishing a basic organization structure for the club. Now they got to the hard part.

Getting a club off the ground is harder than it might seem.

As a member of a Jesuit institution, one might turn to the Bible for guidance. Matthew 18:20 reads: “Where two or three are gathered together unto My name, there am I in their midst.” Unfortunately this principle does not apply to the official budget for registered student organizations. Just because a couple of

students have gathered to participate in club activities, does not mean that they will receive a large budget. Officially starting in April of last year, the cooking club didn’t have the money it wanted to put on big events, and it didn’t have the attention either.

But it did have what Jackson wanted—the chance to cook.

“Food is almost a language,” Jackson said. “It’s a great way to relate to others.”

For the first small events the cooking club started, it gathered in the kitchens of resident ministers. The intimate setting was perfect. It allowed for the closeness of cooking with others and enjoying the final meal.

“Sometimes I don’t even eat the food I make,” she said. “I just like making food, and I like getting to see other people’s reactions when they taste it.”

Jackson stepped up as president of the Cooking Club after Eng transferred, just in time for its first official full semester as a registered student organization, and she has big plans. She wants

to continue the intimate cooking with all the social opportunities that offers, but hopes to add larger components, specifically service-related. She’s reached out to local organizations and is working on plans to start assembly-line style food production. This means making tons of sandwiches for the homeless and hungry in Boston. It’s one way to take the personal enjoyment of cooking and turn it into something for others to benefit from.

This year, when freshmen walked through the Involvement Fair looking for a chance to cook at college, they found Jackson’s table, and over 430 of them signed up. No more rubbery chicken and greasy Slim Jims—these kids have found an outlet. And Jackson is more than willing to bring them into the culinary world she’s so passionate about.

“Getting to make those connections is probably the biggest payoff and the fondest memories I have,” she said. “Just sitting in rooms eating God knows what and talking to people.” n

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

BC Graduate Employees Union Must Seek Consensus Graduate student employees at Boston College voted to officially form a union and establish collective bargaining rights with the University on Wednesday. The Boston College Graduate Employees Union – United Auto Workers will represent the 778 graduate student employees that were eligible to vote in the election.

The final vote count was 270 votes in favor and 224 against, a voter participation rate of just under two-thirds. Such a close margin comes as a surprise considering that there was far less vocalized opposition to the formation of a union than expressed support in the weeks leading up to the election. Nonetheless, the vote passed, and now the BCGEU – UAW will need to find a way to work

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with those that voted against unionization moving forward.

Because only about one-third of the 778 students that the union will represent voted for its creation, finding compromise and considering the opinions of dissenters will be essential for the union’s success. Strong supporters of the union will need to reach across the aisle in order to accomplish their agenda.

The union has the potential to improve the lives of graduate student employees at the University, but only if it considers the desires and concerns of all of its constituents, and not just those that pushed for the formation of the union in the first place.

In the past, expressed opposition to

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the union has been met with intense backlash. An anti-union op-ed published in The Heights garnered criticism in the days leading up to vote, especially on Facebook, by those in favor of establishing collective bargaining rights.

Conversation within the union between those with opposing opinions will be necessary to ensure that the organization fairly represents all of its members, and not just those who have been a part of the process from the beginning.

The union should reach out to those that voted against its formation, and those who abstained from voting in the NLRB election, to establish constructive relationships that will help bring about consensus in the future.

Our Thoughts With Victims in Marseille The editorial board of The Heights wishes to express our thoughts and prayers to the four Boston College students attacked by acid in Marseille: Courtney Siverling, MCAS ’19; Charlotte Kaufman, LSOE ’19; Michelle Krug, MCAS ’19; and Kelsey Kosten, CSOM ’19. In partic-

ular, we would like to applaud Krug for her bravery. In a statement on Facebook, she accepted all prayers for her and her friends, but also extended her thoughts to the attacker so she can “receive the help she needs and deserves.” Krug’s recognition of her attacker and reminder

of the stigma surrounding mental illness exemplified what it means to uphold the Jesuit ideal of being a person for others. Furthermore, Krug noted that she will continue to study abroad in France despite the attack, proving her strength in a turbulent time.

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Embracing the Legacy of My Siblings The Power

Joanna Yuelys Tailgating With Priests - On each game day, hundreds (sometimes thousands, if we’re gonna lose really bad) descend upon Boston College’s Brighton Campus. The parking lot and fields are transformed into a tailgating paradise, and for the hours leading up to kick off, it seems like there are far more people who actually enjoy going to this school than on an average day. Maroon and gold (it’s more like yellow) spread as far as the eye can see. Students, alumni, parents, grandparents, and younger siblings alike engage in hot dog grilling, alcoholic beverage consumption, and a lot of talk about the days “when I was an Eagle.” What many forget, however, is how privileged we are to partake in such debauchery on grounds normally reserved for the School of Theology and Ministry.

What is usually a place of holy study is instead taken over by the sins of the youth, creating an oxymoronic environment. The pagans of the BC general population are given the opportunity to have their fun, and I hope that the priests forgive them, for they know not what they do.

Moms and the Mods - Getting into Mod parties is not always a straightforward endeavor. The dreaded question of “Who do you know here?” often leads to lies about knowing an Arrupe trip leader, some one’s cousin, and a do or slammed in the face. Sometimes, however, coveted invitations to the Mods come from unexpected sources. Having met a pair of Mod mothers at his friend’s tailgate on Saturday, the freshman was surprised when they courteously invited him to attend any of their sons’ parties, and to have the freshman give them a call if there was any trouble. He was ecstatic. He had never been invited anywhere before.

When that white door swings open next Saturday, and the freshman is greeted by an unfamiliar face, the dread question will be met with, quite literally, “Your mom.”

It’s a sentence you hear on every walking tour, at every orientation session, and even one you might find yourself saying to your friends at home when they ask how big your class is.

“Boston College is big, but it’s small.”

It was certainly something I had heard my siblings, BC ’10 and ’12, say countless times as I was making my college decision. It is also something I constantly think about during my time here, especially following in the footsteps of two older siblings.

Growing up in a small school district, my family only had one set of public schools. So I went to a small high school where almost every teacher I took had taught at least one of my siblings. I was constantly called my sister’s name, and occasionally my brother’s, much to my friends’ amusement.

So when it was time to pick a college, there was one thing that I was almost certain about: I did not want to go to BC. This feeling of mine was probably the result of some stubborn urge to carve my own path, something I felt would not be possible at a place where my siblings’ footsteps were already so ingrained. BC, however, ended up being the school that best fit my interests, so I apprehensively enrolled and started my freshman year ready to make it my own.

On move in day at BC, my parents were encountered with something they had no experience with: Newton Campus. Both of my siblings lived on Upper, so my parents had never really spent time on the annex to which 40 percent of the freshmen class are sent, aside from occasionally parking there on game day.

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and it made my transition that much easier. I always find myself speaking to her about the events she coordinated, how the club responsibilities have changed, and what I could be doing better. She is a sounding board and her experience has been very helpful to me.

At first, I thought that having siblings already come through BC could hinder my experience here, and that their experiences may limit me and push me into certain roles.

I have found, however, that my siblings have paved a path for me in such a way that I never felt both too lost and also that I could grow. I understand that this is not everyone’s experience, and that I am lucky, but the advice and guidance that my siblings have given to me has made my experience all the better.

At a school of over 9,000 undergraduate students and over 200 organizations, my siblings’ and my paths have overlapped at different points in time, and this has made my experience here richer.

BC is a big family school. So often people have siblings, cousins, parents, and even grandparents who went here, and therefore have a slight edge over the average freshman in terms of how to manage coming to a new and complex place like BC. You only have to look so far as game day to see how many parents and alumni are milling around and hosting tailgates for their children and their friends.

My experience has been so great in part because my siblings were willing to help me. I never felt any resentment or feeling of imitation. I would encourage anyone with siblings considering BC to welcome them the way mine did, and those who have siblings who are alumni to embrace their family legacy while pursuing their individual path as well.

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

Learning to Fall off the Lamppost

Lucia Madero

Don’t Tread On Me Flags - The freshman enters the room, and immediately spies the yellow flag across from him. It was in this moment that he knew he was not going to have a fun time. The yellow flag, its meaning obnoxiously reappropriated to represent conservative causes, covered half the wall. The boys standing beneath it, donning colored shorts and preparing to throw a ping pong ball at a series of red plastic cups, were immensely proud of their decorative decision, judging by the numerous photos of them standing in front of it that they had already posted on Instagram. The freshman couldn’t bring himself to stay in the room any longer, and he left without a word, for fear that he might just say too much.

In typical sibling fashion, my brother and sister told me Upper was better, but that I would still have fun on Newton. Regardless, I was nervous.

I moved in the first day to my spacious double (fun fact: doubles on Newton are a couple of feet bigger than the rooms on Upper), but then immediately felt the common dread of having to take the bus to get anywhere that was anywhere.

Newton, however, ended up being the best thing that could have happened to me. Immediately, I was somewhere that my siblings had not been and left no mark on. I could call my parents and tell them about Stuart dining hall, and they would have no idea what I was talking about.

This made me feel more like a normal freshman, whose parents had not been involved with BC for upwards of eight years. This year, on my fourth and last move in day, it was my parents’ eleventh time moving one of their children into BC. My brother and sister of course gave me recommendations for professors and classes to take, and they still do. My brother told me to make sure I connected with a certain CSOM advisor, and lo and behold, I was randomly assigned to her Portico class. She immediately remembered my brother and asked how he was doing, something that made me feel welcome in my first class at BC. Her class was incredible, and I took away so much from my experience there, and even occasionally visit her to this day.

The legacy of my brothers’ college career, something that I feared would be stifling and put me on a path that was not my own, ended up being incredibly integral to my freshman year experience.

It was not just my brother who has offered me guidance through my time in college. I am the president of the Hellenic Society, a position my sister held when she was at BC. She is just close enough in age to me that the seniors in the club knew who she was,

At the end of my senior year of high school, I gave a speech about how we either learn to fail, or fail to learn. Although this idea was deeply rooted in my mind at the time, it became erased as soon as I got to college.

I found myself in the middle of the “rat race.” It was about as pleasant as the actual race to get in line for a salad at the Rat during a packed day. That is to say, not pleasant at all.

I was so busy with trying to get my résumé, extracurricular hockey, classes, and life in order that I failed to take my own advice. I was so caught up in what my life beyond school should be like, that I started to ignore what my life in school was actually like.

It wasn’t until the first blizzard at Boston College last spring that I remembered exactly how to fail.

The blizzard started out as any BC student can imagine. There was an email that came the night before that announced classes would be cancelled, and a consequent feeling of euphoria that makes us stay up until 3 a.m. when we would’ve been perfectly happy going to bed at 11 p.m.

It was during this period of time that my roommates and I decided to watch Mulan, and where my brilliant plan started to come to life.

After chanting along to the whole soundtrack, I laid it out for them.

The next day, mid-blizzard, I would climb the first light post we came across, Mulan-fashion. Since they had only known me for about three weeks at that point, they didn’t think I was serious. They laughed because they thought I was kidding. I laughed because I knew better.

A couple of hours later, after I was the last one to stagger into the common room and say good-morning, I reminded them of my planned activity for the day. They watched incredulously as I dressed myself to go outside and find the one and only post that would complete my mission.

After a couple of minutes of hesitation, all three of them were dressed and ready to go with me, expecting to watch me fall. I’m happy to say they were completely right.

We walked outside and I went up to the first post, determined. Shoes off, because they would slip on the icy sheet covering the metal. Jacket off, because it was way too heavy.

Gloves off, because I couldn’t grip the pole properly otherwise. Shivering in a short-sleeved shirt and leggings, I compared my 5-foot-3 self to the light post. Though it was more than twice my height, I was not fazed.

“I am Mulan,” I whispered to myself. “Be swift as the coursing river, with all the force of a great typhoon and the strength of a raging fire.”

With a little bit of a running start, I lunged at the pole and wrapped my arms around it. One hand on top of the other, my muscles straining, I congratulated myself on the amazing job I was doing. I heard laughing from behind me and looked down, realization dawning.

I was about three feet off the ground. Brilliant.

It took me a couple more tries to figure out the truth of the matter. Not only could I not climb a pole during a blizzard, but I p robably couldn’t climb a pole under normal weather conditions either. I looked around for an easier option to get my self-esteem back to normal and spotted the Res. So many trees. Ten minutes later, we were in the middle of the dense area of trees, trying not to slip down snowy hills and icy walls of rock.

Though it took me about half an hour to find a scalable tree, I finally managed to climb one, and we returned

to 2000.

That afternoon, I kept thinking more about my inability to climb the pole more than my eventual success with the tree. I realized that it was the first time in awhile that I had decided to do something out of the ordinary.

I had taken a chance and failed. Yet, I was happy.

The plan had been spontaneous, weird, and strangely fun. My endeavor caused me to become muddy, sweaty, and drenched. I had to defrost my eyebrows and eyelashes as soon as we returned to the apartment because I’d forgotten what a blizzard in the Northeast felt like.

My clothes would probably never look the same again. But now I had a story, and most importantly, a new failure.

Recently, I watched a movie called The Last Word where Shirley MacLaine says something along the lines of, “Don’t have a nice day—have a day that counts.”

Have a meaningful day. Have an adventure. Don’t be afraid to try and do something different, even if you’ve never done it before, and especially if you don’t think you’ll succeed. BC offers so many unique opportunities, both on and off campus, but it’s up to us to make the most of them.

I may not have been able to climb the pole that day, but my efforts reminded me of how much I have to enjoy by being on this campus, how much I have yet to try and to discover.

Whether it’s saying hello to the person sitting next to me in class, taking a midnight walk around the Res, attending a meeting for a new club that I may not have known about previously, or going on a retreat, I should try and make every day meaningful.

And if I try and still fail? Well, at least I can say I got a whole 3 feet off the ground.

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

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of Empathy

Shannon Lyons

If you throw a stone into a serene body of water, you are going to create a ripple.

The edge of the stone will cut through the glass-like surface of the water before immediately beginning its descent to the sandy bottom, leaving only a series of expanding, circular waves behind.

This so-called “ripple effect” has become a cliché analogy for any situation in which one person or event influences another. In the context of the college campus, however, the metaphor becomes a bit more complicated.

Comparing the student body to a serene and tranquil pond leaves out the chaos and confusion that is distinct to the college experience. In my opinion, the undergraduate population is more properly represented by a vast and restless sea.

If you throw a stone into the swirling whitecaps of the Atlantic Ocean, it is unlikely that you will be able to discern its impact. The circular ripples will inevitably be carried away with the crest of another passing wave.

Living alongside over 9,000 fellow students here at Boston College, it can be easy to feel as if you have little to no effect on the people around you. Surrounded by like-minded people, all of a similar age, it is often difficult to distinguish the impact of our individual actions from that of those around us. At times, this can lead us to feel irrelevant or disconnected from fellow members of the community.

Over time, however, I have come to believe that human beings are not all that different from sponges, particularly at this ripe age in which we find ourselves living on a college campus.

Between our teenage hormones and our partially undeveloped minds, there is no denying that, as a demographic, we are especially vulnerable to the influences we have on one another, constantly absorbing the energy and emotions which surround us. Our every action, word, or gesture is a stone that inevitably makes ripples, even if its impact is not evident upon first glance.

Unfortunately, one of the more powerful effects we have on each other is the influence of stress. We are often not aware of how susceptible we are to the tension and the anxiety of those around us. Each time we internalize the stress or negativity of another person, we experience the “ripple effect,” though it often feels more like a towering tsunami wave.

It is unrealistic to believe that we can simply overcome this innate inclination to be influenced by one another. But, perhaps there is a way to channel our mirroring tendencies into something more fruitful, for both ourselves and those around us. What if we decided to intentionally internalize other people’s positivity, instead of subconsciously absorbing their stress?

In her article “How to Overcome Stress by Seeing Other People’s Joy,” Dr. Kelly McGonigal refers to this as the concept of “positive empathy.”

What makes “positive empathy” so powerful, she says, is that it offers us an ever-accessible source of joy. Many people harbor the notion that happiness is dependent strictly on external circumstances and on matching reality to the ideal visions in our minds.

Life is too short, however, to sit around waiting for such good fortune.

How refreshing it is to realize that we need not wait—that another person acing their test, being asked on a date, or beating their mile time can be reason enough for us to smile and celebrate too.

Many people believe that in moments of stress or sorrow, it is best to be alone.

We flee to our dorms to watch Netflix in solitude, or to the basement of Bapst library, removed from the rest of the world.

Of course, there are times when seclusion is necessary. In moments of fear, pain, or sadness, however, let us not forget the healing powers of empathetic connection.

Though most would not like to admit it, there are times when we can be envious of another person’s success. For this reason, positive empathy must be intentionally cultivated.

We must decide that when others smile, we smile too.

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

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Fitness Junkies Share Their High at Barry’s Boston

Brian Weller and Dustin Martin picked up their lives and moved everything to Chestnut Hill, bringing their love of exercise with them.

Madeleine D’Angelo Metro Editor A single bead of sweat trickled slowly down my forehead. My legs felt like they were burning up from the inside as I lowered down into what must’ve been my 100th squat.

In reality, it was only my fifth.

I cast my eyes around the dim, redlit room, wondering if any of the other members of the class were feeling like me. I listened for the voice of the instructor above the pounding beat of the music, hoping that he might end the pain and tell me to lie on my back for a rest. But instead of being told to lie down, we moved over to the elevated mats, and started a set of arm exercises, lifting weights up and down we lay on our backs. The burning sensation previously in my legs migrated to my arms as I clenched my teeth and tried to distract myself as the minute ticked away. And all of a sudden it was, the first strength training round of my Barry’s workout complete. But there was no stopping, because now it was time for cardio.

As I walked toward the row of treadmills perfectly aligned along the

opposite wall I must’ve looked like I was about to drop dead, because Brian Weller, the co-owner of Barry’s Boston, gave me a much-needed encouraging yell, “Yeah Madeleine, you got this!”

And 42 minutes later, as I walked out of the studio on an endorphin high that I rarely experience, I was thinking to myself yeah, I have got this. This is probably that phenomenon that has made Barry’s Boston such as success since it opened its first downtown location in 2013.

When Weller, and fellow co-founder Dustin Martin, reconnected in New York City after attending separate colleges following their childhood spent in Syracuse, N.Y., they bonded over their shared misery. Both Weller and Martin hated their high-stress jobs in finance, and spent many a dinner imagining what they could do so that they didn’t have to go to work in the morning. Weller discovered Barry’s Bootcamp once the New York branch opened, and brought Martin along on a whim. The two quickly became passionate about the workout and resulting community, often finding that the classes they took were the highlights

of their working days.

After a time, the duo started considering opening their own branch in a new city, and finally decided to make the leap. Although it was scary, uprooting their lives and savings while Weller had a newborn and another baby on the way, Martin and Weller were committed, determined to make the Boston market their own.

“We thought that it was underutilized from the boutique fitness studio market at the time when we opened downtown about four years ago,” Weller said. “The only things that were in the groups fitness space were spinning or yoga, there was no lifting, [or] running.”

And while B ostonians were a very different client from New Yorkers—Weller explained that Bostonians conservatively frequent established institutions whereas New Yorkers are accustomed to constant change—the two cracked the city, quickly attracting loyal clients to the tight community that formed around Barry’s Boston. For Weller, that sense of community is what makes Barry’s Boston a success.

“That’s where Barry’s lives, it lives

in the space that it is a community, that’s where we thrive. We pride ourselves in knowing your name,” Weller said. “We pride ourselves in knowing what you are, what you’re about, what your fitness goals are, and kind of you as a person … we try to learn and know more about you. That’s just the community that we build, that’s the community that we like to be around, and it really has attracted a lot of Bostonians.”

That community is blatantly obvious even in Barry’s newest Chestnut Hill location, which opened in late June. As clients wait outside the studio for the class to start—some chatting among themselves and others deciding on the post-workout smoothie that they will order from the Barry’s Fuel Bar in the studio lobby—Weller moves through the crowd with ease, happily chatting with familiar and new faces alike.

All look excitedly determined rather than nervous, knowing that the workout they’re about to start is, while highly strenuous, completely doable. As Weller explained, the Barry’s workout isn’t “reinventing the wheel” or “splitting the atom,” it’s just

running and lifting. The difference comes in the ways that instructors get the people in the class to push themselves further than they would’ve thought possible.

“For me, Barry’s gave me a lot of confidence, knowing what I can accomplish when I didn’t think I could and I think other people are drawn to that as well,” Welles said. “They’re pushed harder, probably, in there than they would ever push themselves, and I just think that radiates to other aspects of their life.”

And now, with the ongoing Friends With Benefits promotion—introduce a friend to Barry’s and take a class with them then you both get a free class— and the special pricing for students in the area, $20 a class and a discount if you buy a pack of classes, Welles and Martin are hoping to make a push into the area’s student community.

So if you head to Barry’s and find yourself in the middle of a class with your muscles burning, just remember what Welles likes to tell customers: “The minutes are long and the hours are short.” And he’s right, the minutes fly by and leave you wanting more. n

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The red-lit fitness studio inside Barry’s Boston, which features treadmills, free weights, and other equipment in a large room, combines weight lifting exercises and cardio for an intense workout.

You’re Gonna Miss This: Tone-Deaf Nostalgia and Senior Year

Archer Parquette At a high school graduation I attended, one of the graduates sang “You’re Gonna Miss This” by Trace Adkins, and I wanted to die. His out-of-tune crooning, faux-Southern accent, and misguided attempts to bring out the emotion by clenching his fist and closing his eyes were enough to make even the kindliest of columnists pray for a lightning bolt from above.

“You’re gonna miss this / You’re gonna want this back / You’re gonna wish these days hadn’t gone by so fast,” he “sang.”

I’m sure as hell not gonna miss listening to this crap. Dear God, who let this happen? This is an abomination only made acceptable by the fact that I can later mock it in a column. I quickly dismissed the entire thing as a goofy bit of sentimental garbage that would hopefully fade into the backlog of my memories along with the Lenore Psych Experiments of ’82 and my Great Uncle Jerry.

Now I realize that performance of “You’re Gonna Miss This” was exactly like a bulbous, hair-covered European man sprinting toward you across a Moroccan beach wearing nothing but a G-string and a smile.

You’ll never be able to burn the

memory out of your mind. Trust me.

I learned that lesson this past week while I was working with some of my fellow editors on The Heights. As I normally do, I held forth on the crucial topics of discussion that day—geothermal politics, transubstantiation, bike repair, etc.—and allowed my wisdom to enter the young ones’ minds like a fungal infection enters the nether regions.

“Would you rather have constant diarrhea or be constipated every day?”

I posited.

I let the masterfully crafted Socratic wisdom of my query sink in. The scene unfolded around me. The office, the people, the feel of the uncomfortable chairs with the missing wheels, even the rancid fish stench from whoever threw an entire bowl of clam chowder in the trash.

Just like that, my brain was brutally assaulted by the memory of a tone deaf 17-year-old trying to imitate Trace Adkins.

“You’re gonna miss this,” he nasalscreamed into my frontal lobe.

“Oh God,” my gray matter said. “Get this saccharine crap out of here.”

“Saccharine?” my hippocampus said.

“Wow, Mr. Smartypants with the vocabulary words. God, you’re the worst.”

“Shut your fat ass up, hippo,” my amygdala said. “I’ll come over there and shove my fist down your throat.”

Despite the vicious lobe infighting, I couldn’t get the song out of my head.

It wouldn’t let go. Nostalgia had gotten hold of me again.

The only reasonable way to deal with it was to stand up, announce that I simply must visit my proctologist, and gallop away. I did just that, the song still echoing across my synapses as I escaped.

The next day, I was running by the Res. The Pru and the Hancock were lit up in the setting sun, the water glistening, my shoes digging into the dirt. I could feel the last warmth of summers gone by, and my mind glowed with sentimental prose.

Someone I knew ran by in the opposite direction, and I smiled.

“You’re gonna miss this. You’re gonna want this back.”

Day after that—grilling some brats.

Trying to enjoy some packaged pig guts and sunshine in peace.

“You’re gonna miss this—” Sitting in class.

“You’re gonna miss—” Sipping coffee.

“You’re gon—” Farting.

“You’re—” OH GOD IT’S EVERYWHERE. There is not a moment of senior year that is not absolutely infested with living nostalgia. I wake up every morning and think, “less than 250 mornings left.

You’re gonna miss this,” and it gets worse with every passing day. I can’t have a conversation without remembering that in less than a year I’ll probably never see this person again, and happy memories I have of them will bring nothing but pain and longing.

This state of perpetual nostalgia for

something that isn’t over yet can’t possibly be healthy.

The night after my middle school graduation I sat at my kitchen table in the dark—tie loose and shirt sleeves rolled up—drinking Cran-Grape juice and a shot of ginger ale on the rocks while contemplating how grown up and serious my 13-year-old self was. After every football game during my senior year of high school, I drove around my city for an hour listening to Beck sing “The Golden Age.” Even then I knew that big changes were on the way. Now they’ve happened. Everything from my morning routine to my greatest ambition has transformed. Friends that I used to see every day, I see once a year.

I’ve left behind one part of my life after another in order to move on to the next, as we all have.

That leaves us at a point where we’ve experienced plenty of goodbyes, and we’re primed to experience them again.

Awareness of the next goodbye bogs everything down in soap opera bullcrap.

The pressure to appreciate passing moments causes you to ruin passing moments. Nostalgia for your present is only useful so far as it occasionally reminds you to take the time to look around.

Otherwise, it’s a persistent blinding force that screws your ability to see the world as it is and do what needs to be done.

You can’t live life in a permanent state of emotional reflection.

Tuesday night—I sit in the dark trying to turn vague ideas and dumb phrases

like “persistent blinding force” into a column filled with my patented wacky humor, illogical connections, and insufferable, overwrought, multi-adjective sentences. I’m sweaty, have a headache, want to go to sleep, hate how hard it’s been to write this column, wonder if I’m losing whatever marginal skill I had, and can’t stop thinking about the extremely vivid blood cancer diagnosis dream I had last night.

In this burst of feverish, unhappy column-writing, I break out of nostalgia for a second and get a clear look at my life. I’ve escaped the clutches of Trace Adkins. I’m finally free. The situation is clear. Now I see the way forward—how to take advantage of every moment, not get mired down in nostalgia, and achieve the fulfilled life. A life of clear-eyed apprehension, realism, and truth. This is it, the final piece of wisdom that my devoted readers need— Then one of my roommates comes back from the library and says good night.

“Mm,” I say, then quietly burp.

He heads upstairs, headlights pass through the window, the bright white light moves across the room, someone outside laughs, a nearly complete column waits at my fingertips.

“You’re gonna miss this.”

Damn it. n

Archer Parquette is the features editor for The Heights. He can be reached on Twitter @ArcherFP.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

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RAN OUT OF LUCK The Eagles allowed 515 rushing yards, the second most in school history, as Notre Dame ran away in the second half with a blowout victory in the Holy War on Saturday.

BY RILEY OVEREND Sports Editor For the first time since the season opener, the Boston College offense was humming. The defense was decking receivers and pressuring the pocket. Even the special teams were perfect, drilling a pair of field goals and knocking kickoffs out of the back of the end zone with ease. And with 18 seconds left in the second quarter, Lukas Denis captured an Equanimeous St. Brown tip and returned it to Notre Dame territory. The interception gave the Eagles a chance to make a statement score before the half.

Then, everything came grinding to a halt.

Instead of taking a shot, Steve Addazio opted to run the ball up the middle and allow the clock to wind down. His conservative decision to not take a shot before halftime was met by boos from the stands, and even harsher judgement online.

After the game, Addazio explained his rationale without prompting from reporters. He said that, because of what he

perceived as a botched snap on the play previous, he didn’t want to risk a strip-sack fumble. And he wanted to protect the psyche of Anthony Brown, his redshirt freshman quarterback, against what he said was the low chance of converting on a Hail Mary.

“You play the percentages, and that’s what we did,” Addazio said. “That was our whole mindset there. It’s really not that complicated, agree or disagree. That’s why there’s many flavors of ice cream.”

But, in defense of the Eagles’ fifth-year head coach, it wouldn’t have mattered anyway against the Fighting Irish.

Freshman quarterback Brandon Wimbush and the Irish waltzed their way to a 49-20 victory on Saturday afternoon behind a pair of momentum-shifting touchdown runs in the third quarter. Each time, the scoring play was set up by a huge gain on the ground, and each time, Harold Landry & Co. couldn’t stop the big play—often because the All-American wasn’t on the field in the first place.

The Eagles (1-2) looked nothing like the team that was second in the country against the run in 2015. Without Connor Strachan, who is out indefinitely with a knee injury, Wimbush and running back Josh Adams both torched BC’s run defense and eclipsed 200 yards rushing each, as Notre Dame (2-1) posted its highest rushing totals ever under head coach Brian Kelly.

“We got out of our gaps, and we didn’t tackle well at the second level,” Addazio said. “There was a couple times the safety should have fit the runs in there, and we missed tackles.”

For BC, the result is even more frustrating considering the first-half effort. Behind improved offensive line play, Jonathan Hilliman hit gaps and broke tackles en route to 122 rushing yards, his highest total since the Pinstripe Bowl in 2014.

Brown actually outdueled his freshman counterpart through the air, nearly besting his totals from the Wake Forest loss with 110 yards and a touchdown in the opening 30 minutes alone.

See BC vs. ND, B3

Addazio Needs to Start Coaching Like His Job Depends on It ANNABEL STEELE In Return of the Jedi, when the rebels travel to the forest moon of Endor to disable the shield and destroy the second, incomplete Death Star, everything seems to be going according to plan at first. Han and Leia seem to gain control of an imperial station controlling the shield above Endor, the rebel fleet prepares to surprise imperial forces with an attack, and Luke goes off to confront Darth Vader and try to convince him back to the light side of the force.

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But then everything descends into chaos all at once, as the rebels realize they’ve been tricked (like Admiral Ackbar said, “It’s a trap!”). Han and Leia are faced with an army of stormtroopers, the rebel fleet is engaged in battle with imperial forces above Endor, Luke is forced to fight Darth Vader, and Emperor Palpatine reveals that the Death Star, while unfinished, is actually operational, and that all of the rebels will be killed.

That was sort of what it felt like to watch Boston College football’s crushing loss to the University of Notre Dame on Saturday afternoon, except in the end, the Eagles didn’t come from behind and destroy the second Death Star. Instead, after battling the Fighting Irish evenly and competitively in the first half, BC

completely collapsed in the second half. The Emperor and his stormtroopers stomped all over the Eagles en route to a 49-20 blowout victory in the Holy War. Man, it was a painful game to watch, exacerbated by the fact that it looked like BC could actually win for the entire first half and some of the third quarter. When it got ugly, it got really ugly, though, and things went downhill fast.

As fans left the stadium in the fourth quarter while Notre Dame continued to build up its lead, it was hard to be optimistic about BC’s chances this season.

Here is a fact: Head coach Steve Addazio is in the fifth year of his selfproclaimed five-year rebuilding plan.

Here is another fact: This season will determine his future with the program.

Sure, he’s brought the Eagles to three

bowl games in four years, delivering their first win since 2007. But BC has accumulated a 22-29 record during his time on the Heights, including a 10-23 mark against ACC opponents.

If Addazio delivers a good season, he stays on his current contract, which runs through 2020. If BC struggles, new Director of Athletics Martin Jarmond, who most recently worked at The Ohio State University, may consider making a change. It is that simple.

A season-opening victory against Northern Illinois has been followed by blowout home losses to Wake Forest and Notre Dame. Next week, BC heads to No. 3 Clemson, and unless the Eagles pull off the upset of the century, it’s a safe bet they’ll start the season off at 1-3. Addazio’s all-important season is upon him, and he needs

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to deliver better results soon.

One decision that has been heavily scrutinized was Addazio’s choice to let time run out at the end of the first half with two timeouts and the ball around midfield. Observers made their displeasure known with boos and tweets, shocked that Addazio wouldn’t even take a shot downfield or try to move into field goal range.

“Is there a right or wrong answer?

I don’t know,” Addazio said after the game, defending his decision. “Yeah, you take the shot and you score, it’s the right answer. You throw a pick and you get a strip fumble and it’s the wrong answer.”

He revealed that he was conflicted about the decision, but ultimately

See Pressure’s On, B2

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Playing It Safe Is Not an Option in Addazio’s Fifth Year at the Helm Pressure’s On, from B1 felt that it was the best option to let time run out and head into halftime without demoralizing redshirt freshman quarterback Anthony Brown.

Later in the same response, though, Addazio seemed to contradict what he’d already said about protecting Brown’s psyche.

“You know, you play the percentages, and that’s what we did,” Addazio said.

To me, that means he took what he perceived to be the safe bet.

Addazio shouldn’t be choosing the safe or cautious option, though. He’s

coaching under a microscope, and it can’t be easy, but the safe bet isn’t the right bet when you have to deliver results to a new AD and an increasingly exasperated fan base.

Take the shot downfield. At the very least, try to get into field goal range.

And if you don’t want to give Colton Lichtenberg, who is 6-for-6 thus far, a shot from far away, let kickoff specialist Maximilian Schulze-Geisthovel try for a 50-yard field goal.

After the two-minute drill at Northern Illinois, it seemed as though Addazio’s clock management had improved from seasons past. With just a couple of

minutes left in the half, Addazio called timeouts after three successive Northern Illinois rushing attempts, allowing the offense time to prepare and execute a drive down the field.

Now, two games later, he reverted right back to his old ways, to the disbelief and anger of the fans. Addazio publicly put faith in Brown in the season-opener, but a couple of weeks later was so worried about a sack fumble that he opted not to take a chance at all.

If he was that conflicted or torn about the choice, he could’ve called a timeout to buy time to think it through— after all, he had two left. If he still felt

like it was the best choice to go into halftime without taking another shot, at least he would’ve had time to process his decision.

Taking a timeout and then failing to run a play would’ve looked just as odd as letting time run out without taking a timeout, and then Addazio could’ve defended his choice with stronger reasoning after the game.

Would it have made a big difference if BC had run a play and found the end zone at the end of the first half?

Possibly, but it probably wouldn’t have changed the outcome of the game.

To say that it was a game-defining play

is blowing it out of proportion.

What makes the play so significant, though, is that it represents everything that fans have criticized about Addazio’s coaching—cautiousness, poor clock management, unpopular play-calling, and staunch defense of decisions that fans find mind-boggling.

Addazio is coaching for his job right now. It’s time he started acting like it.

Annabel Steele is the associate sports editor for The Heights. She can be reached on Twitter @Steele_Heights.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Coffey, Vaughn Lead Eagles Past Louisville for First ACC Win

By Patrick Conway Heights Staff Boston College women’s soccer just rattled off its second three-game win streak of the season with a 2-0 victor y over Louisville 0 Louisville on Boston College 2 Sunday afternoon, giving the team six wins in its last seven games. The red-hot Eagles (7-3, 1-0 Atlantic Coast) played what head coach Alison Foley called “a really professional game” with sturdy team defense that locked down the Cardinals’ (6-3, 0-1) offensive threats.

The BC offense also impressed, as it netted two of its six shots on goal to

give the Eagles a 2-0 win.

The game opened up with physical defense from both teams, neither allowing the other to form much of an attack.

The first true scoring opportunity came from a rip by Sam Coffey as she sprinted down the middle of the field, but the shot went wide. BC saw another chance in the 35th minute, as Lauren Berman was able to get her head square on a cross from the right side, but could not find the back of the net.

The Eagles next opportunity came shortly after, when a Louisville foul left Sam Coffey with a free kick right outside the box. Coffey unleashed

a missile that rocketed past goalie Gabriella Kouzelos into the top-right corner of the net for an absolute stunner to give BC the 1-0 lead.

The Eagles continued their aggressive defense in the second half, but their offense also started to come alive early. Coffey hit the side of the post on a run in the 46th minute that almost ended in a goal for BC. That was just the beginning of the barrage.

Within the next five minutes Coffey, Olivia Vaughn, and Mijke Roelfsema all fired shots on net.

Kouzelos saved each BC attempt, and the momentum swung over to the Cardinals’ side.

The Louisville offense finally

found its footing in the middle of the second half.

The Cardinals started to push the ball into Eagles territory, but had a hard time getting a good look on net.

As a whole, BC played solid team defense and held onto its one-goal lead until the 87th minute. Kayla Jennings fed Vaughn a beautiful pass, and the sophomore cashed in, scoring the Eagles’ second and final goal of the game.

Besides Coffey ’s dazzling free kick, the highlight of the game was BC’s vigorous defense. Aside from a pair of yellow cards in the first half, the backline was excellent. Foley explained that, even with those fouls,

her team continued to play physical on defense.

“They know how to intrinsically make that small adjustment but still be aggressive, and maybe be just a little bit more patient on something they might give a risk,” Foley said.

Her trust in her players paid off, and even though the Eagles committed nine fouls in the game, there were no other cards shown.

This victory over Louisville was BC’s first ACC game of the season, and the Eagles will attempt to keep that perfect conference record intact as they travel to North Carolina State to take on the Wolfpack this Thursday. n

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BC has won six of its last seven games, including three straight. In the past three games alone, the Eagles have outscored their opponents 5-0, recording their second, third, and fourth shutouts of 2017.

Following Rain Delay, Berman Nets Game-Winner Vs. St. John’s

By Danny Doherty For The Heights A seemingly never-ending thunderstorm finally came to a close, and after an hour and a half delay, Boston College women’s St. John’s 0 Boston College 1 soccer was finally ready for kickoff.

In their final game prior to the ACC opener against Louisville on Sunday, the Eagles snuck past St. John’s, 1-0.

With water flying off the ball with each rocketed kick, both BC and the Red Storm (4-3-1) saw emotions rise as they kept themselves going despite

the rain.

Early on, sophomore Jenna Bike kicked a sharp leading pass down the field to freshman standout Sam Coffey, who narrowly missed a key scoring opportunity when a defender caught up to her and stole the ball just in time.

Fortunately for the Eagles, the mishap turned into a corner kick, which resulted in Coffey scarcely missing an assist.

This was one of several first-half corner kicks for Coffey and the Eagles (6-3), who lead the nation in such attempts.

Averaging a whopping 9.83 corner kicks a game, they ended up racking

up 10 on Thursday evening.

Bike continuously set up redshirt senior Lauren Berman in the first half with shot attempts, but none of them could land in the net.

With nine minutes left in the first half, junior Carly Leipzig checked in for BC. Just two minutes later she was on the receiving end of a lucky break, where a pass from her teammate rolled in between a defender’s legs, and allowed her to orchestrate yet another corner kick.

Within the first 10 minutes of the second half, BC saw four corner kicks (two kicked by Coffey, two by freshman Mijke Roelfsema). All four

had end points near their intended destinations, but were either blocked or knocked away by the opposing goalie. The last of these corners also saw St. John’s players repeating their anger showed in the first half toward what they saw as a “lack of calls” by the referees.

The bulk of the second half saw much of the same as the first, with fast-paced play from the Eagles.

The Red Storm, meanwhile, constantly tried to keep up and slowed the pace of the contest when it could.

This speed of play, combined with the 90-minute rain delay, caused frustration from the Storm’s players and

coaching staff.

In the 84th minute, Berman beat out a defender and worked her way around the goalie to put in BC’s only goal of the game after a magnificent throw in from junior Elysa Virella. Berman stayed hot in this one, after posting a goal and an assist in last Sunday’s 3-0 victory against Boston University.

While the Eagles had their time to celebrate and let some of the pressure squander off, the Red Storm went into panic mode and, for the first time, tried to speed up the game.

But St. John’s couldn’t net the equalizer, and returned home with a slim one-goal defeat. n

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Numbers to know

Conference 2-0

overall 4-3

Virginia

1-0

6-1

Syracuse

1-1

7-1

Duke

1-1

5-1

North Carolina

1-1

5-2

Louisville

0-1

4-3

Boston College

0-2

5-2

Wake Forest

11

Number of consecutive games that Clemson has either beaten or tied men’s soccer.

9

Number of saves field hockey goaltender Sarah Dwyer recorded against North Carolina, a career high.

10.1

Average number of rushing yards Notre Dame gained per carry, a modern-era record.

QUote of the week

“It’s really not that complicated, agree or disagree.

That’s why there’s many flavors of ice cream.”

— Steve Addazio,

on his decision to run out the clock to end the first half against Notre Dame

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Eagles Can’t Contain Wimbush, Adams in Second-Half Meltdown BC vs. ND, from B1 His scoring strike, a 22-yard dart over the middle to Charlie Callinan, gave the Eagles a 10-7 lead in the second quarter.

Filled to the brim with 44,500 bodies, Alumni Stadium was alive and rocking in a sellout that actually felt like one.

But before halftime, the Irish pieced together a seven-play, 92-yard drive that gave them a 14-10 lead they would never give back. Denis’ pick threatened that halftime lead, but the drive didn’t last.

The third quarter started strong for BC, with a fumble recovery and field goal to make it a one-point game. Then, things took a permanent turn for the worse. Holes began to open up on the defensive line, and Notre Dame’s backfield capitalized for massive gains. First, Wimbush kept the ball for a 46-yard run that set up a short touchdown for Tony Jones. Then, after Brown threw an interception on the next drive, Adams busted out a 36-yard run and Wimbush aired out a 33-yard pass to return to the red zone. There, Wimbush kept it for a 3-yard touchdown run, his third of a

school-record four rushing touchdowns against the Eagles.

In the fourth quarter, Notre Dame added to its lead as fans emptied out of Alumni. Wimbush showed off his athleticism on an electric 65-yard touchdown run that should’ve been stopped for a loss

by Landry. The senior star was absent on many of the Irish’s big plays and, oddly, on several red zone situations.

The 49-20 final was not indicative of the tight first half, but the ugly second half made fans quickly forget about the opening half hour. BC has been outscored 48-13 in the second half over the past two weeks against Wake and Notre Dame.

Perhaps the decision to let the clock run down was the right one, a calculated call to safeguard the psyche of his young signal caller. Or maybe, had he run a couple more plays and used his remaining timeouts, the Eagles could have attempted a field goal with their improved special-teams unit before halftime.

That’s why there’s different flavors of ice cream. But some taste sweeter than others. n

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Quarterback Brandon Wimbush (7) rushed for 207 yards and a school-record four touchdowns on Saturday afternoon.

Fighting Irish Find Gaps in BC’s Defense in Holy War Blowout

By Annabel Steele

Assoc. Sports Editor

The Holy War actually looked like a war for a while, with evenly matched teams going to battle, and a victory that would be hard-fought and earned, not lopsided and anticlimactic. Alumni Stadium buzzed with energy as Boston College and the University of Notre Dame clashed on the football field. For the entire first half and some of the third quarter, it looked like it would come down to the wire, and that the Eagles might perhaps pull off a surprise victory against their rivals, the Fighting Irish.

Then, trailing 14-13 in the third quarter, on 4th and 1, Jon Hilliman got stuffed short of the first and BC turned the ball over on downs. On the ensuing drive, Notre Dame quarterback Brandon Wimbush torched the Eagles’ defense for a 46-yard run that took the Irish into the red zone. His teammate Tony Jones took it into the end zone a few plays later, increasing Notre Dame’s lead to 21-13 and starting the onslaught that doomed BC’s chances in the game.

In the end, the Eagles suffered a demoralizing 49-20 home loss to the Irish, a brutal second half erasing the momentum and energy of the first half. Here are four takeaways from the game.

A Tale of Two Halves The two halves could not have been more different. In the first half, BC (1-2) and Notre Dame (2-1) remained competitive in most statis-

tical categories. Notre Dame gained 218 yards on the ground, including 167 from Josh Adams alone. BC, on the other hand, gained 117 yards on the ground, with Jonathan Hilliman contributing 94 yards alone. While the Irish outgained the Eagles on the ground, BC dominated in the air, with Anthony Brown racking up 111 yards in the air while Wimbush contributed just 53 for Notre Dame. At halftime, Notre Dame led 14-10, but it was anyone’s game.

The second half, however, was a completely different story. BC’s run offense faltered, earning just 68 yards on the ground in the second half. Brown finished 24-for-40 with 215 yards, two touchdowns, and two picks. BC put up just 10 points on the board in the second half. Notre Dame, meanwhile, methodically picked apart the Eagles’ defense, breaking through for 297 yards on the ground and four rushing touchdowns in the second half.

It was an ugly half, to say the least.

The turning point came after Hilliman’s stuffed fourth-down conversion attempt and Notre Dame’s ensuing touchdown. From there, it seemed the Eagles were reeling and unable to regain their footing in the game.

BC did find the end zone one more time, when Charlie Callinan pulled in a pass from Brown in the fourth quarter for his second touchdown of the day, and then made a defensive stand to force a punt on Notre Dame’s following drive.

“The game is fully in reach, energy

was high, guys were pushing,” Callinan said after the game of that stretch in the fourth quarter.

But what little momentum had been built up died away as Hilliman fumbled and Notre Dame’s Shaun Crawford fell on the ball, giving the Irish prime field position at BC’s 35-yard line. Unsurprisingly, Notre Dame converted the turnover into a touchdown, and the Eagles’ best chance at turning the tide of the game was washed away.

Run Defense Breakdown Head coach Steve Addazio was blunt after the game. “We didn’t stop the run,” he said. “That was a huge deal in that game. There was like three runs that comprised most of their offense in the first half.”

In fact, big runs comprised most of the Irish’s offense on the day in total.

Wimbush, who struggled in the air, relied on the ground game to push Notre Dame past the Eagles. The Irish finished the day with just 96 passing yards, but 515 rushing yards. BC just couldn’t find a solution to Notre Dame’s ground attack.

Wimbush earned 207 yards on the ground, shattering a 50-year school record for rushing yards by a quarterback. Adams gained 234 yards on the day, averaging almost 13 yards per carry. Wimbush broke free for a 65-yard touchdown run in the game, while Adams earned 64- and 65-yard rushes.

It was an uncharacteristic breakdown from a BC defense that typically anchors the team. Addazio admitted

that the chunk runs served as the biggest difference maker in the end.

“Those chunks are what torqued this game right there because it was a close game,” he said.

It is certainly true that the big runs came at the most inopportune moments. Wimbush and Adams ran for 46 and 65 yards, respectively, on third downs. Adams exploded for runs of 36 and 64 yards on separate occasions while deep in Notre Dame territory.

Wimbush’s 65-yard touchdown run, which effectively ended BC’s chances at a comeback, also came on a third down.

Landry Strategy Falls Short Harold Landry, a future first-round draft pick and the undisputed star of BC’s defense, continued to have limited playing time against the Irish.

Coincidentally, or perhaps not, the Irish scored at least 21 of their points while Landry was off the field.

“It wasn’t the ends that created those missed gaps right there,” Addazio said after the game, defending his strategy to rest Landry. “That wasn’t the problem with those runs hitting. That much I know.”

It’s reasonable to say that Landry’s biggest strength is on the pass rush, not run defense. But it’s also reasonable to say that it is galling for fans to watch their defense fall apart without the best player on the field. The strategy seemed, implausibly, to extend into the red zone. Even when Notre Dame threatened to score, Landry remained on the sidelines. Even if the Landry strategy is designed to keep him fresh

late in the game, it seems logical that he’d be used in high-priority situations. Keeping Landry on the sidelines when Notre Dame is in its own territory is one thing, but keeping him on the sidelines when the Irish are in the red zone is another thing entirely.

Offensive Improvement The second-half defensive collapse overshadowed some very real offensive contributions and improvement.

Ben Petrula, who has been thrust into playing center for the first time in his career, looked much better against Notre Dame than he did against Wake Forest. Jon Hilliman rushed for 122 yards, the most he’s accumulated in a single game since 2015. Even after putting up strong numbers, Hilliman still expressed his disappointment in a noticeably subdued post-game interview.

“Honestly, there was zero doubt in my mind that we were going to win this game,” Hilliman said.

Wide receiver Charlie Callinan also had himself a career day. His two touchdown receptions amounted to BC’s only touchdowns on the day, and both were impressive catches.

After the game, Callinan said that the touchdown plays were drawn up after studying film from Notre Dame’s loss against Georgia last week. “We knew there was a good possibility that that play would come open,” Callinan explained. “When he called that play, my eyes lit up, and I guess so did Anthony’s, and he threw a strike right in there perfect position, and I got to go up and make a play.” n

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plays of 30+ yards allowed by BC

12.7

Josh Adams’ average YPC

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Tight end Tommy Sweeney (89), who committed a pair of false start penalties, walks off the field during Saturday’s loss.

VOLLEYBALL

Eagles Blow Two-Set Lead Against Northeastern on the Road

By Riley Overend Sports Editor Boston College volleyball let a victory slip through its fingertips on Saturday evening, blowing a two-set lead on the road against Northeastern.

Just like Thursday’s loss to Harvard, the Eagles (3-7) were defeated in five sets by their crosstown rival.

BC traded points with the Huskies

(6-6) to start the first set, before Lynn Braakhuis sparked a 4-1 run with a kill, her first of a team-high 15 during the match. The Eagles extended their lead thanks to some Northeastern attack errors, ultimately taking the opening set, 25-20.

A 7-1 run in the second set gave BC a comfortable lead, but the Huskies battled back to tie the score late.

The Eagles staved off the comeback,

winning a pair of clutch points to win the set, 27-25.

Things took a turn for the worse in the third set. Northeastern fought back from down 3-0 early to take a 15-14 lead that the team would never give back. The Huskies stayed on top for the rest of the set, edging BC by a score of 25-21 to get on the scoreboard.

The Eagles came painfully close

to victory in the fourth set. They jumped out to a 7-3 advantage before Northeastern narrowed the deficit and began trading points. Up 24-23, BC had a chance to end the match, but lost the next three points to give the Huskies a 26-24 comeback win to even the contest at two sets apiece.

Cat Balido opened the fifth and final set with a kill, one of 13 for her against Northeastern, but the mo-

mentum wouldn’t last. The Huskies pulled ahead thanks to a few Eagles’ errors, and held on for a 15-10 victory in the decisive set. Their star player, Amy Underdown, led everyone with 20 kills and 25 digs.

Given BC’s struggles with its local out-of-conference competition, it may not be pretty when the team opens up ACC play at Syracuse on Wednesday evening. n

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Eagles Pick up Fourth Top-20 Win of Season Against Tribe

By Mike Malley For The Heights

Coming off a difficult overtime loss to No. 7 North Carolina on Saturday, Boston College field hockey looked to bounce back against William Boston College 3 and Mary. Both William and Mary 0 teams came into the game with records of 5-2, with the Eagles, still winless in ACC play, attempting to gain momentum before their upcoming matchup with Virginia.

The game was dominated by BC. The Eagles controlled the ball for most of the game and, shot after shot, bombarded the Tribe in a 3-0 victory in Williamsburg.

No. 10 BC (6-2, 0-2 Atlantic Coast) outshot No. 18 William and Mary (5-3) by a 24-8 margin, maintaining an aggressive offensive style throughout the game and pushing forward for all 70 minutes. A fantastic performance by Tribe goalkeeper Morgan Connor kept her team in the game until the

very end. Connor finished with 14 saves—a career high—but the performance was not enough to overcome the Eagles offense.

Early on, it was fairly close in terms of shots.

Both teams were trading punches, but not one could break through. About halfway through the first period, though, the Eagles figured things out and took over offensively.

At one point, BC fired nine consecutive shots on goal, but simply couldn’t find the back of the net until, with about 11 minutes left to play in the period, freshman Fusine Govaert finally rolled one past Morgan. Govaert’s second goal of the season ended up being enough to vanquish the Tribe, but the offense did not stop there.

The beginning of the second half mirrored that of the first, with William and Mary and BC playing a tight game, where it wasn’t able to be seen who was going to come out on top. The Eagles were up one,

but that wasn’t enough for head coach Kelly Doton and Co. BC finally started clicking again with about 10 minutes left to play in the game, when it fired off five shots in a four-minute span, the last one finding the back of the net courtesy of senior forward Brooke Matherson—her second goal of the season. The original shot by Matherson was saved by Connor, but unluckily for the Tribe, it bounced back out to the experienced attacker, who managed to double the Eagles’ lead.

From that point forward, BC amped up its attack even more and really put the pedal to the metal.

Shortly after Matherson’s goal, a beautiful pass by junior midfielder Lucy Lytle put Jaime Natale in a one-on-one with the goalkeeper. Natale converted perfectly, effectively closing out the game. This brought Natale’s goal total for the season to four, which leads the team.

In the final minute, William and Mary

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BC logged 24 shots in its win over the Tribe, 15 more than it recorded against UNC.

forward Cammie Lloyd rocketed a ball off of the post, but couldn’t convert.

Eagles goalie Sarah Dwyer finished the game with four saves and secured her second shutout of the year. Overall, it was a clean game, with neither team committing a foul or being caught offsides once.

BC, now 6-2, looks ahead to a much anticipated matchup with conference rival Virginia in Charlottesville on Sept.

22.

This win will certainly serve as a good momentum builder for the Eagles, who are still searching for their first ACC victory of 2017. n

In Chapel Hill, BC Loses First Overtime Game of 2017

By Andy Backstrom Asst. Sports Editor

All year, Boston College field hockey has thrived in tight situations. Over the course of the first month of the season, the Eagles boasted Boston College 1 a 3-0 record in North Carolina 2 one-goal games.

Not to mention that two of those wins came in double overtime against top-20 teams. Unfortunately for head coach Kelly Doton, her team couldn’t pull out a third extra-time victory on Saturday. After 78

and a half minutes of play, North Carolina edged BC, 2-1.

It didn’t take long for the No. 7 Tar Heels (5-2, 1-1 Atlantic Coast) to get on the board. About three minutes into the match, Eva Smolenaars carried the ball into the circle and whipped up a shot. The ball went through the legs of BC goaltender Sarah Dwyer and into the back of the cage, giving Smolenaars her first collegiate goal and UNC the lead.

As a whole, the Tar Heels dominated the opening half of play. Time and time again, UNC found itself knocking on the

door, outshooting the No. 10 Eagles (5-2, 0-2) 11-1. Yet the Tar Heels couldn’t add to their scoring total. And that’s in large part due to the defensive presence of junior Alyssa Olenick. The New Jersey native came up with two defensive saves in the period, nearly doubling her career total.

It was more of the same in the second half.

Despite an array of chances, UNC continued to come up empty on the offensive end. Thanks to Dwyer’s careerhigh nine saves, BC was still alive late in the game. That’s when the Eagles made

their move. With less than 10 minutes to go, Ymke Rose Gote received a feed at midfield and turned on the gas. The junior stormed down the field, encroached the circle, and fired a shot into the right corner of the cage to tie the game at one.

Dwyer and the defense held on for the next eight and half minutes, sending the game to overtime. But they wouldn’t last much longer.

In the 79th minute, UNC scored on a corner—the Tar Heels’ third of overtime and 11th on the day. Following the insertion, Ashley Hoffman and Eva van’t Hoog

executed a perfect give-and-go. Hoffman located van’t Hoog, who immediately passed the ball back to her teammate. Now with space to shoot, Hoffman ripped the gamewinning shot past Dwyer.

All said and done, the Tar Heels recorded 22 shots—13 more than the Eagles.

After starting the season 4-0 for the first time under Doton, BC has dropped two of its last three games. Both losses have come in conference play. The Eagles have shown that they can knock off highly-touted programs this season. Now they need to do it in the ACC. n

VOLLEYBALL

Eagles Drop Decisive Fifth Set to Crosstown Rival Harvard

By Bradley Smart For The Heights

For the fourth-straight year, Boston College volleyball and Harvard went to a dramatic five sets.

Last year, it was the Crimson that rallied from down 2-1 to come away with the win.

This year, the Eagles were the ones rallying after dropping the first two sets. After taking the next two sets in dramatic fashion, however, the Eagles weren’t able to complete the comeback.

Harvard (3-4) built an early four-point lead in the decisive fifth set and hung on to win, taking the opening game of the New England Challenge by set scores of 25-16,

25-17, 24-26, 23-25, and 15-10.

Crimson setter Erin McCarthy paved the way with a career high 57 assists, and the trio of Maclaine Fields, Mindie Mabry, and Grace Roberts Burbank all recorded double-digit kills. Fields led the way with 19.5 points.

Cat Balido and Lynn Braakhuis had 18 kills apiece to lead the Eagles (3-6). Jane DeJarld added a team-high 44 assists, while Jill Strockis contributed 15 digs.

It was a disappointing setback for BC, as the team clawed its way back into the match with a pair of gutsy sets, but couldn’t pull it out in the end.

In the first set, the Eagles sprung out to a 4-3 lead, but soon trailed by eight after a

convincing run by the Crimson. Harvard hit .462 with just two errors compared to BC’s .043 in what turned into a lopsided set.

A strong effort from Balido, who recorded three kills in the midst of a 6-2 BC run, kept it close until the final third of the set. A late timeout wasn’t able to stop the bleeding, as Mabry had a trio of kills, all set up by McCarthy, to secure the opening set.

BC jumped out to a 3-1 lead in the second set, but Harvard quickly turned the tables. Back-to-back kills from Roberts Burbank and a service ace from Christina Cornelius (13 digs) after drawing even at six put the Crimson ahead.

The Eagles made Harvard sweat a little, going on a 4-0 run late to close the deficit to

four points. It was too little, too late, however, as the Crimson picked up the set.

BC elevated its attack in the third set, building a convincing 20-12 lead behind 14 kills and just one error. However, the comfortable lead didn’t last. Four errors resulted in a 6-1 run for the Crimson, leading to a timeout with the Eagles lead down to just three.

The timeout led to a kill from Braakhuis to pull within just one point of taking the set, but the Crimson pulled off a ferocious four-point rally to tie it up at 24. Another kill from Braakhuis paired with a rare error from Mabry allowed the Eagles to escape with the win.

The momentum carried over into a

back-and-forth fourth set, with BC building an early seven-point lead. Harvard closed the gap again, ultimately pulling even at 24, but a kill from Braakhuis and an error from Mabry gave the Eagles the set.

Harvard took a 3-0 lead to start the fifth set and never trailed, eventually pulling away for the five-point win. A pair of BC errors were the final two points in the match.

The Eagles look to rebound as they take on another local foe in Northeastern on Saturday night at Cabot Center. The Huskies are 5-5 overall, but currently boast a four-game win streak. BC has managed just one win against Northeastern in the last five games. n

MEN’S SOCCER

Strong Defensive Effort Not Enough Against No. 10 Clemson

By Jack Goldman For The Heights

Just like last season, it looked as if Boston College men’s soccer was on the verge of finally taking down Clemson— a t e a m t h at Boston College 0 hadn’t lost to Clemson 1 the Eagles since 2009—on Friday. But once again, the Tigers dodged a bullet, this time scoring the game’s lone goal in the second half to secure a 1-0 victory.

Although the Eagles’ (2-4, 0-2 Atlantic Coast) defense put in a performance it can build on going forward, it wasn’t enough to hold off No. 10 Clemson (5-1, 1-1) at Historic Riggs Field.

Tigers’ right back Tanner Dieterich streaked through the heart of BC’s defense in the 60th minute to latch onto Oliver Shannon’s through ball into the right side of the box. Dieterich did not waste his chance, tucking the ball into the side netting at the far post for the eventual game winner. Unfortunately for BC, Dieterich’s goal came off of an Eagles

turnover in their own territory. As they attempted to break out into a counterattack, an errant pass eventually fell to the feet of Shannon—a 2016 All-ACC second teamer—whose subsequent pass sliced the Eagles’ defense wide open.

On the bright side, part of the reason Clemson’s goal stood out is because BC’s defense did not have many vulnerable moments. Head coach Ed Kelly asked his team to sit back and defend, leaving two banks of four players behind the ball to defend, with only two, and at times in the second half only striker Simon Enstrom left up the pitch, ready to attack back on the counter.

The group got off to a rocky start, with Eagles captain Len Zeugner misjudging a header two minutes into the game, leading to a golden chance for Clemson striker Jason Wright, and forcing a wonderful save from BC keeper Antonio Chavez Borelli. Clemson kept its foot on the gas. On the following corner, defender Justin Malou got free in the box for two more chances on goal, the second swinging wide of the post.

From that point on, though, BC more than held its own. The next 15 minutes saw the Eagles generate two solid chances for Enstrom, who went wide left on his first chance of the game from inside the box, and then rushed his second chance minutes later, again pushing the ball well wide. At the 20-minute mark, defender Tomas Gudmundsson found his way to a free header off of Mohamed Moro’s corner kick and grazed the top of the crossbar, only inches away from giving BC a one-goal lead.

After Gudmundsson’s chance, BC struggled to create any more offense, as Clemson’s press forced the Eagles to work hard just to get the ball out of their defensive third of the pitch. The defense would bend, allowing the Tigers to advance up the pitch and often conceding corners—13 of them to be exact—but rarely break and give up real chances off of those set pieces.

The start of the second half didn’t yield quite as positive a result as the scoreless first half had. BC’s attempted clearances, which were designed to

alleviate Clemson’s constant pressure, went from long-range blasts to errant passes in the defensive third that led to Tigers chances. Suddenly, a defense that had looked so organized in the first half got forced out of position by a poorly timed turnover and that ended up being enough to sink the Eagles’ hopes.

But once the Tigers began to let up on their pressing style in the final 15 minutes of the game to preserve their lead and seal the win on the defensive side of the ball, the Eagles offense came to life for the first time in 55 minutes or so.

The best chance of the second half came when midfielder Lasse Lehmann played a clever chip pass to substitute Trevor Davock, which ended in Davock holding off his defender and firing a shot wide right. Fullback Younes Boudadi looked to be the best threat BC had running with the ball at his feet.

In addition to this offensive progress, the Eagles still didn’t let up another goal to this dangerous Clemson team, which missed some of its better players

due to injury and suspension, but still looked dangerous for the entire game.

The Eagles themselves lost their rock in the back line, Gudmundsson, in the 61st minute—a player who had only missed 18 minutes total this entire season leading into the game. And yet Clemson was still held in check for the final 30 minutes.

Kelly made it clear in his postgame comments that he was more than satisfied with the team’s efforts.

“It was a good game, two evenly matched teams,” Kelly told BCEagles. com. “I actually think we were a little bit better, but tonight wasn’t our night.”

There haven’t been many nights this season where the coach could say it was BC’s night. The slow start to the season has showcased a group far short of where it needs to be to compete in its division of death.

After this performance though, a positive one for a team that hasn’t scored against Clemson since 2013, there is now a glimmer of hope for the Eagles’ coach, and their fans. n

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After shutting out their first two opponents, 4-0, and cracking the top 25, the Eagles have lost four-straight matches. Now 0-2 in conference play, BC already sits at the bottom of the ACC’s Atlantic Division.

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‘Concrete and Gold’ Shows Typical Foo Fighters Sound

BY BARRETTE JANNEY Executive Assistant

All that glitters may not be entirely gold in the Foo Fighters’ latest album, but its ardor and concurrent tenderness depicts a genuine reflection of human desperation and dejection.

Concrete and Gold is the ninth album in the Foo Fighters’ robust repertoire. Its inception resulted from lead singer David Grohl breaking a supposed hiatus from music and collaborating with newly acclaimed music producer Greg Kurstin. The duo aimed to create a more sophisticated sound for the heavy rock band, a genre with which Kurstin himself had never affiliated.

The heavy rock band certainly tweaked its wallowing tendencies to welcome a slight

broadening of its musical horizons while still itself remaining loyal to its dynamism between soft and strong.

In “T-Shirt,” tender vocals initially caress humble lyrics such as “I don’t wanna be a king / I just wanna sing a love song” until a collision of percussion and drum overtake any resemblance of serenity and invigorate a notion of growth in personal power. Techno pop cinders glow beneath the rock ashes of “La Dee Da,” in which electronic clinks and clatters layer an energetic surge of drums, altering the typical progression of a rock song. “Run” depicts the continuous inner conflict between hoping for a better life and violently dwelling on endless strife. This constant swing between states manifests in a shift from an embraceable rhythm of mellow electric

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guitar and drum to a heavy metal eruption, finishing with a meshed balance of both vastly discrete sounds and exhibiting at last the coexistence of dream and reality. “The Sky Is A Neighborhood” addresses similar contemplations about human existence by exploring the mayhem of the universe and its inhabitants in a convergence of simultaneously melodious and discordant vibrations. The steady rhythm of drums among abrupt strums of the electric tones meld with gruff vocals to convey the everevolving relationship between beings and the cosmos.

The Foo Fighters hone in on their capacity for silk simplicity in “Happy Ever After (Zero Hour),” offering up a bleak sentiment through the repetition of “There ain’t no superheroes now” while “Sunday Rain” expresses similarly despondent lyrics through a rock-turned-funk lens.

Although Concrete and Gold’s thematic depth and authentic yet innovative mixing shone through most songs, others missed the sweet spot of unique metamorphosis and landed in a faulty, often times trite danger zone.

An archetypal guitar solo opening ushers in “Make It Right,” the product of an unlikely partnership between the Foo Fighters and pop singer Justin Timberlake. The song illustrates the punchy yet trite sentiments so characteristic of classic rock, expressing the urge to “Hop on the train to nowhere baby.” While it could be a pleasurable song for avid rock listeners, as it is extremely reminiscent of rock powerhouses such as AC/DC, “Make It Right” is not for the faint of heart. Headaches will ensue among those

not fluent in rock after a single auditory engagement with the song, whose overlapping “La La La’s” elicit a reaction similar to that of waking from slumber via garbage trucks beeping outside the dorm window.

The title track “Concrete and Gold” conversely suffers from a painful slowness, transporting the listener into an inescapable pit of tar. While the slow-motion take on their typical back and forth between light and heavy sounds may have seemed innovative at conception, the result is a drag for the ear.

Despite a few issues within the set, the Foo Fighters still succeed in vivifying the fading genre of rock music in the current media-verse enamored with streamlined pop, sprucing its sound with elements of pop and other, more recognizable sounds.

Such an approach, which may differ from the statutes of rock purists, will ultimately keep the genre from relinquishing the minimized grip it possesses now. Rock must assume flexibility for the sake of prevailing as an art that liberated angst and praised gruff realism, and the Foo Fighters’ attempt to modify while preserving earns merit within itself.

While punctured with a couple holes of pace and redundancy, Concrete and Gold still embodies a more mobile form of rock, allowing listeners to taste samplings of varying sounds within a realm of deep contemplation so often remiss in the alltoo-similar vibrations of the Top 100. For that, Concrete and Gold erects a gilded yet sturdy platform for other variations of heavy rock to build upon in coming years. 

Poor Acting Leaves ‘Rebel in the Rye’ Feeling Phony

BY JACK ANDERSON For The Heights

As with many other productions that choose writers as the backdrop, the subject of Rebel in the Rye only highlights how unimaginative it actually is. It seems that films that focus on writers are doomed to be dull and tiring.

The film tells the story of J.D. Salinger, famous for many short stories but primarily for his seminal novel, The Catcher In the Rye. Much of Salinger’s professional life is covered throughout the film, from the first time he is published to his eventual seclusion in his fenced-in estate, where he would spend the last 60 years of his life.

The main problem with Rebel In the Rye is an attempt to cover everything of note that happened to the writer, but not to explore much of what makes Salinger’s life so fascinating. Like too little butter spread across too much bread, Rebel In the Rye is serviceable, but painfully bland.

Considering how fascinating the life of Salinger actually was, this representation is a shame. Both his life and the film include his struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder after his experiences in World War II, finding inner peace with help from a Hindu spiritual teacher, and reaching international fame and growing to hate it.

All of this culminates with his 60-year seclusion that only intensified his fame and mystique. The film certainly has a tall order, one that it fails to rise to.

Rebel In The Rye simply covers the events of Salinger’s life, without

exploring or interconnecting them to build a cohesive whole. Each part by itself is interesting in theory, especially because it actually happened to this man.

But if the film can do little else besides giving a biographical account of his life that one could easily find online or in a library, well then it isn’t much of a film, is it?

The acting and dialogue are only adequate at best, but both are filled with shocking dips in quality throughout the film. The film emphasizes the relationship between Salinger (Nicholas Hoult), and his former professor and friend Whit Burnett (Kevin Spacey).

While this relationship works for the most part, and is genuinely one of the best aspects of the film, the film abandons this good faith in the second act. It involves Salinger becoming furious and cutting off ties with Burnett in a crowded diner, and it is one the film’s worst moments.

The dialogue seems robotic, the acting is unconvincing, and the anger is unwarranted, resulting in a moment that feels completely unearned and merely a plot device to keep the film moving.

This is one of the horrible cases when a movie about literary genius is unable to subtly portray that genius, and instead just forces actors to hamhandedly spell out exactly what they are thinking. There is no nuance of dialogue or acting, it simply tells the audience what to think about Rebel In The Rye. The editing doesn’t help either.

Scenes do not flow together, and rarely reflect back onto another in any meaningful way. About halfway

through the film, Salinger is brutally mugged in a park after drunkenly offering to share his booze with his would-be assailant. His mugger is initially friendly, until he turns on him. This whole scene is shot through a wide angle, with no close-ups or changes in frame, which undercuts the dramatic change in the scene.

The scene then immediately cuts to Salinger staring intensely at a merrygo-round. It is unclear what exactly this is supposed to make the viewer feel.

This takes the viewer on a crazed back-and-forth journey throughout the entire movie. The tone shifts constantly, especially towards the end.

The film asserts its ending awkwardly and abruptly on a whiplash gearshift from S alinger ’s depression and family neglect to his triumphant creative transcendence.

The film fails to strike the proper tone, choosing to play up the ending with heroic scores instead of a melancholy look at the complicated life of a troubled man.

The film has some good insight on the author’s intent and his struggle to preserve originality and integrity in a brutal press system.

It also is a good introduction to learning about Salinger from a factual point of view. For example, did you know that Salinger fell in love with Oona O’Neill (daughter of famed playwright Eugene O’Neill) only to discover during the war that she herself had fallen in love with the much older Charlie Chaplin? If you are either a die-hard fan or know next to nothing about Salinger, you might enjoy the experience. Just expect to see a film with a bland and melodramatic filter. 

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Sometimes, the best artists are blissfully unaware of what makes them truly memorable. With their latest album Snow, released Sept. 15, Angus and Julia Stone fall squarely in line with this idea.

Though the Aussie sibling duo has had a lucrative past in creating ethereal, warm, and in some cases moving tracks, too much artistic digression in Snow leaves listeners feeling more uninterested than entranced.

The album opens with the title track “Snow.” From Julia’s mousy opening la la la’s, listeners familiar with the duo could expect this to be another typical dreamy love song.

These keen listeners would be correct and, for fans of the duo, this is a

good thing.

The Stone’s have carved out an ample space in the heady chill-out market and songs like “Snow” further their claim. It is not overly complex musically, especially with the use of the drum machine and droning guitar riffs. But it is this droning on that entices listeners into that evenkeeled place.

Lyrically, the song is little more than love poem soup, with a few lines requiring a little more analysis, “Who the hell are we to start this chain again? / Who the hell are we to break this chain again?.” Individually, these things do not make the song memorable and fun. The key ingredient is the dynamic between the Stones.

Unfortunately, after the song “Snow”, the album has to fight to reclaim that interplay.

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“TOO GOOD AT GOODBYES” SAM SMITH

Emotional, heart-wrenching, and poignant, Sam Smith’s new single “Too Good at Goodbyes” has captured the hearts of hopeless romantics everywhere. The song is the lead single from his next album, which has remained unnamed. It’s the first material Smith has released since “Writing’s on the Wall,” written in 2015 for the James Bond film Spectre. “Too Good at Goodbyes” is personal and engaging because the lyrics are detailed and clear. Although the lyrics are beautifully written, the couplet “And every time you hurt me, the less that I cry / And every time you leave me, the quicker these tears dry,” is especially memorable because of the sheer simplicity of the rhyme scheme, and the all-too-familiar message that it helps portray. Smith’s lyrics are written so intricately that any listener can feel his pain through the song. Having said this, “Too Good at Goodbyes” sounds too similar to Smith’s other songs, especially his chart-topping hit “Stay With Me.” Both songs are slow ballads about heartbreak, with choruses marked by a chorale of background singers. As an artist, the last thing you want to be is predictable. With its slow sound punctuated by strong backups,, “Too Good at Goodbyes” may provide a solid basis for the rest of Smith’s album, but certainly not for the rest of his career. 

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“Oakwood” and “Chateau” are far more upbeat and bright than “Snow” with jaunty baselines and guitar sections. This offers some contrast with the rest of the album, but feels like a rather abrupt departure from the mellow opening.

More importantly, it marks a departure from some of the more compelling back-and-forth vocals.

Long stretches, in these two songs, are dominated by either sibling only to change or intersplice the other halfway through.

Again for contrast’s sake, these are not unworthy inclusions, but the finesse of the duo’s talent is lost on a more or less routine indie pop track.

But then the album gives listeners a taste of the interplay they know and love from the sibling rockers.

In “Sleep Alone” the pair takes up a call and response format in a sweetly dark piece.

The guitar groove undulates to the pairs swapping vocal spotlight, flowing seamlessly in between and over each line.

And then it’s over. The brief interlude gives way to Angus’ strange spoken-word track “Make It Out Alive.” Not only is this transition disappointing, it is not the only time this album.

“Nothing Else,” arguably the best track on the album, is simply beautiful. Instrumentally, the song consists of a simple acoustic strumming with the beat kept on the dampened strings.

The song feels like a dirty desert

town at sunset—and you’re about to stay for a night.

As Julia sings the main verses of the song, Angus interjects at various point to add unison or periphery vocals to the already enticing lyrics. In contrast to the rather pedestrian love lyrics, this song seems acutely inspired as its opening lines can attest: “You don’t wanna be rich like everybody else does / You just wanna grow old, sit still while everybody else runs / In the meantime, tell me your star sign / I’ll make something up about how you have to fall apart to really be someone.”

Again the album runs into a problem of progression. “Nothing Else” ends and the energy sputters out in the face of the next track “My House Your House.”

Though this next track is a perfectly ample track of unison singing, it abuts oddly with the more dirty acoustic sound of “Nothing Else.” Though these tracks are of comparable length, the slow burning songs are often followed by songs with a heightened sense of urgency.

Ultimately, this leaves the album, which is a rollercoaster of tone, without any mild gradient of tone and emotion.

Snow has many entries that will fit in nicely with the Stone’s ample repertoire, but as a unified piece, it leaves much to be desired. Hopefully, future installments from the siblings will see an emphasis put on their strong dynamic and roots in more mellow melodies. 

Aly and AJ are back on the music scene after changing their name to 78violet. One of their first releases, a remake of the Lovin’ Spoonful’s “Do You Believe in Magic” is a song many will remember from childhood watching the Disney Channel. The sister-duo were famous as actresses and some of their first acting jobs were in the DCOM Cow Belles and Super Sweet 16: The Movie on MTV. After their return to their roots, the singers don’t seem to have missed a beat, as their latest single feels relevant in the music scene today.

Their latest video draws a lot of influence from the ’80s. From the way the video is shot, to its color scheme and fashion choices, what appears on the screen looks as if it could have been made decades ago. The video itself is shot with a cool, hazy exposure, and intermittent cracks on the screen, as if the clock had been wound back. It evokes a vibe similar to Lana Del Ray. The sisters, however, don’t have the same feeling of nostalgia that Del Ray often channels in her work. This seems to be much less of a looking back at this time and more as a jumping off point to use and to experiment with.

While so much of this video seems influenced by the ’80s, the song still fits the scene today. Even looking at the fashion in the video, the bright pink statement tops and the turtlenecks are back in style. Perhaps this speaks to how much our culture is taking a look back at trends from the ’80s and other eras and pulling them and ideas from the past into today.

The plot of the movie within utilizes a vampire narrative. With a lot of close up shots of the girls singing, the video appears to be somewhat like a glamorous photo shoot. While there is a clear storyline of the girls as vampires on the hunt for blood, the video seems to be more focused on taking close-up shots of the singers making faces at the camera than what’s actually going on. There seemed to be an effort to look glamorous, instead of it just occurring naturally. But this is likely a neat and topical way to reintroduce the girls to the public eye. 

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BC SLAM! Opens Floor for Poetic Performances, Personal Growth

By Isabella Dow Asst. Scene Editor An energetic, supportive crowd gathered in the Cushing auditorium Thursday night for the third annual BC SLAM! (Soul, Love and Meaning) Sunset Slam event. The gathering fostered an intimate, underground atmosphere with soft string lights, flickering electric candles, and lively chattering in the audience. Featuring poets from BC SLAM!’s E-Board, as well as students new to performing, the event thrived on the interaction between the expressive poets and their adoring audience. While many of the poems featured material deeply personal to their performers, the poets received affirmation and support from their listeners, in the form of snaps of agreement, and vocal interjections. Even in a room full of diversity in life experience and styles of expression, everyone united in a profound appreciation for the cathartic art form embodied in slam poetry.

The event showcased the immense creative talents of its poets, which took conventional poetic elements such as rhyme and figurative language, and skilfully used them to express their thoughts. Poetry

has the capacity to pack an artistic punch, cutting through potentially lengthy prose iterations of thought and concentrating vivid images and emotion into a sensory experience. But the poems performed at the event developed another dimension as their authors gave them a voice. Whether the poets were avidly gesturing and getting riled up reading their poem, or speaking softly and standing still, the heart with which the poems were written shined through the performances. The audience could more clearly discern the emotional tones that fueled the poems, as the poets raised their voice, or shifted between assertive and introspective tones. The performers would gain momentum through the poem, growing more intense with their deliveries, or take pauses to let their words hang in the air for a moment. Some poems lent themselves to a groovy rhythm with which the poet would vibe, while other rhythms were more erratic and conveyed the conflict of the poem.

Furthermore, the subjects of the poems covered a broad range of topics, many of which related to self-discovery and overcoming hardship. The common threads among the poems grew more pronounced

as the crowd murmured and marveled at the performances. Even though the content and style of each poem was uniquely tailored to the lives of the poets, different aspects of the poems resonated with the audience.

That’s not to say that everyone in the room understood the lives and anecdotes of the performers as if they were their own. It was, however, remarkable that the audience found many of the poems to be relatable even without all the context and specific details of the poet’s life. Somehow, the musings on relationships, family and social dynamics, and internal conflict possessed an intangible quality that drew out the audience’s inner empathetic tendencies. In all likelihood, it was the talents of the poets to convey their struggles and triumphs in a gripping way that allowed the poems to reach listeners.

The conditions under which the poems were written were varied as well. Some students explained they had written their poem some time in the past, while others had just written them with the Sunset Slam event specifically in mind. Some students reportedly didn’t plan their poems out in a strict sense of the word, which speaks to the scope of methods through which the spoken

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SLAM!’s slam proved that personal trials are best met with strength and strong words. word genre can flourish.

“Say anything you need to, express how you feel, that’s how we do it here,” Miya Coleman, MCAS ’19 and co-president of SLAM!, said.

She expressed the desire for SLAM! events to be a safe space for people to get things off their chest, a sentiment that was met with widespread approval from the group. The nature of the atmosphere is a crucial aspect of hosting a poetry performance event, as the sensitive material contained within the poems demands an

audience that has an open heart.

It takes courage for people to share their original works, perhaps especially when the poets let listeners in on vulnerable, personal thoughts and experiences. Some performers even stated that the positive energy in the room solidified their intent to share their poetry, and several new performers received a warm welcome to the SLAM! scene. After an evening rife with stories of the endless trials of individual realities, the event reached a collective victory in the celebration of SLAM! poetry. n

‘Flowing Tides’ Details a Musical Irish History

By Jacob Schick Assoc. Scene Editor The Connolly House is almost as active a participant in the events held there as the attendees themselves. As Irish Society members and Boston College students filed in for the first event of the Gaelic Roots Series this semester, the building creaked and murmured as it welcomed them inside.

There’s something special about spending a warm evening standing on old wooden floors, hearing soft brogues from those around you, and smelling hot coffee from the room adjacent.

Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin, a professor at Concordia University, joined the Andover Room of the Connolly House promptly at 6:30 p.m. to discuss his latest book.

Flowing Tides: History & Memory in an Irish Soundscape focuses on the oral and musical history of County Clare, one of Ireland’s most culturally rich areas. A small audience listened attentively as he began to speak.

Flowing Tides explores the history of County Clare that has often been overlooked by the eyes of traditional historians and left out of the traditional history books. Musical history, especially that of Co. Clare, is so mercurial and deep, and yet so subversive, that it is eschewed in favor of more concrete events, people, and places.

Through a slideshow, Ó hAllmhuráin explained what inspired his book. In the mid ’70s, he went to report on the funeral of Joe Cooley, a famous Irish accordion player. In 1954, Cooley, then a member of the popular Tulla Céilí Band, left Ireland for the United States, where he formed the Gráinneog Céilidh band. He was regarded as one of the most talented and influential Irish button accordionists.

What struck Ó hAllmhuráin was Cooley’s return to Ireland before his death.

Here was one of Ireland’s children, who had become famous around the world, but had ultimately come back to the land that raised him. Cooley had taken a traditional Irish style of music, Irish button accordion, and incorporated influences from the musicians he played with and the experiences he had in America, and had then brought his unique music back to Ireland. This musical mixture was then tossed into the melting pot of Co. Clare sound.

This phenomenon was happening with hundreds of Irish players, as well as musicians from other ethnic, cultural, and geographic backgrounds who were

travelling through Ireland. Co. Clare became the epicenter of new and previously unheard of combinations of sound and style.

As Ó hAllmhuráin clicked through the slides, the audience saw the various important points in Irish history unfold over the course of centuries. All the while, he explained how these events changed and shaped the way music existed in Ireland and in Co. Clare. The election of the first Catholic to Parliament, Daniel O’Connell, and the various campaigns of Napoleon Bonaparte prompted the creation of dozens of Irish songs. The first and second temperance movements created temperance bands who later became Irish jazz bands playing in illegal dance halls.

After the journey through Irish musical history, Ó hAllmhuráin picked up his concertina accordion and was joined by three other musicians, two on accordion and one on keyboard. These four murmured among themselves as they settled on what reels to play while the attendees stretched their legs and readjusted their positions.

The musicians wasted no time in livening up the Andover Room with quick and cheerful music. Their fingers flew across the accordion buttons as they pumped their arms back and forth, all with casual and practiced ease.

With every song they played, the audience members could not contain themselves. The entire room was tapping their feet along to the rhythm, some drummed on the backs of their chairs, and a few high whoops and cheers were heard. Each time the performers ceased, a cry of “more tunes” went up.

Finally, Ó hAllmhuráin announced the last song as “one for the road.” Good-natured disappointment elicited a few sighs from the crowd, but soon all were clapping along to the beat in a desire to end on a good note.

What makes the Gaelic Roots events so unique is that they provide students the opportunity to experience a rich culture of song and dance that has been around for hundreds of years and that has been influenced by and influenced many other kinds of music. Sean Smith, of the Office of University Communications and representative of the Gaelic Roots Series for the event, explained why evenings like these are important opportunities for students at BC. “It’s a good way to see that folk and traditional music are alive and vibrant,” he said. “It’s free, it’s here, and it’s as it should be heard and experienced.” n

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The ‘Flowing Tides’ lecture journeys through the musical history of Co. Clare, Ireland.

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‘New England Sky’ Collection Finds Daily Beauty With Each New Horizon

By Caroline McCormack Heights Staff Waking up in New England at the break of day and watching the sun sink back down at dusk is breathtaking. In a beauteous way the country starts its day on this East Coast.

This splendor has served as the muse for many writers and artists in their poetry, stories, and artwork. Alston Conley taps into the magnificence in his featured exhibit, The New England Sky featured in the McMullen Museum through Dec. 10.

Conley, a professor of the practice of art at Boston College and the artist for this project, has been the recipient of various awards and has works in several museums and in corporate and private collections.

Additionally, Conley has previously worked as a curator for McMullen.

In a touching description of the exhibit, the artist recounted his inspiration.

“I live under a New England sky,” Conley said. “The light, its color, intensity, sensation, season, and length of day influence my psyche, mood, interior life, and art practice.”

Additionally, he explained the beauty of this daily inescapable reality.

“The long hours of daylight during the

summer and short hours during winter define our seasons, influence our lives, and distance us from our southern neighbors,” Conley said. “The low sun, color-rich light, and long shadows of early morning or end of the day often silhouette the horizon or individual trees in shadow, while the light fills the sky.”

Conley’s pieces line the walls of McMullen as visitors climb the stairs to the top level, and cascade The pieces are organized throughout the museum by the time and location. Some of these pieces have simple titles that reflect this organization, along with their colors, such as “End of the Day: Yellow Orange” or “Northern Sky: Yellow Violet.”

The mediums of the pieces alternate between paper and unstretched canvas.

On each of the paintings, the artist employed both paint and collage to create the breathtaking skyscapes. The skyscape in the back is created through the use of paint, and there are trees collaged over the beautiful background.

But these trees are not in color—they’re black, appearing somewhat like a shadow, which helps direct the eye of the observer to appreciate the vivid colors in the skyline. The detail work on the trees

is remarkable, with every line, crook and crevice illustrating the most lifelike looking tree.

Although the pieces appear uniform, each has something new. One day will appear different from the next when one looks at the sky. The trees and the woods scenes in the collages never repeats from one scene to another.

While it is on the periphery of the campus, McMullen is the ideal place to display this artwork. Not only is the building open and serene, it also has a wonderful view of the New England sky streaming in through the windows, casting a bright natural light on the exhibit. It is also far enough away from the hustle and bustle of Main Campus to make the audience feel as if they have enough space to experience these images.

Although some of these images have a peaceful nature about them, others with their bright oranges and jagged lines within the trees evoke a strong passion.

There is such a variety within the artwork that it is helpful to have a more secluded, undisturbed place to experience those emotions. The exhibit captures the ebbs and flows that go into the sky and how the sky we live under is ever-changing. n

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SETTING UP STOKES SET How CAB books gigs and transforms center campus into center stage

BY JACOB SCHICK Assoc. Scene Editor It seems that ever y time the headlining artist for a Boston College concert in announced, most students can only say “Who?” or “Why?” This year is no exception. Stokes Set will host Nico & Vinz, a Norwegian afro-beat duo who are on the rise in the music world, on Sept. 23. Mike Florio, CSOM ’19 and director of live Entertainment (LE) on the Campus Activities Board (CAB), sat down with The Heights to discuss the upcoming concert, the artist selection process, and the LE division of CAB. LE is the part of CAB that organizes all of the concerts on campus—Stokes Set, Plexapalooza, and Modstock—as well as smaller entertainment events like the brunches with live music, comedian nights, and even some hypnotist performances.

Florio—and CAB, for that matter—is excited for Stokes Set this coming weekend. The group wants to brand Stokes Set as an “event,” rather than make it driven by the artist.

Rather than promote the 2016 Plexapalooza as a Marshmello concert, for example, Florio explains that CAB would prefer to highlight the event itself.

“It’s not just the artist, it’s the ambiance,” he said. “It’s the experience that happens there.”

Nico & Vinz can help them accomplish this goal. The duo is known for being incredible to watch live. CAB wants to create an experience out of their performance. What they envision is an evening of entertainment.

The sun sets on Stokes Lawn, Nico & Vinz put on a wonderful show, and people have good food and drinks.

Florio even hinted at some sort of special lighting for which students should be sure to look out.

The selection process is more complicated than just picking an artist that they think fits with the vibe of each concert—for example, Plexapalooza is EDM while Modstock is hip-hop or R&B. But Stokes Set didn’t have an identity yet.

So at the end of last semester, CAB wanted to hear from the student body about what they wanted to see.

Students filled out a survey about whether they wanted Stokes Set to be country or alternative rock—most of the surveytakers chose the latter.

Over the summer, LE began to target certain alternative rock or similarly genred artists that would fit within their budget. Florio did not disclose CAB’s entertainment budget, but he emphasized that the money they receive must be divided between all of the major concerts, as well as the smaller events they host on campus.

Florio gave an example of the common complaints from people who are unaware of selection process details.

“A lot of the time you’ll get ‘Why can’t you bring Beyonce to campus?’” he said. “Because Beyonce is worth a million dollars and that’s not what we have in our budget.”

Most of these artists don’t offer student discounts either. CAB tries to find artists who are talented, but are also “on the rise.” Nico & Vinz have released a few hit singles and dropped a new EP last year. LE also tries to find artists who are marketing themselves toward younger crowds. This way, a college campus is more appealing to them than a typical concert venue.

CAB doesn’t need to pay Beyoncelevel fees to host them, and the artist gains more popularity among their desired fan base.

Besides the monetary constraints, CAB must also find artists that would be appropriate to host at a Jesuit institution like BC. Some popular

artists might be unattainable because of their content. Florio explains that this causes more difficulty for some concerts than others. Modstock is usually a hip-hop or R&B concert, and LE must work to find artists that the administration will approve that are also within their budget. Florio explained that LE tries to anticipate the administration’s desires, saving them a lot of time and work throughout the selection process. To Florio’s knowledge, LE has become adept at ruling out potentially controversial artists, and they have not had a suggestion rejected.

In spite of these external constraints, CAB still wants to provide what the students want. Florio was keen to stress that he, LE, and CAB in general are always available to the student body. They have planned a few events this year called Coffee with CAB. Students can come to meet with CAB representatives to ask any questions provide suggestions. Florio even offered their office as a potential place to connect with CAB. As far as Stokes Set goes, the people at CAB have put a lot of time, effort, and heart into the event, and they want to be sure that the students love it as much as they do. They will have fall-themed food and beverages in the form of apple cider and apple cider donuts, as well as a light-show that will occur during the concert.

Florio also wants students to be on the lookout for some of the smaller upcoming events like the hypnotist nights, the acoustic brunch, and of course the coffee with CAB. Students might not always know who these artists are when they are announced. What CAB wants, however, is to choose performers that they think the student body will like and that will appeal to the demographic present at these concerts. 

In All Forms of Art, the Wrath of Critics Is an Inescapable Reality

ISABELLA DOW As the old adage goes, “haters gonna hate.” But you might expand it to “critics gonna criticize.” It’s time to tackle the chaos that exists regarding popular artistic tastes compared to those of critics. This swirling vortex of confusion is entertaining and maddening, and plagues artists, critics, and consumers alike. Sometimes that which critics condemn, the masses devour. What is one supposed to think about this puzzling web of ambiguity?

Regardless of whether it’s a favorable review, critics draw attention to artistic works with their opinions, exposure that a lot of artists will never get. So at the very least, critical commentary alerts people to the presence of an artwork, from which the artists could benefit. Critics that try to write entertaining reviews, however, sometimes sprinkle in outrageous or

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degrading comments about artistic works. A fair share of the time, it’s a valid reaction to the work in question.

But there are plenty of infamous reviews out there that have hung artists out to dry, only to have their work become highly esteemed by pretty much everyone else. I wouldn’t be surprised if Led Zeppelin had the last laugh when Rolling Stone’s unfavorable review of its first album was spectacularly disputed by mainstream success. Even with that, if a review sounds absurd enough, people may check out artwork simply to see what inspired such bombastic commentary.

There’s no such thing as bad press, right?

But some critics should consider taking a proverbial “chill pill” when it comes to their evaluations. If you look at a movie as if it was meant for Oscar consideration, when it’s clearly not, of course it’s going to look like a travesty.

Condemning a movie as “teen cheese,” for example, may well be understandable to and supported by readers. But this declaration fails to detail the merits of a movie that appeals to a limited audience, or what makes the movie something worthy of distaste. And

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believe me, I can’t stand much of what receives the label “teen cheese,” as I think it’s shorthand for an overblown, nauseating display of cliché.

But I would still expect a critic to do something beyond slapping on a label and booking it. Same goes for pulling lyrics or quotes out of context, and letting them stand in the review on their own, without a chaperone. As if the critic’s opinion is self-evident and readily accepted by readers that may never have even met the artistic work in question. Often, critics come up with supported claims and fair assessments of artistic works. But if they don’t, they’re doing a notable disservice to whoever’s work was unlucky enough to fall into their hands.

Whether it be from your gardenvariety hater or a seasoned reviewer, artists have channeled their responses to critics into their work. People like Taylor Swift seem to thrive on those that both personally and professionally criticize her. She’s thrown backlash about her actions into her music, and regardless of whether you’re a Swiftie, there’s no hiding her chart-topping and record-breaking success. Other artists have done the same thing for

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years, because creating work based on one’s life experience is a pretty commonplace source of material.

A substantially different artist, Eminem received constant tabloid attention at the start of his career, and was even the subject of discussion in Congress about whether harsher music censorship was required. The artist used the severe controversy and attention to fuel several years of new music, and continued to attain significant commercial success. Regardless of the drama surrounding the situation, the tendency of artists to address or fan the flames of controversy in their work is pervasive.

Not even the general consumer is safe from the scorn of some artists.

When it comes to popular tastes, artists gripe all the time about catering some of their work toward the masses, so that they can support the artistic genius that otherwise would never see the light of day. They resent fickle public opinion, and some dislike when conventional, formulaic work hogs all the attention. At the end of the day, one might simply try to hope that at the very least, people developed their artistic preferences in

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accordance with what they honestly think.

But some people have fretted about critical reception dictating what popular consumers gravitate toward. Especially in the era of Rotten Tomatoes, some people seek out critical reviews in an effort to only attend movies or find albums that received favorable reviews.

This could be seen as a forum that creates consumers who don’t think for themselves. What might be more likely is that in a world with more movies and television and music than anyone knows what to do with, people want to find the “best” ones, and then form their own opinions.

Everyone’s a critic in one way or other. The voices that consume art and form opinions aren’t going away anytime soon. Whether the platform be a critical publication or an endless thread on Reddit, the discussion of entertainment is inseparable from its production. What can you do? Critics gonna criticize.

Isabella Dow is the assistant scene editor for The Heights. She can be reached at arts@bcheights.com.

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