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A new stage in University’s Master Plan

BY CORINNE DUFFY Features Editor When Boston College first opened its doors on Sept. 5, 1864 to its initial three professors and 22 male students, the Jesuit campus was comprised of only two buildings and 115,000 square feet—essentially one city block on the South End’s Harrison Ave. Since its 19th-century inauguration, BC has accrued 147 buildings within 362

acres and nearly 152 years of history, spanning three campuses and boasting eight schools and colleges, 786 full-time faculty, and a coeducational student population of 14,100—a significant portion of the campus development owing to the University’s 2007 Master Plan.

Following its 1864 opening, the expanding institution quickly outgrew the main campus building, and the Church of the Immaculate Conception. They were constructed—in red

brick and white New Hampshire granite—in 1858 under the direction of founder Rev. John McElroy, S.J. So in 1907, Rev. Thomas I. Gasson, S.J., purchased the 31-acre Lawrence Farm in “rural” Chestnut Hill for the location of a new, larger campus.

The architectural firm of Maginnis & Walsh won the bid for BC’s original “Master Plan”: an enlarged campus planned six miles

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2150 Commonwealth Ave. is the latest undertaking in the University’s master plan.

LIGHT THE WORLD CLOSES IN ON GOAL Largest fundraising campaign in University history nears $1.5 billion

BY ARIELLE CEDENO Assoc. News Editor With $1.46 billion raised, the University is closing in on its $1.5 billion fundraising goal as part of the Light the World campaign.

Boston College launched its first fundraising campaign in May of 1921 to fund the construction of four University facilities: a gymnasium, science hall, chapel, and library. The fundraising effort, conducted in the parishes of the

Archdiocese of Boston, sought to raise $2 million in 10 days.

“Boston College will be big enough if your heart is,” the campaign poster printed in an April 1921 issue of The Heights, reads.

Nearly 100 years later, BC is becoming bigger still. The school’s fundraising efforts have grown exponentially since its first campaign launched in 1921, broadening from the constituents of local parishes to amassing donations from nearly 133,000 individuals and organizations.

Goal: $575 million

Light the World, the largest capital campaign in the history of Jesuit, Catholic education, was launched in 2008 with the intention of raising $1.5 billion for University advancement by the close of the 2015-16 academic year. Just $40 million shy of the goal, the University is set to reach this benchmark ahead of the close of the 2015 calendar year.

The funds raised from Light the World are split between six University priorities: academic excellence, undergraduate financial aid, Jesuit Catholic heritage and

student formation, intercollegiate and intramural athletics, campus facilities, and annual giving. Of the funds already raised, $468 million of the $575 million goal has been raised for academic excellence, $283 million of the $300 million goal for financial aid, $100 million of $125 million for Jesuit, Catholic Heritage and Student Formation, $136 million for intercollegiate and intramural athletics (surpassing the initial goal of $100 million), $184 of $225 million for new campus buildings, and $164 million of

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Raised: $468 million Goal: $300 million Raised: $283 million

the $175 million goal has been raised in annual giving. There is also $123 million pending designation, as a location for the funds has not yet been determined by the donors.

Light the World has already seen visible results for the University and its students, with the majority of notable facilities, initiatives, and centers opened in recent years made possible through campaign funding. The Cadigan Alumni

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Goal: $225 million

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Raised: $184 million

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Raised: $164 million

Goal: $100 million

Goal: $125 million Raised: $100 million

Goal: $175 million

Raised: $136 million* (*Goal surpassed)

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Initiative launches to connect UGBC administration, students Five-week program aims to open dialogue on Napoli and Hussey’s main platform goals

BY CAROLYN FREEMAN News Editor For the next five weeks, the Undergraduate Government of Boston College will be working to educate students on the key elements of the current administration’s platform.

The program, titled Your UGBC, was

launched today. The group’s efforts will be focused on engaging students—specifically those who do not typically follow UGBC—with literature and topical events.

Each week UGBC will focus on one of the goals that Thomas Napoli, UGBC president and MCAS ’16, and Olivia Hussey, executive vice president and

MCAS ’17, outlined in their presidential platform. The goals, labeled the “big five,” are to expand mental health and awareness, protect free expression rights, increase resources for LGBTQ students, create a more inclusive environment for students of color, and improve the freshman year transition process.

The week that aims to expand the mental health and awareness goals begins today. Part of this initiative includes

providing a tangible, visual resource on each Wednesday. This week, UGBC will provide a quarter-sheet of mental health resources to be handed out by resident assistants in student dorms and by representative of UGBC in the middle campus quads. The information will also be available online.

“It doesn’t mean that we won’t be working on the other things or some new initiatives, but these are the ones that we just want to stand out and go all

the way in on,” Hussey said.

Napoli and Hussey acknowledged several criticisms often levied at UGBC, specifically that they need to do a better job of reaching out to the student body.

This five-week project is an attempt to begin a dialogue with any student who wants to participate.

“Students may not care about every single one of our five big goals, but it

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At “The Syrian Refugees: Are They Just a European Crises,” a panel of professors will discuss the recent outpouring of refugees from Syria. The panel will be on Wednesday, Sept. 23 at 12 p.m. in McGuinn, Room 521.

RSVP to humanrights@bc.edu.

News Briefs BC ranked 29th best value college Research publication ValueColleges ranked Boston College the 29th best value college in the nation, calculating the rankings based on return on investment data from payscale.com, average debt statistics from the Princeton Review 2013 Best Value Colleges report, and graduation rate statistics from the National Center for Education Statistics. The University beat the University of Notre Dame, which is ranked 35, just after Virginia Tech and Tufts University.

The ranking was limited to schools that grant four-year degrees, are regionally accredited, are in the United States, have a graduation rate of over 50 percent, and have more than 1000 students, which includes small liberal arts schools as well as Ivy League institutions.

First on the list is Princeton University, followed by the California Institute of Technology.

Just before BC on the list is Johns Hopkins University, and just after is the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. According to the rankings, BC’s total cost of attendance is $224,600, with a 20-year return on investment of $492,300. The average graduate debt of the University is $20,598, and 92 percent of students graduate in four years.

“Boston College, a private, Jesuit Catholic college in Boston, MA, is a world-class, high-production research institution,” the report read. “It has one of the largest endowments in the US, and uses it to power a research program that puts it at the head of not only Catholic institutions, but liberal arts colleges in general.”

Prof translates Swiss novel Daniel Bowles, assistant professor of German studies, translated Swiss novel Imperium: A Fiction of the South Seas by Christian Kracht into English.

The novel, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, was recently reviewed by the New York Times Sunday Book Review.

“If, while sprawled in a deck chair or on the beach this summer, you crave a book whose tone and emotional landscape mirror your own state of torpor and cosseted relaxation, such a book would not be ‘Imperium,’ writes Times reviewer Henry Alford. “Although this ver y amusing and bracingly oddball novel by the Swiss writer Christian Kracht does feature several palm-covered islands—not to mention many gallons of coconut oil and copious amounts of undress—calling it a beach read is like calling “Psycho” maternal.”

Bowles has degrees from Vanderbilt University and Harvard University, and teaches, among other things, intermediate German, the Romantic Experience, and Composition and Conversation at Boston College.

Previously, he translated Tomboy, by German author Thomas Meinecke., which was published in 2011.

Both Kracht and Bowles will be coming to Boston to promote the book. They will be at Boston University today, Sept. 21, and will be at the Goethe-Institut Boston tomorrow, Sept. 22 to speak.

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Monday, September 21, 2015

Join The Church in the 21st Century Center and the Perspectives Program for a luncheon with Brian Braman, professor in the philosophy department. The lunch will be on Tuesday at noon in the Murray Function Room in the Yawkey Athletics Center. RSVP online through bc.edu/c21events.

Join the Fashion Club of Boston College for its first general interest meeting on Monday.

The meeting is open to everyone and will highlight ways to get involved with the student organization. It will be at 6 p.m. in Gasson 309.

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Activist, comedian Kevin Breel to return to BC

By Connor Murphy For The Heights

Kevin Breel, a comedian and mental health activist who rose to prominence two years ago after he delivered a well-received TEDx Talk, last visited Boston College in February. This Tuesday at 7 p.m., the 21-year-old will be back on campus to perform for students in Robsham Theater.

Be Conscious, an effort by the Undergraduate Government of BC (UGBC) founded in Summer 2014 to facilitate a more open conversation about mental health at BC, is responsible for bringing Breel to campus.

His appearance last February was extremely successful, the director of mental health programming for UGBC Megan Flynn, MCAS ’17, said. Flynn, one of the students who organized the fall event, also helped bring Breel to campus last year when the event was sponsored by BC’s chapter of To Write Love on Her Arms, in tandem with Be Conscious and UGBC. Despite the heavy topic, Flynn said that Breel’s talk in February was not overbearing. She said this event will also attract people who would normally not attend, because of Breel’s unique comedic vehicle for communicating his activist message.

“People could relate to it and have a good time,” she said.

Breel’s TEDx Talk, delivered in 2013 when he was just 19, is called

“Confessions of a Depressed Comic.”

It recounts his experience with depression, building upon what he calls the difference between “the life everyone sees” and “the life that only I see.”

“Real depression is being sad when everything in your life is going right,” he said.

Connor Marshall, MCAS ’18, is one of the assistant directors of Mental Health Programming for UGBC, and she said that Breel’s talk this Tuesday will likely expand upon the themes of his TEDx Talk to focus on the idea that, particularly among high school and college-age students, the stigma surrounding depression and mental health issues puts undue burden on those already suffering from the disease.

“He takes this topic that is very real and deep and he puts a twist on it that makes it something college kids specifically won’t shy away from,” Marshall said.

Between YouTube, TED’s website, and other outlets, Breel’s TEDx Talk has millions of views combined, and is one of the most-watched TEDx Talks ever. Since its posting, Breel has become one of the most visible young mental health activists in the country. He is currently a national spokesperson for the Bell LET’S TALK Campaign, a depression-awareness movement organized by the Canadian media giant. The campaign has trended worldwide on Twitter in the past.

In addition to his activism and

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Earlier this summer, the Vatican published the papal encyclical Laudato Si’, promoting sustainable development and environmentalism, and Pope Francis subsequently declared his intention to deliver an address to the United Nations General Assembly on the issue. Boston College faculty used this as a chance to engage students on the topic, organizing the event Our Common Home: An Ethical Summons to Tackle Climate Change, which will run from Sept. 28 to Oct. 1.

Rev. James Keenan, S.J., one of the event’s principal organizers, reached out to Cardinal Peter Turkson, who helped to draft the encyclical. Postgraduate students across the natural and social science disciplines and in the Jesuit Institute, the Volunteer and Service Learning Center, and the Catholic Coalition on Climate Change, worked alongside BC faculty to create the skeleton of the event.

Key speakers at the event include Massachusetts State Senator Ed Markey, BC ’68 and BC Law ’72, John Holdren, the White House Assistant to the President on Science and Technology, and Edouard Tetreau, a member of the Vatican’ s Cortile dei Gentili scientific committee.

Keenan believes in the responsibility of BC to guide discussion and

tackle these ethical issues. But especially for this conference, he does not only seek to engage Catholic or Christian notions of ethics.

“I think it’s incumbent on a Catholic university—we believe in creation—that somehow we respond to the fact that we have put creation at risk,” Keenan said. “I think that the other faith traditions at this university welcome that attentiveness to creation.”

The University also has a significant role as the host of the conference. As a Jesuit university under a Jesuit pope, BC has the opportunity to create a unique forum for topical discussion. The conference organizers also hope that beginning the event the day after Pope Francis leaves the United States will prove strategic and create an interesting space for dialogue in light of his UN address.

“I think it’s a sign of how much the Boston College community is interested in the messages that are in the encyclical document: justice, environmental awareness, environmental action, action to help the world’s poor,” said Brian Gareau, associate professor of sociology at BC. “These are all in the encyclical and are all I think tied to the mission of BC, and I think those are the very things that attract a lot of undergraduate students.”

Each day of the four-day conference focuses on a slightly different

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Breel will return to BC on Tuesday to speak again about mental health. fundraising efforts, Breel spent much of last winter and spring touring Canada and the United States, playing in Peoria while also doing shows in locales as varied as Los Gatos, California and Amherst, Nova Scotia. His first book, Boy Meets Depression: or “Life Sucks and Then You Live,” was released on Tuesday, Sept.

15. After the show in Robsham there will be a signing and meetand-greet opportunity.

Mental health is one of several issues UGBC hopes to similarly

spotlight this year. It also plans to address alcohol use on campus, LGBTQ issues, ensuring and strengthening students’ access to free expression, and improving First Year Experience.

Each of the topics has a joint committee, run by UGBC, working on holding events and inviting speakers to campus. Breel is just the first speaker in a yearlong lineup designed to keep open a running dialogue about serious issues affecting the BC community. n

Friday, Sept. 18

8:51 a.m. - A report was filed regarding medical assistance provided to a BC student in Stayer who was transported to a medical facility by ambulance.

12:07 a.m. - A report was filed regarding medical assistance provided to a BC student in 90 St. Thomas More Road who was transported to a medical facility.

3:06 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a larceny in Devlin Hall.

4:41 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a fire alarm activation in the Modular Apartments.

10:46 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a minor in possession of alcohol in the Walsh Hall Lot.

aspect of the encyclical’s implications. Day one involved discussions of the document itself, with an address from Cardinal Turkson in the afternoon. The next session looks forward to the Sustainable Innovation Forum at the UN’s COP21 in Paris this December. The third day is concerned with theology and ethics.

Unlike at most events engaging the topic of climate change, the scientific perspective on the issue will remain absent.

“The encyclical actually does a very nice job of laying out the scientific understanding of climate change,” said Noah Snyder, an associate professor in Earth and Environmental Studies and a key organizer of the event. “We wanted to really explore the encyclical itself and what it means and what it means to the international climate change policy process.”

The final day will include a reflection period through Campus Ministry, the “What Can I Do?” fair with representatives from campus and community organizations, and a keynote address from Dr. Julian Agyeman, professor of urban and environmental planning at Tufts University. All of the day’s events are designed to empower the BC community, especially its students, to think about and discuss the moral issues of climate change and to take environmentally-sustainable action.

“Everybody can do things, tan-

gible things, that help us toward sustainability and help you to feel connected,” said Laura Hake, associate professor of biology. She and other involved faculty hope that students with class conflicts can find ways to attend the events and integrate this co-curricular learning into their studies.

Gareau noted that the effects of this conference are potentially widereaching and that climate change concerns are not only issues of science, but present economic inequality and social problems as well. He also makes the important point that despite the Jesuit original nature of the new discussion of climate change, everyone has a responsibility to sustainability.

“It’s not addressed to Catholics, it’s not addressed to bishops,” he said about the encyclical. “It’s addressed to the world.”

The event organizers hope that “Our Common Home: An Ethical Summons to Tackle Climate Change” will be an opportunity not only for BC students and faculty to discuss and work toward sustainability and environmental awareness but also for BC to rise among world universities as a center for academic development and action.

“BC is always mindful of social justice,” Keenan said. “I’m hoping now that BC sees the threats to creation as morally significant and calling for urgent response.” n

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Who is your favorite Johnny Depp character?

“Jack Sparrow. His charisma and lust for life makes me live vicariously through him.”

—Cristina Samper, MCAS ’18 “Willy Wonka, it was my favorite movie growing up.”

—Jess Garrigan, CSOM ’18

“Jack Sparrow in the first movie. You can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest.”

—Vince Rubertone, MCAS ’18 “Edward Scissorhands, it captures his personality better.”

—Peyton Spencer, MCAS ’18

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Discussion-based program hopes to reduce racial discomfort

By Bailey Flynn For The Heights

This semester, the Dialogues on Race program will return to its goal of making students more comfortable talking about race. The discussion-style program, hosted by the Thea Bowman AHANA and Intercultural Center, is six weeks long and begins the week of Sept. 27.

With this program, the Bowman center—which also provides academic counseling, leadership programs, and community research—plans to continue a conversation on race that began in 2008. It was then that a “racial issue” on campus sparked an outcry from a group of students, who rallied in protest on the former Dust Bowl, where Stokes Hall now stands, program director Andy Petigny said. After this incident,

the University began a sustained effort to more openly discuss issues of race on campus.

“I think their frustration was that students don’t have an opportunity to

“It’s a lifelong process...

Just speak from your experience, because your experience is valid.”

—Andy Petigny, director of the Dialogues on Race truly learn cultural competency, to truly learn about diversity, to discuss these issues in a way that’s easy for them,” Petigny said.

Using Emerson College’s Campus Conversations on Race as a model, the Bowman center instituted the Dialogues on Race program. The core of the initiative is student facilitation, Petigny said, as well as urging participants to speak from their own experience.

“It’s a lifelong process,” he said. “Just speak from your experience, because your experience is valid.”

The issues are complex and foreign to some students, and Petigny acknowledges the reservations they may have.

“One could either feel guilt, one could feel shame,” he said. “There’s always that obstacle.”

By building a strong relationship between groups over the six-week period and surpassing this awkwardness, Petigny hopes to dissolve misconceptions and give students a sustained level of comfort in discussing race with honesty.

The fear of being offensive or straying from the politically correct, Petigny said, can keep race conversations “superficial” in many interactions. The Dialogues on Race’s organizers work to push those discussions in a more authentic direction.

“My vision would be that people get as comfortable talking about race as they are about holding doors for the next person behind them,” Petigny said.

A space without diversity would be the anomaly.”

In light of national events last year, like the shooting in Ferguson, tensions from students’ personal experiences or institutional contexts are also kept in mind.

“In those situations you’re just working with the student to try to get them to see the broader scope, the fact that whatever the issue is, it didn’t happen today, and it’s probably not gonna be

solved tomorrow,” he said.

Involvement in continuing this process of multiculturalism on campus can be powerful, Petigny said. He cites the inclusion of the new Mosaic program in first-year Welcome Week as one such small step, providing new students with information on such topics as race and LGBTQ issues as soon as they step on campus.

Providing insight into the concerning issues of institutional racism is also a goal for the new program—although the conflicts may seem interpersonal, the Dialogues push participants to look closer at prevention systems, Petigny said.

“I remember one student, after completing the program, he equated it to being freed from the Matrix,” Petigny said.

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Alumni panel speaks at first Shea Center event Former students emphasized educational diversity and creativity in entrepreneurship

By Chris Russo For The Heights

Matt Ricketson, BC ’13, was a computer science major—“a computer science geek”—before he heard the words ‘startup’ or ‘entrepreneurship’ at Boston College.

At a panel discussion Thursday night, Ricketson told the crowd not to miss the opportunities they see.

The Shea Center for Entrepreneurship began its first year with a panel of four alumni who discussed startups, ventures, and the lessons they learned after graduating Boston College.

Each of the panelists highlighted the fact that their majors did not necessarily lead them on a straight path to a job in their respective fields.

“Sometimes you might not see the journey ahead of you exactly as it will be,” said Adejire Bademosi, BC ’14, an international studies major who now holds the position of public policy and outreach at Twitter.

Bademosi was working at the state department and at a non-profit when she found herself at a conference in Munich, talking to a director of Twitter. She became friendly with the director and was soon after offered a job there. She was surprised and flattered, she said, and took the job immediately.

James Loftus, BC ’00, was a political science major who went to law school, and then worked as a lawyer for five years in New York City.

Loftus was launched into the business world after an opportunity became available to work at Google.

He then spent three years at Yahoo as a lead corporate developer and was later employed as a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm, where he continues to work today.

Ricketson said he “found great people” at BC who had similar interests to him, but also pushed him to try new things.

In his sophomore year, he competed in

the BC Venture Competition, where he placed third as a sophomore and first as a senior.

Ricketson now works as a software engineer at Apple TV. “I could not have gotten where I am today without trying new things,” Ricketson said.

Miguel Galvez, BC ’12, biology major and the co-founder and CEO of NBD Nanotechnologies was the fourth panelist.

Coming into BC, he imagined he would be a scientist.

His roommate, however, sparked his interest in technology startups. He competed in BCVC and decided to start his company while at college.

“I really liked running a business, starting things, and creating things,” he said.

A good entrepreneur is someone who solves a problem, according to Bademosi.

Being a good entrepreneur is all about how to tell and show what you can do, according to Bademosi.

The first follower of the person with the initial idea for a startup can be even more respectable than the founder, because that first follower realizes that the idea is worthwhile and helps the founder bring it to fruition, Ricketson said, emphasizing that there is no need to follow the entrepreneurial stereotype to be part of a startup.

The panelists agreed that it is difficult to teach someone how to be an entrepreneur. Ricketson noted that looking at case studies of previous failed startups is a great way to learn from the mistakes of others.

Bademosi thinks a good entrepreneur is someone “driven by curiosity,” he said.

According to the panel, startup environments give opportunities for growth without the possibility of getting lost in the shuffle of a big corporation. According to Galvez, working in a small team makes it easier to get exposed to many fields, including developing and marketing.

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The new five-week initiative will highlight aspects of the Napoli and Hussey platform.

is likely that they care about one of the five,” Napoli said in an email.

This is the first UGBC-wide campaign that Napoli and Hussey have seen in their time here, Napoli said, because aspects of the programming and proposals come from all across the student government.

These five topics are the main areas that the Napoli and Hussey administration intend to focus on this year.

For mental health awareness, for example, they will be working on proposing specific plans, including hiring two to three more mental health professionals.

The specific proposals are not the main idea of this program, Napoli said.

“While we have our own specific actions plans that we will release each week, we also want students and community members thinking about their

own proposed solutions,” Napoli said in an email.

Rather, they want to engage with the student body through events and interaction, Hussey said.

Kevin Breel, a comedian who focuses on depression, will speak Tuesday

“The inspiration for this is realizing that we want to be really clear with what we’re advocating for.”

—Thomas Napoli, UGBC president and MCAS ’16

as part of this week’s theme.

By doing smaller things, like ta-

bling in the quads and encouraging students to use Campus Voice, an online complaint system for students, Hussey hopes they will be able to relate to groups of students that are not as outwardly passionate about social justice issues.

One of the early concerns about the five-week plan was that the goals Hussey and Napoli have in mind are too lofty and that some students will not care.

They developed the plan of releasing literature on their initiatives each Wednesday to reach students who otherwise do not follow UGBC’s work.

“The inspiration for this is realizing that we want to be really clear with what we’re advocating for,” Napoli said.

“Advocating is a long process and sometimes it works out in your favor and sometimes it takes longer. and we want students to know that this is the conversation that’s going on.” n

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Tales of a transfer: switching schools is more about fit than ranking Evan Gatti I was once a Gamecock at the University of South Carolina, also known as USC. (To my friends at the University of Southern California, the “real” USC was established as a university before California was even founded as a state.) With SEC football, Greek Life, and southern tradition, transferring from a school like USC to Boston College was a huge transition.

Some say that size doesn’t matter, but it matters a lot for college students. An individual who went to a large, regional high school would probably be better prepared to thrive at a massive state school such as USC. The guy who went to a relatively small boarding school in New Jersey, however, would definitely say that bigger is not always better.

Immediately after transferring to BC, I was shocked by the difference between SEC and ACC football.

First, students down at USC always dress up for the home games. Guys wear polos and button-downs while girls generally wear black dresses and cowboy boots, which are excellent for sneaking mini bottles of liquor into the stadium.

The Gamecocks’ football arena, known as Williams-Brice Stadium, is also a behemoth of a venue. To put things into perspective, its capacity is nearly twice the size of Alumni Stadium and even dwarfs Gillette Stadium by about 12,000 seats. Attending a football game there was akin to the atmosphere of an NFL playoff game and more like the Super Bowl when South Carolina pummeled the Georgia Bulldogs (ranked 6th and 5th, respectively) back in 2012.

That is not to say, however, that Alumni Stadium’s smaller size detracts from the overall experience at BC. Obviously, BC would have no use for a stadium that fits 80,000 students, and more importantly, the smaller size

allows students to recognize and find each other.

BC makes up for its lack of relative size in its close proximity to one of the largest cities in the United States.

We truly have the best of both worlds when it comes to size and location.

When on-campus activities don’t suffice, one can make a quick commute into Beantown via Commonwealth Ave. or the Green Line. Between visiting notable museums to supplement traditional classroom learning and helping others through service programs such as 4Boston, BC students have a growing list of activities to enrich their collegiate careers.

Going to school in Columbia, SC brings many of these same perks, but on a much smaller scale. (Columbia is approximately one-fifth the size of Boston, and a large portion of that population comes from the 24,000 undergraduate students.)

In addition to football, Greek Life had a very significant presence at

USC. For anyone who has seen Animal House or Old School, fraternities and sororities are frequently associated with the traditional college experience. Although many of my friends at different universities pledged during freshman year, I did not take advantage of my “triple legacy” at Kappa Sigma fraternity for reasons that stem from my early decision to transfer.

After all, who wants to endure weeks of pledging without spending any time as a brother?

Instead, I explored other opportunities such as working for the school’s top-15 ranked newspaper, The Daily Gamecock. I actually received a stipend for my work editing and writing for the news section since the newspaper is backed by the university.

The Heights by contrast is entirely student-run and its editors put in hours of work for no compensation at all.

Despite the lack of monetary incentives, I have a greater commitment to my work for The Heights because

it doesn’t feel like a job. On another note, our newspaper’s independence provides more freedom, which is important for news reporting and creating dialogue about controversial topics.

All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed my “study abroad trip” down south.

Transferring is commonly viewed as a mistake in choosing a college, but I see it instead as a change of plans. Attending USC was everything I wanted it to be and more, but at some point I simply changed my mind. This is not to say USC is an inferior school in any way, but merely different. Also, my transfer experience is just one of many. If you are lucky enough to meet another transfer student, I encourage you to learn his/her story and celebrate why we love our alma mater.

Evan Gatti is a staff columnist for The Heights. He can be reached at features@bcheights.com.

Conclusion of BC’s Light the World fundraising campaign in sight Light the World, from A1 Center, the residence hall at 2150 Commonwealth Ave., the moving of the McMullen Museum of Art, and Stokes Hall were all direct results of contributions made to the campaign.

“In the building realm, Stokes Hall has really been the crown jewel facilities project of the campaign, transforming Middle Campus, certainly, and the way in which so many of our students experience the core, and so many of their humanities courses,” said Beth McDermott, associate vice president for development in the Office of University Advancement.

Stayer Hall, Maloney Hall, Simboli Hall, and the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences were all renamed in recognition of significant benefactors to the University as a part of the campaign.

Beyond facilities, a number of academic centers have been established through campaign funding: the Roche Center for Catholic Education, the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy, and the Shea Center for Entrepreneurship, among others.

The campaign also allowed a number of endowments for faculty: 31 endowed professorships and assistant profes-

sorships have been established across all four undergraduate schools, two endowed deanships within the Carroll School and Lynch School, three coaching positions—head men’s basketball, head men’s hockey, and assistant women’s lacrosse—and the athletic directorship, and the vice president for University Mission and Ministry.

Within student financial aid, Light the World has made a number of endowed scholarships possible for students. Pops on the Heights, one of the University’s largest annual fundraisers, has raised significant dollars in current use support for student financial aid—money the University can spend immediately for student scholarships, McDermott noted, allowing the University to adhere to its mission of remaining need-blind in admission.

As for the composition of gifts, alumni and parents of students are the driving force behind much of what has been accomplished in the campaign, said James Husson, senior vice president for University Advancement.

BC is unlike larger research universities with major medical and engineering programs, Husson noted, where fundraising may be driven by patients of

the medical enterprise or other forms of foundational and organizational support.

In the case of BC, giving is primarily reliant on individual contributions. Of the 132,893 donors to campaign thus far, 126,525 of them were individual donors to the campaign. Husson also noted that leadership giving has driven the campaign, with the signature achievements made possible by large, outsized gifts.

“Like in any campaign, you usually see a dynamic where about 10 percent of the donors give about 90 percent of the funding,” Husson said. “I think that’s probably true for us as well—the top 100 or 200 donors are giving a very high percentage of the amount that’s been raised.”

Within the alumni community, there has been significant campaign engagement and support by young alumni—Graduates of the Last Decade, or GOLD—as they have participated at the highest levels of any cohort of the alumni body. While recent alumni may not be making large financial contributions to the campaign, Husson said, they are giving in big numbers.

The scope of the Light the World campaign speaks to growing alumni and parents interest in philanthropic investment in the University. There has been an

upward trajectory of giving over recent years, as donors are accelerating giving over time and giving at higher levels than previous years. The University’s last fundraising campaign, Ever to Excel, concluded in 2003 with $441 million in funding. Light the World has more than tripled the results of Ever to Excel, which is a reflection of the level of commitment of the alumni and parent community, Husson said.

“Our alumni and parents, through this campaign, are saying ‘We’re going to make BC, not just a priority, but a top priority in our lives,’” Husson said. “This isn’t just a memory for our alumni of a fond experience they had 10, 20, 30 years [ago]—this is a place that continues to be an active presence in their lives, and that they want to support because of that.”

This growth in giving among the BC philanthropic community can be attributed, in part, to the school’s transparency with donors over the strategic direction of the University. Husson noted that the strong strategic leadership at the level of the president and the provost, in particular, encourages donors to invest.

“We don’t suffer from a situation where our donors feel like ‘I’m not sure where BC is going,’” Husson said. “Our

donors know where BC is going—they want to help us get there.”

Beyond the monetary level, the Light the World campaign was structured to speak to the Jesuit, Catholic ideals at the core of the University. The name of the campaign, modeled after St. Ignatius’ edict to “go set the world aflame,” speaks to the larger strategic focus of the University. The incorporation of service and volunteerism into the campaign seeks to address this focus, as the campaign hosted various volunteer service initiatives and events to encourage alumni and donor participation.

The Light the World campaign will continue fundraising through the end of the 2015-16 academic year, though it is expected that the campaign will reach the $1.5 billion mark well before then.

“One of the goals of the campaign beyond any specific gift was to really support Boston College as a whole and the work of our community,” Husson said.

“I think that’s the one really that comes to mind when I think about the broader strategic focus of the campaign: that notion of the community of Boston College alumni, parents, and friends coming together to be part of something that’s bigger than ourselves.” n

A LOOK BACK AT NOTABLE FUNDRAISING EFFORTS BUILDINGS CAMPAIGN, 1921, $1.7 MILLION

CAMPAIGN FOR bC, 1991, $136 MILLION

EVER TO EXCEL, 2003 $441 MILLION

LIGHT THE WORLD, 2015 $1.46 BILLION

‘Cheese and crackers, beer and Packers’: the dangers of regional stereotyping

Corinne Duffy “Oh, you’re from Milwaukee? I’m sorry.”

If you’re unfamiliar with the above Bridesmaids quote, then I suppose we already have some issues—c’mon, the film is a comedic masterpiece. But for anyone reading this who is not, I’ll sum it up for you: rich, beautiful Chicagoan insults mid-30s, rock bottom-dweller Milwaukeean upon meeting her for the first time.

If you’re unfamiliar with who, what, or where Milwaukee is—“Wait, is that like, next to Utah?”—then I suppose you comprise this column’s (read: rant’s) target audience, and I apologize in advance for all forthcoming vehemence.

Attending college outside of one’s respective territory—be it city, state, region, country, or continent—in-

evitably leads to some level of culture shock. Wherever you go, this new place features bros, bids, beer, and biases that are entirely different from your own, and the area from which you’ve come connotes all things alien, and, generally (or, at least in my midwestern case) inferior. Thus begins the prideful war between insider and outsider. And even if you don’t absolutely, 100 percent adore/obsess over/lust after your home, you’re likely to defend your roots, if only half-heartedly.

Whenever I introduce myself to a new group of people—during icebreakers, syllabus week, new club orientations, or what have you—I say I’m from Milwaukee, Wis. No, not that strange, misspelled “Milwaukie” place in Oregon, but the one within the authentic Dairyland, U.S.A (get lost, Calif.), and not “Wiscaaaaaaansin,” but “Wisconsin.” Coasties usually don’t know how to respond to or interpret my birthplace other than with disdain—saying Milwaukee seems to mean very little to those who live here on the east coast, or pretty much anywhere else in the United States aside from the midwest.

There is a difference, however, between general ignorance and genuine apathy—though neither promotes respect. Over the past three years at Boston College, I’ve recurrently encountered derision when discussing my birthplace. Although many individuals expressing this distaste for my home state have never actually been there— or to any area within the midwest, for that matter—they assume they know the gist of it, and they categorize all of its inhabitants as one in the same, laggard stock. I’ve repeatedly received remarks such as, “Oh, really? I didn’t think anyone actually lived there,” and questions like, “Why would anyone want to live there?” Aside from being impertinent, these comments suggest that people living on the east coast are narrow minded, regarding only states of the north eastern seaboard worthy of their consideration—and yeah, perhaps California, too.

Sure, Wisconsin does not have the sex appeal from which California benefits, and it would be entirely erroneous to assert that everyone living on the east coast exhibits this arrogant

contempt for the rest of the U.S. that I’ve felt from few, but to assume that the midwest is comprised exclusively of cows and cornfields is similarly flawed.

Milwaukee is no NYC, but I live far from the rural landscape commonly associated with Wisconsin—within a bustling, metropolitan area located along the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan that is home to over two million people. While there is definitely validity to the fact that east coast life favors a more fast-paced environment, to say that the Midwest constitutes a wasteland of naive, folksy simplicity is a sorry misconception.

People here often mistake midwestern warmth and friendliness for credulousness. Making eye contact with and nodding/smiling at someone whom one is passing on the street is considered odd—the east coast is “too busy” for niceties like this, always “going places and doing things.”

I disagree.

It all comes down to one thing: respect, and treating everyone with it. Everyone deserves respect owing simply to his and her inherent human

dignity—I don’t care where you’re going, or how fast you need to get there.

The compulsion to stigmatize regions of the globe that differ from one’s own—the impulse to think or act upon prejudice—only divides the world further. And at educational institutions like BC, this instinct to categorize and prejudge does not encourage integration of different backgrounds, genders, cultures, races, ethnicities, religious ideologies, sexual orientations, or gender identities, but rather hinders it. Diversity—of any and every sort— breeds clarity and ingenuity, desired components in a classroom and community.

Anyway, the world loves cheese, and let’s face it, Wisconsin is basically the Mecca of the stuff. Have you ever heard of cheese curds? Don’t trash the midwest until you’ve tasted that inconceivable cheddar, pepper jack, or mozzarella manna from heaven and opened your eyes to a life worth living. Cheese and crackers, beer and Packers, y’all.

Corinne Duffy is the Features Editor for The Heights. She can be reached at features@bcheights.com.

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Student activists, faculty pave the pathway to a more accessible BC campus

By Rohit Bachani For The Heights For many students and faculty, scaling the 12 stairs leading up from O’Neill Plaza to the Academic Quad is simply part of the routine when it comes to travelling across campus. For an individual aided by a wheelchair, however, this innocuous set of stairs can be a recurring obstacle to learning. Particularly in the past couple years, there has been significant call for infrastructural alterations on campus to make traversing campus easier for the entire Boston College community.

A complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights in May of 2013 over accessibility on BC’s campus led to state and federal government investigations over the University’s compliance with accessibility laws. Students, too, have criticized the layout of certain areas of campus as being nuisances to navigation. Getting to Upper Campus requires walking up several flights of stairs—or using either Beacon Street or Hammond Road—roads which, in some places, do not have full sidewalks or adequate facilities to accommodate the diversity of students’ travel needs.

In the experience of Phoebe Fico, student activist and MCAS ’16, inclement weather also poses a significant issue, as maintaining balance on snow- or icecovered walkways while on crutches is particularly difficult. (Full Disclosure: Fico is also a writer for the arts section of The Heights.)

“I found myself getting to class with the help of friends and strangers who were nice enough to help me up and down ice-covered stairs,” Fico said. “If the weather was really problematic, I would often have to Skype into class for that day.”

Since the beginning of the 2014 fall semester, a new webpage describing the institution’s resources and amenities for those with differing mobile needs was added to the University’s homepage, and a door was added on the second floor of O’Neill Library to eliminate the need for stairs when moving across the atrium.

This year, a ramp was installed in front of Carney Hall, and an existing ramp was modified to allow a more direct path to O’Neill Library.

Nonetheless, certain newer additions to the institution’s configuration, such as the set of stairs leading up to the Academic Quad, continue to pose problems for some students. Campus accessibility activists also identify substantial room for change in the manner in which day-to-day classes are conducted and campus resources are made available to students. To that end, a recent town assembly for undergraduates set out to address the nature of the accessibility problems faced by students on campus.

Last Thursday, McGuinn 334 housed the year’s first congregation of the Undergraduate Government of Boston College’s Council for Students with Disabilities. The event was attended by a handful of advocates for students with differing travel needs on campus, in addition to Richard M. Jackson, a professor in the Lynch School of Education, and Paulette Durrett, assistant dean for Students with Disabilities, who works through the Disability Services Office with students who have unique physical, medical, and psychological needs. The first order of business was to assert the goal of the evening’s forum—to identify ways of affording students the freedom to interact with materials and the campus without physical barriers.

“Is a brand new curriculum in this digital age going to be accessible?”

Lucius Xuan / Heights Staff

Since the spring semester, BC has made accessibility modifications and additions to campus, including this ramp in front of Carney.

Jackson asked at the forum. “How can we better orient our students to get the benefits of a BC education?” Jackson and Durrett aptly described the root dilemma in making the institution more accommodating to students’ challenges with accessibility.

One attendee suggested that future curricula ought to employ more flexible, digitized syllabi released earlier with increased accessibility to students with distinctive needs, especially blind students who may need assistance in interpreting course requirements.

Additionally, Jackson emphasized the necessity for the learning process to coalesce with technological aids. “Tools like the Voice Allowed app on Android are powerful and applicable,” he said.

Voice Allowed Reader, available on

the Google Play Store, reads aloud the text displayed in Android apps and allows one to alter the pitch and speed of the information being communicated.

Taking advantage of apps like Voice Allowed Reader enables students to optimize the resources available, Jackson said, and therefore gain the most out of an in-class lesson.

Durrett asserted that the need for an increased sense of civic engagement among students begins at home in Chestnut Hill. “Many students believe that community service is defined by service trips abroad and with third party organizations,” she said. “This is not true—community service begins right here at home, at Boston College.”

Durrett correlated these sentiments to solving the problem that inclement

weather poses to the navigational efforts of many students. Encouraging undergraduates to assist with pathwayclearing efforts, such as shoveling snow, would not only provide participating students with credit for their services, but would also ease the tensions for some their peers as they made their way to classes in difficult weather conditions.

Fico, who serves as chair of the UGBC Council for Students with Disabilities, supported Durrett’s rationale.

“Moving forward, we need to be able to proactively advocate our cause to professors and administrational members,” she said.

“We want disability to be seen as something positive, something to be embraced—as a sign of diversity.” n

Perpetuating apathy: why millennials are losing faith in politics Mujtaba Syed Complete with scattered claims containing little to no concrete evidence and escalating personal attacks, last Wednesday’s Republican presidential debate could easily be compared to a family feud at the dinner table. Unlike the family affair, however, the 11 adults that spent the better part of three hours bickering and belittling one another may very well include the next president of the United States.

In a recent op-ed for The New York Times, economist Paul Krugman criticized the lack of substantive evidence behind the claims made by many of the Republican presidential candidates during last week’s debate. For instance, Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio both bemoaned the current administration’s stance on tax rates—something that seems normal for Republicans in principle, Krugman argues, but becomes confounding when analyzing actual data

about past policy choices. Clinton-era tax hikes were accompanied by a large budget surplus, while Bush-era tax cuts ended in a financial collapse and historic rates of income inequality. Further, tax increases in 2013 were accompanied by the highest rates of job growth since the 1990s.

Amid the data, Bush’s claim that his economic plan will double America’s growth rate and Rubio’s statement that carbon emission taxes would “destroy the economy” seem to go for dramatic effect rather than substantive argumentation about why lower taxes are desirable.

Krugman’s focus then shifted to the candidates’ treatment of foreign policy issues, which he argues is just as jarring as the lack of evidence behind their economic claims.

Candidate after candidate bemoaned U.S. diplomatic decisions, such as the recent Iran nuclear deal and the U.S.’ relations with China. Again, the troubling aspect of this portion of the debate was more the lack of reasoning behind the claims, not the arguments themselves.

While the candidates’ rhetoric, devoid of evidence, was troublesome during conversations about economics and foreign policy,

the most unsettling aspect of the debate that Krugman brings up is the number of lies told by the candidates. He highlights multiple examples, including Governor Chris Christie’s allegedly false claim that he was appointed a U.S. attorney the day before the Sept. 11 attacks, as well as Carly Fiorina’s assertion that her career is a story of “secretary to CEO,” when in reality her secretary position was a summer job while in school.

It is natural in the status quo to be at terms with the amount of lies told by politicians, as well as the amount of reason missing from their claims. However, the absurdity of the current election cycle—with polls currently led by a businessman with multiple sexist, racist, and homophobic comments on the record—runs the risk of putting the proverbial nail in the coffin when it comes to political apathy among millennials.

The Internet and software age has led to a world in which people, especially in the developed world, can access accurate and correct information in a heartbeat. We have witnessed astoundingly quick advances in business processes and efficiency, medical

technology, and consumer products. Yet our representatives, as well as those vying to become our representatives at the highest level, represent a critical lack of innovation relative to other aspects of society over the last 50 years.

In the past, politicians could use charisma and charm to get away with lies and unwarranted statements without alienating civilians. Today, however, the proliferation of information and technology generally ensures that blunders by politicians are quickly exposed for audiences of millions on the Internet. This fuels the apathy already prevalent among millennials—not because they aren’t passionate about the issues or their country, but because they stop caring about politicians when they can so easily find flaws in each of them.

In a recent NPR article focusing on disparagingly low numbers of turnout for Americans aged 18 to 29, Ashley Spillane, the president of political action group Rock the Vote, explained, “Politics right now is really disheartening. I think it’s why you see in the polls that young people are not affiliating with political parties. They do care very passionately about issues that matter

to them. They are getting involved at a local level. They are creating startups. They are volunteering with local organizations. They are looking to take problems on in real time and fix them.”

Now more than ever, there is a disconnect between America’s brightest young adults—some of whom have helped build the innovations that make society what it is today, others who have adopted and lived with them—and the politicians vying to represent their interests in government. The problem lies not with the proliferation of information and technology, nor with millennials that are becoming less interested in voting politicians into office. Rather, some of the burden lies on current candidates to recognize the realities of the people they seek to lead. The majority, however, falls on future candidates to be more in tune with everyday Americans and realize the opportunity in front of them to make a difference through public service.

Mujtaba Syed is the Asst. Features Editor for The Heights. He can be reached at features@bcheights.com

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Lower Live livens up with Music Guild performances On Thursday night, the patrons of Lower Live were treated to a show. For its first major open mic of the year, the Music Guild filled the patio outside Corcoran Commons with performers, drawing a sizable audience.

The Music Guild is a collection of campus musicians headed by copresidents Sean Seaver, MCAS ’16, of Small Talk, and Dan Lyle, MCAS ’16, of The Island. The Music Guild provides prospective musicians with equipment and recording space. It hosts informal Jammin’ Toast sessions—a songwriting/breakfasteating event—open mics, and most prominently, the band showcases in the Cabaret Room. But more than just acting as the practical middleman between musicians and the things musicians need, the Guild has continually taken upon the role of growing the BC music scene. The Guild orchestrated Break the Bubble, a Boston College music festival in downtown Boston last spring during the heart of Arts Fest. This was a move that signaled the group’s aspirations to build audiences for BC artists beyond Chestnut Hill, where the interest in independent music can be lukewarm.

But last Thursday, the Guild brought its musicians and audience together in way previous open mics simply hadn’t been able to do. Previous mics in the Stokes amphitheater or the old Chocolate Bar in McElroy developed in quiet, stirring scenes, and were not as centrally located as this event on Lower Campus. The open mic on Thursday allowed stu-

dents walking to the Plex or dinner to sit down and listen. The quality of the music wasn’t what would be expected in a more marquee event like the Band Showcase due to acoustical problems and a generally more imperfect structure. The casual atmosphere, however, leant itself to a better listening experience. Toward the end, Jim Devoe, the manager of Lower Dining Hall, delighted the

Last Thursday, the Guild brought its musicians and audience together in ways previous open mics simply hadn’t been able to do. Previous mics in the Stokes amphitheater or the old Chocolate bar in McElroy were not as centrally located as this event. crowd with a quick set.

In the past, open mic nights have been nights for musicians to gather and meet one another, somewhere outside of the normal flow of campus. But on Thursday, the Music Guild was able to integrate themselves and their music into the fabric of campus life.

It is a strong move from the Music Guild. What will prove more difficult in the coming months is replicating the success of Thursday’s event as the New England weather grows less accommodating.

Light the World achieves success earlier than expected In a few months, the University will end its largest fundraising effort to date, the Light the World campaign, with its fundraising goal of $1.5 billion. The money that comes in from the campaign, which began in 2008, will be dispersed to several different campus needs: academic excellence, undergraduate financial aid, Jesuit, Catholic heritage and student formation, intercollegiate and intramural athletics, campus facilities, and annual giving.

This campaign represents a remarkable success for Boston College. The University’s first campaign, in 1921, raised $1.7 million. Ninetyfour years later, the University has reached a point where it can reasonably request—and even accomplish before its intended completion date—over a billion dollars from its donor base. In the same span of time, BC has jumped from being a regionally-known commuter school for Irish Catholics to a nationally recognized University with highly ranked academic programs.

As this fundraising era concludes and the University reexamines its fundraising priorities, the state of financial aid at BC should be a continued area of focus. To keep true to its mission, BC should sustain efforts to increase affordability for working class families—limiting tuition costs while aspiring to match the low average annual net prices found at the area’s most well endowed universities, such as Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

BC already does well in return on interest when looking at students re-

ceiving federal financial aid, according to the federally released College Scorecard, but it would be good to see tuition for this institution made more affordable for students across the board. Strengthened financial aid packages would make BC a more viable option for those that simply cannot take on the monetary burden, but also simultaneously

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR BC does not stand in solidarity with Pope on climate justice Let’s be honest about why Boston College didn’t sign the Ignatian Solidarity Network’s “Statement of Leaders in Catholic Higher Education Globally on Pope Francis’s Encyclical.” I want to suggest two reasons: First, Fr. Leahy and the administration has consistently refused to be open to any action on climate justice beyond the most abstract commitment to “sustainability,” for fear that too robust an activist posture on this issue would scare the big-money donors that BC apparently relies upon (to say nothing of the corporate recruiters that CSOM courts and the children of the same who may not want to apply to a university with such a “controversial” stance).

But second, and more crucially, BC simply cannot sign any statement that says: “We acknowledge and embrace these moral and religious imperatives to work for a world characterized by global social justice and solidarity which the Gospels, Catholic Social Tradition, and now Pope Francis lay out before us.” Because there is a slippery slope: Once it is unequivocally acknowledged that the love of the God of Israel (and therefore the love witnessed to in the Gospels, in the Catholic Social Tradition, and in the Pope’s writings) is not the civilizing mission of service trips and “privilege awareness” but rather a radical trans-valuation of value that un-masks the idolatry of power (and power as idolatry), BC would open itself to criticism for its failures not just on climate justice, but on every social justice question. BC would have to answer for the violation of black and brown bodies that they have silently

watched, then perpetuated; for the destruction of Creation that our most treasured graduates orchestrate under the pretense of “management”; for the racialized exploitation of poor and working people that BC students are daily trained and encouraged to exacerbate; to say nothing of the violence done to queer and trans folks that BC silently condones every day, to say nothing of violence against women, to say nothing of…

Once it is acknowledged that the love to which . the Gospel witnesses is revolutionary love, a love bound not to power and prestige but to inglorious, un-respectable resistance to power, it would become inescapably clear that BC is a Catholic university in name only. And as terrified as BC is of divestment, the prospect of being called to account for the ways in which the institution (not to say all of its affiliates) has consistently and systematically neglected the “least of these” (a calling to account which, ironically, Christians ostensibly believe God will ultimately perform), the accounting of the ways in which Christianity is primarily a part of BC’s brand as opposed to its lived actuality, is a much more threatening prospect. BC has shown itself to be perfectly comfortable talking about Jesus, but talk is cheap, and to be a Catholic university requires something more costly: not just talking about Jesus, but following him.

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As this fundraising era concludes and the University reexamines its fundraising priorities, the state of financial aid at BC should be a continued area of focus. To keep true to its mission, BC should sustain efforts to increase affordability for working class families. struggle receiving funding from the government.

Having secured so much funding before its target completion date, the University deserves an immense amount of credit. The success of the Light the World campaign speaks both to the generosity of BC donors and the faithfulness of University faculty to BC’s mission. The challenge is now to convert the energy of Light the World into a sustained effort to make BC an increasingly diverse, affordable, and equitable institution.

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Life after the Affordable Care Act

Alis Dicpinigaitis

Dropping Your Phone and Not Having The Screen Crack - Ever wake up from a daydream to find that you won the lottery? That’s what picking up a perfectly intact smartphone feels like after it backflips out of your hand and lands with a crash on the ground.

Take a deep breath, let Bobby sing loud and proud in your head: “Every little thing, it’s gonna be alright.”

Clean Laundry After A drought - When you get back to your dorm to find you have copious amounts of clean underwear, socks, and shirts— there’s no better feeling than knowing you’ve gotten over the terrible dirty clothes hump, and you won’t have to worry about it for some time.

Readpoopfiction.com - Aren’t you as bored as we are with scrolling through subpar Twitter feeds and disingenuous Instagram timelines?

Take a trip to readpoopfiction.com.

Don’t worry—no one’s going to judge you. No one has to know. Pick your desired defecation time limit, and read something that’s actually interesting and engaging while you’re taking care of business. Get smarter along the way. Leave the stall happier.

Everyone wins. Except the toilet. The toilet never wins.

Ian - Everyone loves Chocolate Bar Scott. How could you not? However, the often forgotten, but still vitally important Chocolate Bar MVP is Ian—calm and cool in all the ways Scott puts that crackling hello out to the world, Ian makes those coffee deprived mornings that much better.

Florida State Football Game - We put up a fight for three quarters.

Even though things fell apart right when we needed to come through, the rest of the game still counts for something.

Last spring, I wrote a brief legal analysis of the developing landmark Supreme Court healthcare case of King v.

Burwell. It ended in a court decision that ultimately upheld the Obama administration’s regulatory interpretation of one of the most important provisions of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. The ruling was that the Treasury would be barred from allowing premium subsidies to be given to individuals who live in any of the 34 American states that have not established their own “exchanges,” even if the individuals had otherwise met the eligibility criteria for the subsidies.

Although it should be noted that the loss of eligibility for a subsidy does not necessarily mean a loss of an individual’s aggregate healthcare coverage, insurance enrollment within state exchanges is governed by other provisions within the Affordable Care Act, as well as pre-ACA federal and state insurance laws. This adds another level of bureaucracy to an already inefficient and encumbered system of obtaining health insurance.

Regardless, many interpreted the Supreme Court’s decision as a final legal bolstering of the Affordable Care Act and as a definitive end to the intense debate over the broader issue of Obamacare. In fact, President of the United States Barack Obama himself concluded after the Court had reached its decision that “the Affordable Care Act is here to stay.”

The reality, however, is that the practical effect of the ruling is to uphold the status quo while the ever-volatile political winds remain in favor of the Democrats and the Obama Administration. After all, with paradigm shifts in the House of Representatives and Senate brought about by the latest midterm elections and with the future of a Democrat president hanging in the

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The reality is, however, that the practical effect of the ruling is to uphold the status quo while the evervolatile political winds remain in favor of the Democrats and the Obama Administration. will not continue to exist as initially constituted. Edmund Haislmaier of the Heritage Foundation posits that “in the interim, [state lawmakers] should minimize risks and costs by limiting their state’s exposure and involvement [as currently stipulated by the Affordable Care Act].”

Future ACA exchanges can primarily be avoided by steering clear of state exchanges (which, for the 34 states that have not adopted the changes, is only as far as the first 16 states steer clear of them). The main purpose of the government-run insurance exchanges is to administer and enforce the act’s absurdly convoluted coverage and subsidy options (it would be interesting to know exactly

how many politicians have even read the Affordable Care Act in its totality). The irony is that a corollary ruling of King v. Burwell also stipulated that subsidies can be paid through the federally-run exchange (healthcare.gov), rendering the entire state exchange issue obsolete.

Whatever Congress eventually replaces the Affordable Care Act with will likely allow consumers to purchase coverage through existing private channels (i.e. ehealthinsurance.com).

It is also in the best interest of the states to reject the Medicaid expansion. Currently, Medicaid spending is radically disproportionate to other state financial obligations and priorities. Also, the expansion requires additional spending with higher costs accumulating over time. Most importantly, it is crucial to prevent additional funding to a program already struggling significantly to serve its existing enrollees. The “bandage effect” simply will not work here.

States must also be wary of overinvesting in “State Innovation Waivers,” which are conditioned on requirements that alternate coverage and subsidy designs be the same as those expressed in the Affordable Care Act (shrewd but very transparent calculation by the Obama Administration).

Most importantly, states must begin considering putting a replacement in place before the Affordable Care Act is repealed. First, they should review the cost of mandated benefits as a way to assess the validity of benefit requirements.

Next, states must assure appropriate age rating regulations to a less restrictive age rating ratio for premiums.

At the heart of reform is establishing coverage options for those with pre-existing conditions. The most egregious flaw of the Affordable Care Act was imposing a blanket federal prohibition on pre-existing conditions. In the aggregate, states have a considerable amount of work to do as the U.S. prepares for a new president in 2016.

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

Childhood crisis as told by my hair

Solina Jean-Louis

That Dude At The Party Who’s Way Into Beer Pong - We all like some competition, and for those who weren’t good enough to make the club teams and have gone to the intramural league, beer pong on a Saturday is the closest we’ll come to the professional leagues. In the end, though, it is just a drinking game, so if you’re that guy (or girl, no bias) at a party who’s all about ruling the table, and taunting team after team with lines like, “That’s not the rules we follow where I’m from,” and, “I’m too on fire right now,” then you need to be someone else. Anyone else.

balance, the future of Obamacare seems very precarious. In the meantime, the law’s existing problems will continue to percolate while new issues will arise as a result of delayed provisions of the Affordable Care Act taking effect in the near future.

Because the Affordable Care Act’s operational problems primarily stem from fundamental design flaws in its legislation, it is not outside the realm of possibility that Congress will sooner or later repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act with simpler and better alternatives. These alternatives will likely appropriate states the authority to regulate insurance subsidies and premium distribution to some (perhaps a large) degree.

At this point, state lawmakers must assume that the Affordable Care Act

In my younger years, Wednesdays were the bane of my existence. Not because broccoli was served for dinner or because the weekly spelling quiz was given out in school, but because Wednesdays meant one thing: hair-washing night.

Picture this: A helpless, single, white mother trying to hold down her screaming and flailing biracial daughter as she attempts to comb through her conditioner-lathered incredibly tangled curls. I have to give it to my mom—she tried, she really did.

The reality, however, was that she just didn’t understand how to deal with hair that wasn’t “white hair.” If I could tell my 6-year-old self anything, it would be to give mom a break—how was she supposed to know?

My hair (which from 4 to 12 years of age was in one of two styles that my mom could pull off ) could have used a few more washes, but I think the emotional toll of one time around was enough for the both of us. And Wednesday wasn’t the only day I had to think about my hair: I was constantly wondering and breaking down into tears about how my hair wasn’t like my white, Hispanic, and/or Asian friends’ hair.

No one else was like me.

I’m not just speaking for biracial children, but for all children: we all had an identity crisis at some point growing up, and some of us still struggle today. I felt like I didn’t fit in. I wasn’t black, and I wasn’t white. I felt as if I couldn’t fully identify with either side without completely renouncing the other half of my heritage, a half which was just as valid.

My mother sacrificed so much so that I could attend a good school and live in a safe part of town, and for that I

am grateful. But as a biracial child raised completely by a white mother, there were parts of my life and my identity that escaped conversation and understanding between us. What is important, I have found, is that she still tried to understand my struggles, and more broadly the struggles of other biracial children. That’s what matters.

Enduring those long, arduous Wednesday hair-washes made me want nothing more in the entire world than to have long, straight hair like all my white friends had. It just seemed so much easier. No pulling, no screaming, and no frustrated mothers, right? I begged my mother to let me wear wigs or hairpieces.

It wasn’t until I was 13 years old that

One day during my sophomore year of high school, I decided to wear my hair down in its natural curly, frizzy, wild, not-black, notwhite state. I’m not sure what compelled me to do that. But sometimes the simple things you do are the most important. my mom finally allowed me to get my hair relaxed. (Relaxing is a chemical procedure which “tames” hair and makes it easier to straighten). I don’t think I had ever felt so happy in my entire life. Maybe now I’ll fit in, I thought. I remember running my hands through my hair for hours and hours and not feeling one tangle—a dazed smile was plastered on my face all day long. There was no pain or feeling of isolation anymore.

Sadly, the elation did not last long.

After discovering that my newly straightened hair would never look as good as when the hairdresser styled it, I grew weary. Now my complaints transformed

from, “I’ll never have straight hair,” to, “Why can’t my hair just naturally be straight? Why do I have to put in all of this effort to straighten it when other girls just wake up with straight hair?”

This should have been a blaring sign to me that something was wrong with the way I was looking at my life. Whatever I did to my hair, nothing was ever enough for me. I cared so much about fitting into the world around me that I completely lost sight of my own sense of racial identity.

Then, it happened. One day during my sophomore year of high school, I decided to wear my hair down in its natural curly, frizzy, wild, not-black, not-white state.

I’m not sure what compelled me to do that. But sometimes the simple things you do are the most important.

My worst fear was standing out, but when I finally did something that embraced the fact that I am different, I felt happier than I had in my entire life. The full potential of my hair, unbeknownst to me, had been stifled for years through chemical procedures and the heat from a flat iron. With every day spent trying so hard to keep my hair the way I thought society wanted it to be, I was keeping myself from being who I really was.

Though I still struggle with identity like most college students do, I am light-years away from that 6-year-old girl dreaming of long straight hair so she could look like Barbie. Today I cherish my biracial hair and my biracial being. Today I am a young woman who is passionate about racial issues that affect both my black brothers and sisters and me. I am a young woman who understands now that trying to conform to white culture and deny my mixed identity was the most detrimental thing I did to myself growing up.

Today I wear my hair curly and I wear my hair proudly, because I am proud of who I am. I just wish I had embraced myself sooner.

Solina Jean-Louis is an op-ed columnist for The Heights. She can be reached at opinions@bcheights.com.

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Privilege, my son, and me

Sean McGowan Son, you’re white.

It’s a gift you’ve been given. Understand that much. You didn’t ask for it, nor do you really know what it’ll do for you. But keep it in mind. Over the next few years you’ll finish high school, go to college, probably get the job you want without much trouble.

When you’re out walking alone and see police officers, you’ll feel safe. Their presence will be a comfort to you, because I’ll have told you, without irony or dishonesty, that they’re there to help you. I’ll say it the way my father said it to me, as if it were a fact of the natural world, like the lines on our faces or the sun’s place in the sky.

Smoke weed if you like, fight at school, and drink at parties. Riot when the Red Sox lose and break what you want. No one will judge your character for it. You’ll be a kid who’s allowed to act like one, without fear of discipline or any real repercussions.

Whiteness is funny that way. It’ll help you through life the way not having a safe tied to your back helps you through a marathon. Over the years, you’ll learn to refer to it like the privilege that it is—white privilege, as they’re calling it now. Can’t imagine that’ll go out of fashion anytime soon.

If you’re a jack—s like I was, you’ll probably hate that. You’ll sit up nights in bed counting all the things you ever worked hard for, coming up with ways to convince people that no one handed them to you.

But they’ll start to crumble. Soon you’ll find out about this whole other world, out on the far edge of your perception. You’ll have seen it in movies and heard about it in songs you weren’t supposed to hear.

I didn’t find out about it ’til I got to college, when the media first began to cover all the unarmed black boys who got shot down in the streets for looking vaguely dangerous, and the fully-grown men who were choked to death for peddling loose cigarettes. After the fifth or sixth time, these happenings became something of a banality. Truth be told, they annoyed me.

You believe that?

I heard Dinaw Mengestu tell me about growing up poor and black and read Alice Goffman’s six-year study of criminalized men of color on the run from police in Philly. I met Zadie Smith and Edwidge Dandicat and listened to Gary Clark Jr. and Jay Z. For a while it felt like I understood the whole thing.

When the subject came up about how I was born with all of these advantages that other people didn’t have and how that left me in lavish unawareness while good people suffered from institutionalized hatred and bigotry, I’d kick back. It felt like the right thing to do.

I used to tell people that kids who walked down sidewalks with their hoods up should understand that they might get shot. If you talked back to a cop, bad things would happen to you. I used to scroll straight past videos and infographics, and make fun of people who went to protests and vigils.

Over time, that kind of changed. The way I looked at the world shifted in that subtle, tectonic way that your grandmother used to warn me it would. Then late one night I had a column due for my college newspaper. I picked up a book by Ta-Nehisi Coates, called Between the World and Me, and it hit me hard, like a pipe bomb gone off in my guts.

I couldn’t help but fall in love with this letter-to-his-son conceit that permeates the whole book. The knowing second-person narration, the clipped phrases wrapped in hurt and raw emotion. So I wrote this to you. He comes up with this brilliant way of talking about how “white” men remove him from his culture, body, and sense of being—then white kids takes it from him.

Fitting, isn’t it?

The truth is I don’t know what to do about all this. By birth, you and I ended up on the bad side of the movement that’ll define our generations. We’re the oppressors, the spoiled brats, the ignorant elitists.

There’s not much you can do about it, besides being aware of it. That’s why I’m writing. So you know, before you get too old.

Here’s hoping you’re better than I am, Dad

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

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IMAGE COURTESY OF BC CAPITAL PROJECTS MANAGEMENT

The above map outlines the phases of the current working Master Plan for BC campus updates and construction projects, with improvements mainly centered on Lower and Brighton campuses.

Master planning at BC: past, present, and future Master Plan, from A1 west of downtown Boston featuring English Collegiate Gothic style.

On June 19, 1909, ground was broken for the construction of Gasson Hall, (originally called the Recitation Building and then the Tower Building, but eventually named for Gasson, who led the relocation effort) which opened in March of 1913.

In its wake followed St. Mary’s, Devlin Hall, and Bapst Library, opening in 1917, 1924, and 1928, respectively, and with their predecessor, collectively shaping the core of Chestnut Hill Campus.

While wartime collegiate enrollment was significantly lower than that of peacetime, the years following World War II brought with them great expansion for BC, and with additional acreage purchased surrounding Main Campus—the University bought land southwest of Gasson in 1941 and acquired the Lawrence Basin and the adjacent land in 1949—emerged the division of three distinct sections of campus: Lower, Middle, and Upper.

In 1974, the University acquired 40 acres of land previously owned by Newton College of the Sacred Heart—a site 1.5 miles from the Chestnut Hill campus that would later become the location of BC Law School and housing residence for approximately 800 freshmen each year.

The 65-acre parcel that now comprises Brighton campus came into BC’s possession in 2004 after being owned by the Archdiocese of Boston. Formerly the location of the Cardinal’s residence, Brighton Campus is now home to the School of Theology

“If you think about how the Lower Campus will be transformed, it will be much more green, [and] there will be many more quad spaces.”

—Kelli Armstrong, BC Vice President for planning and assessment and Ministry, established in 2008.

The University launched its “Light the World” campaign in October of 2008, striving to raise $1.5 billion toward advancing academic development, student and faculty growth and formation, research, financial aid, and capital projections—a fundraising initiative that concludes with the 201516 academic year, but is only part of an ongoing endeavor to fashion BC into the world’s leading Catholic university.

A key facet of BC’s continuing advancement efforts regards construction projects, both in terms of renovation and new development. To that end, in December of 2007 the University announced its 10-year, $1.6 billion Master Plan to revamp campus and upgrade academic facilities—and thereby at-

tract the world’s finest students and faculty.

Recently completed within the Master Plan, both St. Mary’s and Maloney Hall underwent significant renovation through expansion, restoration, and office relocation in the past two years. Maloney Hall was completely renovated, with different apartments moved around in the last few years—the last piece of that being the math department’s transition to the fifth floor this summer.

Additionally, Cushing and Carney Hall are undergoing renovations and modifications, with projects further down the line affecting the long-term trajectory of their development. Several CSOM offices were expanded and moved into Cushing Hall, and Cushing Hall underwent significant renovation when the School of Nursing moved into Maloney Hall, where Nursing now occupies the entire second and part of the third floor.

“They have 50 percent more space than they had—they had really outgrown Cushing … and [this move] is really important to our academic mission,” BC’s Vice President for Planning and Assessment Kelli Armstrong said.

While University Health Services remains in Cushing for the time being, it will move to a bigger and better set of suites—with five patient rooms, 12 exam rooms, one isolation room for infectious diseases, and one treatment room—upon completion of the new 2150 Commonwealth Ave. residence hall.

Slated to conclude by the summer of 2016—and thus ready for occupancy in the fall—construction on 2150 is underway, as workers progress steadily toward meeting the ambitious deadline. Next year’s seniors have first chance at the 490-bed hall, comprised of 60 six-person and 16 four-person apartments—all furnished with full kitchens—five floor lounges, 15 floor study rooms, a seminar room, three soundproof music rooms, and a commons area including a small cafe.

With regard to sustainability in the new building, the University is looking to advance, employing water filtration, recycling techniques, and high-efficiency furnaces so as to conserve water and energy.

“The great thing about 2150 that I think students will notice right away is the additional community space—more lounges, more places to gather—which is something we really need for the campus,” Armstrong said. “It’s going to have a wonderful quad, grassy area in front so that students will be able to gather there, and then of course it’s just in a great location.”

Also to be completed by fall of 2016, 2000 Commonwealth Ave. will be renovated from its current state as an apartment complex into a 540-bed residence hall for junior and senior students. In addition to modifying rooms for student housing, the University is in the process of upgrading elevators and laundry rooms, building new common areas, removing the existing gym, and filling in the pool.

September of 2016 will bring with it the unveiling of the relocated and completely redesigned McMullen Museum and Conference Center, located in the former Boston Cardinal’s residence at 2101 Commonwealth Ave. Complete with cli-

mate control, a loading dock and freight elevator, LED lighting, and a glass atrium welcome center, the 30,000-square foot space was funded, in part, through the Light the World campaign.

“It is going to be beautiful, it will have a glass connector … it has that [MFA] feel, just gorgeous.

It will also function on the first floor as a conference center, so people could come in, hold events there, and then enjoy the museum space upstairs … it’s a nice support of the arts at BC,” Armstrong said.

Further on down the line will be construction of an entirely new recreation center to replace the

“It was in our strategic plan to enhance our sciences, and the [institute for integrated science and society] is a companion to that.”

—Armstrong Flynn Recreation Complex—a project with which Armstrong is intimately involved. The completion of 2150 and 2000 will engender the razing of Edmonds and the subsequent raising of the four-story Rec Center, which will overlook the Res on one side and look up toward Gasson on the other.

While many of the Rec Center’s existing athletic and recreational programs will continue within the new building, the interior—and its facilities and equipment—will be much enhanced, featuring an elevated track, expanded fitness space, improved locker rooms, and indoor basketball courts among other amenities.

“We’re all really excited about it because in many ways, it’s such a central part of the BC community, and we have really tired space,” Armstrong said.

A large challenge with many of these construction projects involves the balance between architectural continuity and modern innovation.

“Lower Campus isn’t as Gothic as Upper Campus, but we still want it to feel very BC,” Armstrong said. “We’re looking at a lot of different options there, but that’s a project we’re all really excited about. And we’ve had a lot of involvement with the Rec Center staff, we did student surveys, we did faculty surveys to make sure we understood what people most wanted with this new center.

We looked at, I think, 20 different institutions and their Rec Centers to kind of pick the best of them for this. So this is going to be a great building—I can’t wait.”

Across from the Rec Center will be the University Center—a project currently in its planning stages.

“We have an idea of the programs in there, but we’re still sort of thinking about all the composition of that. So, if you think about how the Lower Campus will be transformed, it will be much more green, there will be many more quad spaces … and it will be anchored by the Rec Center on one side

and the Student Center on the other, so it’s going to be phenomenal,” Armstrong said.

Regarding academic buildings, too, the Master Plan has significant development in store: for the past several years, the University has been conceptualizing an institute for integrated science and society to be located near Higgins—and possibly to include an engineering program.

“We’ve been talking about that for a number of years, but we’re really getting a lot of energy around this,” Armstrong said. “It was in our strategic plan to enhance our sciences, and the building is a companion to that. Because, again, we have these great science faculty, but our facilities, compared to some of our peers’, need to be upgraded, and we want to attract the very best students.”

BC recently acquired 24 acres of property 1.2 miles from Main Campus at 300 Hammond Pond Parkway, purchasing the land from Congregation Mishkan Tefila (CMT), the Boston area’s oldest Conservative Jewish synagogue. While the property’s potential uses are uncertain as of yet, the University is exploring different possibilities regarding not only long-term utility, but also the building’s short-term usage as potential performance space, symposium space, or conference space. “[It is] really exciting to have a nice block of land that close to BC because it gives us a whole other opportunity, and it also shows that BC is growing in the right direction—we’re expanding,” Armstrong said.

In terms of construction leadership for all facets of the Master Plan, each construction process goes out to bid and then through a selection process with BC trustees and senior leadership—the University considers the expertise of different construction managers and architects, as well as the pricing and range of experience based on building type.

“What we look for, like for the Rec Center, there are construction teams and architectural firms that are really good at those particular kinds of spaces, so we try to find the experts. And that, for a Rec Center, that’s an expertise that might be very different from the new ResLife expertise, so we really tailor it to what BC needs,” Armstrong said.

Within the University, each project has a project manager through the facilities department, as well, and senior leadership teams manage the intricacies of the process.

“Fr. Leahy is involved in every single construction project in terms of oversight and making sure that we check in with him every stage of the way,” Armstrong said. The senior leadership teams depend upon office expertise surrounding and relevance to an individual project, often involving a combination of offices.

Since its inception, the University has grown over 181,000 percent, amassing acreage, inspiring steadily increasing enrollment, and ever excelling toward becoming a globally acclaimed Catholic university.

As for the Mods, they are here to stay—at least temporarily. “In the Master Plan years out, they will be re-designed with a townhouse model but for the foreseeable future, they will remain intact,” Armstrong said, via email. 

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The offense disappeared in a 14-0 shutout against Florida State. To make matters worse, Darius Wade is out for the season with a broken ankle.

By Michael Sullivan Sports Editor Boston College had just gotten a huge break.

Miscommunication on the Florida State University sidelines led to two wasted timeouts by Jimbo Fisher late in the third quarter. While Fisher turned as red as the bandannas BC handed out to the 39,000-plus at Alumni Stadium, Don Brown chalked up another all-out blitz for Everett Golson to try and evade.

Harold Landry and Mehdi Abdesmad swarmed Golson, forcing him down in an instant—two FSU timeouts, for naught.

The Eagles’ defense, which allowed a game-opening, 83-yard touchdown drive, had stymied the No. 9-ranked Seminoles since, bending slightly at times but never

breaking.

Cason Beatty lined up to punt the ball.

Sherman Alston waited at the 10-yard line, before deciding to let it bounce in hopes of a favorable return or a touchback.

The ball landed at BC’s own 1-yard line. BC head coach Steve Addazio looked at the sky, his hands up in agony, before coming down in a folded fashion across his chest.

“Good lord,” Addazio recalled saying.

For some teams, being at the one-yard line is unfortunate, unlucky, but not unsolvable. For this team, and this offense, it’s impossible.

Take out everything you thought you

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By Tom DeVoto Asst. Sports Editor Harold Landry knew he let it get away. You could hear it in his voice and see it in the way he sat behind the microphone.

“Yup,” he said. “Play could have changed the game.”

The sophomore from Fayetteville, N.C. spoke with more honesty and candor than one usually sees from a student-athlete in a post-game press conference, but there was nowhere to hide Friday night. He saw what all 39,111 fans in Alumni Stadium saw on that fateful play in the end zone.

Early in the second quarter, Boston College had Florida State University trapped deep in its own territory. The

Who plays QB now?

Eagles were trailing by a score, and with the offense floundering through the first 15 minutes, they needed to catch a break.

It appeared that they would get one—quarterback Everett Golson retreated into the end zone looking for options through the air, but the play quickly broke down. Golson shed a tackle from one defender, turning his back toward the play and wheeling toward the sideline with reckless abandon. It looked as if Landry would bring him down, giving the Eagles two much-needed points and possession.

The Eagles were handed the boost they needed to get back in the game— or so they thought.

See Missed Chances, B3

Guess we’ll have to wait until next year to find out who Darius Wade is.

It’s a shame that Wade will have to end his season with a broken ankle. The sophomore, who looked like Steve Addazio’s quarterback of the future, has more enthusiasm than anyone when it comes to playing football.

His play during the first three games didn’t always exude confidence for the future of the program, but once in awhile, you’d see that flash of brilliance that made Wade so highly praised by Boston College’s coaching staff.

The best example comes from Friday night’s game against Florida State. Down 7-0 at their own 3-yard line, the Eagles desperately needed to move the chains. On a night when the offensive line still hasn’t figured it out, it looked like Addazio would need to change his gameplan and go to the air. But Wade kept the team’s hopes alive, finding a rare hole and speeding his way to a first down.

Yet he couldn’t evade Nile Lawrence-Stemple’s punishing tackle. It’s no longer worth debating whether he had enough reps to make him ready for this game. The best thing for BC’s psyche is to hope Wade’s surgery went well and that the NCAA will grant him a hardship waiver to allow him to return for another year of eligibility in 2018.

There are still nine games left in this season. Although the offense looked atrocious against the Seminoles, it doesn’t mean the Eagles deserve to be completely written off by media and fans across the country. After all, it’s Week Three, and this team is still primarily comprised of underclassmen or first-time starters. Addazio himself expected immense growing pains, especially from his offensive line.

At the same time, BC has no time to rest. The Eagles will make trips to Duke, Clemson, and Louisville next month, the latter two having beat BC in Chestnut Hill last season. They can’t even find a breath for this week against non-conference opponent Northern Illinois, which took defending champion Ohio State to the brink in a 2013 loss on Saturday.

The question we really should ask is: Where does BC go from here at the quarterback position? Well, Addazio has two options on the roster, both of

See Column, B3

Miller and Hromisin score two apiece in dominating home win

By Shannon Kelly For The Heights

Alesandra Miller reserved her celebration until she was sure. The sophomore midfielder almost 1 Northeastern didn’t Boston College 6 notice that she had scored her first goal as a member of Boston College field hockey three minutes into the game against Northeastern.

“I hesitated to cheer,” she said.

With great congestion in the box, even spectators on the sidelines couldn’t tell right away if the ball had found the back of the net. But six minutes later, when she scored her second goal, Miller didn’t pause. Such began a game that resulted in a 6-1 BC win.

Less than 10 minutes after Alesandra Miller’s goals, powerful forward Kelcie Hromisin also scored two goals, assisted

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Dennehy, respectively. Hromisin contributed five shots to BC’s total shot count of 31.

Freshman Lucy Lytle led the game with seven shots, while Northeastern only notched 13 shots total. Northeastern goalie Becky Garner stayed resolute throughout the match, saving 14 shots, with 12 of them in the second half.

BC goalie Leah Settipane

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Alesandra Miller (not pictured) knocked in her first goal of her BC career, then tacked on a second later in the game.

Men’s Soccer: Down goes Pittsburgh

Trevor Davock continued his impressive freshman campaign in BC’s 2-0 win over Pitt....B2

Women’s Soccer: L’Ville can’t hang BC couldn’t handle No. 2 Syracuse on Saturday, but rebounded against Northeastern......B4

TU/TD...................................B2 Volleyball..........................B2

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THUMBS UP NUMERO UNO - BC’s defensive unit is the best in the country by a large margin. The unit played out of its mind against Florida State, producing one of the best performances in recent memory. If all else is lost this year, it feels good to be the best on one side of the ball.

FUTBOL  Both men’s and women’s soccer are doing the beautful game justice. Freshmen Trevor Davock and Simon Enstrom lead an electric attack for the men, while the ACC’s leading goal-scorer McKenzie Meehan has launched the women’s team to hot start. Keep the goals coming.

PUNTO EXTRA  We feel better about ourselves now that even NFL kickers are missing extra points, since a new rule moved the kick back 13 yards. It’s no longer just BC in the cruel dark world of kicking woes.

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Davock propels Eagles to first conference win

BY RILEY OVEREND For The Heights

You could hear the shouts of “Trevor!” from across Newton Campus Field, and you could tell by the glowing expression of the babyfaced 0 Pittsburgh freshBoston College 2 man that he was not going to leave his fanatic flock empty-handed.

Freshman Trevor Davock propelled Boston College men’s soccer (4-2-0, 1-1-0 ACC) to a 2-0 victory against Pittsburgh (3-2-1, 0-2-0 ACC) on Saturday night, tallying a goal and an assist en route to the team’s first ACC victory this season.

But that’s not why there was a swarm of children screaming for Davock’s autograph after the win.

The Massachusetts native spent most of his childhood as a member of New England FC, a local youth soccer club that was allowed to take the field with the Eagles prior to the opening whistle on Saturday. During his time with NEFC, Davock met and played under current BC head coach Ed Kelly, who also serves as NEFC’s senior boys director.

“I always looked up to [Coach Kelly] because he was the director of NEFC,” Davock said. “I knew that if I did good then, hopefully, one day I’d be able to come here. It’s been my dream ever since.”

“See those little babies running around?” Kelly joked as he pointed at the eager flock of middle school soccer players. “Trevor was one of

DECISIONS, DECISIONS - With the aforementioned Wade no longer in the picture, Steve Addazio has a tough decision to make as to who will take his place: the familiar name in Troy Flutie, or the speedy Jeff Smith?

Addazio has to get this one right to shape up his offense.

RAN INTO THE GROUND - How dare we ever put this sacred part of BC football into the thumbs down category? But desperate times call for desperate measures, and the running game hasn’t looked good. Despite the talent of Hilliman and Willis, the offense line hasn’t generated anything. Sigh.

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the first Academy kids we had.”

If Kelly hadn’t signaled at the children receiving autographs, you might’ve thought he was talking about the “little babies” on his own team. With three or four freshmen starting on any given night—and a whopping 14 total freshmen on the roster—the Eagles sport one of the youngest lineups in a very competitive ACC division.

But what BC lacks in experience and a refined passing game, it makes up for with sheer explosiveness on the attacking front.

Freshman forward Simon Enstrom has wreaked havoc on opposing defenses this year, combining with Davock for six goals and four assists in just six games.

Against Pittsburgh, the highoctane strikers proved to be the difference once again. In the 12th minute, a cross off the boot of midfielder Isaac Normesinu found Enstrom streaking toward the back post. Elevating for a header, Enstrom deflected the ball back into the middle of the penalty box, where a leaping Davock grazed the ball just enough to eke past the Panthers’ goalkeeper.

Overshadowed by BC’s flashy forwards has been the stellar defense. After allowing two late goals in a double-overtime loss to NC State on Sept. 11, the defensive front—featuring 6-foot-4 center back Len Zeugner and habitual midfielder-turned-left back Atobra Ampadu—kept Pitt quiet in the second half to secure the victory.

Goalkeeper Cedric Saladin helped anchor the Eagles’ defense

For The Heights Boston College volleyball entered Power Gym last Thursday on a mission, outmatching its crosstown 0 Northeastern rival Boston College 3 Northeastern Huskies en route to a commanding win, three sets to none.

The beginning of the first set was hard-fought, with each team trading blows. The Eagles found themselves behind early thanks to a few hitting errors and an effective Husky blocking game. However, the Eagles broke through to claim a 9-8 lead, after senior Katty Work-

man came up with a kill and ace on consecutive points. The Eagles would not relinquish the lead as they marched their way to a 25-20 win in the first set.

The Eagles returned for the second set with energy and focus, which manifested in the form of a 25-15 rout. Where the Eagles had committed seven hitting errors in the first set, they managed to limit their errors to only two in the second, wearing out a sluggish Northeastern defense at the net. The set was terminated with authority on a powerful kill by sophomore Sol Calvete off the arm of a diving Husky. The kill sealed the Eagles’ second set victory, and the team’s confidence looked to be

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Freshman Trevor Davock scored a goal and tallied an assist in the Eagles’ first game against ACC foe Pittsburgh. on Saturday night and picked up his second shutout of the season.

On one play in particular, Saladin ranged to his right to stop an errant pass by Zeugner from bouncing out of bounds.

With a Pitt striker charging full speed at him, Saladin took a soft touch before clearing the ball, preventing a corner kick and a potentially game-altering play.

Saladin, a sophomore who redshirted last year, has racked up 16 saves in his first six collegiate games, ranking him among the top goalies in the ACC. While the defense deserves its due recognition, Enstrom and

Davock continue to showcase why the lethal duo is receiving so much hype.

Playing with his back to the goal in the second half, Enstrom controlled the ball long enough to draw the defense’s attention away from Davock, who saw his opportunity to make a run through Pitt’s back line.

After fielding a picture-perfect pass from his Swedish classmate, Davock fired a shot that curled off the left post. The rebound fell right into the feet of midfielder Idrissa Bangura, who hammered it home past the diving keeper. “[Enstrom] is a great player to

play with because of his build,” Davock said. “He can hold the ball up.

I know that if I lay it on the ground to his feet, he’s going to lay it back to me. We have good chemistry like that.”

If Enstrom keeps hooking Davock up with promising goal-scoring opportunities, Kelly believes that Davock will continue to capitalize.

“Trevor’s a goal-scorer,” Kelly said. “The second one, that was phenomenal. The quickness of it, the recognition of it … he’s got that nose for the goal.”

And what’s the scariest part about Davock?

“He’s only a kid,” Kelly said. 

on full display.

It should come as no surprise that the reinvigorated Eagles were led in the second set once again by Workman, the ACC kills-per-set leader, who boasted an impressive six kills in the set on only nine attempts. This was a marked improvement from her first set where she registered only two kills on eight attempts.

“She started off slow but was just able to maintain her confidence and build and generate a little momentum for herself,” head coach Chris Campbell said after the game. “I was really happy with her ability to make those changes and make those adjustments as the match went on.”

The Eagles’ momentum continued to grow as they quashed a small Husky resurgence early in the set and didn’t look back as they sent their opponents packing with a 25-12 win. The third set is where the Eagles really took flight as they notched their highest hitting percentage, putting away 13 thunderous kills on just 28 attempts for a .357 hitting percentage.

Likewise, on defense, the Eagles stifled the Huskies, forcing them to commit nine errors while only converting six kills on 37 attempts, for a hitting percentage of -.081.

The Eagles also out-blocked the Huskies 10-4, a stat that Campbell credited to junior Madisen Lydon.

“There were a couple plays that she kept alive by making some pretty good digs,” Campbell said.

“That stability really bought our block a little bit of time to get settled and we ended up with 10 blocks, which is pretty good.”

The victory marks the Eagles’ second consecutive win in straight sets as the team appears to be starting to hit its stride.

As ACC matches loom, Campbell expressed concern with his team’s slow start, but was impressed by its resolve and determination.

“To their credit, the girls rallied and improved their play as the match went on, which is what we are always trying to do,” he said. 

BC finishes New England Challenge with two wins B Y A LEC R ESCIGNO For The Heights Boston College volleyball finished its campaign at the New England Challenge on Saturday with two wins over regional, non-conference rivals: the University of Connecticut (6-5) and Harvard (4-6).

Entering the day at 7-4 and sitting comfortably over the .500 mark, the Eagles improved to 9-4

while asserting their dominance over the Huskies and Crimson.

These two wins should be a good boost for the Eagles’ confidence before the start of conference play.

Despite an early morning start, the Eagles started the day against UConn with aggression, gaining a quick 12-3 lead.

Junior Julia Tapor played a key role in this success, with two aces in the first set.

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Volleyball takes down Northeastern in straight sets B Y B RIAN M ALONEY

INJURY TROUBLE - We hate to see it happen to anyone, but a season-ending injury to a new starting QB is tough to stomach. We are wishing Darius Wade a speedy recovery and look forward to seeing him back out on the field next year.

Monday, September 21, 2015

Conference

Overall

2-0-0 2-0-0 1-0-1 1-1-0 1-1-0 1-1-0 1-1-0 0-1-1 0-0-2 3-3-1 0-1-1 0-2-0

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

The Huskies made a comeback , howe ver, and cut the lead to 22-18. Mallory Moffat remained calm in the face of UConn’s surge and sealed the first set with an ace to give the Eagles a 25-18 victory.

The next two sets showcased the ability of the Huskies to stay in the game. The Eagles won the second set in a tight 25-22 victory, with a winning kill from Katty Workman. BC ended the

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set on a 13-5 run, capped off with five straight points to close out the contest. The Eagles finished their match against UConn with a 25-15 victory in the third set.

Having beat the Huskies in straight sets, the Eagles found themselves matched up with Harvard.

Unlike their game from earlier in the day, the Eagles were in need of a come-from-behind win. Down two sets to one enter-

ing the fourth, the Eagles were very aware of how much they needed to step up if they wanted to sweep the tournament.

Despite looking a bit off in the dropped sets, the Eagles soared back with conviction to win the next two and secure a victory. Kam McLain earned MVP honors in part for her performance against Harvard, while matching her career high with 15 kills. 

Quote of the Week

“If they don’t score, you don’t lose. That’s for sure.”

The number of points Boston College scored EMILY FAHEY / HEIGHTS EDITOR against Florida State on Friday, getting shut Emily Fahey / Heights EditorCupicatuidet L. Fulessedo, querfecta, nihilicii ineri fic out for the first time since 2010.

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The number of games Darius Wade will play for the remainder of the season, after breaking his ankle on Friday.

217

Total yards allowed by Boston College against Florida State, the second-lowest total for Jimbo Fisher as head coach.

— Florida State football

head coach Jimbo Fisher following a 14-0 victory over Boston College.

The Heights

Monday, September 21, 2015

B3

Eagles shutout by Seminoles, will lose QB Wade for season From BC vs. FSU, B1 knew about the offense of BC (2-1, 0-1 ACC) from last week’s execution of Howard and set it aflame on the USS Constitution, Viking-funeral style, out in the Massachusetts Bay along with the lost dreams of Florida State upsets in years gone by.

Addazio’s offense couldn’t muster anything against an FSU (3-0, 1-0 ACC) defense that has improved from last season but is still far from elite. The Eagles gained 195 yards on 58 plays, en route to a 14-0 shutout.

It starts with the running game, and the same stockpile of plays that Addazio always uses. BC’s stalwart, Jonathan Hilliman, amassed a mere seven yards on eight carries.

Normally, Hilliman can pound his way through the middle. But if a hole doesn’t open up, the New Jersey-native isn’t the type of back to make a second effort around the line and toward the sidelines.

The Eagles revealed early in the game that trying to run up the middle would be their primary gameplan.

Yet Addazio wouldn’t take no for an answer.

FSU’s defense quickly picked up on this, plugging the middle and forcing Hilliman to the ground immediately on seven out of eight of his carries, including a fumble that led to a game-clinching 36-yard return by All-American-caliber

defensive end Jalen Ramsey.

Neither Marcus Outlow and Tyler Rouse, two backs who have similar styles to Hilliman, found anything up the middle either. So Addazio turned to the jet sweep.

You know, the one that Sherman Alston used to beat No. 9 Southern California on Red Bandanna Night last season. It worked once the first time, with Thadd Smith—every subsequent time, usually with Alston, the play failed.

Myles Willis, the only running back who has a different style—a speed-heavy, edge game—saw some success, running for 40 yards. Addazio only let him have eight carries.

A big failure in the run game may have come from injuries to the offensive line. Starting lineman Frank Taylor sat out most of the game with an ACL sprain, forcing Chris Lindstrom into the starting rotation.

And in fairness to Addazio, the aerial game wasn’t an option.

Starting quarterback Darius Wade threw 4-12 for 47 yards and an interception. At times, he looked stunned at the speed of the Seminoles’ defensive line.

Although Wade ran well, his inability to get the passing game going limited Addazio’s play-calling options.

Wade’s poor night turned to a disaster when a devastating tackle

by FSU’s Nile Lawrence-Stemple knocked him out of the game with

a broken ankle. He will miss the remainder of the season.

Addazio looked ill-prepared for a situation in which Troy Flutie or Jeff Smith would have to come in behind center. On 4th-and-2 in FSU territory, Addazio elected to go for it. He chose the read option—not a terrible choice, but one that would’ve been better suited with Smith running the play instead of Flutie. The miss on that play sealed the defeat.

Immense amount of credit needs to go to the Eagles’ defense.

Landry, who had 4.5 tackles-forloss, touted his teammates for the job they did handling FSU’s Dalvin Cook and Golson. “I think we have the best front-seven in the country,” Landry said—with good reason, too. After giving up 83 yards on that first drive, BC allowed only 134 yards for the remainder of the game. Those are the kind of numbers that will keep any team in every game in a given season.

But a defense that strong will only help an offense that can put up, at least, average numbers—not the Howard-esque numbers the Eagles put up today.

When reviewing his offense after the game, Addazio repeated one word: “inconsistent.”

If he looks at tapes from today’s game, he’ll probably find that his offense—and his offensive game plan—was quite consistent.

Just consistently bad. n

Drew hoo / heights editor

BC’s offense never got anything going Friday night, gaining only 195 yards and staying out of the end zone.

BC squanders opportunity to take down No. 9 Florida State From Missed Chances, B1

Drew hoo / heights editor

The Eagles had every chance to beat FSU, but capitalized on none of them.

Golson baited Landry into reaching out for the tackle, then spun rapidly to the right to evade him.

Free from pressure with blockers ahead, Golson turned on the jets and scampered down the sideline for a substantial gain on a play that should have resulted in a safety.

“That was the biggest moment of the game, to me,” Landry said. “It could’ve changed the momentum of the game, but I let him get away.”

If Landry had brought Golson down in the end zone, who knows what could’ve happened. The safety might have spurred a comeback, giving BC a second victory in three games against top-10 teams. The Eagles still might have lost, too—but the point isn’t worth debating now.

Golson escaped, and the Seminoles (3-0, 1-0 ACC) leave Chestnut Hill with an emphatic 14-0 shutout victory over BC (2-1, 0-1 ACC).

Missed opportunities did the

Eagles in against Florida State, and it wasn’t just Landry’s missed tackle.

Roberto Aguayo has been as close to automatic as college kickers come for the Seminoles, as he possesses the best kicking percentage of all-time. When he stepped up to kick a 42-yarder late into the first half, there was little doubt in the stands about the outcome.

Aguayo strode, planted, and made clean contact with the ball, but hooked it too far from the right hash mark. The ball went sailing away from the goal posts, giving BC the ball with plenty of time on the clock to counter.

Instead, the offense floundered, wasting precious seconds off the clock between plays before ultimately admitting defeat and running the clock down to zero.

Then later, deep into the fourth quarter, after yet another BC offensive three-and-out, Alex Howell lined up to punt away to FSU returner Jesus Wilson. Howell unleashed a

booming punt of 56 yards, good in its own right.

But with BC gunner Kamrin Moore closing in on him, Wilson established position under the ball, reached to make the catch, and let the ball bounce right off his fingertips, helpless as it rolled away from him on the turf.

The ball took an odd hop right toward Moore, who looked unprepared to recover the fumble. It bounced off his chest and rolled away as he collided with Wilson, allowing the trailing Javien Elliot to pick up the loose ball and preserve the Seminoles’ shutout.

These are `plays that winning teams make and bounces that winning teams get—it’s a combination of skill and luck that, when joined, puts a team over the edge. BC doesn’t have that right now, and quite frankly, it hasn’t had that in a while. Whenever the Eagles need a big play, the clutch mentality seems to escape them.

With an offense that looks inept at its best and comparable to a firstday-of-practice Pop Warner unit at its worst, the Eagles will need to take advantage of the opponent’s mistakes if they want any shot to play in the postseason this year.

To add insult to injury, quarterback Darius Wade will miss considerable time with a broken left ankle, giving an already struggling offense a potential deathblow.

If the offense was not going to drive all the way down the field on the opposition before Wade’s injury, it sure as hell isn’t going to now.

So if Steve Addazio wants to keep his team looking respectable in 2015, it must make tackles and recover fumbles. It must capitalize on missed field goals, and it must benefit from good field position.

If these things happen, BC will win games, and players like Landry will be spared from taking ownership at uncomfortable press conferences in the future. n

Troy Flutie, not Jeff Smith, is the best option for Eagles at QB From Column, B1 whom have seen some playing time this season. Neither are what you would call an ideal fit.

In one corner stands a familiar name.

Troy Flutie has BC coursing through his veins. He is related to BC’s 1984 Heisman Trophy winner. (Note: he’s Doug’s nephew, not his son.) The redshirt freshman from Natick, Mass. is 6-foot, 182 pounds—on the smaller side for the position, though not quite as diminutive as his 5-foot-9 uncle.

As a high schooler, Flutie excelled as a traditional quarterback. He earned ESPNBoston.com’s Massachusetts Mr. Football honors as a senior when he passed for 3,027 yards and a state-record 47 touchdowns.

Yet, like his uncle, Flutie also scrambled his way to success: he gained 824 yards and six touchdowns on 93 attempts.

In the other corner stands a familiar type of player.

Jeff Smith, a true freshman from St. Petersburg, Fla. is fast.

Really fast. He rushed for about 1,250 yards in both his junior and senior years, and his style of play reminds many of Tyler

Murphy. Unlike Murphy, Smith reportedly can throw the ball with some degree of effectiveness. He also threw for about 2,200 yards in each of his upperclassman high school years.

Addazio’s big problem now is selecting which QB he should insert into the starting slot.

It wouldn’t be a good idea to go with some makeshift system where Addazio shifts back and forth between Smith and Flutie.

The two quarterbacks aren’t experienced enough to handle extended time on the bench or sporadically switching by series.

Even Ohio State’s Urban Meyer is struggling to choose Cardale Jones and J.T. Barrett—probably two of the five best signal callers in the country. The Buckeyes are 3-0, but it’s in spite of the QBs, who have been plagued by Meyer’s indecision and the lack of consistency.

If those two can’t handle it, there’s no chance Smith and Flutie can.

What the Eagles could do is employ a modified version of a two-QB system, with Flutie as the primary starter. Flutie has been efficient in his limited snaps this season, passing 8-10 for 97 yards and a touchdown.

Just because he’s the better passer of the two doesn’t mean he can’t run a little bit, too.

Flutie isn’t the type that can take the snap and go right ahead at an ACC-caliber defensive line, but he’ll scramble around to pick up yardage as a last option.

Smith doesn’t have to go to the bench permanently. Addazio can use him Sherman Alstonstyle, with the occasional design run, end around, or other trick plays.

It wouldn’t work the other way around, with Flutie as the “other QB.” The Eagles will still employ a run-first offense—as they should, given all of the running back talent they have.

After getting killed on runs up the middle against the Seminoles, this offense can’t rely on runs alone. Smith brings a lot to the table in terms of electric play-making ability, but he doesn’t have the aerial acumen to keep defenses guessing what’s coming next. Employing Flutie, a quarterback that needs to throw first, can add that extra dynamic that BC missed last year.

This all requires Addazio to change his playbook. And, given Friday’s game, that doesn’t look likely.

Smith will probably end up as the quarterback, given his immense similarities to Murphy.

With Smith, Addazio can run the exact same offense as last season, albeit with a kid who played high school ball this time last year.

And that’s fine, if Addazio is content riding with a one-dimensional team mired in a rebuilding year that would dream to make the Taxslayer Bowl in Jacksonville.

Yet, if he really wants the Eagles to get to the next level, he should pull out all of the passing plays he used at Florida when people still thought Tim Tebow could throw. Flutie can help this young wide receiving corps grow, so that when Wade—the best quarterback on this roster—returns next season, he’ll have some people to target.

That way, the offense will be ready to match a defense that is begging for BC to become an elite team in the ACC.

Michael Sullivan is the Sports Editor for The Heights. He can be reached at sports@ bcheights.com.

Drew hoo / heights editor

QB Troy Flutie has connected on eight of his 10 passes this season.

The Heights

Monday, September 21, 2015

B3

Eagles shutout by Seminoles, will lose QB Wade for season From BC vs. FSU, B1 knew about the offense of BC (2-1, 0-1 ACC) from last week’s execution of Howard and set it aflame on the USS Constitution, Viking-funeral style, out in the Massachusetts Bay along with the lost dreams of Florida State upsets in years gone by.

Addazio’s offense couldn’t muster anything against an FSU (3-0, 1-0 ACC) defense that has improved from last season but is still far from elite. The Eagles gained 195 yards on 58 plays, en route to a 14-0 shutout.

It starts with the running game, and the same stockpile of plays that Addazio always uses. BC’s stalwart, Jonathan Hilliman, amassed a mere seven yards on eight carries.

Normally, Hilliman can pound his way through the middle. But if a hole doesn’t open up, the New Jersey-native isn’t the type of back to make a second effort around the line and toward the sidelines.

The Eagles revealed early in the game that trying to run up the middle would be their primary gameplan.

Yet Addazio wouldn’t take no for an answer.

FSU’s defense quickly picked up on this, plugging the middle and forcing Hilliman to the ground immediately on seven out of eight of his carries, including a fumble that led to a game-clinching 36-yard return by All-American-caliber

defensive end Jalen Ramsey.

Neither Marcus Outlow and Tyler Rouse, two backs who have similar styles to Hilliman, found anything up the middle either. So Addazio turned to the jet sweep.

You know, the one that Sherman Alston used to beat No. 9 Southern California on Red Bandanna Night last season. It worked once the first time, with Thadd Smith—every subsequent time, usually with Alston, the play failed.

Myles Willis, the only running back who has a different style—a speed-heavy, edge game—saw some success, running for 40 yards. Addazio only let him have eight carries.

A big failure in the run game may have come from injuries to the offensive line. Starting lineman Frank Taylor sat out most of the game with an ACL sprain, forcing Chris Lindstrom into the starting rotation.

And in fairness to Addazio, the aerial game wasn’t an option.

Starting quarterback Darius Wade threw 4-12 for 47 yards and an interception. At times, he looked stunned at the speed of the Seminoles’ defensive line.

Although Wade ran well, his inability to get the passing game going limited Addazio’s play-calling options.

Wade’s poor night turned to a disaster when a devastating tackle

by FSU’s Nile Lawrence-Stemple knocked him out of the game with

a broken ankle. He will miss the remainder of the season.

Addazio looked ill-prepared for a situation in which Troy Flutie or Jeff Smith would have to come in behind center. On 4th-and-2 in FSU territory, Addazio elected to go for it. He chose the read option—not a terrible choice, but one that would’ve been better suited with Smith running the play instead of Flutie. The miss on that play sealed the defeat.

Immense amount of credit needs to go to the Eagles’ defense.

Landry, who had 4.5 tackles-forloss, touted his teammates for the job they did handling FSU’s Dalvin Cook and Golson. “I think we have the best front-seven in the country,” Landry said—with good reason, too. After giving up 83 yards on that first drive, BC allowed only 134 yards for the remainder of the game. Those are the kind of numbers that will keep any team in every game in a given season.

But a defense that strong will only help an offense that can put up, at least, average numbers—not the Howard-esque numbers the Eagles put up today.

When reviewing his offense after the game, Addazio repeated one word: “inconsistent.”

If he looks at tapes from today’s game, he’ll probably find that his offense—and his offensive game plan—was quite consistent.

Just consistently bad. n

Drew hoo / heights editor

BC’s offense never got anything going Friday night, gaining only 195 yards and staying out of the end zone.

BC squanders opportunity to take down No. 9 Florida State From Missed Chances, B1

Drew hoo / heights editor

The Eagles had every chance to beat FSU, but capitalized on none of them.

Golson baited Landry into reaching out for the tackle, then spun rapidly to the right to evade him.

Free from pressure with blockers ahead, Golson turned on the jets and scampered down the sideline for a substantial gain on a play that should have resulted in a safety.

“That was the biggest moment of the game, to me,” Landry said. “It could’ve changed the momentum of the game, but I let him get away.”

If Landry had brought Golson down in the end zone, who knows what could’ve happened. The safety might have spurred a comeback, giving BC a second victory in three games against top-10 teams. The Eagles still might have lost, too—but the point isn’t worth debating now.

Golson escaped, and the Seminoles (3-0, 1-0 ACC) leave Chestnut Hill with an emphatic 14-0 shutout victory over BC (2-1, 0-1 ACC).

Missed opportunities did the

Eagles in against Florida State, and it wasn’t just Landry’s missed tackle.

Roberto Aguayo has been as close to automatic as college kickers come for the Seminoles, as he possesses the best kicking percentage of all-time. When he stepped up to kick a 42-yarder late into the first half, there was little doubt in the stands about the outcome.

Aguayo strode, planted, and made clean contact with the ball, but hooked it too far from the right hash mark. The ball went sailing away from the goal posts, giving BC the ball with plenty of time on the clock to counter.

Instead, the offense floundered, wasting precious seconds off the clock between plays before ultimately admitting defeat and running the clock down to zero.

Then later, deep into the fourth quarter, after yet another BC offensive three-and-out, Alex Howell lined up to punt away to FSU returner Jesus Wilson. Howell unleashed a

booming punt of 56 yards, good in its own right.

But with BC gunner Kamrin Moore closing in on him, Wilson established position under the ball, reached to make the catch, and let the ball bounce right off his fingertips, helpless as it rolled away from him on the turf.

The ball took an odd hop right toward Moore, who looked unprepared to recover the fumble. It bounced off his chest and rolled away as he collided with Wilson, allowing the trailing Javien Elliot to pick up the loose ball and preserve the Seminoles’ shutout.

These are `plays that winning teams make and bounces that winning teams get—it’s a combination of skill and luck that, when joined, puts a team over the edge. BC doesn’t have that right now, and quite frankly, it hasn’t had that in a while. Whenever the Eagles need a big play, the clutch mentality seems to escape them.

With an offense that looks inept at its best and comparable to a firstday-of-practice Pop Warner unit at its worst, the Eagles will need to take advantage of the opponent’s mistakes if they want any shot to play in the postseason this year.

To add insult to injury, quarterback Darius Wade will miss considerable time with a broken left ankle, giving an already struggling offense a potential deathblow.

If the offense was not going to drive all the way down the field on the opposition before Wade’s injury, it sure as hell isn’t going to now.

So if Steve Addazio wants to keep his team looking respectable in 2015, it must make tackles and recover fumbles. It must capitalize on missed field goals, and it must benefit from good field position.

If these things happen, BC will win games, and players like Landry will be spared from taking ownership at uncomfortable press conferences in the future. n

Troy Flutie, not Jeff Smith, is the best option for Eagles at QB From Column, B1 whom have seen some playing time this season. Neither are what you would call an ideal fit.

In one corner stands a familiar name.

Troy Flutie has BC coursing through his veins. He is related to BC’s 1984 Heisman Trophy winner. (Note: he’s Doug’s nephew, not his son.) The redshirt freshman from Natick, Mass. is 6-foot, 182 pounds—on the smaller side for the position, though not quite as diminutive as his 5-foot-9 uncle.

As a high schooler, Flutie excelled as a traditional quarterback. He earned ESPNBoston.com’s Massachusetts Mr. Football honors as a senior when he passed for 3,027 yards and a state-record 47 touchdowns.

Yet, like his uncle, Flutie also scrambled his way to success: he gained 824 yards and six touchdowns on 93 attempts.

In the other corner stands a familiar type of player.

Jeff Smith, a true freshman from St. Petersburg, Fla. is fast.

Really fast. He rushed for about 1,250 yards in both his junior and senior years, and his style of play reminds many of Tyler

Murphy. Unlike Murphy, Smith reportedly can throw the ball with some degree of effectiveness. He also threw for about 2,200 yards in each of his upperclassman high school years.

Addazio’s big problem now is selecting which QB he should insert into the starting slot.

It wouldn’t be a good idea to go with some makeshift system where Addazio shifts back and forth between Smith and Flutie.

The two quarterbacks aren’t experienced enough to handle extended time on the bench or sporadically switching by series.

Even Ohio State’s Urban Meyer is struggling to choose Cardale Jones and J.T. Barrett—probably two of the five best signal callers in the country. The Buckeyes are 3-0, but it’s in spite of the QBs, who have been plagued by Meyer’s indecision and the lack of consistency.

If those two can’t handle it, there’s no chance Smith and Flutie can.

What the Eagles could do is employ a modified version of a two-QB system, with Flutie as the primary starter. Flutie has been efficient in his limited snaps this season, passing 8-10 for 97 yards and a touchdown.

Just because he’s the better passer of the two doesn’t mean he can’t run a little bit, too.

Flutie isn’t the type that can take the snap and go right ahead at an ACC-caliber defensive line, but he’ll scramble around to pick up yardage as a last option.

Smith doesn’t have to go to the bench permanently. Addazio can use him Sherman Alstonstyle, with the occasional design run, end around, or other trick plays.

It wouldn’t work the other way around, with Flutie as the “other QB.” The Eagles will still employ a run-first offense—as they should, given all of the running back talent they have.

After getting killed on runs up the middle against the Seminoles, this offense can’t rely on runs alone. Smith brings a lot to the table in terms of electric play-making ability, but he doesn’t have the aerial acumen to keep defenses guessing what’s coming next. Employing Flutie, a quarterback that needs to throw first, can add that extra dynamic that BC missed last year.

This all requires Addazio to change his playbook. And, given Friday’s game, that doesn’t look likely.

Smith will probably end up as the quarterback, given his immense similarities to Murphy.

With Smith, Addazio can run the exact same offense as last season, albeit with a kid who played high school ball this time last year.

And that’s fine, if Addazio is content riding with a one-dimensional team mired in a rebuilding year that would dream to make the Taxslayer Bowl in Jacksonville.

Yet, if he really wants the Eagles to get to the next level, he should pull out all of the passing plays he used at Florida when people still thought Tim Tebow could throw. Flutie can help this young wide receiving corps grow, so that when Wade—the best quarterback on this roster—returns next season, he’ll have some people to target.

That way, the offense will be ready to match a defense that is begging for BC to become an elite team in the ACC.

Michael Sullivan is the Sports Editor for The Heights. He can be reached at sports@ bcheights.com.

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QB Troy Flutie has connected on eight of his 10 passes this season.

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BC crushes Northeastern to break two-game losing streak From Field Hockey, B1

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The Eagles barraged the Huskies with a six-goal outburst on Sunday.

showed her defensive prowess, falling into a split at one point to prevent a shot to the right corner, which she deflected off her foot.

Settipane also celebrated a special milestone: this game against the Huskies counted as her 40th win. BC’s record is 41 wins, putting Settipane on a track to break the record this season. She managed five saves against the Huskies, playing 58 minutes until backup goalie Audra Hampsch came in as relief.

Hampsch had one save in 11 minutes of play.

The Huskies attempted to force a goal on six penalty corners, with two back-to-back in the second half, but BC’s defense managed to clear the ball out of dangerous territory. In the 50th minute, however, Northeastern for ward June Curr y-Lindahl hit a shot in the far corner. The Huskies could not rally behind the goal, though, and 12 minutes later, Lytle scored with an assist from Eryn McCoy. Just 12

seconds before the end of the game, Dennehy blasted an unassisted goal off a breakaway into Northeastern’s net, running hard past the Huskies’ defense.

Despite a blowout by the Eagles, head coach Kelly Doton believed that not all of the players were up to snuff.

“I think our technical skills let us down a bit,” Doton said.

Coming off a loss to Syracuse in which the Eagles blew a first-half lead, the Eagles held together well to prevent a repeat.

Miller’s goals came partly as a result of Doton’s coaching strategy for a non-conference game.

“We got a chance to play a lot of our players and rest a lot of our key players,” Doton said.

Miller, who usually plays as a substitute, started this game and scored.

To sweeten the victory, the Eagles played in front of several young field hockey players. After an exciting game, the players met with the girls, signed autographs, and took photos.

The Eagles will show their skills again on Friday in a con-

ference game against UNC. BC is 0-1 in conference play, and a win against the Tar Heels would count immensely in a six-game ACC season. In order to duplicate today’s results, Miller said that the team needs to bring their high energy to Chapel Hill.

“We’ll be ready to go by Friday,” she said.

Doton, on the other hand, wants more than just energy.

“It’s our ability to execute the basics,” she said. “We’ll continue that next week in our practice.

Hopefully it’ll be a great game against UNC.” n

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Sophomore midfielder Alesandra Miller scored her first two career goals.

Eagles give up late goal, collapse against No. 2 Syracuse

By Annabel Steele For The Heights After 70 minutes of hard play, Boston College field hockey fell to the Syracuse Orange 3-2 at home 3 Syracuse on SatBoston College 2 urday.

The Eagles struck first, scoring in the 13th and 25th minutes of the first half, but couldn’t hold the lead. Syracuse scored its final goal with 24 seconds remaining in the game to clinch a victory.

The Eagles came into the game with a 4-2 record. It was their first ACC game of the 2015 season.

Last year, Syracuse knocked BC out of the ACC Tournament. Despite this, BC head coach Kelly Doton felt her team brought the same intense focus as always to the game. “[With] any ACC opponent these guys are going to bring that energy,” she said. “Regardless if it’s Syracuse or UNC next week, they’re going to bring it.”

The Eagles did bring energetic, competitive play. Their

first of six penalty corners occurred only a few minutes into the game.

Although they failed to capitalize on their first penalty corner, they scored the first goal of the game off their second in the 13th minute.

Junior midfielder Emily McCoy, the team’s points leader through seven games this season, scored her fourth goal of the season with a hard shot, giving the Eagles a 1-0 lead.

Over the next 12 minutes, Syracuse was stif led several times by BC’s senior goalkeeper, Leah Settipane. Settipane, only three wins away from setting BC’s all-time career wins record, made great saves off penalty corners to keep the Eagles in the lead.

With 10 minutes remaining in the half, a fastbreak led to another BC goal. Junior Leah Frome crossed the ball in front of Syracuse’s net. Despite Syracuse goalkeeper Jess Jecko’s best efforts, BC’s Lucy Lytle found the back of the net to double the lead.

Both teams had played aggressively throughout the first half. In the 11th minute, Syracuse midfielder Erin Gillingham was shown a green card. The next card came in the 32nd minute—B C captain Romee Steikema got a green card, and the Eagles played down for the next two minutes . Syracuse capitalized off this with its first goal of the game just one minute later.

For w ard Emma L amis on passed to teammate Emma Russell on a fastbreak. Russell scored on Settipane to cut into the Eagles’ lead to 2-1.

The two teams started the second half with energy and competitive play.

Frome and B C freshman Ymke Rose G ote were both shown cards for their aggressive play—Frome’s, a yellow card, meant BC played down for five minutes, while Gote’s green card put the Eagles at a disadvantage for two minutes.

Although both teams had opportunities to score throughout the second half, the first goal of

the period came with just six minutes remaining in the game.

Syracuse midfielder Alma Feene scored an unassisted goal to tie the game.

Her shot deflected off Settipane and found the top left corner of the net. With the game tied and just minutes remaining, the urgency picked up for both teams.

Syracuse scored again with 24 seconds remaining to take its first lead of the game at 32. Lamison, who assisted the first goal for Syracuse, dodged a defender and found the back of the net.

“It was just one of those games where they fought really hard, they executed the game plan, and the final score wasn’t in our favor,” Doton said.

Although they scored the first two goals of the game, the Eagles could not hold on to the lead they built earlier.

Even with Settipane’s clutch saves, Syracuse found the back of the net three times and emerged with a 3-2 victor y over the Eagles. n

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BC surrendered a goal in the last 30 seconds to give away a crucial win.

Eagles top Cardinals for first conference win of the season

By Griffin Connolly For The Heights Patience. Poise. Persistence.

Those were the keys to a 2-­0 victory over the visiting Louisville Cardi0 Louisville nals for Boston College 2 Boston College women’s soccer in Newton this past Sunday.

From the outset, BC controlled the pace and quickly neutralized any offensive opportunities that Louisville had.

The Eagles scored their first goal in the 11th minute, setting an early tone for the remainder of the match.

Tic­-tac-­toe passing in the midfield opened up the heart of the defense for a run by junior for ward Hayley Dowd, who snaked through the middle and into the attacking third. In the span of mere seconds, she was twice presented with an open passing angle to junior McKenzie Meehan, but Dowd kept possession of the ball, waiting patiently for the perfect opportunity to sneak a pass behind the Louisville back line.

After a few more touches, Meehan made her move, and Dowd poked a slithering through-ball between a pair of Cardinal center backs, setting up a one­-on­-one square-off between Meehan and the Louisville goalkeeper Taylor Bucklin.

Meehan took one touch and bent the shot around the keeper for her 10th goal in as many games—a textbook finish.

Meehan’s penchant for putting the ball between the posts has earned her considerable recognition this season­­.

But the play of Dowd, her partner in crime at the top of the formation, has been nothing short of terrific. It’s the perfect offensive combination of honey and vinegar, as the two employ completely different styles on the field.

Meehan is the stoic, calculating, silky-smooth assassin, while Dowd is the tenacious ballhawk pestering the defense for 90 minutes , the soccer equivalent of a forechecking grinder in hockey.

A perfect example of Dowd’s constant pressure came late in the second half, when she swiped a pass from a Louisville defender along the back line and headed toward the goal.

The BC forward ultimately sailed the ensuing shot over the crossbar, but the sequence was a microcosm of what Dowd brings to the table for a dynamic Eagles attack.

BC head coach Alison Foley had the Eagles playing in an amorphous 4­-3-­3 formation, and players from each area of the field excelled.

Timely passes from redshirt

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BC forward McKenzie Meehan has been one of the most prolific scorers in the country through the first part of the season with 10 goals in as many games. freshman midfielder Shea Newman swung the door wide open for unrelenting forays into the attacking third.

Left back Lauren Bernard did a good job containing Lou-

isville’s Rachel Avant, an athletic midfielder who will make teams pay for not keeping a close eye on her.

Sophomore defender Madison Kenny used her brawn and

quickness to run Cardinal attackers off the ball.

Keeper Alexis Bryant didn’t face many threatening shots, a testament to the tight line the defense in front of her kept

throughout the match.

It was a quality effort from the whole team, a healthy response to the 3­-2 double-overtime loss last Sunday against Providence. n

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Mac Miller wakes up, grows up on latest album, ‘GO:OD AM’

BY RYAN PANNY For The Heights

“Ain’t saying that I’m sober / I’m just in a better place,” Mac Miller croons over the Tyler the Creator-produced intro to GO:OD AM. The Pittsburgh native’s third full-length LP is the first of a $10 million deal with Warner Bros.

Records. It chronicles a very public battle with substances, and is the result of a tireless creative proGO:OD AM cess that Mac Miller produced over nine albums worth of material before arriving at his third album.

No longer an independent artist, his drug use under control, and now approaching his mid-20s, the word “reinvention” could define the Mac Miller conversation.

Perhaps most significantly in 2015, Miller now finds himself free of the “frat-rap” tag that tortured him early in his career. Miller was once framed as a contemporary of the likes of Asher Roth, Sammy Adams, and Chris Webby, rather than the 10 other names that Kendrick

Lamar named in addition to Mac in his scathing 2013 verse on Big Sean’s “Control.”

In the four years since Blue Slide Park, his critically-lampooned yet wildly successful debut album, the rapper who was once “Easy Mac with the cheesy raps”—as spit by battle rap extraordinaire Loaded Lux on Miller’s last album—has been on a never-ending campaign to shake his stigma and prove his worth to hip-hop. He has completed three projects that increasingly emphasized lyrical dexterity and artistic ambition, gaining more positive responses every step of the way. With GO:OD AM, Miller finally positions himself for the true takeover that he has often alluded to.

In GO:OD AM, Mac Miller is at his most confident and unapologetic, an aesthetic often absent from his previous work despite his undeniable talent. Lyrically, he continues to be wildly creative, dropping wordplay like “what’s a God without a little OD? / Just a G” on first single and album standout “100 Grandkids.” This time around, though, he raps like he has less to prove. On Miller’s last album Watching Movies with the Sound Off, his bars exuded an almost manic obsession with proving his technical ability. On GO:OD

AM he’s just having fun, though dense lyrical content certainly takes center stage at many points, such as in the first verse of album closer “The Festival.”

Longtime Mac Miller collaborators ID Labs handle the bulk of the production, alongside heavyweights like Flying Lotus, Sounwave, and even Sha Money XL on the first half of “100 Grandkids.” Sonically, the album maintains cohesion despite its diversity, from the trap-influenced, 808-ridden “When In Rome” to the piano and saxophone that close out “Brand Name.”

Though he has always had a flirtatious relationship with melody, Mac Miller’s most noticeable growth on GO:OD AM manifests itself in the songs’ melodic content. On tracks like “Break the Law” and the Miguel-assisted “Weekend”—not to mention the tender career highlight “ROS”—he effortlessly injects small doses of melody into what is still an undeniable hip-hop album.

GO:OD AM does get occasionally bogged down by an oversaturation of misogyny and sexual innuendos. At times, allusions to sexual exploits becomes a crutch for Miller, in which he cannot finish a verse without

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Mac Miller exhibits lyrical prowess, while presenting a more vunerable side on ‘GO:OD AM.’ wordplay about prostitutes, tongues, and vaginas—punchlines that fluctuate between entertaining and distracting. Miller’s still hiding somewhere in there. It is especially frustrating considering one the album’s shining moments: the aforementioned “ROS,” a touching, lovesick song features Miller as thoughtful and vulnerable as he has ever sounded. Likability has never been an issue for Mac Miller. In fact, it has been his musical

anchor at times, especially while weathering the “frat-rap” storm. On GO:OD AM, Miller keeps the charisma or likability of his previous work, yet gains an abundance of vision and focus. Considering his second album, Watching Movies with The Sound Off, and last year’s Faces mixtape, GO:OD AM is by no means Mac Miller’s first great project. It is, however, his first work worthy of the tag “essential hip-hop listening. 

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Heights Editor Eloping with Lana Del Rey has never been so easy.

An effort that would have thrown Albert Einstein for a loop as it challenges the known parameters of the space-time continuum, Honeymoon ruptures reality and enters into a new dimension where time both halts and quickens. It’s an absurd contradiction, but such is the complexity HONEYMOON and powLana Del Rey er of Rey’s third studio album.

Lana Del Rey is back to her best. The combination of her trademark temptress voice with traces of jazz, electronic, and pop arrives at the culmination of her musical identity. Finally freed from the constraint of overly ambitious producers, she, alongside songwriter Rick Nowels and producer Kieron Menzies, put forth a product worthy of her extravagant persona, one that reminds of both Nancy Sinatra and Amy Winehouse.

Her first words on “Honeymoon,” the album’s first track, immediately enthrall you and sets the boundaries for this new dimension: “We both know that is it not fashionable to love me … but there is truly nobody for you but me.” The rising soprano emerges from an ambiance-setting piano ensemble that then grows in stature as a whole orchestra joins

in and creates a pseudo-ballad that instantly transports you to a floating cloud of inner reflection.

This honeymoon feels as hot and sticky as she intends it to, and it leaves you begging for more. Luckily enough, she gives more—much more.

Loving, or even liking, her work generates powerful emotions in the minds of those involved in her rise to prominence. Her sheer existence in the industry is met with both adulation and scrutiny—her every move is charted and her every word is recorded. Often she seemed to stare at the world with a blank expression, seemingly residing above the crowd and embracing her perception.

Her entrancing voice, although lacking in range, captivates her audience by instead focusing on which she’s been blessed with: capturing emotion and conveying it through a pack-a-punch bundle of intricacy that simply cannot be ignored. As hard as you attempt to stop listening to her, it is too late. As soon as you enter her bittersweet web of lust, violence, regret, and hope, you are imprisoned, but somehow, when it ends, you do not want to leave.

The source of much of her music has been the irreverent exploration of the perceived experience of beautiful women, and in “God Knows I Tried,” she delivers an indictment of her failed toxic relationships and the role her own actions played in them. The soothing guitar chords reminds of Nancy Sinatra’s rendition of “Bang Bang” at the start of Kill Bill Vol. 1. It seems too fitting, as you almost expect the

chorus of “my baby shot me down” to follow Del Rey’s heartfelt plea for validation.

Her emotional exploration then follows her chosen method, or so it appears, of dealing with the aftermath of the continuous mental and physical strain she puts herself through.

“We won’t survive/ We’re sinking into the sand, ” she says. Coupled with moving (literally) EDM mix, “High By The Beach” would not find itself foreign in a club’s setlist on any given night or in high-schooler’s late night playlist designed for reminiscing.

The wide-range of emotions conveyed throughout the work reach a breaking point in “Swan Song,” where Del Rey promises to “never see him again,” pledging that it will “be [their] swan song,” and she clearly cannot continue in her current path. This serves as a parallel to her previous works, as her past producers and contributors swayed the musical direction of her efforts to a point where they lost all of the meaning—ironically, “meaning” is what often characterizes Del Rey’s work.

Honeymoon comes full circle, bringing to fruition her past struggles both professionally and personally. Meeting the laser-like scrutiny and ever-present doubt she faced with the “blank stare,” Del Rey manages that which appeared massively improbable: she transcended herself and most importantly, her perception of herself. She elevated her stature to a point where musical praise is not mutually exclusive to the intended effect her work has on the audience. No longer will she have cause for sadness, as she has returned from her “developing” phase on a vendetta. 

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The YouTube community goes ‘Wild’ for Troye Sivan’s newest EP HANNAH MCLAUGHLIN YouTube is at it again. Churning out one prominent pop culture figure after another, the viral video giant has successfully birthed society’s newest subcategory of celebrity—an elite group aptly dubbed “The YouTubers.”

Ever enthusiastic on camera and always interacting with fans via Facebook or Twitter, the average vlogger—or “video blogger,” for those of you who are not yet “hip to the movement” and need to know what “the kids are calling it these days” (here’s looking at you, spell check)—posts entertaining videos to their channels to appease loyal viewers. In doing so, they attempt to accumulate more doting subscribers and disseminate their coveted knowhow in all categories from makeup to stand-up, fashion to food.

As their fan base continues to expand exponentially, so too does

their individual brand. This YouTuber with nine million subscribers came out with a new beauty line, while that one with a mere four million released their second novel. Others opt to sing.

Enter Troye Sivan. Don’t know him yet? You will.

Today, 20-year-old Troye Sivan Mellet basks in the warm glow of high praise for his newest EP WILD—a sixsong collection of scintillating synthpop and infectious dance tracks. Born in South Africa, raised in Australia, and often traveling the world at the unpredictable whim of his various YouTube obligations, Sivan boasts talents that are nearly as numerous as the nations he has visited. From child actor, to YouTube titan, to current singer-songwriter, Sivan has covered much ground in the entertainment industry within a relatively short span of time.

Released on Sept. 4, WILD is yet another addition to Sivan’s already expansive list of artistic endeavors.

This anxiously anticipated release follows the singer’s well-received EP entitled TRXYE, a 2014 taste of Sivan’s mature lyrics and ethereal sound. However, while the five tracks on TRXYE tend to blend into one another with a distinct background bass and synth set that changes very little from one song to the next, WILD suggests an increase in artist sophistication thanks to each track’s varied and unique feel.

Among the best songs in a tracklist that seems too small for Troye’s listeners’ liking are “EASE” and “WILD,” arguably the two most dance-inducing songs Sivan has. “EASE” is a smooth, percussion-heavy ballad featuring the band Broods’ whispery vocals which intertwine easily with Sivan’s yearning lyrics. Contrarily, “WILD” is more upbeat thanks to constant claps and chanting background vocals, but it maintains Sivan’s signature extraterrestrial style nonetheless. The repetitive piece “FOOLS” also excites, as its eerie high notes and sporadic exple-

tives suggest that Sivan is finally ready to take greater risks with his work.

And much like a good wine or that beloved “My Musical” episode of SCRUBS, the EP seems to only get better with age. Just over two weeks old, news of the release still floods social media forums and rises in popularity as endorsements from veteran music moguls continue to roll in. Taylor Swift tweeted at Sivan, exclaiming rather enthusiastically with the help of caps lock that the EP’s namesake single “IS STUNNING AND AWESOME,” followed by the flattering hashtag #EPgoals—a coveted celebrity compliment from pop’s top princess.

Despite the new alternative-dance hits that will likely ascend the charts in the next few weeks, Sivan’s music still has a few fl awed features that need improvement before his next release. Hopefully, future songs will not sound as similar to one another as those on his first two EPs. Straying far outside his comfort zone of overused

synths and the same sequence of bass drops would be a refreshing change to the musical monotony the Australian artist has created for himself.

However, unlike the scores of Disney stars and YouTube wannabe singers of today who are slapped immediately onto a record label regardless of whether they truly have singing talent, Sivan emerges from the crowd as a serious songwriter set on improving his sound one successful EP at a time. Amid his plans to continue acting and producing comical content on his YouTube channel, this well-rounded rising star commands the attention of music-enthusiasts everywhere with his honest lyrics and distinct sound.

Troye Sivan is not simply an artist to watch—he’s an artist who deserves a listen.

Hannah McLaughlin is a staff columnist for The Heights. She can be reached at arts@bcheights.com.

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Monday, September 21, 2015

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Alex Navarro treats crowd to originals from ‘Pardon My Eyes’

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The Alex Navarro Band, fronted by Navarro, BC ‘15, treated a dedicated Cambridge audience in The Middle East on Thursday night to a warm, raw set of covers and originals from his debut album ‘Pardon My Eyes.”

From Navrro, from B8 to his music. It is inherently raspy but also resonating and can be both powerful and gentle simultaneously.

Navarro’s third piece of the night was another cover, Garth Brooks’ “Much Too Young,” which, he dedicated to his brother Frank. Once again, Navarro was able to personalize the song in such a way that it felt as though it was his own, original piece. The country-

folk backdrop of the original was less prominent as the song was sped up by the strum of Navarro’s acoustic guitar, giving the piece a smooth, swift edge.

Navarro performed three other songs from his debut album; “Love is Here and Now,” “Gone,” and “One More Time.” All three pieces embody Navarro’s signature strumming guitar, reflective lyrics, and raspy vocals, yet, all three were inherently different from one another in their own respective ways. “Love is Here

and Now,” for instance, was upbeat in its sound and brutally honest, depicting a relationship between two people in both its finer moments and its difficult circumstances while ultimately echoing that love is only, “here and now.” On the other hand, “Gone,” was much slower and more introspective, culminating in the chorus with Navarro singing ruefully, “Gone without a moment’s notice.

Gone so many words unspoken. Gone beat of my heart unspoken.” The third

piece, “One More Time,” was the most distinct among the three, beginning with a keyboard accompanied by the backdrop of an electric guitar. Navarro’s voice echoed, repeating each line before swiftly changing pace and adopting a cool, rock and roll flare. The piece then picked up and slowed down throughout, featuring a wider array of instruments, while Navarro’s vocals add a terrifically eerie sound.

Overall, it was this masterful and

quite enjoyable performance by Alex Navarro and his band that filled the Middle East with great vivacity on a Thursday night.

Navarro, in an artist profile done on him by Boston Busking in 2014, explained that playing an original song to a receptive, intimate crowd was, “the realest thing I could experience as a musician,” and truly, Navarro’s performance at the Middle East was real, raw, and simply wonderful. n

O’Neill library features selected works from Irish writer William Butler Yeats

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The third floor O’Neill exhibit honors the work of the Irish literary lion William Butler Yeats, whose work in the early 20th century helped define and articulate the cultural experience and suffering of the Irish people.

By Caleb Griego Heights Staff During a dark and grim history, certain wordsmiths in Ireland have given voice to the human condition, experienced by e ver yone who has e x p e r i e n c e d h a r d s h i p . Fa m o u s l y demonstrating a keen and introspective view of the Irish world, poet William B. Yeats elegantly brought Irish literature into the 20th century.

Aptly and with unmistakable ardor, Yeats reflects on country, family, love, and youth with words that deeply capture moments in his life and in the history of Ireland. The modest exhibit on show in O’Neill Library this September does not fail to snap a compelling picture of Yeats’ passionate art. Sure to leave readers amazed at his lyricism, Yeats never fails to craft “the intellectual sweetness of those lines, that cut through time or cross it withershins.”

Coming from the panoramic vistas and low lying plains of Ireland, Yeats was born to John Butler Yeats and

Susan Pollexfen on June 13, 1865. From a young age, he was exposed to the beauty of Irish artistry through both his parents. His father was a painter and his mother often entertained Yeats and his siblings with Irish stories and folk tales, which undoubtedly nurtured his later fixation on the subject. From Dublin to London, Yeats was schooled and influenced by the changing world around him. Marked by the decline of the Protestant Ascendancy and the later executions of separatists during the Easter Rebellion of 1916, Yeats was armed with plenty of munitions to articulate the sentiments he and those like him held during this transitional period.

All his work examined more complex thoughts and feelings, blending the trials and turmoil of his time with ideas of mythology, the occult and spiritualism.

These threads can be seen throughout his works and in many ways make his pieces timeless in nature. Unlike other contemporary Irish writers like James Joyce, who left Ireland for good in 1912, Yeats embraced his native country,

returning later in life. Becoming an influential member of the Irish Senate, he helped pass legislation preserving the Irish identity in the arts.

The exhibit displays a variety of his publishe d p o etr y. His various works including their revisions make appearances , giving a broad representation of Yeats’ talent. The Tower (1928) highlights his maturing style. The Celtic Tw ilig ht (1893) chronicles an emerging Anglo-Irish tradition and A Portrait of Years, by his father John B. Yeats, brings context to his upbringing and influences.

An interesting aspect of this exhibit is the showcasing of several copies of the same work. Yeats was a fan and advocate of revision. When redacting, he hoped to more accurately convey his feelings, not adequately articulated during his younger years. In an attempt to bring a more holistic comprehension of individual pieces, Yeats sought not to alter the sentiment and feelings of his poems or stories, but to bring them to their fullest potential. Suggesting that arts do not remain stagnant from

their initial recording on paper, Yeats exercises a creative power, unfettered by convention.

Several poems, mounted on the wall of the exhibit, bring attention to two important, overarching themes within Yeats’ craft. “The Rose Tree” (1916), “Coole Park, 1929” (1933), and an excerpt from chapter 14 of The Celtic Twilight, draw the eyes of viewers, who revel in the beauty of his words and give insight into his broader, more universal feelings.

“The Rose Tree” represents the bloody affair of the Easter Rebellion, brought down by England from “across the bitter sea.” The rose tree, representative of Irish freedom, is quenched of its thirst by the blood of the Irish people. The poem illustrates the pastoral influences of Irish folklore that so captured the mind of Yeats, as the rose tree demands such a sacrifice from the populace, fancifully calling to mind ideas of hungry fairies and frightful beasts lurking in the woods. Yet in this kind of tale, the repercussions seem far from fantasy, as real conflict knocked at

the door of the Irish people.

Similar ideas concerning nature and lore are expressed in more extreme fashion in “Coole Park, 1929.” Yeats recalls the past with various references to influential Irish writers, interspersed with more imagery of rural landscapes dominated by the elements. Tied to the land, this seems to be the work that best exemplifies the admiration Yeats has for those who came before him, and how, in very real ways, the lay of the land is dictated by these artists as much as it is by those from England.

Yeats spoke to ideas, not unfamiliar to the minds of the common people.

And yet he engages his readers in such a way that one cannot help but revel in his expert prose. Whether bellowing from the aches of unrequited love or welcoming the harbingers of a new era is his homeland.

Yeats meets the challenges and changes in his life with changes in himself and his writing. Such a dynamic man gave birth to such dynamic works, beckoning to the future with equal portions reverence and hope. n

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

THE DAYS OF SUMMER

West’s surprise ‘Yeezy II’ show

SUMMER LIN When Kanye West accepted his Vanguard Award at the 2015 VMAs, he didn’t take the stage so much as ascend like a self-appointed god climbing the steps to heaven. West’s every move in the public eye has been tinged with nerve and lack of subtlety—from interrupting Taylor Swift at the 2009 VMAs to proclaiming in front of millions of viewers that George W. Bush doesn’t care about black people during a Hurricane Katrina telethon broadcast.

When West finished his VMA acceptance speech with a cavalier bid for the 2020 presidential election, he made top headlines the next day but no one was really all that surprised.

While many love to dismiss West as a self-important egomaniac with no filter, 200 people still elbowed their way through the crowd this past Wednesday in hopes of sneaking a peek at the controversial rapper and his newest Yeezy collection. Held in Skylight Modern, a basement studio in Chelsea, West’s second collaboration with Adidas, aptly titled “Yeezy Season 2,” was unveiled as a surprise fashion show.

As a last-minute addition to the New York Fashion Week schedule, West’s impromptu show ruffled a few industry feathers. While Naeem Khan’s show went on as scheduled, Anne Bowen, who had been planning to launch her new streetwear collection, Nomad VII, during the same noon time-slot, moved her show date to Thursday.

“Kanye knows he is a media sensation and it is just not ethical to do this,” Bowen said in an interview with Women’s Wear Daily. “It’s like we are David and he is Goliath. We have put our heart and soul into our show, and should not be stepped on like this.”

Yeezy Season 2, reminiscent of his first collection, featured lightweight, monochromatic military-inspired pieces. While the rest of the Kardashian clan sat front row, alongside Michael Stipe, Lorde, Drake, Courtney Love, Seth Meyers, and Vogue editor Anna Wintour, West’s sister-in-law, Kylie Jenner, modeled for the show.

Much like his first Yeezy presentation, West featured models in sizes atypical of the silhouettes you usually see on the catwalks at New York Fashion Week. In collaboration with performance artist Vanessa Beecroft, models of all shapes and sizes emerged in four military squadrons, as directed by a model-turned-drill sergeant. West labeled the models in varying skin tones with “light,” “medium,” or “dark,” arranging the presentation by skin color. As models marched down the runway clad in nude body suits, baseball caps, and hoodies, the shading varied from beiges and taupes to blacks and browns, getting darker as the show progressed.

It was a bold move that certainly raised a few brows in the industry. While rapper Ice-T took to Twitter to denigrate the line as “future slave gear,” West explained in an interview with Vogue, “It’s just a painting, just using clothing as a canvas of proportion and color.” Drawing focus to fashion aesthetics rather than what many suspected to be commentary on racial injustice, West chose not to utilize his art as a platform for a deeper political message. Instead, he stuck to showing off his athleisure line of sweatshirts, outerwear, and leggings.

West, as one of the most polarizing figures in pop culture, owes some of his career success to shock value. From criticism of Bush to the media’s portrayal of Katrina’s black victims, it’s not the messages behind West’s outbursts that people often find off-putting but the way in which he presents them. The industry’s elite found issue with the fact that his show bumped Naeem Khan, Anne Bowen, and Josh Ostrovsky (also known as “the Fat Jew”) from their time slots. Detractors to his line also love pointing out that West rips off Helmut Lang, Alexander Wang, and Rick Owens, but West’s first collection garnered more views than Chanel on style.com and reigned as the most talked-about show last week.

Whether his line will find success once it hits stores or live up to the shock value and media hype that West frequently touts still remains unknown.

Summer Lin is the Asst. Arts & Review Editor for The Heights. She can be reached at arts@bcheights.com.

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Navarro Band captures Cambridge crowd

BY DENIZ DEMIRCI FOR The Heights Th e venue was dimly lit, illuminated only by the vivid orange hue of the lights running along the stage at the very front of the room and the soft glow of the animated, bustling streets beyond the walls that seeped in through the edges of the windows. The Middle East, keeping with Cambridge’s eccentric spirit, exuded an air of vivacity Thursday night.

Singer-songwriter Alex Navarro, BC ‘15, along with his band, had a captivating presence as he swayed back and forth, guitar in hand, to

the soft bends of melodic charm within his songs.

His movements onstage, which were often both fluid and jolty, along with the vigor behind his raspy voice conveyed a sense of true passion.

The show, which began with a jolt of energy, transitioned to a more mellow tone with Navarro’s second piece, “Midway,” off his debut album Pardon My Eyes. The piece was a dazzling combination of an upbeat, quick tempo and sound embellished by original, heartfelt lyrics.

Navarro’s graceful acoustic guitar riffs further exemplified his talent as a musical storyteller, as well as a thought-provoking performer.

Pardon My Eyes, which was released this past

February, is available on Spotify, iTunes, and on his website, alexnavarrotunes.com.

The intersection of genuine candor and a sense of transcending mellowness is an essential aspect of Navarro’s performance style and allows his music to resonate with any listener.

For instance, his cover of Neil Young’s “My My, Hey Hey,” which can be found on YouTube, does not fall under the weight of the original piece, as Navarro is able to personalize it and add a new dimension of significance to the song. His distinct voice also adds an element of singularity

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‘What Do You Mean?’ and rape culture’s life in pop music GRACE GODVIN Unless you live under a rock (or maybe just on Newton), you’ve probably heard Justin Bieber’s new song, “What Do You Mean.” The response to the track has been overwhelming—it reached number one on the iTunes chart faster than any single ever released. Before the Howard game last weekend, it was played at least eight times at one Mod’s tailgate.

The lyrics have raised questions from major news outlets about its implications on rape culture. From, “What do you mean / When you nod your head yes / But you want to say no,” to “When you don’t want me to move / But you tell me to go,” Biebs implies that he can consent for the woman in question because he already knows what she’s thinking, despite her clearly stating otherwise.

In an op-ed for the Huffington Post titled “How ‘What Do You Mean’ Promotes Rape Culture,” Barnard student Sofia Lyons wrote, “The lyrics perpetuate the idea that unwanted advances or sexual misperceptions are at the fault

of the woman because she wasn’t clear about her intentions or a man thought she wanted it because she couldn’t ‘make up her mind.’”

Lyons isn’t wrong. Explicit consent is paramount, especially on college campuses. And there’s no denying Bieber’s song is about sex, when later in the song he croons, “Wanna argue all day / Making love all night.” Digging himself in deeper, Bieber also gives the girl a time crunch, “Said we’re running out of time / What do you mean / Better make up your mind.”

It feels like a threat—what happens if she doesn’t make up her mind?

But this argument isn’t a new one. The song came out almost a month ago, and Bieber even performed it in August at the VMA’s. What’s noteworthy here is that no one seemed to care. It has maintained its number one spot on iTunes, and is still hugely popular on campus. So are these undertones worth caring about?

When asked what the song is about, Bieber told Ryan Seacrest, “Girls are often just flip-floppy … They say something and they mean something else.” What Bieber is implying is that boys have the right to

decide what girls are actually thinking, even if it isn’t what they say. It is no longer ambiguously implied in the song, as he clearly states his intentions.

Perhaps worst of all is the music video.

It starts with Bieber giving a wad of cash to a gangster. Bieber then goes to a motel room, where he spends the rest of the video trying to have sex with a former Victoria’s Secret model, a girl who is unhappy with the volatile nature of their relationship. Interspersed between love scenes of the couple are depictions of Bieber’s girlfriend lying dejected beside him in bed. The implication here is that she is less than thrilled about his sexual advances. Eventually, it seems, she agrees, but only after they’re kidnapped by the Scream villain and brought to a rave party at a skate park.

While the story arc in the video makes no sense, the implications of a rape culture couldn’t be clearer. In an interview with Ellen Degeneres, Bieber tells her that the song was about “women in general.” Apparently all women are to blame, not the threatening, sex-crazed Bieber.

Bieber’s ex-girlfriend Selena Gomez

also has a single out, “Good for You.” The lyrics are undeniably anti-feminist, about wanting to dress up for a boy so he will want her. “Gonna wear that dress you like, skin tight / Do my hair up real, real nice / Cause I just wanna look good for you.”

These are horrible messages to be sending to both women and men in regards to their expectations of women.

These songs suggest that someone can decide for a woman what she is thinking, regardless of what what she says, and what she should wear. What is this, some sort of awful ’50s nightmare?

College campuses are perhaps the most in-touch with and influenced by pop culture than any other environment.

What does it say about the Boston College community’s notion of relationships if it’s so obsessed with this song? Even Bieber has made the intentions of the song clear, so are we just ignoring the lyrics? Or is it actually seeping into our subconscious?

Grace Godvin is a staff writer for The Heights. She can be reached at arts@ bcheights.com.

W. B. Yeats exhibit reflects on family, country, and youth

JULIA HOPKINS / HEIGHTS STAFF

O’Neill’s September exhibit features poet and politician William Butler Yeats and his reflections on country, family, love, and growing up in Ireland. Continued on B7.

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