The Heights April 21, 2016

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There was reason for hope in the first real spring football game of the Addazio era, B8

Red Sox re-introduce their studentoutreach initiative with $9 tickets, A4

Junior Tabitha Joseph discusses her band, volunteering, and her connection to music, B3

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The Independent Student Newspaper of Boston College Vol. XCVII, No. 21

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Thursday, April 21, 2016

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Because of the lack of parking spaces, the rates for the three different parking plans offered to graduate students have risen 10 percent in the past year.

The price for parking is expected to rise another 10 percent next year, and will continue to rise for an undetermined amount of time, GSA’s proposal said.

Graduate students have also raised concerns about purchasing a parking plan and not having spots available when they arrive to campus.

“How can we address the fact that prices are being raised, but even when people are paying $315 or $630 for their parking permit, they are still not guaranteed parking,” Christopher Tansey,

member of the Graduate Education Association, writer of GSA’s proposal, and LGSOE ’19, said. “Sometimes they will come on campus and the garage will be packed or it will be a sporting event and they can’t get in the garage because of a basketball game.”

In order to combat the rising parking prices and lack of spots, the GSA has created four central goals, which were drafted in February, that it hopes to see implemented by fall of 2017, Tansey said.

GSA hopes that the Office of Transportation and Parking will reduce or stop the annual increase in parking costs for graduate students.

“Most of the grad students are commuters,” members of the Graduate Nursing Association Community said in the proposal. “It is unfair to increase the price so much on already financially strained students who need to commute to school.”

If the cost reduction is not possible, the group also prepared creating a “proportional parking system,” in which students who are only on campus for two or three days a week pay a smaller fee for parking. Students would receive a sticker to put on their car designating the days of the week that they must park on campus, Tansey said.

Tansey has been working with John

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:@8 Jgp# 9: Ë-/# I\Zflekj Jkfi`\[ :Xi\\i 9`cc Gcleb\ik jg\ek dfi\ k_Xe (' p\Xij c`m`e^ `e k_\ LJJI 9P E@:B ;<DFKK ?\`^_kj JkX]] In the late 1970s, former Central Intelligence Agency officer Bill Plunkert, BC ’68, and his family moved to the Soviet Union, beginning his career as an undercover spy for the U.S. during the Cold War. Plunkert returned to the Heights on Wednesday to discuss his undercover role in Moscow during the Cold War. The event was hosted by the Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics, the political science department, and the International Studies Program.

Plunkert was able to give details about his influential involvement with Adolf Tolkachef, the Soviet agent who for over six years delivered valuable information to the CIA. Tolkachef is featured in David E. Hoffman’s 2015 publication, The Billion Dollar Spy: A

True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal.

The late 1970s and early ’80s was a particularly interesting time for Plunkert and his family as they entered Russia, where communism was a huge concern and the threat of a nuclear attack was a menacing unknown. At the same time, as Plunkert described, the Soviets were aggressively making war plans against NATO in Western Europe.

“There was going to be a winner and a loser … and we set out everyday to make sure the U.S. won,” he said.

When Plunkert and his family went through customs, arriving in Moscow, it quickly became evident that the KGB—the communist government of Russia’s main security agency—controlled everything.

Plunkert remembered seeing KGB obser vation posts ever ywhere and likewise noted how the KGB would follow anyone and everyone. It spared no expense, Plunkert said.

As a result of such great resources being spent toward maintaining communism in Moscow, quality of life suf-

fered—so much so that it was like living in a third-world country.

Plunkert expressed these feelings and effects from his day-to-day life in Moscow.

Often, Plunkert said, hot water and heat would suddenly stop working—he and his family would be left wearing winter jackets in their 45-degree living room and boiling water in order to bathe.

Further, if his family ever tried to get tickets to a local show or eat dinner out somewhere, the KGB could make sure that they were refused service.

Despite all this hardship, Plunkert spent his days gathering intel, learning Russian, and practicing role play for when he would meet with Tolkachef, whom he described as a friend and the most valuable human resource to the CIA. “[Tolkachef ] gave us everything— and we knew what their weak points were,” Plunkert said.

Although Tolkachef was exposed to the same propaganda as every other

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After experiencing stories of female mistreatment by Uber drivers firsthand, Michael Pelletz decided to found SafeHer, formerly known as Chariot for Women, as a new ridesharing alternative for women, by women. The new service would exclusively employ women drivers and would only allow women, transgender women, and males under the age of 13 as passengers.

When Pelletz was an Uber driver in the Boston area, Boston College students were among his favorite customers. He recalls driving students to many locations, including the popular Tavern in the Square.

But Pelletz was motivated to found SafeHer after picking up a young man under the influence of illegal drugs and hearing stories of rape and murder of passengers by Uber drivers in the news.

He also noticed that female drivers for ridesharing services were few and far between, especially at night.

He recalls hearing frightening stories from many young women, including BC students, regarding their encounters with Uber drivers. He immediately thought about what would happen if his wife or two daughters were in the situation. “[Passengers] would tell me horror stories of getting hit on by Uber drivers, having Uber drivers lock the doors and tell them they couldn’t get out unless they gave them a kiss, or being [inappropriately] touched,” Pelletz said.

Pelletz and his wife created the name “Chariot for Women” in the early stages of the company. Due to the amount of attention and congratulatory phone calls the couple received, however, it decided to allow its customers to choose a name for the company, and Safeher was announced at its prelaunch party on Tuesday night.

Pelletz’ original plan was to launch

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Last night, the program held an event in Higgins entitled Relationship Goals: A Discussion on Healthy Relationship, that sought to answer how students can define, recognize, and maintain healthy relationships.

Jackie Lerner, a professor in the Lynch School of Education, and John McDargh, a

theology professor, spoke about the development of social and sexual identity from developmental and spiritual perspectives, allowing for student discussion in between. The talks focused on promoting healthy relationships along with preventing unhealthy interactions, and overall were about increasing open discussion of these topics in general.

McDargh teaches courses in spirituality and sexuality and was recently the faculty speaker for Take Back the Night, part of the BC Women’s Center’s CARE Week initiative. Beginning the discussion, he spoke first about the definition of sexuality that he uses in his class, using a broader understanding of relationships than one for procreation.

“In addition to what is traditionally called the procreative function, there’s a unitive

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The Dramatics Society will present Cabaret, based on the play by John Van Druten and stories by Christopher Isherwood.

The showcase will take place at the Bonn Studio Theater in Robsham Theater through Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

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On Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m., Asian Pacific American Heritage Month will conclude with a ceremony on O’Neill Plaza sponsored by the Thea Bowman AHANA and Intercultural Center.

This year’s theme is “redefine identity.”

In an event titled “Music and the Culture of Democracy,” four speakers will discuss how genres like classical and hiphop have a role in a flourishing democratic culture. The talk will take place on Thursday in Devlin 101 at 6 p.m.

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;`e`e^ JkX]]\i JXm\j Jkl[\ek After a student in Stuart Dining Hall on Newton Campus appeared to be choking on his meal, cashier Delores Joyce ran to assist him on Wednesday, March 23. “[The student] was sitting at a table and he had a lot of mucus coming out of his mouth,” Joyce said to the Office of News and Public Affairs. “I just pulled him up out of his seat and started to do the Heimlich maneuver. He had been choking for a couple of minutes.”

The student proved to be too large for Joyce, and student employee Quinlan Taylor, MCAS ’19, stepped in to help the student. Taylor had learned the Heimlich from his high school health course and his grandmother, who worked as a nurse.

“He was choking on steak—I served him his burrito 10 minutes before he was choking on it, so I knew every ingredient in his meal,” Taylor said to News and Public Affairs.

After nine or 10 maneuvers, the student’s airway was freed.

An ambulance took himto the hospital, where he was examined and sent home.

After Easter Break, the student returned to the dining hall to thank Joyce and Taylor for saving his life.

“I’m glad I was there, and I’m glad nothing worse happened,” Taylor said to News and Public Affairs. “But I think most people would do the same thing.”

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After surveying almost 30,000 students and recruiters at almost 600 companies, Bloomberg Businessweek ranked Boston College’s Carroll School of Management the third-best undergraduate business school in the country, up one spot from fourth last year.

The ranking took into account four main metrics. Forty percent of the school’s total score came from an employer survey. Recruiters shared how business schools have prepared students for their jobs at their companies.

Thirty-five percent of the score came from a student survey. Students rated their schools based on the campus, the career services department, and the quality of faculty and administrators. The remaining 25 percent of the score came from the number of students who complete internships and graduates’ starting salaries.

CSOM scored 98.57 out of 100, ranking above the McIntire School at the University of Virginia and the Kelley School at the University of Indiana.

The survey found that 2.2 percent of graduates went to work for start-ups after graduation, and 1.3 percent of graduates have started their own businesses as their primary jobs.

Sixty-five percent of graduates with jobs currently work where they interned while in college.

The median outstanding debt of students was $22,000.

“Thanks to the faculty, students, and @BCAlumni who make our school great! #WeAreBC #EvertoExcel,” Dean of CSOM Andy Boynton said in a tweet on Tuesday.

Dressed in suits and ties, jackets and dresses, 18 students from the Analyst Program of the Boston College Economics Association traveled to the Massachusetts State House in Boston to meet with representatives on Thursday afternoon, April 14.

Leading up to the event, the students divided into six groups. Each group was assigned a particular area to research—deer overpopulation, underage drinking, developing agriculture in Massachusetts, bail reform, the opioid epidemic, and daily fantasy sports. The students then organized proposals for ways in which state legislation could be improved with regard to these issues.

Prior to the meeting at the State House, the students held an event on campus to practice their presentations and to get feedback from students and faculty.

Last Thursday, each group gave a seven-minute presentation on its findings and solutions.

The group working on the issue of the overpopulation of deer found that the animals are problematic because they can spread Lyme disease, cause car crashes, and affect local wildlife.

Its solutions for this issue were to promote commercial removal, remove the law that says that disallows hunting on Sundays, and increase education and advertisements for hunting.

With regards to developing

On the evening of the New York primaries for the 2016 presidential campaign, three Boston College professors spoke about the presidential candidates’ respective views on climate change. The event, which was held in Devlin 010, was sponsored by EcoPledge.

Not many of the Republican candidates, Zygmunt J. B. Plater, a professor at BC Law School, said, believe that environmental issues are a priority. George Pataki had the strongest opinion on the issue but dropped out relatively early on in the race.

“We have a problem on our hands that is not minor,” Plater said.

“But climate change, it seems to me, is a sleeping dragon.”

The reason why climate change has not come up in the campaigns, Plater said, is because all of the Republicans have similar opinions on the issue as do all of the Democrats.

But he thinks that once the Republican and Democratic nominees are chosen, they will have to address the issue.

“It’s an opportunity to get the American public to deal, perhaps

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The Boston College Economics Association traveled to the State House to propose ideas to alter state legislation. agriculture in Massachusetts, the students decided that the creation of an E-Z pass for farmers would help farmers expand geographically and increase their incomes. Their research showed that farmers have to pay multiple tolls each day to get their goods to the marketplace, which costs them thousands of dollars each year. An E-Z pass, the students believe, would encourage farmers to expand their farms without the fear of having to pay more tolls, and would allow them to save thousands of dollars.

Upon arrival at the State House, Representative Jim Cantwell, BC ’88, whom Ian Wyllie, head of the Analyst Program and MCAS ’18, knew from a previous summer job, showed the BC students

for the first time, very seriously with the issues of climate change,” Plater said.

In 1973, Plater said, the Republicans invited in the Evangelical Christians, who believed that environmentalism undermined God’s power. He was working in Washington, D.C., at the time and said that Evangelicals would walk around with posters that said Jesus did not like pollution regulations.

“They were lobbying against environmentalism,” he said.

Ted Cruz, Plater said, accused environmentalists of trying to form a new religion and that conversation on climate change should be kept out of politics. John Kasich, he said, somewhat admitted that there was a problem with climate change.

Donald Trump, he said, claimed that climate change was false and made no sense.

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, he said, understand the issue but also understand that America is not focused enough on the issues at hand. They have not clashed on their opinions on climate change because they are in agreement with one another, Plater said.

“Reporters want to see them have a clash, but they don’t have a

around the State House. Cantwell interned at the State House after his sophomore year of college and decided that it was where he wanted to work.

He took them to the House of Representatives room, where the representatives meet to propose, debate, and vote on legislation.

Cantwell explained the history of the room. For example, he said, the taxidermied fish hanging in the back of the courthouse faces in one direction when the Democrats hold the majority and in another when the Republicans hold the majority.

No one can remember, Cantwell said, a time when the fish was facing in favor of the Republicans.

Cantwell then led the students into a smaller, more private side

room, explaining that it was where most of the representatives meet when they want to talk without the cameras on them. It was in this more secluded room that the students had lunch with the representatives and their aides and gave their presentations.

Following the presentations, the legislators also offered some advice and feedback to the students.

Cantwell offered to put the students in touch with other representatives if they wanted to continue to pursue these issues.

“The opioid issues, believe me, we’re going to be dealing with those,” Cantwell said regarding the presentation on opioid addiction. “It’s your generation more than mine.”

at the Upper Dorms roadways.

12:21 a.m. - A report was filed regarding vandalism at Vanderslice Hall.

9:22 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a larceny from Conte Forum.

8:28 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a fire alarm activation at Stayer Hall.

Sunday, April 17 2:20 a.m. - A report was filed regarding medical assistance provided to a BC student at Fenwick Hall.

3:40 a.m. - A report was filed regarding the civil possession of marijuana

clash,” he said.

There will be a clash, however, when the Republican nominee and the Democratic nominee debate with one another.

David Deese, a professor in the political science department, has been studying other countries’ responses to climate change.

Because there had been a lack of national leadership with regard to climate change until the last few years, he said, he has studied the different initiatives taken at the state level.

California, Texas, Massachusetts, Washington, and Oregon, Deese said, have all been outliers in their levels of effort to reduce climate change.

Another component we have to take into consideration, Deese said, is that this is all based on the politicians’ campaigns, which are not always indicative of what they will do in office.

“We have to make some guesses because campaigns don’t always exactly translate perfectly into governing,” Deese said.

Laurie Johnston, associate professor of theology at Emmanuel College, also agreed that we have to wait and see how the future government will respond to these issues. The U.N. Conference in Paris last fall, she

said, decided that militaries would no longer be automatically exempt from climate regulations, as they were in the past.

The military is much farther ahead of the government with regard to climate change, she said. An estimated 20 percent of the world’s total carbon emissions comes from defense, but now with the new regulations, this number could be greatly reduced.

“It’s going to be very interesting to see how the American government approaches that question over the next couple of years,” she said.

Environmentalism also affects international politics, Johnston said. War can cause major damage to the environment, and climate change has played a role in the war in Syria, the refugee crisis in Europe, and many other recent international issues.

Although science supports the theory of climate change, Plater said, the environmentalists do not have the money or the media savvy to get their messages out to the public.

This means that it will take a natural disaster to make the public aware of the reality of climate change.

“The science of it is clear, and the morality as well,” Plater said.

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Tansey and Savino are working to figure out which routes the shuttle bus could logistically run.

Tansey is planning on sending out a survey to the graduate and undergraduate student bodies to see which routes would be most accessible and useful for them. Savino was unavailable to comment on the matter.

“I don’t think we would get a shuttle all the way downtown because that’s not something that is realistic,” Tansey said. “But getting it farther down Commonwealth or to some of the areas where there is very little transportation to BC, like Allston or Brighton or areas around Coolidge Corner, these are potential areas.”

While the plans are still in the works for the additional shuttle routes, Tansey is hopeful to have this solution running by the fall of 2017.

GSA’s proposal also addressed the University’s Student Parking Permit Web site’s statement that says that the University can change the Web site’s information on parking permits without notifying students. This includes the price of parking permits, Tansey said. In an effort to increase transparency, the proposal asks that the Office of Transportation and Parking notify students via email when the rates of parking permits go up.

GSA’s proposal also asks that the Parking Advisory Council publicly posts who is a member of the Council and what the members’ responsibilities are. It also hopes that the Parking Advisory Council will release its meetings’ minutes to the public in order to increase transparency.

The University has instituted a plan to increase parking space in the future at a newly purchased satellite location in Chestnut Hill, near the Chestnut Hill Mall. The 24-acre land, which was formerly the home of Congregation Mishkan Tefila, is planned to be converted into administrative offices and parking space.

“I think the key thing right now is to have unity between the graduate and undergraduate student bodies,” Tansey said. “It would be great to have, rather than 9,000 people wanting something or 4,000 people wanting something, 13,000 people wanting something.”

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By Yolanda Bustillo Heights Staff At the third annual Arabic Culture Night on Wednesday, students recited poetry, played musical instruments, did dabke line dances, held an Arabic fashion show, and performed skits.

Sponsored by the Slavic and eastern languages and literatures department and the music depar tment , and hoste d by Tanya Zeina and Danny Best, both MCAS ’16, the evening showcased creative projects in which students used the skills that the y ’re learning in the classroom.

The B C Middle E a st Ensemble started off the night with Famshet ‘Aaynik’s “The Blink of Your Eye,” a song about the beauty and authenticity of Arabic culture. Arabic musical instruments

such as the oud, a pear-shaped stringed instrument, and the darbuka, a goblet-shaped drum, created an authentic sound for student singers.

Atel Ghobrial, adjunct assistant professor of Arabic, and Kathleen Bailey, associate professor of political science, assisted in directing the event and asked students to perform to further their Arabic-speaking abilities.

“We are just trying to present things to reflect what students have been able to acquire and understand throughout their experiences,” he said.

Ghobrial watched his students from his various course levels in Arabic perform and recite Arabic at the culture show.

“We’re just trying to have them become engaged in activities that are both fun and informative that reflect the level

and abilities in the language and culture,” he said.

Soon afterward, the lights were turned off for a reading of Gibran Khalil Gibran’s poem “Love.” Students processed into the room holding candles to set the atmosphere. Background music continued until the students stood in front of the audience to perform an a cappella musical rendition of the poem.

Nikki Gold, CSOM ’18, led two of the solo pieces throughout the night.

“Arabic culture is very joyful,” she said. “Arabic is a loud and extroverted language where people are always speaking and very friendly to one another.”

Students danced dabke, a modern Arab folk dance that combines circle and line dancing, to Kahlil Gibran’s poem “Almahba.” Debke is often performed

at weddings or other joyous occasions, much like the cultural show held on Wednesday night.

The Arabic Fashion Show preceded the musical rendition.

Ikram Easton, a lecturer from the Slavic and eastern languages and literatures department, and Bailey asked students to lead and describe the fashion show to demonstrate their Arabicspeaking abilities. Students strutted down the catwalk wearing abayas, jalabiyas, kufiyas, and iqals from Syria, Morocco, Tunis, the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Iraq, and Palestine.

As the finale, students performed a Middle Eastern belly dance with hip scarves, finger cymbals, and assaya sticks. The dance incorporated both authentic moves and modern hip-hop, demonstrating the inclusivity of Middle Eastern culture. The

finale included various forms of belly-dancing styles such as Saidi, a folkloric dance from the Sa’id, and Raks Al Assaya, dances with a stick or cane.

Zeina explained that people often have preconceived notions about Arabs and the Arabic culture in general. As a Christian Lebanese, Zeina represents a different demographic that comes from the Middle East, but that many people are unaware of.

Some people are open to learning about the Arabic culture, Zeina said, while others choose to accept stereotypes about Arabs.

“The Arabic culture is so welcoming, open and loving,” she said. “People don’t really see that and that’s why we have events like this to show the culture and how warm and loving people from the Middle East are.”

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In retelling the scene, as it is detailed in Hoffman’s book, Plunkert illustrated how the KGB mostly knew who was in the CIA, so he and company had to be especially careful and precise in order to make contact with and obtain information from Tolkachef.

On the day of the meeting

with Tolkachef, Plunkert rode in a car with his wife and two other people, which the CIA could safely assume was being tailed by the KGB. Pretending the family was going to a birthday party, they carried a fake cake that operated like a jack-in-the-box and contained a lookalike of Plunkert.

So when Plunkert hopped out of the car, they would release the fake Plunkert from the fake cake to make it seem as though four people were still in the car.

With only five pre-planned seconds to execute this part of the mission, Plunkert wore the garb of an old Russian man under his American clothes. He quickly changed into the outfit and popped on glasses with a mask as he exited the car.

“Planning is essential, plans are useless,” Plunkert said, quoting President John F. Kennedy.

Plunkert recounted the pulsepounding details of how his glasses fogged up each time he attempted to breathe through the mask,

making it nearly impossible to see where he was walking. He also described seeing a drunk KGB officer near the spot where he was supposed to meet Tolkachef.

Eventually he was able to rendezvous successfully with Tolkachef and get the information back to the embassy for the CIA. Plunkert recalled that it was the adrenaline rush of a lifetime. “[Another CIA officer] gave me eight ounces of scotch, and I never felt a thing,” Plunkert

said.

Although Tolkachef was later arrested and killed by the KGB, he said, Plunkert considered him to be massively important to the team effort.

Tolkachef, Plunkert said, saved the CIA billions of dollars that otherwise would have been poured into plans that may not have worked.

“A lot of people put in a cup to fill the bucket,” Plunkert said.

“Tolkachef definitely put in a few cups of his own.”

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Thursday, April 21, 2016

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AL8E FC8M8II@8 It felt like an out-of-body experience, one in which I forgot where I was for a split second. I felt transported to a realm where nothing mattered other than the positive vibes that filled me up from every discernible direction. I had always heard of the heart of the city of Boston, but I had never quite experienced it like this, not even when I went for a game in the cradle of America’s pastime, Fenway Park—no number of “Sweet Caroline’”could amount to what it was like to stand on Comm. Ave. during the Marathon.

Let me backtrack a bit first. This was my first Marathon (but wait Juan, you’re a sophomore, what about last year?). The year before I was bedridden with a fever the entire day, so I had to experience the event vicariously through my friends’ excessively extensive Snapchat stories—the terrible weather of last April did nothing to dent the excitement surrounding the student body on that day. Through them I got a glimpse of what it would be like, a day that I had been excited about since I had confirmed my enrollment here at Boston College during my senior year of high school.

I would have to patiently wait for my chance, hoping I would not pick up a cold the day before again.

When the day finally got here, I did what most of the student body does on that day: sleep in until 10:30 a.m., and make it down just in time to see the leaders go by, except that’s not what happened at all. You all get the picture: waking up at the break of dawn, getting ready right away, and at latest begin the celebrations at 7:30 a.m. After eventually making it down with all of my roommates, we perched ourselves against the barriers and waited for runners to go by.

Every time runners were about to run by you could hear —no, you could feel them approaching—the wall of sound that surrounded every single runner was palpable in the crisp, April air. It was an ideal setting for what is essentially a holiday in the city: I could feel the warm rays of the sun hitting my skin, tanning it just enough to finally differentiate myself from Casper, a few clouds popped up here and there in the baby-blue sky, surrounded by what felt like the entire student body.

But the most significant thing I felt that day was not the event itself, but the people.

After the leaders went by, we had a bit of a break until the mass of runners reached Heartbreak Hill at Mile 21.

When they started passing us, undoubtedly experiencing physical pain I could never imagine, one thing struck me: the vast majority of runners had smiles on their faces, enjoying every single moment of this experience, taking in that everyone there was there for the same thing—to cheer them on.

I noticed another thing—a lot of the runners also had names on their bodies. It took me a while to realize that most of them were not their own names, but rather the names of the people they were running for. This struck me deeply, remembering a specific someone who continues to mean an incredible amount to me, but, due to the circumstances of life, is no longer with me.

I was immediately overcome with emotion at this time, struggling to keep a straight face. I don’t think anyone noticed the turmoil boiling inside me, the conflicting emotions ricocheting in my soul. In what felt like half an hour, but was actually probably closer to seventy-five seconds, I felt utter loss, desperation, loneliness, but most significantly, immense joy and hope.

I connected with this event in a way I could never have imagined. I thought of the events that took place in April of 2013, not only how the city was impacted, but how it managed to unify everyone in it, healing through support.

After this moment, I felt as though my emotions were all purged, and I could begin the day again with a clean slate, one that was filled only with the joy and love of everyone around me. I had waited almost two years for this day. It was unlike anything I could have hoped for in so many different ways.

But most importantly, I experienced something truly real, and, at least in my mind, shared a moment of fraternal love with the thousands of runners that ran past me.

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The grand opening of the Juce Press in Chestnut Hill drew crowds of customers eager to partake in the special promotions offered and discover all of their healthy-minded options.

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Young couples stroll in and out of boutiques, and young families finish up the remains of their late weekend brunches (or if you’re at Shake Shack, maybe lunch) and sit on the grassy expanse before returning to their cars and heading home.

But this past Saturday, on April 16, The Street bustled even more than usual as people arrived in droves to celebrate the opening of Chestnut Hill’s own Juice Press.

Customers fresh from a workout and bubbly teens excitedly Snapchatting their entrance through the shining glass doors of the Juice Press storefront, eagerly flocked to the store’s much-anticipated grand opening to take advantage of the half-off promotion that the store offered in celebration.

Founded by Marcus Antebi in 2010 in New York, Juice Press has grown from a modest four locations in 2012 to 35 locations that are currently open or under construction on the East Coast.

This meteoric rise in popularity is likely due to the company’s straightforward ethos, which promotes not

only healthy eating, but also a healthy lifestyle.

Additionally, all Juice Press products are certified organic, vegan, non-GMO, and non-processed—a series of buzzwords that hold increasing appeal in a society concerned with wellness and healthy eating.

And, as Michael Karsch, Chairman of the Board and Lead Investor of Juice Press, wrote in an email to The Heights, this lifestyle is exactly what it hopes to bring to the Chestnut Hill community in the coming months.

Easy access to Juice Press will ideally reduce the community’s dependence on heavily processed foods, and further the public interest in wellness, which is evident in the popularity of nearby establishments such as SoulCycle.

In fact, this trend in the area is what piqued the company’s initial interest in a Chestnut Hill location.

After the landlord of the new location first reached out to Juice Press, the company was intrigued by the success of nearby brands such as SoulCycle and Shake Shack.

“And of course, the photo of Tom Brady drinking one of our protein shakes in the press, felt like a very positive omen for the prospects of success in Boston,” Karsch said.

The Chestnut Hill location will also

feature a full menu, which permits Bostonians access to the items that made Juice Press famous.

In terms of drinks alone, the menu is quite extensive, including over 60 flavors of cold-pressed juices (all of which are made daily and pressed on site), waters infused with essences such as ginger or rose, cold-brewed coffee, specialty coffee drinks, and a selection of over 20 made-to-order superfood smoothies.

One of these smoothies in particular, the “Commonhealth Avenue,” is exclusive to the Chestnut Hill location, and available for a limited time.

Made from ingredients including homemade almond milk, raspberry, coca, and agave, all of the proceeds from the smoothie will be donated to the One Fund charity for survivors of the Boston Marathon bombings.

Juice Press will also offer a selection of hot soups and customizable salads from its prominent soup and salad stations, all of which can be enjoyed in the bright and open seating within the restaurant.

But for customers on the go, this Juice Press also offers easy snacks, like portable bags of dried fruits.

The Chestnut Hill Juice Press will also contain the unique feature of a giant 15-foot walk-in cooler in order to

cater to on-the-go customers.

The shining, mammoth cooler is one of the first things people see as they enter the store, and it contains any option they could desire.

In addition to the to-go versions of signature non-processed, raw, and coldpressed juices and grab-go-smoothies, salads, breakfasts, soups, items like a sweet and creamy Raw Oatmeal or chocolate Ebony & Ivory squares also wait within the cooler’s doors.

The Chestnut Hill Juice Press will also offer juice cleanses and cleaneating plans to the surrounding community.

Each program is customizable to the individual’s needs, and the nearby store provides access to coaches prepared to lead those interested through the cleansing process.

And if the crowds attending the opening were any indication, the number of interested customers will be very large indeed.

“Juice Press offers a healthy lifestyle in a non-preachy, relaxed, and hip environment,” Juice Press said. “From celebrities including Tom Brady, Karlie Kloss, Joe Jonas, Owen Wilson, Jessica Alba, and Kendall Jenner, to raw-vegans, lawyers, doctors, students, moms, dads, and kids, Juice Press has developed and maintained a cult-like following.”

Efn# Jkl[\ek I\[ Jfo K`Zb\kj :_\Xg\i K_Xe X Dfm`\ =Xi\ 9P ?<@;@ ;FE> ?\`^_kj <[`kfi While the professional baseball season only overlaps with the school year for a total of around three months—one month in the spring and, ideally, two months in the fall—the Red Sox are looking for more ways to attract college students to the ballpark.

With group ticket discounts and a $9 ticket with a student ID, cost is no longer a barrier for students.

In April 2014, the Red Sox introduced a $9 ticket for high school and college students called Student 9s. This initiative is one of the many discounts that the team offers students in an effort to tap the lucrative market of college students in the greater Boston area.

Two years after this initiative was pushed, the Student 9s is still news to many students.

In an effort to both raise awareness about what the Red Sox is doing as a business, as well as gain feedback from college students in the area, the Red Sox brought a group of around 20 students from surrounding colleges to Fenway Park.

Within the group, three had heard of the Student 9s initiative. For less than the price of a movie ticket, any college or high school student could go to a Red Sox game, but word of it has barely spread.

Adam Grossman, the chief marketing officer for the Red Sox, said that their dream is for a college student from somewhere else, going to college in Boston, to come root for the Red Sox. He called it the “diaspora of the Red Sox nation.”

“Whether you’re 4, 14, or 24, we

think if you spend one game at Fenway, you’ll become a Red Sox fan for life,” Grossman said.

This explains the $9 tickets that the Red Sox are offering. The Red Sox want to grow a relationship with the college students with the short-term desire of getting them to Fenway, and the longterm desire of inspiring them to become a Sox fan for life.

Their core mission is to grow the next generation of fans, and their highest priority is access to games.

“You guys are a hard market because everyone wants you,” Grossman said.

Student 9s is not the only initiative that the Red Sox have put in place to reach the lucrative college student market.

The Red Sox have a number of group sales and events in place to appeal to the college student demographic, including Freshman Night, which also features a career fair for anyone interested in the sports industry, Alumni Nights, and various events for fraternities and sororities to take advantage of.

The Red Sox are also amid a mobile initiative, which could appeal to students who shake their heads at the trek to find a printer to spend $0.50 printing. Their mobile initiative will also give them more data on who’s actually entering their ballpark.

Instead of having someone enter their information to buy a ticket and recording that data, only to have that customer sell the ticket to someone completely different, the mobile initiative will let the Red Sox know exactly who is coming to Fenway, making it easier for them to figure out how to bring a rewards program to college students, which is a huge goal of theirs,

according to Kurt Zwald, BC ’06, senior manager for business development.

The drawback, however, is that many season ticket holders are older, and less comfortable with a mobile ticket.

“The conversations that we have with season ticket holders are much like the ones you have with your parents in terms of how to use an iPhone,” Zwald said.

To keep the conversation around the

Red Sox flowing on college campuses, the team has enlisted college students to become student ambassadors for them, said social media coordinator Kelsey Doherty.

For the three months that major league baseball overlaps with the academic year, the Red Sox are urging students to substitute a night at the movies with the cheaper alternative of a Fenway experience.

SAVANNA KIEFER / HEIGHTS EDITOR

The marketing department of the Red Sox held an information session about their innitiative.

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Thursday, April 21, 2016

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By Leslie Sellers Heights Staff Enter the exhibition space beyond the glass doors, and a wall of stainless steel and brass overwhelms the eyes.

From New Delhi, artist Subodh Gupta has assembled objects commonly found in the kitchens of Delhi households—stainless-steel kitchen racks, dishes, and utensils—into a staggering display. Turn left. Turn right. In either direction is a massive assemblage—a testament to urbanization.

This is Megacities Asia.

In the latest exhibition running at the Museum of Fine Arts from April 3 to July 17, Boston finds its origins on the other side of the world.

A population of 10 million or more defines a megacity, and Asia has the fastest-growing number of them.

Megacities Asia features sculptures and installations from 11 different artists from five megacities on the continent: Beijing, Shanghai, Delhi,

Mumbai, and Seoul.

Co-curators Al Miner, assistant curator of Contemporary Art, and Laura Weinstein, Ananda Coomaraswamy curator of South Asian and Islamic Art, began work on their brainchild three years ago.

When they traveled across Asia, Laura Weinstein said she and Miner looked for artists whose work related to their cities.

They sought out large-scale pieces that use everyday materials, and the power of those everyday objects runs through the exhibit, as they assemble to form towering, expansive, and consuming installations. These seemingly ordinary objects are collected and presented on a scale that fits the enormous cities they represent and show how the small entities of a city, how people and their lives, add up to create both the glory and the gore of a city.

The exhibition focuses on cities that have seriously urbanized over the last 30 years, so that the artists’

installations were products of and commentaries on their lived experiences in the cities as they grew. This is why Tokyo-based artists are absent from the show. Back in 1960, New York and Tokyo were the only megacities in the world. Today, there are nearly 30 megacities across five continents. For Weinstein, Seoul proved to be the most overwhelming to experience.

“I didn’t know anything about Seoul before travelling there, and it’s made the most dramatic transformation of all the cities,” she said. “From the post-Korean-War period to today, it has been rebuilt to be very glamorous.”

The curators focused on this sensation of being overwhelmed when they designed the exhibit. It is the sense that urbanization can truly be felt as a lived experience.

Weinstein noted that there is no specific travel path for viewers to take—there is no single narrative for the experience. Instead, the curators want the visitors to interact with the

E\n JkXiklg :i\Xk\j I`[\ J_Xi`e^ J\im`Z\ =fi Nfd\e# 9p Nfd\e SafeHer, from A1 in Boston last Tuesday, and then expand to New York and beyond, but due to its popularity, SafeHer will launch worldwide in the fall to better fit the demand. They decided to postpone its unveiling to the public in favor of a catchier brand name, and to ensure that the technology will be able to accommodate the millions of users they anticipate having on opening day.

Caitlin Ferris, CSOM ’19, believes that if other rideshare services had strict standards and fewer incidents, SafeHer would not be necessary. But she believes that SafeHer is needed due to past events in the news, including an Uber driver in Massachusetts who was sentenced to 10 years in prison after kidnapping and raping a passenger.

“I think an all-female car service is not necessary if the safety requirements for the co-ed companies are strict enough,” Ferris said. “There is consistent evidence that women feel unsafe in their driving experiences with male drivers.”

Pelletz contemplated events like that one and decided that the ridesharing industry could do better.

“That’s how Chariot for Women was born,” he said.

Pelletz was able to attract lots of interest in his company just nine weeks after the idea was formed. In the past week alone, 7,000 female drivers have signed up to work for SafeHer, prompting international press attention and television appearances around the world, including in China, Japan, and Australia, for Pelletz.

In an effort to get college students involved, Pelletz and his team have attempted to get university students to join the driver pool, an initiative that they hope to take nationwide in the near future.

Sarah Rooney, MCAS ’18, said that SafeHer sounds like a good idea, especially for women who truly feel more comfortable driving in a car with another woman.

“This may be a great opportunity to get more women into the industry,” she said.

Rooney can picture herself using the service, especially if it is affordable and she has

a positive experience with it, she said.

Pelletz has received a lot of positive feedback, including comments that he is doing something that no other company has ever done. He feels that making rideshares safer is his true calling, and therefore does not find the process to be laborious, he said.

“I’m just a regular guy from Massachusetts, and I’m so honored and it’s so humbling that this can happen,” Pelletz said. “[The process] has been seamless.”

In accordance with Pelletz’ selfless attitude, 2 percent of every ride that a customer takes will be donated to charity. Users will be able to select from a large number of charities where their money will go—all before they even request their ride.

Looking forward, Pelletz would like to see the future of rideshare companies as safe and worry-free.

“Our five-year plan is that the other rideshare companies will follow our lead and make safety a priority,” he said. “It has to be a priority, and right now, there is too much greed involved.”

sculptures and installations on their own terms and in their own patterns.

The viewer is both witness and actor, both victim and inflictor.

Each piece is meant to stand alone and provide its own experience. For this reason, ample space is left between installations to express individual monumentality, rather than a sense of solitude.

Because of the sheer size of the exhibition selections, Weinstein and Miner knew the exhibit could not be contained to one gallery. Using this to their advantage, the exhibition expands out of the gallery into other parts of the museum, out onto the front lawn, and around the city.

From Beijing, Ai Weiwei’s Snake Ceiling (2009) slithers above the heads of visitors as they walk by the popularly Instagram-ed neon light sign in the contemporary art wing that tells people to “ENJOY” and “LOOK.” From Korea, Choi Jeong Hwa’s Breathing Flower (2013) stands radiantly red outside

the white stone of the museum, while his Fruit Tree (2014) sits down by the marketplace at Faneuil Hall.

The scale of the pieces is further exemplified by their inability to be confined to a singular exhibition space, a singular building, and a singular street block. Moving beyond the walls of the museum shows how the nature of the megacity is to continuously expand.

Back inside the gallery space, a vibrant, neon-green sea of bottles, brooms, and other common items makes up S e oul-ba se d Han S e ok Hyun’s Supernatural (2011/2016) and shows how even Boston was incorporated into this expansion.

Weinstein laughed as she told the story of the installation process for Supernatural. “Han Seok Hyun had [the curators] buy materials from the Dollar Tree and Stop and Shop on St. Paddy’s Day Weekend,” she said.

“Luckily, there was no shortage of green.”

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EDITORIALS

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Ridesharing services such as Uber and Lyft are widely used at Boston College, and the dangers they sometimes present are very applicable to the student body. Providing women with a separate service is an immediate way to mitigate these dangers for the moment. It does not, in actuality, completely remove the potential danger. While less common, female aggressors still exist and a gender-separated ridesharing service would not entirely ensure safety. Some of these aggressors could even potentially take advantage of the heightened sense of security.

SafeHer still plays an important role in furthering attempts to reform the rideshare system. By providing an entirely separate service marketed around the faults of the more mainstream ridesharing companies, SafeHer presents a challenge to its competitors while also shedding more light on the issue at hand.

While these aspects are clearly positive, they are not permanent solutions to the problem.

Creating a separate space for women does not mean that the ridesharing sys-

tem does not still need to be reformed.

Women should not have to seek out a niche service in order to avoid the possibility of assault. The system itself should be reformed. Background checks should be expanded and rideshare drivers should be thoroughly vetted in order to prevent these crimes. Recent legislation in Massachusetts has already enforced criminal background checks and state certification for Uber and Lyft drivers.

This is one step toward the ultimate goal of complete safety in ridesharing services. Further safety measures should be put into place to lower the possibility of danger.

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SafeHer remains only a short-term solution to the problem, as it is a relatively small attempt to deal with a flawed system. Women should be able to use the exact same services as men without concern. This will only be possible when an overall reform of the rideshare system takes place.

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The Graduate Student Association has recently put forth a proposal that attempts to address rising parking costs at Boston College.

After costs rose 10 percent this year, and are expected to continue to rise, graduate students have complained that the costs are exorbitant, especially considering the fact that students are not always guaranteed a parking spot.

During high-traffic events like sporting events, graduate students who have payed over 300 dollars for a permit might not be able to find a space, Christopher Tansey, writer of the proposal and LGSOE ’19, said.

The GSA has outlined four main goals to rectif y this issue: halt the increasing parking cost, create a proportional parking system, create more shuttle routes, and ensure that students are notified when parking fees increase. This means increased transparency from the Office of Transportation and Parking, as well as new methods of combating rising permit prices.

The new proposed shuttle routes are still being discussed, but they would most likely run into Allston/Brighton, Coolidge Corner, or farther down Commonwealth Avenue, Tansey said.

These new shuttles would be available to all students, both undergraduate and graduate.

Increasing the number of shuttle routes would benefit all students and would help ease the difficulties commuters face. This would be a practical step toward dealing with the issue of consistently rising parking prices.

Although a route into downtown Boston, or any other traffic-packed

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and distant place, is not plausible, a smaller extension would highly benefit students who must commute to BC. The GSA has done a good job of working with the administration and with the undergraduate student body.

As the process proceeds, GSA has cohesively brought together these groups and is helping to create the best possible compromise between their varying viewpoints.

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Hopefully, these solutions will come to fruition in the future.

The Office of Transportation and Parking should take the GSA’s proposal into account and try to meet the goals it presents, or work on a middle ground that lessens the sting of expensive parking without the guarantee of a spot.

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

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Thursday, April 21, 2016

“Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.”

-Saul Bellow

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR A Reponse to “Sixteen Minutes at Stokes” If you were near the quad in front of Stokes around 6:00 p.m. on April 1, you probably saw about 20 people lying on their backs in the snow. “Idiots,” you probably thought. “It is 20 degrees outside. Snow is actively falling on their faces.”

Here’s what you probably didn’t think about: we, the idiots in question, had to submit our act of masochism to the University for pre-approval at least 48 hours in advance. Did you get that? We had to ask the University for permission to lie on our backs in the snow for 16 minutes, shivering and picturing that scene in The Hateful Eight where Samuel L. Jackson makes the guy walk through the snow naked. Some of us were contemplating the pain of activists who had come before us, while some of us, and I won’t name names, were silently calculating our odds of catching pneumonia.

We didn’t do this on a whim. We did this to commemorate the shooting of Laquan McDonald, a black man shot 16 times by police, on the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination. We were exercising our right to peaceable assembly as defended in the Constitution. And it makes me livid that in agreeing to attend Boston College, I have signed over my right to speak my mind in the company of like-minded individuals without having to fill out a form first.

Let me get this straight. If I go lie on my back in the snow by myself, I just look like

a jackass. But if 20 other people come and lie on their backs at the same time, suddenly it’s a federal issue?

As a citizen of these United States, I have the God-given right to look like a jackass in public whenever, and with whomever I choose. If I want to stand on my head in the Quad and scream about how OompaLoompas did 9-11, I should be able to do that. If 15 other people want to join in, they should be able to, and someone should definitely get the whole thing on video.

If this were a flash mob, if we decided to lie in the snow for the Vine, no one would care. But if we do it because we’re passionate about a civil rights issue, because we care about social justice … suddenly it’s against University policy?

Look, I don’t think I’m asking for the world here. I just want to be able to lie face-up on my back in a snowy field without someone waving a form in my face. Under the current system, I have to talk to an administrator even if what I am commenting on is the administration itself. The administration is making a conscious decision to value its clean-cut Catholic image above the voices of its student body.

I just want to lie on my back in the Quad without talking to an administrator first.

Can I live?

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A Reponse to “Don’t Let Fear Cast Your Vote” If you’ve ever been told to “just calm down” when you’re angry, you understand this tactic makes things worse. Now, I believe Mr. Hissong makes some important points in his op-ed “Don’t Let Fear Cast Your Vote”, but he entirely misses the legitimate root cause behind this election’s anger and is simply telling incensed Americans to “just calm down.”

He posits that the candidates themselves are the source of the vitriolic nature of this election cycle and that the issues we are facing as Americans, chiefly terrorism and economic uncertainty, are nothing to be worried about.

I agree with his assertion that terrorism, while certainly a risk to our national security, does not pose the grave threat that many candidates make it out to be. The evidence he provides that it “is statistically just as likely that you will drown in your own bathtub as it is that you will be killed in a terrorist attack” is especially convincing. However, I strongly reject his claim that our economy is “untouchable.” Simply put, the American economy has stopped working for the vast majority of Americans.

Unlike Mr. Hissong, I’ll provide some facts to back up my claim. Sure, America is the “unchallenged leader of the financial world,” but when 47 percent of Americans can’t cover an unexpected $400 expense through their savings or credit, nearly half the country isn’t feeling the benefits of our leadership role in the financial world. Yes, “unemployment is falling,” but unemployment coupled with un-

deremployment remains at around 10 percent, showing the weakness in the job market, and this doesn’t even count the millions of hopeless Americans who have stopped looking for a job. And perhaps “the climb out of the financial crisis of 2008 is underway,” but when the top 1 percent captured 95 percent of the income gains following the crash, the other 99 percent of the country has not recovered.

Perhaps this is why 72 percent of Americans still think we are in a recession.

This is all to say that people are angry for a reason. A politician can stand on TV and shout hateful things, but unless people are in dire straits, they will refuse to listen. It is only when the hope has been sucked out of a society that hate can come and fill the void. Rather than responding to the hateful discourse pulsating throughout the nation with “just calm down,” we need to recognize the massive surge of anger as a warning sign of something gone terribly awry in our society. I agree with Mr. Hissong’s last point that “the world is not going to go up in smoke tomorrow,” but if we keep heading down the imbalanced direction we’re headed, the temperature will only heat up. If this massive wealth and income inequality is not reversed, the repulsive so-called dialogue will continue.

Our world may not go up in smoke tomorrow, but it will go up in flames in the future if we don’t change our ways.

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Thursday, April 21, 2016

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THE SLOW EMERGENCE OF SPRING Spring is a lot like the Boston College Bunny Enthusiasts Club. It doesn’t exist. In this part of the world, it’s pretty much winter, winter, winter, oh wait, summer, summer, summer.

That little period of “oh wait” is about all we have of spring around here. It’s a strange moment when the sun and the warm temperatures peek around the corner like that man who follows you around campus singing Norwegian folk tunes. It’ll only be here for a short while so enjoy it. Or don’t. It’s just the weather.

BASEBALL T-SHIRTS - Who needs a shirt of one color anymore? What are you: a one-color schmuck? No! It’s all about sleeves that are different colors than the torso nowadays.

By wearing a baseball T-shirt, you’ll show your friends that you’re a real fly guy who eats pies.

WHOEVER KEEPS SETTING OFF THE FIRE ALARM IN WALSH - Waking up at two in the morning to the sound of a painfully loud siren warning you that you might die in a fiery inferno is not the best way to spend your precious weekend. Two weeks in a row: 2 a.m. on a weekend night, the residents of Walsh flood out of the doors and form a confused mass while firefighters and police officers rush in. It’s a conglomeration of chaos. Drunken Solo-cup-bearing revelers stumble around on the grass shouting, “Look at me, I’m reveling!” People wearing only towels or bathrobes shiver on the cold cement, their pre-sleep showers interrupted.

Droves upon droves of red-eyed sophomores grumble, laugh, and murmur. Just-woken-up, thumbfocused journalists wander around in shorts and sandals, marveling at the scene around them while also cursing whoever keeps doing this.

It’s not even early enough for Late Night! Couldn’t you have at least done us the courtesy of screwing around before 2 so we could all go grab some savory mozzarella sticks while we wait? As the next weekend approaches, we’ll all wait in dread, praying that this fire alarm, lookat-me-I’m-screwing-with-a-fire-extinguisher-because-I’m-young-andwild-and-free thing doesn’t become some terrible weekly exercise. Our nerves just can’t stand it.

THE PERSON WHO GOES TO WALSH ON THE WEEKENDS AND DECIDES IT’S A GOOD IDEA TO SET OFF THE FIRE ALARM - Oh, am I repeating myself?

Good. Stop doing that. No more.

STANDING OUTSIDE IN THE COLD HAVING JUST WOKEN UP FROM A PERFECTLY PEACEFUL SLEEP BECAUSE SOMEONE SET OFF THE FIRE ALARM - I’m sure you get it at this point.

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A decision made by Bloomberg Businessweek has the potential to turn the world of higher education on its head (again): SAT scores got the small envelope when it came to this year’s Best Undergraduate Business Schools rankings. The removal of this last piece of admissions data from the ranking system means Bloomberg’s list is now entirely based on career metrics—feedback from students and employers as to how well the school prepared them for the workplace, as well as data on starting salaries and student internships.

This shift spurred an unprecedented amount of movement among the business schools represented: Villanova Business School shot up 23 spots to No. 1 overall, while University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and Cornell’s Dyson School took some of the biggest bruisings. The biggest winners, however, were public institutions, like Ohio and Penn State, which almost universally moved up on the list.

(Boston College’s Carroll School moved up one spot to No. 3).

On some level, this type of fluctuation speaks to the broader problems with educators’ building institutions around arbitrary rankings, published by for-profit organizations with no real skin in the game when it comes to the well-being of the U.S. higher education system. But as much as I’d like to convince myself that this particular shift is signaling an end to the ranking obsession, we all know better.

As admissions metrics get phased out of the equation, we can already see universities stumble from one failed paradigm to the next, doubling down on their investments in pre-professional offerings, much as they have in admissions and marketing over the past decade.

U.S. News and World Report’s Best Colleges list, arguably the most

influential ranking out there, still take into account SAT scores and selectivity, but over the years it has diluted the influence of these “input” measures in favor of “output” measures, such as retention and alumni giving rate. SAT scores, once an obsession of the higher ed world, have fallen out of favor as an increasingly large body of research has come to document the troubling relationship between family income and test performance. And while the race to accept zero percent of students is still alive and well (as The New York Times’ Frank Bruni comically chronicalled on April Fools’ Day), there’s an increasing sense that the world of admissions is in need of drastic reform.

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So as universities begin to unwind decades worth of admissions hysterics, reprioritizing their own standards and ethical imperatives over the tyranny of the rankings, it would be foolish not to consider how we might better protect them from the next craze. When the weight of traditional admissions statistics was lessened, colleges actually began thinking more critically about how that process could better serve students. Innovation in higher education is stymied by rankings, which incentivize universities to focus on the standards of today rather than develop standards for tomorrow, and push universities to

move in lockstep on the most important questions about what higher education should be.

Decades of obsession over rankings have pushed universities to be less creative and more alike—all while artificially elevating institutions that have historically catered to the wealthy. For high school seniors, this failed system has divided institutions into the attainable and the unattainable, placing invisible barriers throughout the process built around class, race, and wealth—all at a time when universities are increasingly relied upon to create opportunity for all.

Higher education, at its best, has transformative power. It can help level decades of inequality, ensuring that students from all walks of life are given the opportunity to do well. But realigning ourselves to focus on “output” rather than “input” simply subjects us to another form of tyranny. It threatens to further break down the divide between classroom time and corporate recruiting, and puts the liberal arts—long the cornerstone of our education system— on the chopping block. When administrators gamify educational offerings in pursuit of illusory, often shortsighted standards they themselves do not set, they’re selling their institutions short.

The mission of a company is often lost when it goes public, with shortterm gains placed above the goals of its founders. Universities are subjecting themselves to similar perils when they choose to constantly realign themselves internally to best fit external pressures.

The traditional corporate model, which places self-enrichment and growth over all else, is ill-fit for education.

Rankings, at best, reflect the fears of high school seniors and their parents (justified and unjustified), giving precedence to concerns over prestige, payback period, and employment opportunities. They speak to the marketability of an institution, but do not appeal to our best natures—as educators, as administrators, and as students.

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D> N@CJFE We communicate with one another through stories: actions, ideas, and histories. By retelling our lives, we hope to better understand them and be understood by the people around us. But no story is without its fiction. In any narrative, there are elements withheld or distorted by gaps in the narrator’s perspective.

There’s also no such thing as a story that’s completely false. There’s some truth to the telling, the intent, or to the dynamics within the tale. The question to be answered, then, is what truths we’re looking for—and how best to discover them in others, as well as ourselves.

The same evolution of the mind that has rendered us able to communicate important stories has also enhanced the variables that undermine their objectivity. I can remember an event and relate it in detail, but inevitably I will leave out some information and bring in my own.

In some cases, the editing is more obvious, as we hope to portray ourselves with certain qualities that are partially products of our own exaggeration. In other cases, the decisions are subconscious. We naturally forget or leave out the seemingly inconsequential details, for the sake of expressing our stories more efficiently.

Art is above nature in that respect, for by examining life through our own lenses we make it more palatable and relatable. Even the person experiencing the story can’t be cognizant and understanding of all of the elements of it—by telling stories as we understand them, we make life more manageable for ourselves and others.

The irony of the situation, however, is that by editing stories we reintroduce life to them. Our biases, impressions, and motives come into these stories and change them. By the time we tell them,

the stories aren’t simply what happened or even how we experienced what happened—they’ve become expressions of how we’ve processed and then communicated how we experienced what happened. That’s at least three layers of narration, indicating the unreliable narrator in all of us.

To tell stories without life would probably render them static. We are living creatures—it makes sense for us to interact with each other through living language, by using living stories. Maybe if we told stories without life, we wouldn’t understand them. But, as it is, we’re unable to do so. Our stories have to have life, everyday and abstract, nonfiction and fiction alike. We can’t rid ourselves of these tendencies, which in their inherent qualities arguably qualify as natural laws.

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I’m not suggesting chaos, emerging from our subjectivity to annihilate meaning.

Truth is real. There is objective reality. I just don’t think that any of us mere mortals are able to comprehend it. I’m not sure if anyone or anything can, to be honest. But it definitely exists, and we long for it. We move toward it. When we speak with one another, we generally desire truths, although the truths that we request consciously and the truths we seek are often different. If I ask someone how he or she is feeling, I could be requesting an update on his or her life, a superficial reply that satisfies my desire to interact with that person, a return question inquiring about my life, or something else entirely. But the most obvious truth that I would probably claim to desire would be a report of that person’s general well-being, as he or she is experiencing it.

The matter to be settled, then, isn’t what “truth” is, but rather what brand of truth we’re asking for.

We desire certain brands of truth to such an extent that we’ll measure relationships by the amount of it that they contain. A question-and-answer concerning something as simple as a day’s events can tell a fair amount about a relationship.

The tone in which something is expressed, what’s withheld from the narration, and what’s expected in terms of actions and the wording in which they’re related all affect the truth perceived by the listener. From the speaker’s side as well, there’s a story being told by the listener, who is generally being observed in turn for truth. Three people could speak the same words—and yet, based on past actions and the way in which the story is related, the amount of perceived truthfulness can vary widely.

Understanding ourselves completely is impossible, but we can still learn more about ourselves than we can of anyone else—particularly when one considers that to understand another human being completely would involve them knowing themselves well enough to express it in a way that one could properly process without his or her biases or perspective over-editing the information. In searching for truth, then, particularly in relationships, we need to be honest with ourselves. Stories are about what we feel we need to hear.

The reason why stories work at all as communication is because we naturally seek truths that answer to universal desires. Comfort, security, compatibility, and excitement drive both stories and the reactions they produce. We’re wired to look for certain triggers and express ourselves according to how we wish to be understood. And, provided we don’t allow our own interpretations of the stories to rewrite them, this communication through storytelling will suffice. The language of life is, after all, our native language.

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AFJ? 9<?I<EJ The founding fathers did not plan for us to have a democracy. “Remember, democracy never lasts long,” John Adams said. “It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself.

There was never a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” They thought they needed to put safeguards in place so that the “tyranny of the majority” would not bring our nation to self-destruction. So, instead of creating a democracy, the founding fathers crafted a republic that is governed by elected officials.

But the system they put in place went too far, and we are now living under an oligarchy. We commonly believe that the U.S. government was created to serve the interests of the common man, that even though we live under a republic, we elect representatives to enact laws in the interest of their constituents and, thus, allow for a semblance of democracy. Yet, safeguards put in place at the Constitutional Convention such as the Electoral College and an unelected judicial branch restrict the general public’s ability to influence its government. Money’s influence over our political system has further exacerbated the antidemocratic tendencies of our government, as a Princeton study recently found that, empirically, the U.S. is an oligarchy that serves the interests of the economic elite rather than the majority of its citizens.

These oligarchic tendencies are even more apparent in the two-party system.

Besides the fact that only having two parties is an anti-democratic paradigm that always boils down to the lesser of two evils instead of expressing the actual needs of voters, the structure of the parties themselves lends to further abuse of bureaucratic authority over the will of the people. The primary process is rife with establishment bias. For the vast majority of the history of American political parties, candidates were elected solely by party elites scheming in smoke-filled rooms at their respective conventions. This cabalist system was only changed starting with the 1972 Democratic primary process. Yet, echoes of the supposedly archaic party-oligarchies still reverberate through our modern Democratic and Republican party halls.

On the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders supporters have cried foul of the many instances in which they see the DNC using its power to favor the establishment’s will. These allegations have been anything from limiting the number of debates, to limiting voter registration efforts, to even voters being thrown off the voting rolls. The real issue for the majority of Sanders supporters, though, are superdelegates. Superdelegates are party elites that represent 15 percent of the total delegate count and are free to choose whomever they want without a responsibility to the will of the people. Four hundred sixty-nine superdelegates are committed to Hillary Clinton, while only a measly 31 are committed to Sanders. If Sanders manages to edge out Clinton in the popular delegate count but the superdelegates stay loyal to Clinton, there is a real possibility that the establishment could overturn the will of the voters of their party (who now favor Sanders nationally). The Republican side is an even more glaring example of establishment bias. Even though Trump is probably going to garner the necessary delegates to be the Republican nominee, nearly every pundit on the left and right is crying out for the party bosses to finagle their way into a situation in which the convention would upset the will of the people and put an establishment candidate on the ticket in place of Trump.

Perhaps we are a living example of what the founders were so worried about: democracy’s suicide through the tyranny of the masses.

Perhaps Trump’s rise represents their worst fears realized in a toupeed tyrant. This may be true, but I reject the founding fathers’ notion that democracy’s tendency is toward selfdestruction. I believe that if we say we believe in democracy as a nation, we need to deal with the consequences that arise through the power of the people instead of trusting an oligarchy to look out for our best interests. If we despise the Democratic superdelegates that may block Sanders from his rightful position as the candidate, we should not look to the Republican Party elites to do the same. We need to seize our collective power as citizens to stop Trump in the streets by protesting his rallies and at the ballot box by voting against him. The founding fathers may have overthrown a monarchy and created a vibrant oligarchy, but it is up to us to build a democracy.

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THE HEIGHTS

A8

Thursday, April 21, 2016

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MADELEINE D’ANGELO / HEIGHTS EDITOR

9P AL8E FC8M8II@8 D\kif <[`kfi There are many times during the day when one can feel his or her heartbeat, like after a run or a sudden rush of adrenaline—but, unless they are heart surgeons, is not likely they have actually seen the rhythmic blood-pumping routine with their own eyes, until now. The Heart of the City, a new interactive sculpture created by the internationally recognized Brazilian artist Anaisa Franco, allows passersby to see the incandescent figure light up to match the flow of blood inside their bodies.

Located in The Street in Chestnut Hill, the interactive display will be on sight until April 25, mesmerizing anyone who happens to catch a glimpse, especially at night when the light show emanating from the piece showcases it in its fullest state.

The sculpture—which weighs 400 pounds and measures 8 feet by 6 feet by 3.4 feet—is modeled to resemble the silhouette of the human heart.

To sync with the installation, all a visitor has to do is sit on one of the three seats in the exhibit and place his or her finger in the sensor.

The heart will then begin to “beat,” with its neon lights flashing to the

unique tempo of the visitor’s heart.

The object is surrounded during the day by curious onlookers who are not exactly sure what they are dealing with, until they walk up to it and place their fingers in the sensor.

The silent melody of the piece is reciprocated by the individual’s feeling of his or her own beating heart, creating an almost transcendent, out-of-body experience.

For creator Anaisa Franco, the journey leading to Boston began many years ago, when she was just a child. She began doing ceramic sculptures when she was only five years old, eventually going on to study visual arts in the Fundacao Armando Alvares Penteado (FAAP) in her native Brazil.

“I then became interested in animation technology and in virtual reality,” she said.

After entering several amateur technology art competitions, Franco began travelling the world. She participated in several art residencies for a decade, all while building a project in each of the countries that she visited, 22 total, including Australia, where the Heart originally debuted.

The origin of that sculpture was a prototype she developed in 2014 called Heart Dialogue, one of her first experiences dealing with a user interface that allowed for customized experiences for each individual

interacting with the piece.

“I had this idea to connect the human heart with an object,” she said.

“I downloaded a 3D heart and printed it … I was thinking that people would put their finger[s] on it and the object would light on and off according to their heartbeat[s], that was the original idea for it.”

This small object was an inspiration for Franco, who then started assembling a team to create a larger version of the prototype, where multiple people could experience in a large exhibit what she had been able to produce with the small object.

Heart of the City in its completed form was selected for the Light Festival in Sydney, Australia, where it was well received by critics. She was able to use the lab in the city to develop the full-scale version of the heart. Franco then submitted the project to the city of Boston, where it was commissioned for an exhibit this year.

“We fell in love with Anaisa Franco’s vision for Heart of the City: to enlarge the heartbeat of its viewers by connecting visitors and creating an expansion of their own hearts,” said Allison Yee, general manager of The Street, in a press release. “As our fourth installation at the property, public art has been a fabulous way for us to brighten people’s days and delight them with an entirely unexpected experience. We cannot wait to see people light up as they encounter this sculpture.”

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When McDargh directed the students, they broke out into small groups led by members of Bystander Intervention, discussing their ideas of healthy and unhealthy relationships and the words they associated with each. The definition of relationships encompassed a broad spectrum of casual to committed exchanges.

Students from Bystander Intervention used a program to create separate word clouds showing the frequency of each student’s definition.

The biggest words in the “healthy” cloud had to do with bilateral support and care— “trust,” “respect,” and “communication”— while the

“unhealthy” cloud showed the opposite— “dishonest,” “one-sided,” and “abusive.” The groups then discussed, among themselves and then with the room, their reactions and personal surprise at some of the words included.

McDargh cited one vignette of The Vagina Monologues in which a young woman has a lesbian experience with an older woman. While it ends with the line, “I never heard from her again,” it shows a positive portrayal of isolated sexual experiences and a display of authenticity that McDargh believes merits discussion.

“All of the sudden you need to have a more nuanced conversation,” McDargh said.

“There are good hookups and there are bad hookups.”

McDargh affirmed the value of sex in itself as supported by findings of the Catholic Theological Society of America, of which several

BC faculty are prominent members and which says that good sex is self-liberating, self-assuring, other-enriching, honest, faithful, socially responsible, life-serving, and joyous.

Lerner works in adolescent development and character development, both researching and advocating new methods of sexual education in schools. She studies positive youth development, analyzing the positive outcomes of development and ways to encourage the formation of personal identity in young adults.

She noted the pervasiveness of what she calls the deficit model, in which mentors transition from positive encouragement to talking about preventing risk in the adolescent years.

“It shuts down the conversation...and it shuts down the parents into thinking that their child is in adolescence, and they have to move into this prevention model,” Lerner

said. “It doesn’t allow for continuing with the building of strengths and helping you become someone who has healthy relationships and a healthy identity.”

Lerner’s research among a group of 10,000 students in 43 states over 10 years shows that using the positive youth development model marginally can actually decrease risk-seeking behaviors, like sex and drug and alcohol use, by a small amount and ultimately produces fewer bad outcomes from those behaviors. She sees a need especially for this type of model in sexual education.

“We need to help adolescents to understand their identity,” Lerner said. He asked the audience a series of questions: Who are you as an academic person? Who are you as a social person, a friend? What is your vocation going to be? Who am I going to be as a religious person?

What is my identity?

“All of this hard work is going on, but the sexual identity skills, the sexual negotiation skills of getting what I want from a relationship, are not being taught,” Lerner said.

The session ended with a discussion of the changes that each student would make in his or her personal life to discover his or her social and sexual identity. Each student was also able to fill out a pledge sheet affirming personal values and setting goals for conducting healthy relationships in the future.

“Development is plastic, meaning it changes with people and experiences,” Lerner said. “But if you develop that sexual identity in a positive way, meaning you get what you want out of sexual and intimate relationships and healthy relationships, then we feel that you can really become empowered.”

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You’ve probably heard the phrase “communication is key” before. In fact, you might even feel like you hear this general sentiment so often that you’re getting repeatedly hit over the head with a proverb, and it’s giving you a splitting headache that makes it impossible to say anything to the world around you, let alone to tell people your private emotions and thoughts.

For some reason, this ever-growing expectation—which probably stems from the culture of oversharing—that complete openness with the world around you will come naturally and easily to each person might actually make you feel even more tight-lipped.

Maybe you feel like one of the final soldiers left standing in the war on personal privacy, or maybe you feel like the expectations are just too high and you’re afraid of judgment.

Or maybe you’ve just been putting your big emotional reveal off, but figure if you’ve made it this far in life without spilling your secrets, why start now?

But deep down, you know that this is a skill that you should strengthen, that you want to strengthen, because you feel like you have something—maybe it’s a secret, or opinion, or strange thought—buried inside you. Even if it’s an inconsequential little thing, letting it out would feel spectacular, yet as you stare into the eyes of the expectant listener across from you, your courage fails and the sentiment that was on the tip of your tongue shrivels up.

If you happened to pass through the Rose Kennedy Greenway last week, you might have found exactly what you needed.

As you passed through, you would have

noticed a giant white dome plunked in the middle of the grass. If you were intrigued by this marshmallow-like structure, you probably walked closer, allowing the lines of the blob to solidify, and its outline to slowly come into focus. Oh, you probably thought, it looks like a giant speech bubble. And as you continued moving closer, the black lines on the giant speech bubble would become huge letters that spelled out TRUTH right above a small white curtain that you could easily pull aside.

This huge and mysterious structure is the Truth Booth—an interactive art installation that inhabited the Greenway between April 13 and 15. People of all ages were encouraged to enter the booth one by one, and once inside were prompted to record a video of themselves. They could say anything they wanted, as long as they began with “the truth is…”

The project, which is called In Search of Truth, was created by Cause Collective,

a group of innovative minds dedicated to creating public art. The Truth Booth is one of these works, and over the past five years it has traveled to locations across the world in order to collect truths from as many people as possible, the recordings of which the artists eventually compile into longer films.

With the upcoming election in America, the minds behind the project have launched a Kickstarter to raise the $75,000 needed to take the Truth Booth on a journey across all 50 states. According to its statement on Kickstarter, the group hopes to provide an interactive platform for the nation to share their truths on the upcoming election.

So maybe this is the kind of communication that not just individuals, but also cities and countries and nations, ultimately need.

The Truth Booth is a special kind of oversharing, a platform from which someone can throw their thoughts into a void without fearing judgment. Just like a test run for personal expression, they can practice shar-

ing in front of a camera, and strengthen the muscles they need to share with the people around them.

But the recent surge of inflatable art that has swept across Boston is even more fascinating. Beginning with the Museum of Fine Art’s inflatable flower and inflatable fruit tree, the inflatable Truth Booth is Boston’s third inflatable installation in the past month. These works are fleeting, there one day and gone the next, never to be seen again. And maybe, in the Internet age when leaving our pasts behind and starting afresh is essentially impossible, it is this kind of impermanence that enchants us. Maybe that is why people are afraid to communicate in the first place: they are afraid that they will never be able to take it back.

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FIRST-PERSON PERSPECTIVE DOESN’T DO THE ACTION FILM ANY FAVORS, PAGE B4 COLUMN

‘POWER RANGERS’

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‘Cabaret’

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As a boy born in 1995, there aren’t many movies or TV shows left that I would want to see revived. Many of the Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon cartoons that captured my intrigue in the late ’90s and early 2000s are products of a by-gone age. No one wants to see Jimmy Neutron and Timmy Turner with cell phones or the Angry Beavers dealing with radical effects of climate change.

These images melt parts of the brain if you focus on them for too long.

There is, however, one show with an upcoming reboot that Saturday morning FOX 4 Kids viewers are sure to shed a single tear of joy in anticipation of—the new Power Rangers film. With an alreadychosen cast of relative newcomers to the Hollywood scene, and this week’s first look at Elizabeth Banks’ revamped Rita Repulsa, fans are most likely submerged in a viscous mix of giddy excitement and unavoidable skepticism—or at least that’s how I’m feeling about the whole ordeal.

A large part of me feels that this reboot just doesn’t need to happen. Power Rangers seasons up through around 2002 (the Wild Force era) had such an imbued, natural campiness that I can’t conceive of a major motion picture either reimagining or imitating its nature very well. I guess it helps to have original creator Haim Saban on-board the project as a producer, but with the found-footage failure Project Almanac director Dean Israelite helming the film, Power Rangers fans don’t really have any reason to invest their hopes and dreams in this reboot.

In 2016, it’s really difficult to picture what a Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers reimagining could possibly look like.

The show never really moved away from the huge plastic monster suits that the actors used to wear in the late ’90s and early 2000s, but I think those would just look silly on the silver screen. Would Rita Repulsa’s henchman, Goldar, still have a rubber snout that just kind of tweaks when the actor talks, or would they try to make him a CGI character? If they did make monsters like Goldar CGI, would that distract from the aesthetic that Power Rangers fans know and love? I’m not sure, but it’s hard to visualize either outcome.

It’s not like this picture of Banks is very helpful to me in crafting a picture of what this movie could look like. In the good ole’ days, Rita Repulsa had this outfit that made her look half like a witch and half like a live-action Pokemon, but Elizabeth Banks’ costume looks like she’s the new Xenomorph model for a new Alien movie. Once again, I’m hit with this conflict of whether the new choice looks better than the old and whether the old would have worked at all in the first place. Rita Repulsa always looked ridiculous, but should the new Power Rangers filmmakers have embraced that quirkiness, or have they made the right move with choosing a different look?

None of this accounts for the film’s action scenes, arguably one of the most iconic aspects of Power Rangers. What would Power Rangers be without its horrendously over-exaggerated reactions and wildly satisfying sparks that flew off of characters every time they were punched? Would the new film try to bury these emblematic visuals, or would it take them on whole-heartedly? It seems, once again, I’ve only been able to offer up a litany of questions without providing any answers to them, and there’s no way I could answer them correctly—I don’t think anyone could.

But the bigger problem is that the people behind this reboot are trying to revive a sensation that’s long-dead. The Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers belong to the age of Tonka Trucks, furbies, and Disney Bill Nye. It’s hard to throw our modern tastes at something like this and, with every choice the Power Rangers people make, fans are either going to think they went too far out of their way to make the new film just like or totally different from the original series.

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Quinn, MCAS ’19), one of the musical’s eventual German antagonists, who recommends that Cliff take up residence at Frau Schneider’s (Lia Tessitore, MCAS ’19) boarding house. When Cliff appears at the Klub, Sally is thrilled to meet another English-speaker, but the two remain apart until Sally gets fired, and shows up at Frau Schneider’s wanting to move into Cliff ’s room. After the pair falls in love, the characters are left trying to plan their futures amid the growing influence of the Nazi Party, and the ominous threat of a drastic change to life as they know it.

One notable aspect of the musical is that no matter where the characters seem to go, the Kit Kat Klub never fades out of the background. The cabaret stage, complete with its showy red curtains, flashy lighting, and worndown, filthy aesthetic, is ever-present.

No matter if Cliff and Sally are at Frau Schneider’s boarding house, or if Ernst Ludwig is at a (comical) English lesson with Cliff, the scandalous stage and its cabaret dancers are constantly there to intervene and move the plot along. This phenomenon is intriguing on so many levels, as the whole point of a cabaret performance, and the Kit Kat Klub itself, is to allow viewers to escape the trials

of daily life.

As the Emcee compellingly notes in the song “Willkommen,” “So—life is disappointing? Forget it!” The structure of the play, as well as the literal stage, forbids the characters and audience from doing that, as the Emcee and his performers keep creeping into the play’s tender and shocking moments alike.

Furthermore, the actors who portray the cabaret workers are the same ones who play the menacing Nazi henchmen and the scandalous sailors, which suggests the dreaded concept of being able to run but not hide, and chips away at the fantasy of escaping into the crazy cabaret world.

On numerous occasions, the numbers performed at the Kit Kat Klub make the characters face the struggles in their own lives, and convey them in a twisted way that leaves the audience members grimacing, shaking their heads in pity for these characters. The over-the-top interpretations of their concerns, including finances, handling complicated relationships, and anticipating the Nazi takeover, come off as compelling. For example, the song “Money” serves as a disturbing commentary on how everyone in society depends on money to function. Through the song’s mocking

sound and scoffs at the poor, the audience can’t help but be reminded of the shady things the characters will do to get the stuff that “makes the world go round.” Complete with a wheelbarrow full of cash that all the dancers frantically crowd around, the number portrays society as a slave to “that clinking, clanking sound,” and winds up leaving the audience to wonder if the world has any ounce of humanity left at all.

Perhaps the most striking element of this play is how appalling the actions of the early Nazis really were, which is explored through the relationship between the gracious Frau Schneider and Herr S chultz ( Jo e McCar thy, CSOM ’17). Herr Schultz is an elderly Jewish man who comes across as more likeable and sweeter than the fruits he cheerfully sells. Nevertheless, the ever-threatening Nazis view Schultz as someone less than German, and less than human. This chilling dichotomy between who Schultz really is and what the Nazis proclaim him to be gets played out in a cringeworthy manner, and by the time the play reaches its discordant conclusion, the audience realizes that some crises run so deep, even the underground world of cabaret begins to look a bit bleak.

JULIA HOPKINS / HEIGHTS EDITOR

THIS WEEKEND in arts

BY: HANNAH MCLAUGHLIN | ASST. ARTS & REVIEW EDITOR

‘CABARET’ (TURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY)

SHOVELHEAD (FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AT 10 P.M.)

This weekend, head to the Bonn Theater for a spring musical you won’t want to miss. The Boston College Dramatics Society will transport viewers back to the 1930s with Cabaret. Set in a seedy Berlin nightclub, danger, seduction, and mystery will collide in this exciting production.

In the world of on-campus comedy, the hilarious student comedians of Hello… Shovelhead! will host their annual spring show. If you want to secure a seat, get to Fulton 511 early for this highly anticipated series of creative skits.

CHORALE SPRING CONCERT (SATURDAY AT 8 P.M.) Get your tickets now for the Boston College Chorale Spring Concert. Located in the Trinity Chapel on Newton Campus, this highly anticipated show will feature classical melodies and upbeat numbers, including Ola Gjeilo’s “Sunrise Mass.”

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DYNAMICS SPRING CAFE (SATURDAY AT 7:30 P.M.) The fun-loving, co-ed a cappella crew will host its annual Spring Cafe this weekend in McGuinn 121. Don’t miss the group debut new skits, perform new covers, and regale its audience with a creative, cable-TV-themed performance.

DANCE MARATHON (SATURDAY AT 10 P.M.)

PETE DAVIDSON (SATURDAY AT 9:45 P.M.)

The Sophomore Class Council invites you to BC’s first annual Dance Marathon. Make your way to the Plex this Saturday for an all-night dance party whose proceeds go directly to Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.

Saturday Night Live star Pete Davidson will take the stage this weekend at Boston’s Wilbur Theatre. Performing his signature style of hilarious stand-up comedy, Davidson is sure to keep this Beantown audience in stitches for the entire show.

‘THE HUNTSMAN: THE WINTER’S WAR’ (OPENS FRIDAY) This star-studded fusion of action and fantasy, the prequel to Snow White and the Huntsman hits theaters this Friday. When the overwhelming powers of pure evil and true love intersect, the result is an action-packed, CGI-heavy fairy tale.

VAN MORRISON (TUESDAY AT 7 P.M.) Next week, the Citi Performing Arts Center will play host to Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison. Secure your tickets now to experience the legendary musician play a collection of classic hits like “Brown Eyed Girl” and “Into the Mystic.”

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Thursday, April 21, 2016

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Many of Boston College’s Music Guild members huddled together to stay warm, though several were already clad in heavy jackets. Some were fortunate enough to perform during one of the sun’s brief appearances, but many were forced to shiver throughout the majority of their 20-minute sets. One artist, however, didn’t seem to be phased by the cold. Instead, she readily fought it off with her irresistible smile and infectiously cheery demeanor. Tabitha Joseph, CSOM ’17, lead singer of Tabitha Joseph + the Halos, was basking in the sights, sounds, and friends that surrounded her.

Alongside bandmates Kyrie Olsen, MCAS ’17, Jacquelyn Andalcio, LSOE ’17, and Gbidee Roberts, CSOM ’17, Joseph has formed one of the Music Guild’s two all-female bands, although Olsen is currently studying abroad.

Despite this, Tabitha Joseph + the Halos is still trying to shape and picture its fu-

ture as a band. The group, as a whole, is trying to decide what it wants the band to be. Once Olsen returns next semester, the group will be able to tackle these types of questions more thoroughly.

Thus far, Tabitha Joseph + the Halos has been heavily focused on its harmonies, opting for a laid-back, introspective tone, and acoustic sound. While Joseph sings lead vocals for the group, Olsen plays the guitar and sometimes the piano, Andalcio can be found on the cajon, and Roberts rounds out the group providing lead vocals. The band formed last year, when Joseph simply asked a few of her friends, who had met each other in Voices of Imani and various classes, if they would join her to compete in Battle of the Bands.

“For Battle of the Bands we performed a song that I wrote and we just had a great time with it,” Joseph said.

“It’s nice to have people that are willing to uplift your music or get your message out there. [Olsen] will hear something different than I do, and she contributes her thinking. Friends like that can make your music better.”

With Olsen’s absence, the Halos aren’t performing as often. But, this hasn’t hindered the remaining members from working with Joseph on pieces she is developing. Joseph, Andalcio, and Roberts, who are all close friends, work off of each other’s energy and tastes to

continue building the group’s writing process and style.

“We often spend time making beats and remixing nursery rhymes, pop tunes, or just some random phrases,” Andalcio said. “You can feed off [Joseph’s] energy, and she encourages [us] to try songs, sing notes and combinations that [we] only sing if [she] pushed to do so.”

Aside from leading the Halos, Joseph was the volunteer organizer for this year’s Music Guild and put together trips with fellow musicians to perform and work with children from the Franciscan Hospital for Children. Every other week, Joseph and about 10 Music Guild volunteers go out to Brighton to work with kids from the hospital’s psych ward, performing for them and showing them what they can make of their music interests if they pursue them.

While Joseph enjoys the covers that she and the Halos perform at open-mic nights and various Music Guild events, she has also worked on her own songs, often compiling bits of songs that she thinks up in a jam-packed notebook.

Though a lot of her notes are nowhere near a complete song, and it can be difficult to find the drive to finish a lot of them, Joseph said that she has around 20 songs in development and that there are five or six that have been fully crafted.

While many Music Guild artists like to

write about their own experiences at BC, Joseph has focused on more unique, impersonal topics. Instead, she likes to take stories from her friends and craft a lyrical narrative around them. When Joseph does write about stories and themes that are closer to her, she likes to discuss her family.

For Joseph, singing and writing are very personal endeavors. She thinks that forming Tabitha Joseph + the Halos has brought her and her friends closer than she imagined it could, and has showed her the different tastes and styles each of them brings to the table. While Joseph herself is interested in pop and punk, she notes that Olsen is more intrigued by folk, and that the two sounds can meld together in beautiful ways. Unifying sounds and genres have shown Joseph the power that music has over her personally and over her friendships.

“There’s a sense of home there,” Joseph said. “For me, music is the way that I connect to God. It’s my gift from God to be able to praise God through music. I feel connected to God and everyone around me when I sing.”

Music touches listeners in distinct ways, depending on what’s being played and who is listening. But as far as Tabitha Joseph is concerned, all music is a way to connect with those around her—to see what other people are feeling and what they see in the world around them.

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“Do it for the Insta.”

According to my observations, the kids these days are saying it now more than ever before. Whether it’s in reference to some kind of dare or even a fun little day trip to the beach, people seem to have developed this social-media-obsessed habit of planning their free time around, of all things, their Instagram accounts.

Now don’t get me wrong—like most rotten millennials, I can appreciate a good Instagram post when I see one. I’d be lying if I said I’ve never glanced at the accumulating likes on my own photos and momentarily thought with a slight smirk, “hey kid, you done good.” But for the life of me, I just couldn’t wrap my head around the conversation I heard between two girls online- shopping in the Chocolate Bar. It went a little something like this: Girl #1: “OMG, look at this dress. So cute.” I couldn’t help but glance over. Let the record show that it was, indeed, a very cute dress.

Girl #2: Wait, you have to buy that now.

Even if you don’t have an event or anything, do it for the Insta.”

In layman’s terms, the gist of the conversation was as follows: “Buy this very expensive dress so that you can post a photo of yourself wearing it in exchange for digital affirmation of approval.”

This happens often with music festivals and concerts. If your social media feeds were flooded with West Coast college kids sporting tiny crop tops and flash tattoos this weekend, or if that weird flower crown Snapchat filter from a few days ago wasn’t enough of a dead giveaway already, let me be the first to officially welcome you to Concert Season 2016. This past weekend marked the three days of Coachella, and many of the featured snapchats were not of performers, but of selfies taken only to show off the boho-chic outfits.

That’s right, concert-goers who weave wildflowers in their hair like it’s no big deal, it’s concert season. Pair your “edgy,” black high tops with a sundress and Snapchat your experience of watching Kygo perform.

Dust off your mom’s overalls from the early ’80s and claim they’re still in style, because this is Coachella, and society says you better look cute.

Though it’s no Bonnaroo, my 14-yearold sister has been on the hunt for the perfect outfit to wear to an upcoming Justin Bieber concert. Apparently, my suggestion of “um … pants and a T-shirt?” wasn’t exactly what she was looking for. Rolling her eyes in my direction, she replied, “Hannah, come on. I have to do it for the Insta.” Obviously, I couldn’t argue with that logic. I mean, as Descartes definitely said one time, “I think I look super cute, therefore I am super cute.”

The other day, to my ultimate chagrin, I noticed that I had done the exact same thing. On the Sunday before Marathon Monday, I called my mom.

“Hey mom, I have nothing to wear for tomorrow,” I said, looking wistfully into my closet at clothes that definitely would have worked just fine. Hesitating, my mom said, “Well, what do you mean?”

And then it hit me. I was my little sister—the only difference was that my event was far cooler than watching a Canadian kid lipsync to his own pop music.

Full disclosure, guys, I’m no fashion expert. I don’t pretend to be. My method for choosing outfits doesn’t extend any farther than throwing on clothes I forgot I owned, trusting whatever it is looks presentable with Converse, and calling it a day. Shakespeare once wrote, “Some are born stylish, some achieve stylishness, and some have stylishness thrust upon them.”

Whatever way you spin it, I think he might have forgotten my category.

Though I wasn’t consciously choosing an outfit for the Instagram ‘wow factor’—I decided on gym shorts and a T-shirt, happy as a clam—some part of me felt like I needed something new. Embarrassed, I realized this happens often, and—unless abstaining from social media is your thing—no one is safe.

The worst part is, I can’t think of any way to fix it.

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Hardcore Henry seems to suggest that just because you can does not always mean you should. In this first-person action flick, the story is as thin as the layer of gore dripping from every window, upholstery, and surface in the film. The action, for all its grandiosity, is not enough to make up for the lack of narrative, cracking the skulls of viewers over and over with little to no tact. Harecore Henry

does not pull punches, but will ultimately leave viewers feeling numb, like the protagonist Henry, to all its flashiness, gun fire, and girls.

Following Henry from the firstperson perspective, the film takes us for an action-packed ride as Henry (Sergey Valyaev, Andrei Dementiev, and Ilya Naishuller) awakes from an induced sleep in a water chamber.

Emerging from the chamber with no memory of who he is or how he got here, Henry is greeted by his wife Estelle (Haley Bennett). After

a brief reunion, the two begin their escape, only to be stopped by Akan (Danila Kozlovsky) a crazed telekinetic warlord. A brief skirmish results in Estelle’s capture, leading Henry to find out who he is as he fights to bring his wife back to safety.

There are few fully developed characters in the film. Henry is not so much a person as an empty shell.

The extent of his and the cast’s characterization goes as far as the kind of exposition given in Super Mario Bros. or other simple, classic video games.

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“Save me!” the princess says. The evil villain laughs as he whisks her away.

The only character of merit is Sharlto Copley as Jimmy, a scientist and friend to Henry. His performance is actually quite dynamic as he adopts different looks, accents, and mannerisms throughout the film. His character holds together his scenes and is a major driving force of the paper-thin narrative, second only to bullets.

The film, even by its title, makes it known that the plot will be driven by a spray of gunfire and explosions at the heels of the protagonists. Hardcore Henry pulls heavily from the kind of first-person shooter romps seen in video games, and while this is an interesting filming technique, it should not be the sole basis of a cinematic experience. In games, the silent protagonist leaves room to substitute his or her lack of personality for our own.

Players are inextricably linked to the game through gameplay, but the same notion is not achieved through the relative passivity of moviewatching. A hollow viewing experience results.

The gore, violence, and explicitness of the film are actually some of the most refreshing parts of the experience. Getting up close and personal with stabbings, gunshots, and decapitations in the first-person is very different and unique in that respect, though in many cases the film seems to slip on its own mess, as the

onslaught of violence makes for some long, drawn-out, and otherwise uninteresting action sequences. As Henry dismantles, disarms, and disembowels his foes without fail, his already-flimsy character set-up distances itself from anything grounded in reality.

Though the technical aspects of filming in first person are commendable, it, at times, does not lend itself well to the comprehension of viewers.

Though the more ungainly aspects of the filming might be purposefully added to create tension and unease within the viewer, their inclusion remains questionable.

Additionally, cuts between takes are visible in many tracking shots.

As Henry chases down adversaries, these cuts can be seen, jumping him slightly farther up steps or down the street. These might also be purposeful additions to cut down on the tedium of travel, but they diminish the fluidity of the first-person perspective.

It seems that first-person film could at some point become a major cinematic style. Though, it would be smart of films to incorporate it in such a way that would fit a theater setting and work within the confines of a film narrative. Video games are video games, and films are films. If the new genre cannot adapt, it may be best to leave a note attached to its corpse, like so many of Henry’s mangled foes, reading “Do not resuscitate.”

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After a SWAT team rescues the Indiana Mole Women, Kimmy begins a new life for herself in New York City, where she finds friends in her out-of-work actor roommate Titus Andromedon (Tituss Burgess), their landlady Lillian (Carol Kane), and Kimmy’s boss, the trophy wife Jacqueline Voorhees (Jane Krakowsi).

The first season of the Tina Feycreated show established its characters as caricatures before subverting each example, both as punchlines and punctuation in its drama. Kimmy, kidnapped in middle school and thus stagnated in her growth, must confront adulthood and independent life. Jacqueline’s confident façade fades to show her personal insecurities in the face of financial ones. Titus steps outside his personal brand of narcis-

sism to be a better friend to Lillian and Kimmy. The conflicts in the first half of season two continue the development of some of these same themes.

But while the second season continues to explore some of the same themes, it delves into darker material than before, especially as it concerns its relentlessly sunny protagonist.

Season one made nods to Kimmy’s experiences in the bunker, but it often treated them with irreverent humor.

The finale saw the prosecution of the Reverend, forcing Kimmy and her compatriots to band together to make a defense. But the show never explores Kimmy’s psychological damage until the later episodes of season two.

Kimmy, for instance, brings a date to one of Jacqueline’s lavish parties with a veteran. When he panics at a loud noise, pushing her out of the way, she jumps on him and reflexively tries to pull at his nonexistent beard (which the Reverend had), showing the characters’ separate traumas.

Kimmy also begins therapy, reunites with her family, and is forced to give up on her first love, Dong (Ki Hong Lee), who is trapped in a green-card marriage.

Gretchen (Lauren Adams) was a willing and believing member of the Reverend’s cult. While it seems in the first season that she was just taken by the Reverend’s personality (of course she loves Jon Hamm), she immediately joined another cult, prompting

Kimmy to confront her about her follower personality and susceptibility to extremism. All this in a funny and lighthearted tone, of course.

The show has some slip-ups, to be certain, especially as concerns the representation of race. Kimmy Schmidt has come under criticism for both its treatment of Jacqueline’s Native American roots and a season two sequence in which Titus, an African-American man, portrays a Japanese geisha that he believes himself to have been in a past life, to the chagrin and then appreciation of an Asian representation activist group.

These interactions in the context of comedy are somewhat enigmatic, but they can certainly make for some cringeworthy moments depending on the interpretation.

Despite its darker dramatic developments, Kimmy Schmidt still elicits genuine laughs. One of the highlights among season two’s new cast members is Anna Camp as Deirdre Robespierre, a State Department exec-turned-socialite housewife who uses her excess mental energy to manipulate Manhattan’s wealthy. She transcends the mean-girl stereotype by betting against herself, doing her

best to outsmart Jacqueline and expose her relative poverty (she’s now only a “dozen-aire” with $12 million) while hoping Jacqueline will match her wits.

And on the subject of wittiness, if you can’t get enough of the catchy, key-changing theme song, get ready for new songs this season. Plus, there’s even a new option to “Kimmify” your Netflix account, which changes the color scheme to pink and purple.

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt has its ups and downs in its character development, but it has proven itself to have an unbreakable spirit.

All you need is love, right? Maybe, if you’re a member of The Beatles. If you’re part of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, however, you’re going to need to deliver a lot more than “good vibes” to create a successful album. With new LP PersonA, the folk group ventures out of its comfort zone to explore less cheerful, participatory music, failing to create a record of the

same caliber as its previous releases.

Much has changed since the releases of the band’s first three albums, Up From Below, Here, and its most recent self-titled album. First and foremost, frontman Alex Ebert’s longterm girlfriend, Jade Castrinos, who doubled as the group’s lead female vocalist, left both Ebert and the band in 2014. Due to her departure, PersonA has none of the sugary love-driven duets like breakout single “Home” or “That’s What’s Up,” two songs that can

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be considered responsible for much of the band’s success.

Perhaps Castrinos can be held accountable for the change in Ebert’s lyrical style as well. On PersonA, the Magnetic Zeros trade in their more personal love ballads for a greater, universal idea of love, again echoing the work of the drug-induced version of the late -60s Beatles. Granted, this is not the first time this painfully recycled theme has appeared on a Magnetic Zeros track. On their self-

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titled album, “Let’s Get High” read like the musings of a festival ground hippie. “Let’s get high / high on love,” sings Ebert. Yet at least on this older track, the band had the guiding hand of a more involved producer.

Turning to themes of a greater, overarching love with its lyrics, the 10-man group tried for the first time with PersonA to co-write the majority of songs on the album, crafting tracks out of communal jam sessions in Ebert’s recently purchased recording studio in New Orleans. This creative flow and freedom is new to the Magnetic Zeros.

With two of the tracks on PersonA clocking in at over six minutes, and four tracks lasting over four, it’s easy to tire of the band’s new artistic direction. The deconstructed jam session that may have fared well in a live performance doesn’t serve to please on a studio album. With only 10 songs creating a 45-minute album, PersonA blends into one musical backyard, losing the listener’s interest.

While the overall quality of PersonA does not impress, there are some shining moments within the rough. “No Love Like Yours,” in addition to the last two songs on the album, “Lullabye” and “The Ballad

of Yaya,” serve to at least pique the listener’s interest again, if not entirely recapture it. “No Love Like Yours” is the shortest of the album, and a clear balm for the die-hard fans of the Magnetic Zero’s folk ditties.

Clearly, Alex Ebert and his cohorts are aiming to change both their future direction and their current image. Even the cover of this album hearkens to this effort, showing the name of the band with “Edward Sharpe and the” struck through with red spray paint. From here on out, the music produced will be a collaborative effort, and the content will extend from beyond Ebert’s personal love life to a universalized concept of communal gratification and amity.

Yet while PersonA was an attempt to realize this direction, it fell short in providing any listener satisfaction. The message was overwhelmingly familiar and condescending, without any of the familiar musical cheer that Magnetic Zeros fans have come to know and love.

Fans can hope that live performances will justify the unkempt production of the album, or that the successor to PersonA will recognize Ebert’s vision in a way more appetizing to his followers.

Nearly a year after Halsey’s indie track “Castle” was released in her splashy studio album entrance to national airwaves, the artist returns this week with a belated video tribute to a sequence in the upcoming The Huntsman: Winter’s War prequel. In a takeno-prisoners bid for domination, Halsey lends her characteristic spacey vocals to the video in this visual retelling of her song, which includes some attention-grabbing spectacles, but delivers few new fireworks for fans.

The opening of the video provides one of its few striking visuals, as Halsey is seen silhouetted by a spotlight, slowly illuminated in an extravagant dress and crown as she croons to an apparent enchanted mirror. Yet all too quickly the scene backslides into choppily spliced scenes from the Huntsman film, visually paralyzing, devoid of transition, and often only superficially connected to the lyrics sung in overlay. The fractured, puzzle-piece nature of the video seems desperate to make a heavily symbolic, coherent statement, and instead it feels like a Frankenstein’s monster of indie pop and bigbudget blockbuster elements that clash, despite their objectively similar topic matter.

Other moments appear to reveal the artist and production team reaching to reinvent the single and film in a new, melded medium. The styling of Halsey, gilded and yet animalistic, is awkwardly paired with shots of translucent light and skin flashing across the screen in close-ups that imitate the film’s visual focus on the ornate and grim. By the video’s close, as Halsey returns to singular silhouette, fondling the crown atop her head, the viewer is left impelled to feel the dangerous seduction of the tune reimagined within the confines of a new dramatic narrative. The few-and-far-between notable moments of the collaboration, however, fall far short in forging any new connection.

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Before being featured in the soundtrack of the recent Netflix original Flaked, Car Seat Headrest used to be known only among a small group of longtime listeners. “Fill In The Blank” drowns out the band’s lyrical doubt about its future with a wash of fuzzy guitar and tight melodies.

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Current Notre Dame head coach Mik Aoki coached Frates during his time as coach of the Eagles, and started this annual game when he started coaching the Fighting Irish.

This is the fourth ALS game that Notre Dame has hosted, and all of the revenue went directly to the Pete Frates No. 3 Fund.

The Fighting Irish wore special jerseys to honor Frates, who is just one of many links between the two storied programs.

The last game of the series may have been the most exciting, at least for the viewers and crowd in attendance. The game was filled with ties, lead changes, and clutch hits, and BC ultimately lost 11-9. The Eagles jumped out to a quick 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning, the first run scoring on a bases-loaded walk to freshman Gian

Martellini that brought Jake Palomaki in from third. Nick Sciortino then scored on a base hit to right field from Johnny Adams.

The Fighting Irish came right back and scored three in the bottom of the inning off of a three-run home run from senior Ricky Sanchez.

The Eagles came back to score five in the top of the second, starting with a leadoff double from Dominic Hardaway to left-center field. Fighting Irish pitcher David Hearne got Palomaki out at first, before walking the next three BC hitters. Martellini popped up to shortstop for the second out, and then Logan Hoggarth walked to force in a run. Notre Dame brought in Hale to pitch, who gave up back-to-back singles to Adams and Anthony Maselli before striking out Hardaway.

The next four innings were surprisingly uneventful after the two-inning slugfest.

The Fighting Irish put up one run on an RBI single in the bottom of the fourth, and the Eagles scored one in the top of the sixth on an RBI triple from Martellini that scored Sciortino to make the score 8-4. BC scored one more in the top of the seventh when Adams hit a home run over the left-field fence.

The one thing that teams always try to

avoid is a bad inning that gets out of hand, and unfortunately the Eagles couldn’t stop the Fighting Irish from putting up five runs in the bottom of the seventh, four of them coming with two outs. This allowed Notre Dame to tie a game that seemed out of reach just a half-inning before, and deflated a BC team that had played a very strong game up to that point. Notre Dame put up two more runs in the bottom of the eighth inning, its first lead since the bottom of the first, and held on despite a brief bases-loaded threat from the Eagles in their last at bat.

On Saturday, BC and Notre Dame played a tough pitchers’ duel, but the Eagles fell 4-1. Junior pitcher Justin Dunn made his second start of the season and went 4 1/3 innings, allowing just three hits and two runs (one earned) to go along with four strikeouts. He kept the Fighting Irish on their heels for the first four innings before allowing a leadoff walk and a single. Redshirt sophomore Bobby Skogsbergh came into the game in relief, and Notre Dame infielder Kutsulis hit a sacrifice fly to score the first run of the game.

Skogsbergh got the next batter, Matt Vierling, to pop up in foul territory, but second baseman Palomaki was unable to corral the ball, and it dropped uncaught. As

it usually goes, the batter made the Eagles pay by smacking a home run over the leftfield fence to make the game 3-0. These two unearned runs decided the game. The Eagles put a dent in the score in the top of the sixth on a Sciortino home run to left, but couldn’t capitalize on any more opportunities.

In the bottom of the seventh, Notre Dame added to its lead on an RBI single up the middle that made it 4-1. BC escaped a one-out, runners-on-the-corners jam to end the inning. Skogsbergh got a popup to shallow right that Palomaki chased down and caught. He then turned and fired home to get the runner Shepski out at home.

BC lost the first game of the series on Friday 4-1. Freshman Jacob Stevens pitched a strong game against a potent Notre Dame offense, but the Eagles only mustered three hits off a dominant start from Fighting Irish pitcher Peter Soloman. Stevens pitched six innings, struck out seven, and allowed no walks, but gave up a season-high four earned runs and seven hits.

The game was scoreless until the bottom of the fourth, with both pitchers showing their best stuff with strong defenses behind them. The Fighting Irish struck first with a leadoff single from Jake Shepski followed by a double to right field from Zak Kutsulis that

put runners on second and third. Stevens got a strikeout for the first out, but Sanchez grounded out to third and plated Shepski.

Nick Podkul then ripped a single to left field that scored Kutsulis to put Notre Dame up 3-0.

The Eagles got one back in the seventh, loading the bases on two walks and a single from Strem. Braren then hit a line-drive single to right field that scored one run.

But BC left three runners stranded as two strikeouts ended the inning and the Eagles’ momentum.

Notre Dame scored two more runs in the bottom of the seventh to bring the score up to 4-1. Back-to-back doubles to leftcenter and down the right-field line from Podkul and Kyle Fiala scored one run, and a single up the middle brought Fiala home to plate a second run. Freshman John Witkowski then loaded the bases on a walk and another single. Dan Metzdorf was brought into the game and struck out the first batter he saw before getting the next one to pop up to end the Fighting Irish threat.

After taking 2-of-3 from No. 16 Virginia, getting swept by Notre Dame was not what BC was looking for, and it appears that consistency will be the key for this team over the last third of the season.

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Six maroon jerseys filled the 8-meter arc, constantly pushing the white jerseys to the outside. No one could break in. But after five minutes of battle along the perimeter, a white jersey broke through. No. 5 dodged two defenders as she wove in and out of the 8-meter arc toward the goal. With two defenders on her tail, No. 5 shuffled to center and fired one into the net from the front door. No. 5 Tess Chandler dropped her stick and ran to her teammates to celebrate the first of what would be 15 steps to victory.

Boston College lacrosse constantly battled the Virginia Tech defense. The Hokies, however, could not withstand the Eagles’ pressure as they continually broke through and found net. The Eagles (9-6, 2-5 Atlantic Coast) defeated the Hokies (5-11, 0-6) in a hard-fought 15-10 win.

After BC won the opening draw and stormed downfield, the Hokies blocked the perimeter of the 8-meter mark.

After five minutes of battling from the outside, the Eagles broke through and Chandler snuck one past Hannah Sieger. Caroline Margolis tallied one of her own 15 seconds later to give BC a 2-0 lead.

Each team tallied two, making it a 4-2 game. After taking it downfield,

Margolis tried to push inside the defensive barrier, but was denied entry three times. She found Kate Rich behind the net, wearing the No.19 Welles Crowther memorial jersey. Rich tossed it to Kate Weeks, who one-timed it into the twine right in front of Sieger.

BC continued to dominate the first 30 minutes and headed into halftime with a comfortable 9-5 lead.

But this lead was almost too comfortable. Virginia Tech came out ready to fight and scored within the first 20 seconds of the half to make it a threegoal game. Once the Hokies scored a free-position goal to make it an 11-8 game, head coach Acacia Walker decided to replace Zoe Ochoa in net with freshman Lauren Daly.

“Zoe just wasn’t seeing the ball like normal,” Walker said. “We have a great backup in Lindsey [Reder] and Lauren, but it was Lauren’s chance today and I think it was the right decision. Lauren went in and did pretty well.”

Daly stood strong in net, but the Hokies got one past her to narrow BC’s lead to two goals. The Hokie bench danced and cheered as the Eagles stood silent. The Eagles struggled offensively during a 13-minute scoring drought, but the defense contained VTech’s offense to ensure its lead was kept intact.

“I think we always knew … I mean, they have four top scorers who are unbelievable,” Walker said. “They really

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Many of the Eagles, including Caroline Margolis (pictured above), honored Welles Crowther by wearing red bandannas. didn’t have it going in the first half, but I knew for sure that they would figure it out, which they did. That comeback wasn’t a surprise to me.”

Margolis ended the scoring drought to make it a 12-9 game. In order to stop a BC offensive push, the Hokies’ head coach Megan Burker decided to challenge the legality of Margolis’ stick’s pocket. The refs concluded, after brief deliberation, that the goal stood. Contrary to VTech’s coach, the Eagles could not be stopped.

With less than six minutes remaining, Mannelly scored another to get BC’s lead back to four. Three minutes later, Sarah Mannelly fired one across the arc to Kenzie Kent, who launched one into the net as Sieger missed the diving save, making it a 14-9 game with 3:30 left in the game.

After a penalty in the arc, the Hokies had a free-position goal with two minutes remaining. Meghan Macera scored her fifth goal of the game to get her team within four. But Kara Magley

would not let VTech make another comeback as she snagged a pass from Emma Schurr and sent a slow bouncer into the goal.

The Eagles offense maintained possession for the remainder of the game and captured a 15-10 win in honor of Crowther. No player took control.

Each Eagle generously assisted her teammates, making sure everyone was involved. With the Crowther family looking on, the team put up an honorable fight to the finish.

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It all started with a pair of bunts.

After three innings, Boston College softball led 5-3. To start the fourth inning, Florida State played small ball, generating two hits off bunts that were placed perfectly between the pitcher and catcher. Up to that point, four of Florida State’s six hits were bunts. These hits sparked a long rally that was completed by Jessica Warren, who scorched a two-run home run to give the Seminoles a 7-5 lead. Florida State never looked back.

Florida State went on to win Sunday’s game 9-6 in an exciting combination of small ball and opportune extra base hits. The Eagles (21-18, 4-8 Atlantic Coast) gave No. 10 Florida State (34-4, 13-1) a strong finale, but were ultimately swept.

Both offenses manufactured runs in the first inning. In the top of the inning, Florida State began the game with two beautiful bunts. Morgan Klaevemann laid down the first bunt and then stole second base. Ellie Cooper moved her to third base with her own bunt for a hit. With runners on first and third, Alex Powers roped a line drive to right field, but it was caught by Loren DiEmmanuele. While the sacrifice fly drove in one run, the runner on first base was frozen by the line drive. DiEmmanuele quickly fired the ball to first base before the runner could retreat to complete a double play. The Seminoles, however, were not done yet. With runners on second and third after a pair of walks and a wild pitch, Zoe Casas beat out an infield single to score the second

run of the inning.

The Eagles were faced with a two-run deficit against one of the best teams in the country, and the team hadn’t even had the chance to bat yet. While the situation was intimidating, the Eagles were not fazed.

After a pair of singles by Chloe Sharabba and Annie Murphy, Tatiana Cortez blasted an RBI double off of the right-field wall to cut the deficit to one. Jordan Chimento followed Cortez’ blast with a sacrifice bunt to tie the game.

Like the Seminoles, the Eagles put together an impressive two-out rally in the opening inning. With two outs and a runner on third, Carly Severini smashed a ground ball between the shortstop and third baseman, giving the Eagles a 3-2 lead. After Megan Cooley dropped a base hit in front of the left fielder, the Eagles took a play out of Florida State’s first-inning playbook and played some small ball. DiEmmanuele sent a bunt toward the pitcher and chaos ensued.

King overthrew the first baseman, allowing two runs to score. Florida State attempted to eliminate the second run, but the throw went by the catcher and allowed DiEmmanuele to advance to third.

The second inning was much cleaner, as both pitchers quickly retired the side in order. In the third inning, Casas sent home another run for the Seminoles, hitting a deep fly ball to right field and making the score 5-3. Despite King’s flawless second inning, head coach Lonni Alameda decided to send Jessica Burroughs into the game in the bottom of the third inning. Alameda obviously did not like King’s first inning, and although BC did not get on base in the second inning,

all three batters made solid contact. Burroughs, on the other hand, made the Eagles look like an entirely different offense. She completed the final five innings while only surrendering two hits and one earned run.

The Eagles struggled with bunt defense early on, and it cost them in the first and fourth innings.

“It’s unacceptable,” head coach Ashley Obrest said after the game. “It’s something we work on almost every single day and [something] we’ve gone over in meetings and scouting reports. Yes, they were good bunters, but that’s still not an excuse for us to just give free bases away.”

After the perfectly placed bunts, Frei loaded the bases by hitting Cooper with a pitch. Powers sent a full-count pitch to left field, driving in two runs to tie the game.

Warren’s first home run ended Frei’s outing after barely staying to the right of the leftfield foul pole. In the sixth inning, Warren blasted her second two-run home run of the game, giving the Seminoles two valuable insurance runs.

“I think she’s one of the best hitters in the ACC, hands down,” Obrest said of Warren.

“We had a plan, and we talked about it in between innings before she gets up. She adjusted. One of them she stepped across the box and hit an outside pitch. A hitter than can do that … that’s pretty remarkable.”

The Eagles scratched out one more run in the seventh inning after Murphy hit a sacrifice fly, but BC ultimately lost 9-6.

Unlike Sunday’s game, the second game of Saturday’s doubleheader was a pitcher’s duel between Frei and King. Frei allowed only two runs off of three hits in seven

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The No. 10 Seminoles proved too much to handle for the Eagles in last weekend’s series. innings, but King’s complete game shutout was even better. Frei’s only blemish of the game came in the first inning, as Powers hit a two-run home run to right center.

BC’s only real chance to score came in the seventh inning, as two consecutive singles and an error loaded the bases with two outs.

Taylor Coroneos could not bring the runners home, however, as a fielder’s choice to the second baseman ended the game.

The first game of Saturday’s doubleheader was the worst game for the Eagles.

Dreswick received the loss despite the fact that only two of her six allowed runs were earned, while Burroughs received the win after five strong innings. The Seminoles set the tone early, scoring four runs in the second inning. Murphy tried to get BC back into the game, hitting a solo home run in the fourth

inning, but it was not enough. After Cooper hit a two-run home run in the fourth inning, Severini scored one run off of a hit to right field in the fifth inning to make the score 6-2.

Florida State added a few more insurance runs in the sixth inning, finishing the game with a final score of 10-2.

The Eagles knew that this was going to be a difficult series against a great team, and while it did not turn out as the team would have liked, BC gave Florida State two tough games. Florida State’s combination of small ball and timely home runs, however, proved to be too much to handle. As Obrest suggested, expect the Eagles to work on bunt defense in practice even more now. Sound fundamentals can be the difference between good and great teams, and it proved to be the difference in Sunday’s game.

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Many expected Towles, a graduate transfer from the University of Kentucky, to snatch the starting gig out of the hands of Wade. The now-redshirt sophomore had been handed the starting spot last year, but a broken ankle in the season’s third week against Florida State sidelined him for the remainder of 2015.

From the get-go, Towles appeared prepared to let everyone know who was in charge. His first pass of the game came on a beautiful, 50+-yard spiral straight down the center of the field. It wasn’t caught, but man, did it look good.

“It felt good, it would’ve been a little bit better if he caught it, or if I threw it better, it was a little overthrown,” Towles said with a laugh on the first play.

BC’s official release has Towles coming in at completing 2-of-4 passes for five yards, though The Heights’ game score has him finishing with 5-of-14 for 48 yards, as well as a 10-yard rush. He showed a strong connection with Jeff Smith, who finished with four catches with 51 yards between Towles and freshman quarterback Anthony Brown. The rest of Towles’ receiving corps,

however, caught a case of the yips and had trouble holding onto the ball.

“There were a couple of drops on that guy out there,” Addazio said with a chuckle.

Towles also lauded the scheme of offensive coordinator Scot Loeffler. Many of the plays resemble what you might find in Addazio’s playbook, but Towles said that it’s a little more complex. According to Towles, Loeffler likes mixing in play-action passes and dropbacks while spreading the field with a mix of short, medium, and long passes. He believes it will prepare him for the next level and, hopefully, the NFL. For right now, it should give BC fans a lot of excitement.

“There’s going to be a lot of plays made in this stadium this year, I can tell you that,” Towles said.

Yet Wade looked even better. He finished 13-of-19 for 181 yards, his best performance as an Eagle thus far. He connected well with Tommy Sweeney (four catches for 57 yards) and Elijah Robinson (five catches for 55 yards). His most impressive play was a soaring, over-the-top 52-yard pass to Drew Barksdale.

In fairness, BC’s four best defensive backs—Johnson, Isaac Yiadom, Gabriel

McClary, and Kamrin Moore—were on Wade’s team. Nevertheless, for the embattled quarterback, it was a day of positives.

“It feels great to get back out there,” Wade said. “I’ve definitely been looking forward to this.”

Now, with spring practices over and the summer ahead, we’ll simply have to wait and see how this quarterback battle turns out. Addazio wouldn’t make any commitments to Wade or Towles, yet noted that they’re pretty much taking all of the reps.

Based on what he saw, he’s really excited for the next step. “[Towles] chucked it, and Darius chucked it,” Addazio said. “That’s as good as I’ve seen those guys chuck it around out there.”

A lot of teams have problems when they have to decide between quarterbacks.

Ohio State had trouble shuffling between Cardale Jones and J.T. Barrett, and Notre Dame could see some issues if the team has to bench Deshone Kizer in favor of returning starter Malik Zaire.

But for an offense like BC had in 2015, having to pick between two quarterbacks who seem ready to break out isn’t such a bad problem to have.

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Pfle^ I\Z\`m\ij Gifm`[\ ?fg\ ]fi 9: fe F]]\ej\ 9P I@C<P FM<I<E; 8jjfZ% Jgfikj <[`kfi Points were hard to come by in Saturday’s Jay McGillis Memorial Spring Football Game, the first of the Steve Addazio era, but that doesn’t mean there weren’t bright spots offensively for the Maroon and Gold teams.

Although it would’ve been comforting to see a touchdown as some sort of signal that new offensive coordinator Scot Loeffler’s scheme is a step in the right direction, there were other signs of life on the offensive end that were promising.

With the running game stagnant for both teams, quarterbacks Patrick Towles and Darius Wade took to the air to attack opposing secondaries. Towles looked like a transfer who is still working out the kinks in the offense—he missed a couple throws and was constantly chased out of the pocket.

Wade, on the other hand, looked crisp and poised in the pocket, completing 13-of-19 passes for 181 yards.

His favorite target, and potentially the Eagles’ new secret weapon, was 6-foot-5, 246-pound tight end Tommy Sweeney.

“I wish I would’ve had Sweeney on my team. Unfortunately, Darius took him away from me,” Towles, a fifth-year transfer from Kentucky, said.

Sweeney is a walking mismatch for defenses, and he displayed his strength, speed, and hands on Saturday afternoon.

The sophomore hauled in four passes for 57 yards, including a 31-yard catchand-run that set up a field goal as time expired before halftime.

“Tight ends are very big in this league, so he’s going to be a huge help for us,” Wade said.

Last year, the position was a relatively weak one for Addazio’s squad. In 2015, tight ends totaled just 75 receiving yards as a group. But over the last couple weeks of practice, Addazio and his staff have raved about Sweeney’s potential for a breakout year because of his stellar catching ability and size.

Jeff Smith, the QB-turned-receiver who started in place of the injured Wade later in the season, also excelled in the receiving corps, pulling in four passes for a total of 51 yards. For those who thought he drops too many passes, he made a convincing case that he has the hands to compete as a wideout.

After Towles and Wade took their reps as the first-team QBs, Addazio opted for John Fadule and grayshirt freshman Anthony Brown to get some action in the second half. Brown, widely lauded as the quarterback of the future for this program, had an up-and-down day.

His first pass in a BC uniform went for 35 yards down the sideline, one of the longest completions of the afternoon.

But his second pass was read perfectly by redshirt freshman Jimmy Martin, who picked off the throw and took it back 15 yards before Brown trucked him out of bounds.

“I shouldn’t have hit him because it was a spring game,” Brown said. “But I was always told as a young kid, ‘If you throw a pick, you gotta finish your mess.’”

Sure, in some ways , the game itself was a mess considering both offenses managed just eight combined points. But it also offered a glimpse of the future, which seems increasingly bright—even if the progress is inch-byinch.

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Newly converted receiver Jeff Smith performed well in his first game action at the position.

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Once again, the Eagles’ defensive line repeatedly proved why no one can run on them by shutting down BC’s own running back corps.

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There was no more fitting way to open scoring in the game. BC, coming off of a season full of ineptitude and painfully bad losses, couldn’t even score on itself. Instead, the first points were scored on the biggest fluke play ever, a miffed fair-catch punt return safety.

What’s more, it wasn’t even clear at first which team—the Maroon team or Gold team, the latter of which wore white jerseys for some reason—got the safety. The scoreboard flashed that the two points were going to Maroon, but 12 minutes later changed to show that Gold led 2-0. It didn’t matter in the long run, as Colton Lichtenberg would go on to make two field goals for Maroon, allowing them to come back for a 6-2 victory.

In today’s game, the Eagles picked up where they left off last fall. Each side’s defense looked solid, continuing last year’s successful defensive campaign. Jimmy Martin, Wyatt Ray, Harold Landry, and John Johnson each

recorded a sack. Defensive lineman Landry in particular stood out, exploding past both Anthony Palazzolo and Aaron Monteiro to wreak havoc on the Maroon team.

Martin also picked off an Anthony Brown pass in the game. Connor Strachan added four tackles and a forced fumble, while Atem Ntantang’s fumble recovery joined his game-high six tackles. Overall, the defense looked good—a relief, given that the offense looked downright sloppy at times.

And all four of the quarterbacks got playing time today, but none were able to set up drives finishing in touchdowns.

Although the teams managed to reach the red zone, mistakes and miscues ensured that they did not score any touchdowns.

Penalties pushed both teams back on multiple occasions. Meanwhile, Wade fumbled (and recovered) the ball in the red zone, wasting a down for the Maroon team. Maroon and Gold could only score in the second quarter, coming up short throughout the first, third, and fourth quarters.

Given that last season, BC’s offense was disastrous and struggled to convert in the red zone, it didn’t look hopeful that the Eagles could not score a touchdown today either. Wade addressed these troubles after the game, assuring that BC would work until it got everything down.

“We haven’t really put too much emphasis on it yet, but we’ll make sure to get it right,” he said.

Yup. Let’s leave it at that.

The defense looked sharp, and the offense looked sloppy. So how about special teams? Well, Lichtenberg made both of his attempted field goals. Both were within 40 yards, but a perfect outing for the kicker is a good sign. Other than that, there wasn’t much to be hopeful about with special teams. Thadd Smith’s miffed fair catch led to that safety. Jeff Smith, meanwhile, who is making the transition from quarterback to wide receiver, didn’t look comfortable as a punt returner.

He was sent out to return the opening kickoff of the second half and waved for a fair catch, evidently unaware that it’s against the rules to fair catch a kickoff. Though it’s early in his transition to wide receiver and he still has time to improve, it wasn’t a good sign in a game full of blunders.

Following the game’s conclusion, players milled around on the field, talking to family and signing autographs for fans. Despite the sloppiness of the contest, there was a carefree atmosphere on the turf, as players laughed and posed for photos, looking unperturbed at the performance that had just been given.

This seemingly careless attitude, however, can be attributed to the coaching staff.

Head coach Steve Addazio explained that the game was never meant to be overly competitive and that he saw progress regardless of the outcome.

“Today was a day to have some fun,” he said.

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As the team boarded the bus on Wednesday afternoon, there wasn’t much luggage, since the Eagles’ next game was a short road trip into Cambridge. Harvard, an all-too-familiar opponent, posed the only hurdle between the Eagles and the highly coveted 10-win season.

For the Eagles, a fast and hot start propelled them throughout the first half, giving the team a big halftime lead.

The Crimson, though, figured out its

offense in the beginning of the second half and staged a late rally to challenge the BC scoring machine. Ultimately, the late surge by Harvard (7-5, 3-2 Ivy) proved to be insufficient to overcome an early BC lead, as the Eagles (10-6, 2-5 Atlantic Coast) held on to win, 169.

Tess Chandler won the opening faceoff for the Eagles, as she did for nearly every draw in the first half. BC began the game hot on offense, and penetrated the Harvard defensive zone.

The Eagle barrage led to a Kate Weeks goal to open the scoring. The scoring continued shortly after, as the Eagles continued to swarm and rush the Harvard defense.

After catching a Chandler pass from deep inside the offensive zone, Sarah Mannelly shot a laser of a pass to Kate Rich, who scored on a wide-open

opportunity. Ten seconds later, Rich struck again in an offensive transition on another open shot after a great pass from Weeks, giving the Eagles a 3-0 lead.

Harvard didn’t stay down for too long, though, as its patient offense found a wide-open Keeley MacAfee, whose shot snuck by Ochoa on a pointblank bouncer.

The Eagle offense was not intimidated though, and continued to shine bright, as Kenzie Kent received a pass from Chandler behind the Harvard goal and made a great move to get out in front of the net to find a wide-open Rich, who buried her third goal of the game a mere nine minutes into the game.

A number of Harvard fouls created extra scoring opportunities for the Eagles. Because of several free-position

shots, Kent was able to break free to find Weeks again from behind the net for an open goal, giving BC the 5-1 edge.

But Harvard responded, as Alexis Nicolia streaked down the field and broke the Eagle defense, scoring an unassisted top-shelf goal on Ochoa.

BC’s juggernaut offense got right back to work and continued doing what it had all half, and packed on five straight goals—two each from Mannelly and Margolis, along with one from Kent. The Harvard offense kept its slow and methodical offense despite being down by eight goals, but scored on a great cut by Maeve McMahon, whose shot narrowly beat Ochoa with 26 ticks left in the half, giving a halftime score of 10-3.

The second half featured a stronger showing from Harvard. Nicolia opened up the scoring for the Crimson 41 sec-

onds into the half after Harvard won the opening draw. But Laura Frankenfield and Weeks responded for BC, scoring one goal apiece. Nicolia kept Harvard in the game though, as she scored two more goals within two minutes of each other, setting the score to 12-6. BC and Harvard exchanged goals for the rest of the game, as both teams scored six goals in the half.

The Eagles produced enough offense early on to seal the game despite a great second half comeback by the Crimson. Kent played an important role throughout the game, as she had one goal, but six assists coming from the X position behind the Harvard goal.

Harvard has struggled against ranked teams this season, and BC proved just how good ACC competition can be, as it walks away with bragging rights this year.

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:lik JZ_`cc`e^Ëj =`i`e^ NXj Cfe^ Fm\i[l\ Curt Schilling, from B10 repeatedly landed himself in hot water for offensive statements. He established a pattern of outrageous behavior and offensive remarks without a real apology. There was no indication that he feels any remorse for the hateful things he has said and shared, and it is a disgrace that ESPN took so long to fire him.

There was the time he compared Muslims to Nazis in a tweet.

At the time, ESPN reacted by yanking him off Little League World Series coverage and later replacing him with Jessica Mendoza for all of Sunday Night Baseball. “Curt’s actions have not been consistent with his contractual obligations, nor have they been professionally handled; they have obviously not reflected well on the company,” ESPN said in a statement. And so, for at least a little while, America was spared from listening to Schilling.

Of course, Schilling couldn’t keep his foot out of his mouth.

On March 1 of this year—Super Tuesday—Schilling landed in hot water in an interview for his criticism of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. During a discussion of Clinton’s email scandal, Schilling said he believes the former first lady and secretary of state “should be buried under a jail somewhere.” When his interviewer brought up Clinton’s past successes, Schilling dismissed them and said, “I don’t care what her titles are. She’s done nothing.”

Now, at first glance, this may seem less serious than his remarks about Muslims. Sure, it’s incredibly offensive, but why does ESPN come into it? Schilling is entitled to his own political views. ESPN policy, however, prohibits this kind of criticism and vitriol from employees during important election years.

Schilling’s latest gaffe came on Tuesday, when he decided to share his opinion on North Carolina’s controversial bathroom laws dealing with transgender issues and public restrooms. He shared an image—supposedly of a transgender

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ESPN finally fired Curt Schilling on Wednesday evening, a day after his inflammatory and anti-trans tweets. woman—with a caption supporting the laws, which prevent transgender people from using the bathroom for the gender with which they identify. The photo reads, “Let him in to the bathroom with your daughter or else you’re a narrow minded, judgmental, unloving, racist bigot who needs to die!!!”

Schilling deleted the tweet, but continued to interact with people about it. He insulted people who disagreed with his opinion, calling them “idiots” and “clowns.” (One lucky person even earned the title of “dinkus.”) In his interactions, Schilling defended himself by saying that it wasn’t his post, a head-scratching move given that he did post it. Even if he didn’t create it, that doesn’t absolve him of guilt for posting it.

So there you have it—proof of Schilling’s repeated offensive comments. What’s worse is that he hasn’t shown to be remorseful whatsoever. Even when he was suspended

by ESPN after his remarks about Muslims, Schilling didn’t really apologize. In a statement following his suspension from covering the Little League World Series, Schilling said, “Bad choices have bad consequences and this was a bad decision in every way on my part.” You’ll

notice that he doesn’t include those two magic words in his statement.

No mention of an apology at all. But even that statement looks acceptable when compared to his blog post on Tuesday. “[F]or the love of God stop making crap up,” Schilling wrote.

He directed his comments toward “all of you out there who are just dying to be offended” and criticized people’s responses to his post. “[I]f you want to be offended and have that offense be by something you THINK you interpreted or you THINK you heard, go for it.”

His blog post came off as another tone-deaf defense of his hateful statements. Far from his earlier statement, Schilling did not even try to act contrite. Instead, he attacked the people who found his remarks disgusting, arguing that they are easily offended. ESPN’s continued support of Schilling was mind-boggling.

And yes—for every moment that ESPN didn’t fire him, the company showed support for him.

Curt Schilling was bad for ESPN, plain and simple. He’s bad for baseball. All he’s worth anymore is bad publicity. His offensive comments have outweighed his potential contributions. In defending

him, ESPN showed that they accept his bigoted opinions. They literally gave him a platform to express his questionable views. He should have been fired last year, when he landed himself in hot water for his views on Muslims. He should have been fired in March, when he said he believes Hillary Clinton should be dead. He should have been fired immediately on Tuesday when he posted an offensive photograph about people who identify as transgender. I applaud ESPN for firing him on Wednesday, but even taking 24 hours to decide enough is enough is unacceptable.

On Facebook, you can unfriend and forget. In cases like these, it’s up to the employers to allow us to forget. We couldn’t just unfriend Schilling ourselves, but ESPN could have fired him months ago and taken away his national platform to spread hateful ideas. We can only hope that if, God forbid, another situation likes this arises in the future, ESPN doesn’t accept any of it.

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Sports Editor It hasn’t been as magical of a season for the Eagles as last year, when they set a program record for wins behind the sticks of Mikaela Rix and Covie Stanwick . Nevertheless, BC has played well enough against a strong ACC schedule that the team should close strong against Johns Hopkins. Expect Kenzie Kent, the countr y ’s best two-way star, to dominate as BC closes out its season in Newton.

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This unusual power boost from BC (19-14, 5-11 Atlantic Coast), which ranks last in the ACC in home runs, came after a weekend where the Eagles started by scoring just two runs in two games against Notre Dame. On Sunday morning, head coach Mike Gambino decided his guys needed something a little sweet to get them going.

Specifically, sugar cookies.

In the early 2000s, after Gambino had graduated from BC and was playing for a farm team of the Red Sox, he roomed with Brady Williams, the son of Jimy Williams, who managed the Sox from 1997 to 2001. Both Gambino and Brady were going through rough stretches at the plate, and one day Brady told his father of their respective slumps.

Jimy’s answer? “‘Go get sugar cookies from a bakery, there’s hits in sugar cookies,’” Gambino recalled him telling the pair over the phone. “‘You can’t go to it all the time, but it’ll get you going.’”

It worked then, so when Gambino saw his team struggling to get hits off the Fighting Irish, he decided to turn to it again. On Sunday afternoon, after he had gotten the guys cookies before the game, BC came firing out of the gates, plating seven runs in the first two innings. The pen

slipped down the stretch, and the Eagles took the sweep in the final game in South Bend, Ind., but they finished with nine runs and 10 hits—numbers that, with the way the pitching staff ’s success this season, will get them a win far more often than not.

On Wednesday, BC proved just that. Ten different men picked up a hit for the Eagles, almost all of which came on solid contact off the bat. While Sciortino clearly led the way, L o g a n Ho g g a r th w a s n’t f a r behind, going 2-3 with a threerun homer and four total RBIs on the day in the senior’s final Beanpot game. Gian Martellini also had a long home run, his first since homering in his first collegiate game on Feb. 19.

The staff, meanwhile, cruised through eight scoreless innings before Bobby Skogsbergh ran into a bit of trouble in the n i nth . Th o m a s L a n e , Z a c h Stromberg, Sean Hughes, and

John Witkowski—all freshmen— were e sp e cially impre ssive, combining to allow just three hits in the first six frames.

“We’re trying to get these guys as much experience as we can,” Gambino said. “And we believe in them, we believe it gives us a chance to win—it’s not where you’re worried about not winning the game, we think we can win the game by getting these young freshmen in the game, get them the work, and get them ready for the weekend.”

Although it might not have the same type of grandeur that the e ver y -other- ye ar venue o f Fe n w a y P a r k p r o v i d e s , keeping the B eanpot trophy for another year means a lot to the guys—especially those who have seen this team rise from an uncharacteristic three-year drought.

“I know they’ll keep winning the Beanpot,” Hoggarth said.

“We’ll never give it back.”

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(Schneider twice and John Muse) as well as his goals against average (Kaltiainen twice and Parker Milner). His stellar season earned him the first-ever Mike Richter Award for a BC goaltender in addition to being a Hobey Hat Trick honoree.

Canucks general manager Jim Benning visited Demko in Tampa, Fla., during the Richter and Hobey Baker ceremonies to try to convince the goaltender to leave. He reportedly turned down the offer, preferring to take a couple of weeks with his

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In his place, the Eagles will have three goaltenders worthy of the starting spot. Joseph Woll, an incoming freshman from the United States National Team Development Program, is the likely favorite to take the starting spot. The Saint Louis, Mo., native is the current starting goaltender for the U.S. in the IIHF World U18 National Championships.

Sophomores Ian Milosz and Chris Birdsall may also contend for the starting spot.

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Milosz, a first-semester freshman, replaced Demko in two games t h i s s e a s o n . T h e 6 - f o o t- 7 netminder performed admirably against then-No. 3 Providence in a 7-3 win for BC and a 4-4 comeback tie on the road. Birdsall was a highly-touted prospect from the USHL’s Youngstown Phantoms, which also produced Austin Cangelosi and incoming defensemen Connor Moore and Luke McInnis—however, he has been sidelined the entire season after experiencing concussionlike symptoms.

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The Eagles will enter the weekend riding a three-game winning streak after a midweek victory at crosstown rival Harvard. Look for Sarah Mannelly to show up for Senior Night at the season finale, where she will be honored along with the team’s five other seniors. The midfielder is currently first in the ACC in assists with 26, and paces a potent Eagle offense with 31 goals. Hopkins won’t be able to stop her—or the rest of BC’s shooters—as Acacia Walker’s strong will close out the regular season on a high note.

Prediction: BC 15, Johns Hopkins 4 ANNABEL STEELE

Asst. Sports Editor It’s definitely going to be a competitive g ame when the Blue Jays and the E agle s meet . But Johns Hopkins is just too good to lose to B C right now. B C has struggled this season, surrendering losses against the likes of Duke, Virginia, and North Carolina.

Hopkins’ most recent loss was a close defeat at the hands of No. 1 Mar yland. The Eagles won’t be able to overcome Johns Hopkins , and the Blue Jays will break away and dominate to earn a handy victor y over B C .

Prediction: Johns Hopkins 15, BC 9

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Thatcher Demko will sign a three-year entry-level contract with the Vancouver Canucks.

Perhaps the most crushing blow to a devastating offseason has finally come down for Boston College men’s hockey.

Multiple reports have indicated that Thatcher Demko has decided to leave early and sign with the Vancouver Canucks, the team that drafted him with

the 36th overall pick of the 2014 NHL Draft. Team insider BC Hockey Blog was the first to report it, which was later confirmed by TSN’s Bob McKenzie.

On Wednesday afternoon, the Vancouver Canucks’ official team Twitter account confirmed the report. Demko is the 12th Eagle to leave BC early in the past five seasons, the most in college hockey over that span.

A three-year starter for the Eagles, Demko is arguably the greatest goaltender in program history. He will leave Chestnut Hill with a career record of 62-26-10, a .928 save percentage, 13 shutouts, and a goals against average of

2.08. He will finish seventh in BC career wins—albeit in only three seasons— second in goals against average (Matti Kaltiainen, 2.04), and tied for second with Scott Clemmensen in shutouts (Cory Schneider, 15). Under Demko, the Eagles won two Beanpots, two Hockey East regular-season titles, and reached two Frozen Fours.

After being nominated for the Hobey Baker Award in 2014, the San Diego, Calif. native elected to have double-hip labrum surgery. His decision turned out to be the best thing possible

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It’s been awhile since we’ve seen Steve Addazio smile.

Throughout a trying 2015 Boston College football season, the passionate head coach appeared beaten down by his offense’s woes, taking a hardened stance to defend his fiveyear process. But now, with last year’s disastrous 3-9 campaign behind him, Addazio was as bright and chipper as the sky on a beautiful spring day in Chestnut Hill. And he has his quarterbacks to thank for that.

In his first few springs as skipper for the Eagles, the team has been hampered by a lack of depth and experience, especially on the lines, that have prevented a true intrasquad scrimmage. Now with his recruiting plan in full swing, Addazio at last put on a true rendition of the annual Jay McGillis Memorial Spring Football Game.

BC plays the game in honor of McGillis, a former defensive back who died of leukemia in 1992. Every season, one defensive back earns a scholarship from the McGillis family—this year’s went to senior John Johnson

during a pregame ceremony.

But even this one came with a little twist. Instead of playing a regular game between the first- and second-teamers, Addazio allowed two of his injured senior captains—tight end Michael Giacone and defensive end Kevin Kavalec—to split up the two sides in a Pro Bowl-style draft, with one side in Maroon and the other in Gold/White. With four 10minute quarters—the latter two with a running clock—Addazio’s goal was to allow the players to have a fun, relaxed atmosphere in the game.

Oh yeah, and they were going to throw the ball. A lot.

“We weren’t planning to do much in the run game,” Addazio said.

“We wanted to just chuck it around out there.”

Clearly, that memo got to Patrick Towles and Darius Wade.

With Towles suite d up in White (with black shorts, no less) and Wade in Maroon, the two went head-to-head. And as the game progressed, something emerged that was largely unexpected. It was the makings of a true, ol’ fashioned

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Once upon a time, Facebook was a magical place where I could see my friends’ vacation photos and read their status updates. In middle school, nobody was posting anything controversial—except the occasional relationship update that sparked tons of drama. But nowadays, Facebook is different. My friends may still post vacation photos, but sandwiched between those snapshots and ridiculous “Tag a friend who…” photos, I have to see racist, offensive posts.

I’m sure everyone knows what I’m talking about. Everyone must have that person who just has to give their opinion on everything, even though their opinion happens to be incredibly offensive. Eventually you have no choice but to unfriend them and hope they eventually get it together.

The problems start when you can’t just

unfriend or unfollow them and move on.

Say, for example, that the person sharing offensive images is a public figure. Let’s take it one step farther. Say the person spewing hate is a former professional athlete with a big platform—a following to the tune of almost 139,000 Twitter followers and counting, not to mention a job at ESPN. Say this person has exhibited a pattern of offensive behavior without any semblance of a genuine apology. How do you avoid it then?

Once upon a time Curt Schilling was just a baseball player. Over 20 years in the major leagues, he pitched for the Orioles, Astros, Phillies, Diamondbacks, and Red Sox. He won three World Series—one with the Diamondbacks and two with the Red Sox. He was lauded for his pitching throughout his career, including his famous “bloody sock” game in the 2004 ALCS. When Schilling retired in 2009, he was called “one of the finest and most clutch pitchers of his generation” by MLB.com.

Following his retirement, he was hired by ESPN as a baseball analyst.

During his career at ESPN, Schilling

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Head coach Mike Gambino used several pitchers in an 8-2 demolition of the Northeastern Huskies on Wednesday.

<X^c\j Iflk EL kf N`e 9\Xegfk 8^X`e 9P 8C<: >I<8E<P Heights Editor NORTHBOROUGH, MASS. — After two at bats on Wednesday night, it just didn’t seem like Nick Sciortino’s day. Boston College’s catcher, who was moved up in the lineup to bat second this past weekend, drove the second pitch he saw to the right-center gap. It looked like a double off the bat, until

center fielder Mason Koppens ranged over to make a nice running play. But that paled in comparison to the next one.

In Sciortino’s second time up, he led off the top of the fourth by crushing a deep fly ball to dead center, easily the deepest part of the park. The shot should have given BC a 1-0 lead over Northeastern, but Koppens didn’t just turn and watch it go. Instead, he got a

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great running jump toward the wall, put one foot up on the side, and snagged the ball just as it was about to sail into the woods beyond the New England Baseball Complex.

“We were talking in the dugout, that might have been the best play I’ve ever seen live,” Sciortino said. “Hats off to him, it was an amazing play.”

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