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Last year, Eagle EMS (EEMS) obtained a specially outfitted 2012 Ford Explorer to serve as a class five, non-transporting ambulance. Since then, EEMS has provided more EMS coverage on BC’s campus than ever before. Part of the added benefit of having the vehicle has been an increase in data recorded and kept by EEMS Director of Operations Gus Godley, A&S ’13.

“Part of [Gus’] role as Director of Operations is to keep track of our data as well as oversee our Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement (QA/QI) process,” said Alex Warshauer, EEMS president and A&S ’14. “I started this tracking program last year as Director of Education. Whenever we have a patient contact, we fill out some form of documentation. Once a week, Gus, as well as our ambulance coordinator and our special events coordinator, sit down together and do a review of all the calls from the week before.”

As they review the calls, they upload the nonidentifying information into a Google doc that tracks a whole host of information. Included in this is the nature of the call, when the call happens, the graduation year and sex of the subject, and the outcome of the call.

Each incident is grouped into one of two broad categories, vehicle coverage or special events coverage. The vehicle coverage represents the time that the ambulance is on call—three night shifts and two day shifts every week. The night shifts occur on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights from 8 p.m. until 4 a.m.

The day shifts occur on Friday and Saturday afternoons from 2 p.m. until 8 p.m. The special events coverage, on the other hand, represents when EEMS works standby shifts at sporting events and other activities on campus.

The second breakdown is into medical calls versus trauma calls. Medical calls represent 78 percent of the call volume for vehicle coverage since the beginning of the school year, while trauma calls only make up 16 percent. Medical calls cover instances such as cardiac problems, allergic reactions, alcohol incidents, and respiratory problems. Trauma calls include sports

See Eagle EMS, A4

Referendum on alcohol policy passes

BY ANDREW SKARAS Asst. News Editor On Thursday and Friday, students voted not only on who will lead UGBC in the coming academic year, but also on a referendum regarding how the school sanctions students found guilty of violating its alcohol and drug policy.

The referendum asked students if they would prefer the administration change the matrix system that is currently used to a points system without offering a specific plan, and passed with 83 percent of the voters in favor of the switch.

This referendum item has been the work of a select committee of the UGBC Senate chaired by Chris Marchese, A&S ’15. Over the past few weeks, the committee has been taking into account suggestions and criticisms that its first proposed points system had received.

Since then, several changes have been made to the committee’s preliminary proposal.

“The biggest [change] is the removal of sexual assault and harassment,” Marchese said. “Those issues will be dealt with by a different disciplinary procedure that needs to be revamped in and of itself, but that is another project.”

Another aspect of the preliminary proposal that was revamped was how a student could have their slate cleared for applications to graduate school.

Originally, the committee proposed that students with six or fewer points going into their senior year would receive a clean slate. Now, their proposal includes the creation of a board of appeals that will deal with these cases.

“The boards will be made up of the deans, but we are also trying to find a way to incorporate students,” Marchese said. “If you are graduating and you feel that your record should be completely cleared for grad school, med school, or law school, you can go to the board and appeal for that and make your case.”

In addition to the point clearing change, the committee made changes to the point forgiveness system. It was

See Alcohol Referendum, A4

Stayer Hall room catches fire on Sunday Dormitory building evacuates at 4:27 a.m., BFD respond to scene News Editor

Jack Dunn in an email. “BC’s facilities maintenance staff are working with vendors to clean and reopen the two rooms as soon as possible. The students have been temporarily relocated to other rooms in BC residence halls.”

As the BFD and BCPD are still investigating the cause of the fire, it is not yet

At 4:27 a.m. on Sunday, a fire was reported in a fifth-floor room in Stayer Hall. All Stayer residents were immediately evacuated, and the rest of the Boston College student body was alerted via emergency text and email at 4:41 a.m.

The Boston Fire Department (BFD) responded to the scene, and reported on their Twitter account that the fire was caused by “smoking material that came in contact with a sofa and clothes,” and that the building’s sprinkler activated and contained the fire. They further reported that the fire and sprinklers caused $10,000 worth of damage, and there were no injuries.

Residents were moved to the lobby of Robsham Theater around 5 a.m. while the firefighters worked at the scene. The all-clear alert was sent out at 7:23 a.m., and students were then allowed back inside Stayer Hall.

Disaster restoration company ProCare Incorporated sent response vans to the campus later Sunday morning to begin cleanup work.

“The dorm room and the room below it experienced water damage from the sprinklers,” said University Spokesman

Pro-Care Incorporated arrived later Sunday morning to commence clean-up procedures.

BY ELEANOR HILDEBRANDT

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Matt Nacier (right) and Matt Alonsozana (left) will be UGBC president and executive VP.

Nacier-Alonsozana to lead UGBC during 2013-14 year

BY ELEANOR HILDEBRANDT News Editor Voting in the final UGBC elections for the 2013-14 school year closed at midnight on Friday, Apr. 5. Matt Nacier and Matt Alonsozana, both A&S ’14, were elected UGBC President and Executive Vice President, respectively. Of the 9,110 Boston College undergraduates, 3,116 voted in the final elections, which began on Apr. 4.

Fifty-eight percent of the votes were cast for the Nacier-Alonsozana team, with the remaining 42 percent voting for the team of Tim Koch, A&S ’14, and Chris “Trugs” Truglio, CSOM ’14.

In the final days before the election, the use of social media became problematic for the presidential and vice presidential campaigns. “Each team was sanctioned in the last 24 hours of campaigning for violations involving Facebook posts,” said Carter Bielen, co-chair of the UGBC Elections Committee and A&S ’13, in an email.

“Each team was required to refrain from active campaigning for a certain amount of time Friday, and each complied fully with the EC’s requests. We want to thank both candidate teams and their staffs for the work they put in throughout the pro-

See Election Results, A4

clear whether the costs of the damages will be covered by the University or by the dorm room’s residents.

“The cause of the fire remains under investigation,” Dunn said. “The University, however, reserves the right to seek restitution if the students are found responsible.” 

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Take Back the Night

RHA & UGBC Town Hall

Monday, April 8, 2013

Lee Woodruff Lecture

1 2 3 Wednesday Time: 6:00 p.m.

Location: O’Neill Plaza

Presented by the Women’s Resource Center as part of Concerned About Rape Education (CARE) week, Take Back the Night is an event in which survivors of rape and sexual assault share their stories with the Boston College community.

Wednesday Time: 7:00 p.m.

Location: McGuinn 121

RHA and UGBC present a Student Rights Town Hall. Students will have the opportunity to speak to administrators about housing, terms of being written up, consequences of alcohol use, and life in the residence halls.

Today Time: 5:00 p.m.

Location: Murray Room

Lee Woodruff, coauthor with her husband, ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff, of In an Instant: A Family’s Journey of Love and Healing, will discuss how caregivers cope during a crisis in her lecture, “Family Journey, Recovery, and Resillience: A Caregiver’s Perspective.”

FEATURED EVENT

Mark Herzlich shares experiences as athlete

BY GABBY TARINI Heights Staff Saturday, New York Giants linebacker and former Boston College football player Mark Herzlich came to BC to discuss leadership in a lecture sponsored by the Brennan Symposium in Leadership and Ethics.

Students packed Fulton 511 to hear Herzlich talk about football and his experiences at BC and beyond.

As a junior at BC, Herlzlich was named a first-team All American and the ACC Defensive Player of the Year.

He led the team with 110 tackles and 81 stops, six interceptions, eight pass break-ups, and two forced fumble recoveries. Herzlich then missed the entire 2009 season due to Ewing’s Sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer.

During the lecture, Herzlich recalled the support he felt from the team and the BC community during his absence from football.

“When I was diagnosed, I would imagine myself coming back to BC, sitting down for a pregame meal with the team, taking the bus over to the stadium, getting my eye black on, lining up in the tunnel, counting down three, two, one, breaking through the banner, running to the student section and seeing a sea of yellow tshirts—I understood at that moment what my goals are, what it meant to fight through cancer, and what it means to succeed,” Herzlich said.

Herzlich spent the majority of the lecture discussing a variety of leadership styles with different dot structures he drew on the chalkboard.

“The single most important dot structure is the single dot; because

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Herzlich, linebacker for the New York Giants and BC football player alum, spoke on Saturday. it represents yourself,” Herzlich said.

“If you can understand your own values, passions, ideas, your personal goals, then you can start to lead other people.”

Herzlich recalled one of his mentors from his early years at BC, Jo-Lonn Dunbar, who now plays for the St. Louis Rams.

“Dunbar taught me that in order to be a leader, you can’t always want to make friends, you can’t be afraid to piss some people off,” Herzlich said. “Dunbar knew that his principles aligned with team goals—he was never a locker-room lawyer advocating for things that he knew weren’t part of the team spirit.”

Herzlich explained how that single dot can be put anywhere on the dot diagram. He drew a vertical line of dots and then pointed to the dot on

the bottom.

“That was me after I left BC and started with the Giants,” Herzlich said.

“The order was the owners, the coaches, Eli [Manning], the trainers, all the medical staff, and then me.”

Herzlich explained how he tried to emerge as a leader from the group of rookies who were also at the bottom of the team. He emphasized that leadership by action was what gave him a voice on the team.

“We had 7 a.m. workouts for the rookies,” Herzlich said. “I’m not a morning person, but I made sure that I was in the weight room at 6:15 sharp every morning. I wanted to make sure that I was there first and worked the hardest.”

Herzlich also explained how a leader should interact with peers that he or

POLICE BLOTTER

4/1/13-4/4/13

Monday, April 1 7:44 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a lost parking permit in off-campus housing.

2:02 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a traffic accident in lower lots.

6:39 p.m. - A report was filed regarding vandialism in the Bapst library.

Tuesday, April 2 12:12 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a student needing medical assistance in Vanderslice Hall. The student was later transported to a medical facility.

9:23 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a larceny in O’Neill Library.

10:00 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a BC employee needing medical assistance in Stuart hall.

The employee was later transported to a medical facility.

10:08 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a fire alarm activation in Stayer Hall.

Wednesday, April 3 12:30 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a student needing medical assistance in Cushing Hall Clinic.

College Corner NEWS FROM UNIVERSITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY

BY DEVON SANFORD Assoc. News Editor Students at Harvard University are not welcoming rapper Tyga with open arms. In fact, Harvard University may be pulling the rapper from their annual Yardfest lineup due to student protest.

An online petition, spearheaded by Harvard senior Leah Res-Dennis, was released on Apr. 1. The petition urges Harvard’s Office of Student Life to cancel the show due to Tyga’s misogynistic lyrics that promote sexism and rape culture. The petition has received over 1,900 student signatures, according to The Boston Globe.

“Tyga is notorious for his explicitly and violently misogynistic lyrics,” ReisDennis writes in the petition, posted on Change.org. “We demand that Harvard rescind its offer to Tyga, because we believe that Harvard should not provide a platform for music that promotes sexism and rape culture.

“Violence and sexism are not unique to Tyga’s music; deeper, systemic chang-

she is competing with. He explained that after signing with the Giants, he worked his way up from third string to first string, only to get benched during his second game because of a broken ankle.

“After it was established that I would be out for the rest of the season, the coaches brought in someone else, Chase Blackburn,” Herzlich said.

“I instantly hated him—we got to the playoffs, then the Super Bowl, then we won the Super Bowl, and all I can think is that I could have done that.”

Herzlich explained that in the offseason, 100 percent of his drive went to hating Chase.

“As I start to get to know Chase— he is like a little baby angel, he is so sweet and nice,” Herzlich said.

“However much I try to hate him, he loves me.”

Instead of being fueled by hate, Herzlich explaine d that pe ople should try to learn from their competitors.

“Chase had something that I didn’t have, experience,” Herzlich said. “I made it my goal to take the best things that he had, combine it with the best things I had, and then beat him with it.”

Herzlich closed the lecture with a special note to BC students.

“In the BC community, where ‘ever to excel’ is the motto, where everyone wants to be better than the next person, students need to remember to find something in their lives where they can be happy,” Herzlich said. “When you’re pushing to be the best, make sure you take some time to be satisfied.” 

es must be made. However, Tyga’s invitation to perform at Yardfest provides an opportunity for a tangible, if short term, response to rape culture. Activism surrounding Tyga’s performance at Harvard should not be divorced from activism around larger structural issues of race, gender, and homophobia.”

Tyga, a rapper best known for his single “Rack City,” was announced as headliner for Harvard’s Yardfest in late March. The choice quickly generated backlash online, and the college is now deciding whether to cancel the hip hop star’s appearance.

“The College’s Office of Student Life has asked the College Events Board and Concert Commission to re-evaluate the invitation to Tyga in light of the concerns raised by students that the performer’s lyrics are offensive and hurtful to many in our community,” Harvard spokesman Jeff Neal told The Boston Globe.

The university has not yet announced if it will cancel the rapper’s appearance. 

The student was later transported to a medical facility.

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Thursday, April 4 12:25 a.m. - A report was filed regarding an actual fire in Middle Campus.

4:51 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a suspicious circumstance at 9 Lake Street.

8:42 p.m. - An officer filed a report regarding medical assistance provided to a BC student who was transported to a medical facility by cruiser.

—Source: The Boston College Police Department

CORRECTIONS The following corrections are in reference to the issue dated April 4, 2013, Vol. XCIV, No. 17.

The article titled “Shake Shack shakes it up” should have been attributed to Meaghan Leahy.

VOICES FROM THE DUSTBOWL “If you could be in any reality show what would it be and why?”

“Amazing Race.

I live to travel.”

—Charlie Howe, A&S ’13

“The Bachelor, as a joke.”

—Erin Nerino, A&S ’13

“Duck Dynasty, so I can meet Si.” —Meghan Hilger, CSOM ’16

“The Bachelor.

I could be around awesome women.”

—Jesse Gomez,

A&S ’16

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Waiting for clarity

Connelly examines changing relations Lecture explores Catholic Church’s approach to Jews

Taylour Kumpf Like many members of our campus community, I’ve been thinking a great deal about the condom clash between Boston College Students for Sexual Health (BCSSH) and the administration—aptly referred to as “the BC condomonium” in a recent Daily Beast article. Though the buzz has died down for the most part, the University remains at odds with the outspoken student group, and thus I’ve decided it’s still timely to share my thoughts on the issue.

Before I go any further, I would like to say that I fully support the availability of sexual health resources on campus and, as long as BCSSH functions with respect and discretion, I do not see them as a threat to the Jesuit, Catholic values our institution was founded on.

With that being said, I have taken issue with the way this controversy had been portrayed in the media.

While I stand behind BCSSH’s mission, I feel that the administration’s stance has been misrepresented.

To people who have accused the University of being close-minded and hypocritical, I might say the same to you. Have you really been open to the administration’s side of the story?

The media is partially to blame for people across the country quickly dismissing the University as ignorant and irresponsible, but then again, people often see only what they want to see in a story. I would ask people to consider the fact that maybe we haven’t heard the full story yet and perhaps the University is not truly the bad guy it has been made out to be.

You may say we’ve already heard it all. It’s true, University Spokesman Jack Dunn and Dean of Students Paul Chebator have been quoted in numerous articles on the topic, and so it would make sense that they’ve been given ample opportunity to share their side of the story. However, what people forget to consider is the way in which every news article, no matter how unbiased it claims to be, manipulates the story to some extent, sometimes without even realizing it.

As someone who’s been there, I can tell you, it’s incredibly difficult to shed personal biases when writing a story, and everyone, almost inherently, roots for the underdog.

For better or worse, that’s what I see happening in this case. The students behind BCSSH are the little man that we all want to see succeed, standing up to the big bad Jesuit institution and, on a larger scale, the Catholic Church.

I, however, believe (or at least hope) there is more to this story than what we’ve seen so far. Unfortunately, as of now, the administration has chosen not to be forthright and address the student body directly.

Therefore, students are rightfully angry and disappointed, and these negative sentiments will linger and grow unless the University opens itself up to honest discussion.

I encourage the administration to rise to the occasion and speak candidly to students about where they are coming from, why they have taken issue with BCSSH now and not in years past. In this situation, silence only allows the gap between the student body and the administration to widen. To reach a point of mutual understanding, communication needs go both ways, with each side respecting the viewpoints of the other.

While I challenge the University to be straightforward, I similarly dare the student body to drop preconceived notions and give the administration a fresh chance. After all, just as members of the student body have different opinions on this issue, so, too, do faculty and members of the administration. Some of them actually have less freedom to defend their personal beliefs because, professionally, they must speak on behalf of a Catholic institution, defending Jesuit, Catholic values.

Ultimately, I sincerely hope that the administration gives us a chance to see their point of view more clearly. While the issue itself will undoubtedly fade away, the underlying emotions it has provoked will not.

I wait patiently for their response.

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

By Julie Orenstein Heights Editor

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Splash classes offer BC students the opportunity to share their interests with middle and high school students.

Splash brings younger students to campus for interactive classes

By Qian Deng Heights Staff

Nearly 500 middle school and high school students woke up early Sunday morning to attend classes at Boston College. Most were living in Massachusetts, but some participants of BC Splash had come from Rhode Island and other parts of New England in order to experience the teaching skills of undergraduate students at BC. They chose up to five classes beforehand from a selection that ranged from “Pranking Around the World” to “Adjusting to Dorm Life.”

Some classes were also available to walk-ins.

To make the event possible, organizers not only held weekly meetings throughout the semester, but also had to wake up even earlier than the students for a scheduled 5:15 a.m. meeting Sunday morning.

Due to a concurrent fire at Stayer Hall, campus resources were not available to help them get cars on campus or even unlock Maloney Hall, where the meeting was to be held. Despite an hour-long delay, the 16 executive board members, 125 teachers, 40 Splash leaders, 25 general volunteers, and administrative team of 18, each wearing color-coded t-shirts, worked to find alternative solutions.

“We had to carry a lot of the supplies by hand, but it wasn’t as bad as we thought,” said Taylor Shorten, A&S ’13, part of a team that helped distribute materials to teachers as they signed in.

“We get about $30 per teacher from SOFC to purchase supplies,” said Annie Meyer, A&S ’14. “We usually go on three shopping trips, to at least five different stores.”

While waiting for the teachers, the team discussed a range of ways to improve the process for the next semester, such as bringing a refrigerator or increasing preparation the night before.

If Alexis Cox, director and A&S ’14, had been in the room, she would have been pleased with the discussion. “Each year, it gets bigger and more evolved, and we’re always adding new components and fixing qualms from previous semesters,” Cox said.

Among the new components added this year are a full day of events for parents and a new program linking small groups of high school students to “Splash leaders,” BC students who serve a role similar to orientation leaders, leading participants to their classrooms and bonding over lunch between classes.

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Splash classes explore a wide range of topics, based on student interest.

“Splash leaders help students with their day, forming more of a personal connection,” said Debbie Jean-Philippe, CSOM ’16, a former Splash leader who now works on the outreach team. Jean-Philippe began her involvement with BC Splash as a junior in high school.

“There aren’t many opportunities to take free classes at a school like this,” Jean-Philippe said. “If I hadn’t taken an accounting class here in high school, I would have never known that I wanted to do business.”

Other components introduced this year include an opening ceremony with an introduction by Cox and co-director Barron Flood, A&S 13, and video clips from past years.

Parents attended a gathering in Stokes Hall for a panel and various presentations on college admissions and financing. For students taking a break from their classes, games such as Wiffle ball, Kan Jam, and board games were available in the Quad area.

Many participants were juniors in high school, aspiring to become BC students themselves in the future. Others were seniors wondering if BC was the best choice. Still others thought it was unlikely that BC would accept them, or were a long way from having to consider college admissions. Regardless of these diverse perspectives, the students enjoyed the chance to be taught by college students for a day. Of the 500 participants, nearly half were returning after a previous positive experience.

They have the dedication of the organizers and teachers to thank.

In preparation for his course, Christopher Sulmonte, A&S ’14,

worked to find “something that people don’t know about, something that’s academic but fun.” The course he finally crafted was called “Tales Through Treachery: How Video Games Change Storytelling,” taking advantage of “an odd abundance of primary resources on the topic” to plan an interactive experience.

Interaction was a goal for many teachers, as improvisation games, activities in pairs, and lively discussions could be heard from many classrooms, while the three instructors of “Studying Abroad in Spain” designed a game of Jeopardy with candy as a reward. The topics they addressed during class ranged from hidden fees at the cheapest airlines to “absolutely disgusting” foods that students were nonetheless encouraged to try.

Other popular classes included “Tale as Old as Time: Gender and Race in Disney Films” and “How to Make a Taco.”

For Cox, who had been involved since her freshman year, the entirely student-run Splash experience is distinct from a normal day of school due to the kind of fun and energy surrounding students and teachers alike. “People are excited about what they are teaching or learning, and I love hearing stories about students who want to stay for lunch with their teachers afterwards,” she said. “There is great inspiration on both ends … We are more than just an education program. There are many ways to get involved, but although it may seem intimidating to be teaching in front of high school students, I think it’s one of those things that everyone should try at least once.” n

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BC students teach classes based on their interests to small groups of younger students to give taste of college.

Today’s observance of Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, was commemorated Sunday in a lecture sponsored by the Boston College Center for Christian-Jewish Learning that explored a seminal change in relations between the Catholic and Jewish faiths.

“How the Catholic Church Overcame its own Theology and Discovered that God Loves the Jews” was delivered by John Connelly, professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley. Joining him were respondents Victoria Barnett of the Committee on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. and Philip Cunningham, director of the Institute for Jewish-Catholic Relations at Saint Joseph’s University.

Connelly focused primarily on the importance of Nostra Aetate, a declaration on the Catholic Church’s relationship with non-Christian religions, including Judaism, which emerged from the Second Vatican Council in 1965. In this document, the Church recognized that Jesus Christ and his followers were Jews, the covenant God made with the Jewish people is still valid, and “the Jews should not be presented as rejected or accursed by God.” Nostra Aetate also repudiated the belief that Jews should be held responsible for the persecution and death of Jesus. In essence, “the Church confirms a core teaching of another religion about itself as being correct,” Connelly said.

While he noted that many of these statements are commonly known and accepte d to day, Connelly c alle d the Nostra Aetate a revolution in Catholic-Jewish relations, one that only occurred after decades of impassioned theological scholarship among a small group of European Christian intellectuals, most of whom were converts from Judaism.

Before this declaration in 1965, the “old view” included the ideas that Jesus was the Jewish messiah, yet by failing to recognize him as such, Jews brought disaster upon themselves—their history of misfortune would continue to haunt the Jewish people until they

recognized their mistake—and this constituted a sort of second original sin. There was even a prevailing notion that Jews, as an ethnic group, bore an imprint of this special sin in the form of defects in their genetic material, thus making them poor candidates for baptism.

Connelly pointed to converted priests Karl Thieme and John Oesterreicher as the key figures in the movement that began in the 1930s, as Nazism was on the rise, to challenge these old views and bring about change in Christian views toward Jews.

The focus of Thieme’s work was a new interpretation of Paul’s letter to the Romans. Paul, for example, likened Judaism to an olive tree—a source of grace— and this meant that Jews were predisposed to receive God’s grace, contradicting the prior thought that Jews were supposed to be rejected by God. Thieme, according to Connelly, was the first important Catholic theologian to reach this altered view of the Jews, and acknowledge that the Catholic mission to convert Jews should cease, seeing as Jews should no longer be portrayed as enemies. Oesterreicher, drawing on Thieme’s work, was influential in the drafting of Nostra Aetate and is credited with improving relations between the Church and the Jewish state of Israel.

The change at the Second Vatican Council, Connelly said, was “a revolution … yet perhaps it was a silent revolution. Histor y suggests, however, that s ome of the mo st ef fe c tive revolutions are silent and unnoticed, so much so that they seem ordinary in retrospect.”

Those who worked in the first half of the 20th century to alter the Christian world’s views of Judaism were driven by passion and personal connections to the cause as converts themselves, and Connelly argued that “theology, which grounds the ne w teaching— the ne w Christian view of the Jews—is to o imp or tant to b e lef t to the olo g i ans … non-exp er t s must persist in being part of the conversation.”

Barnett and Cunningham closed the discussion by responding to Connelly’s lecture on theological, institutional, and interpersonal levels, reiterating the profound impact of a small group of “boundary crossers,” who brought a different set of eyes to theology and noting the controversial moments in Catholic-Jewish relations during and since the Second Vatican Council. n

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Students elect new UGBC leaders, some slots remain Election Results, from A1 cess and for their commitment to Boston College.”

Also on the ballot were candidates for the Student Assembly and a referendum on whether or not students support a switch from BC’s current alcohol policy to a points system. The referendum passed with 83 percent approval from voting students.

For the Student Assembly, the Class of 2014 elected four senators: Molly McCarthy, A&S ’14; Ricky Knapp, A&S ’14; Griff Stark-Ennis, A&S ’14; and Helen Yu, CSOM ’14. One vacant seat remains.

The Class of 2015 elected Chris Marchese, Michael Rosella, Tony Freiji, and Bryan White, all A&S ’15, to the Student Assembly, with one vacant seat remaining as well.

From the Class of 2016, Matt Hugo, Emma West, Chris Park, Fabiola De Armas, and Alison Takahashi, all A&S ’16, were elected to the Student Assembly.

No Senator from the College of Arts and Sciences was elected, and the seat remains vacant. Joseph Mignoli, CSOM ’14, will serve as the Carroll School of Management representative in the Student Assembly; Brooke Hopkins, CSON ’14, will be the Connell School of Nursing representative; and the seat for the Lynch School of Education (LSOE) also remains empty.

Non-contested Senators have been automatically seated by the Elections Committee, which is looking to have the by-election for vacant seats in the fall semester, according to Alonsozana. He intends to hold that special election as soon as possible, however.

“As president of the Assembly, that’s going to be my main advocacy point over the next week,” Alonsozana said. “SPO needs to have these elections held quickly, particularly on the RSO side—the class election side can be held in October or September … we don’t even have the quorum needed to approve the vice presidents yet. If attention can be brought to that matter as quickly as possible, we can get to work on actually getting our job done.”

The remaining seats for the classes of 2014 and 2015 are open to the general student population, and seats for A&S, CSON, the Student Athlete Council, the AHANA Leadership Council, the GLBTQ Leadership Council, and all 20 Registered

Student Organization seats still need to be filled.

Nacier and Alonsozana will be inaugurated on Apr. 30, and will spend the rest of their semester working to meet with University administrators, including members of the Student Programs Office, and choose the members of their Cabinet.

“The selection process we’re not taking lightly at all,” Nacier said. “I think it’s important that, because these positions are paid, they’re coming from the student’s pockets, the student activity fee—it’s only appropriate that there’s strong diligence done in selecting these positions.”

“The main plans are to ensure that we have the right people working for us in the new structure,” Alonsozana said. “I think the next three weeks are critical, as we decide on the vice presidents for the different divisions, and in particular, for policy reform, the chairman of the different standing committees in the Senate.”

The other team expressed their hope that Nacier and Alonsozana pay attention to the needs of BC students during their term. “We think it is important for next year’s administration to hold every member of UGBC accountable for real, meaningful change … in addition to being a more representative organization that is cognizant of the entire BC undergraduate community’s needs,” the Koch-Truglio team said in a statement via email. “While election season can certainly be an exciting time, UGBC exists to act as the unified student voice for Boston College undergraduates, and we are optimistic that next year’s leaders will be mindful of this throughout the year. We welcome the opportunity to work with Matt and Matt to incorporate our ideas into next year’s UGBC for the sake of enhancing the student body’s experience, and we are excited to see how the new UGBC structure will help unify our student body.”

Nacier emphasized his and Alonsozana’s respect for Koch and Truglio, and their intention to work for BC’s best interests. “Matt and I have the utmost respect for the other candidates,” Nacier said. “They were working to give their vision for BC. And if you’re in this campaign process—no matter what anybody says, you can never take away the fact that we all love BC, and you’re doing it because you love BC and you want to make it a better place. We just wanted to do it differently.” n

Dean of Students currently reviewing alcohol policy Alcohol Referendum, from A1 first proposed that one point would be subtracted for every 60 days without a violation. That has since been changed to two points every 120 days without a violation.

One of the reasons that Marchese cited for the benefits of a points system is the clarity it would bring, as opposed to the current system.

“Under the current matrix, say you get in trouble and you are on disciplinary probation for a semester,” said Bryan White, senator, committee member, and A&S ’15. “After you are off that probation period, you are not cleared; you are in a sort of limbo.

If you get in trouble again, it’s your second offense, you go straight to the second level of probation, even though you are off the first.”

While this Senate committee has been working on this proposal over the last few months, the Dean of Student’s Office has been going through its own Administrative Program Review (APR). The first part of the process was an external review that concluded in February.

“I am open to looking at changes, but I don’t know what those changes will look like—I don’t know if it will look like a points system,” said Christine Davis, assistant dean for student conduct. “We are in the midst of our Administrative Program Review and so the matrix and the sanctioning system is one piece of many projects attached to that. There has been some misrepresentation out there that the Dean of Student’s office endorses this points system, but that’s not true. I’m open to conversation but I have never stood behind it to say that the point system over the matrix is what we want to do.”

Currently, the administration is in the first year of a three- to five-year process. Reviewing the school’s alcohol policy is one part of a larger plan to compare Boston College’s policies and practices to other universities and review the conduct process as a whole.

Other parts of the plan include developing a philosophy for the conduct

process, looking at staffing patterns, and looking into case management.

One of the concerns Davis expressed was the vacancy of the Vice President for Student Affairs.

“I don’t want it to totally stop us, but we need to be realistic,” Davis said.

“A vice president could come in and say, ‘Stop all the work that you have done already and go in a different direction.’ We need to be cognizant that we may be down one path, but we may be redirected in the future. That is not stopping me from having these conversations, but I also need to be realistic that that is a possibility.”

As a part of the process, Davis considere d some of the p ositives and negatives of the current system of sanctioning violations of alcohol policy. She cited the relationship with the Alcohol and Drug Education office as one of the positives of the current system.

“What I love about the [current] system is that it is not a cookie cutter system and that conduct officers do have some discretion to make decisions about appropriate sanctioning for our students,” Davis said. “I want to have consistency for holding students accountable for their actions, while leaving conduct officers discretion for taking circumstances into account.”

Davis also reflected on the negative aspects of the current system.

“In the current system, there are a couple different levels of probation that I am not sure that there is an understanding of what they mean,” she said. “I think there needs to be more clarification of what they mean.”

In addition to reflecting on the current system, Davis also expressed concerns with a potential point system. “[A point system] may seem more transparent and upfront to students … but I don’t know if a point system will change behavior,” Davis said. “One negative is students knowing they are at seven points and sort of calculating how many points they need to reach suspension and basing their behavior off of that. It’s really difficult to figure out the assignments of behaviors and how many points they will cost.” n

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Transgender rights advocate Janet Mock spoke to BC students on Friday at an event hosted by the GLC’s Freshman Leadership Program.

Mock shares her transgender experience

By Devon Sanford News Editor “There is great power in owning who you are and not being ashamed of that.”

Janet Mock , writer, former staff editor of People magazine’s website, and transgender rights advocate, spoke on Friday afternoon about her experiences as transgender. The event, “Translating Transgender with Janet Mock,” was hosted and moderated by the GLBTQ Leadership Council (GLC)’s Freshman Leadership Program.

“It’s remarkable how forward it is that Boston College is having this kind of conversation,” Mock said. “This is more than most public universities, much less a Catholic university. So thank you so much for being here to listen to my story.”

Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Mock spent most of her young adult life on the small, tight-knit island. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Hawaii and traveled state side to earn her M.A. in journalism from New York University. In 2011, after working for People magazine for five years, Mock shared her transition story with Marie Claire. She has since worked to expand society’s limited portrait of womanhood, speaking worldwide on her experience and issues of transgenderism. She founded the Twitter project #GirlsLikeUs and creates transgender-specific programs and education for the GLBTQ youth center at Harvey Milk High.

“As a child, I walked around with limp wrists and a sway in my hips,” Mock said. “I was probably the most feminine son a father—who wanted a football player—could ask for.”

Mock was harassed by her peers and classmates for most of high school.

She was sent to the principal’s office on numerous occasions for wearing skirts and lipstick and she was often

forbidden from using locker rooms and bathrooms.

“I was constantly navigating hostile environments,” Mock said. “I dealt with misogyny and street harassment, just as many other transgenders do. I was lucky, however. I transitioned as my peers in school were also going through their physiological changes in puberty.”

After graduating from the University

“People think there is a lack of realness to our bodies.

Which, again, is not the case. I want to change the narrative of how we see trans women, especially trans women of color ... And I want to break down the term ‘coming out.’ I prefer ‘inviting in.’”

- Janet Mock Writer and transgender rights advocate of Hawaii, Mock was ready for a change of scener y. She traveled across the country to New York, where, for the first time in her life, she was not identified as transgender.

“I made the decision to not lead as a trans, and it was the most freedom I’ve ever had,” Mock said.

Mock spoke about the obstacles she

has faced as transgender, including the difficulties of finding adequate health care coverage and treatment.

“When you tell a doctor or nurse that you are trans, people tend to gawk at you and gawk at your body,” Mock said. “Often times, they’ll leave the room and when someone else walks in, you can tell they know by the way they stare at you. There is a very dehumanizing factor to it.”

Mock discussed the misconceptions often associated to those who are transgender.

“Pe ople think we are conf use d or mentally disturbed,” Mock said, shrugging her shoulders and laughing.

“People also think we do not have a relationship with our bodies and that because we don’t ‘associate’ with our bodies , they can bombard us with questions about our sexuality … People think there is a lack of realness to our bodies. Which, again, is not the case.

“I want to change the narrative of how we see trans-women. Especially trans-women of color … And I want to break down the term ‘coming out.’ I prefer ‘inviting in.’”

Mock left the audience with a few words of advice on how to be supportive to the transgender community.

“The word ally is not a label, but a growing process of action,” Mock said.

“It’s important to remember that you are joining a movement that is already happening. You are not creating it …

Always call people by their preferred name and don’t ‘out’ them to others without their permission … Check others and yourself on blind spots and privileges … Be vocal about safe spaces. If you know a safe community, speak up.”

As the event concluded, students and faculty stopped outside the lecture room, leaving their signatures on a large white board reading, “I pledge to be a Trans Ally.” n

EMS has expanded since vehicle’s arrival Eagle EMS, from A1 injuries, broken bones, sprained ankles, and other physical injuries.

In addition to the type of call, the data tracks graduation year of the patients seen and shows a higher number of freshmen being seen than any other class. Over the course of the year, freshmen represent 44 percent of the call volume for vehicle coverage. This is reinforced by looking at the location of the calls—Fitzpatrick-Gonzaga received 20 calls, or .04 calls per resident, while Walsh received 17, or .02 per resident, and the Mods received 17, or .03 per resident.

“Part of it there [in Fitzpatrick-Gonzaga] is you have the four-mans upstairs,” Warshauer said. “It’s a bigger space and there tends to be more things going on there.”

The data also shows a decline in calls during vehicle coverage since the beginning of the year—while there were 74 in September, there have never been more than 45 per month since then.

“I think our call volume has gone down a little bit, but we are still getting calls to the more serious incidents,” Warshauer said. “We aren’t getting calls for the people who really don’t need to be going [for treatment], which is a really good thing. We definitely see a decline in the number of calls because there are fewer incidents. We have a larger call volume early in the year, especially to Upper Campus and other freshman areas.”

One of the statistics that has varied greatly has been the treatment decisions made. How serious the incident is and what kind of incident it is determines whether the patient is sent to the hospital, the infirmary, or not transported at all. For alcohol incidents, if the patient is under 21, then the patient will be transported to either the infirmary or the hospital, depending on the patient’s level of intoxication. If the patient is over 21 and under a certain level of intoxication, the patient can sign a Refusal of Medical Assistance (RMA) and not be transported.

Since the beginning of the academic year, 71 percent of the cases that have been seen

during vehicle coverage have been sent to the hospital, 13 percent have been sent to the infirmary, and 15 percent have been RMAs. “Second semester of last year, there was a higher percentage [of cases] going to the hospital over the infirmary [compared to this year],” Warshauer said. “As the year goes on, everybody gets the feel of what they should be calling for—what’s serious enough that we need EMS and what’s not. We have RAs who are learning their position. We have roommates who are learning whether they need to call or not.”

In addition to these statistics, EEMS also keeps track of when the incidents occur to the nearest half hour. Since the beginning of the year, they have seen noticeable patterns develop, with two spikes in calls, one around 12:30 a.m. and another around 2:00 a.m.

“Midnight to 2:00 a.m. tends to be our busiest period,” Warshauer said.

While vehicle coverage on the weekends represents a lot of what Eagle EMS does, over the past year, they have also expanded their special event coverage. For this coverage in the fall semester, 57 percent of the cases were trauma cases. Football games and club sporting events made up the largest segment of these cases, representing 50 percent and 25 percent respectively. For special events coverage, 66 percent of the cases resulted in EEMS treatment and an RMA.

With all of the data collected and statistics compiled, Warshauer and Godley both emphasized its importance within the organization for educational and training purposes.

“The point of doing the statistics is so we can improve our services,” Warshauer said. “If we see that our busiest night happens to be Saturday, we can put extra resources on. If we see that a large portion of our calls are alcohol related, we can do extra training on responding to alcohol related incidents. If we have a streak of sports injuries, we can throw in an extra class on splinting. It’s a tool for us to focus our training, improve our skills, and change our deployment patterns to better fit the needs of the University.”

Going forward, this information has helped EEMS determine what they want to pursue next—that is, a method for creating files electronically.

“One of our goals for next year is to move to an electronic charting system,” Warshauer said. “There is a bunch of different software out there. It forces you to do better documentation, because it won’t let you submit the form until the record is completed. It makes the record keeping a lot easier. It also makes the QA/QI process much more effective. It is in the planning stages right now. It’s a matter of figuring out which software we want and looking at the associated costs.” n

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QUOTE OF THE DAY Spring is nature’s way of saying, “Let’s Party!”

-Robin Williams, American actor and comedian

Elections Committe should host more debates, make the platforms accessible, and publicize sanctions This year’s UGBC campaigning and election season was extremely short compared to previous years, and the timing inhibited the ability of the candidates to connect with the student body and share their platforms. Easter break cut into the interim period between preliminary and final voting, limiting the campaigns’ ability to put out new information. Whether or not the time frame was a contributing factor, much of the campaigning was carried out over social media, and unfortunately, this trend was not wholly positive.

Campaigning began before the official start date, due to a lack of clarity from the Elections Committee about limits.

Furthermore, the immediacy and anonymity of social media led to multiple ad hominem attacks, and a focus on personality rather than platforms.

In future years, the Elections Committee must make an effort not only to publicize the sanctions that various teams incur, but also to ensure that students have access to all the information they need in order to be educated voters. The EC is expected to be impartial, but that does not prevent it from making sure that each team’s platform and contact information is readily accessible, perhaps on an independently hosted website. Furthermore, students should be aware of which teams are sanctioned, and for what actions—greater transparency during the elections process would not only benefit voters, but would also encourage teams to maintain a certain level of civility.

Overall, the number of students who voted was disappointing. Out of 9,110 undergraduate students, only 3,116 students (34.2 percent) voted in the final elections, down from 3,565 in the primary. The decrease from the initial round of voting is not the only worrisome trend—this drop in voter interest is increasing from year to year. Last year, 3,745 students voted in the final round of elections, and 3,918 students voted the year before. Student apathy extends even beyond the general student body—more than half of the seats

in the Student Assembly remain open.

As it stands now, the Student Assembly lacks the membership necessary to approve the vice presidents, who will be nominated in the coming two weeks.

This is a significant problem—without adequate participation, UGBC will be unable to function effectively. Especially with this year’s transition to the new constitution, it is imperative that the Student Assembly is filled with active and dedicated undergraduates.

Better access to information, and an emphasis on the importance of UGBC positions, could help remedy this lack of interest. Several factors should be considered during next year’s campaign season. Hillside Cafe, the traditional venue for the debate before the preliminary voting, is a very limited space.

Furthermore, many of the students who show up are not undecided voters, but rather are the staff members of the various campaigns. In order to more effectively make the contents of the teams’ platforms the center of the campaign, a potential solution would be to move the debate to a larger site such as Devlin 008 or Robsham Theater. In addition, the debate could be taped and run on a BC television channel and/or online, so as to reach as wide of an audience as possible. Furthermore, holding more than one debate could enhance clarity.

A debate between the two remaining teams could help supporters of those eliminated teams decide who to vote for, and holding separate presidential and vice presidential debates would clarify the individual strengths of candidates whose responsibilities in office are very different. These debates should not be simply question and answer periods, as the format currently stands, but actual debates about tangible issues between candidates.

Campaign season sets the tone for the UGBC administration that follows.

For a truly productive year, the elections cycle should include honest and open discussion of important matters on campus. Greater transparency and publicity can only improve the elections season, and UGBC as a whole.

EEMS vehicle has proved to be a worthy investment The organization is a resource for both students in need and those looking to gain medical experience A little over a year after the University funded the acquisition of an ambulance for Eagle EMS (EEMS), the organization has compiled concrete data on the services they have provided both with and without the vehicle. These data show that the coverage EEMS has provided on campus increased dramatically with the help of its class five, non-transporting ambulance. In total, the vehicle cost the administration over $100,000 and took several years to arrange. Although this is no small sum of money and no insignificant investment of time, the data show that the administration’s decision to expand EEMS’ operations was the correct one—with the acquisition of the ambulance, the organization is now much better equipped to ensure student safety on campus while providing valuable experience for its membership.

As a whole, the organization is an important resource for the University that often goes unrecognized—it includes 80 trained EMTs and 105 total members that provide thousands of volunteer man hours each year.

EEMS provides coverage at events like dances and sporting events on campus throughout the week, as well as weekend coverage on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights and Friday and Saturday afternoons. The organization also coordinates training for its members, offers CPR and other training for members of the Boston College community, and gives presentations to schools in the local community.

The vehicle itself has enabled EEMS to expand their traditional event coverage to include the coverage they now offer on weekend afternoons and nights.

This year, the vehicle has responded to a total of 243 calls during its vehicle coverage, an average of five calls per weekend night. As recently as one year ago, these students had to wait for the arrival of an Armstrong Ambulance before receiving professional medical care. With EEMS’ vehicle, these students receive medical attention within minutes of when they call for help, vastly increasing student safety on campus. In fact, students are encouraged at Freshman Orientation to call BCPD instead of 911 in the case of an emergency, partially because a call to BCPD immediately dispatches the EEMS vehicle. In contrast, if the student were to call 911, either Boston or Newton EMTs would be dispatched and the student would likely spend several extra minutes unattended.

The data also show that EEMS deals with more than just alcohol incidents, as they may traditionally be known for. During the fall semester alone, the organization has provided medical care to students experiencing severe allergic reactions, as well as victims of motor vehicle accidents, sporting injuries, and falls.

In addition to the services EEMS provides to the community, they also provide incredible benefits to their members. The EMTs that are a part of the organization get real, hands-on experience not only on the medical side, but also on the organizational and management side. Many of the group’s members are interested in pursuing a career in medicine after they graduate and experience in the organization gives them the opportunity to get a small taste of it as an undergraduate.

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Letters to the Editor The search for faculty governance continues...

Boston College, founded in 1863 by the Jesuits to serve Catholic immigrants, adopted a typically Catholic hierarchical structure and has never had a University faculty senate, let alone true faculty governance. A model that works for clergy or the Vatican may not be best suited for proper expression of academic freedom and transparent decision-making with faculty participation.

For more than 20 years, BC faculty have worked diligently to take an active part in decision-making at the University, yet the hierarchical structure remains firmly in place. The current administration feels that faculty participate through appointment or election to committees, which often have significant administration membership and are always understood as strictly advisory. The view held by a majority of faculty is that such participation on University committees exists more for appearance’s sake than for providing authentic influence over policy decisions.

A 2003 Faculty Compensation Committee survey of faculty showed that 80 percent of the respondents desired the formation of a faculty senate and as a result, the FCC organized a task force to study the workings of faculty senates and draft a proposal with some logistical and financial support from the Academic Vice President’s (now Provost’s) office. In December 2003, the task force presented a set of ‘guidelines’ for a faculty senate to the FCC and in January 2005, elected members, meeting as the Interim Faculty Senate (IFS), translated the guidelines into a specific proposal. The proposal was submitted in a referendum to the faculty in October 2006 and with 42.7 percent of eligible faculty voting, the measure passed 272-37. With such strong faculty support, the IFS prepared to elect senate members as part of the December 2006 elections process. However, the Provost’s office declined to allow the election for the new Faculty Senate to be conducted. In recent years, it has been argued that the administration actually usurped the Trustees prerogatives by denying them the possibility of designating an existing faculty body as the statutory University Faculty Senate as provided by the statutes.

In January 2010, BC faculty voted to establish a chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), advocating for a recognized faculty role in decision-making, and a less centralized, more democratic decision-making process. In the 2012 BCAAUP sponsored faculty survey, only 19 percent of faculty were satisfied with current faculty decision making. Faculty concerns of greatest importance remain: 1) establishment of an independent faculty senate, 2) establishment of a standing faculty committee involved in writing and making changes to the Faculty Handbook, presently controlled by the Provost’s office, and 3) establishment of positive changes in the status and prospects of contingent faculty.

The administration’s decision to restrict part-time faculty to teaching only two courses per semester eliminates benefits and job security and has also been seen by some faculty as detrimental to the effectiveness of their departments and to the quality of student learning. Full-time, non-tenure track faculty (FTNTT) are also experiencing changes in policies, often in conjunction with renewal of contracts. The administration’s implementation of such varied policies at times creates uncertainty while undermining collegiality among faculty at our University, calling to mind a variation on the well-known poem: “First they came for the part-time faculty…” And posttenure review remains a topic still under discussion for our tenured faculty. Rumors replace facts and the result is often a hostile environment with little security for both tenured and non-tenure track faculty.

As we celebrate the 150th anniversary of BC and reflect upon its rich history, what better time than now to look forward to engaging faculty, students, and administrators in a dynamic process of shared governance.

Susan Michalczyk President, BCAAUP An abbreviated version of an op-ed essay published in the Catholic Higher Education Advocate (CHEA) March 2013

The following letter is in response to “Admins warn BCSSH about ‘Safe Sites’” by David Cote, originally published on 3/25/13:

Professors support BCSSH We are very concerned that Boston College is considering disciplinary action against students who distribute contraceptives on campus.

Whether one approves of this or not, university students have sex.

Discouraging contraceptives only leads to unsafe sex. As we all know, one possible consequence of this is the life threatening disease HIV/AIDS, and another is unwanted pregnancy. Part of our role as BC professors—as well as parents, relatives and friends—is to support young people in their attempts to avoid tragedy.

Professors David L. Blustein M. Brinton Lykes Lisa Goodman Robin Fleming, Marilynn Johnson Deborah T. Levenson Cynthia Lyerly, Virginia Reinburg Sarah Ross Owen Stanwood Paul Spagnoli Martin Summers

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Alexia LaFata Skirt Day - Though we are writing this on Sunday and you are most likely reading it on Monday, we can say with a good degree of certainty that Monday (tomorrow for us as we write this, today for you as you read this) is Skirt Day. For some, perhaps those who made the decision to leave the temperate climates of California or Florida to attend university in the frigid northeast, this is the best day of the year. This day is even better for those who were able to attain a slight tan over Spring/Easter break, as they will get to fully enjoy the warm weather without fearing that their skin will immediately burn in the face of actual heat from the sun.

We anticipate Frisbee games in front of Stokes, sunbathing outside Lower, music blasting out the windows of Ruby, and flip flops galore. We feel for everyone with midterms this week because everyone knows that one’s tendency to procrastinate is directly proportional to the temperature. But it’s okay, because it’s near impossible to be sad about a bad grade when it’s 70 degrees!

World’s Best Job - First of all, RIP Roger Ebert. You were a hilarious, intelligent man, and we will miss you. Also, we would like to reflect on the fact that you had the best job ever. What other occupation requires you to watch movies before they are officially released and—yes, actually requires you to—take a giant shit on sorry excuses for cinema. Who doesn’t like making fun of terrible movies? (We all know that watching an awful movie can be even more enjoyable than watching a good one.)

And Ebert got paid for it. And he was damn good at it. We will certainly miss you. But we’re also coming for your job.

Fire Faux Pas - Thumbs Down actual fires in dorm rooms. Seriously, unintentional fire alarms at 4 in the morning are bad enough, but an actual fire? Ain’t nobody got time for that. Actual fires require actual fire fighters and take much longer to put out than pretend fires, we all learned. There are some upsides, such as the fact that it’s getting warmer, and there’s no snow on the ground, and also the fact that an actual fire lends legitimacy to the situation and should make you happy that fire alarms exist because the alternative situation (the one without fire alarms) is much less ideal than standing outside for a couple hours. But still, the bonding that occurred with the people who live two floors below you that you never would have met otherwise but did because you were all cruelly forced out of your beds at an ungodly hour was nice, but not that nice. And on a Saturday night?

One of the few nights us overworked BC students use to catch up on sleep?

Please, pyros, schedule your fires for weeknights, when we’re probably all awake anyway.

Those Pesky Emails - Can BC Parking Advisory please somehow figure out who actually needs to receive their emails and who doesn’t? We here at BC TU/TD can honestly say that among all of us, no one has ever read one of your emails in its entirety.

It’s nothing personal, we just don’t find them interesting. They’re also pretty predictable. What?? We can’t park in the Mod Lot because there’s a football game?! Let me rush out and move my imaginary car. Phew.

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There are currently 7,108,685,580 people on Earth. That number increased by about 15 as soon as I finished writing that sentence, and because that comma made you pause for half of a second it just increased by another 10. Every single one of those people born will be a person. They’ll be a child, have their first kiss and a favorite movie, maybe even go to summer camp or get married, and eventually die. You may not realize it right now, but you’ll never fully understand this concept. Never.

And it’s not your fault.

Think about your best friend. She was a child once. She has a favorite movie and went to summer camp in Maine. You know all of these details about her life because she is, after all, your best friend. Now think about your next three closest friends. Maybe one has never been kissed and one spends her summers working at Hollister. Now think about all of your Facebook friends. How many summer jobs would you have to memorize before you start forgetting? Before you stop caring? How many movies would you have to remember before every Facebook friend literally starts morphing into those faceless gray profile pictures from which they started?

Well, there is a real numerical answer to these questions. In 2003, the University of Liverpool conducted a study that tested the complexity of the social lives of monkeys. The study demonstrated that the size of a monkey’s brain determined the maximum amount of monkeys with whom one monkey could have a genuine social relationship. Based on the size of their neocortexes, monkeys reached a maximum of 50 monkey friends per tribe.

Monkey neocortexes were then compared to human neocortexes, and our own tribe number was found: 150 (famously called “Dunbar’s Number”). So, after approximately 150 first kisses and favorite movies, your brain physically cannot recall or be concerned about any more. It’s not that you’re not a mean person!

Your brain is just too small.

Dunbar’s Number doesn’t merely account for the people you care about. It accounts for the people who you can actually think of as people. Ever wonder why it’s so weird to see

teachers outside of school? The day I saw my middle school English teacher working at a bar in Belmar, NJ was the day nothing made sense anymore. She was always just “Teacher,” existing solely to write on chalkboards and give me homework grades. “Teachers” do not, under any circumstances, work at bars or have real people lives. Obviously. And everyone you mindlessly come in contact with on a daily basis falls under similar categories. They exist to do what they do as you interact with them and nothing more. “The Dude Who Serves You At Chipotle” does just that, but he actually just went through a divorce and lost custody of his child. The cashier at CVS was just accepted to her dream college and watches reruns of Teen Mom in her underwear, but you only regard her as “The Girl Who Takes My Money In Exchange For Brita Filters and Chapstick.”

Adolf Hitler sang in his church choir, drank coffee in the morning, ate lollipops, crushed on girls, and had dreams at night. You probably feel uncomfortable reading that because I’m uncomfortable writing it, but he was just as much of a person as your best friend is, albeit a disgusting and pathetic excuse for one. Why does acknowledging that even the most evil of mankind possessed basic human facets seem so bizarre? Even acknowledging that a very respected individual—my middle school teacher, for example—possesses them seems bizarre. Like, imagine President Barack Obama on the toilet. He does that.

Maybe you have nothing against your Chipotle server, but the reality is that there’s limited room in your neocortex and your boyfriend already takes his spot. It’s not like we make an effort to be rude to our Chipotle server, but we don’t particularly make an effort to get to know him, either. His purpose is to put chicken and rice in our burritos. Thus, we cannot genuinely care about him. Ask about his personal life, though, and he comes slightly closer to your 150-person tribe. He gains dimension. He becomes a person.

Prior to 2012, the very company for which that server works refused to partner with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), a group dedicated to ending agricultural slavery and the exploitation of Floridian farmworkers.

The CIW had petitioned Chipotle to enter into the an agreement that would improve wages and working conditions for these farmworkers, all who have homes and favorite foods and memories of their first times falling in love. For six years, Chipotle CEO Steve Ells had responded to these petitions with hostility and disregard, thereby reflecting the

intensity with which these farmworkers—or, to Ells, “The Vague Beings Who Work On A Farm”—fall outside of his 150-person tribe.

We can’t blame Ells, though. He couldn’t care about them if he tried. And if those farmworkers had decided to poison the crops and sneakily ship them out as part of a revolt against Chipotle, it would just demonstrate how intensely we—the real people who would suffer the real vomit-inducing consequences of crop poisoning—fall outside of their 150person tribe. In conclusion, a society of decent human beings will never work. We simply can’t care about everyone.

Have you ever read about a catastrophically high number of deaths that occurred in a foreign country as a result of warfare or a factory explosion? Knowing 30,000 civilians died simply wouldn’t tug on your heartstrings as much as knowing your grandmother died. Yes, it’s true that you can’t care for those faces as much as you can care for your grandmother—you don’t know any of them and, conversely, you know your grandmother very well. However, even if you did meet all 30,000 foreigners, you’d still have so many people shoved into your neocortex that you couldn’t squeeze even half of those foreigners in. And their deaths still wouldn’t matter as much to you, despite the fact that one human death is no more or less a human death than another. We’d likely feel worse reading about one random named person dying than we would about 30,000, even though they all have names, too. As Joseph Stalin once said, “One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.”

Although this might make us seem selfish and horrible, it’s actually saving our lives.

Think about how stressed out you’d be if you had to think about the feelings of 30,000 more human beings. It would be absolutely exhausting, and it’s not because you’re lazy or heartless. It’s because you physically can’t do it. Your brain is protecting your thoughts from being controlled by a vast array of strong, multifaceted feelings. The best we can do is recognize that this phenomenon exists. Rationally understanding how people outside of our tribe feel is the only way out of a situation where we can’t emotionally understand how they feel. It may not help us save the world, but it might just help us become better, more sympathetic human beings.

Alexia LaFata is a staff columnist for The Heights. She can be reached at opinions@ bcheights.com.

We are what?

Patrick Angiolillo About 40 days ago I stood reverently before a somber priest, who dashed a large ash cross on my forehead and rebuked me: “Remember you are dust and to dust you shall return.”

Admittedly, I did not think much about this charge throughout Lent. I went about my observance, and believed I had a fruitful experience, ending in a somewhat botched, but altogether fine Easter Mass at home.

(I’m not going to complain about the Mass, but there is something irksome when your parish congregation is mumbling the Gloria so badly that half way through the celebrant stops it, giving up, saying “Let’s just forget that and move on.”) That aside, I was brought back to this Ash Wednesday admonition last week when I was preparing for Hebrew class.

I read through Psalm 103, where, in verse 14, the Psalmist recalls that we are “aphar,” which means dust. It is the same word used in Genesis 3:19, where the above quote is taken from. I looked up this word in my dictionary—I wasn’t so sure of myself that I would just let it go and risk being docked on a possible quiz!—and found that it can be translated as “ash” as well (hence “Ash Wednesday”—duh, Pat). It must have been a little Providence, because in the same day I came across a post on the blog “Art of Manliness” that was part of a series called “The Life of Jack London as a Case Study in the Power and Perils of Thumos.” (It’s a great read, and I recommend it to all.) Each of the entries opens with Jack London’s Credo, which begins: “I would rather be ashes than dust! I

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would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot … the function of man is to live, not to exist…” (Unfortunately, this quote cannot be attributed to him exactly, but, nevertheless, it is an enduring testament of his spirit.)

Well, the words leapt off the computer screen and ignited me with life. I felt like I should drop everything and go live in the ominous “wild” for a week, trapping and catching my own food, my trusty hound at my side the whole time. Like I should discipline myself through some sort of self-abnegation or fast.

Like I should grow a mustache and beard, and stand tall, back straight, chest out. Like I should sing a loud, deep, and manly song, something to make a beautiful woman swoon.

I felt like I should charge a battle line, join an exploration, have an adventure, and recount it all in my old age, settled in a warm leather chair by a roaring fire, surrounded by worn and well-read books, smoking a pipe.

I felt life surge through me.

And then I went to class. I trudged across O’Neill Plaza, waved to a friend in the quad, and trotted up the stairs in Stokes to get to class on time. I was again bound by daily monotony. I returned to my studies, my tests, books, and papers. The deluge had leveled inside me, the spirit of the stallion reined in, the tease of adventure snuffed out. I was forced to remember classes and grades and graduation and grad school and summer internships and job offers—oh, the stuff martyrs are made of!

I was preoccupying myself. Busying myself with quotidian tasks, I went through the same undulation I rode after the Week of Ash Wednesday. Where I had felt so alive, so on fire with my faith, my life, my spiritedness, my own thumos, yet I lost it to my To-Do list, my pile of notebooks, practice exams, and applications.

And so I go—so we all go. We, everyday, get lost in all manner of the mundane, all that drones about us, trying to drown us in

the humdrum of the day-to-day, of our too often boring lives. If that’s too depressing, then good. You’re one we can save. Because, remember, we are ashes! We are not dry-rot.

We are not stale bread, crumbling bricks, or a tangle of cobwebs. We are that blazing star that refuses to peeter out like a matchstick, but explodes in wonder and awe, lighting up the cosmos and giving new life to dead space.

Our lives are meant to be lived. Really lived.

And no manner of banality ought to stop us!

So, what does this mean for us? Well, we don’t have to find ourselves in a Jack Londonesque story, but we should embrace all life has to offer, here and now, in whatever capacity. We ought to turn our everyday into the celebration of a day—a day at all—a chance to take a breath, feel the sun on our cheeks, and see the stars peeking out in the twilight sky of dusk. We ought to turn our daily lives of dust into smoldering ash. So if that means reciting poetry out on Bapst lawn at the first tweet of the black-capped chickadee in spring or signing up for another excavation half way around the world, or if it means hunkering down in O’Neill with a fat textbook to start studying for that finance exam or just getting a cup of coffee with a friend who you’ve not seen since she got back from her time abroad in Spain, so be it. As long as you are living, truly living, and burning with a passion for life. The flashes of thumos, of your ensouled spiritedness, will probably come to you in fast, fleeting moments—like when you read a chill-inducing London quote or recall the baffling beauty of the Cross and Resurrection—but it will grease your gears and remind you that, yes, we are ash and to ash we shall return. But to be ash at all, we must be a roaring fire first, an inferno of life, a conflagration of living flesh and spirit.

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

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Show some respect Kristy Barnes Let me tell you about my first experience with Boston College Students for Sexual Health. I was a freshman living on Upper campus and after a few weeks of being away from home, my parents were coming to visit. Figuring I would be super cool and show them how I can function here on my own, I decided to take them to the dining hall. Bounding down the steps from Upper, I excitedly gushed about each moment that had occurred since my parents drove away, my mom filling the car with her tears. We reached the bottom stairs, crossed College Road, and before I even knew what was happening, I was being told to “have a safe weekend,” and a condom was shoved into my hand. That’s right, I was standing outside of Mac, with my mom, my dad, and a condom. Awkward.

So my first run-in with BCSSH was not ideal, yet I didn’t have any problem with the organization until they started picking a fight with my school and the characteristics that make it such an amazing place to learn and grow. I like to think the majority of students appreciate that we are a Jesuit, Catholic University. We enjoy the benefits of having brilliant faculty members who are also members of the Church, a community that is close-knit and caring, and dedicated students who focus on using education to better the world. All of us decided to attend BC, and many chose so because of certain aspects cultivated from our religious identity. The fact is, BC is not your typical college with large lecture halls and professors who are only available once every three weeks.

This place is different, and no doubt it’s from the traditions and morals of the Jesuits. You don’t get to pick and choose with a Jesuit university. Along with the benefits, there may be some things you don’t agree with—but that doesn’t entitle you to be disrespectful.

According to the Catholic News Agency, the Church has two reasons on which it founds its stance against the use of condoms. The first is that the use of contraceptives goes against God’s command to “Go forth and multiply.” The second is that sex outside of marriage is a sin that threatens the sanctity of marriage. I believe that God made the act of sex to be shared in marriage. It is something intimate and special reserved for two people who love each other. I further believe if the school handed out condoms to its students it would be the equivalent of saying it’s okay to have sex before marriage. How can we ask a university who prides itself on its relation with the Church to promote something the Church stands so strongly against?

I’m not saying I personally don’t believe in condoms. As an environmentalist, I believe they are an effective means of population control. As a rational human being, I know they are a good means of protection. But there is something to be said about BC holding us to higher morals than we can often hold. Morals God tells us to uphold. Isn’t that a beautiful thing?

Let’s be clear, BC is not telling you not to use or keep condoms in your possession. There is no rule that states such. Further, the school isn’t saying you can’t make your own decisions. BC is staying out of our personal lives while upholding the values that God commands man uphold. Look, CVS is right down the road, and Planned Parenthood is a few stops down the B-line. So the information isn’t on campus, but that’s a small price to pay for the benefits that accompany a Jesuit, Catholic University.

Furthermore, if you can’t be responsible for your actions, or you don’t have the money to pay for the $2 T-ride, then you shouldn’t be having sex. Sex is an act for adults, and if you can’t act like an adult or pay for your decisions, you shouldn’t be having sex.

Overall, I see this as a matter of respect, and BCSSH is disrespecting my University and my community. BCSSH: BC has worked with you—they have let you pass out condoms to poor freshmen and their parents practically on campus. They have talked with you and have kept what you call a “transparent” relationship. The second they limit your organization, because they have tenets and morals they must uphold due to the Jesuit identity from which we all benefit, you embarrass both the administration and the school on a national level. As students of BC, I believe you are better than that.

Kristy Barnes is a staff columnist for The Heights. She can be reached at opinions@ bcheights.com.

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Cianfrance aims for grand tragedy with ambitious ‘Pines’

By Ryan Dowd Heights Staff The Place Beyond the Pines has perhaps the best trailer of the new year—a majestic, sweeping vision on fatherhood and the consequences of decisions fathers make told in just two and half minutes. The film, directed

by Derek Cianfrance (Blue Valentine) tells essentially the place beyond th e s a m e the Pines story in Derek Cianfrance just under two and a Focus Features half hours.

Pines embodies the plight of a good film whose trailer—vision—is just a bit better than the feature presentation, despite powerhouse performances from leads Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper to go along with beautiful cinematography.

In Pines, Luke Glanton, (Gosling), a professional motorcycle stunt rider, turns to robbing banks to provide for his former lover (Eva Mendes) and their new born child. The film follows the far reaching consequences of Luke’s decision, which crashes into the lives of hero cop, Avery

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Cross (Cooper) and his family, including a one-year-old son, as he deals with corruption within his police department.

Pines has all the makings of a great Americanized Greek tragedy. It has the sweeping three act narrative arc, two dynamic leads, the compelling character actor who steals nearly every scene he’s in (Ben Mendelsohn), and especially the ever-present underlying power of fate. It has a perfect opening where we follow Luke through a carnival and onto his bike. Luke and two other riders then enter a caged ball and fly across the cage within inches of each other. The opening scene precisely captures the cyclical nature and caged theme of fate in the film.

Goslings’s manic energy drives the first act of the film. While Gosling’s Luke Glanton may look and seem like only a motorcycle riding extension of his electric performance as the driver in Drive, Gosling channels a different character here in Pines.

Gosling has made his breakthrough playing characters carefully in control—characters with a seemingly charming exterior and damaged interior. But Luke is a character very much out of control. Luke’s exterior is

chaos with his tattooed body and daredevil driving, but his interior is pure, his love for his boy. Gosling can do more with a blank expression than most actors can do with their entire bodies, but when Luke robs his first bank it reveals a screaming, crazed Gosling we knew might exist but had never seen before.

Cooper, fresh off an Oscar nomination for Silver Linings Playbook, carries the film through its second and third acts. Usually smooth like his counterpart Gosling, in Pines Cooper reaches a median between his superficially charming Hangover persona and his psychotic, hyperventilating Playbook performance. Avery Cross is a character struggling to hold it all together.

Beyond Gosling and Cooper lies Ben Mendelsohn (The Dark Knight Rises) who plays the smarmy Robin, who convinces Luke to start robbing banks. When Mendelsohn is on the screen you can’t take your eyes off him, even with Gosling right next to him. Mendelsohn, with his nasal voice and continuously twitching physical physicality, simply is Robin, the man who literally lives in the pines, on the edge of society.

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Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes star as troubled lovers in ‘The Place Beyond The Pines.’

Pines is a good movie but comes just short of being a great movie. Where does it err? Well, you can only say the same thing so many times. In its trailer it gave us a glimpse of its vision, and that glimpse ended up being more interesting than Cianfrance’s exhausting 140-minute epic.

Pines is a tragedy, but it’s a tragedy that takes itself a little too seriously. Even Romeo

and Juliet lets its audience laugh every so often. Pines lacks a sense of urgency to pace one act to the next and the final act to its conclusion. A film this long needs several layers, something that the trailer seemed to indicate, but those layers eventually became the same layer. The Place Beyond the Pines has everything a good tragedy needs but lacks what every great tragedy has. n

‘Evil Dead’ remake is truly terrifying

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Heights Staff Most movie fans out there know that horror is a difficult genre to pull off. Our culture has simply grown more and more difficult to scare, and writing a quality movie that is designed entirely to terrif y evil dead: someone is just not Fede Alvarez TriStar Pictures an easy thing to do. Well, the writers of the new “scariest movie you will ever see” have managed to do what seemed impossible. They created a movie that will absolutely disturb, disgust, and most importantly, horrify audiences across the country.

Adapted from the first of the original ’80s horror trilogy The Evil Dead, the new Evil Dead uses its vastly greater budget and new technology to create what will undoubtedly be the most petrifying movie of the year. Though many fans of the original films were likely a bit disheartened to see the original story was not featured, they will be glad to know that Sam Raimi, the creator and director, was also behind the 2013 adaptation. This injection of authenticity surely helped the cult reboot become so successful on its opening weekend.

Though there does not seem to be room

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for a sequel like the originals, there are enough frights packed into the short hour and a half to leave even the most seasoned horror buffs cowering.

After a brief and chilling set up, the crux of the movie begins with a group of five old friends reuniting for the first time in many years at an old cabin in the middle of a sinister looking forest.

The two main characters among them, a brother and sister, are responsible for the gathering, calling their best friends together to help the girl named Mia kick her debilitating heroin habit.

After they venture into the basement (which, apparently, is never a good idea) they find a demonic book bound with some rather unpleasant material. In spite of the fairly blunt warnings to put the book down and quit reading, one of the characters decided to read the messages, summoning an evil spirit bent on causing terror and pain on the living. While all of this is happening, Mia is suffering from painful withdrawals, making her sick and delusional. After an escape attempt, the demon chooses her to possess and wreak havoc on the unsuspecting group.

This movie has pretty much everything for the horror movie fans out there.

There are surprises, gore, incredible effects and make-up, as well as a well-written screenplay. Of course, some of the

Hollywood horror cliches emerged, but for the most part, the movie demanded to be taken seriously as something that will scare you into the fetal position. As an added bonus the writers managed to throw in a couple of laughs. For instance, one of the characters, in spite of taking inhuman amounts of abuse, manages to survive, and in a classic case of deus ex machina ends up coming to help at the exact right moment. Throughout the movie, the audience is constantly left surprised as to what will happen next.

Walking out of the film is an experience in and of itself. Seeing the disgusted and petrified looks on the rest of the audience’s faces is one of the best parts of the whole movie. With plenty of scares and a great script, this movie earned those reactions. There were a couple of scenes where the plot got a bit too out of touch, but overall the movie was very well put together. It provides all of the ups and downs one comes to expect from quality horror movies, bringing plenty of stress with its long, drawn-out chase scenes where the protagonists constantly seem to be making the wrong decisions or splitting up. If this movie teaches us anything, it is to stay together and always bring a bat to a cabin. As with any good horror film, Evil Dead is a social experience. Bring a group of friends and enjoy! n

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‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’ is an action-packed guilty pleasure

By Sean Keeley

Arts & Review Editor G.I. Joe: Retaliation is a fine example of dumb fun done just right. This sequel to 2009’s Hasbro toy-inspired G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra doesn’t rewrite the rules of the action movie playbook, nor is it likely to inspire any tr uly G.I. Joe: Retaliation lasting impresJohn M. Chu sions. But Paramount for purely mindless, popcorn-movie blow-’em up spectacle, you can do a lot worse (see Michael Bay’s Transformers movies for just how much worse).

Retaliation was originally set for release last summer, but was postponed due to reshoots and a 3-D conversion. Release delays are usually the sure sign of a turkey, but perhaps it’s those diminished expectations that make the movie surprisingly satisfying.

Fans well-versed in the G.I. Joe universe will likely be intrigued by the fact that Retaliation does away with most of the original film’s cast members while focusing on three major new players—Roadblock (Dwayne

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Johnson), Lady Jaye (Adrianne Palicki), and Flint (D.J. Cotrona), our movie’s deadly trio of elite soldiers who escape from a surprise attack that wipes out the rest of the Joes. It turns out that the evil mastermind behind the attacks is none other than supervillain Cobra Commander. Working with his henchman Zartan, a master of disguise who impersonates the U.S. president to nefarious ends, Cobra plans to exact revenge on the G.I. Joes and achieve world domination with a new weapons system.

For those of us whose childhoods were not defined by G.I. Joe toys and who missed the much-maligned 2009 film, fear not: the movie offers a brief recap early on that provides some context for what follows.

But of course, plot is the least important element of a movie like this. At some point you simply give up trying to make sense of the movie’s endless assortment of soldiers and ninjas and strangely-named henchmen, and just enjoy the kinetic pleasures of them all duking it out.

On that level of visceral thrills, Retaliation largely delivers. A few early scenes are perfunctory exchanges of bullets and big explosions, but director Jon M. Chu shows

more flare as the movie progresses. An improbable escape from a high-security prison becomes an impressive display of fight choreography, while a ninja sword-fight on a snowy mountainside is entertainingly ridiculous in the best ways.

By the film’s end, nothing less than the entire world’s existence is at stake as the villains threaten to nuke the entire globe unless the world’s leaders give in to their demands.

With its themes of nuclear paranoia and its disturbing images of London being leveled, the movie here makes a faint stab at the high-stakes drama of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy, which also wove topical themes of terrorism and feelings of national panic into its comic-book storyline. That’s not to say that Retaliation is anywhere near the quality of Nolan’s films, but the high stakes do make for a suitably climatic conclusion.

Human interest is hardly the selling point of a G.I. Joe movie, but Retaliation nonetheless elicits some nice work from its cast. Dwayne Johnson proves once again that he is king of the modern B-movie, always bringing his charisma and commitment to even the silliest of material. Adrianne Palicki,

so great as Tyra on Friday Night Lights, gets the opportunity to strut her action-star stuff while also nicely delivering in some character-based moments. In a brief appearance, Channing Tatum is as reliable as always, and the ever-game Bruce Willis injects some effortless star power into the film’s latter half as the retired general who originally inspired the G.I. Joe squad. (It should be noted, however, that among the generally capable cast, rapper RZA has a hilariously terrible turn as

a blind kung-fu master.)

There are a few moments in G.I. Joe: Retaliation that elicit unintentional laughter, and there’s nothing too substantial going on beyond cartoonish mayhem. But the movie at least has the virtues of being unpretentious and consistently entertaining. It knows what kind of movie it is, and for the most part it delivers its genre pleasures with panache. This is the kind of movie the phrase “guilty pleasure” was made for. n

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Though hardly a cinematic masterpiece, ‘Retaliation’ is an entertaining popcorn spectacle.

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‘Caesar Must Die,’ an acclaimed new film about prison inmates who act out Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar,’ premiered at BC on Friday.

Italian Club sponsors film premiere

By Dmitry Larionov Heights Staff

Caesar Must Die, directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, made its first international debut outside of NYC this past Friday, brought to campus for a screening by the Italian club.

The film follows the inmates of Rebbibia, a maximum-security prison in Rome, throughout their rehearsal and staging of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. The documentary has garnered rave reviews from critics around the world for its fearless command of theme. Still, the vision is executed with a distorted clarity—the scripted is indistinguishable from the unscripted, the professional actors (if any) are lost among the amateurs—and these questions tend to disrupt the flow of narrative rather than contributing to the mystique. Halfway through the film, one begins to doubt the authenticity of any of the moments, and if the prisoner’s breakdowns, fights, and asides are stylistically chosen, the intention is unclear.

Of course, Julius Caesar is the quintessential Mafiosi play. The themes of honor, betrayal, guilt, and an ultimate freedom assume double meanings for the men whose existence has been governed by a sort of criminal tryst, and whose past decades had been wasted in a space which knows no liberty. The film opens and closes on the same scene: Brutus (Salvatore Striano), overcome by guilt for his betrayal frantically begs the traitors around him for death—he is looking for a way out of the pain

of life, of living with the reality of crime committed. When another actor kills him, it is an understanding jab which relieves Brutus of his psychological (and literal) internment.

The film doesn’t focus on the worldly crimes of the inmates—instead, we are introduced to them in a humane, heartwarming scene—the audition. The would-be actors are asked to deliver their names, birthdays, and place of origin in two scenarios: the first as a farewell to their wife and children, the second as a forced interrogation. Obviously, not all those involved are great actors, but they choke out their goodbyes with such conviction, and grunt their admissions with such repression, that you wouldn’t watch this and think of it as amateur theater performed by thugs and losers. Performance is their therapy—it is an outlet for their emotions—and this is acting at its purest when not at its best.

Striano’s Brutus is not the conniving ‘rat’ made infamous in pop culture renditions—he plays the emancipator here, the prison veteran with the experience and inside connections to stage a mass jailbreak. Of course, in the context of the play, he sculpts his rebellion into the freedom from dictatorship. The actor himself crumbles under pressure throughout the film, recalling scenes from his life outside selling contraband cigarettes: the stories of trust and compromise that have led him into prison. In another memorable scene, Arcuri breaks from his Don Caesar to confront an actor with whom he’d had a turbulent history.

They leave the room to fight.

The tension is convincing, but around this point these “unscripted” moments are called into question. Where are the guards?

Where are the shackles and bulletproof glass? For a maximum-security facility, the inmates wield a surprising amount of freedom—scenes are rehearsed in bunks, hallways, bathrooms, and courtyards. At one point, rehearsal becomes performance, and although Caesar Must Die is a fascinating exercise in ironic distance, the viewer has no reason to anticipate the shift.

Ultimately, the film seems to be a critique of censorship and the influence of expression on society at large. Certainly, to permit the inmates to play out such violent fantasies is a progressive form of correctional treatment. The prisoners are allowed to confront their darkness rather than indulge in it, and Cosimo Rega (Cassius) delivers the poignant closing thought: “Since I got to know art, this cell has become a prison.” The actors—murderers, traffickers, Mafiosi—play the politicians of Julius Ceasar with a knowing intimacy—the paranoia, claustrophobia, and defenselessness of public politics thrives in Rebbibia, and their work is spellbinding.

When the prisoners finally kill Caesar, they run through the prison shouting “freedom from tyranny.” The actors echo “honor the fallen” in a solemn remembrance. These men understand Shakespeare, even if they admit that they found it “so boring in school.” n

routine, using both traditional African styles of music and modern day hip-hop.

Their powerful Western African inspired dance moves and presence on stage was great to see. The South Asian Student Association’s dance group Masti donned traditional Indian garments and shook up the stage with their Bollywood style performance, and took home second place in their category. The ultimate winner, AeroK, absolutely dominated the stage and earned their well-deserved victory.

This crew blends traditional Korean dancing and outfits with high-energy hip-hop dancing. Their performance started off with an elegant fan and parasol routine, had a forceful and strong warrior themed section, and capped off with the entire group on stage dancing to modern rap and hip-hop. Their choreography and orchestration was extremely dynamic and original.

Two on-campus dance groups were featured as showcase performers, and were not in the running for either of the competitions. The first, Dance Organization (DOBC), dazzled the crowd with a graceful blend of hip-hop and freestyle dancing. The second group, Boston College Irish Dance (BCID) took over the stage. This group consistently impresses any audience they are in front of with incredible synchronization and intricate Irish step dance. Their fluidity on stage as a large group had everyone cheering at the end of their routine—the crowd loved every minute of it.

The second category of competition was the Dance Category, which included Sexual Chocolate (SC), Females Incorporating Sisterhood Through Step (F.I.S.T.S), Synergy, Fuego del Corazon, UPrising, and Phaymus. SC, coming back to Showdown off a huge first-place win last year, never disappoints with their commanding step routines. Their “Grease” inspired performance included all of the musical’s main characters, including the Pink Ladies. You can never go wrong with cross-dressing—it’s funny every single time. SC threw in some major stunts that got the crowd hyped, and served

up a great overall performance. F.I.S.T.S produced a circus themed performance complete with clowns, lions, acrobats, and a ring-master. It was great to see that this group significantly grew in size, and as a result had a larger presence on stage. Their performance was creative, intricate, and entertaining. Definitely one of the standout performances of the night.

Synergy crafted a superhero themed spectacle. Superman and woman, the Hulk, Batman, Ironman, and other superhero friends joined forces to defeat the Joker and gain back control of the boom box, all while keeping the people of Gotham City dancing. This group had a great storyline and executed it well in their performance. Fuego brought the Carnaval of Brazil to Showdown this year with flashy colorful costumes for the ladies and explosive Brazilian beats. They even had some drummers accompany them at the foot of the stage. Fuego never does it wrong. The skill their dancers have is truly remarkable, and in their 10th anniversary performance at Showdown they delivered the goods.

Coming back to Showdown after their huge win last year, UPrising did it again and came out strong, winning second place in the Dance category. Their routine depicted a day care center, in which the babies dance when there are no adults around. One brave soul of the crew even donned a diaper. That takes guts. UPrising is quickly becoming a BC staple dance group on campus. Their intricate hip-hop based dance moves and group dynamic are a force to be reckoned with. As for the group that took home the bacon, so to speak, this year, the honor went to Phaymus: and they deserved it. Their high-energy showcase was extremely captivating, and the group’s endearing emotional reaction to when they were announced as the winner further displays the dedication that these dancers have to the crew. Each first place team received both bragging rights and a check of $500 to be donated to the charity of their choosing. With the turnout, the energy of the crowd and of the dancers, this year’s Showdown was one of the highlights of the academic year. n

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Boston Ballet delivered a fresh take on a classic with their performance of ‘Sleeping Beauty.’

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Though graceful to watch, the heaviness of the feet was distracting and broke the flow of each corps dance. Furthermore, the dancers found themselves out of sync with each other, oftentimes a smidge too early or late and never quite on time. One notable moment was in Act I, where the cavaliers were dancing in a staggered row where a mistake early on caused them to become out of sync entirely, with some of the men performing moves almost a second later than others. Another instance was in Act II where the dancers were so out of time that they seemed to skip a few steps in order to catch up with not only each other, but the music as well.

That is not to say, however, that every number was lost in the midst of unpolished

dancing. Each and every soloist was a marvel to behold, light on their feet (and, subsequently, soundless) and nearly flawless. Ashley Ellis as the Princess Aurora captured the innocence of a young girl, alongside a playfulness that can be seen with the various prince suitors in Act I, through her graceful movements and fanciful footwork. The Prince Desire himself was just as good, perfectly executing difficult turn combinations and lifts without so much as making it look arduous. In the solo-heavy Act III, the dancers playing the fairy tale guests of the wedding gave each character their own sass and sway, making the audience fall for each and every one. In the end, the magnificent soloists of the Boston Ballet proved their own prowess in their art form and carried The Sleeping Beauty through to an outstanding overall performance and a feeling of immense satisfaction. n

setlist … Just kidding! It rocked the heck out of every single one. From the warm-up round of “Groovin’ Hard,” sax man Patrick Andrea, CSOM ’13, riffed with a vengeance to start out the improv solos. The band has an inimitably clean feel for the unruly genre it interprets: bOp! is intensely rehearsed, but every motion feels natural and intense. Bonaiuto had very little to do in the way of conducting while these folks played their raucous symphonic.

Just as the audience buckled up for the ride, the BC bOp! vocalists took the stage.

The voices of BC bOp! are split down the middle: three guys and three gals. Their first act was “Moonglow,” a tremendous tune sung with stellar soul, continuing the superb tradition of jazz singing that takes no high note for granted. In the first half, the vocalistas took on “Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen,” wherein Executive Board member Ali Coyle, A&S ’15, joined Jemima Victor, LSOE ’15, and Anne Wilder, CSOM ’16, for a pitch-perfect trio complimented by the ensemble’s finesse and Wilder’s unmistakable diva-dom. Later, Nathan Walkowicz, LSOE ’13, belted out some mean scat-singing on “Testimony,” and Ryan Kwong, A&S ’15, and Matthew Hewett, A&S ’16, held down a perfect baritone in “Perdido.”

There aren’t any words to describe the BC bOp! vocals other than “spot-on:” it’s a sound that has to be heard to be believed.

While all of this was going on, the percussion was rocking away. Sanjay Pamaar, A&S ’16, and Max Wawrwick, CSOM ’16, play backbone for this act like nobody’s business: both drummers are freshmen, but they’ve already carved out their own styles. Pamaar had crazy, gifted-goofball showmanship on

his dips and rolls, while Warwick dished out steady pulses to compliment the wild ensemble sway. It’s worth mentioning that Christopher Daley, A&S ’13, and Lucas Allen, A&S ’16, had the rhythm guitar on lock. Wherever the melody moved, these two shredders had their parts pinned down: you could hear their funky twang in every song.

Wayne Bergeron has to be mentioned at this point. Bonaiuto introduced Bergeron as “the best trumpet player in the world,” and the man did not disappoint. The volume and virtuosity of Bergeron’s licks are, quite frankly, astounding. He wasn’t the only big name making an alongside appearance Saturday night, though, since composer and BC alum Steven Bass (now studying music at the New England Conservatory) was there to direct two of his own original scores. By no coincidence, “Egomania” and “Hungarian Rhapsody” had maybe the most energetic and gripping feel of any song played that night. Bass might have played trumpet at BC, but he writes some majorly contentious bass and drum fills into his work, perfectly executed by Andrew Jones, A&S ’15, and the drumming freshmen while the horns go wild. On “Hungarian Rhapsody,” the music pushed Bergeron to his max with an incredible plumber-mute solo while Andrea kept up, once again, on the alto sax.

Let’s talk about bass for a second. Jones rocked the standing cello for most of the concert, but swapped for an electric twice in the second half: his bass lines weren’t just smooth, they were flawless. At the recent BC Battle of the Bands, Jones played punk-funk with his hometown band Mamojam, and though he blew the crowd away then, it was beyond fantastic to see Jones in his classic element.

While he anchored the low tones, Justin Solle,

A&S ’16, and Victoria Mariconti, A&S ’15, kept the upper end of the scales beautifully in check with piano. And, of course, who could forget the incredible David Bonaiuto, A&S ’14, on trombone, as well as trumpet-playing seniors Rachel Butler, A&S ’13, and Constantine Schidlovsky, CSOM ’13. Everyone holds their own and takes no prisoners when it comes to breaking out their awesome, over-the-top jazz sound.

All of this and more was on display Saturday night, a tremendous night for BC music and the admirably close community of BC bOp!. Kudos were awarded in particular to Bonaiuto, vocal director Karen Tasho, and producer Erin Meiman in one of their final performances this year. Check out the BC bOp! at Arts Festival this Apr. 26, because this band is definitely worth a listen. n

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Wayne Bergeron played with boP! Saturday.

Working a pop culture binge into a balanced entertainment diet Joe Allen So, two weeks ago, I went home for Easter, and last week, I was sick. With my two favorite excuses for laziness stacked back-to-back, I went on a pop culture binge for the ages. Here are the results of my media-fueled fortnight: Upon arriving home in Chicago, I immediately found myself at home with my three younger sisters and two of my cousins, both girls. Outnumbered and exhausted from the half-week of college, I was doomed to sit through a less-than-masculine film.

Fortunately, the girls’ film choice was Clueless. Four months earlier, as I desperately sought a Christmas gift for my youngest sister, a female friend recommended this film. Guys, don’t let the sparkly pink box fool you, as it did me: this movie’s comedic gold knows no gender boundaries. The film packs in jokes centered around growing up in the privileged environment of Beverly Hills.

Alicia Silverstone, Paul Rudd, and a young

Brittany Murphy show off their comedic talent as the movie shifts from story to story on a moment’s notice. With a now-retro soundtrack, including Counting Crows, Beastie Boys, and an early Radiohead, Clueless is perfect for anyone seeking some laughter and ’90s nostalgia.

The next day, I switched gears, picking up The Fault in Our Stars, a young adult novel by John Green which I had bought for another sister, also for Christmas. The book hadn’t been touched, so I dusted it off and went to work. The book follows Hazel, a 16-year-old cancer patient who befriends a handsome, quirky man named Augustus Waters at a Cancer Support Group. As their relationship blossoms into a romance, the novel begins running laps around every Nicholas Sparks film. Nothing is glamorized, as the story is told by Hazel herself, who views her inevitable death with many conflicted emotions. Green is a master of switching tonal gears, moving from a burst of humor (of which there are many) to a moment of heartbreak or profound emotional

insight, all within a few lines. Anyone old enough to handle the book’s heavy subject matter should pick it up immediately, as there has rarely been a work of art about death that contains so much life.

While I was reading, my sisters engaged in one of their favorite recent activities: trying to get me to watch Gilmore Girls. For two years, two whole years, I had fought them off, instead getting them to watch Buffy, Freaks and Geeks, etc. My day of feminine reckoning had arrived, however. With the addition of two more girls in my cousins, I finally gave in and watched the first few episodes. By the time I hit episode four, my worst fear had been realized: I actually liked it. As a writer, the dialogue in Gilmore Girls is something to marvel at. Characters attack their lines, rapid-fire style, with each script cramming in almost double the written content of your average hour-long drama. And the more Rory and Lorelai talked, the more I wanted to listen, in spite of myself. So, am I still watching? Put it this way: anyone looking for the show’s first season DVD in

O’Neill this week will be sorely disappointed.

Once I arrived back at school, I needed a palate cleanser. So I turned on what I consider to be the opposite of GG: 24. After marathoning three episodes and realizing “Do I really want to spend the rest of my week with Jack Bauer?” I switched gears to re-watching Mad Men season five, in preparation for the new season’s premiere.

In the interest of the more spoiler-conscious reader, I won’t go into detail, except to say that season five is currently my favorite season of the show. For those of you who are dying to know what happens in this season: Don Draper has sex and smokes more cigarettes.

Finally, I caught myself up on two Oscarnominated movies that somehow escaped me during awards season: Zero Dark Thirty and The Master. I watched these two backto-back on the night before my plane flight back to Boston, because sleep is over-rated.

Going into both with the barely-containable excitement of a film junkie, I was surprised to learn, by the end of the night, that I didn’t

love either of them. Zero Dark Thirty was riveting in parts, but much of the movie felt like a prolonged wait for the killing of Osama Bin Laden, which every viewer knew was coming. And while I love Paul Thomas Anderson, I’m still trying to make sense of whatever the hell The Master was trying to say. The film had all the cinematic expertise of Anderson’s earlier works, but I longed for the simpler, more down-to-Earth filmmaking of Boogie Nights. Maybe I didn’t enjoy the films as much because I didn’t see them in theaters. Maybe the hype killed them for me. No matter what the reason, I still find Cabin in the Woods to be my favorite movie of the last year.

So what’s next? Well, Cartoon Network has essentially downloaded their entire library onto Netflix Instant, which should be a great way to kick off anyone’s upcoming pop culture binge.

Joe Allen is a staff columnist for The Heights. He can be reached at arts@ bcheights.com.

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THE FINER THINGS

A nostalgic soundtrack

THROWDOWN AT SHOWDOWN

ARIANA IGNERI In the present, remembering the past is always bittersweet. As we wistfully long for yesterday, today inevitably fades into tomorrow. Memories brush themselves off, step into the light, and linger only long enough for us to recollect, smile, and, once again, forget. Nostalgia—it’s transient, but also incredibly powerful. Stored in taped up boxes and closed chests in the tiny, little corners of our minds, our remembrances are often accompanied by the poignant sentimentality of nostalgia, and sometimes, all it takes is a small key—a single stimulus—a song, even—to unlock a lifetime of memories and emotions.

Music can transport you—with nothing more than a memorable melody or a line of lyrics. It can turn back the years, the weeks, and the days, and enable you to relive the past, vividly, in the present. So when I’m in the mood for some reminiscing—for some time travel—it’s nice to know that all I need is an old track or two.

Shamelessly, I’ll admit that I have a Disney playlist on my iPhone—and not just because “A Whole New World” and “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” are genuinely brilliant songs—but also because the memories that I’ve attached to them are some of the best that I can remember. The orchestral opening to “A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes,” for example, instantly returns me to a specific day in kindergarten. I was wearing a fluff y, blue tulle dress, covered in specks of shimmering glitter, waltzing around my kitchen and waving my magic wand.

With a toothless smile and a silver tiara perched on my head, I twirled in circles with my little cousin, singing, “If you keep on believing / The dream that you wish will come true.” Every girl imagines being a princess when she’s younger, but naturally, when we grow up, those innocent reveries are slowly forgotten. With music, though, it’s possible to remember, to be reminded of what such youthful wishes felt like—even if it’s just until the clock strikes midnight.

So perhaps this transporting quality of nostalgia explains why the songs I listen to most frequently aren’t the ones currently playing on the radio, but instead, those from more than a decade ago. When I was a kid, all I listened to was ’90’s boy bands, and though not much has really changed since then, I still can’t hear “Bye, Bye, Bye” without remembering the day that my dad took me to Circuit City to buy my first Walkman and CD—N’Sync’s No Strings Attached. Bursting with excitement, I skipped across the store parking lot, holding my dad’s hand and watching my red and white-checkered dress sway back and forth in the spring breeze. It’s a simple little memory, but it’s also one of my happiest.

When I’m not listening to Disney soundtracks or to the Backstreet Boys, chances are, I’m listening to John Mayer, because my senior year of high school, when my parents finally let me drive, his CDs were the only ones in my car. Thus, for 25 minutes, twice a day, five days a week, the entire Mayer discography— Continuum and Battle Studies included—played on repeat. So now, “Dreaming With A Broken Heart” doesn’t just make me think of lost love—it makes me think of everything that I passed driving to and from school: the Starbucks on Broad Street where I’d get my morning coffee, the man with a beard and flannel who always walked his dog at the park, and the students in green and gold uniforms getting off the bus—senior year memories blurred in my rearview mirror.

The famous author Marcel Proust once wrote, “Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.” So, maybe my memories aren’t entirely factual and real, then.

Maybe the past has filed away their rough edges. For now, though, nostalgia is the closest thing I have to traveling through time—to retrieving the past—and as far as I’m concerned, there’s nothing wrong with playing some good, old music while nostalgia dusts my memories off, polishes them up, and makes them shine.

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

CULTURE WINNER: AEROK DANCE WINNER: PHAYMUS

AeroK and Phaymus triumph in annual ALC dance competition

BY BERNADETTE DERON Heights Staff

The line started forming at around 6:30 p.m. outside on Conte of Saturday night. By 6:50 p.m. it grew and extended all the way down to the bookstore. This could only mean one thing: ALC Showdown is back.

At 7 p.m. the doors opened, and groups of friends and family flocked to get seats close to the stage. Ticket holders were consistently filing into Conte for the sold out show. By the start of the show at 8 p.m. the house was packed. People even gave up the luxury of having a seat and opted to stand in the back to get a better view of center stage. Needless to say, it was the most successful Showdown to date.

The guest performance this year came from P&T Crew. Hailing from Canada, this dance group exploded on stage and kicked off this high-energy show right. One of the members of P&T, Eric Olivier, served as one of three judges for the competition, along with John Lee, a member of the board of directors for Boston’s Urbanity Dance Company, and Lindiana Flores, the owner of Lindiana’s School of Dance in Worcester, Mass.

Dance teams competing in the Cultural Category were AeroK, Presenting Africa To You (PATU) and Masti. PATU came out with a very energetic

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Boston Ballet’s ‘Sleeping Beauty’ is graceful masterpiece

BY MAGDALENA LACHOWICZ For The Heights

Despite a somewhat clunky start, the Boston Ballet’s performance of the classic The Sleeping Beauty proved to be lush and marvelous. At just under three hours, the ballet was lengthy yet worth seeing—even more so due to its two-week run. The cast at the evening showing on Apr. 6 (the second to last performance of the show this season) included Ashley Ellis as Princess Aurora, Nelson Madrigal as Prince Desire, and Brittany Summer as the Lilac Fairy. Taking the beloved music of Tchaikovsky and the original choreography by Marius Petipa, the only contemporary aspects were the scenery and costume design, though still done in a traditional style. Despite being 200 years old, the story has stayed true to its original form and the ballet still stands as its best medium.

The costuming was as superb, detailed, and rich as the king and queen themselves—each character was distinguishable from afar and their attire glimmered underneath the lights as they twirled and curtsied. The intricacy and opulence of the costumes only increased with each act, with the final act providing a visual splendor with shimmers and colors abound.

A truly remarkable moment was in Act II, where the silvery dresses of the forest nymphs gleamed in the lighting and caused the illusion of the vision to become real for the audience as well as the Prince. The costuming of the

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wedding guests was also decadent, giving each character a distinct personality without even having to have danced yet. From the light pink innocence of Aurora’s first dress, to the great furred masks of Puss’n Boots, the White Cat and Beast, the costuming proved itself as timeless as the tale.

The same can be said for the set design—what starts as a simple garden party scene in the prologue evolves into a lush forest environment for the sleepy denizens of the kingdom only to become a luxurious wedding celebration for Aurora and Prince Desire. The sets were mostly background screens which were lifted as the scenes progressed—there were very few set pieces, outside of a few chairs, the throne of the royals, and the boat carrying the Lilac Fairy and the Prince. The colors were vivid, with deep reds, lavish golds, and lustrous greens. Each screen provided an immersive atmosphere to the acts, complimenting the moods depicted by the story and characters. The combination of the costuming and set design provided a hearty aesthetic experience for the audience, captivating them in a land of fantasy, yet still true to reality.

Commentary on the style of choreography would be futile as it is the tried and true formula of Petipa. Unfortunately, the corps was plagued by heavy feet and unsynchronized dancing, which only became more obvious

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Known for their big-band, jazzy performaces, bOpw! packed Robsham Theater this weekend.

BC bOp! celebrates its 25th anniversary in super style

BY MATT MAZZARI Heights Staff

As anyone who has ever seen them knows, it’s tough to describe BC bOp! without using the word “phenomenal” an insipid number of times. This Saturday’s event, the 25th anniversary commemoration, was no exception.

Super bOp! XXV was an absolute bonanza of jazz and big-band-swing, a showcase of musical and compositional talent that thrilled a Robsham Theater-worth of fans. Contributing to the BC undergraduates was professional trumpet/flugelhorn player Wayne Bergeron as

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well as alumnus Steven Bass, BC ’11, conducting his instrumentals. The jazz-planets aligned for this truly phenomenal performance, a concert that not only coincided with the group’s anniversary, but also with the birthday of musical director Sebastian Bonaiuto.

Simultaneously, a tearful farewell to BC bOp! seniors as well as a joyous celebration of the band’s rising talent, Super bOp! was successful in every possible sense.

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Eagles score their second top-10 upset

BY AUSTIN TEDESCO Sports Editor For nearly four minutes, history rested on a supposed weakness.

Staring down an opportunity to knock off top-10 opponents in backto-back games Duke 9 and set a reBoston College 10 cord for ACC wins in a season, the Boston College women’s lacrosse team held on to a 10-9 lead. The team was minutes away from holding a dynamic Duke offense to only its second single-digit scoring game of the season, but the Eagles had to defend, and they had to hold on to the ball.

After both teams scrambled back and forth to start the final four minutes, BC found possession and never let up, going on to complete the 10-9 upset win on Saturday afternoon for the program’s first ever victory over Duke after previously being 0-11 against the Blue Devils.

“I’m just so happy for my girls—they worked so hard. We had a hard week.

We’ve had a lot of ups and downs, and so to be honest I’m just so proud of the girls,” head coach Acacia Walker said.

“They’re young, they stepped up, and we won a close game. Duke is an excellent team, and we’re excited about the win.”

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end, allowing Duke to rattle off three easy, unanswered goals in the first five minutes of play. From that point on, though, the defense stepped up and the offense answered, sparked by the creative and aggressive play of sophomore midfielder Mikaela Rix. Rix scored three goals in an eightminute span during a 5-1 BC run that gave the Eagles a 5-4 lead. Duke would never regain a lead for the rest of the game.

“That’s a sign of maturity, and we have a really young team so I give all the credit to the leaders on the field,”

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BC recovered from an early 3-0 deficit to defeat No. 6 Duke 10-9 on Saturday afternoon.

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GROWING PAINS

AUSTIN TEDESCO Chase Rettig spent his Saturday morning running.

The Boston College senior quarterback, known for his arm’s accuracy and efficiency, made the loudest noise at the Eagles’ scrimmage this weekend by running the football, running a wide receiver’s route, and running his fifth offense.

He passed the ball as well, of course, and just like any balanced attack, it’s his ability to pass that allows him to run this team.

“Chase always puts the ball right on the money,” said senior wide receiver and go-to target Alex Amidon. “I don’t know how he does it. He’s a beast.”

That’s where the leader, sporting a full beard and longer, waving hair for spring ball, earns the respect to run.

“You’ve got to be doing your job before you can start commanding it from other people in the huddle,” Rettig said. “That’s what I’m trying to do. I’m trying to play the best football I can for the offense and make the best decisions so that we can be successful.”

In the 12th cycle of practice, Rettig fired a throw to sophomore wide receiver Harrison Jackson on a timed comeback route. Jackson hesistated too long, stuttered the wrong way, and allowed the corner to jump the play and nearly take the ball to the house for six.

Before the ball even hit the defender’s hands, Rettig went streaking to Jackson’s side of the field. The quarterback hit the young wideout’s shoulder pads with two hands, and then without stopping his movement bypassed Jackson running the route himself.

He was loud, he was correct, and more importantly, he had earned the right to be.

“A great thing happened today,” head coach Steve Addazio said he told the team after practice. “Chase, in a positive fashion, went after [Jackson] and not only told him what he wanted, but demonstrated what he wanted with genuine, real intensity.”

After a few weeks of saying that every position is open, Addazio recognized Rettig as the starter after practice. It was a formality, but nevertheless a meaningfull one. Until he officially had the title, he could only lead so much. Now, he’s setting the tone for everyone else.

He remembers back when he was a freshman, surrounded by “monster, fifth-year guys.” He remembers how hard it was to lead back then even though he worked his way under center.

That guy and this guy, both on the field and off, look tremendously different.

“Now that I’m established in years here and I’ve played in some games, it’s really important for the younger guys to have a couple guys on offense step up and show them how to do it,” Rettig said.

Not only are the younger players taking Rettig’s lead, but the established veterans are as well. Amidon, who has always led more by example than anything else, keeping his head down and outworking everyone else, knows it probably should have been him out

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A young baseball team is playing through one of the toughest seasons in BC history

BY GREG JOYCE

Heights Senior Staff Mike Gambino knew what challenges were facing his baseball team entering this season. With as many freshmen on the roster as juniors and seniors combined (11), he knew there would be growing pains. There would be road trips for the first month of play, but that was a given. And then there was the stiff competition that Boston College would

be up against throughout the season with its ACC schedule.

“I think we’re going to be able to make some noise this year,” Gambino said in January. “It’s going to be a matter of how quickly can we help these freshmen grow up. If we can help these freshmen grow up quickly, then we’ll have a chance.”

The other factor that Gambino was looking at heading into the season was how fast the Eagles could find their

identity as a club.

“If we can do that by game 20, we got a chance to be really good,” he said at the time. “If it takes us till game 45 to learn how to play hard every day, how to win baseball games, then we probably don’t play in the postseason.”

Through 30 games this season, BC is 5-25, and still figuring out how to win ballgames. There are 26 games remaining on the schedule, and Gambino thinks his team is starting to turn the corner.

“I think it took us a little while,” Gambino said of the team finding its identity. “I think we’re right about there now, just about game 30. We sort of knew the first third was going to be a little bit of a struggle. I think the last third will be pretty good. And then how is this middle third going? That’s what we’re seeing right now.”

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Running back Deuce Finch leaves BC football team

BY GREG JOYCE

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Although the Eagles held the Tigers to one run on Sunday, a scoreless effort led to a loss.

Clemson keeps BC from first ACC win with weekend sweep

BY CHRIS STADTLER Heights Editor

During each game this past weekend, the shadows of Alumni Stadium’s lights began to encompass the diamond of Shea Field. With each foot, the Boston College baseball team’s hopes of ending their ACC winless streak dissipated. BC’s defense at crucial points in the series resulted in their downfall against Clemson this weekend.

Beginning on Friday, the Eagles faced the Clemson Tigers in a three-game series. Head coach Mike Gambino’s squad was swept away by the Tigers in a threegame set. BC dropped to 5-25 overall and

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0-14 in the ACC, while Clemson rose to 21-11 and broke the .500 mark in the ACC (9-6).

“I thought we were a touch sloppy defensively. We have to do a little bit of a better job taking care of the baseball,” Gambino said.

As a team, the Eagles committed nine errors over the course of three games.

Sunday’s game seemed in reach until poor defensive play allowed the game to get away from BC. With one out and runners on first and second, Eagle first baseman Travis

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Women’s tennis shocks Seminoles

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Senior running back Deuce Finch has left the Boston College football team for personal reasons Saturday, the team announced after practice.

Finch had a turbulent season last year, fumbling twice early on in the season before being benched for seven games by then head coach Frank Spaziani. Finch was buried deep in the depth chart for most of the season before returning at the end of the year for the last three games.

When the team traveled to Wake Forest on Nov. 3, Finch was left behind in Chestnut Hill. The week leading up to that game, Finch had been practicing with the scout team. After that game, Finch found his way back onto the depth chart behind true freshman David Dudeck.

It is still too early to tell if Finch will be granted a release by head coach Steve Addazio so that he might be able to play elsewhere next season with his last year of eligibility. Finch is still currently enrolled as an undergraduate student at BC. While Finch was being benched, his teammates still continued to voice their support for him.

“Deuce is still a viable running back, so I’m pretty sure he’s definitely going to find his way back in the mix,” said Andre Williams in late October.

Williams will now be getting the bulk of the carries this spring and into the fall.

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Addazio has been heavy with his praise of Williams as a strong power back in his run-heavy system.

Behind Williams is Dudeck and rising sophomore George Craan, while Tahj Kimble is out recovering from injury.

There will also be two incoming freshmen running backs, Tyler Rouse and Myles Willis.

Finch leaves BC with 1,283 career rushing yards in 22 games played. 

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After three seasons at Boston College, Deuce Finch is leaving for personal reasons.

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Softball swept by Florida State

By Alex Stanley Heights Staff

This weekend, Florida State managed to sweep the Boston College softball team in a three-game series in Tallahassee.

The teams played a double-header on Saturday, and then finished the series with a game on Sunday.

In the first two games, the Seminoles shut out BC, with the combined Saturday score being 14-0 in favor of FSU. The first game ended 10-0 and the second 4-0.

FSU scored all 10 runs in the first three innings in the first match.

Junior Seminole Courtney Senas started off the scoring, by hitting a two-run homer in the first inning. That began the FSU scoring momentum, which carried through into the next two innings, with the Seminoles adding in four runs and three hits in each.

The Seminoles pitching team of Lacey Waldrop and Jessica Nori only allowed four hits from the Eagles, two of which were from freshman Megan Cooley.

However, relief pitcher Stephanie Lord held FSU to no runs in the final two innings of play, and the game

ended after five innings of play.

Lord continued the pitching in the second game, recording her third start this season. She allowed one hit in the first inning, a triple from Senas. She would eventually score on an RBI driven by her teammate Maddie O’Brien.

Lord pitched a perfect second inning, then allowed two more points in the third inning, in addition to one final run from Morgan Bullock, who was hit in by a sacrifice fly in the sixth inning.

BC recorded two hits in total during this game, with FSU’s Monica Perry pitching the whole game.

The Eagles did manage to get on the score sheet in the third and final game yesterday. Alana DiMaso, Chelsea Dimon and Jessie Daulton all brought home one point apiece, but it was not enough for a victory, as the Seminoles topped BC 7-3.

BC was the first to score on Sunday, when DiMaso hit a solo homerun in the top of the first inning.

FSU struck back though, scoring three in the same inning.

Senas once more highlighted the scoring, hitting a triple to left center.

She drove in a run, then scored herself when the next batter came to the

plate for the Seminoles.

Runs abounded in the fourth inning and after. The Seminoles bagged two more points in the fourth and then another two in the sixth.

But, in the fifth inning, another solo homerun, this time by Daulton, added another point for BC. Dimon closed out the scoring the next inning, slowly advancing her way through the bases after her initial single before driving past home plate. Lord pitched all seven innings, allowing FSU 14 hits in the Eagles’ 7-3 loss.

On Thursday, the team took on Boston University in a regional matchup in which the Eagles’ offense was stymied by a dominating performance from BU’s pitcher Whitney Tuthill. The Terriers allowed just three hits during the first six innings, keeping the Eagles from getting on the board until the top of the seventh when CJ Chirichigno hit a lead off homerun to post BC’s only run. BU held the Eagles off, however, and BC finished the game with two runners left on base in the Terriers’ 3-1 win.

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Former BC baseball player Pete Frates and SID Dick Kelley will benefit from the ALS Charity Golf Tournament on Apr. 27.

Golf tournament to benefit ALS

By Austin Tedesco Sports Editor

Pete Frates and Dick Kelley, members of the Boston College athletic department fighting Lou Gehrig’s disease, are set to be honored during a charity golf tournament organized by BC2Boston and BC Athletics later this month.

The ALS Charity Golf Tournament will be held at Newton Commonwealth Golf Course on Apr. 27, with the proceeds going to the ALS Foundation for Frates, a former

BC baseball player and current Director of Baseball Operations, and Kelley, a Sports Information Director for the men’s basketball team.

There are 12 foursomes available for the event. A group of three students can purchase a $150 ticket for a round of golf, with the fourth member of the group being completed by a BC student-athlete.

Tickets can be purchased at Robsham on Apr. 10.

Following the tournament, athletic director Brad Bates will

emcee a reception at Cityside where prizes will be given away. In addition to prizes for the winning group as well as competitions such as longest drive and longest putt, there will also be a raffle at the reception open to the rest of the student body. The $5 raffle tickets go on sale next week.

Some of the prizes include tickets and field passes to next year’s Florida State football game, gift cards to local stores and restaurants, and BC athletics memorabilia. n

Eagle Roundup

Women’s tennis breaks slump

By Pat Coyne Heights Staff

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In a busy spring weekend at Chestnut Hill that included events for both tennis teams, both sailing teams, and the rowing team, some of the strongest competition in each respective sport was faced.

Although the Eagles were not able to take home victories in every competition, there were several impressive performances, such as the women’s tennis victory over No. 20 Florida State, throughout the entire weekend.

Entering the weekend, the women’s tennis team was in serious need of a win—after starting the season 7-1, the Eagles dropped each of their next four matches and hadn’t recorded a win since Mar. 15. Given that the Eagles would be hosting both FSU as well as No. 10 Miami, getting the season back on track would certainly not be an easy feat.

It was the play of co-captain Alex Kelleher and Jessica Wacnik, who each took down a nationally ranked opponent en route to BC’s 4-2 win, that proved instrumental in lifting the team to victory over the Seminoles on Friday. Kelleher and Wacnik together took down the Seminoles top pairing in doubles play before winning each of their respective matches. In singles play, Kelleher defeated Daneika Borthwcik, the No. 31 ranked player in the nation, and Wacnik defeated No. 109 ranked Francesca Segarelli. The victory over FSU marked the Eagles’ first victory over a Top 25 opponent this season.

With an impressive ACC victory under their belt, the Eagles headed into Saturday’s match against the University of Miami with the chance to truly re-establish their presence in the ACC by taking down two of the conference’s, and nation’s,

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The number of ACC wins that the baseball team has so far that this season.

The number of losses the men’s hockey team has since the start of January.

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strongest teams. Unfortunately for the Eagles, the Hurricanes proved why they are the tenth best team in the country. Kelleher and Wacnik won their doubles match again, but Wacnik was the only Eagle to record a point in singles play before the team eventually lost 6-1.

The Eagles head to NC State and Wake Forest next weekend to continue ACC competition. With only five games left before the ACC championships, the team is looking to regain momentum heading into the post-season.

Also facing off with FSU this weekend was the men’s tennis team. This match took place in Tallahassee on Friday night, and even though sophomore Matt Wagner was able to win his singles match, no other Eagles recorded a point against the No. 26 ranked Seminoles. The win was Wagner’s first in ACC singles competition this season.

Then, on Sunday afternoon the Eagles traveled to Coral Gables, Florida to take on the No. 52 ranked University of Miami. Senior Billy Grokenberger and Wagner were paired up for doubles competition and defeated their doubles opponent from, but they were the only Eagles to find success on Sunday.

None of the other Eagles won their matches, and Miami won the match 7-0.

With the losses, the men’s tennis team now falls to 0-6 in ACC play and 5-11 overall. They face both NC State and Wake Forest at home next weekend.

Also in competition this weekend was the rowing team, which competed in the MIT Cup against MIT, the University of Vermont, and Simmons College and won every event that they competed in.

Despite headwinds that gusted at 15-18 miles per hour and conditions that only worsened through-

out the morning, the Eagles won the Cup for the first time. The race also marked the team’s first competition of the season on the Charles River.

To start off the morning, the Eagles varsity eight edged out the MIT Engineers by eight-tenths of a second with a time of 7:50.9. The varsity eight came from behind to beat the Engineers in that race, capturing the lead on just the final few strokes.

BC’s second varsity eight finished their race with a time of 7:48.9, over 10 seconds ahead of the Engineers, and stayed undefeated on the season with the victory.

Five more Eagle boats would go on to win races throughout the rest of the Cup, all playing a part in the team’s first win at the MIT Cup. The Eagles return to the water when they compete in the Knecht Cup next weekend in Camden, N.J. Also of note recently are the men’s and women’s sailing teams, who each competed in races.

Last weekend the women’s team finished in third place at the Dellenbaugh Women’s Trophy Regatta, hosted by Brown University.

The Eagles finished the Regatta with 141 points, placing them 10 points behind the second place finishing Naval Academy and 17 points behind Yale University, the Regatta’s first place finishing team.

Stephanie Hudson, Kaie Wysocki, and Katja Sertl earned the Eagles 68 points in the A Division during the Regatta.

Both the men and women sailors also competed in the Southern New England Team Race at Connecticut College last weekend.

Though the team finished in fifth place, Alex Cook, Patick Hession, William Bailey, and Molly Clark all put forth strong races. The sailing teams’ next races will take place at the 32nd Marchiando and the 53rd Friis Trophies Team Race. n

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Yards gained on the longest rush by David Dudeck Different BC quarterbacks that took snaps on Saturday

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quote of the Day “At the end of the day ... the biggest thing for me this year is getting the 10 guys with me in the huddle and taking them into the end zone, scoring points, and doing whatever we can to win football games.”

- Chase Rettig Football’s starting quarterback

Receptions for wide receiver Alex Amidon

Standouts

Memorable Play On the defensive side of the ball, safety Sean Sylvia picked a deflected pass from backup quarterback Mike Marscovetra.

The rising junior returned the interception to the end zone for a 45-yard touchdown score.

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Head coach Steve Addazio announced that Chase Rettig is the starter at quarterback right now. Sean Sylvia took back a pick-six off Mike Marscovetra.

Football scrimmage

Power running game dominates scrimmage

By Chris Grimaldi Assoc. Sports Editor

If Saturday morning’s spring practice and scrimmage are any indications of what to expect in 2013, the Boston College football team won’t tiptoe along the path back to prominence—the Eagles are going to lower their shoulders and run.

“The guys are working really hard,” said new head coach Steve Addazio, “they have a really good attitude.”

The first of three Saturday inter-squad matchups provided a glimpse into the ground and pound style of offense that Addazio has utilized since his days as Tim Tebow’s offensive coordinator at Florida.

Only a year removed from a pass-first approach under OC Doug Martin and a 119th-ranked rushing game, the Eagles demonstrated their intentions to chip away at opposing defenses from the ground.

“We’re kind of hunting and pecking still,” Addazio said, “trying to see what we can do and probably over the course of the next seven days, try to condense this thing a little bit better. That’s what we’re in a footrace to do right now.”

After the sudden departure of running back Deuce Finch and amidst hopes for junior Tahj Kimble to return from injury, carrying duties will fall to veteran Andre Williams and rising sophomore David Dudeck. Both players were extensively featured in the Eagle backfield on Saturday morning. Addazio realizes that increased responsibility for the veteran Williams can turn out to be a major focal point of BC’s

offensive scheme.

“We have a real bona fide power back in Andre Williams,” he said. “I’ve been around a long time, put a lot of focus on the run game, and that guy is a big, strong, powerful back.”

The new Eagle head coach’s emphasis on the rush involves adjustments under center as well. After becoming only the fourth Eagle quarterback to throw for over 3,000 yards in a single season, rising senior Chase Rettig found himself handing off and keeping the ball for a QB run more frequently than last year.

Yet Rettig, who threw for a score and showed the same poised decision-making skills that made him successful in 2012, appears to have bought in to his head coach’s style.

“We just really have to be a running football team,” he said. “We have to be able to run the ball, establish the run. A lot of guys who are quarterbacks and receivers don’t want to hear that, but if you can establish the run it just opens up so much of the play action game.

“At the end of the day, with all the questions about the various offensive things, the biggest thing for me this year is getting the 10 guys with me in the huddle and taking them into the end zone, scoring points, and doing whatever we can to win football games.”

As much as BC’s offense featured a new look on Saturday morning, an emergent style of intensity appeared on the other side of the ball. Under new defensive coordinator Don Brown, the Eagles placed more stress on man-to-man coverage and quickness to

the ball. Rettig made note of the adjustment from his position at the offensive end.

“It looks like more of an attacking defense,” Rettig said. “Obviously, they’re a lot more aggressive.”

Quickness on defense and a steady diet of man-to-man coverage resulted in a shining moment for one of BC’s veteran defensive anchors. Defensive back Sean Sylvia picked off a deflected pass from backup quarterback Mike Marscovetra and returned it to the end zone for a touchdown.

Although the junior seems to have adapted to Brown’s fast-paced coverage, he stressed that the success or failure of the Eagle defense will be its ability to adjust as a cohesive unit.

“We’re doing a lot of stuff that we had never did,” Sylvia said. “It’s a big adjustment at first but a lot of guys are responding pretty well to it. I think it’s going to start clicking.

The light bulb will turn on and I think it’s going to be a different complexion than last year.”

Beyond revitalized tactics on both sides of the ball, Saturday morning revealed that the Addazio era of BC football will be defined by high-intensity play, regardless of the scenario. Throwing the team’s quarterbacks into a circle of teammates to participate in the hard-hitting, one-on-one Oklahoma drill to catalyze practice set the tone BC’s head coach was looking for.

“We have a lot of competitiveness out here which you can see a sense of that this afternoon,” he said. “There’s a lot of competitiveness, so I think when you compete and you like football, you just get better.” n

Making his debut in new head coach Steve Addazio’s offensive scheme, quarterback Chase Rettig completed 12of-18 passes for 118 yards and a touchdown. He also rushed for 12 yards.

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“It’s something that more seniors on the team have to do,” Amidon said. “It reminds me that I have to do it too.”

That was the message at the end of last season. There was no accountability, there wasn’t enough leadership, and that needed to change.

“We’re going to turn it around,” Amidon said after the final loss to NC State last year. “It’s on the players. It’s on me. I take responsibility for a lot of what happened this year—not being a leader, not stepping up, not holding people accountable. The kids coming back next year—we’re going to change it. We’re all going to change it.”

That change is in progress now.

“More than last year, but it’s obviously not where it needs to be,” Amidon said after practice when asked if he saw more accountability so far.

And, no matter what, it will start with Rettig. He’s figuring out Addazio’s system. He knows that power running and play action will dominate first and second down. He knows he’ll get a chance to spread it out on third down.

“A lot of guys that are receivers or quarterbacks don’t want to hear that, but if you can establish the run it just opens up so much in the play action game,” Rettig said.

He even knows that Josh Bordner might come in and run some read or option plays, and he’s ready for it. He’s even ready to run those plays himself.

“Whatever they ask me to do I’m

going to do,” Rettig said. “If someone saw a lot of my film or something they might not say I’m a between the tackles runner, but you do enough of that stuff where sometimes they’re big enough holes that I can do some stuff.”

“You’ve got to be doing your job before you can start commanding it from other people in the huddle.”

Chase Rettig Senior quarterback Addazio tested Rettig by giving him a few designed runs during the scrimmage. On one play, the senior tucked the ball and split the tackles as he pushed off his braced left knee into the middle for a diving gain of eight.

Then he hopped right up and ran back to the huddle, ready to run it again if he had to and ready to run this team to where it hasn’t been for three years.

“My biggest job is to lead the other 10 guys in the huddle,” Rettig said.

“That’s really what I’m trying to do my senior year to get us back to the post season. It’s really important to the school, the coaches, the program, and the community.”

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

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The BC baseball team is 5-25 so far this season, and winless through 14 ACC games. Head coach Mike Gambino hoped that the freshmen would work out the growing pains earlier in the season, but he’s starting to see progress.

Young players struggle with a lack of success in trying season Challenges, from B1 The Eagles didn’t help themselves out in their first ACC series at home this past weekend, getting swept by Clemson. The threegame set may have served as a microcosm of what has gone wrong so far this season.

In game one, the Eagles got one of their best starts from Hunter Gordon. BC was hanging onto a 2-1 lead entering the seventh inning, but that’s when the Tigers put up six runs to take a commanding lead they would never give up.

That big inning is something that has led to many of the Eagles’ losses this season.

“That’s partly youth, that’s partly pressing,” Gambino said. “You make one mistake, and then how do you not let the one mistake turn into two or three or four?”

Some of the big innings have been caused by fielding errors and giving teams extra outs.

BC has committed 52 errors this season in comparison to opponents’ 34.

“It’s amazing how perfectly this game was created, that three outs is a really good number,” Gambino said. “You give a really good-hitting team four [outs], it goes from it’s hard to score a run in an inning and now it’s boom, six [runs]. It’s just kind of learning that damage control and learning how to regroup and go back to work.”

In the second game of the series, BC again committed three errors. Starting pitcher Eric Stevens allowed seven runs over five innings, but only four runs were earned.

Stevens has been the Eagles’ top starter this season, even though his statistics might not show it. He is 0-7 with a 5.76 ERA, but has not lost the confidence of his coach.

“His stats don’t match up with how well he’s pitched,” Gambino said. “He’s given us a chance to win every game he’s been in. I have no problems with anything he’s done for us.

He’s a really good ACC starter.”

On Sunday, it was silent bats that led to the loss. Andrew Chin turned in his best start of the year, pitching 5.1 innings of one-run

ball, while freshmen Jesse Adams and Jeff Burke combined to shut out Clemson for the rest of the game. On offense, though, the Eagles could only muster four hits, and got shut out 1-0.

Still winless in conference play (0-14), BC continues to be inconsistent at the plate. Part of that could be attributed to the youth in the lineup each game. Freshmen Chris Shaw, Logan Hoggarth, Joe Cronin, Gabe Hernandez, and Stephen Sauter are all in the top-11 in plate appearances on the team, and continue to go through growing pains.

“I think one thing that we’re seeing with our freshmen is, for a lot of them, it’s the first time baseball has ever been hard for them,” Gambino said. “These guys were always the best players by far, anywhere they’ve ever played. Baseball is such a hard game and now they’re learning how to struggle.”

Gambino said that this has especially taken a toll at the plate for the freshmen, as prolonged slumps can become a mental issue.

“They’ve hit .500 pretty much their whole careers, since little league” Gambino said.

“That’s not real life. That’s not real baseball.

A lot of them have never gone two games without a hit.”

While Gambino knew that the freshmen growing pains would happen, he was hoping that ideally they would get figured out early on.

Then there is the bullpen. Entering the season, Gambino was excited about the depth of arms he had to pitch in relief innings. Injuries have plagued that hope. Tyler Hinchliffe, a steady force out of the bullpen last year, is out with an ACL injury. Geoff Murphy, who made 20 appearances for 36.2 innings last year, is battling issues with his UCL, which will likely require Tommy John surgery.

Two more arms—Luke Fernandes and Mike Cloutheir—have been shut down with elbow and shoulder issues.

Early on, Gambino had to figure out which pitchers he would call on out of the pen and

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After two straight home wins, the Eagles were swept by the Clemson Tigers this weekend. in what roles. Game by game, though, the bullpen is starting to come together. Adams and Burke have been more reliable lately, giving BC important innings of relief. Gambino also slid sophomore Johnny Gorman into the bullpen, which has stabilized the late innings.

Gorman came through late to secure the final innings of last week’s win over UConn.

The first month and a half of the season was the toughest for BC. It included a 15-game losing streak, all of it coming over a span of 24 days in March.

“Part of the thing that happened in that skid was guys were caring so much and trying so hard and pressing—gripping the bat too tight, gripping the fastball too tight, trying so hard, instead of just allowing themselves to play—which is a good thing. I can handle that,” Gambino said.

Gambino said that he was proud of how his team came out of the losing streak tighter than when it started. He’s hoping that it will serve as a character-building experience, something that can help out the freshmen and sophomores on the team.

Though they have played 30 games, the Eagles have only played at Shea Field four

Home field not helpful in ACC play

BC escapes with victory Lacrosse, from B1 Walker said. “Alex Frank and Jen Kent, my assistants, have done a ridiculous job with our defense so I’m so proud.

The whole year everyone has been saying that defense is going to be our weak spot, and Jen and Alex have done a great job with them.”

Frank and Kent were commanding on the sideline, shouting instructions and swapping out substitutions throughout the game. After Duke scored five firsthalf goals on eight shots, BC held the Blue Devils to only five shots in the second half and just four goals.

The Eagles were also strengthed by draws, fouls, and ground balls, especially in the second half. After both teams collected three ground balls, BC gained a 5-1 advantage after halftime. Duke also

Lacrosse, from B1 Ferrick allowed the ball to dribble under his outstretched glove.

The ball settled in right field, allowing Clemson to score. Ferrick had two errors on the day, despite being given the start for his defensive ability.

“But the poise of Andrew Chin was impressive.” Gambino said. “It would have been really easy for him to come unraveled today, but he didn’t. He just got going back to work. He was really good today.”

Chin, a left-handed redshirt freshman starter for the BC staff, continued his strong rookie season. The Newton, Mass. native leads the team in strikeouts and ERA. Yet the highlight of his day came in the third inning. With runners on first and second due to errors, Clemson’s Tyler Slaton laid a perfect bunt to load the bases. Despite having no outs and the bases juiced, Shin escaped after registering a strike out and two infield pop outs.

In the bottom of the sixth Chin found himself again in another trying place with runners on first and third, yet Gambino pulled him in favor of righty Jeff Burke.

“We wanted the right-right matchup and got Burkie (Jeff Burke) in. Burkie had been throwing the ball really well, and Chin was at 97 or 98 pitches—he was getting right towards 100. I could see he was getting tired and I like the right-right matchup. So it was just kind of all those combinations that factored into it,” Gambino said.

The call paid off, as Burke recorded two outs to end the inning. The Eagles seemed to gain momentum while atbat in the bottom of the sixth, fresh off

times, all coming in the last week. They were supposed to have played nine home games on their schedule by now, but bad weather and poor field conditions moved those other five games out of Chestnut Hill. Two games were moved to Northeastern and Bryant because Shea Field was not in playing condition, and a full three-game series against North Carolina got moved to Chapel Hill because of a midweek snowstorm.

“It was frustrating, but you can’t control it when you get eight inches of snow on Tuesday,” Gambino said of the UNC series. “The whole thing everybody was talking about was, ‘I just want to play baseball. I want a chance to play, a chance to compete against North Carolina. I want the chance to play an ACC series, I want the chance to get a win, I want a chance to get better. If we got to go down there to do it, let’s do it.’”

Over the last few years, there has been talk about building a new baseball stadium on the Brighton campus. It is in the University’s Master Plan, but has yet to come to fruition.

“I know there are plans for it, I know there’s talk of it, I know there’s money for it,” Gambino said. “I think a lot of what’s holding

it up right now is even out of the control of not just our athletic department, but our school.

I think it has a lot to do with permitting from the mayor’s office and stuff that I’m not really involved in.”

While a new stadium and improved facilities could help solidify the baseball program, Gambino is trying to focus on how his team is playing, not where they’re playing.

“Getting that stadium built, getting an indoor facility built, those are all things we’re talking about and working towards and want to get done,” Gambino said. “But control what you can control, right? You spend all your time worrying about that and miss our opportunities to get better.”

Gambino knows there is always something more that his program could use, but he believes that they already have everything they need to succeed in the ACC. “We don’t get everything we want, but we get everything we need,’” he said. “We’ve got everything we need to reach our potential, first and foremost as students, as people, and on the baseball field. It’s not always pretty and sometimes it can be hard and sometimes it can be a grind, but that’s part of our edge.”

The results are not what Gambino wants.

Nobody in the program is happy with what the win column shows right now. But Gambino believes that the bruises the Eagles are taking right now will help them get to where they want to be in the future.

“All the things that people outside our program look at and say that’s why we can’t win,” Gambino said, “when we get this thing going here pretty soon—and we are, we’re moving in that direction—those are going to be all the reasons why we do win.

“The toughness and the character and how tight our clubhouse is and how much time we spend together on the road, learning how to play in front of hostile crowds—all those things we deal with all the time are going to be our biggest advantages. I don’t love the results of the first half, but I love the direction we’re going in.” n

had only half as many draw controls, falling behind by a 7-to-14 margin against the Eagles.

Most importantly, though, the Blue Devils committed 17 fouls to BC’s five in the second half, including two yellow cards in the final two minutes. The fouls allowed BC to retain possession and hold on to its narrow lead whenever Duke pushed for a comeback.

In addition to Rix’s four goals, the BC offense got a spark from freshman Sarah Mannelly’s three goals and sophomore Covie Stanwick’s two.

Stanwick was a major focus on the Duke defense. She is third in the conference with three goals per game, and her activity around the net opened up opportunities for her defense.

The Eagles have five non-conference games remaining before the ACC Tournament begins at the end of the month. n

Graham Beck / heights Editor

Freshman left-hander Andrew Chin only allowed one run in five innings on Sunday.

Burke’s impressive mop up work. Yet a controversial interference call ended the inning.

With Tom Bourdon on first, John Hennessey hit a grounder to Clemson shortstop Tyler Krieger, who threw it to Jay Baum at second. Baum caught the ball and launched it high over the first baseman’s head, as he was falling to the ground.

“He (third ba se Umpire Phelps Prescott) said that Bourdon hadn’t slid directly into the base, as is the rule in college baseball,” Gambino said.

Gambino put on a show arguing the call. It appeared that Tigers’ second baseman Jay Baum sold the interference call, falling to the ground without much contact from Bourdon. BC ultimately fell 1-0, as they failed to generate more offense.

The first game in the series also showed promise, as BC led for most of the game. Senior Hunter Gordon went six innings, allowing just one run. He

left with the lead. Reliever Nate Bayuk surrendered five runs and registered just one out. But just two of the runs were earned, as the Eagles’ defense squandered opportunity. Matt Pare hit a three-run bomb late in the contest, but it was not enough, as Clemson won 7-5.

Saturday’s matchup was all Clemson, as they won 9-2. Junior right-hander Eric Stevens settled down after a turbulent first inning, but the four runs he let up set the mood for the day. Stevens’ now sits 0-7 on the season. Clemson cruised to victory.

Struggling to put together a strong nine innings has been the story of the year for BC, but Gambino realizes that complete efforts are the recipe for success amidst a challenging conference schedule.

“We played 25 really good innings,” Gambino said. “One inning on Friday got us, one inning on Saturday got us … If we played all 27 innings (well), we might get two or three wins.” n

Graham Beck / heights Editor

Covie Stanwick had two goals against Duke, and drew attention consistently on offense.

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After a disappointing finish, BC hockey looks toward the future Alex Dripchack Last week at the Dunkin Donuts Center in Providence, R.I., the pregame banter was much of the same for the No. 2-seed Boston College men’s hockey team.

There was plenty of excitement and many extremely confident fans. Much to the chagrin of a casual Superfan, the game was not what he was expecting. As a matter of fact, it was a comment made by a casual fan that served as the inspiration to write this column. After the third goal to put the Union Dutchmen up 3-0, he exclaimed, “This is pathetic! This is not the national championship team I paid to see.”

While yes, no one likes to see their team lose, this comment spoke volumes.

Not only was this man one of the several bandwagon fans there, but he and several others were demanding. A national championship was no longer a hard-earned, well-fought goal to strive for—it had become a mere expectation. At BC, many people’s expectations have become too lofty and one needs to remember how every year it is a “59-horse field” and one can’t always win the Kentucky Derby.

Looking back at a season that was considered a disappointment, there are still plenty of things to be proud of. For one, the Eagles finished in the top 10 in the country this year. This is a feat that hockey powerhouses Michigan and Denver cannot boast. Something else to be proud of is the fact that BC finished second in the Hockey East. While the senior class has gotten a little too comfortable with the top spot, BC was still in a highly competitive league and finished second to nationaltitle contender UMass Lowell.

While BC’s seniors class may be disappointed about not capturing their fourth Hockey East title, at least they can gloat about being the only class to go four-forfour in the Beanpot in school history.

Not bad for a school with five national championships and 95 years of collegiate hockey excellence. Four Beanpot titles, three Hockey East championships and two national championships formulate quite the collegiate hockey resume and are

well-deserving of a farewell salute.

These things may be the silver lining for the past, but they are still worth pointing out. As BC moves forward, there will be several things BC must do to make sure its program does not lose its reputation as being a perennial powerhouse. First and foremost, BC needs to improve its defense. A team defense that ranked 31st overall and last among the 16 teams in the tournament is a hard obstacle to overcome if the Eagles are going to be playing in April next year.

Losing seniors Patrick Wey and Patch Alber will be setbacks for sure, but hopefully the year of experience for freshmen like Travis Jeke, Teddy Doherty, and Colin Sullivan will limit the number of odd-man rushes BC sees next year. To help take the pressure off these three, incoming freshmen Steve Santini and Ian McCoshen look to make BC’s defense a formidable one.

One more thing that could brighten up the defense next year would be the retention of first-rounder Michael Matheson, who may be getting called up by the Florida Panthers.

Tending the goal is another issue the Eagles will need to address next year, as BC will need to replace two-year starter Parker Milner as he also accepts his diploma. While Billett and Barone could be the solution to this issue, number one prospect and BC commitment Thatcher Demko could also be the answer. While Demko was originally expected to join the Eagles in the 2014-15 season, the departure of Milner has been rumored to fast-track Demko’s ETA. To further brighten up the Eagles’ future, another top-tier goaltender, Chris Birdsall, is expected to join the Eagles in the 2015-16 season. What this could potentially mean for the Eagles faithful? An elite goalie minding the net until 2018. Sounds pretty good doesn’t it?

On the other side of the puck, BC will need to “re-gun” on offense. While the Eagles ranked second this year in team offense and always seem to garner one of the top spots in the country for offensive firepower, next year may be more about getting new guns rather than just reload-

Graham Beck / Heights Editor

Despite losing key seniors after an early exit from the NCAA playoffs, the Eagles have a solid foundation to build their future success upon. ing a few bullets. With 63 percent of goals coming from the big four scorers, and two of those four (Whitney and Mullane) are graduating, it has become apparent that BC will need their all-star recruiting class to come in with a bang.

Even though Gaudreau led the country in points per game, he can’t score all the goals for the entire year. BC is young, but the progress made throughout the year on offense was relatively lackluster. Hopefully recently appointed captain Patrick Brown can help this young team progress and lead by example with his passionate, resilient, workman-like attitude. Lastly, if incoming stud defenders McCoshen and Santini are able to come in and make a hard-hitting impact immediately, maybe the Eagles can regain speedster Danny Linell on the offensive side and put up more than just

one shorthanded goal this year.

One big point that BC needs to settle next year is team chemistry. Plagued with injuries (both on the ice and behind the bench), finding out which players work best with one another on each line was a more difficult task this year and one that the Eagles unfortunately could not master in time. Though York and company like to play musical chairs with the lines early on, come January BC usually settles in and makes an end-of-the-season push that defines the dynasty of BC hockey. If BC is able to assess which people make up each line, this should eliminate the final issue—sloppy passing. As a strong offensive team with plenty of team speed and good passers year in and year out, BC will need to make sure errant passes become an anomaly and not a norm. Following

this game plan, BC can add 2014 to the even year national championship streak of ’08, ’10, and ’12.

Superfans must not forget that the season is not completely over yet. Even though the Eagles did not come home with the hardware this year, Johnny Gaudreau looks to bring home some hardware of his own—the Hobey Baker award. Gaudreau is one of three finalists left for the award that goes out to the nation’s top player of the year. So remember to cheer on Gaudreau in his quest to become just the third Hobey Baker winner at BC: another accolade for the Eagles in this “down” year.

Alex Dripchack is a contributor for The Heights. He can be reached at sports@bcheights.com.

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Health&Science

A natural, free de-stressor

Parisa Oviedo

There is a cure. There is a cure for your anxiety and worries and a way that also is said to prevent numerous diseases. While some are willing to pay hundreds of dollars per session, others simply utilize YouTube, blogs, and books as a way to do it for free at home. It doesn’t require vaccines, injections, pills, or medical bills, but is arguably more effective than all of these things combined. It can convert Type A worriers into Type B warriors, and although it’s only recently become “the thing to do,” it has been around for over 5,000 years.

Yoga has become the new “it-trend,” and although the health benefits behind it have been beaten to death, I can’t reiterate how important it is to stop and have some form of meditation every day. After leaving my tennis shoes at home over Easter break, I struggled to find a way to keep up with my fitness or stay active without being able to lace up. I was forced to find other ways to stay in shape besides my usual running or kickboxing, and hesitatingly decided to give a yoga class at Boston College a try.

After getting only four hours of sleep one night last week, the last thing that I wanted to do when my alarm went off at 6:30 a.m. was to jump out of bed, trek the 15 minute walk to the Plex from Upper, and do an hour of yoga. After one class of it, however, I had no regrets: I had a satisfaction in knowing that while other people had been and still were sleeping, I had already started my day off right with a form of mindfulness. I felt more energized, serene, focused, and relaxed for the rest of the day than I would have had I decided to stay in bed. Indeed, yoga might not make you sweat as much as sprinting would, but it might reap more benefits than you expected.

Yoga had this calming effect on me, as it does with all “yogis,” because it alters the body’s nervous system. In a study in which an MRI was used to measure yoga’s effects in the brain, it was found that yoga reduces the body’s levels of cortisol, a hormone released during stressful situations that also has other negative consequences on the body.

In a world where our body’s sympathetic nervous system is almost always turned on (thanks to being in a permanent working and studying environment), yoga forces you to take time out of your day to liberate yourself of external influences and focus, even for only a short period of time, on the body and mind in the present moment.

Not only does yoga help turn off the sympathetic nervous system, but also has been found to stimulate the parasympathetic one, which is the subconscious nervous system responsible for keeping our bodily functions in check. The stimulation of this system results in lower blood pressure, increased nutrient absorption from foods, and the elimination of toxins through improved blood circulation. This allows the body time to heal itself. Yoga’s physical benefits extend past the body’s stress response, and also include improving the body’s immune system, inflammation, and hormonal system.

While yoga enables the body to heal physically, it has also been labeled a natural anti-depessant. Three “feel-good” neurotransmitters—GABA, serotonin, and dopamine—serve as part of the brain’s reward-system. Release of these chemicals, which are targets of various antidepressant and anti-anxiety medication, result in a feeling of happiness and relaxation.

Because yoga can play the same role as oral medications in aiding mental disorders, it offers a natural alternative that, if practiced regularly, can have very similar effects.

Perhaps most significantly, yoga is a form of mindfulness that was created thousands of years ago in India in an attempt to reach a state of enlightenment. Practicing mindfulness can alter patterns in brain activity and, in particular, refocus attention. It is a way to exercise the mind on a regimen that focuses on self-regulation and awareness with practice. Each yoga position actually reaps different benefits, targetting specific brain patterns and neural functions. Studies in neuroplasticity have shown that, in the long-run, mindfulness or some form of it may actually physically alter the structure of the brain.

Today, over 16 million Americans yoga, and more and more are learning to incorporate some form of mindfulness in their daily routines.

Whether your daily practice consists of merely 10 minutes of sun salutations or one hour of power yoga or vigorous vinyasa (check out the Plex’s many yoga classes!), walking into your first yoga class begins a journey to spiritual and physical consciousness and mindfulness.

Parisa Oviedo is an editor for The Heights. She can be reached at features@bcheights.com.

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Tracing the sources and preparation behind meals BC Dining, from B10 Salmon comes in fresh every day, skin on, from North Coast Fisheries.

White fish, like cod and haddock, is brought in fresh as well, and even the battered fish served in Fish n’ Chips is hand breaded and fried, never frozen.

The only frozen seafood items that are served are shrimp and scallops, and the scallops are often fresh.

Meat and fish are not the only things that are unlikely to be frozen in a BC kitchen—the vast majority of produce sold in the dining halls is fresh too. The only frozen vegetables they allow are peas and corn, and only when they are not in season. Some potato products are frozen as well, if you consider french fries, steak fries, and home fries. But the 300-plus pounds of mashed potatoes that was whipped up for turkey dinner, that was all from scratch. Some of the vegetables, while not frozen, are precut, like the onions and peppers in the omelet bar. The tomatoes, though, are diced by hand, and used in both the breakfast omelet bar and in BC’s homemade salsa.

Dining Services relies on its main vendor, Sysco, and many other specialty vendors to supply the ingredients needed to make its recipes come to life. Every morning 12 to 15 trucks will pull up to the Mod parking lot to make fresh deliveries. The temperature of the food is carefully monitored up until it is put on a plate, and this documentation starts right off the truck. Once temperatures are recorded, the food is moved into storage areas. In the kitchen behind Lower Live, there is 340 square feet of walk-in freezer space and 900 square feet of refrigeration.

Walking through these storage

spaces, and in the pantry area, you will see many recognizable brands. The white rice is Uncle Ben’s, the soy sauce Kikkoman’s, the ketchup Heinz, the oil Canola. The Cheerios are actually Cheerios, the Wheaties actually Wheaties. The hummus is Cedar’s, the Greek yogurt is non-fat Chobani, and you will never find a banana without a Chiquita sticker. A main factor in deciding which brands to use has to do with quality and popularity, but also with health. Ken’s Cannonball BBQ is used by BC Dining because it is one of few barbeque sauces with no corn syrup, and the dressings, all Saratoga brand, were also chosen because they too do not include corn syrup as an ingredient.

While they may struggle to find a condiment with corn syrup, BC stu-

dents have no shortage of ways to satisfy a sweet tooth. The new Chocolate Bar in Stokes offers a variety of sweet baked goods and a new gelato bar, and is soon to sell BC’s very own brand of chocolates. In the dining halls, frozen yogurt is the most popular dessert, but during dinner, there is usually a featured dessert that almost always sells out. Recently, Lower sold apple cobbler, using 20 18-pound cans of apples and serving 18 gallons of vanilla ice cream on the side. The most popular baked good on campus is the BC chocolate chip cookie.

BC’s very own bakery, tucked behind Eagle’s Nest, makes 120 dozen chocolate chip cookies each morning.

All of the hard work done by the BC Dining team has not gone unnoticed.

In 2011, BC Dining was awarded as the

Massachusetts Restaurant Association Foodservice Operator of the Year.

“It is great to get a behind-the-scenes look at BC Dining because there are literally hundreds of people that make it run,” said Helen Wechsler, Director of BC Dining Services. BC Dining is made possible by all of these people and their incredible dedication, as witnessed through the snowstorms this winter, and through their huge commitment and pride every day.”

As many college students across the country are complaining about mystery meat and soggy vegetables, the BC community can rest easy and enjoy food that is almost as good as mom’s, and in some cases, maybe better. n

BC Chocolate Chip Cookies

Extra Fine Sugar................... ................................................ ..19 LB, 10 OZ Sugar, Light Brown.............. ................................................ ...17 LB 7 OZ Butter, Salted...................... ................................................ .....4 LB, 5 OZ Margarine, Bakers Buckeye ................................................ ...21 LB, 13 OZ Salt Bulk 25#...................... ................................................ .....10 ¾ OZ Sugar, Inverted.................... ................................................ ...1 LB, 1 ¼ OZ Baking Soda........................ ................................................ ...4 ¼ OZ Eggs Whole............................ ................................................

10 LB, 14 OZ Bread Flour........................... ................................................

20 LB, 11 OZ Cake Flour........................... ................................................ ..16 LB, 5 OZ 1m Chocolate Drops........... ................................................ ...3 9 LB, 4 OZ Vanilla................................. ................................................ ...½ CUP, 2 TSP YEILD AMOUNT: 120 Dozen

Experience of first-time and veteran Marathon runners Marathon, from B10 run.” After long weekdays packed with work and tiring runs, Zoblanty admits that many times all she wants to do is nap—sometimes, she sacrifices fun weekend nights out with friends in order to rest. To add to her difficulties, Mother Nature caused some trouble this winter, especially with storm Nemo, making it hard for Zoblanty and other runners to find the motivation to get outside and forcing them to sometimes run on treadmills. Zoblanty hates treadmills so much that she often ran on the streets because the sidewalks in Boston were completely blocked.

Still, the pros outweigh the cons by a far stretch. Training for the marathon allows her to stick to a regular workout schedule, make new friends who are also training, and feel an unmatched sense of accomplishment with each new mile hit. Also, the exciting anticipation of running the actual marathon is enough to brighten and infuse meaning into most of her days. To add, preparing for the marathon has had a positive influence on the people in Zoblanty’s life, especially a high school track coach who suffered a stroke a few years back and lost the ability to run. He is proud and excited for Zoblanty, and finds joy in cheering her on and checking up on her training.

The logistics of Zoblanty’s training is rigorous even from a glance. “The training has consisted of one long run on the weekend, followed by a day of

cross-training, and then three shorter runs in the middle of the week,” she said. “Each week the long run increased by about three or four miles, starting at seven, and then eventually working up to 21 which is the longest that we do before the actual marathon.” Zoblanty trains with a friend, Mollie McLaughlin, CSON ’15, and gets into her music (mostly Macklemore’s album The Heist) as they begin to hit higher mileage. Due to training, she also boosted her diet with more necessary carbs and energy supplements. “I’ve never been a huge pasta or bagel person, but now the two days before long runs, I eat so much to carb load,” she said. “I’ve also started to buy some of the energy gels to eat on the long runs to help keep nourished, and I always head right to Lower after long runs to get a big glass of chocolate milk!”

The other runner, Berry, is a veteran.

This year will mark his third time running the Boston Marathon. Berry ran his first marathon as a sophomore after experiencing the excitement of race day and the feeling of “being a part of something so much bigger than yourself ” as a freshman. Berry is not only a runner, but the co-chair of the Campus School Marathon team, which has helped define his special place and role at BC. Nearly 300 runners will be running the marathon for the Campus School this year. “Knowing that we’ve played a small role in helping create a difference by raising funds and awareness for the school is what makes this group so

unique,” he said. Undoubtedly, being a part of this incredible community motivates and inspires Berry to keep running and balance his responsibilities well.

Berry is extremely committed to his training schedule, running three times a week about 15 miles total, doing a long run on the weekend (anywhere from 12-21 miles), and cross training one day a week, either biking or swimming because they are both low impact exercises. The first time he trained, he stuck to the schedule religiously and never missed a run, but is now at a point where he can skip a day and still run well because he has learned how to pace himself. Like Zoblanty, Berry eats plenty of carbs before his runs and even organizes pasta dinners for all of the

runners in the Campus School team.

Berry admits that the hardest part of training is running through the snowy Boston winters and running on the treadmills at the Plex. In return for persevering through the difficulties, he has stayed in great shape and gained “focus, discipline, and the confidence that your goals can be accomplished.”

He offered encouragement and advice for students who are interested in training next year. “Don’t give up, and know that this experience will be unlike anything you have done before,” he said. “Especially being a BC student, the feeling of cresting Heartbreak Hill and having all of your friends cheering you on along Commonwealth Ave. is indescribable.” n

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A runner from last year’s Boston Marathon met mile 21 with support from BC students.

unsung hero

BC mechanic leaves his mark from Higgins to the Vatican

By Kevin Toomey Heights Staff Buried in the basement of Higgins is Boston College’s machine and electronics shop, where countless devices and instruments are built to help the entire campus’ ongoing research projects—from psychology studies to astrophysics innovations.

Most students may go their entire four years without even seeing the machine shop, but for those that need an original piece for a project, the shop is an indispensible asset.

Behind these gadgets is Paul Dee, the shop’s machinist, who has a natural ability to take even the simplest sketch and bring it into working reality. Gregarious and wisecracking, Dee maintains a lightheartedness despite a passion for his work and an insistence on precision.

“I got to have everything right, you know,” he says, laughing. “So I can’t do anything around the house, I got to hire someone to do it. It took me three years to build my deck!” He loves to joke, but in machining, precision is everything. He proudly displays an addition to a milling machine that reads its measurement to the

half of 1/1000 of an inch and moves it up to 0.0035. “That, what I just moved, that’s about the width of a piece of paper. But for what I do, that’s a mile.”

Dee has been in the machine trade for 54 years. For 20 years he worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), starting first as a machinist and before eventually being promoted to a technical instructor position. There, he worked in the nuclear sciences laboratory. At 65 he retired from MIT, but he found the leisurely life was not for him. “I always have to stay busy, you know.”

He started at BC about three years ago, and the enjoyment he gets out of his work is immediately apparent when you visit the shop. “It gives me something to do,” he said.

“There’s no pressure, there’s no stress. “ The relative solitude of Higgins basement seems to suit him, as he stresses the importance of independence to his own work, insuring a space suitable for concentration. “Students come down here, it’s one after another. But it’s good. [It] keeps me busy, you know, keeps my mind busy.” Unlike other universities’ shops, where hours are logged and taken directly from research money, BC’s

machining work is completely free for students. “Here everything is free,” Dee said.

“I think that’s really good, because even the people that don’t have the research money, they can use it. And who knows, they may get that research money then.

“It’s a fun job. It’s not like going to Burger King: ‘you get it your way.’ No. You get it my way,” he chuckles to himself.

The average project takes Dee about five to 10 hours, and he has the option of refusing any project that will exceed 40 hours of work. Yet he usually takes them on, drawing excitement and pride for the bigger projects. “I always say: if you can draw it, I can make it.” Recently, Dee collaborated with Rev. Cyril Opeil, S.J., from the Physics Department and Rev. Robert Macke, S.J., to build a device for performing experiments on meteorites. The project was the design of Macke—he took it to Dee under the advice of Opeil who works closely with Dee for many of his own projects and students’ projects. “What he had was some rough drawings. It was his idea, his design. But his design needed a lot of additions. The numbers needed to be put on everything.”

It took Dee hundreds of hours to com-

plete, building two prototypes of the device, but the results were definitely worth it.

Now, the device is being used in the laboratories of the Vatican Observatory, one of the oldest astronomical research facilities and one of the largest meteorite collections in the world. “It’s always going to be used for research,” Dee said, satisfied that his work is traveling all around the world.

“And now, the Vatican and Boston College are even closer,” he laughs. All of this from a little room tucked away in the basement of Higgins.

In a week, the shop will get a brand new tool, perhaps the most important one of all: a stamp with the BC logo on it. “I got the guy to put the eagle on it and everything,” Dee said. “I’ll be running around stamping anything.” Dee doesn’t see the stamp as a source of personal pride, but rather as a reminder that some great pieces have been made here: “No matter where it ends up in this world, it will always be known that was made here.” The stamp will be a nice maker’s mark, ensuring people that their instruments are of the Heights quality. And that is nothing to joke about—just ask the Vatican. n

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CAMPUS CHRONICLES

Make the trek Despite divisions, campaign season incites inspiration to the Plex ALISON TAKAHASHI

ASHLEY GONCALVES Getting yourself to the Plex is a daily struggle. For some of us this struggle ends with us remaining in our rooms watching countless episodes of our favorite TV show on Netflix, especially during the cold winter months, when the last thing you want to do is step outside in not-so-warm workout gear. Even during warmer months, it can be much more tempting to just lounge around outside, go for a walk, and avoid spending time indoors, especially inside the Plex.

However, some of us are victorious after an internal conversation with ourselves that sounds something like: “You’ve gotten delivery three times this week, you need to go.”

“But it’s so far!”

“You can reward yourself with a treat after.”

“Done.”

I tend to fall in the first category, but I have found that there are several ways to help guarantee that you see more of the Plex than what can be seen from your table at Hillside.

Go with friends. Planning to go to the Plex with a group of friends increases the likelihood that you will actually end up at the Plex. Not only do you now have people to make the “trek” to the Plex with, you also have people who will “judge” your decision to ditch them for Netflix. With our crazy busy schedules here at Boston College this makes it easy to fit in time with your friends and time to workout.

Make a new playlist. Google workout playlists or make your own playlist of your favorite songs that will be sure to pump you up when you are running that third mile on the treadmill or doing an extra 10 minutes on the elliptical. Simply putting your iPod on shuffle runs the risk that you will come across a multitude of slowtempo songs that will immediately kill your drive. Taking time to make a new playlist is also a great way to procrastinate all of the homework, papers, and projects that April seems to throw our way. So throw some Macklemore on there and get ready for Modstock.

Buy new workout clothes. If you purchase a new workout wardrobe then the desire to wear these new articles of clothing might provide additional motivation to hit the gym.

Wearing these new workout clothes to class might inspire you to head over to the Plex after class.

Sign up for a class. The Plex offers a multitude of classes for all levels and signing up for one could be a great way to change up your workout routine. Treat this class as you would one of your normal classes and consider it a class with a zero absence policy.

Try something new. Do spin every week? Try changing it up with a class you have never been to before. It may be intimidating to try, but it could end up being your favorite workout.

If you always run on the treadmill, try changing it up and use a machine you have never been on before. Having a repetitive workout routine can lead you to become bored and it can make it easier to come up with excuses to not make it to the Plex.

Schedule it. If you have a planner or keep track of everything on the calendar in your phone, then start scheduling time to go to the Plex. Once it’s in your calendar then you will feel more of an obligation to go because then it’s something you can cross off that list. You will have a feeling of accomplishing something even if it’s not your 10-page research paper.

Run the Res. Now this one isn’t necessarily how to get yourself to the Plex, but with the nice weather that has recently hit BC’s campus, it is impossible not to mention the lovely scenic run that the Res provides. If the idea of being in the Plex on a sunny 60-degree day is not appealing, then get your workout in with a run around the Res. No matter where you live, the Plex will always be a “trek,” but hopefully these ideas help make it a trek we can all make occasionally. Even if you don’t make the trek to the Plex as frequently as you would like, don’t worry—BC makes an effort to keep us all in shape by placing an insane amount of stairs throughout campus.

As much as these tips may help to get us to the Plex, I am definitely an advocate of embracing days filled with Netflix and chocolate.

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

It isn’t until UGBC election season starts at Boston College that you begin to notice a palpable excitement floating about the air.

You can never quite put your finger on it, but your newfound sixth sense is telling you that something incredible is soon to come.

For those who’ve had ample experience lending a hand in campaign endeavors, then this is a much anticipated, long-awaited time of year. For those unaware of its arrival, they will surely learn soon how important every single vote is as the momentum and ensuing tension grows stronger and stronger each day leading up to elections.

This year’s three campaign teams were extremely competitive, each having ample experience in multiple leadership roles, as well as impressive participation in schoolrelated programming. Tim Koch, A&S ’14, and his running mate, Chris “Trugs” Truglio, CSOM ’14, were recognizable faces, especially to freshmen who looked up to them as last summer’s orientation leaders.

Molly McCarthy, A&S ’14, and Ricky Knapp, A&S ’14, have been heavily involved in all things related to the Senate. Finally, Matt

Alonsozana and Matt Nacier, both A&S ’14, represent the final team, with the former serving as the president of the Asian Caucus and contributor to the new alcohol matrix point system, and the latter serving as the current Chief of Staff.

During the fall of freshman year, I, along with many others, voted for political candidates with little to no idea of who they were or what they were aiming for. It was a matter of selecting five random names and pressing the “submit” button, and that was that. It wasn’t until this spring semester that I fully realized how much one should consider their ballot. Electing representatives for BC’s executive branches, as well as senator positions for specific schools, class years and clubs, is entirely in the hands of your classmates. The voting population is everyone and anyone around you that is a BC student and the challenge for candidates to appeal to these peers with solid political platforms, impressive extracurricular participation, good academic standing, and a dose of leadership.

I was asked not too long ago by a classmate of mine to help campaign for the Matt and Matt team for the UGBC president and vice president positions. I sat back and

thought about how little I had been involved with government in high school, but I also thought about how college could be my time to do so. I didn’t know a thing about these two guys, but I attended the very first dorm leader meeting and I knew right away that I was working for the right people. Alonsozana opened up the meeting with a long-winded, inspiring speech, that I soon learned was not going to be his last, while Nacier was assertive, and straight-to-the-point. Side by side it was clear that this pair had an undeniable rapport and a strong desire to see much needed change in the BC community, and led with the slogan, “forward with you.”

Inspiring speeches, however, are not the only thing that fuel a campaign. Leaders and volunteers were asked to change their Facebook profile pictures and cover photos for the cause, and any promotion through social media sources like Twitter, Instagram, and Vine were highly encouraged. A website was created to express their platform points and projections for the next year, which was solidly founded on three C’s: clarity, community, and creativity. Campaign members soon stormed Upper Campus, Lower Campus, and Newton campus “in a tidal wave of blue” going from door-to-door to promote

this worthy cause.

It’s in these moments that you realize just how awkward campaigning really can be. If I could count the number of times you knock on a door opened by a student in a bath towel, calling out “hold on a minute I’m changing,” or if their significant other is in the background looking as if some “special moment” was unduly interrupted. Each of these occurrences can be taken with a grain of salt, because after all, campaigning is a bit about barging into other people’s, oftentimes strangers’, lives.

Whether or not you consider yourself to be a political person firsthand, I believe everyone is both relieved and saddened by the end of election season. Getting involved in what BC has to offer outside of the classroom, can arguably be more rewarding than what takes place inside the classroom, because it is the people you surround yourself with, the people you’re rooting for, and the cause you’re united to fulfill that makes each campaign season as electric as the last.

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

PROFESSOR PROFILE

Helping students write history, from medieval to music

BY MICHELLE TOMASSI

WHO: Danielle Taghian WHO: Robin Fleming

Features Editor Documentary filmmaking, Teach for America, law school, Wall Street, and museum collections: a variety of interesting fields that any student would be happy to experience post-graduation.

So what do all of these have in common?

They are all potential career options for history majors, as explained by Robin Fleming, professor and chair of the History Department at Boston College.

“A lot of students think that if they major in history, that all they can be is a history teacher,” Fleming said. “Which is a great thing to be, and I’m all for people being history teachers, but there are a ton of things you can do with a history major. I think people don’t understand how hotly sought-after historians are because we can think and look at a bunch of evidence, and we can have opinions about that evidence.”

Fleming chose education as her career path, but she also encourages her students to look beyond the classroom and apply their historical background to their daily lives. Fleming herself loves to travel around the globe—she recently returned from London, and has visited countries such as Jordan and Syria. Even in her youth, Fleming never settled in one place—she was born in Denver, Colo., moved to California at age 9, and received her undergraduate degree and Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Barbara, including a year abroad at the University of London. For a year in high school, Fleming was an exchange student and lived on a farm in South Africa under apartheid, which truly changed her perspective.

“It changed my ideas about politics because I thought you could vote and change the world, and then I was living in a system that was just absolutely,

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unbelievably terrible,” she said. “It was an eye-opener.”

Fleming recalled a memory from her undergraduate years that greatly impacted her decision to pursue her current field of interest, when a visiting professor from Ireland came to Santa Barbara and assigned a book from an early medieval author named the Venerable Bede.

“I remember going to the beach and reading this eighth-century text, and never having read anything more interesting, and I was just hooked,” she said. From then on, she focused extensively on medieval history, which served as a fitting companion to her interest in archaeology, since written sources were sparse during such early periods of history. Originally focusing on the 11th century, Fleming has now “moved backward,” as she explained, and is interested in exploring what happened in Britain during the fall of Rome.

Fleming is also a member of the Haskins Society, which is devoted to the study of the central Middle Ages

in northwestern Europe. She currently runs a conference that welcomes scholars from all over the world, and fondly described last year’s keynote speaker—a woman who presented onBECK a large pitEDITOR that GRAHAM / HEIGHTS was discovered about three years ago in Dorset with 80 decapitated Vikings.

Fleming also works on library collections and museum collections, and previously worked on manuscripts.

So how did Fleming end up at our Chestnut Hill campus? After obtaining her Ph.D. in Santa Barbara and spending three years at Harvard University as a Junior Fellow from 1986-89, she decided to stay on the east coast and joined the BC faculty in 1989. Some of her achievements include receiving the first annual Boston College Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Faculty Mentoring Award in 2006, and recently being named the chair of the History Department last summer.

This semester, Fleming is teaching a graduate course, but at other times she also instructs several undergraduate courses on topics such as Vikings, the

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of her favorite classes to instruct is a sophomore seminar on material culture, WHY: skdfjlskdfjsldksd dfjs in which she allows students to write on a subject of their interest. Paper topics have ranged from 19th-century board games, to hip hop, to tattoos—a reflection of the incredible flexibility and variety of areas to be explored even in a single history class.

“I love making students realize that history is actually much broader than they think, and that you can actually write histories from anything,” Fleming said. That being said, one of her frustrations is that students have to take five rather than four courses, which detracts from the amount of time a professor has with his or her students from week to week. Although students may not be able to spend as much time as they would like in one of Fleming’s classes, it’s clear that they would still have an academically and culturally enriching experience by delving into the past and discussing these historical topics in the present. 

HE SAID, SHE SAID My roommate and her boyfriend spend too much time in our room, and I always feel uncomfortable with their PDA. I leave every time and they still don’t get the hint—my roommate even said that she doesn’t care whether I’m there or not. I’ve asked her if she could go to his room sometimes, but she always comes up with a different excuse. How can I make her understand that what she’s doing isn’t okay?

Obviously you should write a BC Confession about it using her name explaining the situation, she’ll see it, correct her behavior, and problem solved. I’m kidding, don’t do that. Considering you’re her only direct roommate, chances are she’ll figure out that you wrote it, and that passive aggressive style of dealing with the situation will only make things worse.

It seems like you’ve been doing you’re best to send some signals that what she’s doing makes you ALEX MANTA uncomfortable, and you’re not okay with it. Unfortunately, she doesn’t seem to either catch on to this or she might get it and just not really care. Either way, it sounds like you’ve gotten to the point where subtle hints are not going to cause the change you want to see happen. You’re going to have to sit her down and explain to her how you’re feeling in full, and why what she is doing is not okay. That’s your room just as much as hers, and it’s not right for you to feel uncomfortable or unwelcome in your own room because of how your roommate is acting. If you sit her down and have a full conversation about this, chances are she’ll understand how upset her behavior really makes you, and hopefully try to work something out to remedy the situation.

The fact that she doesn’t care whether or not you’re there isn’t what’s important—the fact that YOU care is what’s important and why you can’t keep living in these circumstances. Make sure the conversation is between just you and her, and if she’s your friend, hopefully she’ll act accordingly and be willing to work something out that both of you are happy with. If the problem still persists, look at the bright side: Summer is just a little over a month away!

This is a situation that most people in college will encounter, but that doesn’t make it any easier to deal with. The aggravating part about this is that you’ve tried talking to her already and either it doesn’t seem to be registering with her that you have a serious problem with what’s going on or she simply doesn’t care, and you’re right, neither option is okay. First of all, it’s unfortunate that they have PDA problems and that you have to deal with seeing that. It’s one thing for her to be in the room quietly talking, TAYLOR CAVALLO or watching a movie with her boyfriend, but it’s another thing to be all over each other. If she tells you that she doesn’t care if you’re there or not, that’s completely inconsiderate and you have every right to be just as harsh right back to her. I’m not a proponent of fueling the fire of heated situations, but sometimes you need to stand up for yourself. If you don’t, it sounds like this girl is going to walk all over you. Tell her that you’re seriously angry about what’s going on and that you’re entitled to be heard—you are half of this room. Be more stern with her than you have been. Other options that will make things easier to deal with while this is all going on are to either sleep in a friend’s room for the one or two nights when you absolutely can’t stand it anymore, or, if you want to take the more serious route, go to an RA and discuss your problems.

I’m sure this would make your roommate angrier, but if you think the only option is to change living situations, then the RA is the person you need to talk to about this.

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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Learning to utilize libraries Libraries, from B10 can also take advantage of BC’s membership in consortiums, such that they can access the collections of 17 libraries in the Boston area, and even more through interlibrary loan.

In addition to traditional volumes, O’Leary says that frequent benchmarking for the digital collection showed that the University has “almost everything that top schools like Wharton have” in terms of business-related resources. Apart from BC’s Holmes Library Catalog and the outside collections, the Course Reserves Catalog also provides access to physical copies and scanned online versions of materials chosen by professors for a course.

Students who seek help for the first time are often surprised by the immediate improvements in the efficiency and quality of their research, when guided by those who had hand-picked the available resources. Sometimes faculty members are pleasantly surprised as well.

Bregman demonstrated various functions of the library website, from the translation and audio representation of digital texts, to RefWorks, a tool for citing outside sources and formatting a research paper, to the “locate” button that sends a text about the specific location of a desired book within the stacks.

The trend, though, for many disciplines, is the rise of digitalization. At the Burns Library, for example, primary source materials such as banking records, pamphlets, and comics are being converted to digital form by Bridget Burke, the associate university librarian for special collections.

“Sometimes students don’t want to come in,” O’Leary said, “but they can also download books, fun books, as well as scholarly works. Some prefer the physical pages in their hands, but many people prefer the e-books.”

Of course, students do “come in” to use the libraries as study spaces, and Bregman noted that the number of physical pages students print has not been declining. Still, she hopes to raise awareness about the methods and advantages of taking notes with e-books.

The goal, Bregman said, is for each BC student to become “a lifelong learner with a sense of information literacy,” the ability to discern which sources are most relevant and trustworthy among the vast oceans of available information.

Though the librarians are proud of having saved students hours of work after each consultation, the true power lies in “teaching a man to fish, and feeding him for a lifetime.”

BC students are not the only people to benefit from that power. “LibGuides,” the library’s 293 subject guides meant to serve as starting points for research, have received 258,092 views over the past nine months. “Last year we had that many hits for the entire year,” Bregman said.

Each of the subject guides provides links to the relevant journals in JSTOR, course guides, research guides, a search function, a bibliographer profile, a list of databases, and other “Key Resources,” a few of which are available for guest access.

The bibliographer or subject specialist, though, caters exclusively to the BC community.

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New volunteer organization empowers females in science

By Caroline Kirkwood For The Heights

At first glance, Science Club for Girls seems like a pretty self-explanatory club title. One might think that it must be a club designated for girls who are interested in science, possibly a forum for discussion and experiments. But in reality, this club goes miles beyond its name.

The Science Club for Girls at Boston College is a volunteer and service-based club that brings BC undergraduate women into local grade schools to mentor and inspire girls in the field of science. The club allows the technology, math, and science savvy women of the BC community the opportunity to spread their knowledge and excitement about these fields to young girls.

The Science Club for Girls made its debut appearance at the activity fair this past fall. President Megan Sulciner, A&S ’13, headed up the effort to establish a BC chapter in the spring of 2012. Initially Sulciner says she was denied by the Student Programs Office, but she was adamant about bringing Science Club for Girls to the BC community.

“I thought the organization represented BC’s idea of ‘men and women for others’ as well as embodying everything that I loved about BC,” Sulciner said.

“The club would allow women in the sciences the opportunity to translate what they learn in the classroom to those who need it most.”

Thanks to Sulciner’s efforts, the club is now in full operation at BC. Currently, members of the club visit second and third grade girls at the Edison School in Brighton, just a 15 minute walk from campus, as a voluntary after

school program, designed to get girls motivated and excited about the possibilities in the field of science.

Brianna Naumchik, A&S ’16, explained that she was interested in joining this club because of the one-on-one mentoring aspect paired with the focus on science.

“I joined Science Club for Girls because throughout high school I was involved with various programs that taught younger kids about a variety of topics,” Naumchik said. “As a biology major and someone who has always considered science one of her favorite subject, I wanted to instill the passion I have for science into girls who are still finding their interests.”

In terms of getting young girls inspired about science, Katherine Pilewski, current mentor and A&S ’15, stated, “A lot of little girls are not enthused about science the way it is taught in schools. We do more handson and interactive activities to get them excited.”

Science Club for Girls is a local Boston community service program that currently serves over 1,000 young girls, grades K-12 in the area. At the core of the organization’s mission is the idea of increasing self-confidence and literacy in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics for young girls, as women have been historically underrepresented in these fields. BC is just one of four campus chapters, including Northeastern, Harvard, and Brandeis.

Because BC’s chapter is under the larger organization of Science Club for Girls, guidelines and activities are provided for the BC women mentors when they go into Edison School once a

week for an hourly lesson. “For the third graders, who we mentor, we were given the theme ‘Rescue by Design’ to focus on this semester, so just last week we were in the classroom building bridges with them with string and cardboard, whereas for the second graders who are focused on the Earth—we were building weather vanes,” Pilewski said.

Along with a chapter manager provided by Science Club for Girls that works specifically with the BC mentors, Pilewski stated, “Science Club for Girls helps us gather the materials for their designated projects if we need, but also allows us flexibility in terms of coming up with our own ideas and projects for the young girls.”

The BC chapter of Science Club for Girls has also tried to bring this enthusiasm about women and science back to the larger BC community as well.

Just this past month, the Science Club for girls as well as Women in Business, Smart Women Securities, the Laughing Medusa, and many more women-centered BC clubs brought Erin Brokovich, an environmental activist and victim advocate, to speak on campus about female empowerment and perseverance.

For many of the mentors in Science Club for Girls, the biggest reward is the reaction of the young girls they mentor, as they are exposed to the world of science.

“I love seeing the girls’ faces light up when they learn something new,” said Kerri Keeler, a current mentor and A&S ’16. “It’s truly rewarding to know that the time I spend with these girls goes a long way, since they are able to see science as something that is exciting and hopefully gain a greater interest in it.” n

and one to print. As a consequence, the task of printing a paper, no matter how brilliant the thesis in it happens to be, can end in tragedy: a late arrival to class.

To simplify the process, some students took the time to connect their laptops to the library printing system so that once finished with a paper, they can print from their personal computers. However, downloading the software onto a laptop appears to be complex.

“The computer software to print from your laptop in O’Neill is really difficult to download,” said Kendall McCoy, A&S ’13. “I don’t know many people who actually have that. I always end up emailing to myself and then printing it out.”

Like McCoy, many students are forced to log onto the library computers, which can take quite some time.

Open computers on the third floor can be hard to come by as students sometimes occupy a particular computer for hours at a time. Furthermore, the login process on the computers is lengthy.

“It is frustrating when I am waiting to print a paper and some students are taking up a computer to play

video games or read BC Confessions,” said Alexandra Covelle, CSON ’13, which is likely considering the recent popularity of the addicting Facebook page. “Then, when I actually get to a computer, it takes forever to load my settings.”

Believe it or not, the process doesn’t end when the paper is sent to the printer, either. The printers are known to jam, often at times of high usage. A paper jam can leave precious papers lost somewhere in translation within the printing machine and result in students having to reprint.

According to Simard, the longer the lines and the busier the printer, the more likely it will jam.

Luckily, there appear to be ways to master the library printing system so that the process of finally printing that award winning paper is one of relief rather than frustration. Simard offers great advice on how to avoid paper jams. “If you have to print a long paper, don’t go to printer number 29. That one jams the most often. The best two are the last two printers.”

If students factor in enough time before class, roughly 20 minutes, they won’t have to worry about the wait or the possibility of a jam. If students

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want to avoid lines in the library, they should target printing facilities at unpopular times (Friday nights). If rushing to class, students should hit the CTRC instead of the printing stations at O’Neill.

The only true way to avoid the hassle of printing in the library is investing in a printer for the dorm room. The one problem with that, of course, is a helpful library assistant like Simard won’t be there to aid you in case of a dreadful paper jam. Plus, the added cost of paper and ink may weigh down your bank—and God forbid the word travels that you have a functioning printer in your dorm room. Students will flock from far and wide to avoid the library printing charge and take advantage of your new machine. But with the amount of ink that would be wasted printing all those pages for your friends, you would have to start charging them. To avoid all that trouble, maybe waiting for that student to finish his game of Tetris or print out 50 pages of unnecessary slides doesn’t seem so bad.

Coincidentally, in three of my classes I am currently working on research papers.

I have been exploring the multitudes of research databases through the Boston College library website, and reading up on what scholars have said about diverse topics such as James Baldwin, Macbeth, and theories on international politics. Databases such as JSTOR and MLA International Bibliography have proven extremely helpful in offering a cumulative forum of articles and journals pertaining to my topics. Technology has truly made research impressively accessible.

The trickiest part is finding the perfect combination of words for the keyword search. But once you can narrow down what exactly you are looking for, some mysterious mechanism far beyond my comprehension is able to weed out the articles that relate to these words in order of recency.

Call me naive, but this process is astonishing to me as someone who was never really required to do extensive research in high school or in any of my classes freshman year at BC. I entered the research process with one idea for a thesis, and after exploring the diverse opinions of numerous literary critics, I have been driven in various directions.

One article will spark an idea that encourages me to seek a new keyword search and a whole separate universe of scholarly theory and critique pops up onto my computer screen (magic!). Although I have been really immersing myself in the research, the honest truth is that technology has allowed the research process to be much more hands-off.

“Don’t be afraid to actually march into those stacks and touch some real paper!” said one of my professors with an ironic smile after assigning the research paper. We all laughed nervously, unsure as to whether we were actually supposed to check out real books from the library, or if this was just a sardonic jab at modern society’s dependence on technology. I began my research on the online databases, and found there to be such a plethora of solid information that I didn’t really need a tangible book.

But one night I was sitting in O’Neill, surrounded by a scattering of other frustrated students, swamped with work and regretting how effectively I procrastinated over Easter break. I was reading an interesting article about the role of prophecy in Macbeth, and for once in my life, actually took the time to read the footnotes at the bottom of the page. One note encouraged me to read further on an aspect of the topic the author of the journal article didn’t have the space to go into depth about. I searched the title of the book on the library website, and found that the book was in stock at O’Neill.

I wrote down the cryptic numbers that would lead me to the maze on the third floor, into the organized chaos of the Dewey decimal system. Drama aside, I eventually found the book I was looking for, quite easily despite my expectations that heading into “the stacks” would be a battle I would never emerge from unscathed. I felt a sense of pride when I checked out that book.

This experience prompted a conversation between me and my roommates about our experiences with reading as kids.

“DEAR” time (drop everything and read) was a period of the day where your only responsibility was to focus all of your attention on a novel. I still distinctly remember how much I enjoyed the freedom of setting down my math homework, finding a comfortable corner in my second grade classroom, and reading the Magic Tree House series.

I highly respect anyone in today’s day and age that has the undying focus to channel their attention wholeheartedly into a research endeavor. I had the opportunity to hear Jon Meacham speak over Winter Break about his book Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power. Meacham is the former editorin-chief of Newsweek, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and passionate historian. He discussed his extremely well-researched biography of Jefferson.

What stuck with me most about his talk was how enthralled in the research he was.

He did extensive research, drawing upon personal diary entries of Jefferson’s and first hand documents from the time of his life and presidency. His diligence in his research and his passion for excavating information that was not readily accessible was incredibly impressive.

At a University that encourages and requires its faculty to publish, I hope the importance of research never fades.

From now on, I will be much more inclined to grab a book off the shelves.

Kathryn Walsh is a contributor to The Heights. She welcomes comments at features@bcheights.com.

Cathryn Woodruff is the Asst. Features editor for The Heights. She can be reached at features@bcheights.com.

Overcoming typical printing problems in O’Neill At Boston College it’s easier to write a 10-page paper with ChicagoStyle footnotes than to print one out at O’Neill Library. Despite the plethora of computers on the third floor, the seemingly convenient printing stations on the first floor, and the technology abundant CTRC, students often find themselves in a tough bind when printing papers out before class.

Although the line to print is usually shorter than the one to get a burger at Shake Shack, during midterm week, it can rival the one to get a bike at the Plex on a Friday afternoon.

“It gets really busy before one o’clock classes,” commented library staff Nicky Simard, A&S ’15, who works at the printing station on the third floor of O’Neill. “Many people don’t think to go to the CTRC. It’s less crowded there. I think the printers here are just more convenient because more people study around here.”

The problem with the printers on the third floor is that students must log onto one of the library computers to print their documents. This results in two lines: one for the computers

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BC DINING: BEHIND THE SCENES Kathleen Fahy Heights Staff

Everyone loves food, and lucky for Boston College, those at BC Dining Services are no exception. Seven days a week, hundreds of employees are dedicated to providing BC with a variety of delicious options for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and anything in between, or even late at night. So how does BC Dining Services feed over 9,000 undergraduate mouths, not to mention the faculty and staff? Well, it involves a lot of carefully crafted recipes and the longest grocery list you have ever seen.

BC is home to 15 dining operations: the three new “On the Fly” mini marts, the new Chocolate Bar in Stokes, Lower Live, Hillside, Eagle’s Nest, Carney’s, The Loft at Addie’s, “the Rat” in Lyons, the Bean Counter in Fulton, Newton campus’ Stuart, Brighton campus’ Cafe 129, and two faculty dining rooms. Across all operations, there are 34,000 transactions made each day, and approximately 23,000 of these transactions are meals. While the ingredients and the recipes are the same across the board, the menus vary from location to location based on the size of the operation and on what tends to sell where.

BC Dining puts their menus together by talking to students, watching food trends beyond Chestnut Hill, and looking carefully at what sells on campus and what does not. In order to maximize efficiency and minimize waste, Dining Services pays close attention to what BC likes to eat and how much they like to eat it. In Corcoran Commons, which includes Lower Live and the Loft at Addie’s, there are 7,000 transactions a day, 3,000 of them at dinner, and 600 of these dinner transactions at Addie’s.

Last week, Turkey Dinner was on the menu in Lower Live.

In anticipation of the dish’s popularity, the BC Dining team prepared 350 pounds of turkey and at least 300 pounds of mashed potatoes. None of it went to waste.

On an average night, Lower Live can expect to go through 700 pieces of plain grilled chicken, 60 pounds of salmon, and 800 burgers. Meanwhile, meats like ham and leg of lamb have become less and less popular—Lower will be lucky to sell 30 pounds of ham in a night, and where they used to use 150 pounds of lamb, they now use 75 or 80.

While ham and leg of lamb may not be among Lower’s most popular meats, they sell better in Corcoran Commons than in McElroy or Stuart. In fact, by following the numbers, BC Dining has determined that freshmen are generally less adventurous eaters. Sushi night offers an example of this: in McElroy and on Newton Campus, 60 percent of the sushi that is sold is fully cooked, but on Lower Campus, 60 percent of the sushi that is sold contains raw fish. With this knowledge, Dining Services is more likely to serve an unusual vegetable in Lower than in McElroy or Stuart. But if you want to sell a wrap at BC, head to McElroy. It is unusual for Lower to sell 100 cold sandwiches during lunch hours, but in McElroy, making 400 to 500 sandwiches is standard.

As upperclassmen start to learn, freshmen have nothing to be afraid of when making their meal choices. BC Dining Services is very careful and very particular about what they buy. They will only purchase “choice” meat, which is higher than supermarket quality. There are some premade meat products that BC Dining purchases from specialty vendors, like pulled pork, but almost all of the protein is cooked from raw to carefully documented temperatures that ensure safe and tasty consumption. Every burger is cooked medium-well and each chicken breast to 165 degrees.

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BC Library staff prove most valuable resource

BY QIAN DENG Heights Staff When Adeane Bregman and her colleagues say “your tuition dollars at work,” the implications are far greater than they may seem. After all, Bregman, a former art librarian and currently the Interim Head of Research and Engagement Services at O’Neill Library, is “a librarian for life,” and not simply due to her own life choices. Students who are abroad, or even alumni who graduated years ago, may remember to come for the rest of their lives to Boston College librarians like Bregman and Claire O’Leary, the subject specialist for the Carroll School, for the kinds of support that only they can offer.

“We are not just a library where people come in to use the resources,” O’Leary said.

“We meet you where you’re at.”

“The most important resource is us,” Bregman said. “We are interested in partnering with students and faculty to make sure that you’re the best that you can be. It’s not just giving you the books, or the tools, but knowing how they can best be used in your discipline.”

In an increasingly digital age, the librarians have become more indispensable than ever.

Part of their unique power is the insights that emerge inevitably through substantial experience with knowledge. “The library is organized with subject specialists who evaluate, select, and we’ve been doing this for a long time: we make sure that you have the finest resources at your fingertips.” To understand the amount of work involved, one must note that the BC Libraries had accumulated 2,594,750 volumes, 37,580 serials, and 307,763

e-books by 2010.

“A lot of times you don’t realize what goes on behind the scenes of what we do,” O’Leary said. “We don’t just go to Amazon or Google and just say, ‘Oh, that looks good.’” Instead, each addition of a new resource is carefully scrutinized, compared with peers, and tested by experienced staff, for any given discipline.

“We have a specialist in every single area,” she said, “so every time you have a question, if it gets to a complicated level, we have someone behind the scenes who can answer it.” These specialists can be reached in person or remotely, each with a webpage enabling various methods of contact, from making appointments to texting to social media and online chat.

“We want our Boston College graduates to be equipped,” Bregman said. Although many students and faculty do take advantage of the librarians’ wisdom, she hopes that the awareness will become still more universal, across the varied backgrounds among members of the BC community. Although librarians help faculty design projects for students and enjoy making detailed classroom presentations, done over 100 times each year in conjunction with the freshmen writing seminar, students not required to take the course miss out on the experience.

Without such an experience, it is simply inefficient for students to browse through BC’s vast collections unaided.

“We don’t own everything,” Bregman said, “but we will go to great lengths to order something we don’t have.” Students

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GRAHAM BECK / HEIGHTS EDITOR

Many students ran last year’s Boston Marathon with the Campus School Volunteers, which offers a step-by-step training program.

Days in the life of a Marathon runner

BY EUNICE LIM Heights Staff It is that time of the year again, when the marathon trainers are finally put to the test and anyone who is not running dons distinguishably Marathon Monday-themed pinnies to participate in the hype. Running a marathon is, in every sense of the term, a big deal—young or old, professional or amateur, anyone who runs the marathon must face and overcome the physical exhaustion and mental strain associated with the daunting task that is 26.2 miles. It is a test of character and endurance, with high risks and high rewards. Believe it or not, running a marathon is not a one-day event. It is a long-term process that begins way before the actual day,

sometimes spanning months. At Boston College, an organization called the Campus School Volunteers Marathon Team offers a support system and an outlined training routine for any student who is interested in running the marathon.

Two BC students, Angela Zoblatny, CSON ’15, and Kevin Berry, A&S ’13, who are running for the Campus School Marathon Team, began training early during first semester. Zoblanty is running the Boston Marathon for the first time. She was a former track runner throughout high school, and claims that Marathon Monday is “something to work for” and is “an end goal” that has pushed her to continue running in college. The training experience has been fun and rewarding so far, because she is

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running for a great cause and in honor of a role model high school teacher, a great triathlete, who passed away. In the process of training, Zoblanty has had to make adjustments to her lifestyle in order to balance her time and health, making sacrifices and forming new habits.

“The hardest part about training has been fitting it into my schedule,” she said. Describing Zoblanty as an “involved” student would be an understatement. She is a member of 4Boston and Arrupe, has a work-study job on campus, and just started clinical this semester as a nursing major. “I’ve had some difficulty feeling motivated after a long day in class or at the hospital to go

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