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Vol. XCIV, No. 21

Ongoing core renewal prompts reexamination of Honors Program

BY MARY ROSE FISSINGER Heights Editor In early April, all Honors Program students received an email from Polis president Devon Behrer, A&S ’13, inviting them to a “State of the Honors Program” discussion, at which they would think about the “future of the program and how the core re-evaluation may affect the program.” Although the event was postponed indefinitely due to schedule complications,

the discussion over the current state of the Arts and Sciences Honors Program is one that has been occurring consistently throughout this academic year and even earlier among faculty, students, and administrators.

The question of what role the program does and should play at the University was rendered even more pertinent when the core renewal process required Boston College to examine all courses that currently count toward core credits. In fact,

it was for precisely this reason that David Quigley, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, refrained from appointing a new director of the Honors Program after Mark O’Connor stepped down from the position in the summer of 2012.

“At that point, because I knew that we were ramping up to a core renewal process, it did not make sense to me to appoint a new director,” Quigley said. “Anyone I would want to appoint as a director would want to hit the ground running, and would

start thinking about how to build on Mark’s successes and make something of a mark on the program, and because I knew that in a year or two there were going to be some minor if not major changes to the University core, it did not make sense to put in place a new director for this academic year.”

In the meantime, because Honors is not a department but rather a program that operates under the A&S dean, Quigley himself has assumed the role of acting

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director of the program. While serving in this capacity as well as co-chair of the Core Renewal committee, and even before as an occasional professor in the Honors Program, Quigley has engaged in conversations with students and faculty both within and without the Honors Program about the program, its strengths and weaknesses, and how it fits into the mission—and by extension the core curriculum—of BC.

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BC’s GLBTQ issues subject of ‘Ignites’

BY MARY ROSE FISSINGER Heights Editor

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University coordinates to keep school running during citywide lockdown

BY ELEANOR HILDEBRANDT News Editor

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Students celebrated in the Mods after the manhunt ended (top). A BCPD officer shook hands with a student as others clapped and looked on (bottom).

On Friday morning, students at Boston College were asked to remain inside their dorms as the search for a suspect in Monday’s Boston Marathon bombings continued. Governor Deval Patrick had requested that all residents of Boston, Watertown, Newton, Cambridge, Belmont, and Waltham shelter in place while the Boston Police Department and the FBI conducted its search for the suspect in the bombings. The stay-in-place order was lifted shortly after 6:30 p.m. that day.

The hours of all campus dining halls were limited on Friday, and the Flynn Recreational Complex was closed for the day. Shuttle service was suspended.

All of Friday’s athletic events, including camps scheduled by women’s soccer, women’s basketball, and men’s basketball, were canceled. The vigil organized

by Danielle Cole, CSON ’15, and Michael Padulsky, LSOE ’15, intended to commemorate the victims of Monday’s bombings and scheduled for 4 p.m.

Friday afternoon, was canceled as well.

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After last September’s BC Ignites event accomplished exactly what creator of the event and Special Initiatives Director of the UGBC Community Relations department Conor Sullivan, LSOE ’13, hoped it would, he decided to do it again.

This semester’s BC Ignites will take place tonight on Stokes Green at 7 p.m. and will highlight students’ experiences with GLBTQ issues at Boston College.

The first event took place in O’Neill Plaza on the evening of Sept. 24, 2012, and was structured in the same vein as Take Back the Night, featuring three student speakers. The idea was to spur discussion on campus about racial diversity at BC, and so Sullivan selected three speakers with very different takes on the topic to present their opinions about whether racism exists at BC and, if so, what the student body can do about it.

From the event’s inception, Sullivan had hoped to develop it into a series of forums, each on a different aspect of diversity, and he became determined to carry out this vision when he saw how well-attended the first BC Ignites was.

“After the event, I realized that the format was successful, and I thought it was appropriate to start looking at different diversity topics to spread it to,” Sullivan said.

Within days of the first event, he began planning the second by exploring what aspect of diversity was most on the minds of the BC student body. After talking with student leaders and administrators, he realized that focusing on GLBTQ issues seemed to be the logical next step for the BC Ignites series.

Just as for the first event, he sent out emails to student leaders asking them to

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BCPD to hire five civilian dispatchers for next year

WZBC will celebrate its 40th year

BY ELEANOR HILDEBRANDT News Editor

BY JENNIFER HEINE Heights Staff WZBC, Boston College’s radio station, will celebrate its 40th anniversary on Apr. 24 with a spring concert at the Middle East Downstairs restaurant and nightclub, featuring musical artists Javelin, Howse, and Saint Pepsi. The event reaffirms the station’s commitment to new and innovative music, and demonstrates its longstanding importance not only at BC but also in the Boston community.

Although it often flies under the radar on campus, WZBC has become a BC fixture, catering not only to BC students but much of Boston. “We were conceived in the 1970s,” said Nicholas Benevenia, the station’s general manager and A&S ’14. “In 1973 we became an FM station. Most of our

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WZBC, whose office is pictured above, will host a 40th anniversary concert on Wednesday. listenership comes from the Boston area, and not from Boston College specifically.”

Although WZBC is staffed entirely with BC undergraduates, it welcomes contributors from the local community, some of whom have been hosting radio shows for much of the station’s history. “What’s interesting is the division of involvement,” said Erika Bjerklie, program director and A&S ’14. “We have both students and community

DJs, some are alumni and some have been around since the inception of the station 40 years ago. The station is student-run, but we couldn’t do it without the community involvement.”

Benevenia attributes much of this dedication, as well as WZBC’s longevity, to its mission. “We’ve always been on the cutting

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This fall, police officers at Boston College will be aided by five full-time civilian dispatchers working in their headquarters.

“BCPD will be adding civilian dispatchers to our communication center at Maloney Hall,” said John King, director of Public Safety and BCPD police chief, in an email. “Presently we have two police officers at dispatch during busy periods. In the future we will have a dispatcher and a police officer when two staff members are needed. This will allow us to deploy the second officer to patrol the campus and respond to calls.”

King said that five people would be hired as civilian dispatchers to join the Dispatch and Communication Division within BCPD. The department cur-

rently consists of a large staff which includes gate attendants, security officers, communications officers, and support staff.

Both internal and external candidates have been interviewed for the open positions. “Several have previous public safety dispatching experience,” King said. “Dispatcher schedules will cover 24 hours a day, seven days per week.”

King anticipates the positions to be officially filled soon after Commencement this year. “Dispatchers will help to provide greater consistency given that they are assigned to dispatch as their primary duty,” he said.

This personnel shift will result in organizational changes when dispatches are received, but will not necessitate any additional construction on or restructuring of BCPD headquarters, apart from routine upgrades of alarm and dispatch technology. 

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Monday, April 22, 2013

Espresso Your Faith

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Location: Stokes Lawn

The Boston College community is welcomed to this open discussion on diversity. Four students will give speeches on their perspectives about GLBTQ issues at BC. A follow-up discussion will be held on Tuesday, Apr. 23, at 7p.m. in Stokes S195.

Today Time: 7:30 p.m.

Location: McGuinn 121

The Americans for Informed Democracy of BC present the Last Lecture Series, featuring CSOM Professor Richard McGowan, S.J. McGowan will be answering the question: “If you had the chance to give the last lecture of your life, what would you say?”

Today to Friday Location: Across campus

Campus Ministry is hosting a series of events for Espresso Your Faith week.

Events include Agape Latte on Tuesday night, at 8:30 p.m. in Hillside Cafe, the Ignatian Examen in the Manresa House on Wednesday, at 9:45 p.m., and Basketball with Jesuits, in the Plex on Thursday at 8 p.m.

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Students share literary talents in BC Reads event B Y G IANNI M ATERA Heights Staff On Thursday, BC Reads hosted a Creative Reading Night, their first event ever, in the main hall of the O’Connell House. The event was an opportunity for members of the Boston College community to come together to share their literary talents.

Among the many poets, storytellers, songwriters, and singers, the presenters included Thomas Kaplan-Maxfield, a professor in the English department, who read an excerpt of his BC-inspired novel entitled, Grail Mysterium (An Adventure on The Heights), and The Acoustics, a student a cappella group.

“This is actually our first event ever—it’s very exciting,” said Christine Degenaars , the B C Reads Director of Campus Outreach and CSOM ’15. “We weren’t really sure how to do it so we’ve been trying a couple of different things. We started by sending out an email to the departments. We wanted to get faculty and students to read their own work or their favorite poem [or other work].”

Degenaars initially envisioned an event that would help bring together all of the literary talent on campus.

“I’m part of a different group on campus called Stylus, which is the BC literary magazine, and they had one of these [types of events] last year and it was a really great

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BC Reads hosts its first Creative Reading Night on Thursday night in the O’Connell House. time,” she said. “I think as a student you don’t realize how talented so many people are. I thought that the one event they had helped me realize that so I thought that we should have more. BC Reads is such a good outlet for that and since it’s a new club I think it’s a really great way to get our name out.”

BC Reads was founded last spring

by Christie Wentworth, A&S ’13, and it has since grown in size to 25 active members and several internal pro-

grams. They are currently working with other academic departments and the library to expand their program offerings.

“The idea started last spring and it started as an organization that would do student book reviews and kind of just get students interested in reading for pleasure,” Wentworth said.

“It was just this idea that I had and I started talking to different professors that I knew and different professors that they knew and from that main

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POLICE BLOTTER Monday, April 15 10:36 a.m. - A report was filed regarding trespassing in Lower Campus.

10:43 a.m. - A report was filed regarding an on campus noise complaint in Stayer Hall.

1:59 p.m. - A report was filed regarding an underage intoxicated BC student on Commonwealth Ave. 5:29 p.m. - A report was filed regarding assistance needed at another police agency.

Tuesday, April 16

10:43 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a BC student and non-BC affiliate needing medical assitance. The student and affiliate were later transported to a medical facility by ambulance.

12:14 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a BC student needing medical assistance on Commonwealth Ave. The student was later transported to a medical facility.

11:29 a.m. - A report was filed regarding an underage intoxicated BC student in Gasson Hall.

12:20 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a suspicious circumstance in Keyes North.

College Corner NEWS FROM UNIVERSITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY

BY DEVON SANFORD Assoc. News Editor The Pitt News, a student newspaper at the University of Pittsburgh, fired its assistant opinions editor for his connection to a secret society on campus known as Druids.

The Pitt News recently wrote a two-part investigative series on the affiliations between members of the student body government and the Druids. The paper reported that six of nine elected student government board members are Druids. None of the students will admit publicly to being a member of the group, according to Huffington Post.

The two-part investigative series also found that Nick Stamatakis, the assistant opinions editor, did not reveal to Pitt News staffers that he was a Druid member, though Pitt News requires its staffers to disclose their group affiliations. Stamatakis had written the editorial board’s

idea it kind of just grew into this huge thing.”

According to Wentworth, unlike a traditional book club which hosts a single book for all members to read during a given period, BC Re ad s encourage s memb ers to submit independent book reviews on work s the y are individually reading. They also hold different events that foster literary talents in the Boston community.

“Our main goal is to get students to read for pleasure in general,” she said. “So anyone that has read a book in the BC community can submit a book review—that includes faculty, students, anyone.

Our staff writers have to write a review every six weeks. We [also] have staff illustrators that illustrate for some of the reviews.”

Promoting literacy in the surr o u n d i n g co m mu n i t y h a s a l s o become a goal of BC Reads.

“Now we’re a registered student organization,” Wentworth said. “So we have a volunteer program where we volunteer at the Saint Columbkille School, we ran a book drive last semester where we raised over $500 for the Patrick Lyndon Pilot School in West Roxbury, Mass., and we’re working with the bookstore to get over $2,000 worth of books for them.”

BC Reads has gathered 35 book reviews so far this year. The reviews are published on BC Reads’ website and they will release a print publication of the reviews at the end of the semester. 

endorsement of one of an alleged Druids member for his succesful bid for student government board president, The Pitt News editor-in -chief, Amy Friedenberger, said in a letter to the editor last week.

In a follow-up note, Friedenberger noted that Stamatakis had written or attempted to advance a story about Druids on at least two other occasions. Stamatakis is no longer a member of The Pitt News due to his violation of the newspaper’s code of ethics.

Stamatakis told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazetter that he had stayed impartial.

“I feel I tried to walk as ethical a line as I could,” he said.

The Druids formed in 1920, according to Huffington Post. The society is intended to recognize the University of Pittsburgh’s “outstanding men.” The group is not officially recognized by the univerity. 

12:27 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a larceny from a non-residence building in Corcoran Commons.

7:17 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a BC student needing medical assistance in an off-campus location. A student was later transported to a medical facility by cruiser.

Wednesday, April 17 12:25 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a fire alarm activation in 90 More Road.

—Source: The Boston College Police Department

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CORRECTIONS The following corrections are in reference to the issue dated April 18, 2013, Vol. XCIV, No. 20.

The column titled “Local television reporters no substitute for journalists” should have been attributed to Marc Francis.

VOICES FROM THE DUSTBOWL “What is one positive thing that has happened to you in the last 48 hours?”

“The beautiful spring weather.”

—Shakib Ahmed, GSAS ’13

“I got an internship.”

—Dan Piening, A&S ’14

“Playing tennis.”

—Alexa Bokman A&S ’16

“Singing ‘Sweet Caroline’ in the Mods.”

—Dan Moren,

A&S ’16

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Monday, April 22, 2013

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Boston Strong

Grad students chosen for ethics fellowship

By Bernadette Deron For The Heights

Taylour Kumpf On Friday, Boston became a ghost town. Eerie images depicted a city on lockdown while law enforcement officials conducted the search for the second suspect in the bombing of the 117th Boston Marathon. The people of Boston waited somberly for hours, eyes glued to local news stations and Twitter feeds, hoping and praying for progress in the manhunt.

The day was tense and emotions ran high.

In the moments after the world heard the news that “We got him,” Bostonians breathed a collective sigh of relief. The city came to life once again, and crowds celebrated and applauded the brave men and women who participated in the search effort.

At Boston College, the chant that rose in the Mods after the capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was the same one heard across campus after the killing of Osama bin Laden.

“USA! USA! USA!” In both instances, students were simultaneously announcing that they would not be intimidated and celebrating the brave souls who had placed themselves at risk to deliver justice—the Navy SEALs in the case of Bin Laden and the police officers and federal agents in the case of Dzhokhar and his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

While I was as relieved as the rest of us that the suspect was in custody and that people were safe, I have to admit the scene in the Mods was a bit shocking to my system. Before my roommates and I really had time to process the day’s events, music started blasting from the walls next door and students began yelling outside our window. A proud moment for the city of Boston unfortunately became an excuse for some students to take a couple extra shots that night.

Without a doubt, Friday night was a time to rejoice and give thanks. Celebrating the bravery of Boston’s finest was absolutely appropriate. However, celebration does not always have to be taken to the extreme and used as a reason to party. I understand, we’re college students and this is a college campus, but I would have liked to have seen a celebration more reflective of the gravity of the week’s events and more respectful to those who were injured or lost their lives.

The past week proved Boston’s strength and ability to bounce back from hardship. Many men and women truly deserve to be celebrated.

Few have ever been more deserving of cheers than the Boston area police officers who early Thursday morning chased the Tsarnaev brothers through the streets of Boston amid gunfire and exploding grenades. These cops included MBTA Transit Police Officer Richard Donohue and his academy classmate MIT Police Officer Sean Collier.

Those officers, SWAT team members, and FBI agents who then picked up where the trail left off and conducted the daylong search similarly deserve our praise.

Closer to home, to the super men and women at BC—members of the BCPD, Eagle EMS, the Residential Life staff, BC Dining, and everyone else who helped make Friday a little more bearable—all of us at BC are forever grateful.

As we celebrate these heroes, it is important that we do so with great respect. In our time of rejoicing, let us not forget the families of Martin Richard, Lingzi Lu, Krystle Campbell, and Collier. As always, the city of Boston will move forward—it already has—but we will carry the events of the past week with us into the future. It is events like these that shape our city and make it Boston Strong.

Taylour Kumpf is a senior staff columnist for The Heights. She can be reached at news@bcheights.com.

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BC Dining Services educated students about their conservation efforts at their table at the Sustainability Fair.

Sustainability fair showcases conservation work on campus

By Terry Gelsi For The Heights

On Thursday, Apr. 11, the Boston College Office of Sustainability sponsored an annual Sustainability Fair that was held on the second floor of Corcoran Commons. The event boasted a number of tables featuring BC facilities departments as well as outside businesses sharing their efforts to help make BC a more sustainable campus. With the help of many eco-friendly companies, BC’s various facilities departments are making a concerted effort to reduce waste and promote recycling and other methods of reducing our carbon footprint.

Among the BC facilities departments represented at the fair was BC Dining Services. Representatives from BC Dining shared information with students about their partner, Sysco Corporation, which provides BC with food products, and their efforts to be sustainable. Within the last decade, Sysco has expanded its efforts to include the Integrated Pest Management Program, which helps eliminate the use of fertilizers on food products, and energy savings programs, which have generated energy savings around 35 percent since 2006.

Through these and countless other initiatives, Sysco focuses on three main areas of sustainability: food, operations, and community. They work to ensure that their food products are coming from safe, sustainable sources and work directly with growers, ranchers, and processors to guarantee the reliability and high quality of their products. With regard to operations, Sysco purchases and delivers ingredients and other items throughout the

U.S., Canada, and Ireland and strives to carry out these orders in the most efficient manner. They also aim to improve energy use in the realm of product transportation.

BC Dining also purchases food products such as bananas from the Rainforest Alliance initiative, which works to conserve biodiversity and ensure sustainable living by altering land-use and business practices as well as consumer behaviors. Coffee, which is an absolute staple in the lives of BC students, is certified Fair Trade coffee, in keeping with the mission of increasing sustainability at BC. The BC Bookstore is also taking steps to ensure sustainability within the academic world at BC. BC’s bookstore partners with eFollett to run a store that attempts to reduce its environmental impact in every aspect, from the recycled carpet in bookstores to the Under Armor apparel made from recycled products.

The Bookstore also champions recycling initiatives, including textbook buyback and digital textbooks. At the end of each semester, BC students can sell their textbooks back to the bookstore, reducing the need to excessively reprint copies of textbooks and paperbacks for future use. The creation of digital texts entirely eliminates the need for printed textbooks and the waste of resources that accompany them, and also provide students with the texts they need conveniently located on a computer or tablet.

Finally, the Office of Residential Life at BC is partnering with the Office of Sustainability to promote sustainability education to students, as well as to promote more environmentally friendly practices. Within the

Residence Hall Association program, there are now “Eco-Rep” positions for students to promote environmental awareness within their living communities and encourage sustainable actions among their peers. BC Res Life will also be implementing a sophomore sustainable living and learning community in Edmonds next year, in an effort to help students become more conscious of our role in preserving our environment not only for ourselves, but also for future generations. Res Life also works with the Office of Sustainability to create a dialogue about sustainability that is fun for students, with initiatives such as the NRG Games, which are a contest between residence halls to reduce energy consumption, and Recyclemania, a recycling competition between universities across the U.S. In addition to sponsoring the Sustainability Fair, the Office of Sustainability partners with BC Residential Life, BC Dining, and other departments around campus to lessen the environmental impact of BC students and staff. “BC is committed to preserving and protecting our environment through a variety of sustainable practices and initiatives,” said AJ Hernandez, communication and outreach intern for the Office of Sustainability and A&S ’15. “In order to really be men and women for others, BC has a responsibility to ensure the right to a healthy and clean environment.” With the help of both local and big business, BC and its many departments are working to alter the behaviors of this generation to guarantee that future generations can live in the same world that exists today. n

Start-up offers online mentoring

By Brigid Wright Heights Staff On Tuesday, Apr. 23, Modern Guild will be hosting an event to inform students about their start-up company and its benefits. Modern Guild, founded in 2012, is an online mentorship program that offers a oneon-one experience with a career coach to help students prepare for the business world. The program offers three different courses, Immersion, Acceleration, and Exploration, which are all geared toward a student’s interests and how to find and pursue potential careers. All courses are taught by trained and experienced career coaches and business professionals.

The online course provides a unique curriculum customized to students interests and career paths.

Students must submit an application to their preferred program and be accepted. Once accepted, the course then has students meet with their mentor in a one-hour video conference four to five times throughout the eight-week program, as well as three opportunities for question and answer sessions with professionals in fields that are of interest to the student. The intention of the courses is to prepare students for the best possible career path, and improve their knowledge of networking and interview skills, as well as uncover their passions and interests.

Modern Guild is available to Boston College students, as well as students at universities like University of Michigan and Columbia University.

Mentors and industry professionals come from employers that range from Walt Disney and Nike, to Goldman Sachs and Chanel.

Adrien Fraise, founder of Modern Guild, explained why he became so interested in creating a program like this.

“While I might not have realized it at the time, I think the inspiration started when I was a student at Stan-

ford University trying to figure out what career to pursue after college,” Fraise said. “Despite the amazing resources provided at my college, I still felt lost. I lacked access to a consistent, well-trained mentor to turn to and found it difficult to piece together all the different resources and information to solve the career puzzle.”

Fraise said that throughout his career in consulting, he found that many students had the same problems he did when choosing a professional path. He said that the only solution he could think of was creating a way to empower students and give them the information they need to be professionals.

“Modern Guild is helping bridge a chasm in the U.S. generalist education system: the lack of a meaningful connection between academics and career education. This is impacting students, who are graduating less prepared for life after college,” Fraise said.

Fraise also explained the application process, and how competitive the program has become.

“I think Modern Guild would be very helpful to all motivated students, regardless of their career aspirations or knowledge. It is not just a program for those students who know what career to pursue and that’s why we offer three different levels of career prep courses that mirror the major steps students typically go through in their early career journey,” Fraise said. “What we require is that the student is willing to learn and be committed to the course.

That’s why we have our application based. Only the most motivated are accepted.”

Mat Kaliski, CSOM ’13, participated in the Beta test of Modern Guild last summer. Taking the Financial Acceleration course, Kaliski viewed the program as something that would help him develop a better understanding of business, and said the program was incredibly effective.

“The program was structured in a

way so that each of the exercises build on top of each other in preparation for the meetings with the industry insiders … or with my mentor,” Kaliski said. “They were challenging and really forced me to think about what I want to do and how I should go about it in addition to furthering my finance knowledge and skills. Overall, the program helped me to figure out what I wanted to do, helped to build my skills and confidence, and helped me to land my job.”

Kaliski mentioned that the mentoring aspect of the program was especially important and influential.

He commented that his mentor, Scott Polley, helped him determine a career path and establish a plan of how to approach it.

“Once we know what [my career path was], he provided me with advice that helped me to better prepare for interviews, how to effectively network with alumni, shared his experiences, and overall helped to increase my confidence during the recruiting process,” Kaliski said. “Scott was like a personal career coach for me and we still stay in touch.”

The Modern Guild website offers full information about each of the programs, and provides a map of the eight-week course and what will be studied and covered during the time.

It also includes a quiz to determine which program would be the best fit for a student depending on their career interests and past experience in the professional world. Customized to each student and their level of knowledge and work experience, Modern Guild assigns mentors to ensure that students gather as much information as possible in order to prepare them for interviews and a career they are passionate about.

Fraise and other members of the Modern Guild team will be in Cushing 333 at 6 p.m. on Tuesday night to discuss their programs with interested students. n

Two current Boston College students, Kristin Haas, STM ’14, and Jessica Frattaroli, BC Law ’14, have been chosen to participate in Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE) this summer. FASPE is a two-week program held in New York City, Poland, and Germany, and will take place this coming May. According to their website, “FASPE is a set of innovative programs for students in professional schools designed to address contemporary ethical issues through a unique historical context. The Fellowships provide journalism, law, medical, and seminary students a structured program of study that initially focuses on the role of their chosen professions in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust and uses that historic focus as a framework for the consideration of contemporary ethical issues.”

The program is split up into four areas of post-graduate study, where 14 to 15 students are selected within each area to participate in this all expenses paid program. The medical and seminary students will travel together as one large group, as well as journalism and law students, and have separate intensive courses throughout the two-week period.

The goal of FASPE is to prepare fellows to address various modern ethical issues facing their professions, by educating students about the causes of the Holocaust and promoting their awareness of related contemporary issues.

Frattaroli will study with Eric Muller, Dan K. Moore Distinguished Professor in Jurisprudence and Ethics at the University of North Carolina School of Law, and Lisa Lerman, professor of Law and coordinator of Clinical Programs at The Catholic University of America. According to a press release from FASPE, “Ms. Frattaroli, now in her second year of law school, highly values the prospect of studying at ‘the very places where legal ethics have broken down in the most extreme and devastating way imaginable.’ She is particularly inter-

ested in learning more about the way that ethical questions will impact her career as a criminal prosecutor.”

Haas, who has never traveled to Europe, expects that FASPE will provide guidance for her career as a religious leader. She has a personal connection to this program, as her father was born in Germany during the time of the Holocaust. “What brings me to FASPE is the desire to be a better witness and leader by being formed, with other religious leaders, by the historical truth of what our analogs did in Germany and Poland,” Haas said in a similar press release from FASPE. All fellows will begin orientation at the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York City. They will then travel to the town of Oswiecim, Poland, the town the Germans called Auschwitz, where they will tour Auschwitz-Birkenau. Fellows will also work with the educational staff at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.

Then they will travel to Krakow, the former capital of Poland, to explore the city’s rich Polish, Catholic, and Jewish history. The final leg of the two-week program will take place in Berlin, where fellows will explore the city’s culture and history. According to the FASPE webpage, “students will explore such topics as The Rule of Law vs. Lawlessness; The Role and Limits of Bioethics; The Goals of Morality in the Face of Evil; The Responsibility to Report; and Ethical Limitations on Profit-Seeking.”

“It’s a wonderful and challenging task that I understand myself having, as a Christian, to envision a world where there is as full of hope and love as possible. There is no limit to how wonderful the life of a community can be, and so to try and participate toward working toward that mission, something I can only do with God’s help,” Haas said. She is enthusiastic about participating in the program this summer, and hopes to fully delve into and explore the environment that she will enter during the two-week period.

Frattaroli will begin the program on May 26 in New York City, while Haas will begin on June 16. n

Petition circulates at BC for cage-free eggs

By Devon Sanford Assoc. News Editor

A new petition has hit the Facebook newsfeeds of Boston College students. “BC Cage Free Eggs” is an appeal for cage-free eggs in all BC dining halls and facilities. The petition was created

by Elizabeth Tov, GA&S ’16, and Kathryn Kavner, CSOM ’14, and was released on Facebook two weeks ago.

B C Dining currently uses cage-free eggs only for their shelled eggs—those made to order in the breakfast bar. Battery cage-farmed eggs are used for all liquid eggs—those used for omelets and in bakery goods. These liquid eggs make up a majority of the eggs used in BC Dining.

BC is the only university in the Boston area that still uses battery cage-farmed eggs, and the “BC Cage Free Eggs” petition hopes to change that.

“There are a lot of risks to human health with battery-caged eggs,” Tov said. “So if you eat an egg from a battery-caged chicken you have twice the odds of contracting salmonella than if you were to eat a cage-free egg. They are also a huge problem for the environment. Eighteen percent of greenhouse gas emissions come from intensive farming, and [battery caged chickens] are one kind of intensive farming … I wanted to see if BC would switch from sourcing all of its eggs to cage-free.”

As president of Real Food, a student organization that advocates for local, sustainable food in BC dining halls, Kavner was approached by Tov in early April. The two formed the official petition for cage-free eggs and released it to the Real Food, EcoPledge, and Sustain BC listservs in the hopes that the groups would support the cause. Kavner and

Tov then created the Facebook page, which has received over 300 likes in support of the petition.

The team petitioned in Corcoran Commons’ Sustainability Fair last Thursday and plans on petitioning in Newton’s Sustainability Fair today. Real Food members and representatives from Humane League, an animal advocacy organization, will hold a paper petition in the Outdoors Club and Sustainability Fair held on Stokes Lawn, Apr. 29.

Kavner and Tov are unsure when, if ever, the changes will be put into place in the dining halls.

“I met with Helen Wechsler, the director of Dining Services,” Tov said. “It was a really great meeting and she expressed interest in exploring the possibility …

Her purchasing director is planning to look into it.”

Wechsler was contacted, but was unavailable for contact. “ We are hopeful that the change can take place by the end of the summer, but we don’t know if Dining will be able to do that,” Kavner said. “If that can’t be done, we will continue to work on it over the summer and pick it up again in the fall.

Tov added that the more students demonstrate support by the end of the year, the greater the likelihood that the petition will be accepted. Dining would then be able to turn to known venders in the Boston area that are used by other colleges.

“Students don’t really have to give up a whole lot to do something that will have a societal change,” Kavner said. “We have a lot of power as students to raise our voices and as a community we are using a lot of eggs. It makes a big difference. So I think it’s important for students to think about the impact we can have on such a big issue.” n

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Admins, faculty, students reevaluate A&S Honors Honors Program, from A1 The most recent core renewal proposal is “Honors neutral”—a term that essentially means that if the core is revised in line with that specific proposal, the Honors Program need not change at all. “[‘Neutral’] means that a new director could come in and maintain the entire structure of the current core without any changes and comply with what we’re proposing for core renewal,” Quigley said. “Or, a new director could come in and argue for some minor to even more substantial changes, and it would still fit in under the core renewal vision.”

Although there have been some rumors about talk of abolishing the Honors Program altogether, Quigley said he would be very surprised if there was no honors program in five years.

He pointed to aspects such as the Great Books curriculum and the small, seminar style classes that make the program so valuable to the University, and several faculty members agree with him.

“I think it’s of the essence of the Jesuit ideal of a liberal arts education and cura personalis—a concern with educating the whole person and not just conveying knowledge—and I think that’s best done in small classes and intense discussions and close interaction between students and faculty,” said Mary Joe Hughes, a professor in the Honors Program.

Hughes has been teaching in the program for 35 years, and was hired by English professor Al Folkard, who served as the second director of the program from 1964 to 1981. Hughes said that to Folkard, the student-teacher relationships that resulted from the honors classes were at the heart of the program. The commitment to those relationships and the “college within a college” model that fosters them has been an aspect of honors that has remained constant during her time with the program, according to Hughes, though in her mind it is the curriculum that is truly at the heart of honors.

“I think that the curriculum of the honors program that really starts with a common conversation in the freshman year and then continues that conversation for the next three years is invaluable because students mature and yet they can see connections that they’ve learned about before,” Hughes said. “They can see connections between the curriculum and their other courses, and so the conversation deepens and deepens over the four years, returning again and again to the same issues. And that’s something I don’t think exists in the same way in other programs.”

O’Connor shares this sentiment, putting particular emphasis on the “intellectual

return” of the program and the effect that such a curriculum has on the individual.

“You’re very different as a senior than you were as a freshman, and how you respond to the same questions really matters,” he said. “Wisdom comes when you go back over what you’ve done and ask, ‘Why? How did I get good at this? Why does that matter? How has it changed me?’”

He believes that the true value of the course’s structure and curriculum is implicit within a characteristic that some people actually believe to be one of the flaws of the program—that teachers whose degrees are in a specific discipline are teaching a course that spans several disciplines.

“I’m an intellectual historian,” he said.

“People in each of the major disciplinary departments here have every right to scream when I come in and teach Freud or Dostoevsky or Kant. I’m poaching on philosophy, impeaching on all these different departments … I think part of what makes the Honors Program strong is to engage and tussle with ideas themselves.

We think that every educated individual, no matter what their discipline, ought to be able to converse at a sophisticated level with texts that should not be appropriated or considered to be the exclusive property of a discipline.”

O’Connor succeeded Rev. Joseph Appleyard, S.J. as director of the Honors Program in 1997. Under Appleyard, the program added the third year course entitled “20th Century and The Tradition” that Hughes and O’Connor find so key in the process of intellectual return. Appleyard’s directorship also saw a significant increase in the number of students admitted to the program, in part due to the encouragement of Rev. William Neenan, S.J., then the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and a shift toward the hiring of more adjunct faculty for the program.

“When I first took over direction of the program, most of the faculty were fulltime faculty from the departments on loan, and particularly from the departments for which core credit is given to the Honors Program—so theology, English, philosophy,” Appleyard said. “But over the years those full-time faculty became fewer and fewer because of the needs of the departments, and what happened correspondingly was more and more adjunct faculty were hired to take their places, and I think that’s probably one of the facts about the honors program right now that’s leading people to kind of review it and assess it.”

While the Honors Program consists almost entirely of adjunct faculty at this point, it seems that the growing size of the program is of more concern when people think about the future of the program.

“It has over the last 20 years almost

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Students read in the new Honors Library, located on the second floor of Stokes Hall. doubled in size with each entering cohort,” Quigley said. “I would think that a slightly smaller or even substantially smaller program could create an even more vibrant sense of intellectual community within A&S Honors.”

Hughes, though she wishes that as many students as possible could be exposed to the Honors curriculum, admits that as the size of the program grows, the “college within a college” feel diminishes.

Even more than the size, however, the most significant change for the program since its inception has actually been the university that encompasses it.

“One of the questions in my mind, as I move on to another director, is that the Honors Program as conceived in the ’50s, ’60s, and even into the ’70s and ’80s was designing a curriculum that only a small minority of BC students could really meaningfully engage,” Quigley said. “There was a great gap between the most talented admitted students and the rest of the student body. I’m not sure, in 2013, that we have that considerable a gap.”

Appleyard remarked that during the whole time he was associated with the Honors Program, there was always talk about dropping the distinction of “honors” because he and many of his colleagues viewed, just as Hughes and O’Connor do, the curriculum to be the core of the program.

“Would I regret losing the ‘honors’ designation?” Appleyard said. “Personally, no. I believe the curriculum is much more interesting than that designation.”

Some believe that despite the growing level of ability on the part of the entire BC student body, admittance to the Honors Program still serves as a recruiting device for some bright students. Hughes remarked that students have shared with her as recently as three weeks ago that acceptance to the program played a role in their decision to attend BC. She acknowledged, however,

that not all students may be well-suited to the structure of the program.

Founders Professor in Theology and Director of the Presidential Scholars Program Rev. James Keenan, S.J. agreed. This year, he has for the first time since the creation of the scholarship program allowed Presidential Scholars to opt out of the Honors Program if they felt it was inhibiting their ability to take full advantage of BC or the opportunities their specific departments offered. He remarked that he believed the first year or two of Honors to be immensely valuable, but that the “college within a college” model can eventually prove limiting to students hoping to take full advantage of what is, in fact, a university.

“I want [the Presidential Scholars] to take advantage of the resources in several departments, and, as a matter of fact, in several schools,” he said.

He added that he has been pleased to see more and more departments develop their own honors tracks, and he hopes that Presidential scholars will be able to take advantage of these as they move through their four years at BC. “I think as time goes on, [students] eventually have to settle on something more focused, and something that uses the method of that field,” he said. “You can’t keep doing integrated fields, eventually you have to ask a sociologic question, or a philosophic question, or a theological question. You have to ask a question that’s methodologically distinct.”

Despite his decision to let Presidential scholars opt out, however, Keenan, like Quigley, Hughes, O’Connor, and Appleyard, believes the Honors Program to have real value, and hopes that when the time comes, the new director will be able to build off the discussion that has been occurring for the past year and take the program into the future in a way that is harmonious with both the BC of today and the needs of its students. n

inform the members of their groups about the event and forwarding along the application for those interested in speaking. He then formed a committee of eight student leaders to read and evaluate the applications, which included a rough draft of what the speaker would hope to say if chosen, and eventually decide on the final list of speakers. “ We ver y much wanted to keep the same criteria that we used for the speeches on race, so we looked at personal experience, what the primary issue is at BC, and potential solutions,” Sullivan said. “So first we analyzed the speeches on those criteria, then we thought of the most diverse array of speeches that we could get.”

Although the first BC Ignites featured three student speakers as well as a keynote speaker, for this event, Sullivan and the committee chose to have four students and no keynote so that they could better represent the wide variety of experiences with GLBTQ issues that occur on campus. The students chosen were Scott Chamberlain, A&S ’15, Benjamin Martin, A&S ’13, David Riemer, A&S ’14, and Erin Sutton, A&S ’16.

Similarly to the debut BC Ignites, tonight’s event will feature performances interspersed with the speeches and will be followed up by a reflection on the event open to any interested students the next day. Both the Dance Organization of Boston College (DOBC) and the a cappella group the Bostonians will participate in the event, and on Tuesday, Apr. 23 at 7 p.m. in Stokes S195, Joshua Tingley, president of the GLBTQ Leadership Council and A&S ’13, will moderate a meeting in which students will continue the conversation about GLBTQ issues that was begun the night before.

In planning the event, Sullivan took great care to meet with as many people as possible to ensure that he was presenting the topic in the best possible light.

“My goal in this forum, just as in the last one, was to not have it be onesided,” he said. “I’ve always been very interested in this issue on campus because I’m fascinated that BC promises to fulfill all of its students’ needs, but on the other hand they have promised to also fulfill its Catholic mission, so I’ve always been interested in how this issue is seen on campus, and I think it deserves a discussion.” n

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WZBC, located in the basement of McElroy, is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.

BC’s alt radio to host concert WZBC, from A1 edge of music, and we’re still dedicated to that today,” he said.

The station focuses on music that listeners are unlikely to hear anywhere else. “For instance, about seven years ago, we played Arcade Fire a lot. Then they became popular, and we didn’t need to play them anymore,” Benevenia said. “Bands will graduate from ZBC, and we stop playing them. We will still love them, and still talk about them and go to their concerts, but they don’t need us.”

This focus separates WZBC from more mainstream commercial radio stations. “We can’t compete with that,” he said. “They’re commercial stations; they have the market cornered. We’re going to play music that you’re not going to hear elsewhere. That’s our niche.

“It’s not about being pretentious or hipster, it’s not about being different,” Benevinia added.

“It’s about promoting music that we feel needs to be promoted.”

In doing so, WZBC attracts a following interested in this distinctive sound. “College radio in Boston is huge, and we are a big part of that community,” Benevinia said. “Boston has that kind of underground community that wants to hear something a little different, a little offbeat, during the day.”

Although the station has dabbled in a variety of genres, it remains separate from these categorizations. “We have had folk shows in

the past, we’ve had punk shows, but the typical sound is a little different,” Benevinia said.

“We’ve always been a very upbeat, vibrant station.” In the commemoration of its anniversary, WZBC seeks to celebrate that musical variety not only in its show this week, but also in a concert slated for the upcoming semester.

“We wanted to stretch out our birthday as long as possible,” Bjerklie said. “We’re doing a big concert this semester, and one next semester, and we’re going with two different vibes for our spring concert and our fall concert.”

WZBC promotes not only its own events, but those of up-and-coming artists in its programming, a demonstration of its devotion to new music. “Bands will come to us and ask if we could help them with a concert, and help promote it, and if we like their music and think they deserve to be promoted, we will help them,” Benevinia said. “We do a lot of things on air, we promote shows, we give out concert tickets. We are absolutely a legitimate radio station, which is unlike a lot of college radio stations. We’re a dying breed, but we’re going to be here for a long time.”

Both Benevinia and Bjerklie encourage even those unfamiliar with WZBC to give it a try. “If you listen to ZBC, you’re going to hear something that you’ve never heard before, and something that you’re probably going to like,” Benevenia said. Speaking of the station’s upcoming events, he added, “It’s going to be a lot of fun.” n

The BCPD sent out an emergency text to the BC community at 6:28 a.m. Friday morning. “Due to public safety concerns, BC is closed and classes are cancelled until further notice,” the text read. “Remain indoors.”

The search Friday morning was centered around the area of Watertown, which is approximately four miles from the BC campus.

The suspect pursued by police was identified as 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. According to The Boston Globe, Tsarnaev lived in both Kyrgyzstan and Chechnya, and is a student at UMass Dartmouth. His brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, also a suspect in the bombings, died early Friday morning after he was run over by his brother in an attempt to escape after a confrontation with police.

The Office of News and Public Affairs released an online update slightly after 8 a.m.

“BC Police are monitoring the BC campus which, they say, is safe,” the release read.

“However, they reiterate the State request that all residents stay indoors until further notice. Therefore, all services are currently suspended. Students should remain inside their dorm rooms and apartments until alerted otherwise.”

Multiple BC departments and offices coordinated the response to the lockdown.

Administrators from Student Affairs, Emergency Management, News and Public Affairs, BCPD, the Office of Residential Life, the athletics department, BC Dining Services, Facilities Management, Health Services, and the President’s Office all worked to ensure student safety, according to University Spokesman Jack Dunn. “The team has established protocols in place and meets regularly to review emergency scenarios to ensure readiness in the event of an emergency,” Dunn said in an email.

Shortly before 1 p.m., Executive Vice President Patrick J. Keating sent an email to the student body regarding dining services.

Beginning at 1 p.m., he said, staff members from the Office of Residential Life would bring on-campus students to dining halls on a floor-by-floor basis so that they could carry food back to their dormitories. Keat-

ing asked students to only take what they needed for lunch so as to avoid delays, and reiterated that there was no immediate threat to the campus. He sent out a follow-up email shortly after 5 p.m., informing students that the same procedure would be followed for the distribution of dinner.

Athletic director Brad Bates decided to cancel Saturday’s Jay McGillis Spring Football game on Friday afternoon around 2:30. “Our first priority is ensuring the safety of our student-athletes, coaches and spectators,” Bates said in an email from the athletics department. “Our local law enforcement community has done a phenomenal job this past week, and we do not want our events to serve as a distraction. Furthermore, now is a time for reflection to honor those who have been tragically killed and injured this past week and to allow our community to heal.”

Parents were also kept appraised of the situation on campus through emails from Keating, and were encouraged to keep in contact with their children. Off-campus students received information via an email from Dean of Students Paul Chebator, and meals were delivered to students in Greycliff Hall, as they did not have convenient access to any dining halls.

After the stay in place order for Boston was lifted, BCPD sent out an alert Friday evening around 6:30 p.m. announcing that the lockdown was over. “BC community members are asked to remain vigilant,” the alert read. The end of the lockdown did not mean that the BC community went back to normal operations immediately, however.

“BC Police officers and staff from Facilities Management, Dining Services, and Health Services stayed on after their overnight shifts had ended in light of the fact that the shelter in place order and the closing of the MBTA meant that their replacement workers were not likely to make it in to work,” Dunn said. “Many of those who did make it in also worked overnight on Friday until the campus returned to a normal schedule on Saturday.”

Tsarnaev was taken into custody by police shortly before 8:45 p.m. on Friday, after being found in a boat in Watertown. According to The Boston Globe, he was conscious and had been taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for treatment. As soon as the news broke, students rushed out of their dorms, waving American flags and chanting “USA, USA.” BCPD officers patrolled the Mods throughout the night. n

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Students celebrated across campus after the capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was announced.

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BC handles lockdown with efficiency and composure From BC Dining to Res Life to the students, the community responded well to Friday’s events On Friday morning, the city of Boston and surrounding towns shut down in an effort to find the second suspect involved in the Boston Marathon bombings, putting Boston College in the unique position of having more than 6,000 undergraduates trapped in their residence halls. Throughout the ordeal, the University’s administration, staff, and students did an outstanding job of dealing with the lockdown. Despite the stressful situation, the entire campus worked together to cooperate with the request to shut down for the day, making the unfortunate circumstance as efficient and manageable as possible.

In an improvement from Monday, the administration communicated very effectively with students, sending a text message alert at 6:28 a.m. to inform them of the lockdown. More information was provided continually throughout the day, further updating students on the lockdown and on where and how to get food.

Administrators, Resident Directors, and Resident Assistants maintained steady and clear communication throughout the day, giving students a sense of security and preventing confusion during a particularly stressful day.

As soon as the events in Cambridge and Watertown began unfolding late on Thusday night, BCPD worked quickly to ensure the safety of students on campus.

Many officers worked long shifts and went above and beyond the call of duty, transporting BC Dining Services employees to campus and students who were displaced back to their dorms during the lockdown.

Although there was never a direct threat to the University, BCPD officers did everything they could to keep it that way, and were prepared to act should the situation change, keeping the campus secure and locked down all day.

Students were able to get lunch and dinner in an efficient and safe manner, in spite of the lockdown. Walsh residents were allowed access to the Players’ Club dining hall, residents in dorms on College Road and Upper Campus were brought to

McElroy in waves, and Greycliff residents had food delivered to them by staff from the Office of Residential Life. RAs and RDs were instrumental in ensuring that students across campus had access to food and, after assessing how lunch went, were able to adapt and improve the procedure for dinner. The combined efforts of the Office of Residential Life and Dining Services were on impressive display Friday, and their dedication to ensuring that students were both safe and comfortable should be applauded.

Although Saturday’s spring football game is an important and costly event for the athletics department, especially in terms of recruiting, the department made the right decision to postpone the game. Doing so showed both respect for the stress and seriousness of this week’s events and a genuine concern for the safety of players and students.

Whether or not students believed the lockdown was necessary, they did an excellent job of cooperating with BC and dealing with the situation. Perhaps most importantly, the student body responded appropriately after the second bombing suspect was finally apprehended. Rather than descending on campus in huge, rowdy groups like when Osama bin Laden was killed in May of 2011, which would have been difficult for an already exhausted BCPD force to control, students, for the most part, joined together in more modest, reasonable celebrations. This, in addition to the applause and expressions of appreciation that students gave to the police officers they saw in the Mods and other areas on campus, also showed gratitude for the people who had spent all night and day ensuring their safety.

A true community is based on cooperation and respect, and this University, from its administrators down to its students, actively exemplified both of these qualities during a long and emotionally charged day on Friday. It is important that we remember to continue to demonstrate them as we move forward.

Core renewal gives BC the chance to improve Honors

While the curriculum and structure are valuable, the program does not necessarily suit all who qualify While changes to the University core reportedly will have no bearing on the structure of the Arts and Sciences Honors Program, the renewal process is nonetheless an optimal time to reconsider the way Honors is run. The program as it now stands is excellent in many respects.

Its curriculum combines a unique way to fulfill several core requirements with the benefit of small seminar classes and the opportunity to form close relationships with professors and peers.

There are problems with the program’s designation, however. First, the title “A&S Honors Program” is misleading, as the central “Western Cultural Tradition” and “20th Century and the Tradition” classes deal exclusively with humanities, and mostly focus on classics and literature.

A&S deals with disciplines of a much wider range, making the program unfair to those A&S students whose strengths lie more in the realms of the sciences or fine arts. While these students’ academic ability might qualify them to be a part of the program, they may not derive as much benefit from the seminars as do students who are more interested in the humanities. As a result of the program’s name, however, many students feel obligated to remain in the program so that they will graduate with honors, even if they do not enjoy the classes, not wanting to sacrifice the prestige of the program for the open class space leaving it can provide.

To that end, changing the designation to “Humanities Honors Program” might be both more accurate and more beneficial to the program as a whole, attracting students directly interested in the subject matter covered by the classes. Many departments within A&S already offer “departmental honors” programs or titles to those students who excel in specific areas, and qualified students might find such specialized honors a better fit than the current

A&S Honors Program. If the designation of the A&S Honors Program is to change, departments without honors programs or classes should add such resources so as to better support their strongest students and provide a similar incentive to those students not necessarily suited for the humanities.

Regardless of any changes to the current Honors Program, its exclusivity should be maintained. Limiting admissions to the top percentage of admitted students is necessary to preserve small class sizes—however, the University should be more up front when outlining the core requirements that it will fulfill.

Many students who enter the Honors Program have already met several core requirements through AP credits, so those who sign up for the course series should be sure that the program is the right choice for them in terms of both core fulfillment and subject matter. If students are fully aware of what they are signing themselves up for, Honors seminars will self-select, which will likely result in more fruitful discussions.

The Honors Program has many strengths—it offers close relationships with professors early in the freshman year, when those relationships are particularly difficult to find. It also offers small classes and engages students with the humanities in an interesting and meaningful way that often isn’t encountered until college, and sometimes not even then. But to say that this glove fits the hand of every student worthy of the designation “honors student” is unfair. To avoid implying that qualified students whose strengths and interests do not lie in the humanities are not honors students, more emphasis should be placed on departmental honors programs, with the current honors program an optional way for the top percentage of accepted students to fulfill their core courses and learn the classics.

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Letters to the Editor A letter from University President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J. Dear Members of the BC Community: The days since Marathon Monday have been extraordinary, and I write to thank the Boston College community for its generosity, cooperation, and example as we and Greater Boston dealt with such unusual circumstances. BC students reached out to stranded runners with cell phones and words of comfort on Monday, came together in prayer (especially at the Mass on Tuesday at St. Ignatius), and responded to the uncertainty of Friday with patience and understanding.

BC police officers, dining services personnel, student affairs staff, facilities management workers, emergency management team members, and academic administra-

tors willingly expended extra time and energy helping our University function smoothly during challenging times.

I ask all members of our community to keep praying for the four whose lives were lost in the aftermath of the bombings as well as for those wounded and their families, particularly for the two BC grad students and our alumnus of 2005 and his wife.

Let us continue to care for one another with faith and hope.

Gratefully, William P. Leahy, S.J. University President

Dean of Students thanks BC student body In light of the tragic happenings of the past week, I felt compelled to offer my heartfelt thanks to the student body of Boston College for their response to the events of this past week. The cooperation, mutual support, care, and patience exhibited by all of our students were exemplary. It was a true manifestation of what it means to be a BC student.

In addition, I also would like to thank a number of campus organizations that truly stepped up in response to these events. I would specifically like to single out the student volunteers of Eagle EMS, as well as the management and staffs of the Boston College Police Department, the Office of Residence Life, and Dining Services. The mem-

bers of these organizations worked tirelessly, sometimes around the clock, to ensure the safety and well-being of our campus community.

As President Barack Obama said this weekend, “On that toughest mile, just when we think that we’ve hit a wall, someone will be there to cheer us on and pick us up if we fall.” As we move forward from last week’s events, we need to remember that what makes us strong, both as a community and as individuals, is the care, support, and love that we give to one another.

Peace, Paul J. Chebator, Ph.D. Dean of Students

An open reflection on the Boston Marathon attacks On Apr. 15, 2013 two terrorists planted and detonated two bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon—killing three and injuring hundreds. During the subsequent manhunt, the perpetrators killed an MIT police officer and sprung fear and panic throughout the city. Yesterday, justice prevailed when one of the assailants was killed and the other was captured.

Over the past couple of days, the nation (and in turn, myself ) has experienced a rollercoaster of emotions watching the news unfold about the attacks. Though I am hundreds of miles away, the attack felt personalized. I had in past years been fortunate to experience Patriots’ Day/Marathon Monday firsthand, both as a runner and lining the streets.

The attacks on the marathon were a tragic event on a day that is supposed to be filled with carefree happiness. Instead it became a day of mourning and despair.

Though we don’t know the true motive behind the attacks, we do know that all terrorists aim to frighten and incapacitate. However, as I reflected on the past couple of days, I argue that the terrorists did not accomplish their goals and instead strengthened the bonds within our community—both locally and nationally. This tragic event showed that as a nation we are strongest when we work together, toward a common goal in securing justice, with a shared sense of sacrifice. This is evident by the incredible outpouring of support for the victims and by every person trying to contribute. Marathon runners who just finished running a marathon ran another five miles to the hospital to donate blood. Students in campuses around the country started fundraisers to raise money for the injured and vowed to finish the last five miles wherever they were located. Local restaurants, gyms, and other institutions opened their doors to allow first-responders a place to eat, shower, and rest. The response by local law enforcement, EMTs, firefighters, in conjunction with national-level government organizations showcased what our nation can do when we work as a single unit. Personal friends worked long into the night to ensure that every Boston citizen felt safe and that the citizens knew that their local, state, and national government had their back and would not falter.

Though I wish the attacks never happened, I am so proud to call Boston my home, and America my country. America isn’t perfect—sometimes we fight and sometimes we don’t agree. Other times, parts

of the country feel culturally alienated from others and it’s hard to think of us as a true “United States.”

However, I think this tragedy reminded the world that though we have our problems, we continue to be united by our common dictum for “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” We will always be stronger as a single unit and we cannot allow a few individuals (or ideologies) to divide and conqueror us. Our collective response to this attack signified to the world that fear and injustice will not be tolerated in America.

We must remember as we go forward to sustain this renewed sense of community and self-sacrifice. The attacks taught us that regardless of ethnicity, religion, or political party we are all part of the American melting pot and something to contribute. Not all of us have to be specifically fighting terrorism here or abroad, but we all can be active participants in our neighborhoods and communities striving to eliminate injustices. To echo Peter Krause’s (assistant professor of political science at Boston College) sentiments, we need to “Make sure that next year’s Boston Marathon has more participants and spectators than any other in history.” And next year when we see the flags from the 50 countries participating in the marathon, we will be reminded that this is not just a Boston or an American event, but a global event. And we will remind the world that we are a United States and we will not live in fear.

In conclusion, I draw upon the words of another Boston native, Abigail Adams who once said “Affliction is the good man’s shining time.” The national response showed that America continues to shine and will set the example for the world. We will continue to keep all the victims, first-responders, military personnel, and every member of our community in our thoughts and prayers. Though we might be far away from home or from a different part of the country, as The New Yorker so eloquently put it, “Yes, we like the Yankees. But today we’re all rooting for Boston.” America will continue to always root for justice, forever and always.

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Monday, April 22, 2013

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The myth of the ‘perfect college’

Taylor Cavallo Hashtag Lower Probz - Gotta hand it to BC this Friday, especially all those individuals involved in coordinating meal times for students. The process of getting dinner from Lower was so efficient, we almost wish it was like that everyday. But actually, average time it takes to get dinner at 6 pm: 23 minutes. Time it took us to get dinner on Friday at about the same time: 4 minutes. Now, we’re no economists or anything (or are we…) but it seems like the preferable option is the latter. Yes, we would have to wait until a specific time to eat every day, but that’s what we used to do anyway when we were in high school and still lived at home and couldn’t eat until our mom finished making dinner. We managed then, and although it is uncomfortably difficult to get used to every time we return home, I think we could do it again. Plus that long, snaky line partitioned off by the tables in lower made us feel like we were going to a movie, which was fun.

Vote For Denzel - After a few of us watched Inside Man this weekend, we decided that Denzel Washington’s existence necessitated a Thumbs Up. Sure, we’re probably basing our evaluation of his character on the various people he has portrayed in films—all of whom are total bosses, by the way—but wouldn’t we all feel better if every detective in the world was Denzel Washington? Or if Denzel Washington was the President of the United States? And the president of every other country? I think we would.

During a particularly rough time in not only my college years, but my entire life, a friend told me that I would “benefit from attending Kairos,” as I was depressed, claiming that the retreat would benefit me immensely and change my attitude. I was appalled and proceeded to tell him that a three-day retreat with strangers would not “fix me.” The implied arrogance in that comment shocked me for many reasons, one of which being I do not believe that religion has the answer to every problem. After four years, I’ve gone through some serious highs and serious lows in my relationship with Boston College, the above anecdote being one of them.

A few times, I convinced myself that the answer was to transfer and never look back. Coming to BC was a risk for me. I’m not a particularly religious person and the idea of a Jesuit school was intimidating. I don’t know what convinced me in the end that this was where I wanted to end up. Maybe it was the beautiful Gothic architecture, the sunshine that hit the Quad on my Admitted Eagle day, but whatever it was, it worked. I felt that this, unlike any other campus I had visited, could be my home away from home. I certainly wasn’t in love, but I also didn’t hate it. Now, a month from graduation, I believe that BC misrepresents itself. It is wrong to say that “although we’re a Jesuit school religion is not shoved down our throats,” as so many people recite during campus tours when the inevitable question of

Elle Woods Does Something Dumb - Reese Witherspoon apparently asked law enforcement officers who were in the process of arresting her husband for drunk driving, “Do you know my name?” in an attempt to stop the horrific injustice the police were committing by apprehending someone for being an idiot and putting lives at stake. While some have called Witherspoon “America’s sweetheart,” I think it’s safe to say that this week, the entire law enforcement profession has usurped her in this title. If you asked pretty much any random American on Saturday who was dearer to the hearts of Americans, Reese Witherspoon or police officers, we would guess that they would pick the latter. So, while there’s certainly a good chance that these particular officers did know her name, we can safely say that she picked the wrong battle and the wrong week.

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Generally, for the “big things,” it doesn’t matter which school you attend. Unless it’s a special circumstance filled with absolute dread and misery for all four years, people learn everywhere, they party everywhere, and they eventually graduate. themselves anywhere else. The truth that I realized in my darkest moments, contemplating my choice to attend this school as opposed to any of the others I was accepted into, is perhaps a sad one to hear.

Generally, for the “big things,” it doesn’t matter which school you attend. Unless it’s a special circumstance filled with absolute dread and misery for all four years, people learn everywhere, they party everywhere, they

have significant others everywhere, they have fun and cry everywhere, and they eventually graduate. I realized no matter where I chose, the same challenges would probably have been presented to me: occasional drama with friends, a terrible break-up, difficult teachers, fun parties, proud moments, and fulfilling accomplishments. The only thing that would vary is the people I experienced these moments with, and that is the true value of my BC experience.

In a recent Letter to the Editor that I wrote in response to another Opinions column, I stated that the value of BC is not the Jesuit tradition, and I still firmly believe that—it is only shaped by the people we meet. It is the subtleties and intricacies of your best friends and the moments you shared that you will take away from this college experience.

It was not my eager purging of emotions at Kairos, attending Mass at St. Ignatius, or attending a service that got me through the darkest time in my life (none of which I did, by the way). It was my friends. I’m not sure that I could be as proud of my loyal and compassionate hypothetical buddies at another school.

The beauty of it is, I’ll never have to wonder.

In the end, the good usually outweighs the bad in nostalgia about the past. We tend to deify the past that can and will never be again. Once the class of 2013 has left our home in Chestnut Hill beneath pink and white cherry blossom trees and those bells no longer echo in the distance, we’ll remember the good times. Remember that the friends and people you met at this school are really the only things that make it unique, so cherish them forever.

Taylor Cavallo is a senior staff columnist for The Heights. She can be reached at opinions@bcheights.com.

What would Vespucci do?

Ryan McGuill

Real World University - We have one more Friday of classes left in this semester. Ponder that fact for a moment. *Pause* You freshmen are almost sophomores, you sophomores are almost juniors, you juniors are almost big bad seniors, and you seniors are almost once again freshmen in the frighteningly large school called Real World where professors don’t have office hours and there is no such thing as summer vacation.

But also, depending on the discipline within Real World that you choose to pursue, most likely less homework.

And you are finally free of BC’s pesky housing lottery, and entered into one based less on luck and more on income (which would have seemed horrifically unfair here at BC but now strikes you as the best possible course of action). But the worst thing about the Real World? We hear they don’t have any newspapers that are as good as The Heights. Rough.

religion is brought up. While we are not the Catholic equivalent to Brigham Young University by any means, there is an overarching religious atmosphere on this campus that cannot be ignored.

Any given person at BC had a choice: a handful of respectable, prestigious, and maybe even Ivy League colleges and universities were probably on their plate that last semester of high school, a stressful time in anyone’s life.

Some people say BC is the only place for them—that they couldn’t imagine

I could rant about a plethora of events, ideas, and happenings that are on my mind right now. I could talk about the NBA playoffs and make a few witty jabs at James Harden’s King Tut/lawn gnome beard. I could enlighten you with my ramblings about how Shark Week needs to skip years—it would give the Discovery Channel more time to make better programs and create Summer Olympics levels of anticipation.

However, I would be wrong to not talk about the emotional hurricane that our charming, resilient Beantown has been thrust into over the past week. The stream of opinions and feelings that has coursed through social media, news outlets, and professional sports arenas over the last week has ranged from heartfelt to excessive to exhausting. But ignoring such an event and instead discussing the playoff hopes for the Celtics would be like talking about an anthill while a volcanic eruption occurs in the background. Marathon Monday and Lockdown Friday are sure to remain fresh on the minds of Bostonians for years to come. A display of the beautiful and the ugly sides of society have defined the week, and at this very moment, all else seems trivial.

America: it’s a beautiful word, isn’t it? I would place it atop my list of “Most Aesthetically Pleasing Words,” right next to “mellifluous” and “halcyon.” This word, and all the patriotic and unifying concepts associated with it, has been a beacon through the fog of a beautiful, disgusting week. It has reminded hurting Bostonians that they’re a vital artery in the collective, beating American heart.

I often wonder at times like these how Amerigo Vespucci—the Italian explorer responsible for our country’s beautiful name—would react to such a bipolar

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few days. (Why? Because I’m weird, and a history nerd.) In reality, Vespucci was nothing more than an observer on the ship that spotted the New World, but got the credit for naming it because of a few raunchy letters he wrote back to Portugal. In these letters, he described the hypersexual nature of the Native Americans and included some 15th century hardcore illustrations. The letters became a hit back in Europe because, let’s be honest, who doesn’t love a little nudity? The mapmaker Martin Waldseemuller recognized the influence of Vespucci’s letters and labeled the new mega-continent after the feminine Latin version of Vespucci’s name. The title to our amazing country does not derive from a cartographer, but rather a pornographer. A beautiful concept is born from a disgusting reputation. Things could be much worse … at least we aren’t Ronjeremyland.

I wonder how Vespucci would react to the sometimes beautiful, sometimes disgusting use of social media sites this week. The outpouring of support via Twitter and Facebook to the affected individuals represented the beautiful. The ability of Bostonians to stay informed about the crisis and locate loved ones who ran the Marathon was inspiring.

The downright repulsive came from The New York Post who, after scouring surveillance photos of the finish line, falsely accused a 17-year-old Saudi Arabian kid and essentially ruined his life. The idiots condemning Islamic culture in 140 characters or fewer were as revolting as the Internet nerds creating “I’m on a boat” memes. The Boston bombings intertwined a domestic terrorist attack with social media for the first time—it shouldn’t be surprising that the wise and the dumb took advantage of it in their own special ways.

I wonder how Vespucci would analyze the positive and negative applications of technology during this entire ordeal. The telescope, the compass, and the printing press were the most sophisticated pieces of machinery of his time. There’s no doubt in my mind that Vespucci would be jealous of our smartphones—he would’ve been able

to take quick video to legitimize his findings and boom, he gets to steal all of Columbus’ fame. The infrared technology that detected Suspect 2 hiding in the boat made our jaws drop with wonder.

The relative ease with which I could contact my friend injured in the explosions brought reassurance to a frantic afternoon. Yet the ability of obsessed news-watchers to listen in on the police scanners had the potential to compromise the mission. Backpack bombs that can be detonated with the click of a cell phone are a concerning byproduct of the technological age. The security camera screen grabs were a bright spot in the search for the Tsarnaev brothers. On the other hand, a Google image search of “Tamerlan Tsarnaev” offers grisly, highdefinition photos of the dead suspect in a morgue. Has morality and a sense of rightness been all but eliminated from the high-tech age?

At the end of the day, Amerigo Vespucci would not care about any of this.

He was an inadvertent celebrity who died without knowing that this New World would develop into a superpower and a projector of capitalist glory. He exists in my ramblings as nothing more than a metaphor for something beautiful coming out of something nasty. He’s the creator of a beautiful word, “America,” but we might not have the same name if it wasn’t for his attention to the dirty details.

Social media sites and the feeling of being constantly wired in to the rest of the electronic world are often sources of fatigue. If I had a nickel for every time I’ve vowed to delete my Facebook, I’d be able to buy a round for the intrepid members of our Boston Police Department. But this week, I’m thankful to be wired in to witness the widespread display of excellent human nature. Apart from the few bad apples, the technological world helped show the beautiful side of humanity.

But if Facebook changes the timeline once more, I might be forced to delete it. Sigh.

Ryan McGuill is a staff columnist for The Heights. He can be reached at opinions@ bcheights.com.

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Together we are Boston strong Monica Sanchez Regrettably, this past week has been filled with not one, not two, but several utterly terrifying and disturbing events. The Boston Marathon bombing, envelopes sealed with ricin and sent to our nation’s capital, the fertilizer plant explosion in Texas, the shooting and killing of a police officer at MIT, the Boston manhunt, and the list goes on. All over the nation, we desperately seek out answers. What’s going on here?

What’s wrong with the world? What would compel someone to do such a thing? Watching the occurrence of these events sequentially on the news, it may be difficult not to lose hope in the world we live in—not to lose hope in humanity altogether. The constant circulation of video clips and photos from these crime scenes and the 24hour news coverage certainly enforce these sentiments. Yet, as we watch these wrongdoers at work and witness the heartbreaking consequences of their actions, we can rest assured that there are three times as many good people in this world, working day in and day out to ensure our safety, our happiness, and our freedom.

Evident in the events of the Boston Marathon bombing and the Boston manhunt, we should find comfort in the fact that the wrongdoers are few in comparison to the sum of courageous law enforcement personnel and everyday citizens dedicated to bringing such evildoers to justice. They have risked their very own safety to safeguard that of our nation. These men and women did not let fear paralyze them. Living in fear is exactly what these transgressors want us to do, and they knew that. The terrorists sought not to allow those in attendance and those participating to enjoy the inspirational experience that is the Boston Marathon, featuring hundreds of strong-willed individuals having had worked for months, if not years, to run in this race, but instead to make them run for their lives and cower in the face of fear. They sought to undercut the excitement and happiness of such a long-anticipated and loved tradition.

Moreover, they sought to disrupt the very fabric of our being—to shake up our conception of a free, strong nation. But what did we do? We fought back. We showed our resilience as a community, a city, and a nation. In his address to the nation following the second suspect’s arrest, President Barack Obama delivered some very wise words: “Terrorists failed because Boston refused to be intimidated.” This statement could not be any truer.

We may live with, but cannot live in fear. When taking driving classes, we are taught to be defensive drivers.

When we walk outside at night, we are implored not to walk alone. Living with some fear and skepticism is healthy.

We are made, and kept, aware. But, we cannot give into that fear. We may be tempted to do so, what with the shootings and explosions, the subsequent loss and injuries, the emergency alerts, the cop sirens heard in the near distance, and the image and sounds of Black Hawk helicopters circling the Boston area. And, obviously, there are still some unanswered questions. But, this prospect of fear and this challenge to keep our faith in the face of tragedy is exactly why we are going to continue running in the marathon. It is why we are going to continue to go to class, to take public transportation, to go out and enjoy the city and the beautiful hearts and minds that comprise it. It is why we are going to continue to live our lives to the very fullest. None of us are promised tomorrow, but we are obliged, if not for the sake of ourselves, but for those whose opportunity has been unjustly stripped away, to celebrate and embrace the many blessings we have been given.

Along with the rest of the student body, I am truly proud to call Boston my second home. We thank law enforcement for their bravery and professionalism. We continue to pray for all the wounded still struggling to recover, for the healing and comfort of families and friends, and for those who have prematurely passed away. Gone, but never forgotten.

Bud O’Hara is a staff columnist for The Heights. He can be reached at opinions@ bcheights.com.

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Monday, April 22, 2013

Malick offers a dazzling experiment in ‘To the Wonder’

By Sean Keeley

Arts & Review Editor Terrence Malick’s latest film, To the Wonder, like his acclaimed previous works— most recently 2005’s Pocahontas tale The New World and 2011’s polarizing The Tree of Life—is a bold exercise in pushing the experimental limits of commercial filmmaking. As ever, the reTo the wonder clusive MaTerrence Malick lick works Magnolia Pictures with a sizable budget and acclaimed Hollywood stars to create movies that nonetheless break the rules of “acceptable” storytelling. To the Wonder is a love story at its core, but it’s a story communicated with barely any dialogue, impressionistic handheld camera work, quick editing, and enigmatic voiceovers.

Malick’s style may infuriate many viewers, yet for those in tune with his sensibilities, the results are astonishing. To the Wonder is not Malick’s finest, and some of the film’s missteps reveal the limits of his stylistic conceits—but on balance the movie is a deeply personal, ravishing exploration of the trials of love.

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Ben Affleck and Olga Kurylenko star as the movie’s central couple, Neil and Marina, who meet and fall in love in Paris and whose romance is cemented by a voyage to Mont St. Michel—the titular “wonder.” Marina, a Ukrainian divorcee with a 10-year-old daughter, decides to move to Oklahoma to begin a new life with Neil. Their idyllic romance is soon tested by Marina’s struggle to assimilate in a foreign land, and the reappearance of Neil’s old flame Jane (Rachel McAdams). Juxtaposed against this love triangle is the story of a local Spanish priest (Javier Bardem) undergoing a crisis of faith, struggling to find his love in God even as Neil and Marina seek love in each other.

It is a sign of how unique To the Wonder is among the pantheon of romance movies that Affleck’s character is never actually named, except in the credits, and has only a handful of lines throughout nearly two hours of run time. The movie is not interested in assigning its characters developed backstories or conventional psychological motives. Instead, the movie dwells on their physical presences—the way they look at each other, the way they move, the way their eyes touch or don’t—while penetrating to their innermost thoughts through voiceover.

In this way, To the Wonder is both grounded in tangible details of the real world and concerned profoundly with the existence of a higher one.

Some of the movie’s most moving scenes focus on Bardem’s Fr. Quintana character, a brooding priest whose lonely existence and ministry to the poor and drug-addicted locals of his town strain his faith. Malick’s evocation of run-down humanity and poverty is striking for a director so often criticized for only focusing on pretty faces. Indeed, Quintana’s struggle to find spiritual love in the most beleaguered of places is often more compelling than the central romance.

The main problem with To the Wonder—though not a crippling one—is Malick’s tendency to overindulge stylistically.

There are a few too many luminous shots of wheat fields, a few too many scenes of Marina twirling in a sundress while Neil looks glumly on. Make no mistake, the images themselves are beautiful, and the collaborative team of Malick, cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, and production designer Jack Fisk are unmatched in their ability to render a stunning composition every time. That’s central to Malick’s vision, of course: he is intent upon finding

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Though sometimes indulgent, ‘To the Wonder’ delivers a boldly unique artistic vision. the beauty in everyday life, and exploring the truly cinematic possibility of a story told entirely through images. Yet at times the film takes its visual extravagance too far, to the point of needless repetition.

At its best, though, To the Wonder unlocks cinematic possibilities that most filmmakers do not dare to explore. The success of Malick’s style lies in its abil-

ity to create both fleeting sensory thrills and a lasting mood of contemplation.

Many passages of To the Wonder evoke just that balance, producing a kind of cinematic poetry that is quite distinct from typical narrative styles. Even when Malick’s vision occasionally clouds over, his ambition is noble, encouraging us to see with new eyes. n

‘Oblivion’ is a fun, but familiar sci-fi trip

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Heights Staff Oblivion: the state of being completely forgotten and unknown.

In Oblivion, Tom Cruise stars as Jack Harper, a droid technician monitoring the aftermath of a great war between humans oblivion and invadJoseph Kosinski ing aliens.

Universal Pictures T h e h u mans won the war but lost the planet to radiation.

Jack and his partner Victoria (Andrea Riseborough) are the mop up crew, repairing droids to mop up the remnants of the alien army. But Jack (his memory erased before his mission) is not sure they should leave with the rest of humanity to a new settlement on Titan.

Writer/Director Joseph Kosinski (TRON: Legacy) has a clear vision. His vision is one of a surreal familiarity.

Everything in Oblivion reminds you of something: the bones of a football stadium, the shadow of a great bridge, even Tom Cruise himself. Jack gets a sense he’s walked this Earth before. We get a sense we’ve seen this movie before. Cruise sprinting to and fro, shooting guns.

Cruise flying fighter jets. If planet Earth reminds Jack of some memories lost long ago, Oblivion reminds us of every

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other science fiction film we’ve ever seen.

Oblivion’s originality comes not from the design of its ships or droids but from the very act of embracing its tug of familiarity. It at many different points seems like I, Robot, Star Trek, or Minority Report.

Oblivion reminds us of other science fiction films as we, with Jack, try to figure out what the film really means.

Oblivion, as a narrative though, remains bigger than its star. Cruise carries the film, but the Cruise persona—the Mission: Impossible persona—never becomes more important than the actual film. Cruise is still in nearly every scene, his is the journey we follow. Kosinski frames Cruise against the vast emptiness of his shattered Earth, almost as if Cruise is the only human left. The film could very well be (and surely must look like) just another Cruise vehicle. But it’s not. Cruise essentially swaps uberconfident Ethan Hawke or Maverick for the perpetually perplexed Jack Harper.

Cruise plays a man on a ledge. He’s a more relatable, likable hero, and the film is better for it.

Oblivion is also bigger than Cruise because of the fact that for most of the film, we don’t know what the hell is going on. We follow Jack on a couple missions, and well, they don’t go as planned. A pod of survivors crashed down, and Jack saves one of them, someone he may remember,

from a combative droid. Jack engages a mysterious underground colony headed

by Beech, played by the ever familiar Morgan Freeman. But as a whole, the film leaves us somewhat alienated. Oblivion peaks our interest from the get go, but instead of unveiling the mystery at the core of the narrative bit by bit, the film leaves us hanging for more than an hour wondering what the hell we are watching.

At the end of his introduction Jack says, “I can’t shake the feeling, that earth, in spite all that’s happened, earth is still my home.” That’s what Oblivion is about—overcoming your own oblivion, returning home, or again just figuring out what the hell is going on. And Oblivion does execute that vision, albeit at its own indulgent pace.

Despite an engaging opening and a compelling conclusion, Oblivion won’t break the bank. It’s not Star Trek or Star Wars. Oblivion is an interesting film in its own right, but more so it’s a film that means more to its genre, science fiction, than to the casual, ticket punching audience. Oblivion takes a generic science fiction narrative and turns it on its head.

Despite its originality, Oblivion will never be considered classic, canon science fiction. It lacks a certain intangible that pushes it from interesting to mind blowing. It reminds us of too many things to ever plant so securely in our brain. n

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Jackie Robinson biopic ‘42’ is a solid drive down the line

By Ryan Schmitz Heights Staff Inspirational sports movies comprise a hallowed genre, one with some great names.

Remember the Titans, Miracle, and Rocky all share a common theme—something America can believe in. They follow the story of a man or group of people that face impossible odds 42 and treBrian Helgeland mendous Warner Bros. adversity, and though they may doubt themselves, through the help of some close friends and sheer power of will, they stare adversity in the face and come out victorious. What is most amazing about these films is that they are all based on true stories. Now one of sports’ greatest “triumph over adversity” stories has come to the big screen in the form of 42. The film is named for the number worn by the famous and history making African-American baseball legend Jackie Robinson. It follows his life, both personal and professional, in his early days of breaking into white major league baseball. Most importantly, it has

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all of the quintessential sports cliches you could ask for.

Clocking in at just over two hours, 42 has a lot of history to cover with not a lot of time and, luckily, it gets into the swing of things almost immediately. Cheesy puns aside, director Brian Helgeland does a great job of introducing Robinson through the use of Branch Rickey (Harrison Ford) describing what he needs in his first black baseball player, eventually landing on the perfect man in our movie’s star. Robinson is introduced as a tough, stubborn, but most importantly strong willed family man playing in the allblack baseball league. Only a few minutes into the movie he is in Brooklyn discussing the proposition of playing in white major league baseball as the first black player in history. Though he would have to pay his dues in the minor leagues for a bit, his fate as a Brooklyn Dodger was sealed.

The audience is taken on an emotional journey from then on, feeling the joy of Robinson’s victories and the frustrations of his setbacks. While faced with the inhumanity of segregation and prejudice, Robinson must keep stoic and brush it off depending only on himself, his mentor Rickey, his lov-

ing wife Rachael, and an African-American writer and eventual friend Wendell. Even with his outlets there are more than a few obstacles in his way, and even some of his own teammates spoke out against him. But anyone even remotely familiar with Robinson’s story knows that this story is not one of a man who rolled over and allowed himself to be bullied. In classic sports movie fashion, 42 delivers the goods in the form of slow motion running, big underdog comeback moments, and of course the motivational speeches. This movie is the complete athletic drama package.

In spite of the quality entertainment this type of movie provides, the genre as a whole does come with a few flaws. Unfortunately, the writers and director of 42 could not figure out how to get around them either.

Although a lot of people have come to enjoy the emotional speeches with moving music and dramatic slow clapping, there is no getting past the inherent corniness of the whole thing. And even if it is stirring and inspirational, 42 is not without its fair share of slightly cringe-inducing moments.

One particular close up of a victorious and satisfied Ford’s face was a prime example of

the unavoidable cliche moments that we all know and love. Even though they may be tough to watch, at the same time the movie wouldn’t be a true sports movie without it.

The movie generally delivers the goods—with fine acting, some solid inspirational sports moments, and an unbelievably historic subject, the audience is left more than satisfied. As a sports film, the

movie is great and accomplishes everything it set out to, telling the story of an icon and American hero. The overall quality of the film, however, was not perfect and sometimes was just a little too hard to take. In the end though, it did a great man justice, bringing some laughs as well as some great quotations for coaches everywhere to spout off to their teams. n

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‘42’ embodies sports movie cliches, but it’s also dramatic, inspirational, and entertaining.

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Lili Chasen, LSOE ’15 (above), delivered one of many standout performances in her depiction of Helen in ‘All That Is Left Behind.’

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The Dramatics Society frequently broke the fourth wall with their bold Eliot adaptation.

lover of Marie (Aryn Mello Pryor, A&S ’16), was touching, truly showing the pangs of longing and of memories slipping away. He especially impressed in scenes that did not involve him speaking, but which portrayed his trials and tribulations in yet again what was to be in the “background.” Appleby held his own as a lone figure in the midst of the other scenes.

The staging was an entity to itself, allowing the members of the audience to become an interactive aspect of the play, not just spectators. By having the audience stand on the stage along with the cast members, they were transformed from meager onlookers to voyeurs, eavesdroppers, and intruders.

This became more evident as the events unfolded as the audience started out feeling as if the actors were encroaching on their space to slowly coming to terms with the realization that they in fact were the ones out of place. Discomfort could be felt throughout, as members were startled by sudden outbursts, layered scenes, and an inability to discern where to look at times. Such staging

could have easily turned out poorly and yet for All That Is Left Behind, it is crucial. Without it, the multiple ongoings would suffer a disconnect from the audience, the personal aspect of picking and choosing which scene or story to follow would be lost, and bond between character and spectator would remain behind the fourth wall.

Additionally, the overall unsettling feel of the play was further emphasized by the eerie sound and light design. A scene of particular note involved Franz in a dream-like scene where he fumbled desperately over pictures, hoping to retain their memory, all underneath the glow of a single bulb. The blackout was unexpected and heightened the discomfort of the audience considerably, which was then only exacerbated by them being surrounded by the rest of the cast, who then traded lines in an almost disturbing exchange. The design left the audience constantly guessing, never leaving them comfortable or at ease. Emphasizing certain scenes and blacking out others, the audience had guidance, though for the most part there was no clear direction given as to where one was supposed to focus. This only

added to the fluidity of the interactions between the storylines, and even when they came together, there was never just one thing or person to pay attention to—though the scenes were disjointed from each other, repetition of phrases and movements amongst the characters connected them all together.

The most beautiful aspect of the play is how much heart and soul went into it. It is clear that Kopacz has such a passion for not only theater and T.S. Eliot, but for making something that is just as personal and heartfelt to him as it is to those who see it. He has created something intricate, at times opaque, yet touching and artful. Although not a play for everyone, it is worth the experience—there is something striking here, something full of promise that leaves a viewer moved and unsettled, something that big-name theater at times lacks.

The play means something different to each and every viewer, yet in its individuality it remains universal. Though multiple viewings are highly recommended to get a better understanding of it, All That Is Left Behind reaches out to capture all those who venture to see it—and what a sight it is. n

Shovelhead! provokes raucous laughs Shovelhead, from A10 nated in a female student’s claim of operating a fraudulent OB/GYN out of her father’s minivan, a remark drawing sheer horror from the unsuspecting midwesterner. The brilliance of the sketch wasn’t in its content being distinctly Massachusetts, but rather its execution being distinctly human. Without this key element, Shovelhead’s rehashing of stereotypes might have come across as meanspirited or close-minded—but the group’s work was relatable, liberally worded and hardly restrained, but equally well composed and thought over.

Cultural disconnect became a common device for the night’s humor—from a woman hypersexualizing a blind date with a relatively conservative man, to a papal conclave hosted by the campy New England Sports Network,

to a book club of three Southern women, weighing in on two daughters—one going to the “liberal, eco-friendly, merry-go-round, social concentration camp” of Colgate University, the other joining the KKK, Kappa Kappa Kappa, sorority at a local southern college. Directors Madlyn Dionne, LSOE ’13, and Meg Showalter, A&S ’13, put together a show celebrating—and often pointing out the absurdity—of cultural identities, balancing their blows between outside groups and the BC student body.

Hello...Shovelhead! charged no admission fee for the two performances staged in Fulton 511 on Saturday night, but did collect donations for the victims of the Boston attacks at the door, a sign of the act’s solidarity with the Boston community. Suitably so, the night’s focus was outward, and although most of the content related to issues of the greater BC

area, there was attitude of purposefulness.

Yes, Shovelhead first and foremost was looking for laughs, but they resisted what would seem to be easy inclinations for such a group—instead of settling for cheap swipes at BC culture, they presented a nuanced portrayal of life at BC, student concerns, and world issues. And where most groups would flounder in balancing humor and commentary, Hello...Shovelhead! flourished.

Instead of artificially injecting situational comedy with irony and purpose, they allowed the situations and characters to speak for themselves. The resulting brand of genuinely voiced comedy is a rarity even among professional groups.

And in case you’re wondering, the Baha Men are not getting back together. In fact, the show had nothing to do with the aforementioned English Junkanoo group. n

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Hello...Shovelhead! offered commentary for BC and world issues in situational comedy sketches, playing with absurdity of cultural norms.

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The 15th annual Arts Festival will feature performances from various dance and music groups.

Anticipating Arts Festival Arts Fest, from A10 documentary Chasing Ice, a revelatory look at the changing glacial landscapes of the Arctic captured with astonishing time-lapse photography.

Most significantly, though, Arts Festival is an opportunity to watch fellow students shine. Past year festival favorites are back—“Dancing with bOp!” on Saturday night, the Battle of the Bands on Thursday, and a large scale Theater Department production running all weekend long: this year, the satirical puppet extravaganza Avenue Q. Apart from these familiar artistic channels, though, this year’s festival also marks a definite slant toward displaying more underrepresented art forms. After

a year’s hiatus, the Arts Council has brought back a fashion show and slam poetry event for Friday night. And a brand new event, BC Underground, has been created to showcase student artists who may otherwise go unrecognized.

Featuring the efforts of break dancers, spoken word artists, rappers, and EDM musicians, BC Underground is sure to be a hit as it takes over O’Neill Plaza at 9 p.m. on Friday night.

Of course, this is only the most cursory overview of the festival’s offerings— there is much more to be seen, and many paths to follow through the weekend’s three days. Detailed Arts Festival calendars can be found in print across campus and online at http://www.bc.edu/offices/ artscouncil/festival.html. n

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THE FINER THINGS

Beauty and tragedy

T.S. ELIOT COMES ALIVE IN BONN STUDIO

ARIANA IGNERI I’ve recently realized that the older I get, the closer I feel to the world within which I live—now, more than ever, I feel like I’m old enough to be aware of the world and to try to relate to it. At the same time, though, I also feel like I’ve never been so far removed and alienated from it. I can connect to it, but I just can’t understand it. The world has become a place of uncertainty, and like everyone else, I’m simply trying to discover what my place is here, what my purpose is in the midst of all this chaos.

The explosions at the Boston Marathon finish line last week resonated with me like few things have—the looping news clips sounding, repeatedly reminding me of the numerous tragedies of this past year: the movie theater shootings in Colorado, the disaster of Hurricane Sandy, the Newtown massacre … One after the other. Locked in my dorm room on Friday, the full weight of these happenings abruptly became tangible—reality, for me, had never been so real.

But despite my newfound, revelatory perspective, I still felt confused and disconnected, I still felt out of place.

Just when I thought that I could finally comprehend the world, my own personal function in life, and a dozen of other things, were suddenly thrown into question, whirling around in my head amidst the incessant white noise of reporters, journalists, and newscasters on TV. So, while deciding how to approach my column this week, I found it necessary to ground myself—to orient myself—and to face tragedy, directly, in the best way that I know how—through art.

Tragedy isn’t a beautiful thing. No matter what Sophocles or Shakespeare suggests, there is no beauty in devastation. And this past week made that obviously clear to me. Maybe tragedy has a place in art—why else would Hamlet and Macbeth be so popular? But I’m not yet convinced that art has a place in tragedy.

When the world is plagued with so many more seemingly important, urgent issues, what role, if any, could music, literature, or film possibly have? Really, what does any of it even mean?

While art may initially seem trivial in the wake of desolation, I’ve decided that it does have a purpose—several purposes actually—and important ones at that. For one thing, art is a product of its time and place. It’s a living and breathing record, documenting life in ways that newspaper articles and broadcast reports can’t.

Artists, reacting to the world and to its events, preserve history in a way that is practically eternal, so that people, even generations later, never forget it.

In another sense, art can be utilized as a coping mechanism, as a form of therapy to work through tragedy. It’s not possible to un-break hearts, but it is possible to mend them. And it’s certainly no secret that art can console. It can comfort even when the world seems overwhelmingly dark.

The final role of art, however, appears to be its most significant one. E.M. Forester once wrote, “Men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. To make us feel small in the right way is the function of art.” Men can instill us with fear, provoke us with threats, and reduce our sense of power, but their influence is limited. Through tragedy, we do indeed realize how small we are, individually—but simultaneously, through art, we recognize that we’re all little parts of a special and great whole.

So, if I learned anything this week about art, or more importantly, about life, it’s that even though tragedy isn’t beautiful, the way that individuals react to it definitely can be. Seeing Boston bond together was striking and inspiring.

The past several days have been distressing, but they reminded me that just as art has a place in this world, so, too, do I—I have a purpose here. We all have a purpose here. In one way or another it’s our job to support each other, to maintain hope, and to never stop looking for beauty, even, and especially, in the midst of tragedy.

Ariana Igneri is the Assoc. Arts & Review editor of The Heights. She can be reached at arts@bcheights.com.

EMILY STANSKY / HEIGHTS STAFF

An excellent ensemble cast anchored the Dramatics Society’s adaptation of T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’ and ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ in Bonn Studio.

Adapting T.S. Eliot poetry to the stage, the Dramatics Society delivered a uniquely interactive performance this weekend with ‘All That Is Left Behind.’

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o those who caught the run of All That Is Left Behind, a treat was to be had. Adapted and directed by one of Boston College’s own, Timothy N. Kopacz, A&S ’13, the play is an adaptation of various pieces written by T.S. Eliot, including “The Waste Land” and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”

Delving into untraditional means of delivering the material, it is a standing play, meaning there are no seats and the audience interacts alongside the actors. Multiple scenes happen at once as storylines flux from intertwining to diverging, allowing the viewer to dive into a living “choose your own adventure” story. With four mini stages upon the grander stage, the choice was given to focus upon what interests the audience the most. This choice transformed the play into a personal experience beyond that of a mere spectator, allowing the actors

to truly shine, the various stories to envelop and enthrall, and the implied voyeurism to unsettle in the deepest parts of the audience.

Superbly acted, the characters were each their own person, from the flirtatious to the grieving, the disillusioned to the longing. Ryan Cooper, A&S ’16, delivered a splendidly perturbing Prufrock and transitioned to the bartender, Tiresias, seamlessly, distinguishing between the two with distinct costumes and personalities alike. Sarah Mass, A&S ’15, portrayed Jennie, a grieving widow, with a heartbreaking grace. During a scene focused upon Stetson (Tom Mezger, A&S ’14) and Helen (Lili Chasen, LSOE ’15), Jennie was emoting her pain upon the floor in the “background” and yet managed to be just as riveting as the foreground happenings. Matt Appleby’s, A&S ’15, portrayal of Franz, the soldier

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TITLE: ‘All That Is Left Behind’ WHERE: Bonn Studio Theater WHEN: Thursday 4/18 and Saturday 4/20 PRODUCED BY: Boston College Dramatics Society DIRECTED BY: Timothy N. Kopacz, A&S ’13 CAST: Matt Appleby, A&S ’15, Ryan Cooper, A&S ’16, Tom Mezger, A&S ’14, Chris Pinto, A&S ’16, Lili Chasen, LSOE ’15, Sarah Mass, A&S ’15, Aryn Pryor, A&S ’16, Rebecca Vilardo, LSOE ’16

Shovelhead! unearths rich social humor in spring show

BY JOHN WILEY Asst. Arts & Review Editor

GRAHAM BECK / HEIGHTS EDITOR

The 15 sculpture on the Stokes Lawn serves as a reminder of the upcoming Arts Festival.

BC campus gears up for 15th annual Arts Festival

BY SEAN KEELEY Arts & Review Editor Students walking past the Stokes Lawn in the past week have no doubt noticed an incongruous sight on the new campus green: a large wooden structure carved in the shape of the number 15, scribbled over on all sides with colorful messages and doodles.

This structure is not merely some random display of modernist art, however: it’s the harbinger of things to come, a reminder that the 15th annual BC Arts Festival opens on Thursday.

From this Thursday, Apr. 25 through this Saturday, Apr. 27, the Arts Festival will make its presence known on cam-

pus in much bigger fashion as tents are erected, vendors arrive to sell homemade crafts, and students from dance organizations, performing clubs, comedy groups, and many more show off their talents in venues across campus.

It’s a weekend that will bring outside artists to campus, too. Robert Polito, a celebrated poet, critic, and author and BC ’73, will be honored with the 2013 Arts Coucil Alumni Award for Artistic Achievement, to be presented Friday at 4 p.m. in Robsham, and will be present at several other festival events. Past winner James Balog, BC ’74, will be returning on Thursday to present his new

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“By having mousetraps on campus, the University is essentially validating mouse culture.”

“Having mousetraps on campus increases the risk of mouse infestation.”

“The thing is that that doesn’t make sense.”

“Mice exist. We just want people to be safe.”

“Ah, so there you have it. In conclusion, the administration claims in order to keep dormitories mouse free, simply deny the existence of mice.”

Sketch comedy group Hello...

Shovelhead! seldom had to reach far beyond the gates of Boston College to find ripe material for “Baha Men Reunion Tour,” their show for the spring semester.

While the BCSSH controversy proved to be a bushel of rotten apples for the BC administration, it was an orchard of sweet honeydew for Shovelhead’s 10 players. In their opening sketch, they took on the issue, temporarily suspending talk of sexual health and putting the problem of rodent control in its place. And at least when it comes to extermination, the claim that “Catholic people don’t have mice”

simply seems to skirt the issue.

The next sketch moved into “South Boston High School,” placing a substitute teacher from Wisconsin (Morgan Fry Pasic, A&S ’13) before a derelict classroom full of Massachusetts stereotypes. The unassuming belle from America’s dairyland was quickly confronted with the difficulties of teaching in Boston without a favorite hockey team or at least a cursory knowledge of Beantown’s favorite past time.

“You cannot come into a classroom and admit you don’t like hockey, and expect people to stay,” one student said.

“Unfortunately, I’m not going to be able to learn anything today, because the only reason I know math is because of hat tricks,” another said.

“I’ve written like 12 history papers on the Beanpot. It’s like a pretty modern thing.”

Further tearing at the cultural divide, the substitute attempted to stage a production of the musical Wicked!, a confounding title to the Wicked class of Bostonians. The clever play with the students’ suspicions of the Wisconsin teacher and her incompletely-titled musical culmi-

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Accepting my sports dysfunction

Honoring a hero

Austin Tedesco The day after Boston’s nightmare ended, 41 of the city’s professional athletes took the field, ice, and court, offering eight hours and 15 minutes of escape. I watched about half of those eight hours and 15 minutes on Saturday, and it was difficult not to get choked up.

On a couch in a Boston College dorm, I sat with the TV on in front of me, phone in hand, with my thumb scrolling and refreshing, just like I had been for about 12 hours on Friday. And, somehow, there was something about what I watched on Saturday that made me more emotional than anything the day before.

I never thought a video tribute with Philip Phillips playing in the background would ever make my eyes water. I never thought that Rene Rancourt and an arena full of singing Bruins fans would do it either. I really didn’t think there was much David Ortiz could say that would bring me to tears, but this did it, because this is what sports can do.

“This jersey that we wear today, it doesn’t say Red Sox,” Ortiz said. “It says Boston.This is our f— city, and nobody is going to dictate our freedom. Stay strong.”

I am a dysfunctional sports fan, and this is how I handle tragedy. While on lockdown for most of the day as suspect No. 2 was evading the police in Watertown, it was easy to use jokes as a coping mechanism, and it was easy to just feel numb with the abundance of cable news.

When everything settled on Friday night, though, I knew that Boston sports the next day would bring the emotion out of me like it always has.

I know it’s dysfunctional, but as sports fans it’s an acceptable form of dysfunction. By dedicating a major portion of life to college and professional athletics, the drama sucks you in. In a typically ordinary life, sports create a connection to real, intense emotion that is difficult to replicate elsewhere. I can vividly remember when and where I watched Derrick Rose tear his ACL, Colt McCoy get knocked out of the national championship game, and Rory McIlroy collapse at the Masters.

Those moments, and that aching feeling deep in your gut, are the kind of things that can’t go away. I can’t watch highlights of Brandon Roy going off in the fourth quarter against the Mavericks after thinking he might never play again without having to wipe away tears. It’s the reason the events inside a stadium can be the best outlet after a tumultuous week.

As sappy as they get, few things are as emotional to me as a well-crafted video montage or a beautiful pregame festivity.

Just a little while after suspect No. 2 was in custody on Friday, I thought about what the Sox would do during Saturday’s game. When sports are the most dramatic and dominating realm you know, it’s inevitable to turn that direction when something as incomprehensible as last week’s events occur.

The Celtics, the Bruins, and the Red Sox all honored Lingzi Lu, Sean Collier, Martin Richard, and Krystle Campbell, the injured, and the incredible work of the Boston police with respect and grace. Ortiz had that memorable line, Paul Pierce spoke touching words while wearing a “Boston Stands As One” warmup, and Rancourt led the crowd through another powerful National Anthem.

One thing was missing on Saturday, though. There was no heartfelt “For Boston” in Alumni Stadium prior to kickoff. BC’s spring football game was canceled on Friday afternoon, which was a responsible and wise decision by the athletic department.

That moment will come eventually, and if I’m standing in the press box, I know that even the strict rules of objectivity will not be able to keep me from shedding a few tears as the crowd sings its proud refrain.

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

Graham Beck / heights Editor

After a difficult 2012 season, the Eagles are a perfect 9-0 so far this year and are looking for a revenge win over SUNY-Buffalo on Sunday afternoon.

The men’s lacrosse team will wear special helmets for Welles Crowther this week

By Marly Morgus Asst. Sports Editor

Lurking behind the scenes this spring is a team that has, despite not being funded by the school, proved to be one of Boston College’s more successful programs. They boast wins against the University of Miami, Florida State, the University of Texas, and Boston University, among others. In fact, they have yet to drop a single game this season, but the BC men’s lacrosse team is not satisfied with their success so far this year.

Two years ago, SUNY Buffalo entered the Pioneer Collegiate Lacrosse League, a league that had been dominated by BC for the last four years with four consecutive league titles, and ended BC’s dominance. As senior goaltender and team president Frank Nemia put it, “They kind of took us out.”

SUNY Buffalo has won the league for the last two years, and BC has seen a downturn.

In 2011, they had a successful 11-3 season, but lost to Buffalo in the championship game of the Pioneer Collegiate Lacrosse League Tourna-

ment. The next year saw regular season woes as the Eagles were a disappointing 8-7 and lost in the first round of the tournament, ending their season without even taking a shot at the next level: the national championship tournament that 16 teams are selected for.

That season, however, is behind them, and as the final two regular season games stretch before the team, Nemia is feeling confident about his team’s chances of reclaiming the PCLL title.

“I think we may have already won the regular season title, technically,” he said. “Basically last year we had a really bad season compared to what we normally have going 8-8, so this year what we have is like people said, oh, our club team isn’t as good as it used to be, so this year is about reclaiming as the best of the Pioneer Collegiate League, being the best on the East Coast.”

Nemia attributes much of the team’s renewed success to a coaching change that took place before this season.

“We brought in a new coach this year, Kevin

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9-0 Regular Season Record 1 League Ranking 21 Goals, J. Lambrecht 18 Assists, James O’Hara .657 Save Percentage, Nick Shea

Annual BC spring football game canceled last Friday

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Game will not be made up, spring practice over

By Austin Tedesco Sports Editor

The annual Jay McGillis Memorial Spring Game for Boston College football was canceled on Friday afternoon. The announcement came after the BC campus was placed on lockdown while police continued to search for a suspect in Monday’s marathon bombings and the previous night’s shootout in Watertown.

“After consulting with campus, city, and law enforcement officials, including the Boston College Police Department, we have decided to cancel all home athletic events scheduled for Saturday, including the spring football game,” Director of Athletics Brad Bates said. “Our first priority is ensuring the

safety of our student-athletes, coaches, and spectators. Our local law enforcement community has done a phenomenal job this past week, and we do not want our events to serve as a distraction.”

The game was scheduled for 1 p.m. on Saturday, Apr. 20. Spring football is now over, as Saturday was the last allotted day for the team to practice. The game will not be rescheduled.

“Now is a time for reflection to honor those who have been tragically killed and injured this past week,” Bates said. “Together we will persevere and emerge stronger and more united than ever.”

“Our law enforcement officials are engaged in protecting our safety; we knew it was in everyone’s best interest to cancel the spring game,” head coach Steve Addazio said. “Our team worked hard and had a terrific spring.

Our fans, alumni, staff and players are excited about he direction we are headed.” n

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BC surrenders sevenrun lead to cap sweep

By Steven Prinicipi

Heights Staff

The Boston College baseball team remained winless in ACC play when they dropped an 11-inning game to Wake Forest on Sunday afternoon, one day after being swept in both games of a double-header.

Three losses dropped BC to 6-33 on the season and 0-20 in ACC play, while the Demon Deacons climbed to 23-20 overall and 7-14 in the conference.

BC dropped the series finale on Sunday 10-9 in a back and forth 11-inning affair that saw both teams combine for 12 runs in the third inning and 27 hits on the day. The Eagles put up seven runs in the third inning, scoring on hits, walks, and errors en route to their best offensive inning of the season.

Wake came right back with five runs of their own in the bottom of the frame, however, and the Demon Deacons added three more in the fourth to take an 8-7 lead. Wake added another run in the fifth, but BC managed to tie the game back up in the sixth with a two-run single from John Hennessy.

The game stayed tied at nine until the 11th inning when a Wake Forest double pushed the winning run across and ended the game. Jesse Adams threw four and two thirds innings of scoreless baseball in relief for the Eagles. Nick Poore took the loss and dropped to 0-2 on the season.

Saturday was more of the same for the Eagles, who dropped both ends of a double-header to open the series against their ACC rivals. In the first game, Hunter Gordon went six and two thirds innings for the Eagles, letting up five runs, but the offense never got going and BC dropped the game 5-1.

BC was unable to solve Wake Forest

pitcher Justin Van Grouw, who pitched 8.2 innings while allowing only three hits.

The Eagles weren’t even able to push their lone run across until the ninth inning after some sloppy fielding had helped spot the Demon Deacons a five-run lead.

Of the five runs Gordon allowed on the day, only three were earned and two came as the direct result of a bad throw that got away and allowed an inning to continue. Gordon pitched well for the most part, but ultimately took the loss and fell to 0-4 on the season.

Game two saw Erik Stevens on the mound for BC. Stevens suffered the loss in a game that BC ended up losing 9-2, and pitched five innings, giving up five runs on nine hits in the process. The Eagles actually jumped out to an early lead with a run in the first, but they quickly found themselves behind after Wake scored two of their own in the bottom of the inning.

The score remained 2-1 until the sixth inning when the Demon Deacons exploded for seven runs and effectively put the game out of reach. Stevens failed to record an out despite starting the sixth, as Wake’s barrage began.

BC did manage to get a run back in the eighth inning, but the game had long since been decided and the Eagles dropped the contest 9-2.

The Eagles continue to search for their first win in conference play this season after dropping their first 20 next weekend when they welcome Miami to Chestnut Hill for a three-game series. Before then, BC plays two mid-week games against Hartford and St. John’s.

BC will look to gain some momentum for the stretch run of the season when they host Hartford on Tuesday before heading to Connecticut to play St. John’s on Wednesday. n

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Though BC built a 7-0 lead yesterday, the Eagle pitching staff could not hold off Wake Forest’s bats in a game that featured 19 total runs.

Eagles salvage a victory during turbulent weekend at Maryland

By Chris Grimaldi

Assoc. Sports Editor

Determined to win an away series against a conference foe and orchestrate a winning streak after its sevengame skid, the Boston College softball team squared off with Maryland yesterday afternoon. Yet the timely offense that energized the Eagles a day earlier fell silent, as head coach Ashley Obrest’s squad was defeated in a 10-1 Sunday drubbing.

Sophomore starting pitcher Chelsea Dimon struggled to retire Maryland batters from the outset, allowing three runs in the bottom of the first frame off of three hits and a BC error. After tossing a complete game during Saturday’s double-header, the Eagles’ starter failed to make it past the fourth inning.

A second-inning single down the line from junior Ronnie Mae Ayers accounted for BC’s only run on the afternoon, while the Eagles managed a mere five hits off of Terrapin starter

Kaitlyn Schmeiser.

Following their two-run second inning, Maryland’s lineup erupted in the bottom of the fifth. Freshman pitcher Stephanie Lord was plagued by a fiverun Maryland onslaught that brought an early end to the contest. Freshman Julie Strange blasted a homerun over the centerfield fence to give Maryland a 10-1 advantage, walking off with an abridged victory as a result of the mercy rule.

With the loss, the Eagles watched on as their hopes for a potential winning

emily Fahey / Heights Staff

SPORTS in SHORT

BC’s offense errupted for eight runs in Saturday’s second game, yet only mustered one run combined in two other matchups this weekend.

ACC Women’s Lacrosse Standings Conference

Overall

Maryland

5-0

17-0

North Carolina

4-1

13-2

Boston College

3-2

11-6

Duke

2-3

11-4

Virginia

1-4

8-8

Virginia Tech

0-5

8-7

Team

streak evaporated and their conference record fell to 2-13 on the season.

Setting the stage for yesterday’s matchup, the Eagles played two against Maryland on Saturday afternoon in a matinee doubleheader. BC could not overcome a dominant Terrapin performance from the mound in the twin-billing’s first contest, as Maryland blanked Obrest’s squad by a score of 6-0.

The home squad wasted no time with lighting up the scoreboard, tallying two runs in the bottom of the first thanks to a passed ball by BC catcher Tory Speer and an error from shortstop Alana DiMaso. While the Eagle defense faltered behind pitcher Stephanie Lord, a single from Candice Beards—the only Terrapin hit of the inning—gave Maryland an early advantage.

Meanwhile, pitcher Kaitlyn Schmeiser effectively silenced BC’s bats with 12 strikeouts over the course of her complete-game shutout. Megan Cooley and Jessie Daulton provided the Eagles’ lone two base knocks over seven innings.

Maryland’s lineup continued to chip away at BC’s pitching staff, roughing Lord up for four earned runs on 10 hits over six frames to hand the freshman her 10th loss of 2013.

Te r r ap i n f i r s t b a s e m a n C o re y Schwartz led the barrage with a 3-for3 effort, knocking in two runs in addition to stealing home plate during the second inning.

When the dust finally cleared, the Eagles had been shutout and mercilessly handed their seventh consecutive defeat.

Yet BC seized redemption in Saturday’s encore matchup against its ACC foe, salvaging a game during their trip to College Park with an 8-6 victory.

The Eagle bats stormed out of the gates, coming alive after an anemic two-hit performance earlier in the day.

BC tallied six runs in the first inning thanks to a trio of run-scoring extra-

Numbers to Know

7 The number of runs by which BC baseball led Wake Forest before surrendering nine straight runs and falling in extras.

2.43

The average margin of victory that women’s lacrosse has recorded over its seven-game winning streak.

5 The number of consecutive shutout losses suffered by the men’s tennis team.

base hits, knocking Maryland starter Maddie Martin out of the game before she could record a single out. After Tory Speer drove in two with a double, Maria Pandolfo followed suit with a run-scoring triple to put her squad up by three.

The junior Ayers capped the BC scoring barrage with a two-run homerun to gift Dimon with a six-run cushion before she took the mound.

BC tacked on two more insurance runs in the fifth frame when Speer scored on a costly Mar yland error and Dimon aided her own cause with a sacrifice fly. Even though both RBIs stretched the Eagles’ commanding lead to 8-2 at the time, they soon proved to be decisive.

Just as they had done in game one, the Terrapins began to chip away at BC to crawl their way back into the game.

By the final inning, Maryland had accumulated five runs after scoring at least once in three straight at-bats and showed no signs of stopping. Schmeiser greeted Dimon in the seventh with a round-tripper to pull her squad within two runs of BC’s lead.

A couple of base knocks and a hit batter loaded the bases with two outs, as the Terrapins threatened to sink the Eagles with a dramatic walk-off win.

Yet Dimon managed to get Bridget Hawvermale to pop out with three men on, clinching a complete-game effort and a timely BC victory.

Before their series with Maryland, the Eagles hosted crosstown rival Boston University on Thursday afternoon.

Though BC rookie Jessie Daulton went deep for the fifth consecutive game, the Terriers answered with a three-run fourth inning.

Productive at-bats and a sound effort from starting pitcher Whitney Tuthill staked the visiting team to a six-run lead, sending BU to an eventual 7-2 victory and the Eagles toward College Park with a six-game losing streak. n

Quote of the Week

“Our law enforcement community has done a phenomenal job this past week, and we do not want our events to serve as a distraction.”

—Brad

Bates, director of athletics, on cancelling Saturday’s home sporting events.

Monday, April 22, 2013

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the heights’ best sports

Photos of 2012-2013

with notes from photo editor graham beck

dANIEL LEE / HEIGHTS SENIOR STAFF

(Above) - Football is one of

those sports where you can do everything right, but if you’re not sitting in the right spot and if you are not lucky, “the shot” won’t happen. This picture is great for the reaction of the player, but also for the background—the cheering of the crowd and cheerleaders, and the raised arms of the ref. It is full of energy.

(Left) - What made basketball

really fun and challenging to shoot this season was the explosive presence of Olivier Hanlan. He’s the type of guy that makes so many great pictures that it was easy to forget to take pictures of other guys on the team. For sports photographers, Hanlan makes the job easy and fun. He does everything that makes a good photo—intensity, great reactions, and a physical style of play.

aLEX TRAUTWIG / HEIGHTS SENIOR STAFF

(Above) - At any given game there are several hundred photos of Jerry York taken. While taking those photos never gets old, the angles get overused and the pictures just look the same. When we cover a game, we look for new angles and especially new backgrounds that tell a story. This photo of York follows his 924th win, and the background, “ever to excel,” conveys the success that York has achieved as head coach.

Graham beck / heights editor

Graham beck / heights editor

(Above and Right) - Regular

action is great to get in sports photography. They are the shots that make you say “wow.”

But great action happens more frequently in a game than great expressions—what photographers call the “jube,” short for jubilation shots. These shots are tough to take well, and often are the best way to tell the story of the game.

dANIEL LEE / HEIGHTS SENIOR STAFF

(Above) - Shooting hockey is tough because the postions are defined and the angles are few and far between.

The “wow” factor about this photo is that it is a shot that no one can normally take during a game. The composition is perfect with the gold line of players, and the wide angle gives a sense of the size of Conte Forum.

Graham beck / heights editor

Graham beck / heights editor

dANIEL LEE / HEIGHTS SENIOR STAFF

(Above and Right) - Some of the best sports photos are wide angle shots. The shot of football at Northwestern

is great because of the light that is hitting the lens, the shadows created by the players, and the immensity of the stadium. It’s not a typical photograph of football, and for that reason it is special. Pictures of basketball are typically vertical and zoomed in, and this makes finding unique compositions fairly difficult. I set up this shot by placing my camera on the floor of the court, going for the widest angle, and shooting as Hanlan drove the net. The rule of thirds makes Hanlan pop out, and the background of his teammates racing to him give a sense of urgency and intensity.

Graham beck / heights editor

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Monday, April 22, 2013

Eagles ready for SUNY-Buffalo Lacrosse, from B1 Orcutt. We had a lack of organization and leadership from the coaching position last year, and he came in and got everyone to really buy into his philosophy: new offenses, he brought in a new defensive coach,” he said. “At the club level you don’t have like the head football coach where he’s in charge of everyone and you do what he says, there’s a little more fluidity in club, so he’s been able to come in and get to know us as players and get us to do a lot of bonding experiences.”

After what Nemia described as a “disconnect” between the coaches and the players last season, Orcutt’s new technique has helped the Eagles climb back towards the top of the totem pole.

They have a chance to reclaim their prestige this coming Sunday in a game against none other than SUNY Buffalo. The implications of success that the game would bring, however, are not the only driving forces behind the team.

On Sept. 11, 2001, a man wearing a red bandana over his nose and mouth directed a large group of World Trade Center workers to exits, then continued to head back up into the building in an attempt to save as many lives as possible and then eventually losing his own.

That man was named Welles Crowther, and he had graduated from BC just two years before and had been a member of the BC lacrosse team.

His stor y is now familiar to people, not only at BC, but around the country and beyond because of a video that aired on ESPN detailing his story.

The BC men’s lacrosse team will have Crowther for further inspiration as they suit up next Sunday, as the game is being

played as a benefit for his foundation.

“Last year we did a big game for cystic fibrosis and raised about $1,000 at the door, and this year we’re just changing that over and trying to show that, even with that ESPN video last year, we still want to keep that message going ,” Nemia said.

“Everyone sort of jumped in on the video, and it didn’t fade but with everything there are kind of cycles, so what we’re trying to do is keep his memory in the front of everyone’s mind and have another event to go off the red bandana run that’s in the fall.”

“A lot of guys felt like Buffalo came into our league and took us out and everyone hailed them as the new top of the league... so we’re we’re ready to go back to being number one in the East.”

Frank Nemia Men’s lacrosse The idea for charity games is two years in the making.

“Two years ago, the former president and myself decided that we ne e de d to do more community service type stuff, so last year we did a big game for cystic fibrosis, and this year my plan was to shift to having a cystic fibrosis game and a Welles Crowther game,” Nemia said.

“That didn’t work, but we want to have one game for charity like other Division I or Division III schools do.”

A game in memory of Crowther already exists at BC, as the women’s lacrosse team holds a game to honor him each year, but the close connection that the men’s lacrosse team still holds with the Crowther family makes it important for them to get involved as well.

“We’re still in touch with the family a lot, so we thought it was important for us too, even on the club side,” Nemia said. “We felt like it would be a great opportunity and its really exciting to get some cool stuff. We’re trying to get a lot of exposure in different lacrosse magazines this week, and I think Lax.com is going to be coming up and is going to be there and have some stuff going on for kids, so I think it’s going to be a lot of fun.”

The game, which will take place at noon next Sunday in Alumni Stadium, could signal the start of a new era for the BC men’s lacrosse team, and it’s importance is not being overlooked by the team.

“I think it’s more important for two reasons,” Nemia said.

“It’s more important because it’s a cause that we’re so involved in and every fall we try to be very helpful in the Red Bandana Run. We get to meet the parents and see how invested they are in us.

They love hearing about us and about our success. Then, bringing it back to the regular season, at the same time, I know a lot of guys, especially the seniors, felt like Buffalo came into our league and took us out and everyone hailed them as the new top of the league so we’re kind of excited to be having a great season, and we’re ready to go back to being number one in the East.” n

Graham Beck / heights Editor

After going 11-3 and losing to SUNY Buffalo in the conference finals in 2011, BC went just 8-7 in the 2012 season.

Eagle Roundup

Eagles faced with road woes in Carolina

By Chris Grimaldi Assoc. Sports Editor

Daniel lee / heights editor

BC was bested by Duke and North Carolina on the road over the weekend.

Hoping to avoid five consecutive scoreless defeats, the Boston College men’s tennis team squared off with conference foe North Carolina yesterday afternoon in Chapel Hill.

The Eagles could not avoid the same fate two days in a row, however, as they fell 7-0 to a Tar Heel squad hungry for a win on its Senior Day. UNC dominated both singles and doubles play, tallying three 8-4 victory in duo competition. BC sophomore Matt Wagner and freshman Kyle Childree each dropped competitive singles matchups 6-4, but those two-point margins were as close as any Eagle would get to topping a UNC opponent on the day.

Two days earlier, the Eagles were blanked by ACC powerhouse Duke in a 7-0 rout. Wagner provided the contest’s most competitive singles matchup, falling to Bruno Semenzato 63, 6-3.

Yet the Blue Devils dominated doubles play, putting on a dominant performance that included Jason Tahir and Michael Redlicki’s 8-1 victory over Wagner and teammate Kyle Childree. Friday’s match marked the Eagles’ fourth straight shutout loss against a conference opponent, and dropped their overall record to 11 games below the .500 mark.

Prior to having its weekend matchups against North Carolina and Duke canceled, the women’s tennis squad faced Boston University on Wednes-

day. Despite taking the Terriers down to the wire, BC found itself on the losing side of a 4-3 nail-biter.

The Eagle effort was highlighted by a complete performance f rom ro okie Wan-Yi Sweeting, who notched wins in both single and doubles play for the third straight match.

Though BC claimed the doubles point, BU won four of six singles matches. The Terrier run was highlighted by Kim McCallum’s 6-2, 6-2 defeat of BC’s Sarah Dalton.

Away from the court, BC found success in the water. The rowing team achieved victory in four of the five races it competed in Worcester, Mass. yesterday.

Dueling with Connecticut and Holy Cross upon Lake Quinsigamond, the Eagles put on a

complete performance.

BC’s Varsity Four tallied a win with a time of 7:45.10 to scoot past both the Huskies and Crusaders, while the Second Varsity Eight captured its fourth event victory of the season with a mark of 6:56.70. In the Third Varsity Eight, BC’s “A” boat enjoyed a first-place finish at 7:08.20 and its “B” boat’s time of 7:18.86 was good enough for second place.

Sunday’s strong showing gives the Eagles momentum as they head into Beanpot competition next week on the Charles River.

Closing out this week in BC sports, both the men’s and women’s track teams finished in 12th place at ACC Championships in Raleigh, NC. The Championships complete the season for both the men's and women's programs. n

Mannelly’s late effort earns win

By Alex Stanely Heights Staff

Freshman Sarah Mannelly scored twice in the last six minutes to silence a four-goal streak from Canisius, which tied the game at 10, and put the No. 18 Eagles ahead 12-10.

Mannelly recorded three total goals on the day, and sophomore Michaela Rix contributed four more, as the Eagles outgunned the Golden Griffins yesterday at the Newton Campus Lacrosse Field.

This win puts the Eagles at an 11-6, 3-2 ACC record, and their

winning streak now stands at seven games, a school record.

The Golden Griffins were the first to score, as Canisius sophomore Maria Kotas scored around two minutes into the game.

That set off a four-goal streak for the Eagles, in which Rix scored her first two of the afternoon.

In the rest of the first half, the scoring heavily favored Boston College, and the Eagles headed into the break with an 8-3 lead.

Canisius did manage to close the scoring gap at 4-3, but then BC went on another four-goal streak, ending with Caroline Margolis hitting the

Graham Beck / heights Editor

The BC women’s lacrosse team kept its winning streak alive against Canisius.

back of the net with seven seconds left in the half.

The second half started much the same as the first, with BC scoring through Kara Magley, assisted

by Margolis.

But, then Canisius gained some momentum and went on a 7-1 run to tie up the game at 10-10 with 12:01 left in the game.

This is when Mannelly scored her two game-winning goals, the first of which consisted of beating her defender with a spin move.

She ended the game’s scoring with a drive from the top of the arc, to drop Canisius.

The Eagles are now 3-0 all time against Canisius, who sit at 11-4, 5-0 MAAC. With this game being the last regular season home game, it was senior night, honoring Brooke Blue, Jessie Coffield, Ali Meagher, and Kate Rooney.

However, this game also held significance with the recent Boston Marathon bombings, as the team went onto the field with an American flag.

The game was in fact rescheduled from Saturday to Sunday, due to Friday’s manhunt.

The Eagles will now head into the ACC tournament, with a quarterfinal game against Virginia Tech on Thursday in Chapel Hill, NC. The game will be televised on RSN and ESPN3.

The winner of the No. 3 seeded Eagles and No. 6 seeded Hokies will go on to play North Carolina the next day. n

THE HEIGHTS

Monday, April 22, 2013

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STATE OF BC with ATHLETICS Brad Bates INTERVIEW CONDUCTED BY AUSTIN TEDESCO | SPORTS EDITOR AND GREG JOYCE | HEIGHTS SENIOR STAFF

T Q

he Heights: You mentioned a while ago at the State of the Heights that you are working on a strategic plan. Is that plan finalized yet?

Brad Bates: It’s not. Once it’s finalized we’ll go public with it, so everyone will be aware of it. We’re in the process right now of soliciting feedback. We’re wrapping up our mission and vision statements, and we’re breaking it down.

I think we’re into a half a dozen task forces that are each assigned to different topics. They’re coming back with action plans and different objectives that they’ll share with our department, and then we’ll kind of finalize the direction of the department and where we’re going to be and how we’re going to get there. But that will be a very transparent, public document. We want to be accountable. We want to share our objectives. They’re going to be lofty and ambitious and some may even say audacious, but at the same time, why are we in this business if we’re not striving to be the very best?

Heights: How does the Brighton Athletic Facility factor into that?

Bates: One of the task forces is assigned with building a master facilities plan for athletics. We’re going to look at what are the major facility projects that we need to engage, what the cost is going to be, and how we’re going to cultivate the money and resources so that we can develop them. The facilities have got to be in line with the department’s priorities and the University’s priorities. That particular task force will have clear objectives in terms of our athletic facilities.

Heights: With the collapse of the bubble, are there any plans for a long-term indoor facility for the football team and all of the other sports that use it as well?

Bates: It’s definitely one of the items that the task force is talking about and working with the University on discussing. And it wouldn’t be just an athletic building, it would be a campus-wide building. It obviously has benefits to students in club sports and intramurals.

That’s clearly something that we’re discussing, but again we’ve got to identify with the priorities of our department and the institution. Having the bubble collapse twice in four years, that’s a problem, and it’s certainly something that we’ve got to address because the ramifications of that, not just on our athletic programs but on a lot of student groups, is really significant particularly when you have winter with, let’s just say, fairly inclement weather.

Heights: Steve Addazio has been here for almost five months now. What have you seen from him so far?

Bates: We haven’t played a game yet, and ultimately our success in any of our programs should be measured on our competitive success and our graduation rates and the retention of students. And that’s why we all engage in this wonderful profession. We feel those are two benchmarks for student development, and so ultimately that will be the outcome by which we should be measured. At the same time, Steve has just hit the ground running. He’s been incredibly energized. His wealth of experience in mentoring is clearly evident in the way he’s developing a foundation for the long term, not just a quick fix or short-term success.

At the core of everything that he’s doing is a sincere and genuine caring about his students. He’s incredibly demanding of them on and off the field, but he genuinely cares about them. I see that every day in the way that he engages his students, he supports his students, he shows up in hospital rooms after surgeries. I’m very excited about his leadership for our program.

Heights: There was a release last month about updates for pregame and postgame for football. Is there an update on the tailgating space?

Bates: We’re still working on the breadth of our tailgating spaces. That’s something where we have to go through processes with the city to identify what we can do and what we can expand upon. At the same time, there are some areas that we’ve

traditionally, in a decentralized way, distributed spaces that we haven’t necessarily used consistently. So, the quick answer to your question is that, yes, we’re still working on a lot of those things and we will be releasing updates throughout the summer.

We have so many different concepts and initiatives that we’re trying to implement. We’re kind of thinking big, but we want to start deliberate and small enough that we do things very, very well. The key to this whole thing is that we’ve got to deliver on the promise. We’re going to talk about new initiatives that will hopefully get people excited and engaged in our football program.

We’ll do the same thing for other programs as well. Once they come and take advantage of those activities, we’ve got to make sure they have a ‘wow’ experience.

Heights: I wanted to talk about the O’Bannon case a little bit. Have you thought about what would happen here and the effects it would have if the O’Bannon side were to win the lawsuit?

Bates: I’ve thought a lot about it. I think the outcomes are so extreme right now and you look at comments such as what Jim Delaney made, and so I think the expanse of ramifications on college athletics could be so extensive that it’s really difficult to predict where that could land and how it could add up. I think everyone in athletics is following that very, very closely to see what the court decides.

Heights: And then what are your thoughts on the specific claim that college athletes should have a right to their own likeness and their own image?

Bates: Yeah, believe me I’m not a lawyer, so when it comes to rights and representation of students and exploiting their image and that sort of thing, my guess is the law has a very clear definition of what that means and how that should be impacted and whether individuals should be reimbursed for it or not, and ultimately that’s what the litigation is about and it’ll be very, very interesting to see how that proceeds. I think from an objective standpoint, just stepping back and observing it, it’s a fascinating challenge. It’s going to compel a legal dialogue that I think at the core of it is about how are we investing in our students and how are we generating resources through the entertainment side of our students’ competitions and how are we distributing the resources that we generate through those competitions.

Are we investing the bulk of it back into the development of our students, which should be the core of our investment?

Heights: Do you think there is a way to make it work, having students profit off their likeness, whether it is putting the funds away for after graduation or any of the other changes to the system that have been proposed that would involve for compensation?

Bates: I think anything is on the table depending on what the outcome of the lawsuit is. The challenge, of course, is there’s only a very small handful of athletic departments across the country that generate a profit every year, very few. So the rest of the schools are heavily reliant on institutional subsidies, and so anything that increases the institutional subsidies is obviously problematic. So how significant that money set aside would be—and again that’s what I was referencing earlier. How are we taking the revenue we’re generating and reinvesting it back in our students? That’s really the critical question that needs to be answered because the bulk of that money should be invested in ways that maximize the development of our students while they’re on our campus.

Heights: Talking about that revenue, is part of the task force looking at the number of varsity programs and addressing the idea of maybe cutting back and investing more money in certain programs?

Bates: We’re looking at how we resource our programs right now, along with what the expectations for those programs should be. The expectations should align with the resources that are being invested with those programs, and right now I think we are in a grey area in terms of what those expectations are and also how we’re investing in those programs. So we’re absolutely looking at each program individually, we’re gauging it against our conference competitors, and then we’re going to make decisions ultimately in the best interest of our department and the University.

Heights: And then the baseball team, as a

team in the north they’re typically at a disadvantage compared to the rest of the ACC competing in the south. Coach [Mike] Gambino has said that they don’t always get what they want but they get what they need.

Is that the kind of view that you have?

Bates: I think Mike Gambino’s response is very noble.

I think that we really seriously have got to look at our competition in all of our programs and see what resources they’re investing in the things that are needed.

There are some things that may be unnecessary, but as long as you have this overarching guide of how do we maximize student development, I think that gives you a good filter for the resources that you’re investing in a program. Now, having said that, you guys have also heard me say that I believe that competitive success is part of student development, and so we’ve got to make sure that the resources we’re investing are very deliberate and tactical in ways that help those programs have competitive success. Ultimately, we want to strive for championships, and we’ve got to make sure that if we have those expectations that we’re providing the resources so they can, in an equitable way, compete against other institutions.

The other thing that’s really interesting is that Boston College has some inherent attributes for us competitively too. Most of our issues we can change, but the attributes we have would be very difficult for other schools to replicate. So for example, there are certain schools across the country that it may take 100 years and they still wouldn’t have the ranking or the presitge of a Boston College degree. So we’re really given an easier task in terms of things that we can affect as opposed to other institutions that may not have those inherent attributes that we can take advantage of. We live in this incredible city. That’s certainly something we can sell when we’re recruiting students to this experience.

Heights: Has there been progress made on the decisions to change the men’s basketball seating?

Bates: Ultimately, the one decision that has been made is that we’re going to put the baseline seats right up against the court. Now, how we impact the sideline, we haven’t finalized that decision yet. We’re looking at sightlines, because the anticipation is that students are going to stand for most of the game, we would hope so, and if they’re standing we’ve got to make sure that if it’s impacting anyone sitting behind them—you can’t have the expectation that everyone’s going to stand the entire game and so we just want to conversation with people it may impact and we’re in the process of having those conversations.

We definitely want to do something with the sideline.

We’ve just got to figure out what’s the optimum point that best serves the student population and what our students are interested in doing that best serves the students as well as creates a greater atmosphere for us. And we also want the students facing the cameras.

There’s one clear side where the cameras are facing on TV. We want that side really showcasing our student body and what sort of energy we can produce at our basketball games.

Steve is setting up a great schedule this year. It’s going to be incredibly demanding, so I think the appeal of the opponent’s for the most part is going to be really high. We’ve got a player on our team who did something as a freshman very few people in one of the greatest basketball leagues in history has ever done.

There are a lot of good reasons to be excited and to make the change this year.

Heights: And then what did you see from Donahue throughout the season?

Bates: We’re starting freshmen and sophomores in arguably the greatest basketball league in the country and we’re going toe-to-toe with everybody. You go to practices and you watch what an exceptional teacher he is and his staff. You look at how competitive those guys are. They came off the close in some of those close losses and they’re not happy that they made it close, they’re genuinely angry that they lost the game. I think that whole culture in that locker room through his leadership is heading in the right direction. We’re very excited about the future of basketball here. 

“We want to be accountable. We want to share our objectives. They’re going to be lofty and ambitious and some may even say audacious, but at the same time, why are we in this business if we’re not striving to be the very best?”

- Brad Bates on the department’s strategic plan

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That 9 dollar lunch is worth more than you think. Like 19,000 dollars more.

Pack your own lunch instead of going out. $6 saved a day x 5 days a week x 10 years x 6% interest = $19,592. That could be money in your pocket.

Small changes today. Big bucks tomorrow. Go to feedthepig.org for free savings tips.

Monday, April 22, 2013

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Monday, April 22, 2013

Health&Science

Interpreting life as we know it

Joseph Castlen Life isn’t all fun and games. It isn’t all studying and working, either. When you think about it, it is not easy to pinpoint exactly what life is at all. The most basic definition pertains to the physical state of life—as opposed to the state of death. When “life” begins has been a public debate ever since 1973, and in the 40 years since, the only consensus that has been reached is that there is none. The end of “life” also elicits discussion. Does a beating heart constitute life, or is it only when one’s brain is capable of sentience that one is considered to be truly alive?

Maybe the best way to go about answering these questions is to examine things we know not to be alive and discover from the outside in what it means to be “live.” When asked to think of an object that certainly does not exhibit any properties of life, it only makes sense to take into consideration the case of the sedimentary rock. The rock is incapable of independent motion, but so are some people, so that cannot be what keeps it from being alive. The rock sits stationary for years, decades, and even millenia at a time, but despite its longevity, it cannot hope to form one concrete thought in its entire existence. This inability to think and reason clearly prevents the rock from being defined as “living” in any reasonable classification system.

The ability to reason, a characteristic most (if not all) animals lack, is appealing as the defining characteristic of humanity, but even this is incomplete. Octopi can learn to open jars to get to food, and some studies suggest that they are also capable of feeling emotions and having individual personalities. The only thing a newborn baby can do to get food is to scream incessantly, and my own personal studies have found them to have incredibly self-centered personalities. At the very least, most can agree that octopi, which can change colors and shoot ink at predators, are much cooler than babies, who can only cry and make dirty diapers. But I doubt anyone would advocate keeping a mature octopus alive over a human baby in the bizarre scenario that one must choose between the two (perhaps a nursery visit to the aquarium gone wrong?).

The answer to what makes us human may lie in the aspect of life that makes octopusslaughter such an attractive alternative to baby-killing. The only logical answer, other than, “Obviously you would choose to kill an octopus over a baby! What are you, some kind of demented, octopus-loving sociopath?” is that the baby has the potential to grow into a productive member of our human society, while the octopus can only hope to continue changing colors and shooting ink.

This definition raises serious concerns, however. Are severely disabled seniors, still sentient but no longer productive members of society—not worthy of life? They do not even have the potentiality to contribute to society, yet in an equally bizarre nursing home visit to the aquarium gone wrong scenario, none would choose the octopus over the senior citizen. This may be due to their past contribution to society, but what if the senior was actually a burden to society in his prime? Still, if we were in his position, we would feel like we deserve to be saved merely because we ourselves are human.

There are more imaginable scenarios that elicit the same response, too. Take for instance a family financially burdened by the cost of keeping alive a loved one who is barely clinging on. If the children in the family are going hungry just so the senior can live another day, then does it make sense to keep him alive? For many, the answer is still yes. Life is an ongoing experience, and dying is part of it. To interfere with this would be to interfere with one fully living their life.

In terms of abortive measures available in modern society, this definition of life also raises questions. When weighing the life of an unborn child against that of a mother who cannot possibly survive the process of giving birth, most people sympathize with the mother. Her life is valuable, and to preserve it, it may be necessary to cut the unborn child’s potential full experience of life short. What happens when there is no special case, however, and the mother simply wishes to forgo the life experience of giving birth to pursue others at the cost of denying the unborn child the life experience of being birthed, among others? In such situations we must tread lightly and exercise caution.

What is clear is that there is no one definition of life. Everyone has their own life experiences that affect how they live their life. Life isn’t all fun and games, but whether or not we can pinpoint exactly what it is, we can agree that it is something worth living.

Joseph Castlen is an editor for The Heights. He can be reached at features@bcheights.com.

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Student visions materialized with aid of Theater Dept Theater, from B10 to really illuminate the journey from the classroom to all angles of the stage. “Promoting, nurturing, and developing original student work is really rewarding—I find it very valuable,” he said.

Alessa Natale, publicity coordinator of the Dramatics Society and A&S ’14, noted the value in being part of a student group. Both of the student boards of the Dramatics Society and Contemporary Theater are entirely student run. These autonomous groups are a great way for students to get involved in acting and the production process, even if they are not theater majors. “With theater, it’s something that doesn’t exist until you create it—it is so reliant on collaboration and on being a team. It is reliant on so many people, and it is awesome when you get to see an audience see something you had a hand in creating,” Natale said.

New Voices 2013, a showcase of original short works by BC undergraduates, debuted in the Bonn Studio on Mar. 22 and 23. New Voices is one facet of the Theater Department’s efforts to encourage student voice and original student creativity on the stage. This year’s New Voices was the fourth production of original student plays since 2005. The night included four 10-minute plays by Kyle N. Brown and Maggie Kearnan, both A&S ’14, and Chris

Gouchoe and Timothy N. Kopacz, both A&S ’13, as well as two pieces by students in the Workshop in Puppet and Object Theater class taught by visiting Monan Professor of Theatre Arts John Bell.

Cummings, who has now spearheaded four evenings of original work by BC play writes, wanted to put a twist on this year’s New Voices. The production included a wider range of work, with more playwrights being able to showcase their work, as well as a puppet facet. Cummings described New Voices as more of a workshop experience than a turnkey production. “It’s really predicated on the idea that the draft of the play you take into rehearsal is not necessarily the best possible version of the script to perform,” he said. He noted that the rehearsal process can reveal things about what a play “really wants to be” that the writer may not have fully been aware of.

Maggie Kearnan, A&S ’14, submitted two pieces for New Voices over the summer. She heard back from Cummings in September that he really liked one of her scripts. “He made it clear that New Voices is a process with writing,” Kearnan said. “I worked a lot with Scott and my play ended up becoming something very different from what it was when I submitted it. It was almost like taking playwriting again, which is awesome.” She received feedback and notes from the actors, and found that hearing her play read out loud and acted out helped

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‘Jack and Jill’ was performed in the Bonn Studio in February, sponsored by the Theater Dept.

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Students rehearse with their puppets for ‘Avenue Q,’ to debut in Robsham this Wednesday. her immensely in seeing how her script could be developed.

At this point in her theater experience, Kearnan has been involved in every aspect of production. “There are so many different steps to putting on a play,” Kearnan said. “New Voices is awesome because all of that is happening at once and you get to see it all come together which is sort of like a speed round in the theater major.”

Stuart Hecht, associate professor of theater, also believes very strongly in the bridge between education and independent creativity. He noted that in classes, students learn to value each other based on the quality of their work rather than based on “who’s cool.”

“We aim at preserving and developing student vision and voice, skills and knowledge,” Hecht said. “We’re all very dedicated teachers.

Yes, we’re experts and artists ourselves, but we are also teachers. We want our students to find themselves.”

Student involvement was also very much a part of the process in assembling a spring show. Avenue Q, which will run Apr. 24-28, was decided on in a collaborative effort.

Cummings asked Hecht if he would direct the spring musical, which he hoped could be based around some sort of theme to go along with the sesquicentennial. Hecht’s interest in immigration and how newcomers adjust to America directed his search of plays. He appealed to students to see what plays would make them excited.

Avenue Q is a contemporary musical comedy, which includes mostly puppet characters living in rundown tenements in New York City. Although several are parodies of

Sesame Street characters, these puppets face real adult problems. “The whole point is that it’s controversial, and its funny,” Hecht said.

“Underneath all the craziness and crudeness it really has some important things to say about becoming an adult, not in a hit you over the head kind of way, but in a way that makes you laugh.” He noted that frankly, it’s about minorities—“monsters” and how they are prejudiced against and in the end, how they solve that.

He explained the reality that in order to get a message across, you have to entertain.

To add freshness to the BC version of the Tony Award Winning Avenue Q, Hecht and some students collaborated with a local puppeteer and puppet designer to build their own puppets for the show (which are adult versions of the iconic Sesame Street figures).

Due to its vulgar language and references, Hecht has received some criticism for the play choice. He is pleased, however, that most people have been able to see beneath the provocative surface of the play (such as the character named Lucy the Slut) and recognize that it really has something important to say to the audience.

Avenue Q works parallel with what has been deemed, by some in the Theater Department, as “the year of the puppet.” Bell has brought enthusiasm to the BC campus this year and has attempted to redefine the stigma attached to puppetry. “Puppetry is a contemporary, innovative, and also a historical form of great fascination.” Bell’s puppet workshop class this semester performed a piece, “The Nightingale” for New Voices, and will also perform an outdoor puppet show for Arts Fest. n

Shaw continues student growth and campus involvement Shaw, from B10 vice. Previous speakers have included student leaders such as the president of the Undergraduate Government of Boston College and the editor-in-chief of The Heights, entrepreneurs, chief executive officers, non-profit executives, noted professors, senior university administrators, Boston College Eagles men’s basketball head coach Steve Donahue, and University President William P. Leahy, S.J. Still, Nuell would argue that the most outstanding aspect of being a freshman in the Shaw Leadership Program is being paired with an upperclassman mentor who has similar personal and academic interests.

Watching the excellent example set by talented and passionate mentors helps Nuell to “challenge myself to become the best leader.”

Yet the question remains: what happens to the Shaw leaders after their freshman year when they no longer reside together in the Shaw House? Daniel Tonkovich, CSOM ’13, is a senior Shaw leader and one of the seven members of the Shaw Leadership Council that oversees the development of the program. Tonkovich explains that while freshman year of the program is the most intensive, sophomore, junior, and senior members are still engaged in the program through the same seminars, service events, the mentoring program,

the governing council, academic and career advising, the alumni network, and friendships. Uniquely, sophomores are required to envision and execute a year-long service project, juniors focus on securing career or graduate school opportunities, and seniors are encouraged to enroll in Capstone courses. This year, the sophomores are partnering with an “English as a Second Language” program for their year-long service project.

Thanks to the growth and development the Shaw Leadership Program provides, the program’s sophomores, juniors, and seniors have extended themselves be yond Shaw, actively serving and contributing to the BC community. According to Tonkovich, former and current members of the Shaw Leadership Program have served as “editors of The Heights, presidents of UGBC, directors of various campus organizations, orientation leaders, resident assistants, members of the ROTC program, Appalachia volunteers, NCAA and club sport athletes, entrepreneurs, and distinguished scholars.”

This is only the beginning of the extensive list of accomplishments by Shaw leaders—one distinguished member, Narintohn Luangrath, A&S ’14, was even selected as a Truman Scholar this year. To add, the influence of the Shaw leaders is not limited to the BC campus, as Shaw also sponsors events

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While Shaw housing is only available for freshmen, students continue the program years after. for the greater Boston Community. For instance, the program has cosponsored a lecture by Schindler’s List Holocaust survivor Rena Finder for the past two years, and provided support to the Enjoy Life Club’s Academy, a leadership program for middle and high school students.

The significance and value of the Shaw Leadership Program boils down to the people who were and are members. Freshmen with the potential to grow and the passion to serve enter the program, and leave the program as

reflective and prepared seniors ready to set the world aflame thanks to the mentors, friends, and alumni they meet throughout their four years.

With the distinct privilege to build and continue such relationships and networks for the rest of their lives comes the responsibility to serve others and live meaningful lives. Many who have gone through the program have already had a positive impact in their communities and the world, and we can certainly expect more successful members in the years to come. n

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CAMPUS CHRONICLES

Have morning Boston solidarity sheds light on momentary celebrations motivation ANDREW SKARAS

ALISON TAKAHASHI “Say my name, say my name, you’re acting kind of shady, ain’t calling me baby, why the sudden change?”

Let’s say this is your 8:30 a.m. morning alarm clock before your all-too-early history lecture. You will be seeing too many people and all you really want to do is cuddle up with your blanket. It’s safe to say that you are by no means in the mood to leave the comfort of your bed and cannot fathom starting the process of your day. You can tell that your mind hasn’t fully adjusted to your quick wake up call because John Mayer is still whispering sweet nothings into your ear while strumming his guitar. You don’t want to leave him mid song, after all, and he totally looks like he’s about to ask you to a date at Hillside, so naturally, you just can’t part with this moment.

“Say my name, say my name, you’re acting kind of shady, ain’t calling me baby, why the sudden change?”

And there it goes again! As much as you love Destiny’s Child, this thing has got to be turned off. And so it is. Getting out of bed is another obstacle altogether, but you’ve sufficiently done that too. After doing some kind of sunrise yoga morning stretch pose, you take the critical next step by opening up the blinds. This lets in an overwhelming amount of light that you may or may not be ready for. Brace yourself because you will probably be blinded for the next 10 minutes or so, but at least you’re making moves right?

Now the inevitable question, what the heck are you wearing this morning? Your brain cannot function, and if you could wear anything it would be the covers on your bed in a preferably horizontal position. For some reason it strikes you that is not a socially acceptable option. If only society could just accept your decision to be a human mattress, or at the very least understand that you’re just not feeling class in general at this moment of time.

Afraid to look at the clock, you eventually succumb to curiosity to learn that it is already 8:52! With a class at 9, you realize that you’re way past late and need to pick up the pace. Unfortunately, a formal (if you could call it that) breakfast at McElroy of Chobani yogurt and crunchy, wholesome granola is out of the question at this point, so wolfing down a NutriGrain bar is a necessary action. Feeling slightly satisfied and a bit like a caveman, you look to your dressing drawer and contemplate how you’ll manage to dress yourself in a reasonable fashion.

“Maybe I should just go back to bed,” you’ll think, but don’t do that! Get yourself ready! Inspirationally pep-talking yourself may be a beneficial option and will lead you to ponder, “How can I possibly leave the room, be comfortable, get to class, and look socially acceptable for a lecture of upwards of 200 people?”

Easy, you just look like you’re feeling the complete opposite! When you’re feeling exhausted, sleep deprived, and lazy, why not look motivated, tireless, and energetic? You may think that this requires the sacrifice of comfort, but fear not my friends, comfort reigns supreme!

Work your way through the messy heap that is your pile of clothes and uncover a pair of leggings or yoga pants after a rather vigorous search. The hard work and sweat required is worth your effort, I promise!

Now look to your athletic clothes. If it means putting on a long-sleeve warm up, a Lulu tank top, or a breathable lax pinnie, so be it, they all work! You’re also going to need a pair of running sneakers, which requires a pair of socks as well. If you’re against wearing socks, then I guess just forget them, but you should really think that over. Throw on a headband for the heck of it and now you look like you’re ready to hit the Plex, log in an hour-long workout filled with intense cardio, weight lifting, and general summer bikini bodybuilding. Right on!

It’s safe to say that when you make your way into your sleep-robbing 9 a.m. class, every girl in your lecture hall is going to look at you and think, “I should probably be as driven as that girl and stop wishing I could be in bed. She’s probably run a few miles around the Res in the time that I was eating breakfast!”

Ironically that’s exactly what you want to be doing too! But at least you’re in your comfortable and deceivingly pro-active outfit today, that is not only socially acceptable, but also makes others around you feel that they too need to get going on their day.

You’ve in fact become a role model of some sort, nonverbally telling others with your clothes that you are anything but lazy, overtired, or suffering from insufficient sleep. Whatever you do, don’t give on that you’re taking a nap the moment class gets out, which of course, you are. Also don’t let on that it was the only thing on your mind as you learned about France’s Fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 and all that.

Alison Takahashi is a contributor for The Heights. She can be reached at features@bcheights.com.

Moments are funny things. Sometimes they are but a second, some of them last for hours. Sometimes a moment is nothing more than an event in a single person’s life.

Other times they capture something far greater than themselves—they capture a defining instant of a society, twinkling in the eyes of its participants. All of them are fleeting.

What we saw on Friday night at Boston College was something of an amalgamation of all of those. In fact, it harkened back to a night only the juniors and seniors here remember, but I have tried to experience transitively. Two years ago, America found and killed Osama bin Laden. The response on campus was complete and utter chaos—

kids with American flags running through Gargan Hall, chanting “USA”—the largest outdoor party in the Mods the campus had ever seen; kids from all different classes openly drinking outdoors—all in all, part patriotism, part solidarity, and all craziness.

True, part of it was fueled by the fact that everyone was fed up with studying for finals. But most of it was fueled by a social and cultural frustration, built up over 10 years of our country searching for one man. Ten years of our people, our brothers, sisters, and friends, fighting and dying for our freedom. Ten years with few results.

So a night became something more than a night. It became a release. It became an opportunity for a generation that has seen little but war and the threat of terrorism since it came of age to let out its angst and frustration in a night of celebration.

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Students began parading in the Mods on Friday night to display American pride.

This Monday, the city of Boston suffered from a great tragedy. On a day devoted to celebrating liberty and freedom, this city suffered a bombing at the hands of terrorists. Instead of responding with anger or frustration, Boston responded with a great determination and a great compassion.

People lent a helping hand to others they barely knew. The whole city came together.

But it did not do so just once. When another one of its own was shot Thursday night, the entire city responded in solidarity once again. While the whole city was on lock down on Friday, the citizens lent their support. When the terrorist was captured in the evening, the campus responded swiftly and passionately.

Standing in my room in Vandy looking out over the Mods, it looked like every student on this campus instinctively headed for the Mods. It was another moment of social and cultural release. People were roaming around, waving their American flags, and singing patriotic tunes. “Shipping up to Boston” was blasting from three different Mods at the same time. But it did not end then—the celebration continued to escalate.

By midnight, the backyard behind Mod 25 and the adjacent Mods had filled with people. The music was blasting and it seemed like the whole school just understood that that was supposed to happen—that place was not just a place to be on Friday night, it was the place to be. Empty

beer cans were trampled underfoot and kids were standing on all of the tables, yet it all remained contained. Even when it started to rain … and then started to pour … everyone stayed. Though it turned into a downpour, the energy was too high to abandon. The police roamed around the perimeter and stationed a car at the corner, but let the event play out. It was not until 1:45 a.m. that they began to break up the impromptu party.

What is it that evokes this response from students? I really can’t say, myself. There is the natural human desire for camaraderie in times of strong emotions and cultural significance. After a day of forced seclusion, I suppose that many people had cabin fever and just wanted to get outside. Part of it I assume is the spontaneity of the happening—one simply cannot plan something like that. And then there is the fact that we are all college students—young and full of energy.

At some level, it does not really matter how we explain why the event happened.

What is more important is how we interpret the meaning of it afterward. At the end of the day, it was just another moment. But for me, for my class, for all of us here at BC right now, it was our moment.

Andrew Skaras is an editor for The Heights. He can be reached at features@bcheights.com.

PROFESSOR PROFILE

Gray brings White House and ‘Times’ experience to BC

BY DARA FANG

WHO: Tim Danielle WHO: Gray Taghian

Heights Senior Staff If there is just one thing to take away from a class with Tim Gray, he says it would be the three C’s of writing: “clear, colorful, credible.” “If people read this article, they don’t even need to take the class!” he said, chuckling.

As an adjunct professor in the Accounting Department, Tim Gray teaches Business Writing and Communications, an elective course. Along with his wife, Boston College accounting professor Mary Ellen Carter, he also presides over the International Management Experience program in Argentina and Chile, a CSOM Directed Readings course.

Outside of teaching, he is a contributing writer to The New York Times, and a long-time freelance writer and editor whose focus is on emerging markets, finance, and investing. Past publications of his have included Fortune, Inc., The Boston Globe, SmartMoney, and even the Delta Airlines inflight magazine.

“Journalism has taken me to some pretty interesting places,” Gray said, naming visits to the U.S. Congress, U.S. Supreme Court, and the Oval Office, where he covered a story on the president’s chief of staff. Gray, who has been teaching at BC for approximately a year and a half, humbly admits to being a mere novice, despite his wealth of experience in his field. “Teaching writing has forced me to scrutinize my own writing and its shortcomings,” Gray said.

As honest as he may be, his budding skills as a writing professor should not be overlooked. Over the past year, the class has doubled in size, though

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still capped at 15 students. Compared to the quantitative focus of the steely CSOM core, his classes are structured around discussion, in-class writing, and developing the skills needed to express thoughts clearly.

“To write clearly, you have to think clearly, and clear thinking helps you in every job,” Gray said. “Put differently, if you really want to ensure that you understand something, try to write about it for publication. It’s a great skill and discipline.” The aforementioned three C’s principle of writing is something he emphasizes as the characteristics of good writing.

As a teacher, Gray, like most professors, values his time with his students immensely.

“I like their earnestness,” he said, “And the fact that very few of them are

Yankees fans,” he added with a grin.

While he surmises that the era of social media has the potential to make people lazier writers, he feels that his students who put great care into the course can make great strides to becoming better writers.

A North Carolina native, Gray is a self-described small town kid with impish spirit.

“I was a bit of a hellion,” he said.

“Thank God the movie Jackass didn’t come out when I was a teenager because my friends and I would’ve tried to do all those stunts and gotten into so much trouble.”

Gray attended Georgetown University, where he majored in International Relations and moved on to graduate school at Columbia University. He knew he wanted to venture out-of-state for col-

lege, and chose both a major and school that would justify branching out from the respectable UNC universities.

“Georgetown was a big-city school that drew students from everywhere.

I learned as much from my classmates as I did from my professors.” Currently a Bedford, Mass. resident, “the forgotten ‘ride-over’ town between Lexington and Concord,” he enjoys biking, hiking, and spoiling his dog Hannah, a German short-haired pointer. “I read a lot, but I wouldn’t consider it a hobby. It’s just something I love doing.”

Writing well, a skill that is integral to any profession, is especially important in the world of business. Part of CSOM’s strengths as a school is the emphasis on communication and writing that breeds well-rounded and well-used disciplines in the future. 

HE SAID, SHE SAID I started really connecting with this girl lately. We’ve been hanging out a lot, but it’s hard not to feel like things are ending with finals coming up and summer.

We won’t be able to see each other over the summer, and she’s going abroad in the fall. Is there any hope for us, or should I stop things before they get too serious?”

This is definitely not an ideal situation, and there are a lot of things that will help to determine how it goes. That being said, I don’t think that you should necessarily stop things from getting serious if you feel that your relationship can last.

My advice would be to have an upfront conversation with her about the impending long-distance relationship, and see what her feelings are about it.

If she is hesitant about continuing the relationship, ALEX MANTA or has any major concerns, it may be best to go on a break until she comes back next spring. Try to talk about your expectations for how things will be when you are separated, and encourage her to share her expectations. Be honest with her, and be honest with yourself. Many people find long distance relationships to be difficult, especially when they are abroad. You do not want her to end up resenting you because she feels that you held her back from fully experiencing her time abroad.

That being said, if you are both happy with the relationship, happy with each other, and optimistic about the future, there is no reason to end things.

I am not going to sugarcoat it for you—it will be hard, and at times you will probably wonder if you made the right decision. However, most things that are worthwhile in life require hard work, and relationships are no different. As a general rule of thumb, I don’t recommend ending something before it gets going because the situation is not ideal. It is always worth it to give it a shot, and if it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work. You don’t want to look back in a couple of years and wonder how it would have turned out if you had given it a shot.

I don’t want to sound overly cynical, but I would be careful in this situation. The summer plus an entire semester is clearly a long time to be apart from someone, and if feelings get really serious between you two and things progress, it could be a very hard few months for both of you. I wouldn’t go entirely head and heart first into a relationship with this girl because if you’ve just started feeling a connection with her, that’s not enough to warrant a difficult long-distance relationship. However, I wouldn’t cut off all ties.

TAYLOR CAVALLO The key is to find out how she feels first before you make any decisions. I would sit down with her at the end of this semester and explain how you feel, tell her that you know it’s bad timing, but that you are starting to have feelings for her. There’s a chance she might not feel the same way, but she might have been harboring this same internal conflict about what to do about you, too. It’s best to talk about it, because having her know that you feel something will make her feel good either way and if she feels the same, not get rid of the possibility of a relationship in the future entirely. Even though distance is keeping you both apart, there’s no reason why you can’t keep in touch casually over the summer and while she’s abroad. It actually might be enjoyable to have a friend abroad, but that’s what that communication should be, friendly. Getting romantic while she’s away will only confuse things, but it will keep that connection somewhat alive and not let the two of you forget one another entirely. Maybe when she gets back after being apart for so long you two will want to be together—I’ve seen similar situations happen before.

Alex Manta is a senior staff writer for The Heights. He can be reached at features@bcheights.com.

Taylor Cavallo is a senior staff writer for The Heights. She can be reached at features@bcheights.com.

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Monday, April 22, 2013

Successful BC grad’s advice Burgess, from B10 eight months, and continues to serve his position today, which he describes as “the internal journalistic watchdog of The New York Times newspaper.

“For me personally, it was a tremendous learning experience because I didn’t go to journalism school, and I didn’t work at The Heights,” he said. “I really had no journalism experience, so it was a really great way to learn about how a great newspaper like The New York Times works and puts out the paper each day, and what are the questions it faces.”

Burgess wrote an article called “The Card of my Dreams, Always Elusive,” which was published in January for the Sports section of The Times. He spoke about this article to the freshman writing seminar, followed by a discussion of the writing process and how to reconcile the differences between a reporter and editor who may have conflicting views for a story. He also addressed several questions regarding the field of journalism, such as the demands of the industry, where newspapers are headed, and the requirements of working at a newspaper such as The New York Times.

His advice to aspiring writers? “Read as much as you can at all times,” he said. “If you read good writing you will become a better writer. Secondly, learn to like writing and to learn to like writing for yourself. You need to learn to write for yourself before you can write for others. But the patience and the willingness to sit down and write for yourself is a task in and of itself.”

Burgess also offered some words of encouragement to students graduating from BC, since he was in their position not too long ago.

“The job market is incredibly difficult right now and will continue to be incredibly difficult for at least a few years,” he said. “First of all, be adaptable. And what I mean by adaptable is to look at what you want to do and reconsider different ways you may be able to get there. For example, let’s say you want to be an editor at publication ‘x’ but you can’t get there right away—what can you do in the mean time to get there?”

His second piece of advice is to view yourself “creatively” in your skill set and to avoid restricting yourself to a single career path. “Job sectors and job industries are merging, so think about working in your field but in a different industry,” he said. “Students shouldn’t be constrained with the idea that there’s one perfect job for them. There are many perfect jobs for people.”

While most students feel anxiety for being unsure of their career plans after graduation, Burgess noted that he had no idea what he wanted to do post-graduation, yet still ended up with a career. Even students who are concerned that their major is not conducive to obtaining a career can find comfort in the fact that any major will help you think in a different way, and learning how to think in a critical and effective manner is what is most important for employers, Burgess explained. He also stressed that happiness is not restricted to your job, and that opportunities are constantly changing, so students should be open to the possibilities.

“I just enjoy working as it comes and taking it a day at a time,” Burgess said.

“The newspaper industry right now is very turbulent, and I feel fortunate to have a job. There are a lot of opportunities that are dying and a lot of opportunities that are being created in new ways. The idea is that you need to take risks, and sometimes they work and sometimes they don’t, but at the end of the day it’s a learning experience.” n

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The Heights throughout the century

By Caroline Hopkins For The Heights To students at Boston College, Marathon Monday is a day so epic and exalted that it’s hard not to believe that the festivities have existed since the dawn of time. Bostonians revere the event as a national holiday, and students are not ashamed to admit that excitement for Marathon Monday often trumps anticipation for birthdays, Christmas, or even summer vacation. Urban Dictionary, Wikipedia, and ESPN acknowledge the sensational effect of Marathon Monday here at BC. Despite the 116-year history of the Boston Marathon, however, it was not until several decades ago that the tradition of celebration and unity surrounding the Boston Marathon came to be.

Archived issues of The Heights from as early as the 1920s reveal a humble start to the Marathon Monday tradition. Patriots’ Day festivities throughout the “roaring ’20s” were far more focused upon the “Great American pastime” of collegiate baseball. A 1928 issue of The Heights reveals, “The doubleheader on Patriots’ Day should pack Alumni Field ... Many will be torn between the desire to see the two fine college games … Some of the crowd will come out to watch the Marathon.” The following week, Apr. 24, 1928, a sports recap reads, “After the Mass the Dartmouth- BC game was played on Alumni Field. The Marathon race delayed the arrival of the seniors and their fathers in the afternoon, and it was considered advisable to dispense with the formal parade to the field, in order that the Fordham game be not further delayed.” Thus the marathon back in 1928, though still a noteworthy event in the Boston area, was viewed a bit more as a hindrance to the baseball games than it was the major event of today. Patriots’ Day in the 1920s also brought the tradition of BC’s “annual Father’s Day,” described in a 1930 issue as “the day on which the members of the graduating class proudly bear their male parents to the scene of their triumphs.

There is always a baseball game, a tour of inspection, a reception held by members of the Faculty, and a banquet.” The annual festival gave the BC community another reason to keep the marathon hype on the backburner, as impressing the visiting fathers with baseball victory was clearly the topmost priority.

As the decades progressed, however, the Boston Marathon attracted greater attention from the BC community. This heightened prominence may have been due to Boston’s moving Patriots’ day to the third Monday in April (which occurred in 1969) or perhaps a slight withdrawal from the fanatical baseball obsession. Drawing on past issues of The Heights, however, it seems the most influential cause for the marathon’s build up here at BC was the University’s collective quest for charity. In 1975 for the first time, The Heights disclosed that, “The BC Alli-

ance will be attempting to find sponsors for six BC runners in the Boston Marathon. Sponsors would donate funds to the Alliance to be sent for hunger relief.” Consequently, Heights issues from the 1970s onward began to feature more and more coverage and general excitement regarding the marathon. An issue published on Apr. 4, 1979 entreats BC students to support the runners, reading, “we as members of the Boston College community do not realize the important part we all take as we cheer all the runners on to success ... every runner looks forward to the outstanding support they receive from the spirited BC crowd. Because of the recent boom in running, it is our hope that the 20th mile here at BC will be the best mile for all 6,000 runners. Your consideration will be deeply appreciated.”

Subsequent issues of The Heights feature greater and greater attention to the Boston Marathon and BC’s charitable participation. Running the marathon in 1986, BC students, in conjunction with the Child’s Wish program, first raised $1,600 for terminally ill children, and in 1994, the BC ski team ran the race together in order to benefit the Jimmy Fund of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.

The increase in marathon coverage and charitable sponsoring came hand in hand with a rise in the promotion of marathon-related fun.

From the ’70s onward, issues of The Heights feature advertisements for marathon-related parties, performers, events, and deals (including, of course, a 1980 issue advertising $6.99 cases of Natural Light and $29.95 half kegs of Busch).

In 1982, the Voices of the Dustbowl section of The Heights asked a student, “How do you feel about the commercialization of the Boston Marathon?” to which she responded, “Commercialization is a form of publicity. Since the Boston Marathon is such a positive event, commercialization is not detrimental ...The more people you can get out supporting a community event and having a good time the better!”

Today, upwards of 300 BC students, in conjunction with the Campus School organization, take part in the Boston marathon each year, running to raise money for children with disabilities. The greater focus of the celebration is one of community and charity.

Following the tragic events of this year’s marathon, this unified spirit of BC compassion will only continue to grow. The positive and proactive response from the BC community in regard to this year’s marathon stands as testimony to the fact that Marathon Monday is more than just a giant drinking game.

The tradition of positive energy surrounding the Boston Marathon is bigger than any case of Natty Light or half keg of Busch. The running of the marathon celebrates a sense of commitment and dedication— dedication to charity, dedication to positivity, and most importantly, dedication to community. n

a regular hangout and running spot for BC students, children and adults from the surrounding Chestnut Hill neighborhood also flock to the Reservoir for its enjoyment. Students are reminded that people not between the ages of 18 and 22 still exist and are often lucky enough to be greeted by a few friendly golden retrievers on a given day.

What most students don’t know is how far back the culture of the Chestnut Hill Reservoir extends and how the body of water has adapted to the changing times.

The construction of the Reservoir began in the 1860s to accommodate the rapid growth of the City of Boston. Formally completed in 1870 at the expense of $2.4 million dollars, it was a lot larger than it is in the present day and the community around it depended on it, according to the Mass.gov website.

The original body of water was made up of two water basins, one of which no longer exists because it was bought and filled in

by BC in 1948. The Chestnut Hill Reservoir was a very popular place for “pleasure drives” after its construction because of the 80-foot wide driveway that was built around it for horse-drawn carriages to use at the time. In the late 1800s, residents of Boston traveled there to enjoy the driveway and the surrounding park, which is still known as the Chestnut Hill Reservation and recognized as a Massachusetts State Park. For them too, it was an escape from the bustle of an increasingly industrial city.

Today, the winding road on the north side of the Res is what remains of the original driveway.

In the 1970s, as Boston’s population continued to grow and other sources of water became available, the Chestnut Hill Reservoir retired from use. The Waterworks Museum, located on the eastern side of the basin, is a place where people can learn about the innovation of its original construction and the massive pumps that use to supply the City of Boston with water

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from the Reservoir. Although no longer in use, the Res remains a popular and necessary destination.

“The Res means easy runs on the knees, because of its dirt path, and beautiful sunsets,” said Dana Betts, CSON ’13. “It is kind of an escape from the BC Bubble.”

With the participation of the community to keep the Res clean, hopefully it will continue to be an escape for BC students.

The dirt and gravel path is a nice option for runners suffering from knee injuries as well as those who want to avoid jumping out of the way of cars. It is the perfect destination for a walk with friends, a place to reconnect with nature, and even a reminder of a simpler time. If anything, runners of the Res today can be thankful that they don’t have to share it with the horse-drawn carriages that ran it in the 1800s.

Last Monday, I passed by two police officers on my way outside to start watching the Boston Marathon. I smiled, waved nervously, and tried to quickly walk by, but then one of them stopped me. “You know, that’s the first smile I’ve gotten all day,” he said. I wanted to tell him to just take a look outside, where he could find hundreds of students smiling as they cheered on friends, family, and strangers, but I realized he meant that I had been the only one to smile at him, rather than look away, as I (and I’m sure several others) am usually accustomed to doing.

I’ve always had this instinctive fear of cops, despite the fact that I always drive five miles under the speed limit and always remember to put on my seatbelt. But chatting with those officers, who seemed friendly enough, made me think that maybe they’re not so bad after all.

Those smiles quickly faded around 3 p.m., as news spread that two explosions had gone off at the marathon’s finish line. They were replaced by tears, confusion, and anger as students desperately tried to contact their loved ones and struggled in frustration with who could possibly commit such a devastating crime to innocent people. I still am not, and probably never will be, able to comprehend Monday’s tragedy, but what I do know is that those police officers who initially set off warning signs in my brain were now sources of comfort, and I could only feel appreciation for all the efforts they were making to keep everyone safe.

It was hard to put on a smile again for the remainder of that day, but in the days following, it helped knowing that I was surrounded by people who genuinely care about each other. I smiled when I entered a packed St. Ignatius at Tuesday’s healing mass, and I smiled when I saw the Facebook event page for the “Last 5” memorial walk that was planned by some fellow students. I smiled at the messages and emails from people back home, which made it evident that although we may feel lost during this time, we’ll never be alone.

Friday morning, I woke up to a phone call around 9 a.m., and heard my sister and a male voice on the other end of the line.

“Buon giorno!” the man said, expressing his surprise that I had woken up so early to pick up my phone. It was my high school Italian teacher, someone I still keep in contact with because he now has my younger sister as a student. I responded with none of the enthusiasm that he had, explaining that I was aware of the shooting of an MIT police officer and the manhunt that was unfolding in search of the individual who could also be connected to the Boston Marathon bombings. He said that my sister was worried about me, but he sounded completely relaxed, and I could practically hear the smile in his voice as he told me that everything would be fine. I was skeptical as to how he could be so assured of this, but his optimism is partly what got me through the day as I constantly switched between my Twitter feed, Facebook, and The Boston Globe live coverage, searching for anything that may have indicated the end to this painful search.

And he was right. Our campus remained safe, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured alive, which incited celebration everywhere—flags were waving, music was blasting, and cheering could be heard throughout the Mods. I saw plenty of smiles that night, but the reason behind mine was that I knew how lucky we really were. Many of us were just watching the events unfold on the Internet and on television screens, but imagine being on the other side of that screen, and standing in the same vicinity as someone who caused the city of Boston to stop activity. We’re lucky enough to have people that are willing to act, protect, and fight for us at any cost, and the least they deserve is a smile in return for everything they have risked for our well-being.

I’ve learned over the past few days that there really are people looking out for us every day, whether directly or indirectly, and no individual can ever strip that sense of community away from us. Amid the sadness and uncertainty, it was the glimmers of hope that kept me going, whether it was a friendly volunteer holding the door open for me as students filed into Corcoran Commons on Friday, or an old teacher checking in to make sure I was keeping my head up. Without a doubt, I’m going to smile at every police officer I see from now on, because beneath that uniform lies a beating heart that dedicates an endless amount of love to the people he or she protects, and whether we’re in the midst of terror or just living an ordinary day, that’s something we shouldn’t ever forget.

Kathryn Walsh is a contributor to The Heights. She can be reached at features@bcheights.com.

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

Evolution of the Res as a popular BC escape A trip to “the Res” on a warm spring afternoon is something every Boston College student has done. The nicer the weather, the more students can be seen and heard on the 1.5 mile trail that winds around it.

For some, a run can mean an enjoyable (or competitive) four laps, shirtless. For others, it may mean a miserable lap characterized by numerous students passing them, billowing wind, and the accidental swallowing of gnats that always ends early in a slow, embarrassing shuffle. Whatever manner in which one travels around the Res, it is difficult to do so without running into familiar faces, because it is a large part of the culture here at BC and has been since the University’s beginning. Although it is not a stop on the admissions tour and not exactly known for its cleanliness, it is a pristine spot and recognized as a City of Boston Landmark. Even though it is

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BOSTON COLLEGE THEATER PRESENTS: STUDENTS ON THE STAGE

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Collaborative efforts between Theater Department and student groups allow for experience and entertainment

BY CATHRYN WOODRUFF Asst. Features Editor When most people hear theater major, they tend to first think of acting. But the truth is, it is a field that involves both incredible teamwork and independent thinking.

Theater majors at BC must complete a minimum of 12 three-credit courses, six of which are required and six are elected by the student. Additionally, they must complete six theater production labs, which involve hands-on experience in the shops or backstage on productions. In addition to their required classes, students are then expected and encouraged to get involved, as a way of gaining

practical knowledge and apply the classroom to the stage and its accompanying parts.

Scott Cummings, chair of the Theater Department, explained that a major goal of the department is to offer an opportunity for this experiential learning, through the labs, that gives students a more well-rounded look at production. “We want to help people be better actors, directors, and designers, but we also want them to be better theater-makers in general. You really have to know how all the parts fit together to be a theater-maker,” he said.

Theater majors are not required to act in shows.

In fact, auditions are open to anyone on campus.

The theater knowledge gained in the classroom,

however, forms a solid foundation that usually prompts students to get excited about translating that knowledge onto the stage. “We look at our production program as co-curricular,” Cummings said. “It’s an extension of what is going on in the classes—it’s not as socially driven as an extracurricular activity, but it’s also not required.”

The Theater Department produces six plays annually, including four “main stage” shows directed by faculty and two “workshop” productions directed by students. These “workshop” productions are made possible by student directors, student designed sets, costumes, lighting, and sound. The Theater Department works closely with Robsham Theater, home of theater production on campus since 1981. While the “main stage” performances take place in the 591-seat theater, the Bonn Studio Theater, a flexible black-box theater that accommodates 150, is usually utilized by the workshop performances and other student productions.

In addition to internal Theater Department casts, there are numerous student-run performing arts organizations on campus, such as Contemporary Theatre and the Dramatics Society, which each produce a play or a musical at least once a semester.

This fall, however, the two groups teamed up and co-produced the musical, “The Grand Room,” written by theater major Patrick Lazour, A&S ’13.

“I like the fact that CT and DS teamed up,” Cummings said. He noted how it has been a great year for creation of original student-written work, spanning from New Voices to the work of autonomous student groups. Of the nine pieces of theater going on in the building this year, three of them are brand new written by BC student playwrights.

Cummings, who teaches courses in play analysis, dramatic literature, and playwriting and regularly directs productions, has found student production

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ert Farrell, S.J., and was able to organize a discussion with Farrell’s freshman writing seminar.

Graduation for the class of 2013 is exactly While sitting in Stokes, admiring the one month away from today. While the pros- newest addition to our campus, Burgess pect of leaving this community is certainly discussed the challenges he faced after frightening for most people, perhaps they graduation, which was the first year after the should view commencement not as a per- financial collapse of 2008. manent goodbye, but rather as temporary “The job market for all graduating seniors departure, and a promise to return again was abysmal,” he said, which is why he took soon. Joseph Burgess, BC ’09, is a graduate a few months off during the summer before that has fulfilled that promise, as he recently applying for the internship on the corpopaid a visit to our Chestnut rate side of The New York Hill campus.

Times. He spent about six “I like that [BC] is a Jemonths in that position and suit school and that, as you was mainly responsible for get older and graduate, the keeping track of references sense of community that you to The New York Times on have at BC continues to go the Internet and through with you,” Burgess said. He social media. His main task explained that the friendand goals, he said, was to ships he made here were the find out what people were PHOTO COURTESY OF GOOGLE IMAGES most prominent aspect of his saying about the company, BC experience, and he continues to see his and to really learn about its function and classmates while living and working in New role in society.

York City.

Soon enough, there was an opening Burgess obtained a paid internship with to work with the Public Editor, who is the The New York Times soon after graduating representative for readers of The Times. in 2009 with an English major, and currently Burgess has been employed by the Office serves as the assistant to the Public Editor. of the Public Editor for two years and After he graduated, he kept in contact with one of his favorite BC professors, Rev. RobSee Burgess, B9 Features Editor

BY EUNICE LIM Heights Staff In this day and age, great leadership is more necessary yet harder to find than ever—and one can even argue that the intense bursts of criticism against bad leaders in society only reveal how much people want to see good leaders in power.

With this sentiment in mind, Robert F. Capalbo set out on a mission to grow and develop great leaders who would influence Boston College and society afterward in 1993 by forming the Shaw Leadership Program, a nationally recognized four-year intensive leadership development program. Twenty freshmen are chosen each year and for the first year of their college career, are required to live together in the Shaw House on Upper Campus.

Molly Nuell, LSOE ’16, states that she applied to both the Shaw Leadership Program and the Emerging Leaders Program last summer as a rising freshman but hoped more for Shaw “so that I could experience this type of housing

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The Shaw House, located on Upper Campus, houses 20 freshmen in the Leadership Program. situation, a living-learning community.”

The recent Boston Marathon explosions only confirmed the value of living with her fellow leaders. “We were lucky enough to have two of the Shaw freshmen return safely after running for the Campus School,” she said. “The care and concern for both of them was nothing like I had ever seen before. We were like a family that day and that is something I would never have experienced if I had lived in a regular dorm.”

These freshmen do not only live to-

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gether, but also attend weekly seminars given by influential figures on campus and in the community, implement service projects on campus, and participate in regular community service activities in the greater Boston community. The weekly seminars feature experts from various fields who discuss a variety of topics from management, entrepreneurism, public speaking, managing relationships and partnerships, and ser-

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