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As the semester winds down, Open Mic Nights allow BC artists a public forum to musically experiment, B8

Scott Braren sent Birdball home with a series win against defending national champion Virginia, B1

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Though their campaign generated considerable buzz, Anthony Perasso and Rachel Loos didn’t make it through primaries.

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?\`^_kj <[`kfi U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts was heavily recruited to run for president in 2016. Proponents saw her as a more liberal alternative to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, with less political baggage.

After Warren declared emphatically last spring that she would not be running, the media left her alone about it.

But since then, Warren has been called one of the most popular senators in the country. She is considered a potential running mate to the eventual Democratic nominee. Most recently, she has been in the news for her attacks on Don-

ald Trump, ripping into the Republican frontrunner on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and in a Twitter tirade late last month.

Robsham Theater hosted Warren on Friday afternoon as the keynote speaker in a weekend conference on economic inequality. Sponsored by the Jesuit Institute and titled “Growing Apart,” the conference sought to discuss the implications of inequality with panels, speakers, and presentations of papers and research projects by Boston College students. Warren focused her talk on the roots of American inequality and what she sees as the rigged economic system in the United States.

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even weeks ago, when I first talked to Anthony Perasso, LSOE ’17, and Rachel Loos, MCAS ’18, they showed up to an interview in denim jackets and bright red turtleneck sweaters. Loos sported purple-blue hair. It was a little weird, but also pretty much what I had expected.

So when I talked to them again

last week, and Perasso showed up in a “Make Donald Drumpf Again” hat, and Loos, who shaved her head a couple weeks ago, showed up without hair, it was almost too perfect. I hadn’t even remembered to tell them I was bringing a photographer, but there they were, once again striking that delicate balance between “Wait, what?” and “Yeah, that makes sense.”

But this time we were meeting under very different circumstances. Back in late February,

Perasso and Loos, editors for The New England Classic, were about to launch a much-discussed, kindof-satirical, kind-of-serious bid for Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC) president and executive vice president.

Right after that initial interview, the other two teams running both dropped out, leaving them alone.

Perasso and Loos, fearing that they hadn’t earned the positions,

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This year, 2,592 students turned out to vote in the general election for Undergraduate Government of Boston College president and executive vice president, which is 28 percent of the total student body. Two hundred ninety-eight seniors, 932 juniors, 684 sophomores, and 678 freshmen voted for the presidential candidates.

Following the elections for the 2016-17 Undergraduate Government of Boston College president and executive vice president, the Elections Committee has released data on voter turnout and demographics.

In this year’s election, Russell Simons, MCAS ’17, and Meredith McCaffrey’s, MCAS ’17, team received the most votes at 1,137. Matthew Ulrich, MCAS ’17, and John Miotti, MCAS ’17, came in second, receiving 695 votes total, and

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Nikita Patel, CSOM ’17, and Joseph Arquillo, LSOE ’17, came in third w ith 668 votes.

Last year, 3,411 students voted in the general election, 900 more students than this year. The voter turnout for the 2015-16 election was roughly 40 percent.

Rachel Mills, co-chair of the Elections Committee and MCAS ’16, owes

this year’s lack of turnout to the primary elections. Holding primary elections usually has a negative impact on voter turnout during the final elections, Mills said.

The Elections Committee did not hold primaries for the UGBC presidential elections last year. The Committee made the change after six teams joined the race when the nomination deadline was extended in March.

“I think all of us who were campaigning wish [the elections season] was a little bit shorter,” Simons said in March.

Simons and McCaffrey won the most votes in each of the four schools.

They received 442 more votes overall than the second-place team of Ulrich and Miotti.

Ulrich and Miotti came last in every school except for the Carroll School of Management, in which they came in second and received 218 votes.

Ulrich and Miotti’s team came in second place, because Patel and Arquillo’s team was docked 70 points for unsolicited Facebook messages to students. Prior to the point deduction, Patel and Arquillo’s team received 738 votes, but with the 70-point loss, they dropped into third place at 668.

This year’s election began with three teams, two of which dropped out due to personal reasons. The Committee decided to reopen the nominations for president and executive vice president

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The summit took place on April 9 in Robsham Theater. Robsham was filled with over 300 students, both men and women, as well as teachers, administrators, and panelists.

The summit was sponsored by the

Office of Student Involvement, the Women’s Center, Women In Business, Lean In, the Undergraduate Government of Boston College, the BC Career Center, and Females Incorporating Sisterhood Through Step.

The purpose of the summit, Samina Gan, co-chair of Own It and MCAS ’17, said, is to allow students to inspire and motivate one another. It aims to build on what women before us have done to promote gender equality, Alexis Teixiera, co-chair of the Own it Summit and CSOM ’17, said.

“It is also about each person owning his or her accomplishments, opinions,

and differences,” Teixiera said. “Own It seeks to motivate and demand that women be provided equal opportunity, compensation, and guidance globally.”

The keynote speaker of the summit was Sophia Amoruso. Amoruso is the founder and executive chairman of Nasty Gal, a women’s clothing brand.

Amoruso also wrote a New York Times bestselling book, #GIRLBOSS, about her path to creating her company.

After Amoruso’s talk , attendees broke off into varying panels, workshops, and conversations. Each participant received a schedule based on a survey he or she filled out upon

registering for the summit.

Other speakers at the summit included Dani Incropera, a SoulCycle instructor and brand director at MiniLuxe, Joy Moore, the former head of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, and Andrea Lisher, head of Northern America, global funds for J.P. Morgan Asset Management.

Amoruso spoke to the Own It audience about her life path and the importance of building one’s confidence. She offered three pieces of advice from her experiences—the straight and narrow isn’t the only path to success, all actions are creative, and money looks better in

the bank than on your feet.

Amoruso was interested in photography but could not afford to attend college, and also had a hernia but could not afford to receive corrective surgery.

As a result, she began to work at an art school to get medical insurance.

She continued to follow her passion, photographing monks and nuns.

Looking back on this time, her experience with photography ended up helping her when she began her business.

The photographs of the monks and nuns led her to realize that she liked

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BC faculty members Suzanne Berne and Christopher Boucher will read excerpts from their new novels on April 12 at 5 p.m. in Stokes S195. Berne has written four novels and a memoir, while Boucher is the author of two novels.

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The BC Symphonic Band Spring Concert will be held on Tuesday at 8 p.m. at Trinity Chapel on Newton Campus. Conductor David Healey will lead the 90-piece ensemble. The concert is open to students, alumni, and community members.

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Elaine Pinderhughes, chair of the clinical sequence at the Boston College School of Social Work, will address students in a special talk in the Heights Room at Corcoran Commons on Wednesday. The event begins with an 8:30-a.m. breakfast buffet, and a panel of speakers follows at 9.

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The scholarship, which is given to undergraduates across the country for their work in math, natural sciences, and engineering, covers students’ tuition, fees, books, and room and board up to $7,500 per year.

Mu is majoring in computer science with a minor in math, and Latour majors in biochemistry and music.

Mu is also a member of the Gabelli Presidential Scholars Program at BC. The two undergraduates are the 15th and 16th Boston College students to receive the Goldwater Scholarship.

Mu hopes to conduct research in intelligence after receiving a Ph.D. in computer or cognitive science.

Mu has worked closely with Joshua Hartshorne, an assistant professor of psychology, in the lab, and has conducted research on how children acquire language.

“Winning a Goldwater validates the career path I have chosen,” Mu said to the Office of News and Public Affairs. “I have always debated between software engineering and research. I have committed to the research path because I want to work on the more interesting and challenging problems. “ Latour is also a pre-med student at BC. He hopes to work in a M.D./ Ph.D. program post-graduation. Latour would like to be a practicing physician. He has conducted research on X-ray crystallography, an instrument used to study the structures of protein through crystal analysis.

“I am truly honored and delighted to represent Boston College in receiving this esteemed award,” Latour said to News and Public Affairs. “Above all else, I would like to thank Professor Chatterjee, Professor Taghian, Professor Fox, Dr. Bryan Sutton of Texas Tech University, and my family for their continued mentorship and support, both in my daily life and throughout the application process.”

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Cathleen Kaveny, a professor in the theology department, has published two new books titled A Culture of Engagement: Law, Religion, and Morality and Prophecy Without Contempt: Religious Discourse in the Public Square. Her books on religious discourse are compilations of columns that Kaveny has written for publications including Commonweal Magazine and The American Journal of Jurisprudence.

A Culture of Engagement: Law, Religion, and Morality stems from her work that was published in Commonweal Magazine. The book talks about the need to look at both religious tradition and secular, liberal democratic tradition.

“Most American Catholics participate not only in their religious tradition, but also in the secular, liberal, democratic rights-based tradition that currently dominates American political life,” Kaveny said in her book. “We cannot stand completely outside either our American identity or our Roman Catholic identity. The best we can do is to achieve some critical distance in order to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of both identities.”

In her other novel, Prophecy Without Contempt, Kaveny studies the jeremiad, a type of political rhetoric that stems from religious passion and draws on both linguistic style and moral substance.

Writer, speaker, and activist Eli Clare addressed Boston College students Thursday night about stereotypical images of disabled people and how these unfair assumptions have led to lasting problems for the disabled community.

“Label jars, not people,” Clare said, pointing to a PowerPoint image that quoted this line.

Clare, who was born with cerebral palsy, holds a B.A. in women’s studies from Mills College and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Goddard College. He has published numerous books, essays, and works of poetry.

Despite his life’s successes, Clare has been stereotyped in the same ways that many disabled people are. In particular, Clare emphasized the stereotypical image of the “supercrip.”

As Clare described, supercrip stories consist of disabled people doing incredible things, including hiking the Appalachian Mountains or batting .600 on the baseball team. Clare noted that these stories, however, can also include the more mundane, such as a disabled person getting a boyfriend or girlfriend, or a disabled person learning to drive.

In supercrip stories, said Clare, the disabled person has overcome something to accomplish either a great feat or an everyday task.

“I always pause when I hear [the word] ‘overcome,’” Clare said.

“Is it that we no longer have the disability? … What exactly is being overcome?”

Clare asserted that these stories turn disabled people into inspirational symbols, and they become inspirations because supercrips exceed society’s expectations.

“Why am I being inspired?” Clare asked those in attendance.

Clare recalled finishing last in numerous high school cross-country races. Regardless of the outcome, he received standing ovations from fans while not even the first-place finisher would receive this praise. It got old fast.

Clare then explained that an individual with a disability is seen as broken. As a consequence, there are people who will often say that disabled people need to be fixed.

The response from non-disabled people, Clare said, is mostly pity and tragedy. So when a disabled person transcends expectations, he becomes the inspiration commonly portrayed in supercrip stories.

On the opposite side of supercrip stories are stories of “ableism.”

Rather than perpetuating stereotypes, explained Clare, ableism stories raise issues of social justice for disabled people.

In his own ableism story, Clare talked about occasions in which he failed timed tests because he could not write fast enough due to his impairment.

According to Clare, the general public does not hear about ableism

In 1997, Scheherazade Tillet learned that her older sister, Salamishah, had been raped years before. Wanting to help her older sister heal, Scheherazade, who was then a student at Tufts University, turned to photography, documenting Salamishah’s healing process—taking photographs when Salamishah went to therapy, exercised, or was in her house.

It was the head of the Women’s Center at Tufts who said that Scheherazade should do something more with the photos that she took. The idea quickly took flight and became a multimedia arts show featuring not only visual images, but also music, singing, dancing, and acting— “A Long Walk Home” was born.

On Wednesday, April 13, “A Long Walk Home” is coming to Boston College’s Robsham Theater at 5 p.m. Eleven BC organizations, including Bystander Intervention Education, FACES Council, Females Incorporating Sisterhood Through Step, and the Thea Bowman AHANA and Intercultural Center, are collaborating with BC’s Women’s Center to bring this multimedia performance to BC. “The performance tells the story of a woman’s journey from rape victim to rape survivor through a collection of art performances,”

said Regine Jean-Charles, BC African and African diaspora studies professor and performer in “A Long Walk Home.” “The idea is that the performer will bring to life different aspects of her story. All these different women, this collection of women are all telling the story of her rape.”

Jean-Charles went to graduate school with Salamishah at Harvard University, where the two became best friends. In 2001, a year after the performances started, Salamishah approached Jean-Charles to audition for a role. Now, 15 years later, Jean-Charles is still performing in the show.

The multimedia performance features a song, then Jean-Charles’s performance of two poems, followed by a dance, and ends with the original slideshow of photographs that Tillet created put to a recording of song and narration.

Jean-Charles will be reciting two poems by Salamishah, one called “Do you Know What Rape Feels Like?” which was written immediately after Salamishah was assaulted, and another titled “I Died and was Born on the Same Day.” The second poem is about the hope that Salamishah found and how she was able to heal from what had happened.

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Eli Clare spoke about stereotypes regarding disabled people on Thursday. stories often enough.

Cases of ableism tend to describe disabled people as childlike, asexual, violent, dangerous, and, by proxy, incapable. As a result, disabled people are impacted negatively when it comes to gaining equal opportunity in education and employment.

For example, the national unemployment rate hovers around 5 percent, but as Clare mentioned, the unemployment rate in the United States for disabled people is well above the national average—around 15 percent.

Likewise, these misguided views of disabled people affect how they are treated in education.

Although Clare can only write four words per minute, he has published an impressive collection.

Clare expressed his disappointment for the bevy of supercrip stories, which grows the stereotype that disabled people are overcoming the odds, and the underwhelming number of authentic ableism stories, which bring social issues for disabled people to light.

During his talk, Clare turned to a poem by Lynn Manning called “The Magic Wand.” Manning, a blind playwright and poet who also medaled in the Paralympics, writes in his piece about facing a myriad of stereotypes—all of which are shaped by outside forces. This is a reminder, said Clare, of how powerful external perception can be.

“None of us will ever find a home in stereotypes,” Clare said. “I know I won’t.”

Friday, April 8

1:21 p.m. - A report was filed regarding an arrest made for trespassing in the Lower Lots.

12:03 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a BC student who was transported to a medical facility from Fitzpatrick Hall.

Thursday, April 7 2:27 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a BC student who was transported to a medical facility from Walsh Hall.

different ways and using a collective to tell that story,” Jean-Charles said. “And even though this is a story of just one woman, and it’s her sister using the lens, it’s also the story of these other women, such as myself, and others who have become involved in this organization, regardless of whether or not you are a survivor.”

Taking part in the performance has propelled Jean-Charles’s activism on problems of sexual violence, she said. After joining the performance and being incredibly outspoken about her participation in the cause, Jean-Charles found that the more people knew about her involvement and passion in the issue, the more people disclosed to her. To learn more about how to respond, and best help those who came to her, she was trained as a rape crisis counselor at the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center.

“This performance, really, for me, was work that I do in an artistic way, but also in an intellectual way, but also in a personal way as I interact with survivors,” Jean-Charles said.

The purpose of the performance is two-fold. Firstly, the performance is to make clear that there is no one story of sexual assault. The performance is one that tells a single story, yet is influenced by the three different performers who are featured in the show. Jean-Charles stressed how important it is that students under-

stand that there is no universal “rape survival story.” Each victim’s journey to become a survivor is influenced by who they are, where they are, and when they are surrounded by.

The second point that the performance tries to make is how powerful art can be for healing. In 2003, three years after the show took off, Scheherazade and Salamishah Tillet cofounded the nonprofit A Long Walk Home. Afterwards, a girls’ program was founded in response to one of the co-founder’s work as a health teacher who had met many teens dealing with dating violence and sexual abuse. She found that art helped them tell their stories in a way that they controlled.

“It’s important to remember just the healing power that exists in art for this issue, and for issues of violence in general,” Jean-Charles said.

Jean-Charles noted that there have been many steps in the right direction on BC’s campus to address sexual assault, including the support of the Women’s Center, of Bystander Intervention, and of various administrators. She said, however, that there is still work to be done.

“As we think about sexual assault as a social justice issue, at BC as we think about being men and women for others, it doesn’t have to affect you for you to care about it,” Jean-Charles said. “Everyone should come. This should be required for all students. It’s really powerful.”

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Simons and McCaffrey will begin their work as president and executive vice president at the end of this academic year and carry into the summer. The duo hopes to focus on three goals: quality, inclusivity, and

accessibility. They also plan to look at day-to-day improvements for student life.

“We’re very happy with the percentage of the vote we received, and we believe in our mission of ‘Strength in Unity,’” McCaffrey said in an email. “The information we have coming out of this election gives us a good idea of where we need to start to connect with the student body next year.”

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During this time in her life, she also met a lot of people who friended her on MySpace and introduced her to the world of vintage clothing on eBay, which inspired her to start Nasty Gal. “That’s what life is—none of us really know what we’re doing,” Amoruso said. “I’m still confused every day.”

Amoruso focused on the uniqueness of each person’s life path and offered advice to take what is in front of you and own it.

“What is owning it?” Amoruso

said. “Owning it is showing up and owning who you are. Owning your successes. Owning your mistakes.”

Within the last year, Teixiera noted, much has been done across the globe to improve gender equality—Saudi women voted in their first election, Jen Welter, BC ’00, was hired as the first female coach in the NFL, and Michelle Obama launched a campaign to promote female education across the globe. But there is still much to do, she said.

“As this journey is far from finished, we must individually and collectively continue our mission so that our sisters, friends, grandchildren, and our own children will live in a more perfect world,” Teixiera said.

JULIA HOPKINS / HEIGHTS EDITOR

Amoruso talked about the winding path that led her to found Nasty Gal.

Warren began by acknowledging generally positive trends in corporate job growth and the stock market, plus the decreasing unemployment rate, which is now 5 percent compared to its peak of 10 percent in October 2009, just after the Great Recession. But she remains concerned, she said.

“Here is the hard truth: despite the cheery top-line numbers, America’s middle class is in deep trouble,” she said.

Warren focused much of her talk on those earning very low wages despite working full-time. For the 50 percent of the American public that does not have any savings in the stock market, she said, the economic recovery is invisible.

“The booming stock market just looks like a train that is leaving the station while you’re left behind on the platform,” Warren said.

Warren said that there have been deep structural changes in the United States in the last 30 years. She told a story about how when she was 12, her father had a heart attack and could no longer work. Her mother found a minimum-wage job at Sears and earned enough money to save their family’s house. Warren eventually

moved on to a commuter college. She worked hard there, but she attributes her success to something more.

“I grew up in an America that invested in kids like me, an America where a janitor’s kid could become a United States senator,” she said.

Warren then traced the roots of modern economic inequality in the United States. After the Great Depression and World War II, she said, Americans enjoyed about 40 years of uninterrupted and unprecedented economic growth in the middle class.

GDP and wages increased across the board. Ninety percent of the country got about 70 percent of all income growth from the late 1930s to the late 1970s.

Warren argued that the pivot point in American inequality was 1980. She said 99.5 percent of the income growth in the last 36 years has gone to the top 10 percent of earners. She attributed that inequality to supply-side or trickle-down economic theory, which she said means deregulating industry and giving tax breaks to corporations to fuel job and general economic growth.

“What [deregulation] really means is ‘Let’s tie the hands of the regulators and turn loose the big banks and…corporations to do pretty much

whatever they want,’” Warren said.

She criticized outsourced jobs and big risks like the subprime mortgage crisis. Warren argued that those policies pursue short-term profits at the expense of the working class, and she called for increased taxes to support services like public infrastructure, health, and education, which have seen decreased funding since the 1980s.

“The trickle-down experiment started during the Reagan years has failed America’s middle class,” she said. She said politicians in Washington made that failure possible.

After Warren’s critique of the current system, she laid out policy goals.

She argued for an expanded Social Security program, a higher minimum wage, immigration reform, increased taxes on the wealthy, and an end to subsidies for fossil-fuel companies.

After Warren’s main talk, she answered pre-selected questions from the audience. The first asked how those on the other side of the aisle can be convinced to support policies to help decrease inequality.

Warren talked about infrastructure, which she compared to plowing a field—it helps the economy grow.

She called for a multi-trillion-dollar investment in America’s roads and

public transit, and was especially critical of the MBTA system, which she called outdated.

“How many of you drive a 40-yearold car?” she asked. When nobody raised their hand, she said that the Boston area shouldn’t be using 40year-old trains.

Another question asked how government regulatory agencies can get around divided legislatures. Criticizing the U.S. Senate, Warren said bodies like the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Labor (DOL) could enact rules to bypass Congress. She hailed a DOL rule announced April 6 that requires investment portfolio managers to act in their clients’ best interests rather than their own.

Pumping her fists and mouthing “thank you” over and over, Warren finished her talk by calling for a fight against what she views as an unfair system.

“I wanted to be here to talk to people who care about…how we can create an America that works not just for those at the top, but those on the bottom, those in the middle,” she said. “We are going to make decisions as a people about what kind of country we’re going to build going forward.”

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Behind the Mesh: baldwin the eagle’s secret life

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JULIA HOPKINS / HEIGHTS EDITOR

9P A8D<J CL:<P =\Xkli\j <[`kfi Think back to the last interaction you had with Baldwin—whether it was a stumbling hug, a lame handshake, or even as far as a well-orchestrated picture. Unless you’re actually convinced by the costume, it may have occurred to you that someone, a real-life person, is actually inside that thing.

For those of us who know we aren’t actually interacting with a human-sized, ambulatory, freak-of-nature bird, it begs the question—who really is Baldwin?

As it turns out, if you have a friend or classmate who is full of Boston College spirit, is constantly working on his or her dance moves, and disappears mysteriously for hours on end on game days, you have reason to be suspect that you might know a Baldwin.

To this end, BC’s beloved Baldwin the Eagle is just as much a superhero as he is a champion for school spirit. Behind the dancing, felt-and-mesh exterior of this dancing Eagle, the identity of Baldwin is shrouded in secrecy—it is the BC athletic department’s best-kept secret.

The general population knows shockingly little about the human “behind the mesh” who brings the dance moves and high-fives to life for BC’s countless sporting events. These students, the Clark Kents and Bruce Waynes of the school- spirit world, walk among us with no fanfare, their appearances signaling little about their second identities.

So naturally, when it came time to arrange a meeting with the unmasked Baldwin, secrecy was paramount. With some finagling and a promise to maintain anonymity, The Heights-Baldwin summits were safely executed. Under the cover of darkness, in undisclosed locations, and over untraceable phone calls, I was given the full rundown on the secret life of Baldwin—the person sweating behind the beak.

“They said, ‘you’re Baldwin, you have to dance big,’” explained one Baldwin of the unique tryout process. “The whole thing is you have to go big, it’s really go big or go home.”

According to our sources, dancing big is only a fraction of the

tryout process—an enormous amount of weight is put on the “Baldwin Strut,” with which so many Superfans are unknowingly familiar. Simply put, it’s a walk of confidence.

“You’ve got to know how to walk like you’re the biggest man on campus,” explained our Baldwin informant, exhibiting the same nonchalance that her feathered alter ego does so often.

The grueling tryout then takes a predictable turn—dance. Though no prior dance experience is necessary, a level of stamina and a willingness to throw down Baldwin-style certainly are requisite. In the words of our interviewee, “you just dance—for like 45 minutes.”

The outcome?

“If you get it, you get an email that’s like, ‘We regret to inform you … that your identity is changed,’” recalled one grinning Baldwin of her acceptance email. “It’s a pretty cool email to get.”

From what was explained of the position, these words couldn’t be truer. This notion of fully assuming a second identity is no understatement, and for the right person, it’s liberating. In fact, that new secret identity/superhero guise is an attractive part of the job for many.

“Honestly that’s the most fun part for me,” one Baldwin commented with regards to her anonymity. “It’s like you have a secret life.”

In addition, “the suit,” as it’s called, is a perfect vehicle for channeling energy toward school spirit. Resoundingly, the best part of donning the suit is making a wholehearted effort toward getting crowds excited and maintaining an animated atmosphere.

“It’s a totally different mindset when you’re in the suit,” one Baldwin said. “When BC is doing well, you feel great, and it’s so fun to dance and to get people excited.

In the interest of aesthetics, however, the suit itself affords (somewhat predictably) very little physical comfort. In fact, the suit is over two inches thick in areas due to Baldwin’s striking musculature, which makes for balmy conditions when the sun is shining during early-season football games.

The position is also not without its quirks from a fan-interaction standpoint, and one can be sure that any Baldwin has his or her share of ludicrous fan stories, which range widely from receiving beatings

doled out by packs of middle-schoolers to being handed newborn infants for photographs.

Despite the odd mugging or strange photo-op, however, the fan reception is truly central to the experience as Baldwin. Between being a vehicle for the crowd’s energy and a physical representation of the school’s spirit, dressing as Baldwin offers a strange perspective on athletics and fans in general. As it turns out, people shout strange things at individuals dressed up as dancing birds.

“It’s really fun to dance and to get people excited, but at times you’re laughing at what other people are doing,” Baldwin said with a laugh. “You’re like, ‘Oh my god what is this person doing, they have no idea that I’m actually a person in here.’”

In such a quirky position, anything can—and will—happen.

Though too many to count, mascot experiences covered in these summits were as diverse as they are unique, ranging from frequently high-fiving Jerry York, to taking part in a 196- person-wide NCAA mascot GroupMe, to even joining Brad Paisley onstage at the CMAs (true story).

At the end of the day, however, it takes a certain type of person to really pull off a perfect Baldwin—the Baldwin that we see day in and day out.

“You can feel the energy of the crowd, and you can feel when you bring energy to the crowd, which is really cool,” said one Baldwin, who recently completed a return trip from the Frozen Four in Tampa, Fla. In fact, of the five Baldwins currently on staff, the two The Heights managed to get ahold of were both coming off of trips alongside BC sports teams—one, as mentioned, from Tampa and the other fresh off of a promotional trip to Ireland in preparation for the game in the Emerald Isle next year.

As the interview ended and my interviewees slipped back into their civilian lives, it occurred to me just how well-kept of a secret the Baldwin name is. When they’re not traveling internationally or parading around Alumni Stadium triumphantly, they’re seated among us with little indication (other than some subtle Under Armour gear) of their alter egos.

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BC’s Dance Marathon will take place on April 22 from 10 p.m. to 10 a.m. in the Flynn Recreation Complex. Nithya Damodharan, co-chair of Sophomore Class Council and MCAS ’18, noted that Dance Marathon will be the only event at the Plex that begins before it closes and ends after it reopens the next day.

The 12 hours will be separated into four themes—neon, red, white, and blue, Hawaiian, and BC spirit—each accompanied by respective music, food, and decorations. Giveaways and raffles will run concurrently. Performances will be given by student groups like Full Swing, Masti, and Irish Dance.

Children being treated at Boston Children’s Hospital will also attend for two hours in the morning for the closing ceremonies, where they will be able to interact with Baldwin the Eagle and the pom and cheer squads.

Four families will each be partnered with a different class and will wear the class colors and introduce themselves to the students. They can choose to dance in the designated family area or to spread out.

One child is scheduled to lead the crowd in Simon Says, his favorite game.

Emmy Ye, the Sophomore Class Council social chair, the director of BC’s Dance Marathon, and MCAS ’18, added that the event’s closing will include a reveal of how much money was raised.

All of the money raised around the event, including the $15 registration fee,

will go toward the Boston Children’s Hospital’s Children’s Fund, which the hospital uses as it deems necessary for medical causes not covered by insurance. Most recently, it has funded a new asthma-education campaign and a program for child life specialists who guide parents through their children’s extended treatment processes, as well as games, clowns, and research.

“We’re raising money for those extra things that aren’t covered by what insurance might think is necessary for treatment … all of these things that make kids feel better even though they might not be surface-level that important,” Ye said.

Dance Marathon is an initiative of the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals which began in 1991 at Indiana University in the memory of a student who died from HIV/AIDS. Dance Marathons nationwide have since collectively raised over $135 million, all given to local Children’s Miracle Network hospitals.

Dance Marathon has a history at BC itself but had been on hiatus for years before a representative from Boston Children’s Hospital approached the Office of Student Involvement (OSI). OSI, which directs the Class Councils that they started this year, approached them with the proposal, which they had expected to be too much to organize in one year, suggesting instead a debut in the spring of 2017.

“We thought it fit perfectly in with the Class Councils program because it’s an opportunity for service, involvement, and philanthropy that anyone on BC’s campus can be involved in,” said Brooke Goodman, an M.A. candidate in Higher Education Administration and a graduate assistant for Student Engagement in OSI. But Ye reached out again to the coordinator from the hospital and began creating a framework for the Marathon as early as

October. Damodharan sees the purpose of the event not only as an endeavor of service but also as an opportunity to unite students from different classes.

“When Sophomore Class Council was founded this year, it became part of our thing to figure out—what can we do to create class unity, and what can we do for the entire school to rally behind and get involved in?” she said.

Ye said that she places particular importance on this year’s Dance Marathon because it is the type of event that will guide the future focus of Class Councils.

BC’s new Dance Marathon committee found local help in starting its new program. Several universities nearby hold Dance Marathons, and many of the committee members attended Emmanuel

College’s for inspiration. The New England Dance Marathon network also keeps in touch with monthly phone calls to offer support. Both a Boston-based liaison from the Dance Marathon division of the Children’s Miracle Network and the liaison from the Boston Children’s Hospital will be in attendance throughout BC’s event.

Dance Marathon will be hosted by the Sophomore Class Council every year, although it remains an initiative of all four classes. In addition to the Sophomore Council representatives, Dance Marathon has been an effort of over 60 volunteers working in the divisions of event operations, dancer relations, public relations and marketing, and finance.

“Having participated in Dance Marathon at Marquette, where I went to under-

grad, and knowing what that experience is like, I can’t wait to see how they feel,” Goodman said. “It’s an amazing experience and one that I’m very excited for them to have.”

Damodharan, Ye, and Goodman believe that this year’s Dance Marathon will be a way to introduce students to the idea as well as to show how they can conduct service locally.

“We’re a very activist student body, and we try to give back. We’re men and women for others,” Damodharan said. “I feel like the point of Dance Marathon is [that it’s] another outlet for us to give back to our local community. You can see the change that we’re making in each one of these kids’ lives. It’s about raising awareness and having an amazing time doing it.”

AMELIE TRIEU / HEIGHTS EDITOR

The BC Dance Marathon is a 12-hour challenge to raise money for the Boston Children’s Hospital’s Children’s Fund.

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tion is the Center’s flagship prevention program that educates students on sexual and intimate Think of the newly renovated partner violence. Bystander is Boston College Women’s Center involved in almost every event as a mix between your local public during CARE Week, promoting library and your grandma’s living various events through a social room—comfy couches, colorful media campaign and having pillows, filled bookshelves, an Bystander trainers represented unfinished jigsaw puzzle on the at every event. table. On the walls hang framed “It certainly takes a community-wide approach to encourage inspirational quotes and pictures everybody to think of themselves of faces smiling at the brochures as a stakeholder in ending [genand pamphlets attached to the glass der-based and sexual] violence,” wall across from them. It’s hard to DiBella said. believe, then, that the Women’s CARE Week kicked off yesCenter was born in a bathroom.

BC had made the transition terday with members of the BC to become a co-educational Unicommunity participating in the versity in 1970, but this change Boston Area Rape Crisis Center was not without its ensuing (BARCC) Walk for Change, a difficulties. Three years after fundraising event in support of the change, female BC students its services. Most of the events still felt uncomfortable on the of CARE Week are run by students to encourage camaraderie male-dominated campus and among their peers . Student wanted to create a safe space work will also be on display for women. throughout the week, returning The students took over the to the Center’s mission women’s bathroom on of serving the student. th e l a n d i n g o u t s i d e O n We d n e s d a y , what is now Eagle’s Nest April 13, the national and declared the opening of the BC Women’s organization A Long Center. Its first guest?

Walk Home will presThen-president of BC, ent “Stor y of a Rape Re v. Donald Monan, Survivor” on campus.

S.J. Of course, no one The event is the result told him the center of a collaborative effort between various was a bathroom. The academic departments, students had made the campus offices , and most of their humble student groups and was abode, attaching a room funded by a grant that number to the door, Dalton and DiBella reprinting brochures and ceived from the Avon pamphlets, and providing other materials that Foundation. Presented they felt important for through various multi—Rachel DiBella, assistant director of women to have. media platforms such as Monan took the hint, poetry, visual photograthe BC Women’s Center phy, acting, and dancmoved the students out ing, “Story of a Rape of the bathroom, and Sur vivor” is the true quickly searched for a story of one woman’s permanent place for the new Women’s Center. Perhaps in in women’s issues . Dalton’s struggle to reclaim her body, self homage to the original location work and strong presence in the esteem, and sexuality after havof the Center in an unassuming Women’s Center have earned her ing been assaulted in college.

The annual “Take Back the bathroom, the Center had always a reputation for being known as been located in McElroy Com- the “mayor of BC” by her peers. Night” event has always been mons—until this past summer, Student involvement in the the most widely attended event, when it was relocated to the Center has increased through attracting approximately 500 fourth floor of Maloney Hall. the years with undergraduate people. To be held this Thursday, “It’s definitely been an up- and graduate students alike April 14, on O’Neill Plaza, the ward trajectory of growth,” Ra- working in the office. In 2003, event aims to use its platform chel DiBella, assistant director of the Center created the position to draw a significant portion the Women’s Center, said. of professional staff member. of the BC community and raise DiBella primarily works with Two years ago, the position of awareness of issues that it would students who have experienced assistant professional staff mem- normally not think of. sexual or intimate partner vio- ber was added.

“The point of the event is to “It definitely has been an give an opportunity to the survilence, helping students by walking them through the psycholog- office on campus that has expe- vors to share their stories, which ical trauma associated with such rienced growth throughout its is a really powerful experience experiences. Various resources time here,” DiBella said. for the community to hear and CARE Week seeks to bring for those survivors to feel that offered by the Women’s Center, such as SANet, the hotline of the to light many of the programs support resonating within the Sexual Assault Network, and a offered by the Women’s Center group of people who attend,” sexual assault support group, es- and give an outlet for student ex- DiBella said. sentially provide students with a pression regarding sexual health support system on their healing on campus. Bystander IntervenSee Women’s Center, A8 =fi K_\ ?\`^_kj

journies. Programs like CARE Week are meant to raise awareness of these important issues on campus.

Katie Dalton, director of the Women’s Center, regards women’s issues as not only what pushed her to pursue higher education, but also as something she dedicated her life to. Dalton worked at Brandeis University for four years before coming to BC to pursue her academics in women and gender studies. Dalton’s first exposure to women’s issues was as a graduate peer minister living in Kostka Hall, a freshman, all-female residence hall. She realized through her many conversations with the students as they transitioned to college life that many of the problems female students faced were rooted in their gender.

Dalton subsequently spent more time working in the Women’s Center, and it was this experience that catapulted her career

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Dalton and DiBella have hired both undergraduate and graduate staff members at the Women’s Center.

AMELIE TRIEU / HEIGHTS EDITOR

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Opening to the masses last September, the Starbucks has been a booming success, according to Mike Forcier, general manager of McElroy Commons Dining. The positive student response proved that the decision to establish an on-campus Starbucks was worth the time and research, he said.

The Starbucks was installed to meet the growing demand from Boston College students to purchase the name-brand coffee and is now operated as a “We Proudly Brew” program, which allows BC to capitalize on the nationally recognized brand while wholly benefiting from the sales of Starbucks coffee.

Other than regular inspections

by Starbucks auditors, the Starbucks facility in McElroy is managed and operated by BC Dining staff, and employs BC students instead of the run-of-the-mill hipster baristas normally hired by an independent Starbucks chain.

“We absolutely pride ourselves

on having a good-quality dining program with our own authenticity,” Forcier said.

The goal of BC Dining is to run a financially sustainable service while also providing high-quality food and equal benefits to employers, such as a fair minimum wage, competitive benefits, and a guaranteed work week. The new addition of the Starbucks national brand to the Eagle On the Fly Minimart in Mac has tremendously aided in keeping costs reasonable for BC Dining services in this zero-sum game.

“BC Dining is run as a service to the University,” Forcier said. “BC Dining as a whole doesn’t run as a profit center. What these Eagle Marts and what this Starbucks does is takes our whole service model and helps us provide the service that BC wants [its] students to have.”

As a result of being an internally run dining service, BC Dining budgets so that it remains ever so slightly in the black, if not at zero.

This, Forcier said, is the reason that the money that is left over from the mandatory meal plan is not given back to the students at the end of the academic year.

This refund is not provided because the money is already budgeted

and spent, a system of spending similar to other schools which may have a single swipe system instead of the declining balance system in place here at BC. “This Starbucks absolutely helps the model,” Forcier said. “And not only that, but it fills the demand from students who are saying ‘Hey, we need these on campus,’ so this helps us to cater to that demand.”

Because of the increase in revenue provided by the Starbucks, BC Dining is better able to serve both the students and its employees the goods and services it provides. Although a significant complaint from many BC students is the price of the food, Forcier said that this system, which is built on an emphasis on quality, provides students with the most efficient system of providing high-quality food while allowing BC Dining employees to enjoy the benefits of the University.

“I know factually that the quality of our food is superior, but if you want to have a sirloin steak every night you’re going to pay for it,” he said. “If you look at other schools, they aren’t serving a 6-oz. filet of salmon every day. Other schools on an all-you-can-eat system won’t have food cooked to order or any of that.”

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EDITORIALS

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“You’re born and forty years later you hobble out a bar, startled by your own aches. Nobody knows you. You steer down lightless highways, and you invent a destination because movement is key.

So you head toward the last thing you have left to lose, with no real idea what you’re going to do with it.”

This past Friday, United States Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts spoke at Boston College about economic inequality in the U.S. as part of a conference hosted by the Jesuit Institute.

Warren is a significant political figure, so bringing her to campus is a feat that deserves commendation. She is a highly sought-after voice in the Senate and may contribute to the political atmosphere on campus with her presence. These are the kind of speakers that groups should strive to bring to BC in order to foster the most interesting and relevant events possible.

The majority of attendees at the talk were alumni and non-college students.

This is surprising considering the Warren’s stature in American politics and the relative political engagement of BC students. As Warren is one of the most impressive speakers offered this semester, more BC students should have taken advantage of the opportunity to hear her. If more students had been aware of the talk, this most likely would have happened.

The fact that the student body didn’t widely know about the talk continues a negative trend for some speakers at BC. In an earlier editorial, The Heights pointed out how a talk by a number of local mayors was sparsely attended by students. This is part of a continuing issue with event promotion. Many BC students are not even aware of speakers such as Warren, and the local mayors earlier this year. As mentioned in the other editorial, this occurred last year as well with the president of the Philippines, who spoke at Robsham.

A number of student groups exemplify the most effective means of publicizing their events. Events, such as the recent BC Talks forum or the

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Asian Caucus’ John Cho talk, have been well-attended by students because the information was widely disseminated via social media, primarily. This same methodology should be applied by BC groups such as the Jesuit Institute.

Student attendance must be boosted at these events in order for various BC groups to be able to continue securing quality speakers.

If speakers come to BC and find little interest and attendance, this reflects negatively on the student body and makes the chances of having future events lower. Because of this, speakers should be heavily advertised through more than just flyers. Emails and social

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

A Reponse to “BC Faculty Donated Exclusively to Democratic Campaigns in 2014-15”

Your recent article about campaign contributions indicates a lack of diversity among the Boston College faculty. One hundred percent of the employees of BC, who contributed to political campaigns, gave to Democrats.

Shameful. One of the reasons that BC was founded was that “No Catholics Need Apply” to some of the other schools in Boston. I guess

that message can now be made to potential hires … “No Non-Democrats Need Apply.”

I guess freedom of thought is alive and well at BC, as long as the freedom of thought supports the Democratic Party.

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Last year, Boston College had its first Own It Boston College Summit.

This year, the summit, sponsored by the Office of Student Involvement, the Women’s Center, Women In Business, Lean In, the Undergraduate Government of BC, the BC Career Center, and Females Incorporating Sisterhood Through Step, was held on April 9.

These sponsoring groups have once again put on one of the most successful events of the year at BC. Participation in this year’s summit tripled, exemplifying Own It’s success.

Increased student interest should help expand the summit in the future and allow these groups to continue bringing in good speakers and preparing worthwhile events. The success of this year’s event is visible in a number of parts of the summit.

As mentioned in an earlier Heights editorial, the keynote speaker Sophia Amor us o prov ide s an intere sting perspective for the summit and is a well-known figure sure to draw student interest.

The other speakers were also interesting and diverse in background. This prevents a uniformity of message and story that would have hindered the goals of the summit. By bringing in multiple, vastly diverse speakers, the summit avoids simply bringing in many conventionally successful female CEOs and other corporate women.

Beyond this, the summit also included a personalization factor. Before participating in the summit, students filled out a survey that was then used to personalize workshops and events that would be most relevant for those

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students. This increases the benefit of attending the summit, as students are able to focus on things they care about and are already engaged with in some way.

By continuing to develop and improve upon last year’s summit, Own It has managed to bring more people to its events.

This summit should also serve as an example for other campus groups.

Just as the Women’s Center and other groups managed to put together this summit to promote successful women, other campus groups can create similar events.

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This formula and format has proven successful with this year’s summit and its tripled participation rates.

Applying it to these other student interest groups would help develop increasingly worthwhile BC events and promote these groups’ goals.

of the members of the Editorial Board can be found at bcheights.com/opinions.

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THE HEIGHTS

Monday, April 11, 2016

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As in “look at that sow in the field” and “look at that sssssss also in that same field.” If you fail to pronounce it in precisely this manner you are disappointing your forefathers who struggled for millennia to secure various sauces for your tasting pleasure. When you stroll up into a cafeteria, showing off your new silver tank top and green-brown semi-bleached capris, walk straight up to whoever’s in charge and say, “I must have my sowces.” This phrase will trigger an immediate response and you will be provided with all the sauces you require.

GETTING REALLY WEIRD ABOUT THAT TIME YOU PUT BBQ SAUCE ON YOUR CHICKEN TENDERS - It’s a pretty simple experience, really. Barbecue sauce is good on chicken tenders.

But sometimes there’s nothing better than getting real weird. Trust me. I’m your friend. Shhhhhhhhhhhhh.

READING REALLY LONG BOOKS IN PUBLIC - Sitting on a bench, crossing your legs, and popping open a copy of some 800-page word-vomit is always quite the thrill ride. “Wow, that’s a long book,” admirers will say.

“You’re just reading that for fun?”

“Of course,” you reply, sneering. “I read long books all the time because I’m better than you.” Most of the time these people get very quiet and walk away, but don’t worry, that’s just because they’re too in awe of you and your specialness.

The U.S. makes up 5 percent of the world’s population but has 25 percent of the world’s prisoners. Our judicial and penal systems have failed, and they perpetuate a system of racial disparity, increasing wage gaps, and broken homes. Despite educational and psychiatric initiatives, prison has not been proven to rehabilitate behavior, as twothirds of prisoners will reoffend. So it seems painfully ironic that I spend every Monday morning tutoring at the Suffolk County House of Corrections.

The HOC was built in 1991, and it houses male and female inmates convicted of crimes with a sentence of two and a half years or less. While incarcerated, inmates have access to a number of educational courses ranging from basic literacy to college-prep classes. As the House’s Web site states, “These programs are designed to prepare offenders for a successful reentry back into the community.” But attending these classes also earns them “good time,” which reduces the length of their sentence. Inmates are incentivized to attend class or rehabilitation programs, yet this methodology creates an inherent problem.

Every week, nine 4Boston members (including myself ), and a handful of PULSE students volunteer in the prison’s education department. After entering the prison lobby, we exchange our state licenses for visitor passes. The guards make sure our outfits align with the dress code policy, and we have to put any items we’re carrying into lockers. We are escorted through a series of security checkpoints: entryways that are remotely operated, solid metal doors that require key cards, and narrow, windowless hallways lined with cameras.

Yet the scene completely changes once we reach the education department.

We’re suddenly surrounded by classrooms filled with tiny desks and colorful

posters. The whiteboards are covered with basic math expressions and grammar rules, the colorful Expo markers a welcome change from BC’s chalk.

For a moment, we are reminded of the innocence of middle school. But when we look closely, that illusion is quickly shattered. One wall reveals six-word poems like, “I swear I didn’t do it” or “I miss my kids the most.” A bright blue sign reads, “Using heroin while drunk increases the chance of an overdose by 50 percent.” Some pictures comment on domestic abuse or separated families. Yet all these painful realities are interrupted by vibrant posters that show you how to add fractions or identify irregular verbs in the English language. The whole scene is unsettling, as if these two worlds don’t belong together.

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You’re already getting “good time” just for being in the classroom.

But what’s most upsetting is when you spend time with an inmate who doesn’t care. I remember one incident when I worked with a man who I’ll call Martin. He was 57 years old and had seven kids and 30 grandkids. He had been in and out of prison all of his life and lacked basic reading skills. Together we had to meticulously go through an article that Martin read aloud, slowly trying to sound each word out. But every five minutes, he made sure to tell

me that this lesson didn’t matter—he was in it for the “good time.” That the second he left prison, he was going to “hustle” all over again. He said it was the only thing he loved to do. I left that day furious, hating Martin.

While Suffolk is not indicative of every prison in America, the rehabilitation programs, specifically the principle of “good time,” need to be revised. Before starting classes, inmates are required to take a proficiency exam. One possible solution would be to document the exam score and award good time based on academic improvement throughout the sentence. This method has two primary complications. First, inmates might recognize how this new system works and then intentionally fail the proficiency exam. Therefore, teachers would need to embrace the responsibility of assessing genuine development.

Additionally, if “good time” was not offered for simply attending class, inmates might not even bother going in the first place—especially if they have failed at school throughout their lives. Thus “good time” for attendance needs to remain in place, and a performance-based system should be used as a bonus. This would not remedy recidivism issues, but it could be a step in the right direction.

Despite the difficulties of tutoring, there are the few instances when you manage to form a connection with one of the inmates. During my sophomore year, I worked with a girl who we’ll call Sarah. She was barely older than 20, but talked about her daughter and dreams of becoming a chef. We practiced math together, and before she left the prison she managed to earn her GED. Yet I couldn’t share in her success.

I saw her inefficiencies with math and basic comprehension, and it’s hard to believe that her life will improve as she carries the burden of a prison sentence.

The system has failed in its purpose of rehabilitation and the consequences, whether they involve race, socioeconomic status, or national productivity, are detrimental to everyone.

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He knows you know. And now you know he knows you know. You’re close now. The sweat is forming on your forehead. You see him smile.

Attempting to return the friendly look, you grimace, giving everyone the impression that a sudden bout of gastrointestinal pain has just hit you. “Hey, what’s going on?” he says.

“Good,” you scream back. You lower your head and barrel forward. Two minutes later you vomit violently into a bush.

ENTHUSIASM - Don’t get the thumbmeister wrong here, sometimes enthusiasm is great. I would never, ever, ever want you to get the thumbmeister wrong. He is the meister of thumbs and should not be misinterpreted. His words are the words of the thumb. His thumb is the thumb that thumbs all the thumbs … … … … … but, yeah, enthusiasm. Sometimes people talk too much and with way too much excitement. Tone it down a little, some of us resent your happiness.

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:FEFI J?<<?P No one should ever have to worry about being shot while walking down the street, but in parts of the United States, that is the harsh reality. The laws have failed many. Legislators have often favored the expansion of individual gun rights despite an abundance of externalities tied to the sale of firearms to the general public. The U.S. leads the developed world today in the number of gun homicides and gun suicides per capita.

The country can and should implement measures to prevent people who intend to harm people with firearms from obtaining them.

The failure of a meaningful majority of legislators to vote in favor of gun control legislation may ultimately be tied to inconsistencies in the public’s view. In 2015, Pew Research Center found that 85 percent of Americans favored “making private gun sales and sales at gun shows subject to background checks.”

It is interesting to note, however, that when Pew asked about a popular piece of gun legislation failing in the Senate, 47 percent of people were angry or disappointed, and 39 percent were actually happy or very relieved.

The inconsistency is telling about the way that most people think about gun control measures. People generally support specific policy ideas like mandatory background checks and preventing suspected terrorists from purchasing weapons, but support is not nearly as robust when it comes to actually doing anything about it. Americans are well aware of the negative implications of the failures of current regulations regarding the arms trade, but are weary of actual gun control.

Like most other issues that appear

to have simple solutions, the systematic problems facing true democracy in the U.S. are largely to blame. Following the trail of money can help show why legislative decisions have been made the way they’ve been. The corporate media has consistently ignored talking about the real issues facing the country because of conflicts of interest. The corporate media outlets are generally given to sensationalism and fear mongering. The result is a country with many misinformed people who aren’t willing to implement obvious solutions for fear of losing their individual rights.

After the New York Daily News interviewed Bernie Sanders this past week, the establishment media seized on his comment that victims of gun violence shouldn’t be able to sue the arms manufacturer. The news cycle revealed an intense dichotomy about the way that people view the gun issue. The prevailing attitude is that people are either anti-gun or pro-gun. People who support gun manufacturer immunity (and other measures) are demonized almost to the same level of the actual perpetrators of violence. Those who want reasonable constraints on gun purchases are seen to be against the Second Amendment, and people question when the “denial” of individual rights will end. This new normal precludes the ability of people to actually debate the nuances of reasonable legislation.

This nuance is visible in the Sandy Hook case Sanders mentioned. As heartbreaking as the massacre at Sandy Hook was, people should not be able to sue the manufacturer of the weapons used to harm them by virtue of it having created the product. The person responsible for the shooting in Newtown was the murderer, not the manufacturer of the murder weapon. Since the arms were all obtained legally by the murderer’s mother, the victims’ families appear to have no legal standing to sue the manufacturer of the Bushmaster AR-15 used in the mass shooting on the basis of malpractice.

Allowing citizens to sue gun manu-

facturers simply because the product was used to cause harm is absurd. Take, for example, a car accident. If someone is injured by someone driving under the influence in a Chevrolet, the appropriate response is not to sue General Motors.

But if people are getting hurt because GM installed faulty ignition switches in their cars and should have known that, then an appropriate response might be to bring GM to court. It is the person or people acting as the subject that should be held responsible for their actions, not some other entity that has no control over the situation.

The question still remains about what to do about gun violence in America.

Common-sense measures like universal background checks and monitoring unusual arms purchases would help prevent the sorts of unspeakable acts of violence that the country has witnessed in recent years. Congress should eliminate the ban on studies of gun violence and public health implications at the Center for Disease Control so that lawmakers have better information to make decisions. But there is still more to be done.

While there are many laws that can be written to ensure people’s safety, the issue becomes even more complicated when it comes to people who partake in illegal behavior to obtain firearms. Many acts of gun violence are committed using weapons that were legally purchased directly from dealers or manufacturers, but were stolen by close family members or friends.

These are the sorts of actions that the government needs to look at very carefully because there do not appear to be easy ways to confront these sorts of problems.

Regardless of people’s predispositions, polarization is not the solution. People’s lives are on the line. Legislators can and should maintain citizens’ rights to own firearms while still working to mitigate the threat of gun violence in the U.S.

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Some people have asked me why I write about pop culture instead of something more substantive, like politics or history. It is to those people that I dedicate this column.

I’m a fiction writer. I write fiction. I’ve done this since fifth grade, when my shortstory assignment was three times longer than everyone else’s, and in high school, when I won a flash-fiction contest under a fake name and didn’t tell anyone about it. I’m doing it now still, in the form of an in-progress novel slowly being molded in the gaps of time between sleeps, with its contents kept under lock and key and a personal vow to complete it. This probably doesn’t seem like a big deal to all of you, but it is my most tightly kept secret, one kept namely from my parents (who see it as a waste of time) and my friends (who I just … haven’t gotten around to telling, mostly out of awkwardness). But here I am, broadcasting this secret to all you kind souls who have decided to read my column, because I think you deserve to know it: Fiction is where I find truth.

In my mind, writing is first and foremost how I identify myself. It’s what I do in my spare time, and sometimes, stupidly, in my not-spare time. To others, I describe myself as everything besides that: I am an economics major and environmental sciences minor. I am KoreanAmerican, and I speak four languages, all of them poorly. I’m a cinema fanatic, and I am disorganized. I am 19 years old. But to myself, in my own mind, I am really that one thing: a writer. I write about my sweet, overworked mother and clear Boston skies and the things I am scared about losing one day. I write about crumbling concrete buildings and white uniforms and the perverse tranquility I feel in their walled-in-ness. I write about trains and time and liminal spaces. I write about myself.

Why? Because I am 19 years old, and I am confused. Life doesn’t make sense to me, not yet. It is chaos and disorder even among its routine, from day that dissolves into night and back into day again. There is no justice in history—things happen because they happen, not because the “narrative” requires it. Most of the time, there is no confirmed answer for anything that ever happens. The world does not tell you when you’re right or wrong, because the “truth” you learn is completely molded to who you are as a person.

But it remains that we as a species approach this truth, whatever it may be, in many different ways. And this is mine: Fiction is the only way to make sense of the chaos of our human existence.

Last week in my western culture and tradition seminar, we wrapped up Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, and it hit oddly close to home. I say “odd” because the issues Dostoevsky addresses—religion and spirituality, family and financial struggle, murder and the morality of guilt—are not all that relevant in my life. In fact, the Karamazovs of 19thcentury Russia deal with a bevy of problems that I will never face here in 21st-century Chestnut Hill. I am a 19-year-old girl with un-callused hands, writing in a plush window seat in the corner of O’Neill Library. Dmitri Karamazov, the eldest Karamazov brother, is a 30-some-year-old military ex-officer balancing money, women, and guilt with spiritual enlightenment and redemption. And yet I understood. I felt, somewhere in my soul, Dmitri’s struggle and wished for him to find his answer, if only for the rest of us.

Dostoevsky, somehow, understood the human condition this stunningly deeply, and was noble enough to share this private, raw moment with us. In return, people all over the world in dozens of translated languages, through centuries of reading and loving, felt and shared the same electric reminder of their unresolved humanity. All good fiction does this. Fiction hides within itself truth that is supremely real, precisely because it is fictional, precisely because it is invented by another human being. To capture the most essential, the truest, the most human parts of life, we have to build the window through which to view it.

Writing and understanding pop culture is just as great an endeavor as my other interests: climate justice, prison reform, education reform. I want to be a human for others, just like the rest of us who go here.

For me, fiction is my avenue to that noble goal. And while there are no narrative arcs in real life, as long as I’m looking for the truth—or at least a truth—I can create one that will explain life as I know it.

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THE HEIGHTS

A8

Monday, April 11, 2016

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Ranchony, from A1 encouraged the Elections Committee to reopen the ballot to other candidates.

The EC listened, and five more teams jumped in. And when the general election results were released on April 1, Russell Simons and Meredith McCaffrey, both MCAS ’17, were announced as next year’s UGBC president and EVP. Not Perasso and Loos.

Actually, they didn’t even make it through the primary.

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hat happened? They went for transparency and realism, so much so that their only promise was to “Bring Back the Funk.” They made funny videos, which Perasso said got several thousand views each, though he acknowledged those numbers could have been inflated by Facebook’s liberal definition of a view. They even made a Tinder account under the name “Ranchony,” which they said they would use to tell students about their candidacy instead of campaigning in dorms, a common practice among most candidates.

“We’re #hip candidates,” Perasso posted in the Class of 2019 Facebook group. “We know #millennials don’t want human interaction! That’s why we’ll be campaigning via Tinder.”

As Loos put it last week, the idea behind using Tinder was “We’re hands-off so that you can keep your hands on.”

They seemed to do everything right, in other words. Students’ disillusionment with UGBC—a theme echoed again and again during the campaign season by teams like John Miotti and Matthew Ulrich, both MCAS ’17—would in theory make a lot of people take Perasso and Loos over more “serious” candidates all day long.

“I’m really bummed that we didn’t make it through the primary,” Loos said. “I really thought we were gonna win.”

That comment looks very different than it sounded. She said it like it would have been cool to be in charge of UGBC, just like it would be cool to go to the beach or to see a good movie. Nice if it happens, but who really cares if it doesn’t? Certainly not Loos.

“I am shocked that this [interest in our campaign] is still going on,” she said. “I’ve been done with this for weeks.”

Part of that stems from how long they spent campaigning—well over a month, after election day was postponed. They got tired. Perasso talked about it the same way.

“We’re so happy that it’s over,” he said.

But they’re still a little disappointed, and a little confused.

Perasso said he figured that people would vote for them based on their social media content.

“I would like to formally call out the Elections Committee to release the numbers,” he said, grinning.

Rachel Mills, co-chair of the EC and MCAS ’16, said that the Committee doesn’t release primary election voting data because it wants to avoid establishing a frontrunner.

She’s not convinced that that’s the best policy, though, and

in the interest of transparency she said she would bring it up as an option for next year. And this year’s results? It seems like Perasso and Loos won’t be seeing those any time soon. But Mills said it was close.

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he first time we met, Perasso and Loos were prevented by UGBC election rules from being too specific about policy goals. Starting broadly, Perasso said last week that he viewed their campaign as an interesting attempt to combine satirical style with serious substance. One thing that meant was sending cryptic email comments to The Heights with their thoughts on, for example, the EC’s decision to reopen the ballot.

“Rachel and I feel various feelings about new candidates joining the race,” begins a comment from March 5.

But it turns out that beyond being funny and bringing back the funk, they also had a fairly narrow and concrete goal—increase turnout in the election.

“If you can use satire to increase attention on the thing that isn’t the joke, that’s the ultimate goal, deep, deep down,” Perasso said. “That was my whole thought process.”

That didn’t happen. Just 2,592 students voted, down from 3,411 last year, and 4,332 two years ago. Mills attributed that to voter burnout.

“I think oftentimes people feel like they voted in the primary so they don’t have to vote again,” she said.

That’s what Perasso said, too.

Talking about their campaign, Mills said that she thought they brought a fun energy to the competition. She said their mistake was probably not campaigning at dorm hours, which some of the candidates who made it through the primary did extensively.

Maybe that hands-off approach wasn’t so attractive, after all.

Mills mentioned that, right around the first time I talked to them, the EC heard rumors that if elected Perasso and Loos would resign immediately. The Committee called them to ask if they planned on serving, and they said they did. Beyond that, Mills said there were no problems with their satirical approach—they followed all the rules, and she even figured they would do well.

That confusion gets at the more general issue, one that Perasso and Loos fed into themselves—mixed messaging. Perasso and Loos never clearly articulated whether they were satirists who didn’t care or satirists who did.

On March 30, they posted a video on The New England Classic’s Facebook page. In it, they eat shrimp cocktail and talk about how they faked a run for UGBC president.

“Oops,” Perasso says with a shrug.

“We tried our best to make it through, but you a-holes didn’t vote for us,” Loos says. Perasso sticks his tongue out at the camera.

They decided to run, they say in the video, because UGBC elections are stiff. They wanted to change the atmosphere a bit.

Sure, they had all these issues they’d like to see addressed, but

they couldn’t get any of it done, they say. Why’s that?

“Because the administration is our dad, and our dad’s a jerk,” Perasso says.

That video confused me. In February, I asked if they were serious. They said they were, just like they told the EC. So I asked again last week.

“We weren’t, then we were, then we weren’t, then we were—kind of,” Loos said. First they got into it to “ruffle some feathers,” Perasso said. Then they realized how much they care about some of the issues UGBC deals with, and they faced some outside pressure like that from the EC, faculty, and other candidates. Joseph Arquillo, LSOE ’17, part of the team with Nikita Patel, CSOM ’17, that placed third, argued back in February that Perasso and Loos should have been unable to run because their campaign was satire.

“I think it was more us being competitive human beings for a second,” Perasso said. “When there were just two teams left it was like, ‘Okay, you can’t be assholes and disrespect this now.

Like you went into this expecting it to just be two teams and the peanut gallery, and you can’t have one team and the peanut gallery, because then Joe would have been right.’”

Then Loos nailed it.

“I think we were getting mad that people thought it was fake, like why can’t it be real?” she said. “And then we realized we don’t really have time for all of this.”

“At the end of the day, it’s not our fit,” Perasso said.

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hen why did they put so much time into it, and why did they say they were serious? And why are they a little disappointed? Well, it wasn’t perfect. Running a satirical campaign wasn’t that hard, they said last week. But continuing to joke all the time once they got passionate was. And their pessimism about getting anything done combined with other things coming up—Loos wants to go abroad next year, for example—led them to no longer care about the election. “Done” as Loos said. They’re disappointed that they can’t work on these issues with UGBC, but they’re relieved that they don’t have to.

Besides, they think Simons and McCaffrey will do a better job.

“It seems like Meredith and what’s-his-name are much more qualified,” Loos said.

“Russell,” Perrasso said.

“Yeah, Russell,” Loos said. “I keep thinking his name’s Bucky.”

“Ranchony” was about showing people that UGBC doesn’t have to be so serious. The issues are important to them, but why couldn’t the process be a little fun, too? Before they left for a concert—a Waka Flocka Flame show at the Paradise Rock Club—Perasso and Loos said they hope people keep doing what they did, but maybe do it a little more seriously, a little more focused.

“We wanted to show that anyone can run if they want to,” Perasso said.

Loos smiled and said, “Yeah, even if they shouldn’t.”

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The event was created to answer questions raised in the UGBC’s recent bill about sexual health. The event aims to answer some of the concerns raised regarding BC’s handling of sexual vio-

lence as a social, cultural, and institutional problem, and make students feel more comfortable with seeking help on campus.

“What Rachel and I have seen over the years is that it’s really important to students not just to have resources available, but also accessible around campus,” Dalton said. “[We’re] getting student feedback on how we can be better, and this panel will be an opportunity for the students to assert what the community

needs.”

The Women’s Center offers a mentorship program to prepare female students for life after BC. Rise pairs female seniors with female faculty and staff members to reflect on the issues facing BC women.

The Center created the program in response to studies that suggested that female students’ academic self-perception was lower than that of their male counterparts upon graduation from college.

“I think that at BC it’s difficult to not feel like you have to wear a mask and kind of conform,” DiBella said.

The Women’s Center encourages students to use the open space for work, but hopes that the informal, welcoming atmosphere will make students comfortable enough to express themselves.

“It is a nice change from O’Neill, and this space is also open during finals, where [staff members] sometimes get pizza and try to maintain a level of hos-

pitality,” she said.

The Women’s Center has certainly come far in its over 40-year journey on the Heights. Despite the change, the Center still adheres to its founding principles of eliminating sexual violence from the BC student experience, creating an open and safe space reflective of the BC community, and empowering students by validating their sense of self.

Not bad for a bunch of girls going to the bathroom together.

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It isn’t easy to tie in baseball. You have to dig deep into the subsections of the rule book to find the rare cases w h e n i t m ay 4 Virginia happen in the Boston College 5 Major Leagues, and even then it’s not even called a tie but a “suspended game,” which is supposed to be made up at some point in the season. That doesn’t mean it never happens—the Houston Astros and

Cincinnati Reds finished a game in a tie as recently as 2005—but pretty damn close to never.

It’s a bit more common in college baseball, where the conference schedule is so set in stone that any games cancelled over a weekend, such as the two Boston College had against Florida State a week ago, cannot be made up. It’s still very uncommon, especially with lighting fixtures at parks, but on Sunday afternoon, BC came about two minutes away from ending without a winner or loser.

That is, until Scott Braren made it 5-4.

After Michael Strem flew out to start the bottom of the 13th—the longest game for BC (16-11, 5-8 Atlantic Coast) since March 21 last year against North

Carolina State, and the longest for its opponent, No. 16 Virginia (20-14, 78), in its ACC history—Johnny Adams picked up his first hit of the series: a double into the right field gap. A walk, a strikeout, and another strikeout left the bases loaded for Scott Braren, who had pinch hit a few innings earlier for Donovan Casey after the right fielder injured his left hand on a slide into second.

Braren walked up to the plate at 6:05 p.m., just five minutes before the 6:10 cutoff time. That doesn’t mean the game would have ended immediately at 6:10, but no new innings are allowed to begin after that time. This rule is in place to protect the travel plans of

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The Eagles run out to celebrate after Scott Braren (N.P.) hits a walk-off single in the 13th.

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TAMPA, Fla. — Colin White took one look at the snapped stick in front of him and slapped it away. He knew what it represented: a broken opportunity in the game’s waning moments.

It was a miracle glove save by Quinnipiac goaltender Michael Garteig on a blast from Ian McCoshen that ended Boston College men’s hockey’s season. A desperation shot from a dangerous defenseman from deep around the circles. It was the perfect setup for a memorable moment.

It should never have come to that.

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A hockey team is not defined by its worst 10-minute stretch.

But in a single game—especially one of such importance as a national semifinal—play out of your element for even the shortest amount of time, and you’re doomed.

The Eagles picked the worst time for their poorest 10-minute stretch of the season.

Against all odds, BC—the youngest team in the nation with several freshmen as the cornerstones, little defensive depth, rare flashes of consistency, and a goaltender coming off of double-hip surgery—found a way to make it to the Frozen Four. Yet, under the brightest lights of the season, the Eagles (28-8-5) couldn’t

keep the momentum that earned them a vacation to Florida.

And Quinnipiac (32-3-7), the nation’s best team, exploited every weakness in a 3-2 victory.

BC’s defensive corps looked frazzled at the outset of the game. Off the opening draw, the Bobcats’ exceptional speed pressured Thatcher Demko to an alarming degree. With the heat coming, Casey Fitzgerald tried making a safe pass over to Michael Kim. But the first-semester freshman was doublecovered, and, in a panic, the puck took a funny bounce and

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D@:?8<C JLCC@M8E TAMPA, Fla. — The final buzzer on the 2015-16 season for Boston College men’s hockey had just sounded.

I ran over to the crowded mess that was the Amalie Arena’s only media elevator. They tell you it’s a 10-minute cooldown period for the press conferences, but when the team that loses does it in a heartbreaker, it usually comes quicker. For some reason, the elevator had to stop at every one of the seven floors.

Less patient members of the media corps screamed at the employee who had corralled us in at the top, as if he could help.

As soon as it arrived, and the wroughtiron cage from hell opened on the bottom floor, I dashed to get a front row seat. I had faced Jerry York in joy and misery 19 times

that season entering the game—and had imagined what he would’ve said in a press conference while watching the game on television or listening on the radio in the remaining 21.

When York, Teddy Doherty, and Steve Santini approached the podium, they didn’t try to hide their emotion. Ever the stoic leader, York appeared more somber than usual. Santini looked all-business, appearing in a strong leadership role as Doherty’s heir apparent as captain of the Eagles, just like Doherty had done last year in BC’s first-round NCAA loss to Denver. Doherty, justifiably so, made no attempt to try and cover up how he felt, yet was remarkable in how he answered questions on behalf of BC for the final time.

Seeing three men I had respected and followed from October to April broken by a crushing defeat was difficult. But that wasn’t the hardest part. It was watching them all walk by me.

As I had settled into my seat, poring over

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my notes and the box score to come up with the right way to talk about BC’s 3-2 loss to Quinnipiac in the Frozen Four, I saw each one pass me on the way back to the hotel.

Some had their heads down all the way through. Others, the ones who appeared to know they’d have another shot at it next year, were laughing and talking with any one of their 23 closest friends. The select few that I had developed somewhat of a relationship with over the year from my constant interviews—guys like Doherty, Austin Cangelosi, Alex Tuch, and Zach Sanford—exchanged a knowing head nod with me. And I chatted with one in particular, senior Travis Jeke, who sat next to me and Heights A1 Editor Tom DeVoto in Mark Gelfand’s American Journalism and Democracy class during the fall semester. His sentiments were about the same as any of theirs: “it just sucks.”

But despite the disappointing ending, this was a team that fought through the most difficult circumstances to reach Tampa, in a season that should go down as one of the

more memorable in BC history. And it’s a team that should be ready to be a force in college hockey immediately come October.

The Eagles were faced with unseemly preseason expectations. York’s crew came in as a probably undeserving preseason No. 1 that seemed solely determined by the future talent that the Eagles had instead of the current one. There are plenty of names on BC’s roster that you’ll be seeing in the NHL in the future.

But it entered the year as the youngest team in the nation, with an average age of 20 years, 11 months. That’s a full six months younger than Michigan, the second-youngest in the country. Entering the season, they simply weren’t ready to play as a team that could compete in college hockey. It doesn’t mean that it should’ve been counted out, but to open up the year as the team to beat wasn’t a fair expectation.

It didn’t make it easier that BC had a poor opening-season schedule. BC only played one team that made the NCAA

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After falling twice to North Carolina on Saturday, BC salvaged a game on Sunday..........B2

Tournament (Denver) during a hot 11-game winning streak in October and November. A three-game slide against Notre Dame, lowly Ohio State, and Providence in December cast doubts as the gut of Hockey East play loomed. Yet the forwards produced, big time.

Led by the emergence of Colin White and Miles Wood, a breakout campaign by Ryan Fitzgerald, and steady production from the guys that BC knew it had in Tuch, Sanford, Cangelosi, and Adam Gilmour, BC lost only one game, the season’s final regular-season game at UMass Lowell, before getting to the playoffs.

Of course, no one was concerned about those forwards. It was the men behind the blue line that would be the big worry. How could the Eagles recover from losing two of the best defensemen in the country, Noah Hanifin and Mike Matheson? Again, it wasn’t for a lack of talent. Ian McCoshen and Steve Santini were high draft picks, and Scott Sav-

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THUMBS UP HOV HEATS UP  Justin “Hov” Dunn made his first start of the season for Birdball on Saturday against UVA, throwing five scoreless innings and garnering attention from scouts for his upper-90s fastball. You can’t blame ’em for checking cheddar like a food inspector.

YORK & CO.  Despite the disappointing result of the Frozen Four, the Eagles truly played their hearts out, and were a miracle glove save away from completing an incredible comeback. Great season, boys.

BIRDS MAKING NOISE - Birdball is officially out of its slump after taking two of three from No. 16 Virginia, the defending national champions. Both wins were in walk-off fashion: Saturday featured a game-winning strikeout, while Sunday’s contest lasted five hours and 13 innings before BC finally prevailed.

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The bases were loaded with one out in the bottom of the third inning, and Annie Murphy stepped to the plate. Murphy laced a hit up the middle, driving in two runs and giving Boston College softball a 3-2 lead. The Eagles never looked back.

On a cold, windy Sunday afternoon in Chestnut Hill, the Eagles (20-15, 4-5 Atlantic Coast) sent right-handed pitcher Allyson Frei to take on North Carolina (22-19, 7-8) and its left-handed pitcher, Lauren Fuller.

Both offenses started strong and faded as the game went on. In the first inning, North Carolina second baseman Taylor Wike ripped a triple down the first-base line with one out, but the Tar Heels could not seize the opportunity to get on the board first. In the bottom half of the inning, the Eagles made them pay. Murphy drove in the first of her four RBIs with runners on first and third after sending a hard ground ball up the middle.

Frei struggled mightily with control in her second and final inning for the Eagles. The Tar Heels managed to score two runs to take the lead, despite failing to record a single hit after Frei surrendered four walks and hit one batter. Fortu-

nately for BC, the final batter of the inning put the ball in play directly at right fielder Taylor Coroneos.

Jessica Dreswick relieved Frei in the third inning, and she recorded an impressive five scoreless innings.

She only registered one strikeout, but trusted her fielders to make plays. The wind was certainly a factor, as fly balls to the outfield were a bit trickier and tailed toward the lines, but the Eagles were prepared. The infielders also excelled, attacking ground balls to avoid bad hops and making quick throws to record outs.

After Murphy gave the Eagles the lead in the bottom of the third inning, sound defense and solid pitching allowed them to keep it.

BC scrapped together a couple of insurance runs as the game progressed, as Chloe Sharabba hit a sacrifice fly in the third inning and Murphy hit a sacrifice fly in the fifth inning. The Eagles avoided the sweep with a 5-2 victory. After coming up short in both games of a doubleheader on Saturday, this Sunday afternoon victory was needed.

The second game of Saturday’s doubleheader proved to be heartbreaking for the Eagles. Despite posting eight hits and only allowing three, BC went down 4-3. Frei pitched the entire game for BC while Fuller earned the win, and

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A BC hitter looks to the umpire for the verdict of a pitch on the outside corner during Sunday’s game against UNC. Lynch came in for the save for the Tar Heels. A key two-run home run opened up the scoring for North Carolina, as Kristen Brown delivered in the third inning. BC tied up the game after Tatiana Cortez hit a solo home run in the fourth inning, but North Carolina responded with two more runs in the fifth. Cortez drove in another run in the fifth inning to cut the lead to one run, but the Eagles failed to send home the game-tying run.

The first game of the doubleheader started off as a pitcher’s duel between North Carolina’s

Kendra Lynch and BC’s Dreswick.

After three innings, both teams had managed to only earn one hit each. In the bottom of the fourth, however, the Eagles struck first and scored their only two runs of the game. That lead would not hold up, as Dreswick ran out of gas in the sixth inning. Kendra Lynch helped her own cause with a two-run home run, and the Tar Heels took the lead after a throwing error. In the seventh inning, North Carolina added a few insurance runs after a three-run home run by the other pitcher, Fuller. The Tar Heels held

on in the bottom of the seventh to win 6-2.

Having a short memory is important in softball, whether it’s forgetting a mistake within a game or forgetting about the previous day’s losses. The Eagles fought hard in the third game of the series and earned a win despite the heartbreaking doubleheader the day before. When Murphy stepped up to the plate in the third inning, she made sure that the Eagles would regain the lead and Dreswick made sure that BC would not give it up down the stretch.

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ELS CATCHING L’S - We all know how it feels to three-putt, but imagine how Ernie Els felt when he six-putted—all within four feet of the hole—on the first hole of the Masters for a score of 10.

It was the worst opening hole in the history of the tournament.

ENDANGERED SPEITH-IES - With a comfortable lead heading into the 12th hole of the Masters, Jordan Speith collapsed, sending two balls into the water for an eventual quadruple bogey.

We’re all Speith-less.

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Harvard’s Jimmy Vesey battles for control of the puck in front of the BC net.

SPRING FOOTBALL MANIA? - With all the hype around the return of football during spring scrimmages (Clemson drew over 50,000 fans to its April outing), we ask the question: Will BC crack four-digit attendance in its spring game next week?

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TAMPA, Fla. — Just because the college hockey season is over for some doesn’t mean the accolades stop coming. Players tend to not focus on awards, especially in the wake of defeat for their respective teams, preferring only to focus on raising a championship trophy over their heads at the end of the season. But when it comes to winning college hockey’s most prestigious honor, a season can be memorable without a banner.

For Harvard’s Jimmy Vesey, that season is this season.

Announced at the Tampa Theatre on Friday evening, Vesey has won the Hobey Baker Award for the best player in college hockey.

Vesey is the fourth player in Harvard history to win the award,

joining Mark Fusco (1983), Scott Fusco (1986), and Lane McDonald (1989). The senior forward from North Reading, Mass. finished 17th in the nation with 46 points— 24 goals and 22 assists—despite playing the fewest games out of any player in the top 75 (33), given Harvard’s minimized schedule.

He is a two-time Hobey Hat Trick finalist and two-time First-Team All-ECAC. Vesey also won ECAC Player of the Year in 2015-16. The left winger made waves in the hockey world when he turned down an offer from the Nashville Predators, the team that selected him in the third round of the 2012 NHL Draft, to graduate Harvard with the rest of his class and go into the summer as an unrestricted free agent.

In the process, Vesey beat out Michigan’s Kyle Connor and

Boston College’s own Thatcher Demko.

Connor, a freshman forward from Shelby Township, Mich., was the nation’s leading scorer of 201516 with 71 points, as well as the country’s top goal-scorer with 35. He also had 36 assists, tying him with New Hampshire’s Tyler Kelleher for third place. Earlier this season, he was named Big Ten Freshman of the Year and Player of the Year. Connor is a 2015 first-round draft pick of the Winnipeg Jets and is likely to sign after this season.

Demko, a three-year starter for the Eagles, finished eighth in the country among qualifying goaltenders with a 1.88 goals against average, and fourth with a .935 save percentage. He did, however, come away with another prize—the Mike Richter Award for the nation’s best goaltender.

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knew this was a great opportunity to get that win. But Duke never makes things easy. No. 17 BC (7-6, 1-5 Atlantic Coast) fell to No. 13 Duke University (9-5, 4-1) in a hard-fought 12-8 loss.

BC knew Duke had the advantage on its home turf and decided to make things a little more difficult for the Blue Devils by getting on the board first. Less than two minutes into the game, Kenzie Kent put the Eagles on the board after

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converting a free position goal.

But the 1-0 lead did not last for long, as the Blue Devils fired back and managed to amount a quick 3-1 lead.

Tess Chandler pulled the team within one after finding the net twice halfway through the first frame. And again, Duke pulled away. With just over six minutes left in the half, the Eagles faced a three-goal deficit.

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BC came out hot and tied the game at seven after a goal

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The Eagles offense fizzled after that, while the Blue Devils snuck three more past Zoe

Ochoa. BC struggled to play a tough game of catch-up and ultimately fell 12-8 to Duke.

The Eagles struggled to get the win they desperately needed.

Relying on two players to score seven out of the eight goals is no way to beat a deep Duke team.

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poked out to Kevin McKernan.The sophomore defenseman blasted it home to give Quinnipiac a 1-0 lead only 2:31 into the game.

Five minutes later, pandemonium ensued again. Strong work along the boards

by QU’s Travis St. Denis after a turnover allowed Andrew Taverner to take advantage. Not even halfway through the first, BC found itself in a 2-0 hole, one that any team knows is too deep to dig out of.

“Two goals in the first 10 minutes is unacceptable,” team captain Teddy Doherty said. “And it cost us the game.”

Other teams would’ve quit. A team coached by Jerry York isn’t one that quits.

BC needed to get some quick offensive production—the team only got seven shots on Garteig in the first period. Alex Tuch was happy to oblige.

Off the opening draw, White skated down the middle of the ice with a rocket that bounced off Garteig to the right.

Tuch was there to eat up the rebound to cut Quinnipiac’s lead in half. All of a sudden, a strong attack led by Adam Gilmour and Zach Sanford appeared destined to end BC’s first-period woes.

Yet BC’s Achilles’ heel, along with some poor puck luck, struck again.

After Ian McCoshen took a seat for a cross-check, the Bobcats rushed Demko in net. The goaltender stifled their attack, but a stray puck flew in front of an open net. Landon Smith was there to make the Eagles pay. Any momentum BC would get in the second was quickly gone.

Rand Pecknold’s crew seemed determined to allow the Eagles back into the game. The Bobcats were peppered with penalties throughout—two in the first, one in the second, and two in the third, as well as the three by Tim Clifton—giving BC a consistent man advantage.

But every time the Eagles got the advantage, Quinnipiac was there. A strong forecheck kept BC off-balance. Every time a forward had the puck and aimed

toward Garteig, two Bobcats swarmed and mobbed him, whether with a stick or a body. They eliminated the Eagles’ passing lanes and tracked the puck wherever it went. And man, did it frustrate BC. “I think they played within the structure well,” alternate captain Steve Santini said of Quinnipiac’s penalty kill. “They knew who our top guys were and what we were trying to do. So we’ve got to give a lot of credit to Quinnipiac.”

On the final one, BC solved Quinnipiac’s plan. Tanner MacMaster—a former BC commit—headed to the box for tripping Tuch. It looked like another failure after Austin Cangelosi’s blast was deflected by Alex Minor-Barron. But with time about to expire on a fifth power play, Ryan Fitzgerald pushed through QU defenseman Devon Toews to cut the lead to 3-2.

With the clock winding down, York pulled Demko for a final gasp. The Eagles did their best on the attack, with several great chances on Garteig that the goaltender turned away. And, of course, he saved his best for last.

Despite the loss, York and the Eagles will come out of Tampa with their heads held high. An immense amount of pressure was placed on the team as the year began—despite all of the freshmen and clear holes, BC was the preseason No. 1 team in the nation. But there were times the Eagles looked like a team destined for a one-and-done year, especially after an embarrassing 5-4 loss to Northeastern in the Hockey East Semifinals. The lack of confidence entering the big dance wasn’t lost on this team.

“I think a lot of people underestimated us coming into this tournament,” Doherty said.

Underestimate they did. The Eagles righted every wrong and came back strong against Harvard and Duluth. They nearly did the same against Quinnipiac.

“I liked the way we rebounded,” York said. “Even though it was 3-1, I thought we had the capability of coming back, and came within a fraction of it. I mentioned

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Ryan Fitzgerald (19, top) and Alex Tuch (12, bottom left) scored the Eagles’ two goals, but it was Quinnipiac who celebrated Thursday. to our team maybe another minute there in the game, we might have. But you only play 60 minutes.”

Now it comes down to a waiting game.

Doherty, the team’s leader and key senior, will depart. In an emotional final press conference, Doherty praised how much it means to him to be a Boston College hockey player and represent the players, coaches, and University in the way that he did. BC will also await the fates of several of its highly-drafted players, such as Tuch, White, McCoshen, Sanford, and Santini. The most important to watch

is Demko, a Hobey Hat Trick finalist, and Mike Richter Award winner, whose NHL team—the Vancouver Canucks—is anxiously awaiting his decision.

At their best, the Eagles mobbed Garteig with an onslaught of shots that came from all directions. At their worst, they scuffled in their own zone, allowed Quinnipiac to get off easy attempts on Demko, couldn’t control the puck off the draw—their best skill—and failed on the power play.

“We just took a little too long to get our feet under us, and by the time we

started playing as a team and playing BC hockey, it was a little too late,” Fitzgerald said. “We knew what type of team they were. We did our homework. We didn’t execute early enough.”

When it mattered most, the Eagles’ Cinderella run turned back into a pumpkin. And throughout the rest of the game, they looked poised to continue the fairytale, fighting back in a way only a Yorkcoached team knows how to do.

But it came down to a desperation heave. And it never should have come to that.

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Junior Thatcher Demko finished with a .935 save percentage and 1.88 goals against average.

TAMPA, Fla. — They don’t call him the best in the country for nothing.

Boston College’s Thatcher Demko has won the Mike Richter Award, in honor of the best goaltender in all of college hockey. The junior received the award at Champions Sports Bar at the Tampa Marriott Waterside Hotel during ESPN’s Talk Frozen Four and #CawlidgeHawkey event, hosted by John Buccigross and Barry Melrose.

Demko finished seventh in the nation among qualifying goaltenders with a 1.88 goals against average and .935 save percentage. He played the third-most minutes in the country—2,361:48—de-

spite coming off double-hip labrum surgery in the offseason. Demko also led the nation in shutouts with 10, a new single-season program record for BC surpassing Cory Schneider.

Demko has received several awards this season, including Second-Team AllAmerican, First-Team All-Hockey East, All-New England, and Co-Hockey East Player of the Year, which he shared with UMass Lowell goaltender Kevin Boyle.

He was also a Hobey Hat Trick finalist, losing to Harvard’s Jimmy Vesey earlier in the night. Demko’s 1-0 overtime shutout in the 2016 Beanpot against Boston University will go down as one of the greatest single-game performances by a BC goaltender in program history.

The San Diego, Calif. native is the

third winner of this award, following Lowell’s Connor Hellebuyck and North Dakota’s Zane McIntyre. He has been a finalist in each of his three seasons at BC. Demko beat out Boyle, North Dakota’s Cam Johnson, St. Cloud State’s Charlie Lindgren, and Yale’s Alex Lyon.

The award was named after New York Rangers great Mike Richter, a goaltender who spent 14 years in the NHL en route to an induction in the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame.

A 2014 second-round pick by the Vancouver Canucks, Demko is considered likely to sign, ending his threeyear run as starter for the Eagles. As of this publication, however, Demko has stated he will wait before making a decision.

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Not that they needed to.

The best part about covering this team was knowing the narrative from start to finish. Members of The Heights’ editorial board are in their positions for a full calendar year.

That means one spring and one fall semester.

It may work for other sections, but it makes things a little confusing for sports. You have the full football season, but you go into spring practice without knowing the team’s intricacies. You dive right into hockey and basketball in the middle of the season, often the stories already written for the year to come. It made taking the beat as sports editor for 2015 difficult, especially as a freshman who didn’t understand why a program built on the reputation of its offensive production had such a problem scoring.

This year, my second term as sports editor, I got the full package—getting to decide what went in the preview, who deserved to be featured, starting the season from the beginning and going through the end. And the story of 2015-16 was Thatcher Demko.

Without question, Demko was the most talented and NHL-ready player in college

hockey this season. Brock Boeser, Kyle Connor, Matt Grzelyck, Zach Werenski, Drake Caggiula, and Jimmy Vesey can make an argument, but I dare any to go mano-y-mano with Demko. It was just a matter of Demko holding up from his double-hip labrum surgery in the offseason.

27-8-4 record. 1.88 goals against average. .935 save percentage. That unbelievable performance in the Beanpot. All worthy of the Mike Richter Award. I’d say Demko did just fine this year.

Brace yourself, because here’s where the story takes its unfortunate turn.

Wood and Santini are gone. The New Jersey Devils have snatched them up to stave off a Vesey-esque departure after free agency would release them next year. Doherty is gone as well, ready to start a career as an undrafted free agent for the New York Islanders that will be an absolute steal by the time he hits the big-league club.

Tuch and Sanford are flight risks, as are Chris Calnan, Gilmour, Fitzgerald, and McCoshen. White is almost certainly out the door. The Canucks general manager was in Tampa to talk to Demko and his family the day after the loss to convince him that, despite Vancouver’s failures with countless goaltenders in the past—ones that Roberto Luongo, Cory Schneider, and Ryan Miller all know very well—British Columbia is still for him. It’s a hard discussion to have with a 20-something. Do you leave college early and get paid now, guaranteeing that you’ll

earn something without risk of injury or poor performance while playing for nothing?

(Ask Marcus Lattimore what he thinks about that.) Or do you get your college degree for life after hockey and become a free agent to get a luxury most young players in sports don’t get: choosing your team? Kevin Hayes worked the system to perfection, as did Vesey.

So when the dust settles, BC’s worst-case scenario is losing its starting goaltender, two top defensemen, and five of the top six pointscorers. If all of the players who could leave do leave—including Jeke and Doherty—that’s 309 of BC’s 438 points. That’ll hurt any team.

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BC has dealt with massive attrition in the past. After 2012-13, the Eagles lost Parker Milner—the goaltender who almost singlehandedly won the 2012 National Championship—as well as Pat Mullane, Brooks Dyroff, and Steven Whitney. In 2013-14, the team’s most recent Frozen Four trip before this year, York lost 2014 Hobey Baker winner Johnny Gaudreau, Hayes, Bill Arnold, Isaac MacLeod, and Patrick Brown. Those five players alone combined for 239 of BC’s 461 points in 2014.

The Eagles are guaranteed to keep Mat-

thew Gaudreau, who had a blazing start to the season before tapering off toward the end. They’ll also have Cangelosi, one of the most dangerous centers in the country off the draw and as a goal scorer. My hunch is, despite their draft status, Gilmour and Calnan are likely to stay. Calnan is poised to be next year’s captain and make the patented “senior jump” that we’ve seen from York’s guys in the past, and Gilmour’s growth makes me think he’ll jump solidly into the top-50 in scoring. Minnesota and Chicago will try to take them away, but I don’t think those two will take the bait. Christopher Brown and J.D. Dudek, both of whom showed flashes of brilliance (albeit small ones), will see more playing time next season.

Chris Shero will also see some playing time and should be a good factor for the team. If Tuch and Sanford stay, they’ll create a bruising duo that could be in the top- 10 in scoring in the country. If Ryan Fitzgerald stays, put him on Hobey Watch. From behind the blue line, Casey Fitzgerald, Couturier, and Kim will have to anchor the team, along with Savage.

As he always does, York has another talented recruiting class coming to Chestnut Hill. BC has a top-10 recruit in 6-foot-2, 200pound forward David Cotton, a sixth-round draft pick of the Carolina Hurricanes. BC will also toss in a young and speedy forward in Graham McPhee, son of George McPhee, who won the Hobey Baker Award in 1982 when York coached at Bowling Green.

Several defensemen will also join the Eagles, including Finnish native Jesper Mattila, Connor Moore, Michael Campoli, and Luke McInnis, son of assistant coach Marty McInnis.

Between the pipes, BC will add Joseph Woll, a 6-foot-2 backstop who is highly touted after coming out of the United States National Team Development Program. Should Demko depart, he’ll likely have to fight off Chris Birdsall and Ian Milosz for the starting spot in goal next year. This class isn’t as strong as last year’s, but it’s certainly one that will keep the Eagles more than competitive in Hockey East (and beyond).

It’s not a rebuild, but merely a reload for the Eagles. I can’t say what the identity of next year’s team will be just yet, not until the decisions of so many important players are finalized.

What is a guarantee is that the Eagles will be back in the hunt for another title, as long as Mr. 1,000 is behind the bench. Even as the Demko era apparently reaches its end, the future looks brighter than ever. For the second time in three seasons, the Eagles made the Frozen Four as the youngest team in the country. There’s no reason we can’t expect them in Chicago next year.

And when I write that story in April of 2017, I hope the players will pass me by with a happier walk.

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That time never came. At 6:08 p.m., five hours and one minute after starter Mike King had fired the first pitch, Braren knocked a single in between first and second, bringing Adams home from third and his team flying out of the dugout, mobbing him on his way toward second.

“I hadn’t been in that position, so I didn’t really know what to do,” Braren said. “It was a feeling I’ll definitely never forget.”

This base hit by Braren gave BC a big series win in the ACC, in which the team has struggled since taking two of three from NC State in the opening weekend of conference play. But the Eagles almost hadn’t gotten that far, having to come from far behind in the 10th.

BC had already stolen one game from Virginia on a walkoff strikeout the day before, and had rallied once to take a 1-1 score into extra innings. In the top half of the frame, righty John Nicklas returned for his third inning of relief, looking sharp after allowing a pair of hits in his first inning.

After getting the first batter to fly out, he allowed a base hit and a sacrifice bunt to put a UVA baserunner on second.

With the power-hitting Matt Thaiss coming up, BC head coach Mike Gambino opted to intentionally walk Thaiss and then brought in lefty Kevin Connor to face UVA’s cleanup hitter, Pavin Smith. Connor has served primarily as a lefty specialist, getting both Thaiss and Smith out on Friday, but prior to that had rough outings in pressure situations against Connecticut

and Pittsburgh.

The pressure was even higher on Sunday, but Gambino opted to play the leftylefty matchup instead of sticking it out with Nicklas, or going to a more proven bullpen option like Bobby Skogsbergh, who was available and warming.

“Matt Theiss is one of the most dangerous hitters in the country,” Gambino said. “[Connor] had gotten Smith out two days ago and we liked the matchup of what we had with [Connor] against Smith better than Nicklas against Theiss with first base open.”

Connor’s first pitch was a hanging fastball, and Smith sent it sailing over the right-field fence, giving UVA a comfortable 4-1 lead heading into the bottom of the 10th.

But BC got going right away. Joe Cronin and Braren knocked back-to-back base hits, Stephen Sauter struck out, and then Nick Sciortino was hit by a pitch to load the bases. After Gian Martellini fouled out in his pinch hit at bat, it was left to Michael Strem, who was dropped to seventh in the order after going hitless in the first two games of the series.

Down to BC’s final out, Strem delivered.

He sent a line-drive double down the left-field line to clear the bases, with Gabriel Hernandez, who had pinch run for Sciortino, just sliding ahead of the throw at home. All in all, Strem went 3-6 with a run and those three RBIs, a day befitting the slugger more than his 0-3 days Friday and Saturday.

“I was more on the attack today, more on the hanging curveballs and fastballs,” Strem said. “I found some holes.”

Strem’s and Adams’ doubles, BC’s big-

gest hits of the game, both came against the bullpen of UVA, which had not seen much action until Sunday. After getting a complete-game, one-hitter from Connor Jones on Friday and eight innings of two-run ball from Adam Haseley Saturday, Virginia turned to Alec Bettinger, a reliever making his first start of the season. He was sharp in his first four innings, which had been about the goal for him entering the game, but with a healthy pitch count he was brought back for the fifth. It was then that Strem singled, Adams laid down a sacrifice bunt, and Logan Hoggarth drove in the Eagles’ first run.

Bettinger departed after that inning, leaving BC to work on a bullpen that isn’t as sharp as its rotation—only David Rosenberger pitched a perfect inning.

“We couldn’t get to the bullpen Friday or Saturday night, so cracking into the pen was big,” Strem said. “We got it going at the end, finally.”

On the other side, besides the one mistake by Connor, BC’s pitching was top-notch. King delivered a characteristically strong performance, going seven innings and allowing just one run. He was narrowly bailed out from potential trouble in the sixth inning, when UVA began with a double and a walk.

After a muffed pickoff play by Sciortino allowed the runner to advance to third, Smith hit a fly ball to right field a deep enough distance that should have plated a run. Casey, the right fielder, fired a strike to home, where Sciortino placed down the tag just as the runner slid in. It was a close call that might have gone the other way with video replay, but it was nevertheless a fantastic outfield assist.

Casey’s next time at the plate, how-

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Scott Braren’s walk-off single drove teammate Johnny Adams home for the victory against UVA. ever, he sent a double down the left-field line. As he went into second, he dove forward for his slide too late, barreling into the second baseman and injuring his hand. He’d remain in the game for a couple of innings before he was replaced by Braren, the eventual hero of the game.

Though Sunday’s highlight came long after King had finished for the day, his performance, along with the solid outings from Jacob Stevens and newly-returned starter Justin Dunn, are perhaps the key takeaways from the weekend. After watching Jesse Adams struggle to make

quality starts on Saturday, pitching coach Jim Foster had the idea to switch things up, something that Gambino said he was hesitant about at first. Yet after the three great outings from the starters, along with Adams hurling 3 1/3 scoreless innings in relief—not to mention picking up both wins in the series—he’s convinced. “[It’s great] when you have staff like that coming up with good ideas, and Coach Murphy did an unbelievable job with the infield this week … those guys both did an unbelievable job this weekend,” Gambino said.

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After scor2 Virginia ing two early Boston College 3 runs against University of Virginia starter (and leadoff hitter) Adam Haseley, the Eagles went quiet. As the sun went down and Shea Field went cold, so did BC’s bats.

The Cavalier pitching staff retired 18 straight hitters after the third inning, and owned all the momentum after Pavin Smith tied the game at 2-2 with a blistering RBI double in the sixth.

So how did head coach Mike Gambino’s crew pull out a win against No. 16 Virginia?

A walk-off strikeout.

Gambino must practice that play all the time.

The two-out, ninth-inning rally started when pinch hitter Chris Balogh singled up the middle against UVA closer Tommy Doyle, who relieved Haseley after eight innings of five-hit ball. Inserted into the game as a pinch runner, Dominic Hardaway quickly made his

theless: five innings, two hits, zero runs, five strikeouts, and only one walk.

Middle reliever Brian Rapp took over for Dunn and lost the lead after Smith’s RBI double. In need of a reliable pitcher in the later innings—a situation normally reserved for Dunn—Gambino called upon Adams, the very same pitcher he had swapped for Dunn to start the game.

The switcheroo paid dividends.

Adams kept the game tied despite running into trouble during the eighth inning. Ernie Clement pounded a leadoff double down the left-field line, and advanced to third on a grounder to the right side. Gambino elected to intentionally walk Smith, putting runners on the corners with only one out. With shortstop Daniel Pinero, who had two strikeouts in three prior plate appearances, up to bat, the Cavaliers chose to run a suicide-squeeze bunt, but Adams was ready for it.

He and catcher Nick Sciortino coordinated a fastball high and outside to make it difficult for Pinero to push the bunt toward the chalk. The bunt catapulted right back to Adams, who glove-fl ipped it home while charging toward the plate. Sciortino laid the tag

down, and the crisis was averted.

Adams would go on to allow just one hit in 2 1/3 innings of work, picking up his third win of the season.

“Sometimes you got a guy No. 2 or No. 3 in the order, and you drop him down to No. 7, and all of a sudden they relax and start swinging it. That’s kinda what Jesse did,” Gambino said of his transition to the bullpen. “All of a sudden, it was like, ‘Alright, cool, just let me go pitch.’ He was great today. It was awesome to see.”

The win also marked the first home game for Birdball that truly felt like a spring baseball atmosphere. Fans and alumni packed into Shea Field to witness Dunn’s debut as a starter against last year’s champions. Kids sprinted and competed for control of foul balls.

Onlookers chirped at the officiating crew when a questionable call didn’t go their way. At long last, the Birdcage returned.

And for those who stayed all nine innings despite the rapidly dropping temperature, it was an ending that won’t be forgotten anytime soon.

“Can’t get anything past the Birdcage,” Dunn said. “It has a lot of wild tricks up its sleeve.”

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to get a win.”

While the storyline will most likely revolve around the paradoxical final play, the real heroes of Saturday were Birdball’s pitchers Ex-closer Justin Dunn earned his first start of the season for BC, replacing Jesse Adams as the Saturday arm.

Th e junior fl amethrower attracted an entourage of radar guns to his outing, as scouts waited with baited breath for a “97 mph” to flash across the screen.

They got plenty of those.

From the first pitch of the game—a 97-mph high heater that Haseley couldn’t catch up to—to late in the fifth inning, Dunn’s fastball rarely dipped below the upper-90s. And, more importantly, he kept his go-to pitch down in the zone, away from the powerhouses of Virginia’s sluggers.

If there was any discomfort with his transition from the bullpen to starting role, no one noticed it. Dunn appeared relaxed, poised, and confident as his favorite rapper, Jay-Z, played before each inning and his signature gold chain bounced freely around his neck.

Held to a strict pitch count in his first start, Dunn was pulled before the sixth inning, but his line was impressive none-

Women’s tennis took a road trip to North Carolina this weekend to play Duke and the University of North Carolina. On Saturday BC fell to No. 8 Duke, 6-1.

All three doubles teams lost, and five of the six singles matches also went Duke’s way. But Asiya Dair ensured that the Eagles would get at least one point on the day. Dair defeated Chalena Scholl on the number one singles court to claim the Eagles’ only point against Duke. On Sunday, BC traveled to Chapel Hill to face the No. 2 Tar Heels. UNC proved to be too much for the Eagles, claiming a 6-1 lead on the day. The Tar Heels won all three doubles matches and five of the singles matches. Emily Safron defeated Kate Vialle, 7-5, to contribute BC’s only point on the day.

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presence felt when he stole second and advanced to third on an errant throw from catcher Matt Thaiss.

Meanwhile, shortstop Johnny Adams stood at the plate. He was hitless on the day but made a crucial, run-saving play up the middle in the fifth inning. Adams has struggled at the plate this year, hitting only .200, but has found ways to make impacts elsewhere. With two outs and two strikes, Adams chased a breaking ball in the dirt, leaving Thaiss with the duty of throwing the ball to first base to put a stamp on the strikeout.

But Adams was clever. As the junior sprinted toward the base, he veered to the left of the base line to block Thaiss’ throwing angle toward the bag. At third base, Hardaway waited for the ball to leave Thaiss’ hands before breaking for the plate.

Thaiss’ throw glanced off of Adams’ leg, scooting away from the first baseman and giving the Eagles (15-11, 4-8 Atlantic Coast) a 3-2 victory over Virginia (20-13, 7-7), their first win in 10 days.

“You just gotta find a way,” Adams said. “I got a little bit up inside the baseline—probably a little more than I’m allowed to—but we’ll take it. Anything

Boston College men’s tennis defeated Brandeis University 5-2 on Saturday at home. The Judges picked up the doubles point after winning two of the three matches, falling only to Hank Workman and Kyle Childree. BC made up for the doubles losses in the singles matches, winning five of the six total contests to take the match. Workman picked up another win in straight sets. Meanwhile, Aidan McNulty, Alexandre Thirouin, Kent Mukai, and Will Turner also defeated their Brandeis counterparts.

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For nearly four years, The Lumineers’ fans have been listening to the same album—the band’s self-titled debut, featuring successful singles “Ho Hey” and “Stubborn Love.” With the band on a world tour and no sign of new music, many resigned themselves to believing that the band would be another failed attempt at a folk-rock crossover, CLEOPATRA similar The Lumineers to Sheppard or American Authors.

With its sophomore release Cleopatra, however, The Lumineers have proven that they will continue to fill the niche carved out for hauntingly honest songwriters in the bestseller charts.

With Cleopatra, the band trades in what frontman Wesley Schultz described as the “innocent demo feeling” of its first album for a fuller, heavier sound. Rather than writing catchy acoustic songs, the group layers gritty

cowboy chords with echoing percussion, piano, and cello for simple, yet gripping, melodies.

Beyond the matured sound of the album, the band also elects to change the content of its songs. The Lumineers is filled with relatable but trite breakup songs—lyrical quality was sacrificed in the effort to write catchy hooks.

In its sophomore effort, the group widens its scope to recount personal experiences and encounters with people they found particularly remarkable. There is romance to the album, but it is found in subtler, fascinating paths.

While Cleopatra doesn’t present any apparent hits like “Ho Hey,” there are multiple standout tracks whose reach will surely extend beyond the album. Single “Ophelia” has already achieved moderate success, dominating alternative radio since its release in February.

Ragtime piano partnered with a bubbly hook echoes back to The Lumineers’ first album and will appease fans hoping for more of the same content. The track even seems to follow the same love-story theme of The Lumineers’ older music, but is in fact a criticism of falling in love with fame. After being thrown into the spotlight with “Ho Hey” peaking at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, booking an SNL perfor-

mance, and performing a world tour, Schultz can certainly be considered an authority on the subject of fame.

Following “Ophelia” on the LP is the title track “Cleopatra,” arguably the best track on the album. The song recounts, from a female’s perspective, the story of a taxi driver who refuses to settle down, and the chaos of her life. In an interview with the Denver Post, Schultz confessed that the character was not his own—his wife had encountered a taxi driver who fell in love at 16 and never responded to her suitor’s proposal. When he gave up on their love and left town, she left his footprints untouched on her floor, an aspect of the story hearkened to in the song’s lines, “and I left the footprints, the mud stained on the carpet / and it hardened like my heart did when you left town.”

Other standouts include the album’s third single, “Angela,” disturbing “Gun Song,” and wispy “Gale Song.” “Angela” is another example of The Lumineers’ new tendency toward slowly escalating tracks, beginning as a quiet, folksy ballad and ending as an expansive pop crossover. “Gale Song” comes straight from another era of American history, feeling as

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‘Cleopatra’ will appease fans, though it might not achieve the acclaim of the band’s other work. though it comes straight from the mouth of a life-worn, heartbroken cowboy.

Not all of Cleopatra’s tracks shine. “In The Light” builds to a grand finale of nothing, leaving the listener dissatisfied and bored. Closing track “Patience” is an interesting disruption to the flow of the album, as it is simply a minute of piano playing. While the piece is beautiful, the highlights of Cleopatra are the stories it tells, conveyed through its cinematic lyrics—a facet missing from “Patience.”

The album is decidedly short and sweet,

clocking in at around 35 minutes of play. Yet within this short period of time, The Lumineers have proved that they are more than just a flash in the pan of folk music. While Cleopatra may not earn them the success in the Top 40 that their first album provided, the band has already sold out over half of the locations on its upcoming world tour and does not need further validation. The 35 minutes of music on Cleopatra is beautifully crafted, and arguably not enough—Lumineers fans will be happy to listen for hours.

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The previous Deftones album, Koi No Yokan, was an interesting insight into the potential of the band but ultimately failed to deliver any substance, save the second song, “Romantic Dreams.”

It is clear that DefGORE tones has Deftones learned from its mistakes, shoring up everything from pacing, to lyricism, to instrumental work.

Gore opens with the song “Prayers / Triangles,” which does well to set the mood of the work. Lead vocalist Chino Moreno’s first foray into the stylings of Deftones’ trademark metal sound is an impressive homage to the work of Chi Cheng, the band’s previous lead singer. His passing, not only extremely tragic for the band and his family,

could have potentially ended the band’s long-running work—however, in this iteration of Deftones, vocals could not be stronger.

Much like the name of the album itself, the title of Gore’s second song, “Acid Hologram,” leads listeners down the path of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Though rooted in its metal upbringings, the work very much sounds as if it were influenced by a more psychedelic style—a risky choice that both helps and hurts the album in a variety of ways.

This laid-back, “trippy” type of work from Deftones gains traction in the category of exploration, proving that the band is not afraid to take risks. In certain areas, it pulls it off well: “Xenon,” “(L)MIRL,” and “Phantom Bride” are heavily layered in this sound, which creates a new foothold for the band in the minds of listeners. On the other end of the spectrum, however, comes the messier pieces of Gore. “Geometric Headdress” and “Hearts / Wires” overincorporate psychedelics into Deftones’ original metal stylings, a mix that becomes too much to handle for even the most devoted listener.

The problems, unfortunately, do not end here. As with much of newage-style music, much of Gore has a tendency to run together, failing to denote the beginning and end of each individual track. On the surface level, this is not problematic, but it hints at a larger problem: not enough songs and sounds on Gore are unique enough to make

more than a couple of impacts on the listener. This is bound to happen when engaging in the level of genre-mixing that Deftones has taken part in, but it is no less excusable because of it.

“Gore”—the titular song—is unquestionably the highest point of the entire work. It sounds the most like the Deftones of days gone by—raw emotion, pure metal, without too much angst to overwhelm the technicals of the song.

And though it is the least innovative, “Gore” is also the most surprising. The band has made a massive, structured transition between genres, lead singers, and styles, but the root of the art they create has remained undoubtedly good. For any Deftones fan, this will be a breath of fresh air.

Though this shift has occurred the story remains the same for Deftones.

To remain (or become, perhaps) culturally relevant, one of two things must take place. Deftones must remaster the old or shore up the problems with the new.

The band finds its raw skill in the field of metal—should the members choose to return to this road for the next album, no blame would be laid upon any of their shoulders.

With the release of Gore, however, the band has proved that it can innovate how it sees fit. If this continues to take place, Deftones must strike the right balance between psychedelic rock and metal—otherwise, the band may see its following begin to dwindle.

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In just one of the many attempts to bring profundity and meaning to his new Netflix series Flaked, Will Arnett’s character Chip searches for the perfect cliche-coated line.

Finally, he settles on a trite piece of stock dialogue dull enough to emphasize exactly how stale the show’s premise is.

“The only thing I can do is just try to be a better person,” Will Arnett’s conflicted character Chip explains FLAKED thoughtNetflix fully, his voice saturated with feigned sincerity as he tries to replace regrets of the past with optimism for the future. Viewers of Arnett’s new series can relate to the recovering alcoholic character’s conflicting sentiments of disappointment and hope—for those who have seen the new comedy-meets-drama-meets-romance disaster regret having wasted time watching and are

optimistic that the show won’t be picked up for another season.

Unfortunately, season any of the new Netflix series just doesn’t have any iota of the wow factor he hoped it would. Set in scenic Venice, Calif., the show centers on a narcissistic and hypocritical life guru—a self-help extraordinaire who, though he would never admit it, could use a whole lot of help himself.

When he’s not preaching grand narratives of soul-cleansing sobriety to his friends and presenting himself as the poster boy for recovery, Chip takes a hefty swig from a bottle of wine when no one’s looking.

Hiding under a safety blanket of complex lies, Chip somehow still admired by his friends and mentees despite his only “advice” being cliche quotes one might find ironed onto a cheap throw pillow. He avoids responsibilities, opting instead to hone his skills as a suave womanizer.

Chip undermines his friendships in order to benefit himself—a character element meant to make the protagonist intriguing ,but instead renders him utterly unlikeable.

Armed with his trusty bicycle, the nauseating over-confidence of a guy who knows he’s kind of good-looking, and more inspira-

tional quotes than can be found on a teenage girl’s Tumblr page, Chip sets out into the world alongside his odd posse of misguided pals—the hopeless romantic Dennis and an aspiring stand-up comedian named Cooler. It would be incorrect to claim that the crew finds itself in a slew of all the hijinks and shenanigans expected from a drama comedy series, for the characters do very little except frequently fight with each other over women and personality flaws they find unbearable.

Perhaps the dull plotline could be salvaged if the actors’ performances were engaging. The chemistry between the show’s supposed best friends is lacking, and the delivery of almost every line is disappointingly dry. Unenthused, hollow, and unconvincing, the characters stroll lazily through town, all the while sporting a permanent expression of disinterest and apathy.

Together the eight 30-minute episodes are astoundingly uneventful, for it seems as though producers Mark Chappell and Arnett made a concerted effort to create the dullest TV show on record. Chip’s life seems to consist only of butting unwantedly into the personal problems of others and swooping in to steal

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Little rapport between its cast leaves ‘Flaked’ as vapid and inconsistant as the title suggests. his best friend’s love interests. With a wayward plotline that leaps from failed romantic ventures to friend troubles and back again, the show has no momentum thanks to a plotline as uninteresting as the dusty furniture company Chip owns and operates. “Oh, it’s just you,” Chip says with a laugh. “I thought we actually had a customer coming in this time.”

Without much substance or impassioned performances, Flaked is a disappointing step back for the Arrested Development alum.

Disguised as a nuanced comedy about over-

coming the complications of addiction with the added flare of the characters’ alternative and trendy lifestyles, the Netflix original series is nothing but a poorly executed and awkward attempt at a comedy-drama blend.

“Chip’s a complicated guy,” Dennis says to the protagonist’s often-neglected girlfriend.

While the statement may be true of the conflicted man troubled by his demons, the one aspect of Flaked that isn’t complicated is discovering just how pointless the new Netflix series really is.

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This weekend’s BIG Show audiences were brought into many of My Mother’s Fleabag’s improv games.

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found their places on stage, throwing candy to the audience to invite them into their world of humor and cooperativeness.

This, perhaps, is the strongest piece of Fleabag’s work—each of its pieces, whether sketch, improv game, or otherwise, is crafted to make those who are watching feel like more than just flies on the wall.

Take, for example, the game “Freeze.” An onlooker is chosen to be a volunteer, who then proceeds to arrange two Fleabag members into a bizarre pose to begin a scene. After the scene has started, any audience member can yell “freeze!” at any time, and two more Fleabaggers must take their places and begin a new scene from scratch. The premise, while simple, can result in hilarious scenarios for the actors driving the scene.

Very much in this vein is the long-running Fleabag bit “185.”

At the midpoint of the show, every member came on stage and offered the chance for viewers to come up with the subject of a joke. Once an audience member yells out a topic—in Friday’s show, topics ranged anywhere from sweet treats to bugs and insects—the fun begins. Any Fleabagger can make a pun out

of this topic, but the catch is that the setup of the joke must be, “185 somethings walk into a bar…” Improv comedy, naturally, is the speciality of Fleabag, but hearing every single member rattle off several jokes made up on the spot was extremely impressive.

Th e s e i mp ro v g a m e s , o f course, are only half of the show.

The skits that Fleabag crafted for its spring show were not only hysterical, but once again had the uncanny ability to draw the audience in.

In particular, the Cupcakes skit was phenomenal—featuring a young woman doling out desserts in a 300-person lecture hall, the usage of the audience as the students in the skit was a clever, innovative decision, and the handing out of treats made the bit that much sweeter.

It’s clear that the members of the troupe not only have chemistry with audiences, but with each other, too. One of the most unique games of the night, “Bing,” showcased this quite well.

Two actors stood on stage, as per usual, and performed another audience-driven scene. In this case, however, a third actor stood offstage, yelling “bing” at the top of his or her lungs at random points in the game.

When this took place, the actors

would be forced to redo the last thing they said or did, resulting in a high level of backtracking, but an e ven higher le vel of laughter.

As an idea of how off-the-wall this game can become, consider this : the four-minute scene began with a couple finding a mouse in their cupboard, and ended with taking John Adams into the future with a randomly generated time machine.

The Fleabaggers this year are skilled at playing off each other’s ideas, and this strength showed quite clearly all throughout the night.

This, after all, is perhaps the most important facet that any self-respecting improv group can have. At the end of the night, the underclassmen actors gathered to sing a song regaling how much they would miss their upperclassmen friends—a heartwarming end to a laughter-filled night.

Every single Fleabagger has a clear and unabashed love for each other, and it truly serves to make his or her onstage performance that much better.

It is a real treat not only to see them perform, but much more importantly, to see them at home with one another. Comedy will always have its place, but My Mother’s Fleabag has a bond that will last a lifetime.

pieces of wood shaved to create the desired sound and supported by calabash gourds for resonance, the balafon is an integral part in the roles of jeliw (griots), oral historians and musicians of West African tribes. These individuals would pass down history, records, and poetry for the people, effectively acting as a living time capsule for events that would otherwise be lost in time.

Deeply rooted in this role of sy mb olism and heritage, Kouyate brings both tradition and innovation to the ancient craft and makes it his own. By placing two balafons horizontal to one another, Kouyate is able to utilize a wider array of notes.

This allows for more complex musical movements that are heard in many of his pieces.

Kouyate, who played with his son Sekou and daughter Josira, showed that the history of the instrument and its unique sound continues to be passed o n to g e n e r at i o n s . Th o u g h thousands of miles away from Mali, the cultural and historical ties were resolutely felt through

these songs attesting to the history of Mali and the Mande people. The family served as a microcosm of sorts for the culture it represents.

The performance given in Gasson 100 highlighte d the essential connection to family and tradition present in the instruments, as each song had family members contributing, be it through instrumentation, dance, or vocals. The movement expressed through the progression of each song was infectious and hard to subdue.

“It is hard to sit down and listen to this type of music,” Kouyate said at one point. The beat and intricate connection to flow and fluidity in the musical pie ces prove d to inspire or almost demand a response from listeners. And this held true as some members of the audience, in their own style, stood up and joined Josira as she danced to her father’s creations.

One of the most touching aspects of the show was the performance of “Massa ni Cisse,” a song about the Mande notion that people cannot run away from their destiny. Kouyate’s elated lyrics elevated the piece

in a profound and moving way as his voice passionately rung out in a high, yet stable fashion. His voice complemented the balafon, dropping in and out, adding a beautiful embellishment to higher hits, or contrasts to lower notes, ringing out strong and solid. The notion of destiny was conveyed marvelously through these heartfelt vocals and strong strikes on the balafon.

The night closed with “Balla Folyke,” a song about Kouyate and his personal destiny as a jeli, passing down history and capture the past though the art of song and balafon.

“I am Balla and I play the bala,” Kouyate said. “You don’t meet many people who play the piano named Piano.”

In this poetic fashion, Kouyate spoke again to the nature of destiny and historical importance to his cultural craft. As the song progressed, Kouyate’s hands moved about the balafon with immense speed and precision, displaying a technical skill in addition to harmonious unity with the instrument, as the song was birthed as each single note rang out, filling out the musical progression.

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‘An Evening of African Music’ enlived Gasson with profound lyrics and traditional African instruments.

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The two emcees for the event were Kevin Ma, CSOM ’18, and Joon Park, MCAS ’18. The sophomores sang the praises of each act and kept the show moving along. As an emcee, Park was a particular crowd favorite, injecting humor into the serious messages of the night. In his own introduction, he provided an explanation for his eccentric outfit, revealing that “I’m wearing two flesh tones because flesh tones don’t come in one shade.”

Luis Miguel Torres, MCAS ’16, started the night off as the first spoken-word artist. His piece, metaphorically starting in the Himalayas, spoke of coming down from a high place when his father became ill. He spoke of “etching memories into the blank slate that was my father’s recollection.”

The recount of this story was as beautiful as it was painful. Torres left the audience with the message to let loved ones shine light through you.

Ronald Claude, MCAS ’16, was next up to perform a spoken word piece, which he had finished just two minutes before stepping on stage. The senior’s poem was about growing up, hearing that black was bad and white was good, and having his actions compared to those of a white person. He was told he was “the whitest black boy [someone] knew” and grew up knowing “everything [he is] is everything [he’s] not supposed to be.” He ended with the powerful introspection, “my blackness is excellent and [an] unapologetic goal … your black is good enough.”

Later, Juice brought down the house. The band performed three songs, the first speaking to superficiality, the second entitled “Where I Wanna Be,” and the third a cover of Amy Winehouse’s “Valerie.”

Jovani Hernandez, MCAS ’16, was next in the lineup. Born and raised in the Bronx, Hernandez fo c u s e d h i s s p o k e n - w o rd performance on growing up as a Latino. Starting out saying, “I am not black, but I’m not white either,” the senior dove into how he would hear about white history and black history, but would struggle to hear about Latinos. The piece ended with Hernandez saying, “I’m not white, I’m not black, and I’m trying to hold onto a story I know very little of.”

O r i g i n a l l y a r ap w r i te r, Jonathan Reed, MCAS ’16, was next to perform two spoken words.

Beginning to write in middle school, Reed was influenced by Eminem and the rhythm and meter in which he performed. The first piece

relayed his identity with the closing line, “It will take more than a poem to discover me.” Reed had written the second spoken word piece for a class but wanted to perform it for an audience. It spoke of love for another: “You see fullness where others see dullness.”

The Dynamics, the co-ed a cappella group, performed next.

The group’s repertoire spans from Top-40 hits to country music, and is always a treat. The performance was filled with mash-ups of feelgood songs and beautiful solos that left the audience wanting to hear more.

Following the Dynamics was the dance group Conspiracy Theory.

This all-male group included members of the Boston College community and beyond. The performance had an improvised atmosphere to it, filled with spins on the ground, headstands, and flips. The crowd fed off of the energy and excitement of the routine.

Commanding the stage next was Cristine Oh, MCAS ’17. She began, “What kind of Asian are you anyway?” From here, she spoke of how she and Asian people have been treated for years—“let my body fill your diversity quota.” She spoke with passion and vigor.

“Dear Asian-American women, you make the very earth shake,” she said to conclude.

The program closed with a quote f rom author James Baldwin.

“Not ever ything that is faced can be changed,” Baldwin once said, “but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

SARAH HODGENS / HEIGHTS STAFF

FACES and the AHANA Leadership Council fuse cultures through performances at the annual ‘Speak Your Change’ event.

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Sean Seaver, Alex Moran, Chris Dalla-Riva, and others came together for Thursdays Open Mic Night.

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One of the evening’s strongest and strangest performances came from Music Guild copresident and long-time open mic provocateur Sean Seaver, MCAS ’16. Laying a guitar across his lap, Seaver began to gently slap the instrument’s neck to emit a bright wave of harmonics that began to form the outlining rhythm to a new song. Seaver’s

proceeding lyrical contributions seemed to spring forth from the unlikely intersection between tongue-in-cheek playfulness and dead-serious artistic expression.

The song was a manifestation of all the essential qualities that make open mics so endearing and pleasantly weird.

Another evening highlight included an original piece by Alex Moran titled “We Hold On.” The song was written by Moran about her transition from high school to freshman year at BC. Noting a discrepancy between her actual self and the image she puts forth

on campus, as necessitated by our society’s unrealistic expectations for young women, the song was a shot against all the facets of our college experiences that go against authenticity and emotional connection.

The Music Guild’s open mic night is a great opportunity for song writers and performers to escape the often-stringent requirements of our increasingly surface-level society. As each of the performers took risks in executing his or her artistic vision, the room was elevated beyond usual social pressures.

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Spider-Man has always been my favorite superhero. Surely this is in part due to Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man (2002) and Spider-Man 2 (2004) which were released at a time when my fixation on superheroes was at its strongest. During this time, my brother and I transfered our focus from creating heros of our own with Legos or Bionicles to those that had already been made. Spider-Man caught my eye. As a kid, I amassed a few toys and action figures. I wore shirts covered in webs as I traversed the house, swinging my arms up, pressing into the palm of my hand, envisioning webs propelling me forward.

With the action figures, tables became rooftops and living rooms became the busy streets of New York in which Spider-Man crawled on walls, spun webs, and dismantled the criminal enterprises lurking in the shadows. As a kid, one can see why the WallCrawler would be a favorite, but even as I got older, Spider-Man always remained the most interesting and compelling superhero.

In a way, the reason I like Spider-Man is because I was supposed to like him. In response to the growing numbers of teenage comic book readers in the 1960s, Stan Lee sought to create a hero that was relatable.

All other superheros were invincible in most respects—poetic lyricists who were morally upright in face of the simple caricature villains. Most villains were as banal in their quests for evil as the superheros were in fighting for the greater good. This new hero had to be special, a true hero, yet he had to remain plagued with the petty, inane, dayto-day ongoings of teenage life. And, thus, Peter Parker was born. As an introverted, shy, or otherwise unassuming high school kid, he was not the conventional hero.

But nonetheless he would become a hero through one radioactive spider bite. Stan Lee describes it best in a 1977 article in Quest titled “How I Invented Spider-Man.” “If you suddenly gained the muscle power of a hundred men and could outwrestle King Kong, it doesn’t mean you still don’t have to worry about acne and dandruff, right?” he wrote.

Spider-Man spoke as much to the escapism that superheros and superhero comics gave to readers as much as it served as a reminder of the inescapability of those more tiresome, daily fights. Whether it’s girls, homework, getting a job, or appeasing Aunt May, Spider-Man has to put up with a lot of bull, as we all do. Spider-Man is seen as a character who takes those things in stride and does great things in spite of them. Great power, responsibility, and such.

And with that kind of mentality, the Web-Slinger offers up two different kinds of identities—the witty, smart-talking SpiderMan and the socially troubled Peter Parker.

Two sides of the same coin. In almost all his incarnations, comic book or otherwise, this is explored in one way or another as the power of a mask allows you to become your best self, while hiding the imperfections of your other self.

Spider-Man’s secret identity is more crucial to understanding his character because it means so much to how Peter Parker sees himself as Spider-Man and vise versa.

In the few issues of of The Spectacular Spider-Man I had bought during this time, and even in some of The New Avengers comics, Spider-Man always stood out as different. His stakes were nothing like that of other superheros. Without the mask, he is just a kid, a nobody, really. With the mask, people care what he has to say. He matters.

In Spider-Man 2, in the scene in which Spider-Man stops a train and loses his mask, one passenger says “He’s just a kid … no older than my son.”

His story was often more personal and intimate, lending a more inclusive, and thus more relatable, tale of a man-turned-spider.

That is why he remains my favorite and pulls at the essence of why so many others find him a compelling character. He is like us. He shares in those uninspiring, unextraordinary aspects of everyday life. But in a way, when Stan Lee created Spider-Man, it was not so much to show him like us, but to show us like him—people or heros in a different right.

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9P J?I8M8E :?8CC8G8CC@ ?\`^_kj JkX]] In our increasingly fast-paced world, the open mic is perhaps one of the last great institutions that goes against everything that social media has been trying to get us to do for the last 10 or so years. For one, the open mic thrives on genuine openness and vulnerability. Contrast this with our newly ingrained tendency to offer up highlight reels and best-of collections.

When individuals have total control over what they’re projecting to the world, with tools like Facebook and Instagram, the results tend to be controlled narratives that forsake actual information for showy, highly planned bits of self-aggrandizement.

The open mic is special because it encourages people to drop their guards and act spontaneously. When the kid who just learned to play guitar last month starts playing a song he wrote in his bedroom, he’s no longer fronting his optimized image to his equally selfconsumed followers. Compared to our society’s

predilection toward perfectionism, he’s actually taking a massive risk. And even just that little spark of actual realness is something to be seized and celebrated.

The Music Guild’s bi-weekly open mic night tends to fluctuate in participation throughout the semester. The first few, before the general wear of assignments and responsibilities sends students deep into seclusion, tend to draw a large crowd of performers and listeners. During these sessions, it’s pretty common for the performers to have less than five minutes per set. Both big groups and soloists take to the mic with well thought-out arrangements of covers and originals. Their friends shout out in the back between songs, as the audience tends to support everyone from the acoustic songsmith to the self-starter vocalist.

Thursday night’s open mic felt much smaller by comparison, which was perhaps to be expected as Boston College lunges forth into the homestretch of the spring semester. The fair weather masses were replaced with a dense core of devoted performers and listeners, but this was

in no way disadvantageous to the evening. The result was an even greater emphasis on intimacy and spontaneity.

The evening opened with Chris Dalla-Riva’s, MCAS ’17, spin on the classic Beatles song “Blackbird.” For a song that has likely been played in open mics since time immemorial, Dalla-Riva managed to keep things fresh by inserting bits of originality within the typically subdued rhythm of the original. His acoustic guitar plucked along as he helped establish a tone for the rest of the evening. While covers of classic hits tend to be very popular at open mics, the evening also featured a few interpretations of songs that are still trending on the charts. Tucker Davey’s, MCAS ’16, cover of “I Took A Pill In Ibiza” was compelling and remained true to the song’s original, acoustic character. Another interesting performance was Nicole Rodger and Alex Moran’s, both MCAS ’19, cover of “Roses”

by The Chainsmokers. With Moran holding down the song with a guitar, both performers

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Artist Balla Kouyate played the balafon in a lively celebration of African tradition.

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“An Evening of African Music” was an introduction into a new way of seeing

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and hearing with artist Balla Kouyate of the Mande people of Mali. As his hand moved gracefully about the balafon, an ancient instrument, his technical skills and grace showcased his versatility as well as his instrument’s. Striking sounds from the balafon brought about the smiles on the faces of listeners in the presence of its unique sound.

The balafon, or bala, is a type of wo o den xylophone originating in Africa. Typically constructed from

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The Lumineers

The Colorado folk band released its sophomore record this weekend, B6

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‘Flaked’

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My Mother’s Fleabag, the troupe knows its strengths quite well and plays to them masterfully.

From the ver y first second that an audience member walks in, the distinctiveness of My Mother’s Fleabag is evident. Fleabag members have an unparalleled ability to connect not only with one another, but with everyone around them. As the viewers took their seats, members of the troupe

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