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T-Pain, the man responsible for hits like “Bartender,” will be coming to Boston College as a part of this year’s Modstock festival. The College Activities Board released a video today announcing T-Pain’s performance in the Mod lot on May 5.

Tickets for the concert, which are free for students, will be available Friday, April 29.

Seniors will have the first chance to get tickets from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Then, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., tickets will be available for all other grades. 3,500 tickets will be available on Friday, and 1,500 tickets will be handed out on Saturday from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. CAB locked down T-Pain for Modstock about three months ago, said Kevin Polman, director of live entertainment and CSOM ’17. T-Pain will bring a full band for his performance at BC. This year, CAB is adding a “beach theme” to Modstock. The parking lot will have

decorations and video screens depicting beach scenes.

The show at BC is just one stop on T-Pain’s college tour, on which he will also be performing at schools including Saint Anselm College and Oregon State University.

“When we reached out to him, he was super interested,” Polman said.

CAB hoped to get another artist to co-bill the concert this year, but was unable to follow through because of logistics, Polman said. In years past, CAB has recruited acts including Ludacris, Macklemore, and Hoodie Allen to perform in the Mod lot.

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hen a group of Boston College students began distributing condoms around campus in the spring of 2013, the backlash was swift. The group, then known as Boston College Students for Sexual Health, was hit with sanctions from the administration—those students could no longer distribute materials relevant to sexual health on campus, including in the dorm rooms the group designated as “safe sites.” Quickly, the story spread beyond the confines of Chestnut Hill. The New York Times wrote about the students, and The National Catholic Register emphasized the divide between devout Catholic students and those who are part of the condom-distribution plan. BC Students for Sexual Health has existed since 2009, but the spring three years ago was the first time it became a national symbol of the crossroads between students and administrators at a Catholic university.

Three years later, the president of Students for Sexual Health refers to that span of time as “condomonium.” The group still exists, although somewhat less vocally than it did at its peak in the national news. The University compelled it to drop the “BC” from its name, and this semester the group rebranded itself with new logos that do not mention the school’s name. Erin Barry, MCAS ’16, now leads the group.

SSH originally became notorious for distributing contraceptives on campus, and since 2013, it has shifted to providing them only on College Road, a swath of land owned by the City of Newton, not the University. About twice a month, it sets up a table between McElroy and Upper, and distribute contraceptive materials to students passing by. Once or

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the live entertainment division of BC has to consider pricing. In addition, the administration must approve CAB’s choice.

“When we go through our artist lists, we explore every possible artist that is reasonable and realistic,” Polman said.

The concert is planned to start at 3:30 p.m. on May 5, and T-Pain will go on stage at 5 p.m.

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twice a year, a police officer will come by to see what the group is doing, Barry said, but it does have a permit to be there, as long as they are not disturbing the peace. In addition to tabling, the group hosts trivia nights at Cityside Bar in Cleveland Circle, where they hand out goody bags with condoms, information on the local Planned Parenthood, and dental dams, among other materials.

“Just providing those condoms, you’re not really achieving anything,” she said, “so that’s why we have this dual mission.”

SSH is not a registered student organization—its funds come from advocacy groups Planned Parenthood and Advocates for Youth, not from the Student Organization Funding Committee, which funds registered groups with the student activities fee. The Undergraduate Government of Boston College, however, is funded by BC. For the 2015-16 academic year, the student government received $328,000.

UGBC’s leadership is made up of a president, executive vice president, five vice presidents, 11 chairs, two directors, and the chief of staff, while SSH has around 15 active members who attend weekly meetings. The groups are very different.

But now, they are working toward a common cause.

This month, the executive vice president-elect and a senator co-sponsored a bill meant to encourage the administration to open up the conversation on sexual health—including making it possible for student groups to use their own funds to distribute materials related to sexual health. Though the bill also includes a push for sexual assault resources, the focus is on the need for discourse on sexual health. Meredith McCaffrey, the executive vice presidentelect and MCAS ’17, emphasized that the bill is not just

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What was expected to be a blessing for Boston College Athletics in a year when little else has gone right may not have as bright of an ending.

In late February, Director of Athletics Brad Bates announced the creation of a $200 million sports complex to replace the Flynn Recreation Center, as well as baseball and softball fields on Brighton Campus and a field house adjacent to Alumni Stadium for teams such as football to use in the winter. Because of specifications to the pool, however, BC varsity swimming and diving head coach Tom Groden feels that his sport may be cut within the next few years.

“I have been told swimming is going to be cut by people who think they know what they’re talking about,” Groden said in an interview Monday morning. “I haven’t been told that by Bates, and he’s probably the only person who could effectively tell me. … Do I believe it? I don’t know. Been asked this question for years.”

Groden, who has coached the Eagles’ swimming and diving team for each of its 46 years of existence, said that the plans presented to him for a new pool are not suitable for competition at the Division-I level, especially in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Plex’s layout includes an 8-lane, 25-meter pool, with a separate diving well.

Based on the current schematic plan, the new pool will feature an 8-lane, 25-meter pool that is at least 6 feet deep and will be heated at 80 degrees. Adjacent to the racing pool will be a 4-lane, 25-meter pool heated at 86 degrees. Additionally, there will be space for 240 participants on the deck, which, according to Caitriona Taylor, director of campus recreation, is much larger that the current one.

The second floor of the new athletic complex will also feature a 200-seat section in which people can view swim meets.

Several new amenities will appear in the athletic center, the inside plans of which have not been made public yet. The center will have the pool on the first floor, as well as two multiactivity courts, which can be used for activities such as indoor soccer and floor hockey, among other sports. There will also be a rock climbing wall, a golf simulator, and a storage and meeting place for club sports, something that those teams have not previously had.

“One of the goals was to increase space and opportunity for club sports and intramurals,” Taylor said.

The ceilings of the pool and multi-activity courts will extend into the second floor. That level features the primary fitness center, which will have a “dramatic increase” in space and equipment. It will also have two multipurpose rooms, a spinning room, and administrative offices.

On the third floor, the athletic center will have three indoor tennis courts—one fewer than the Plex has. While the Plex includes several outdoor tennis courts, these plans do not—however, Deputy Athletic Director Jaime Seguin said there are outdoor courts planned in the Institutional Master Plan, outside of the scope of this athletic center. The third floor also has an Olympic lifting fitness area—something that was heavily requested—a yoga room, another multi-purpose room, and a club sports conference room.

The highlight of the third floor will be a four-court, all-wood basketball gym. Unlike the current courts in the Plex, which are not the regulation sizes, this will be high-school regulation so players can “shoot a real 3pointer,” as Taylor puts it. She also specifically highlighted how this will help club men’s and women’s basketball. These courts are also lined for volleyball and badminton, and will be the new area for varsity fencing to practice.

Taylor said that getting a wood surface for

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U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire will give the address at the 2016 Boston College Law School Commencement on May 27. The ceremony will take place in Conte Forum.

“It is a great privilege to have Sen. Shaheen join us as our commencement speaker,” Law School Dean Vincent Rougeau said.

“She has offered outstanding service to New Hampshire and the nation, first as governor, and now as a United States Senator—she is the only woman in U.S. history to be elected

to both these positions.”

Shaheen has served as a U.S. senator from New Hampshire since 2009. She is the first female U.S. senator and first female governor in New Hampshire’s history, as well as the the only woman to serve as both a U.S. governor and a U.S. senator. She is a member of the Senate Committees on Armed Services, Appropriations, and Foreign Relations and is the ranking member of the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee.

Shaheen was elected governor in 1996 and was re-elected in 1998 and 2000. After her terms as governor, she served as director of the Harvard Institute of Politics. She ran for U.S. Senate in the 2008 election and became the first Democratic senator from New Hampshire since John A. Durkin, who lost a re-election bid in 1980. She was the

second Democrat from New Hampshire to be re-elected to the U.S. Senate.

She has sponsored 87 bills passed during the 111th, 112th, and 113th Congresses. In 2009, Shaheen partnered with U.S. Senator Susan Collins of Maine to introduce the Medicare Transitional Care Act, which provides additional care for discharged hospital patients to reduce re-hospitalizations. The legislation passed in 2010 and research by the University of Pennsylvania predicts that the bill will reduce the cost of health care by up to $5,000 per patient.

On April 28, 2014, Shaheen introduced the Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2014, which intends to improve efficient energy use in the United States. She hopes that these new plans will assist in promoting cleaner energy, reducing

pollution, and fostering job creation.

In 2009, she became a sponsor of the Respect for Marriage Act, a proposed bill in Congress that would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and require the U.S. government to recognize same-sex marriages. She also voted in favor of the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the U.S. policy banning LGBTQ service members in the military that was instituted in 1994 and lasted until September 20, 2011.

Shaheen also assisted in passing the Small Business Jobs Act and the Small Business Innovation Research Program of 2010. The law provides critical resources to help small businesses create new jobs and drive the economic recovery. It has offered billions more in lending support, tax cuts, and other opportunities for small-business owners.

She has also supported efforts to pass extensions of unemployment benefits to struggling families as well as a debt-reduction plan. In addition, Shaheen has supported the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), which hopes to reduce the number of nuclear weapons and launchers that the U.S. and Russia deploy.

“We should feel very proud at BC that devoted public servants like Sen. Shaheen are willing to make themselves available to us for our commencement exercises,” Rougeau said.

“Their experiences and accumulated wisdom have a lot to offer our community. I hope the students will be inspired by her example of public service, her commitment to shaping critical issues of law and public policy, and her strength of character as she broke new ground for women in politics.”

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This year’s graduating creative writing students will read their work on April 28 at 12 p.m. in Gasson 100. Fourteen students will present their work in the event sponsored by the Boston College Arts Council and the English department.

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Four presenters will be advising students on “Real-World Financial Tips” on April 28 at 6 p.m. in the Cadigan Alumni Center. The presenters, who include Nick Hanneman, vice president of Compass and BC ’06, will talk about the housing market and how to improve your credit score.

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Administrators will honor the artistic accomplishments of BC students, faculty, and alumni on April 29 at 3 p.m. on Stokes Lawn. The Arts Council Alumni Award will be presented to Nick Scandalios, BC ’87, and the Faculty Arts Award to T. Frank Kennedy, S.J.

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John Gabelus, MCAS ’16, is this year’s recipient of the Dr. Donald Brown Award, which honors a senior who has added extraordinary contributions to the Boston College campus, particularly within the AHANA community, in the areas of leadership, service, and academic development.

In his first year at BC, Gabelus was involved with SANKOFA and worked with Dedicated Intellectuals of the People (DIOP). He also had a personal writing essay published in Fresh Ink, a collection of essays from students enrolled in BC’s First Year Writing Seminar.

Gabelus was later chosen to participate in the Jamaica Magis trip and Leadershape. He took on the role as Black Student Forum’s co-director of community outreach and freshman liaison, and served as the AHANA Caucus Rep for L’Association Haitienne. Gabelus was also chosen to do research through the MLK Advanced Study Grant and the McNair Scholars program.

Gabelus revived United Front in his senior year, a group that supports organizations, people, and the University by offering financial, social, and academic support. He currently serves as the president.

“Black students have been neglected at Boston College for a number of years, but that reality was never big enough to stop my desire to improve the Black experience for students,” Gabelus said to the Thea Bowman AHANA and Intercultural Center. “I only hope that students continue to benefit from the organization and its offerings for many years to come.”

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Nearly 30 BC faculty, undergraduates, graduates, and alumni presented their work in chemistry, physics, earth science, and technological innovation.

Vice Provost for Research Tom Chiles said BC’s participation in the festival gave BC the chance to inspire future generations of scientists and connect with prospective undergraduates.

“Given our ranking as a national research university as well as our reputation as a leader in the liberal arts, it is critical that BC be a part of this showcase,” Chiles said to the Office of News and Public Affairs.

The event was exciting for the BC researchers, according to Frank Tsung, an assistant professor of chemistry.

“I hope to help build momentum for these students to help them enjoy science more,” Tsung said to the Office of News and Public Affairs.

Some of the researchers presented in the STEM fields, highlighting programs offered at BC that teach not only science, but also essential and relevant principles in the respective field Rajeev Rupani, M.Ed. ’15 said.

“What we want to do is show that science is still a fun subject during high school,” Rupani said to the Office of News and Public Affairs. “Hopefully, they can go back to their schools and see these subjects in a new light.”

Based on the results of a study presented in April 2012 by Vice President for Planning and Assessment Kelli Armstrong, undergraduate female students at Boston College experience a decrease in self-esteem over the course of their four years, while undergraduate male students experience an increase in self-esteem. The study was conducted using senior exit interviews and surveys administered by the Office of Institutional Research, Planning, and Assessment every four years at freshman orientation.

This study, Alison Takahashi, Lean In president and MCAS ’16, said, is particularly alarming because admitted females have higher GPAs and SAT scores than their male counterparts. Females at BC, she said, are also better at maintaining their GPAs than males.

The study that was conducted on female students’ self-esteem has led to numerous initiatives on campus to encourage dialogue and educate students on this issue, Takahashi said.

One such initiative is Feminist Coming Out Day, which was held on Stokes Lawn on Monday. It is an annual event on campus that aims to promote dialogue on feminism.

The sponsors include the history, English, psychology, and sociology departments, the Institute for Liberal Arts, the Women’s Center, and UGBC. The event first began in 2012

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The Women’s Center hosted Feminist Coming Out Day on Stokes Lawn on Monday to promote dialogue on feminism. under the direction of history professor Arissa Oh. “In my first couple of years at BC—I arrived in 2010— I noticed that a lot of the female students I met were really reticent to identify as feminists,” Oh said.

She wanted to let students know that it’s okay to voice their beliefs in gender equality.

The collaboration of many groups, Katie Dalton, director of the Women’s Center, said in an email, made the event more visible and widespread than in past years.

This year, they had 300 participants. Students who visited the tent could pick up stickers and buttons that said “This is what a feminist looks like.” There were also pieces of paper that said “I am a feminist because…” and participants could fill out their responses. Partici-

pants who then posed for a photo with their completed poster got a Georgetown cupcake.

“Our goal for this event is not to exclusively showcase student who already identify himself or herself as a feminist, but to also extend the conversation to students who may be questioning or in opposition to a feminist identity,” Takahashi said.

They also hope to provide a safe space for students to talk about their different views on feminism, to raise awareness on feminism, and to educate students on feminism.

“I want the people who are feminists to be proud of it and not to run away from the stigma of calling themselves ‘feminists,’” Takahashi said. “I want people who say, ‘Oh I’m a feminist but …’ to embrace that they are feminists … I want people to talk about why they don’t want to

identify as feminists, and then I want the people who are actually sexist to have their assumptions shaken, even if they’re not converted.”

Because the freshman and senior surveys are only conducted every four years, they will not know the extent to which Feminist Coming Out Day and other events on campus have affected self perceptions until next year, Dalton said.

Although it is hard to tell scientifically if there have been any changes on campus with regard to feminism, Oh said, she does think that students are more willing to express their beliefs.

“I do think the energy and enthusiasm of this year’s event shows that there is a significant population at BC that does celebrate its feminism,” Oh said. “That’s really good to see.”

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With the upcoming Commencement address by U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, BC ’66, climate change and sustainability are on the minds of the student ambassadors of the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) on campus. On Monday evening in Stokes 195S, the group screened the documentary Chasing Ice, directed by Jeff Orlowski.

The Boston College CRS student ambassadors work to spread awareness of issues related to social justice, human rights, and global solidarity. They spread awareness mainly through educational efforts on campus. Screening Chasing Ice was a part of its effort to make students more conscious of the threat climate change poses.

The documentary follows nature photographer James Balog’s, BC ’74, work to publicize the effect of climate change on the world’s glaciers. He called his project the “Extreme Ice Survey.”

Glaciers are the most visible manifestation of climate change, according to Balog. His mission was to capture the melting of the glaciers on film.

“What [people] need is a piece of visual evidence—something that

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grabs them in the gut,” Balog said in the film.

Balog was initially skeptical about the existence of climate change and did not believe humans could cause such dramatic changes in the planet. Natural cycles of Earth served as a satisfying explanation to him for many years. Once he witnessed the drastic melting of the glaciers firsthand, however, Balog’s mind changed. He decided it was his duty to spread this knowledge to the public.

“When you see huge change— that’s outside normal behavior,” he said.

Balog and a team of experts fought through some of the harshest weather conditions in the world to install cameras that would capture time-lapse images of the changes in the glaciers. These cameras were installed in Alaska, Greenland, Iceland, and Montana. The team was able to install over two dozen cameras, strategically located in places that would capture the most dramatic visuals of climate change.

During his voyage, Balog came across evidence that climate change was not only real, but also caused by humans.

“Glaciers tell a story,” Balog said.

Glaciers are able to preserve

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water will cause more extreme weather events like hurricanes, floods, droughts, and wildfires. These events will take a huge economic toll on the world, Balog said.

Balog and his team were able to capture dozens of time-lapse photographs of glaciers melting and showed them at different events, including a TED Talk. They were pleased with the reaction the photographs received. People seemed to be convinced that climate change was an extremely pressing problem, Balog said.

“We still have an opportunity to face the greatest challenge of our generation,” he said.

The event ended with CRS member Alex Green, MCAS ’19, leading a short discussion about the film.

“Every day we have a choice,” Green said. “We can all do something—whether it is eating less meat or taking the T.” Green then passed around letters addressed to U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, urging her to support the Paris climate change accord reached in December 2015. Each member of the audience signed a letter, which was then sent to Warren.

“Be conscious about little things you can do in your life to help out,” Green said.

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climate records, as bubbles of ancient air exist in different layers.

Scientists are able to drill into the glacier and remove a core, each layer containing air bubbles thousands of years old. Scientists then extract this air and measure its temperature and carbon-dioxide content. From these tests, scientists were able to conclude that since the Industrial Revolution in the 1800s, carbon emissions have increased at an unprecedented rate. This evidence proves that the increase in carbon that has directly led to an increase in Earth’s overall temperature is not a natural cycle of Earth, but rather caused by humans.

“We are living in a moment of apoco-geologic change, and we humans are causing it,” Balog said.

Climate change will have more adverse effects than the melting of glaciers, according to Balog and climate scientists. They argue the melting of glaciers will cause sea levels to rise several feet by the end of the century. Although this may not seem like much to someone who lives in the mountains, this sea level rise will displace millions living on the coast, Balog said. Scientists estimate a minimum of 150 million people will be displaced by the end of the century.

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Nick Scandalios, BC ’87, will receive the 2016 Alumni Award for his work in the theatre.

The Boston College Arts Council will host executive vice president of the Nederlander Organization Nick Scandalios, BC ’87, as this year’s featured guest at the annual Arts Festival. He will be honored with the 2016 Alumni Award for his accomplishments in theatre. Scandalios will be interviewed by Paul Daigneault, also BC ’87, on Thursday about his journey from BC student to acclaimed producer.

The event will take place at 3 p.m. inside of the art tent set up in front of Stokes Hall. This is the first of three events that Scandalios will appear at over the course of the three-day BC Arts Festival, which lasts from Friday, April 28th to Saturday, April 30th, and includes original student musicians, campus dance groups, and an a cappella showcase. There will also be a variety of visual art on display.

On Friday, Scandalios will discuss the business aspects of the theatre industry at the Industry Insider Panel with Sean Flahaven, BC ’95, and Patricia Noonan, BC ’07.

Later that day, Scandalios, as well as current students, will be recognized at the awards ceremony and reception.

According to the BC Arts Council page, Scandalios graduated from the Carroll School of Management, but he was also involved in theatre, starring in West Side Story during his time at BC. Upon graduation, Scandalios began working as an assistant for veteran entrepreneur and theater owner Jimmy Nederlander. Based in Detroit, the Nederlander Organization is a large international company that owns and operates a number of Broadway theaters and other venues.

The Nederlander Organization is home to musicals like Hamilton, ON YOUR FEET!, and Waitress. Scandalios produced widely popular shows, in-

cluding The Lion King, Wicked, Rent, Beauty and the Beast, and Hairspray, at Nederlander Theatres.

“Scandalios’ impact in the theatre world extends beyond his position with the Nederlander Organization,” the BC Arts Council’s page said.

Scandalios has used his influential role in the theatre scene as a platform to advocate for some humanitarian causes.

Currently, according to the BC Arts Council page, Scandalios serves as the Immediate Past Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Broadway League, and has previously served on the board of trustees for Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS. Modeled after Bravo’s Inside the Actor’s Studio, Inside the BC Studio will feature Daigneault—founder and producing artistic director of SpeakEasy Stage Company—digging into Scandalios’ journey through the arts and more.

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By Heidi Dong Heights Editor This year, Boston College’s Women’s Center partnered with BC Athletics to introduce the Bystander for Student Leaders presentation, which is aimed at getting student athletes and other student leaders, including resident assistants, orientation leaders, and Freshman League leaders, involved in conversations on sexual assault and prevention.

Previously, the Bystander Intervention Program has given its flagship presentation to any club, classroom, or other organization that invites it. The presentation covers what bystander intervention is, introduces strategies for them to keep peers, and themselves, safe, and identifies many red flags to look out for that could signal danger.

This program is different from the Bystander Intervention presentation that freshmen are required to complete because it stresses the responsibility that students with high social influence have to mold BC into the safest

and healthiest environment possible.

Through empowerment and education, Bystander for Student Leaders introduces a larger picture of maintaining and improving BC’s social culture.

Alison Quandt, assistant director of athletics, and Rachel DiBella, assistant director of the Women’s Center, worked together to launch the new program.

“We were so fortunate to have a partnership emerge, and it was a great way to reach students who were already established in groups and in teams, and really have this as an intentional conversation with students,” DiBella said.

This year, every BC athletic team, aside from the football team, participated in the Bystander for Student Leaders presentation.

DiBella said the target audience has expanded to include students who are visible, recognizable, and have influence over the culture at BC. They are the ones who incoming freshmen will look up to, who will prepare the environments which students socialize in, and who set the tone of the culture at BC for students.

“We explore how student leaders and upperclassmen can set a healthy tone on campus about social norms, about attitudes surrounding drinking and hookup culture and consent and things like that,” DiBella said.

This year, DiBella said, she spoke to about 1,000 students, most of whom were upperclassmen or student leaders on campus.

“It’s a different conversation because it’s about leadership, and not just prevention,” she said.

Reports in recent years, DiBella said, show both an increase in the political conversations centered around sexual-assault awareness and students’ willingness to engage in discussions on the issue of sexual assault.

“There is a community here that is very open and willing and eager to be having these conversations about prevention and response, and that ranges from the administrative level through the student body,” DiBella said. “I’ve seen more students come forward and start asking the important questions and get help for themselves.“

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The Women’s Center is expanding its bystander intervention program to target sexual assault

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By Shannon Longworth Heights Staff An online petition incited by a class assignment is currently circulating the Boston College community to protest the argued injustice of the University’s core curriculum, which members of the petition deem to be Eurocentric—a tendency to interpret the world in terms of European values.

Theology professor Meghan Sweeney assigned a project to the students in her class called The Challenge of Justice. The task was essentially for the students to identify an injustice on campus. A group of four of these students recognized Eurocentrism in the core curriculum as an issue and decided to act on it as a part of its assignment.

This petition argues that the current courses offered for fulfillment of the history core at BC are predominantly taught from a Eurocentric perspective, and that this is an unfair approach to a well-rounded, liberal arts education because it ignores and degrades the influences of cultures outside of Europe.

On March 2, the Africa and African Diaspora studies department announced that Introduction to African

Diaspora Studies will count toward the social science core, and African Diaspora in the World I and II will count toward the history core beginning in the 2016-2017 academic year.

“We are trying to add more classes to the history core at BC,” said Riley Kinney, one of the group members and MCAS ’18. “Eurocentrism creates a false hierarchy to European history over all other types of history, and we want our diverse student body to know that BC values their cultures equally as well.”

Eradicate Boston College Racism, a movement on campus, has played a key role as the inspiration for the creation of this petition. Members of the movement have created a Web site that they have used as a medium to discuss their goals for improving the BC campus. One of these goals is to “reform pedagogy and curriculum to reduce Eurocentric focus and address racism and diversity in the classroom.”

“The goal of our petition was to inform the student body of the injustice,” Kinney said.

In order to graduate from B C , students are also required to satisfy a cultural diversity component of the core curriculum. The courses offered

for this requirement maintain a goal of “introducing students to different cultures and concepts of cultural identity and cultural differences.” In doing so, the courses work on “developing the students’ appreciation of other ways of life.” The group of students behind this petition, however, believes that such cultural awareness should be an intrinsic part of the basic history core.

It asserts that making it a separate requirement presents the subject of cultural diversity as a devalued aspect of the undergraduate education.

Other members of this group include Elizabeth Waltman and Cat Driscoll, both MCAS ’18, and Pei-Ling Lee, MCAS ’19. The group has not found any other related problems in BC’s curriculum.

The petition was made on Change. org and has 73 signatures so far. If the petition receives its goal number of 100 signatures online, it will be sent to the University Core Renewal Committee for review.

“We found that the BC history core is Eurocentric, and we believe that it is an injustice to not give students the choice to learn about other histories they may be interested in,” Kinney said.

The United States District Court of Massachusetts has ordered Boston College to release an interview it conducted with Anthony McIntyre, a former member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), who was convicted of murder and sent to prison.

McIntyre gave an interview on his involvement with the IRA during the tumultuous Northern Ireland Conflict of the 1960s through the 1990s. The interview was part of an oral history project, known as the Belfast Project, that he and Irish loyalist and researcher Wilson McArthur conducted. The project was directed by Ed Moloney, an investigative journalist and lead researcher of the Belfast Project at BC. The interviewers guaranteed those involved in the project that their comments would not be released until after their deaths. The tapes from the project were first subpoenaed in May 2011 by the U.S. federal government on behalf of the United Kingdom as part of an ongoing investigation by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) about the 1972 abduction and murder of Jean McConville. The tapes were then subpoenaed a second time, and BC was ordered to release all relevant interviews.

Then, on Dec. 27, 2011, the University was ordered to release the interviews of former IRA members Dolours Price and Brendan Hughes. BC filed a motion to close the case in January 2013. In May 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit decided that the district court had “abused its discretion” in its initial subpoenas, and that just 11 of the 85 interviews originally ordered to be released were relevant to the investigation of the McConville murder. The University announced in May 2014 that it will return all interviews to interviewees upon

request, and with proper identification supplied.

According to The Irish Times, the release of the tapes resulted in the arrest of Ivor Bell, a veteran Republican and participant in the project. He was charged with aiding and abetting the disappearance and murder of McConville, but his trial has not yet begun.

Now, the PSNI is requesting that BC release the interviews conducted with McIntyre, via the United States District Court.

“The subpoena was issued in proceedings that the United States District Court ordered sealed, and Boston College was requested to treat the proceedings and the subpoena as confidential,” University Spokesman Jack Dunn said in an email. “Nevertheless, the University notified Mr. McIntyre of the subpoena because it concluded that he should know that his materials had been requested. Given that the pending proceedings remain under seal, Boston College is not able to comment further on the matter.”

Moloney believes this request by the Court is unjust because there is no accusation against McIntyre, nor is there any investigation. According to Moloney, when the Court had the documents in 2011, it concluded that McIntyre was not relevant to the McConville case.

“It’s a very bad message for American academics everywhere that researchers are targeted in this way,” he said.

McIntyre and Moloney hope that BC will fight the courts on this subpoena, given that they believe it to be a “fishing expedition,” meaning that there is no justifiable reason for the documents to be released.

Moloney explained that they cannot do much to prevent BC from releasing the documents, but he hopes that other academics at BC and academics at other institutions across the United States will voice their discontent with how things have proceeded.

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AL8E FC8M8II@8 Last month, when the MBTA announced that the T would no longer run its late-night service, I didn’t realize right away the impact it could have on the city, and particularly, on myself. Most college students in the city depend on public transportation to get from place to place, as having a car is often out of our price range. And that’s without taking into consideration parking expenses, especially on campus, where the rates can run up to $600 per semester if you are one of the lucky few who manage to secure a spot.

To be honest, I had not given much thought to the decision to cut back the hours until late last week, when I found myself waiting for a train to come by at 12:45 a.m. by Babcock St. I waited and waited, only to finally remember that it had all been in vain.

No T would come.

I had to then splurge on an Uber to get back to campus. Once I did ($20 lighter—there was a surcharge), I couldn’t believe that a city that is trying to promote itself as modern would still not feature public transportation that runs late into the night. When a nearby city like New York has trains that run 24/7, it is apparent that Boston is falling behind.

When Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, WCAS ’09, ran for office, he fought to improve the nightlife of the city, hoping to have bars close closer to 3 a.m., according to The Boston Globe.

That dream doesn’t seem too likely now without access to public transportation. Nevertheless, and in keeping with the city’s entrepreneurial nature, ride-sharing services such as Uber and Lyft are aiming to tap into this newly created market. The MBTA’s loss could be their ultimate gain.

In a time when taxi companies are becoming more and more estranged from the public, especially college students, who are unwilling to wait the 30 minutes it usually takes for a taxi to get to your location, ride-sharing companies have been discussing the possibility of featuring pilot programs to make up for the loss of public transportation.

The MBTA cited low ridership as one of the main reasons for suspending the service, according to the Globe. But that number during the later months of the service was still around 13,000 riders, down from 17,000 when the program started, during the weekends, according to the same article.

Those 13,000 individuals still needed to find a way back home, with many, including myself, having to pay exorbitant fares that were sometimes six times as much as they normally would have been if the T functioned at that time—a $2.65 T fare compared to an $18 Uber.

So the question remains, who is at fault here? Is it the MBTA for not prioritizing a necessary service over other relatively less important projects, like repainting all of the B-Line trains when they were already in good shape?

Is it the ride-sharing companies for not implementing the programs they said they would? Or is it a case of trying to turn Boston into something it’s just not?

I remember my aunt’s description of Boston everytime I run into this problem: “It is not a city, but rather it’s a large town,” she says.

And I am beginning to believe her.

There is a sharp contrast between here and my hometown of Miami, Fla. Back home, if I want to go out to eat at 10:30 p.m. not only do I have myriad options to choose from, but I’ll probably have to wait for a table as well. In Boston, finding a restaurant that will seat you after 9 p.m. is challenging.

It is the case of deciding what type of city we wish to live in, and I am not advocating for one over the other, but rather, of leveling expectations. If we want a late-night city, it is up to us.

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But this time, instead of focusing on a little known murder and seeking to answer a single central question, the new season explored issues of national security and its far-reaching consequences.

Koenig and Snyder provided a behind-the-scenes look at the development of the cultural phenomenon during the Binge-Worthy Journalism podcast program on April 20 at Symphony Hall. Following the record-breaking first season, Koenig and Snyder launched the second season of the popular podcast, which focuses on telling a story, a true one, over the course of the season.

The second season of the podcast differs significantly from the first season, an investigative report of the murder of Hae Min Lee in a Baltimore suburb in 1999.

In Serial’s sophomore debut, Koenig and Snyder investigate the highly publicized and on-going military case regarding Bowe Bergdahl, a United States soldier who walked away from duty, was captured by the Taliban, and was held ransom for nearly five years.

After years of negotiation with the United States government, the Taliban released Bergdahl in exchange for five Taliban prisoners from Guantanamo Bay. His decision to abandon his military post remains controversial, as six soldiers lost their lives in the search for Bowe Bergdahl, and many soldiers blame Bergdahl for their comrades’ deaths.

Charged with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, Bowe Bergdahl is currently awaiting his fate in the highest military court before the House Armed Services Committee.

Serial provides Bergdahl the opportunity to share his side of the story, or offer the American public some sort of explanation for his decision to abandon his military post.

At the same time, Koenig and Snyder respectfully acknowledge those affected

by Bergdahl’s attempt to reform the military system and thoroughly analyze military hierarchy, the protocol for negotiating peace talks, the United States’ history in rescuing other hostages, and the debate regarding Guantanamo Bay. Serial explores listeners’ personal definitions of loyalty, resilience, and justice. At the conclusion of each season of the series, listeners are invited to determine for themselves whether his decision proved heroic, foolish, or selfish.

In Serial, Koenig and Snyder created intimacy and empathy by refusing to run away from ambiguity or turn those involved in the case into caricatures.

They successfully transformed a merely captivating story into something that was truly meaningful for over 200 million people. With a new season scheduled to air this fall, Koenig and Snyder hope to repeat that success, and enthrall even more listeners.

At the event, hosted by the Celebrity Series of Boston, Koenig and Snyder discussed the story behind the creation of the most popular podcast in the world, as well as the trajectory of news media.

Koenig and Snyder, who have worked together at This American Life for 12 years, initially planned to produce a podcast called This Week that, naturally, described all of the events—from Bin Laden’s death to Julie’s daughter’s first bicycle ride—occurring within that week. Met with little enthusiasm from their boss, Ira Glass, Koenig proposed a podcast in which she would report the same story each week.

The duo initially promoted Serial as an audiobook, but they decided to instead produce it as a podcast and to adopt a television model. Their self-described “creative aesthetic” is evident in the opening credits, “previously on Serial” introduction, and cliff-hangers.

According to Snyder, the audience enjoyed the podcast and formed connec-

tions with the individuals involved in the case in the same way it would respond to a TV drama.

“As long as you stick to the truth, true reporting can be like art,” Koenig said.

Koenig and Snyder encountered tremendous obstacles in their investigation. For instance, the majority of the individuals involved in the case, such as the prosecuting attorneys, Adnan’s defense attorney, detectives, the person who discovered Hei’s body, and the key witness in the case either refused to participate in the story or could not be contacted.

Surprisingly, Koenig describes the process of contacting the Taliban in the second season as “one of the easier things I’ve done in my career.”

The fan reactions and online attention undoubtedly posed their largest obstacle. Over 44,000 people subscribed to the Serial discussion board on Reddit, but many did not consider how their theories and conjectures affected the family of the subject, they said.

Despite their initial goal to reach 300,000 by the end of the first season, Serial became an instant success. In fact, they reached 300,000 listeners within the first five days of releasing the first episode. Over 200 million people have downloaded both seasons combined.

Koenig and Snyder recorded and aired the last episode of season one within the same day.

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With winter finally over, and tiny flowers sprouting as if to insist that spring really has arrived, Bostonians are out and about, ready to explore the city and all it has to offer.

So it could not be a better time for Citi Center’s ArtWeek Boston, a festival that stretches throughout Boston and its surrounding neighborhoods in order to offer events that expose the public to the art world and the creative process.

Beginning April 29 and running until May 8, the spring season of ArtWeek Boston will offer over 180 events that connect the public with the larger art world.

Launched in the fall of 2013, the first ArtWeek festival offered 26 individual events that spread throughout Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville.

In the three years—and six ArtWeeks—since the original ArtWeek in 2013, the festival has grown exponentially. In 2015, both the spring and summer sessions featured over 100 events, and in this first spring session of 2016, that number is nearing 200.

The events have also spread even farther across the Massachusetts area, with some taking place in Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, and even Worcester.

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creative process. This opportunity to meet artists and understand their work is priceless.

This year, some of those opportunities include everything from swing dancing at South Station, graffiti carpainting with local car dealers, and the Cambridge Comic Arts Fair, which is a new offering for those interested in the comic arts.

Some events even encourage the public to participate in the creative process, like “Hero’s Journey,” which is a workshop led by Spanish artist Revena Santana in which people are invited to create a community mural together.

But ArtWeek’s events do not stop at visual arts—they encompass the performing, literary, and culinary arts as well. Boston College professor Paul Lewis will lead his popular “Poe’s Boston” walking tour, which explores Edgar Allan Poe’s relationship with the city.

This spring, ArtWeek is also launching three new initiatives that allow the festival to make even more of an impact on the surrounding city. With the Art of Food initiative, local restaurants will offer a special menu item inspired by a piece of art.

ArtWeek on the Road and Light Up the Night will be an even more vivid reminder of the festival’s presence, as those initiatives feature the work of local artists on billboards and illuminate a number of Boston buildings, respectively.

Sixty-five percent of the events taking place this spring will be free, and 95 percent fall between free and $25.

The low price point, combined with the fact that many of the events can be reached by the T, or even bicycle, are part of what have made the festival so popular in the past, and hopefully will again this spring. But this popu-

larity also indicates something more important about the greater Boston community.

“What we’re seeing with the popularity of the festival is that there is a real thirst from the public to engage with the arts, maybe more so than ever,” Holland said. “And we’re very excited to—we couldn’t do it without the Highland Street Foundation, and it’s wonderful that they support us in making these programs available to the public.”

ArtWeek strips the art world of its mystique and the sometimes intimidating buildings that it is often housed

in, and makes it accessible to curious, everyday people. Holland notes that ArtWeek aims to eventually maintain a year-long presence that allows that larger community to grow and thrive.

“It takes a number of months to get [the festival] together, but we definitely want a presence year around, and look to do some special events with ArtWeek hosts, and keep that community going,” she said. “They get inspiration from each other, as much as they get it anywhere else, so it’s really been wonderful to see some of the collaborations that have come out of it.”

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By Michelle Wu For the Heights Drizly, an on-demand alcohol delivery service, began in 2012 when Nick Rellas, BC ’13, and Justin Robinson, BC ’11, wondered why they could not get beer delivered to their dorm when people seemed to have access to nearly every other product through technology.

Drizly officially launched in Boston in 2013 and now delivers to 19 major cities across the U.S. and Canada and on April 14, Drizly launched in its 20th city—Portland, Maine. The company hopes to be the best place to buy alcohol, which means having the best prices on the largest selection of products across the Internet. To do that, Drizly looks to continue to grow the team, the network of stores, and the service itself.

Their curiosity quickly evolved into a fascination with why technology has not been able to tap into regulated industries like alcohol.

Even before he transferred to Boston College from the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rellas, the current CEO of Drizly, had reached out to John Gallaugher, an information systems professor, and showed interest in creating value with a business perspective.

Gallaugher is the co-adviser of BC Venture Competition (BCVC), which

has now been absorbed into Start @ Shea, the student executive team for the new Shea Center for Entrepreneurship that launched last fall.

“Nick is not just a smart guy, he also has the emotional intelligence to push forward in a difficult space to do something that no one has ever done before,” Gallaugher said. “He was able to identify a pain and come up with the solution to solve it.”

When he first heard about the idea from Rellas, Gallaugher was skeptical because it can be hard to see where ideas will go and how plans will be executed with young entrepreneurs, especially when there are lots of people running the same space. Gallaugher pointed out that, for example, WePay, an online payment service provider based in San Francisco founded by Bill Clerico, BC ’07, had to deal with complicated money-laundering regulations.

The team faced a big challenge due to its unique situation: it was unable to compete in the BCVC, a Universitywide business plan competition that could have earned the team $10,000, because there were concerns regarding whether BCVC could accept a team that wanted to do alcohol delivery. “[The idea was] a combination of foolishness and tenacity, but tenacity is big because when faced with the question of why people couldn’t alcohol be

delivered, the two kept asking, ‘Why not?’” Gallaugher said. So the group kept looking for a space where their model could work.

After Rellas and Robinson decided to pursue the idea, they spent a lot of time in the market doing research. The two got jobs at a local liquor store, the Gordon’s in Waltham, to better understand the process of how a liquor store works from the suppliers and wholesalers to the merchandising and margins.

“Being on the ground floor helped us understand what retailers’ priorities are when it comes to ordering and running a successful store,” Rellas said.

They talked to lawyers in the Boston area to learn the laws around alcohol and alcohol delivery. Rellas credits the research as one of the most useful actions they took before developing their product.

The alcohol industry is heavily regulated and laws vary from state to state, which means that Drizly has to work hard to make sure that it is compliant in each state it does business in. It receives counsel in every state it has a presence in to help navigate the regulations so it can provide alcohol delivery in a compliant and safe way. According to Rellas, navigating the laws have been some of the hardest times, but also some of the most rewarding, when Drizly launches successfully in a new market that may

have posed roadblocks early on.

While Rellas mentioned that there are many great accelerator and incubator programs in Boston for aspiring entrepreneurs, Drizly was not a product of any of them.

“Simply put, we would not be here without the support, encouragement, and nurturing of the Boston community,” he said. “We had to earn the opportunity to be a part of it by getting Drizly off the ground, but once we did the entire village helped raise and grow the company. We’re proud of Boston, Boston’s startup scene, and our place within it.”

Gallaugher made the introduction to the first tech outlet that covered Drizly, which put the company on the map and got things rolling. In January 2014, Drizly raised $2.25 million in its first round of seed funding and another $2.5 million in May 2014. Through its series-A funding round led by Polaris Partners, the technology company landed $13 million.

Rellas said that less than 2 percent of alcohol sales happen online, but he thinks that this industry will catch up to the rest of the consumer-packaged goods world over the next five to 12 years and approach 12 to 15 percent of total sales happening digitally. This is equal to $12 to 15 billion in potential digital sales and Drizly hopes to be the first to venture into the area.

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By Juan Olavarria Metro Editor In a time when anything from paying bank bills to hitching a ride can be done through interactive interfaces in smart phone apps, finding a roommate just got that much easier. Now, renters-tobe can find roommate candidates with the flick of a finger through Roomi, a new mobile-first matching service.

Originally based in Ne w York , the platform is now expanding into the Boston market after having successful runs in other urban environments across the nation, including San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore.

Roomi began by focusing on market research and seeing what it determined to be the biggest challenges to urban living.

Roomi discovered that steadily rising rent, stagnant wages, and a lack of simple ways to find affordable housing were the main issues associated with making housing decisions.

Boston currently is one of the largest renter’s markets in the country, with more than 70 percent of all local housing units being occupied by renters, up 18 percent, according to the latest survey conducted by the Greater Boston Housing Report. This growing demand for rent properties is aided by the growing student population in the area, especially the surge in the number of out-of-state students.

“With growing collegiate and young professionals populations, the high demand for apartments and housing units is driving up prices, eliminating the feasibility of solo-living for many indi-

viduals, especially those aged between 18 to 34,” Ajay Yadav, CEO and founder of Roomi, said in an email.

Cost-sharing is an especially common practice among college students, and since the average rent for a unit in the city has soared over $2,000 for the first time this year, according to real estate data firm Reis, Inc., many people are now looking for ways to make their housing more affordable. Coupled with the “no more than four” studentcrowding law currently in place in the city, ameliorating expenses, especially for students, has been difficult.

Many universities around the city have also felt the spike in demand for housing, both on and off campus, with Boston College and Emmanuel College both in the process of opening new residence halls in the upcoming semester.

“From a college student’s perspective, off-campus housing is in very high demand,” Ethan Johnson, MCAS ’18, said. “The whole process of finding the appropriate unit is very stressful.”

Roomi has already been downloaded over 300,000 times in the other cities where the platform is already in use, according to its Web site. Roomi’s app and desktop experience are designed for those seeking to rent out empty rooms as well as those searching for a new home. The platform lets users create a profile and search for shared living accommodations, housemates, and rooms simply and quickly. A security specialist verifies every listing before it goes live in the app’s database.

After making an account on the platform, users undergo an extensive questionnaire regarding their life-

style—questions include sleep schedule, smoking habits, and social hours. It then also asks about the user’s preferred location and desired price range.

It then produces several results that match up with the parameters set forth by both the people who created the listing and the inquiring user. Roomi, using the detailed profiles of its users, allows users to search for housing and housemates who meet their needs and preferences. Landlords can also view and message those who have viewed their rooms.

“Location and affordability are key parameters for students and young professionals looking to rent, but flexibility

and security have also become paramount,” Yadav said in a press release.

“By creating a safe and secure way to communicate and evaluate potential shared living candidates, Roomi is creating a way to feel safe with potential housemates. Roomi helps you feel at home in your new home.”

With this new safety feature included in the process, the company aims to take the horror stories often associated with unknown roommates out of the equation. In the age when “Ubers for x” dominate the startup scene, especially in the city of Boston, the platform for a new startup to succeed in the city already exists.

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The app’s interface allows for users to chat with potential landlords and roomates.

Like many people, I love being in the North End. Filled with locals and tourists alike, the sidewalks provide an endless parade of people-watching, as hungry customers prowl in front of packed restaurants, desperately searching for somewhere that can seat them despite their lack of a reservation.

Last Sunday, however, a blustery cold night, those crowded North End sidewalks were one of the last places I wanted to be standing, especially with a platter of calamari in my hands. You see, my mom, who was visiting for the weekend, and I had gotten to our reservation early, and while we were waiting outside the tiny restaurant packed to the gills, the hostess had brought us a huge amount of fried squid to make the time pass faster. Unfortunately, the two of us really hate calamari—I for one find the rubbery texture unpleasant and have never been able to shake the image of tiny squids swimming away from fishermen in terror.

They have very expressive eyes.

As we stood there, seriously contemplating how exactly to deal with this giant pile of squid, two people approached the restaurant entrance and began asking no one in particular whether this tiny restaurant was any good. Their thick Boston accents rose above the murmur of the crowd, and eventually they became so loud that I turned my head to look at them.

What greeted my eyes kind of shocked me, because they looked like they had walked off of the set of The Sopranos, a TV show that I’ve been watching that follows the life of the Italian mafia in New Jersey.

I briefly thought that I might be dreaming (my dreams do tend to take place around food and restaurants), but no. When I opened my eyes, they were still there.

The first, and loudest man, was dressed in a grey wool coat that almost reached his ankles. Under the coat was a dark turtleneck sweater that drew attention to his face and his meticulously gelled black thinning hair. His fingers were decorated with huge signet rings, but most striking were his shoes, which were decorated with shining and pointed steel tips. The second man was dressed in athletic loungewear with a shiny dark zip-up jacket and similarly carefully coiffed hair.

The duo turned to my mother and me, and began asking questions that I couldn’t really hear. It was like my ears shut off, all I could think is that there I had obviously encountered the mob—something that, from the cozy cradle of Chestnut Hill, I hadn’t even considered existed in Boston.

Apparently they were asking about the calamari, because all of a sudden I heard my mom excitedly say “take some!” and the two men began demolishing the mountain of squid.

Something about them, maybe it was the steel-tipped shoes, made me freeze, and all I could think was that I hoped they were leaving soon.

Eventually, they walked away (leaving just one ring of calamari behind) and I felt my muscles begin to unclench.

“Hunh,” I said turning to my mom, “they actually scared me.”

When you’re little, danger is alluring.

Bad guys are usually confined to far-off dreams of pirates, the mafia, cat burglars, and evil scientists, but even those aren’t so bad in the end. There is a fearless part of you convinced that if you ever encountered one of these terrible entities, you would either use your vast intellect and courage to defeat the enemy, or, who knows, maybe even win them over and become fearsome in your own right.

But somewhere along the way, that fearlessness fades, along with that desperation to go on quite so risky an adventure.

You come to terms with the fact that the pirates would probably kill you before you have a chance to prove your (now questionable) brilliance. And even more than that, the villains you pictured when you were little don’t even exist anymore. The strange thing is, you don’t even notice that that part of you had disappeared until you find yourself faced with someone who looks like a character out of a television show in a place you thought you knew, and your lack of fearlessness becomes abundantly clear.

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EDITORIALS

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8k_c\k\ Xe[ C\X[\i 9pjkXe[\i Gif^iXd `j >ff[ <ogXej`fe The Bystander Intervention Program, normally only required for freshmen, expanded this past year to include a program tailored for student-athletes and other student leaders.

Designed to educate students on sexual assault and how to intervene when a situation becomes unsafe, the program is now meant to involve athletes and leaders in various student organizations, such as Freshman League and orientation leaders, in order to encourage them to serve as good role models for the student body.

Every Boston College athletic team has participated in the new program, excluding the football team, which had a specialized training event to attend.

So far, roughly 1,000 students, mostly upperclassmen and athletes, have been a part of the program, demonstrating a relatively successful initiative.

Including student leaders in the program is a good step toward expanding and improving bystander intervention on campus.

Bringing the message to some of the students in leadership positions is an effective way to disseminate information and further campus awareness.

This cultivates better examples in these student leaders and helps the intervention program take hold within the student body.

Preventing sexual assault, creating a safer campus, and educating students on how to properly intervene are the most important parts of this program, the tangible results that mean it has been truly successful.

In order to better measure this information, Bystander Intervention should issue freshmen and senior surveys regarding the program and the evolving views of students. This survey could be in a similar vein as the 2013 self-esteem survey that

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revealed a decrease in BC female students’ self-esteem from freshman to senior year.

By measuring how student opinions on sexual assault and bystander intervention have changed, the program will be able to better gauge its previous levels of success and adjust the program to maximize success in the future.

Since the issue is hard to conventionally measure, surveys such as these would be one of best options for determining this.

Involving student athletes and leaders in this new program also contributes to the effectiveness of future bystander programs, especially for freshmen.

Student-athletes and leaders can speak to these freshmen at these programs and foster increased engagement and interest in the presentation.

“That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.”

-James Jones, From Here to Eternity

LETTER TO THE EDITOR A Reponse to “Learning Respect, One Scoop at a Time” I would like to commend Valerie Cherbero for writing what is perhaps the best op-ed column I have read all year in The Heights (“Learning Respect, One Scoop at a Time”). I myself have worked in the service industry for almost 10 years and couldn’t agree more with her insights. I have only one thing to add: when you work in the service industry you work alongside, and become friends with people who aren’t college-educated, wealthy, and entitled.

Here at BC we always talk about the less fortunate, but how many of us can truly say we are friends with that kid from high school who barely got his diploma and is now struggling to make ends meet?

As a senior, I will be pleased if our Commencement speaker is half as insightful as Valerie’s op-ed. Well done.

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Expanding awareness of the program and involving student role models will hopefully prove successful, and the Bystander Intervention Program should continue to involve student athletes and leaders while also finding new ways of reaching as many students as possible.

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Feminist Coming Out Day has been an annual event at Boston College since 2012.

It came about as a way of promoting positivity and increasing willingness to identify as a feminist for BC students.

It is a day marked by the distribution of buttons that read “This is what a feminist looks like,” meant to foster a positive environment around feminism and expand the number of people discussing it. Students are given the opportunity to pose for photos and explain why they are feminists.

This brings the issue of feminism into the open and encourages students to support it and openly identify as feminists.

Identifying as a feminist lends credence to the message and helps to affirm the idea for everyone at BC. In years past the event has been held in the history department, where students would go to receive the buttons and involve themselves in the event.

This year the event was moved outside, into a tent on Stokes Lawn, where passersby were offered buttons and given the opportunity to write on signs that read “I am a feminist because.”

This move was a positive step for the event, which has gradually expanded since its founding. By setting up outside and engaging passing students, the event has become more visible and better accomplished its various goals.

While Feminist Coming Out Day was started by history professor Arissa Oh, and was a history department event, its expansion to include numerous sponsors has also contributed to the improvement of the event. These sponsors include the English, psychology, and sociology departments as well as the Institute for Liberal Arts, the Women’s Center, and the Undergraduate Government of BC. By joining together

these various departments and organizations, Feminist Coming Out Day is able to reach more students and draw from a larger pool of resources. This year’s event promotion also helped to promote the message of Feminist Coming Out Day more effectively. The inclusion of Georgetown Cupcakes as a reward for taking a picture with a completed sign was a good way to interest students, a way that every student can appreciate.

The views expressed in the above editorials represent the official position of The Heights, as discussed and written by the Editorial Board. A list of the mem-

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

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Feminist Coming Out Day promotes an important cause that affects all students on campus in some way. Moving into an outdoor tent this year was one step toward this increased visibility and, in planning next year’s event, steps should be taken to go even farther and drive participation numbers higher.

By including numerous sponsors and involving other successful organizations such as the Women’s Center, Feminist Coming Out Day put on a good event this year and will hopefully continue to improve in the future.

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AF?E D@FKK@ CHEDDAR IN YOUR OMELETTE - For decades youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ordered your Tuesday morning omeletterino without even realizing that there were multiple cheese options. You love your country, so you just always picked American. But one day you see that yellowy stack of cheese and realize that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something else available, something magical. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pop a little cheddar in that sucker,â&#x20AC;? you say, making your index ďŹ ngers into small pistols and waggling them suggestively. Then, minutes later, you take your ďŹ rst bite and realize that this omelette tastes inďŹ nitely better than that trash you were eating earlier. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a brave new world, compadres, let us join hands and eat cheese until the cows come home.

NO FIRE ALARMS IN WALSH THIS WEEKEND - Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a sad state of aďŹ&#x20AC;airs when a lack of ďŹ re alarms gets a thumbs up. But hey, these are the times we live in.

SQUIRRELS - Sure, they may be nothing more than furry rodents that would eat your face if given the opportunity, but you gotta love them.

Every time we see one of these little fellows running around campus, it gives us a little boost of muchneeded razamataz. â&#x20AC;&#x153;SOOPSâ&#x20AC;? - Only square cats use the term â&#x20AC;&#x153;superâ&#x20AC;? anymore. Nowadays it all about â&#x20AC;&#x153;soops,â&#x20AC;? as in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh, man, that game of Scattergories was soops entertaining,â&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;Back in the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s, Soviet Russia was soops commie, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ya know?â&#x20AC;? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the coolest new saying around and if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t start using it people will think youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a stinking fogey.

The alarm goes off at 6:30 a.m. Your roommates are shouting, and you jump out of bed. Music begins to play, but you can still hear the pop of ping-pong balls bouncing against the ground. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re half asleep, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not going to slow you down. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Marathon Monday.

This day is the heart of the Boston College experience. You wake up early, run between off-campus houses with a cheap beer hidden in your pocket, and support the runners as they overcome Heartbreak Hill (unless you are one of the brave individuals wearing a bib number). But Marathon Monday is also a final milestone of the year (excuse the pun). The last runner crosses the finish line, the race fades into a sunny memory of â&#x20AC;&#x153;the good old days,â&#x20AC;? and suddenly itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time for finals, graduation, workâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the real world.

The end of this year makes me especially anxious, as the next time I start classes on campus, I will be a senior. Acknowledging this fact gives me a strange feeling of sentimentality, but it also makes me deeply afraid. It is a fear that is becoming more and more difficult to ignoreâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the horrific realization that perhaps I â&#x20AC;&#x153;did college wrong.â&#x20AC;? Can you ever look back and not have regrets? At over $60,000 a year, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tough to admit that maybe things couldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gone betterâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that maybe youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve already lost the marathon.

I came into BC as a starry-eyed, naive pre-med student. I thought my success in high school science would translate to a career as a doctor. I was painfully wrong. Average grades in introductory bio and chem classes boded poorly for my future. Regardless of academics, that first semester was a mad dash. Everyone was desperate to find a social group and an identity so that he or she could get ahead. I remember one of my floor mates saying, â&#x20AC;&#x153;if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find your friends now, you never will.â&#x20AC;? I

believed him, not knowing any better.

The social hysteria only grew worse when I got mono and was bedridden for two weeks. By Thanksgiving I had given up my dream of becoming a doctor, lost a long-term girlfriend, and watched as my high school friends partied together at another college, while I had spent my freshman Halloween sick and alone in my dorm room. I saw my classmates outcompete me in every aspect, and from my perspective, I was in dead last.

A summer back home as a lasertag referee demanded that I pick up the pace. Despite lacking a sense of direction, I decided to double major in English and economicsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;my schedule seemed to prefer the English. My college career did a complete 180-degree turn.

I had a good group of friends, I joined different co-curriculars, and I was succeeding in class. I thought that perhaps I had finally got my life back on track, but I was wrong once again.

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Could I have known any better? Did I

fail to take advantage of BC in the right ways? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a painful feeling of doubt, especially after investing so much into this school that I call home.

Why do I have these regrets? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s because my old decisions didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t coincide with my new aspirationsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;they stopped me from sprinting right at the start. Instead I watched many of my classmates run past me, and their success became my insecurity. But there are valuable lessons in those early miles, moments of defeat that led to growth. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just hard to recognize them, especially when you feel behind. How do you equate growth to a missed internship or a lower salary?

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a sprint, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a marathon. I will never truly know how my past decisions shape my future, for better or worse.

Perhaps I truly have made one too many wrong turns, spent too much time in uncertainty, and let opportunity slip away. But I wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t accept that. My past failures have shaped the person I am today. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve made me confident in my career choice and even some of my life goals. Though I doubt I will ever shake the invariable â&#x20AC;&#x153;what if,â&#x20AC;? I have come to understand myself in a completely new way. I am no longer the starry-eyed pre-med student, but, looking back, I believe that transformation is ultimately a good thing. My co-curriculars, my different classes, and my search for direction have allowed me to meet extraordinary people and share in experiences that have come to define me. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s better this way. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been unexpected. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been challenging, and, most importantly, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s forced me to grow.

I still know that many of my classmates remain ahead, and deservedly so.

I know that I have probably lost the opportunity to sprint. But I have learned to appreciate the race, one mile at a time. I see the race through a whole new lens, and I am ready to break into my full stride. I may not see the finish line yet and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s okay because, throughout the story, one piece of advice remains true: donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop running.

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=`e[`e^ Dpj\c] `e Bfi\Xe ;iXdXj WHEN THE COWS NEVER COME HOME A few thumbs back, you decided to use an idiom. It took you 27 hours to realize your terrible mistake.

Now youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re stuck holding hands with some smelly, deranged-looking man while you shove cheese down your throat, your alreadybloated stomach constantly expanding with the force of pounds upon pounds of cheddar cheese.

Someone buy some cows, please dear God, and bring them home so that this cheese-eating, hand-holding fest can end.

WINCING NOTICEABLY AFTER AN AWKWARD SOCIAL INTERACTION - â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hey, how are you? Have you been doing well? I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seen you in forever.

Do you still work at Retrograde Industries?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yes. Thank you.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;Ś so how have things been?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yeah.

Thanks. Good.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;How about you?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh, great Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been-â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Good, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m gl-â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;No, I thought you were-â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;O.K.â&#x20AC;? After this painful exchange, your entire body tenses up like a kitten thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just been shot in the paw. Your face forms a rictus of embarrassment and you wince a wince unlike all the winces that have gone before. Unfortunately, you do this while still talking to the person and just make everything worse.

FIGHTING AN UPHILL BATTLE - When you challenged Brandon, Duke of Fulton, to a duel you expected to win handily. But instead Brandon charged a hill and gained the high ground, forcing you to fend off his patented high-ground attacks from a weak position. If you fail, you shall bring dishonor to the ancient familial crest of the Thumb and never again shall your people rule over page A7.

D@:?<CC< B8E> My favorite Korean dramas are the ones where pompous, rich men unintentionally fall for jaded, poor girls without verbal filters, passionate political revolutionaries fall for the misguided members of the oppressive elite society, or two people who hate each other enter a fake marriage contract to fool their nosy, unsuspecting parents, accidentally falling in love in the process.

None of these concepts are realistic, to the point where Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been advised to stop watching them or Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll never settle for an actual human relationship. According to most, the point of these dramas is that â&#x20AC;&#x153;they fall in loveâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;because of course, inevitably and beautifully, they do. But in truth, most of the time I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t watch dramas for the love story. I watch them because they depict my other life.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve heard every grievance about Korean dramasâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re contrived, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re immature, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re positively formulaic. These complaints are typically about the prescribed predictability of dramas, which I wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t try to deny today.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trueâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in scope and in matter, the Kdrama narratives resemble 19th-century tropes: missing children, poor orphans, mysterious benefactors, self-sacrifice, sudden changes in fortune, fatal diseases.

But these stories arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t meant to revolve around the question, â&#x20AC;&#x153;What will happen?â&#x20AC;? Instead, the stories are propelled by the question, â&#x20AC;&#x153;How will it happen?â&#x20AC;?

How will the main characters meet?

What will be different? In this sense, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just like the reimagined Western tales Americans love (Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;but this time, these stories star people who look like me.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m grateful to America. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m grateful

for the freedom to talk about sex and femininity, discuss politics and human rights, and experience Five Guys and Marathon Monday in ways Koreans culturally would not. But there is the fundamental, inescapable truth that I have always been an â&#x20AC;&#x153;Other,â&#x20AC;? from the moment I was born in a hospital in small-town Binghamton, New York, in 1996. I was called â&#x20AC;&#x153;flat-faceâ&#x20AC;? in middle school and made fun of for my small eyes. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been asked if Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d ever eaten dog and whether any Asian woman who walked by was my mom. At every stage of my 19-year-long life, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always been difficult to fit in, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a conscious effort every day to have to do so while still holding onto the cultural roots that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m so proud to have. I am both Korean and American, and I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what I would be without one side. This is, of course, the lot of the Korean-American, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one familiar to all who hold that title of both honor and hardship. The second word is just as important to our identity as the first.

But it also means I, as a pop-culture consumer, have very little to go by in terms of representation. American media presents an incredible absence of Asian faces, an absence that I think contributes directly to that marginalization. Thankfully, many pioneering Asian-Americans (Arden Cho, Steven Yeun, John Cho, Constance Wu, etc.) have somewhat eased that deficiency, but it takes only a bit of watching Hollywood to see that Asian faces are not very relevant in American pop cultureâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;an upsetting revelation for girls like me, grown up on insecurity and low self-esteem.

For me, Korean pop culture rushes in to fill that void of relevance. In these casts of fellow Koreans, I see and relate to a world that I can visually and culturally identify withâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the same way I fail completely to understand the jokes in Bobâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Burgers (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Linda is exactly like my mom,â&#x20AC;? said a white high-school friend of mine, while my first-generation immigrant mother is nothing at all like Linda Belcher) or even the nationally treasured

â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90s show Friends, in which every one of the primary characters is straight, white, and deals with what comedian Louis CK calls â&#x20AC;&#x153;White People Problems.â&#x20AC;? In Kdramas, I watch my own people engage in an ecosystem in which they are the main charactersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not a token sidekick, not a stereotype, not comic relief. Seeing them confidently perform great feats of talent is a validation of my ethnic identity.

In itself, though, dramas are fun for what they are: fun. Non-Koreans that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve met sometimes talk to me about their favorite Korean dramas, and I love more than anything to discover that we have something in common. We both adore the stories of characters overcoming societal obstacles and finding themselves, of enemies getting revenge, of families growing together. But there is a real sense of luck I feel when I know that I understood a cultural reference because I am who I am, simply because I am Koreanâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to know that I know what convenience-store kimchi tastes like and why saunas are so popular and the dialectal differences of people in Seoul and Busan. I relate to these jokes, and I understand them, something I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get in America, when Hollywood refuses to realistically and legitimately represent my race.

Being a Korean-American means confronting issues of race and identity every day, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to sleep, and sometimes even in my dreams. Immersing myself in Korean dramas is my avenue to connect with the culture I consciously cling onto, while doing my best as an American citizen in Boston. I know Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m here because my parents wanted a better life for themselves and for me, but those were choices outside of my controlâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all I can do now is reconcile with it, and think about how I can make fruit juice with both pears from Korea and lemons from America.

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The release of the Panama Papers over the past month shows what most people already believed: the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s super wealthy have been using oďŹ&#x20AC;shore investment vehicles to evade taxes. The real revelation from these papers is that it has been legal for most of the money to be held in these tax shelters. Congress needs to reform the tax code to make it more diďŹ&#x192;cult for American corporations and people to evade taxes and hide earnings abroad.

This new collection of roughly 11.5 million conďŹ dential documents, which were released to the German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung over a year ago, disclosed details of â&#x20AC;&#x153;nearly 215,000 oďŹ&#x20AC;shore shell companies and 14,153 clients â&#x20AC;Ś tied to the Panamanian law ďŹ rm Mossack Fonsecaâ&#x20AC;?, according to The New York Times. At this point, the reality that stashing money abroad was this widespread is fairly believable. A Princeton study from last year revealed that American laws correlate most highly with the views of the American economic elite, while the views of those in the bottom 70 percent of the income distribution bracket were found to have almost no impact at all on legislation.

The authors of the study concluded that while the American government maintains the mechanisms of democracy, its actual policies resemble those of an oligarchy. The super wealthy and the corporations that they own have been extremely successful in pushing their agendas. While donating money to politicians doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t guarantee that the laws they craft will perfectly represent donorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; views, it buys access.

When politicians are strapped for time there are few incentives for coopting the views of ordinary people in the electorate, while meeting with donors or corporate lobbyists can help lock down future funds to run for reelection.

The result is that politicians serve the interests of their campaign donors more closely than those of the electorate that they serve. Elected oďŹ&#x192;cials should be representing all of their constituents, not just the people that voted for them or their donorsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;unfortunately, the pressures often get to even the most seasoned politicians.

When oďŹ&#x192;cials are spending most of their time meeting the wealthiest people in the country, attending the greatest cocktail parties and fundraising events, they are living in a distorted sense of reality. The monolithic Washington culture doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t allow for politicians to really see the problems that ordinary people face.

During the Great Depression, the progressivesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; New Deal legislation fundamentally changed the way and scale at which the federal government impacted individuals. But especially since the 1970s and â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s, the wealthy have lobbied aggressively to implement neoliberal policies and slash their taxes, which were previously used to pay for the sorts of programs that help people in the middle class. The wealthy often legally pay far below the established marginal tax rates because of specially tailored tax beneďŹ ts.

In particular, hedge fund managersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; earnings are characterized by the tax code as carried interest, so those earnings are taxed at a maximum rate of 20 percent instead of upward of 39.6 percent. While there is large public opposition to these sorts of loopholes, the pressures on politicians to work for their donors remain. Senator Chuck Schumer of New York has said that he would only support legislation to remove the carried interest loophole if all of the other loopholes for other professions were removed. Since there are so many other loopholes to remove, it is unlikely that anything will ever get done to change the tax code. Schumerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s refusal to act is a prime example of how politicians evade taking a hard stance on a particular issue. He says that he would do something, but only under pretenses that are unlikely to ever materialize.

The Panamanian Free Trade Agreement passed in 2011 was sold as a way to help American business grow abroad, but when you dig deeper it appears that the agreement would do little to increase demand for American exports, since Panamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s population is less than 4 million people. The greatest impact of the bill was allowing American corporations and citizens to shelter assets abroad legally. It has been estimated that oďŹ&#x20AC;shoring of assets in tax havens costs the U.S. over $150 billion in annual tax revenue.

The U.S. Congress should work to reform the tax code to maximize tax revenue, while making sure that there are not speciďŹ cally tailored tax beneďŹ ts that allow people to avoid paying their fair share.

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9P D8;<C<@E< ;Ë8E><CF 8jjk% D\kif <[`kfi In a global society where cultures and traditions from around the world are just a click away, it is very difficult to discover a completely new cuisine. Although finding that breath of fresh air may seem daunting, hungry explorers need not search any farther than Newtonville’s Watertown Street. Wedged in between the neighborhood’s local tailor and liquor store is the bright new Moldovan Restaurant, which quietly opened its doors to the public on April 1 for a soft opening.

Owned by Artur Andronic, the idea for Moldovan Restaurant was born in 2015, after Andronic completed his MBA at Suffolk University.

After returning to Moldova to spend a year deeply researching the cuisine and finalizing a business plan, Andronic came back to Boston with his wife, and put his plan into action.

Following a few delays and changes over the course of a year, Andronic finally opened Moldovan Restaurant to the public with huge success, as many had been watching the restaurant slowly come to life over the past few months. Customers, intrigued by the cheerful, traditional Moldovan music that drifts out onto the sidewalk and the modern yet colorful decor, were drawn to the restaurant out of curiosity, only to find their sense of wonder piqued once they looked at the menu.

Andronic noted that the Moldovan cuisine is difficult to explain with words alone, for the ingredients and traditional flavors can seem simple at first. These flavors also resemble the hearty flavors found in Romanian and Russian cuisine—both cultures that influenced Moldova

because of their close proximity and their strong empires in centuries past. Andronic emphasizes that although Moldovan chefs rely on fairly basic ingredients such a meat, potatoes, dill, tomatoes and parsley, their preparation of those ingredients is what sets the cuisine apart.

“It is very hearty, and it is comfort food if you would label it. I would probably use more comfort food than something exotic,” Andronic said.

“By explaining it, by saying ‘pie’ there’s not really a good explanation in English when you try to translate that dish and say ‘pie filled with cow cheese’ and stuff like that … it doesn’t really give you an idea of how the dish is really going to be like. To help out with that, we developed our menu to have pictures in them and a short explanation, but pictures basically is the best way to portray how our cuisine would look like on the plate, and that makes the decision a lot easier.”

Those pictures reveal a world of beautifully composed dishes that customers cannot help but want to explore. In recent weeks, intricate pies with stunning tops made from overlapping pieces of flaky dough, and filled with everything from savory cheese to sweet cherries, have been popular, along with warm and filling meat stews. Andronic also notes the popularity of Sarmale, which are delicately hand-rolled cabbage and grape leaves stuffed with a chicken and rice mixture.

On the sweeter side, Moldovan Restaurant also offers Cusma Lui Gugta—pyramids of cherry-stuffed crepes covered with mounds of whipped creme.

But these detailed and intricate items of food are difficult to prepare due to the time and care they require, which make the huge rushes that Moldovan Restaurant has experienced on the opening weekends,

although very exciting, stressful to cope with despite the restaurant’s more limited soft opening menu.

“Everything was selling so fast. We worked the whole week doing prep for the opening, and we basically sold out every single thing within two days,” Andronic said. “We were so short on everything that we were constantly prepping per order. We were prepping the pies as we were getting the order in.”

Once they saw how that opening weekend went, Andronic said, they restructured and got more cooks and a better idea of what they were supposed to do in the back of the house, and how to prepare for the next day. He said it was fun to see that the products were so well accepted and that people love them so much.

As much as Andronic wants share to delicious food with the greater Boston community, he is eager to share even more about the Moldovan culture. He reveals that at its heart, he hopes that Moldovan Restaurant will become a hub of Moldovan culture—something that is given little attention, as some customers have come in curious as to what exactly Moldova is. Given that this is only the second restaurant in the entire United States devoted to sharing Moldovan cuisine (the first is in New York), Andronic’s goal is certainly feasible.

“We wanted to have this place as a cultural middle ground where locals would come in here and find something new about this cuisine, about the county,” Andronic said. “Ask us, we’re happy to tell everyone more about our country, about our history, about our winemaking, about our cuisine ... and we [want to] get them excited about what they’re eating.”

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“I feel like this conversation always turns into a conversation about contraceptives,” she said. “To me, that’s degrading the whole issue.

It’s a lot more than that.”

For both Barry and McCaffrey, the larger issue at hand is that the University ought to begin a conversation that will enable students to make safe choices. Both leaders referred to “cura personalis,” a tenet of Jesuit identity that means one ought to care for another as God would—to care for one’s whole self. Sexual health is an important part of this pillar of Jesuit education, both Barry and McCaffrey said, in separate conversations. Barry said, in regard to SSH, that the group hopes to provide resources to extend care to the whole person.

“We talk so much about ‘cura personalis’ here—care for the whole person—and having healthy relationships, which are usually going to feature sexual relationships, are really important,” Barry said.

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urrently—and contrary to popular belief—University Health Services offers testing for sexually transmitted infections, such as chlamydia and HIV/AIDS. Nurse practitioner Yolanda Hobin, who has been here for nearly 18 years, said that the tests have been offered as long as she has been here.

Although she cannot disclose the precise number of patients she sees for STI testing, she noted that she sees about six or seven each

day. Hobin is the primary women’s health care provider, but she said that there are others in UHS who provide STI testing. STI testing is generally covered by a student’s insurance, and those students concerned about the fee showing up on their parents’ insurance can pay out of pocket via a service called Cashnet. It is only a tiny portion of students who do choose that option, Hobin said. If a test is positive, treatment is available at UHS. But, according to the University’s Web site, its official policy is that abstinence is the best way to avoid STIs. This year, an increasing number of students are coming to UHS for STI testing, though the exact numbers are not public, according to director Thomas Nary. Hobin has noticed that more students are educated about the need for testing this year. Specifically, in the past two years, there has been an increase in positive chlamydia tests—although, she said, this could be due to a higher rate of testing. Students who come in for sexual testing seem well-informed, she said, and not at all intimidated.

Though the University cannot provide birth control generally, UHS does provide contraceptives for medical reasons. That means that a woman diagnosed with menstrual problems, like polycystic ovarian syndrome or irregular periods, could receive birth control from BC. She did, however, acknowledge that a student could lie about menstrual cramps to receive contraceptives.

“If it’s specifically for contraception, we cannot provide it,” Hobin said. “I suppose you could say you have severe cramps, and how would we know? But I think most people are genuine. If they want contraception for contraception services, they go somewhere else.”

Hobin does not see this policy changing

unless the Catholic Church changes its stance on birth control. Despite recent remarks from Pope Francis suggesting that contraceptives could slow the spread of the Zika virus, Hobin does not believe the Church will adjust its stance, so the University will not either.

The BC Office of Health Promotion holds programs like the Nourish and Wasted Weekend campaigns, which advocate for healthy eating and drinking habits, respectively, but they do not currently offer any programs regarding sexual health. Director Elise Phillips was not available for comment.

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heology professor John McDargh has been at the University for 37 years. In that time he has seen the rise in prominence of gay and lesbian students, particularly the formation of the GLBTQ Leadership Council. McDargh identifies as a “six on the Kinsey scale”—a measure of homosexuality that goes from zero, the most heterosexual, to six, the most homosexual.

He has been supportive of gay and lesbian students on campus since he arrived. All decisions at BC are made from the top down, he said. For example, students don’t participate in a nationwide survey about sexual health due to a decision from the top of the administration.

This, he said, was so the administration could claim “plausible deniability.” In reality, there are no figures about how sexually active the student body is, though McDargh assumed students are about on par with equivalent institutions.

Jesuit schools, he said, are particularly vulnerable to criticism from conservative groups—they are known for being more progressive, and are known to push the

envelope. Barry noted a similar idea. The problem of sexual health that she sees at BC, she sees at other Jesuit schools as well, such as Georgetown. Students doing similar work at non-Catholic schools are surprised by the restraints the administration levels at SSH, she said.

Recently, conservative publication Crisis Magazine has painted BC in a negative light for engaging in what it sees as collusion with Planned Parenthood. The National Catholic Register has published several unflattering articles about Catholic universities that host speakers affiliated with abortion providers.

The newspaper, founded in 1927, has a readership of tens of thousands, including influential Catholic leaders. In articles critical of specific universities, the underlying message to readers is that these schools are no longer Catholic enough. It’s no wonder that leadership at top Jesuit and Catholic schools could feel hesitant to push the envelope when publications like this one, which are read by donors, are ready to pounce.

Catholicism has not been very rational in some ways, McDargh said, particularly in how it regards sexuality.

McDargh agrees that unless the Catholic Church changes its stance on contraceptives, the University will stick to its official position. He wants to see students able to protect themselves sexually. Yet he also thinks that providing contraceptives more easily to students is akin to endorsing the culture of casual sex prevalent on campus.

“The real thing that has to happen is a sea change around students thinking about protecting themselves and their partners,” he said. “And since so much unprotected sex

happens around the use of alcohol, how do we get students to make sober, thoughtful decisions about sexual health?”

If the University were to suddenly adopt a policy that would allow resident assistants to go around a hall on a Friday evening “putting a condom and a lollipop under everyone’s door,” then the University would not only be recognizing the fact that students are sexually active, but also endorsing it.

Ultimately, McDargh said, sexual health is about much more than sexual diseases. He wondered aloud if non-Catholic institutions are any better than BC about having conversations about sexual health. Simply putting out contraceptives, without any conversation, is neglecting a very real responsibility.

“We need more conversations about negotiating intimacy,” he said. “I want the direction to be students having real conversations about intimacy, how you negotiate sexual connection, and how do [you] have sex … that is mutual, responsible, life-giving, fun, even uplifting.”

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arry believes the attitude that providing contraception promotes casual intimacy is “a very naive view.” It has been three years since the “condomonium,” and though visits to UHS for STI testing have increased, the casual observer could not necessarily detect a noticeable change in the campus climate. And for the foreseeable future, the members of SSH plan to continue to table on College Road—to provide physical materials, and to start conversations.

“Students hook up regardless, we’re just providing a way for it to be safe,” she said.

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‘The Servant of Two Masters’

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ABBY PAULSON / HEIGHTS EDITOR

THE HEIGHTS

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Back in 2010, CeeLo Green’s “F—k You” was the s—t. Pardon my language, but no one can deny that Green was at the forefront of the entertainment world following the release of the soul / R&B star’s single and subsequent album, The Lady Killer. I was just starting to drive the summer that “F—k You” was being broadcasted on nearly every radio station, and once I found the rest of The Lady Killer, you could say I was hooked on a good dose of CeeLo Green for a couple months. I went back and grabbed the albums Green had done with Danger Mouse as the famed duo Gnarls Barkley, and even grabbed a few tracks off of Green’s earlier 2002 and 2004 albums.

Eventually, my Green fever subsided and I moved on to different styles and sounds, but a few tracks from Gnarls Barkley and Green’s Lady Killer could still be found at the top of some of my playlists. It wasn’t until the other day, when I was bumping along to my personal favorite track off of Lady Killer, “Wildflower,” that a thought suddenly dawned on me—where the hell is CeeLo Green?

Referencing the world’s encyclopedia that is Google, I saw that Green had actually released two albums since The Lady Killer right under my radar—CeeLo’s Magic Moment (a Christmas album, which is a harbinger of a dying career in itself) and his fifth studio album, Heart Blanche. Neither of these appeared to do very well, and after a bit of my own browsing, I found that I didn’t think any differently than many of Green’s critics. But finding these two albums still made me very curious—how had these albums, from an artist I had actually grown to like a lot, slid right under my nose?

Then I saw that Green had been charged with drugging a girl he had had dinner with back in 2014. So that kind of answered why no one had been talking about Green’s music very much in the last couple years. Thinking about CeeLo, though, got me thinking about the celebrity limelight a bit more. How easily does one fall into it, and how does one come falling out of it?

Look at child stars. It’s almost a stereotype that they fall from grace at some point.

Macaulay Culkin was in court in 2005 for a marijuana possession charge. The Phantom Menace’s Jake Lloyd was jailed after a car chase last year. None of these once-famous child stars did anything terrible, but since they rebelled against social conformity (and also because none of them are in entertainment anymore) they’ve been labeled as quitters and outcasts.

None of this is really anything new to think about, but I think it’s interesting to try to predict who obscurity might claim next in its hunger. If you had asked people back in 2010 what they thought CeeLo Green’s career would look like in 2016 or people in the early ’90s how they thought Culkin would turn out, I’m sure you would get radically different answers than what we see from these stars now.

As the adorable, engaging, and heartwrenching boy in Room, Jacob Tremblay quickly won over the heart of America this past awards season. If you look at Tremblay’s Instagram profile, it’s easy to imagine that many of Hollywood’s biggest stars are teasing each other, asking, “Did you get a picture with Jacob Tremblay?

Well I did.” How long will Tremblay’s Hollywood fame last, though? I’m not saying I think Tremblay’s heading down a rugged path (I personally love the kid).

I’m just thinking it’s hard to tell whether Tremblay is the next Culkin or if he’s the future Leonardo DiCaprio.

Predicting if Hollywood and entertainment’s most precious stars will continue to shine on through the ages or dwindle down to rubble is a tricky business. It doesn’t seem to matter if you’re dealing with child stars, athletes, singers, or actors—once a famous person makes one or two bad moves, the entertainment industry seems likely to turn its back on that person pretty quickly. For now, though, all we can do is hope that Tremblay makes it through all right—we’re all counting on you, kid.

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AMELIE TRIEU / HEIGHTS EDITOR

DXbiXejbp DXb\j X DXjk\i flk f] ÊK_\ J\imXekË 9P :?I@J =LCC<I 8ikj I\m`\n <[`kfi In many ways, it’s safe to say that Boston College is a pretty normal place in the world where pretty normal, daily occurrences are found. Students go to class and do extracurriculars. Professors teach and work on their research. Occasionally, there are days like Marathon Monday or special football games where things get a little weird or out of hand.

But, generally, the wheels of BC tend to keep spinning smoothly, without making much noise. If one happens to go see the theatre department’s rendition of The Servant of Two Masters this weekend, however, he or she will be treated to an experience completely out of the ordinary: a wacky, zany, hysterical romp about Venice—one that isn’t easy to forget.

Luke Jorgensen’s retreatment of the original 1746 version adds a muchneeded and appreciated modern facet to the tale of mixed-up love in a big city.

A marriage between Silvio (Dan Quinones, MCAS ’19) and Clarice (Sydney Sabean, MCAS ’16) is canceled when Federigo (Aryn Mello Pryor, MCAS ’16), the man who Clarice was formerly promised to, reappears, despite claims that he had been killed in a duel with the Spaniard, Ramon (Ted Kearnan, MCAS ’17), who was Federigo’s sister’s lover.

Federigo didn’t want Ramon to marry Roxanne, his sister, and died for it.

Roxanne is disguising herself as Federigo in order to settle Clarice’s father, Pantalone’s , (Ryan Cooper, MCAS ’16) debts to Federigo and to find Ramon. Truffaldino (David Makransky,

MCAS ’16), Roxanne’s servant, accompanies her to Venice and happens across Ramon in the city. Truffaldino offers his services to Ramon, but continues to work for Roxanne, giving the play its namesake, and pushing the plot through its many intricacies.

What’s strange about The Servant of Two Masters, plot-wise, is that, despite how complicated it sounds, it’s actually pretty easy to follow. Jorgensen’s script is written in modern English, which makes what would have been a very complicated 18th-century script rather accessible. Laced with references to movies like Airplane and The Princess Bride and songs like Justin Bieber’s “Sorry” and Rupert Holmes’ “Escape (Pina Colada)” set the play in a frame of modern context solidly, while references to CSOM, Mary Ann’s, and Chipotle reach to a more local resonance. These little allusions add familiar aspects to a foreign setting and hit viewers in the face, to their enjoyment, at the most unexpected moments.

As the ser vant of two masters , Makransky steals every scene he is in.

Physically, Makransky must be one of the most dynamic and energetic actors ever to grace Robsham’s stage. He seems to defy physics, as he appears to pause for a moment in the air before seamlessly throwing himself onto a large chest mid-stage. Whether he’s somersaulting across the stage or juggling on a box, Makransky finds a different way to mesmerize the audience every other minute. Especially playing an absurdly ridiculous character, Makransky makes Truffaldino charismatic enough for viewers to actually like him and not just

enjoy his antics.

Playing Ramon, one of Truffaldino’s masters, Ted Kearnan makes a bellicose stance as soprano, his ringing voice defining his character. He swaggers across the stage, bringing his knees nearly up to his chest with every step. Kearnan’s enrapturing Spanish accent will be stuck in viewers’ heads days after seeing the show, making him one of the more memorable and enjoyable characters in The Servant of Two Masters. Makrasky and Keanan play off of each other well, developing a touching chemistry.

While these two provide the most noteworthy performances, that isn’t to say that the rest of the cast doesn’t pull its weight. Playing the female equivalent of Truffaldino, Meghan Hornblower, MCAS ’17, brings an equal, yet distinct energy to her character, Smeraldina.

Taking on the whiny, mopey Clarice, Sydney Sabean waddles across stage, crying her heart out at every little inconvenience she faces. These are just a few of the many outrageous, kooky characters found in The Servant of Two Masters, which is a testament to the treatment that Jorgensen has given the script.

Aside from the engaging characters and story, The Servant of Two Masters utilizes the Robsham stage wonderfully, with its industrial, carnival aesthetic. A large 2D carnival tent is erected as the main background of the set, while the stage is bombarded with painted and projected stars alike. The two-story deck is made the most of, donned with two sheets used for silhouetted scenes throughout the play. Many elaborate chase scenes are found throughout

the show in which characters can be seen weaving in and out of the deck on both levels. The actors’ timing with this intricate set proves seamless, as cues were never missed, despite the distances actors would have to cover in just a few seconds. The elaborate, grandiose set spoke to The Servant of Two Masters’ scale as both a story and a performance.

Incorporated throughout the play were many acts, such as acrobatic pieces and songs, that had little to do with the story, but made the carnival atmosphere apparent to and authentic for the viewers. The show opens with “Spectacular Spectacular” from Moulin Rouge, and, after the intermission, viewers are treated to the acrobatic skills of Gabrielle Esposito, MCAS ’19, as she balances herself on a conical box and manages to find every way possible to balance herself in a hanging hula-hoop.

These intricate spectacles, alongside the complicated choreography of some of play’s scenes, exude a chaotic yet appreciable tone that moves the show along at a rapid pace.

This weekend’s Arts Fest has a lot for viewers, and that’s evident just from The Servant of Two Masters alone. This is by far the most meticulous, extravagant piece to hit Robsham in recent memory and future plays will have to muster up something amazing to rival it. The star of the show, David Makransky, is himself worth heading to Robsham for a night, as he puts on an exasperating, enthralling performance at every twist and turn the play has to offer. BC’s The Servant of Two Masters has taken the throne of BC theatre.

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THIS WEEKEND in arts

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This weekend, the Museum of Fine Arts will host a handful of New England’s greatest garden clubs and professional designers.

Guests will follow an itinerary of speakers and classes as they browse arrangements inspired by some of the museum’s most beloved art pieces.

The dynamic duo known for their hit sketch comedy show Key & Peele are at it again with hilarious hijinks as they team up to catch a cat burglar on the move. The two men bravely tread on, despite this dangerous job.

BC BATTLE OF THE BANDS (THURSDAY AT 8 P.M.) O’Neill Plaza is your place for BC’s ultimate singing showdown.

From Funky Giant to William Bolton to everytone in between, BC bands will go head-to-head in order to claim the title of champion and secure a spot as opener for this year’s Modstock.

BOSTONIANS FINAL SHOW (SATURDAY AT 7 P.M.) Admission to the Bostonians’ highly anticipated Final Show is free this weekend—get there early to snag a good seat. Fulton 511 will host the co-ed a cappella crew as it sings covers of hit songs and says goodbye to four graduating members.

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COMMON TONES SPRING SHOW (FRIDAY AT 7 P.M.) In Gasson 305, the co-ed a cappella crew is happy to present its Spring Show, an energetic performance of popular music and exciting song debuts. While the show is free, the Common Tones will be accepting donations for Camp Kesem.

JUICE ALBUM RELEASE CONCERT (THURSDAY AT 9 P.M.) Immediately following the final Battle of the Bands competition, the popular funk group will take the stage and play a full set in honor of its upcoming album release. Get to O’Neill Plaza for the opportunity to snag new music and awesome band merch.

‘MOTHER’S DAY’ (OPENS FRIDAY) Starring Jennifer Aniston, Julia Roberts, and a handful of other stars, this sentimental dramedy follows the intertwining stories of a workaholic, a struggling divorcee, and a daughter who seeks to strengthen her relationship with her mother.

THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS (FRIDAY AT 7:30 P.M.) The BC Theatre Department welcomes fans of comedy and jest to its weekend performance of The Servant of Two Masters. As the play’s quirky protagonist, Truffaldino is a perpetually hungry servant who takes his payment in meals, though his appetite eventually spells trouble for him.

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On the streets of San Agustin, Cuba, old cars dot the sides of the worn road and people walk beside colorful Cold War-era housing plots. Murals span walls, as underbrush creeps along the perimeter of fences and crawls up posts. Emitting a vibrant personality from every corner, onlookers and artists attempt to grasp at the city’s essence. As some of those walking the streets see the camera, many smile and say hello. Others shout out “Camara!” excitedly, as it captures their image, at least for a moment. The respect, enthusiasm, and reverence given to artists in Cuba remains markedly different in the United States. In such a different culture and political system, people will adopt different roles and functions from those in American society, but one of the most stark and striking differences between the two cultures remains the figure of the artist in each.

Emily Sadeghian, Adriana Sarro, and Oscar Rodriguez, all MCAS ’16, sought to flesh out such distinctions and differences in their documentary Laboratorio Artistico de San Agustin (LASA), funded by the Salmonowitz Grant. The LASA organization, founded by Cuban artist Candelario, exposes the people of San Agustin to contemporary art and various performance-art pieces, creating interesting dialogues in the community, as well as exploring art in action.

The trio hoped to paint a portrait of the artist’s role in the communist nation and how artists function within their distinct cultural framework. As relations between Cuba and the U.S. continue to thaw, onlookers may be challenged by these disparate views on art. The students’ journey and film show that there exist many ways to think about art and artists, both as observers and as integral parts of the artistic process.

Though one might believe that the biggest struggles for such a project might lie in Cuba itself, for the trio, getting to Cuba also proved to be an arduous and complicated process. Despite the lifts on travel bans, the group still had to cross through a lot of red tape to simply enter the country. It took around two months to confirm the group’s air travel.

“We did not have our visas until a day before,” Sadeghian said, noting the visa process for entering the country remained difficult for U.S. citizens, even though the three held additional citizenships outside the U.S. “We entered Cuba with a print-out of a picture of our visas,” Sarro added. Hardships like this added to the stress and uncertainty of the process. The group said a lot of trust had to be put in people it had never met, simply to secure its route to the

country. The relative scarcity of Internet in Cuba made it difficult to confirm contacts and transfer crucial information like passports and credentials, they said.

“You have to enter Cuba in a mindset where you can’t compare,” Sarro said.

“This is a new way of living, a new social order you have never experienced, so you can’t go in trying to compare what you have experienced to anything you have experienced before.”

The group flew from Boston to Texas to Mexico and into Cuba in a 24-hour process.

Upon its arrival, the differences between the two lands became ever more apparent, especially in regards to artists.

While artists in the U.S. and other parts of the world may be relegated to positions of economic and social inferiority, in Cuba, artists live on a decidedly higher rung on the social ladder, they said.

“They see themselves performing a very high social role,” Rodriguez said. “They are

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very well-considered and regarded.”

The group encountered one artist for the documentary who recalled an exodus of artists from a Fidel Castro speech. When the former president made derogatory remarks regarding art and artists, artists defiantly stood up and left in an audacious fashion. That kind of exercise of power, in direct opposition to the president, is symbolic of the power dynamics at play within the community of artists in Cuba.

But the path to a career as an honored Cuban artist is not the sole choice of an individual. Factoring natural aptitude and academic success, only those fitting a certain profile in Cuba may choose to become artists. If one meets these prerequisites through tests, the door is open for interesting relationships with the government through subsidies on proposed projects through those who score high enough. The lifestyle of an artist is much different from other professions, leading to a higher sense of status, honor, and power.

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LASA is able to subvert this process by managing both a business and artistic side, funding artists through means outside of the government. The organization’s founder Candelario employs non-artists with backgrounds in engineering, law, and philosophy, allowing for a wider swath of people to enter into communion with artistic ventures brought about by the business’ revenue. Additionally, the organization forges international relationships, inviting foreign artists to create anything from murals to fuel larger projects in the community. Cutting out the government as the middle man, LASA implements its performance-art pieces to build a rapport within the community of San Agustin.

Many, if not most of LASA’s projects involve the people of San Agustin as a portion of their performance piece. LASA works to illustrate the role of contemporary art, while exposing the populace to diverse ideas.

One set of performances, Los ensayos públicos (The Public Experiments), involved the five senses. The taste experiment had to do with rations. Each person in Cuba has access to one piece of bread a day. LASA remanufactured the bread with different ingredients to enhance the flavor and painted each a different color to signify these differences. At these ration stations, the people of San Agustin could then choose what kind of bread they would like, choice being a luxury in this context.

Another taste experiment created an edible map of San Agustin made of cake.

The people were then asked to locate their house, after which they could eat it. The task proved difficult for many, however, because there are not formal directions or street signs in San Agustin. LASA designed these events to create a sensory experience for the people.

Though from the outside looking in, it would appear LASA’s aims may be to subvert the system in place in Cuba, but the intent is far less anarchical and revolutionary.

“The goal is to test people’s senses and

make them see the world a little differently than the way they have experienced it their whole life,” Sarro said, describing how the San Agustinians’ world is structured in different ways. LASA, with pieces like this, looks to help people orient themselves in new ways.

In their documentary covering the influences of LASA, the trio entered Cuba with an open mind, not quite knowing what to expect. Over the course of the week, the group found that its own journey in Cuba became rather self-reflective, as it set out to create and discover, just as those in LASA sought to do the same in San Agustin.

“We are filming it and we are experiencing it,” Sadeghian said.

LASA does not champion itself as social workers in the community, but rather as artists who hone their craft in the context of its home, San Agustin. Using the people and its active participation in art, like another color on its palette, LASA uses this human element to make their aims all the more enthralling and captivating.

“What stood out the most, what is the most salient, is the idea of an organization that is ahead of its time, Sadeghian said.

“The point of the art is not to inform the community,” Rodriguez added. “It is the art itself.”

Art, in all parts of the world, is placed throughout our lives to create context, bring light to issues, and challenge our beliefs. All kinds of art can ask countless questions, but no one artistic endeavor can truly answer all these questions and address all shortcomings. Organizations like LASA may bring some clarity to those questions, but also create more questions as they—as we all—begin to orient ourselves in the new ways the artistic works suggest.

Off the plane, Sadeghian, Sarro, and Rodriguez were told, “You are going to leave here more confused than you got here.”

“I think that’s completely true about going to Cuba, in a beautiful way,” Sarro said.

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Well, folks, it’s official. Hollywood has ruined holidays for everyone. In a valiant attempt at trying to come up with fresh material for his next major motion picture, director Garry Marshall and his merry band of moviemakers thought it’d be a grand idea to bring yet another celebrity-saturated chick flick to the table—one that already overflows with feel-good romance flicks featuring cringe-worthy plot lines constructed purposely to be as predictable as possible.

The most recent victim in the neverending saga of holidays whose sanctity and innocence is ruined by the wrath of a crappy rom-com is, of all joyous occasions, Mother’s Day. This Friday, movie theaters across the nation will watch Jennifer Aniston struggle as a single mom of two who just can’t stop criticizing the sizable age gap between her ex-husband and his new girlfriend. Viewers will be treated to Jason Sudeikis awkwardly juggling the responsibility of raising a teenage girl. Meanwhile, Kate Hudson’s character wants to rekindle the relationship with her stubborn mother, and a lonely Julia Roberts sports a pumpkin-colored bob. I wish I was kidding.

Now, I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m pretty sure my mom didn’t carry me for nine months just to get recognition for her efforts in the form of some crappy dramedy flop—a overstuffed movie rife with stock scenarios that can’t pull its weight farther than 7 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.

I can imagine the writers rifling through their pocket-sized calendars, searching earnestly and to no avail for a holiday that the unforgiving talons of Hollywood have not yet clinched. Valentine’s Day? Nope.

Hanukkah? Try again. Christmas? Come on. And while I wouldn’t hold my breath for a Daylight Savings Day rom-com any time soon, I also wouldn’t count it out completely, either.

Every few years, it seems as though the higher-ups in the entertainment industry try to keep things interesting by plaguing the public with a pretty rotten rom-com or a disastrous drama. Directors and B-list celebrities must feel obligated to throw a few bad apples into the mix just so film critics have a steady stream of content to complain about.

Or perhaps it’s all about the money they get from starstruck viewers who want to see pop-culture heartthrobs thrown together in a film. “Why not pair Taylor Swift with that werewolf kid from Twilight and make them overwhelmingly vapid high school lovers?” asked a writer in a pitch meeting for the 2010 Marshall film Valentine’s Day. Based on the film’s box office gains to the tune of $216.4 million, at least they made some kind of profit.

“And what better way to do this,” producers and film execs must have tittered over caviar and wildly expensive bottles of carbonated water, “than to make a crappy new movie that appeals to tweens and tabloid lovers alike?”

Ah, the profitability of stardom and sacrificing quality content for Zac Efron cameos—there’s nothing like movie-making the American way. Like the effectiveness of a dried-up glue stick in the construction of a macaroni art masterpiece, family-friendly holiday films try and fail miserably to hold a poorly constructed plot of intersecting stories together.

Now, this is not to say I’ve never enjoyed a warm and fuzzy film like these. Instead, I regard them as a sort of filler for the film world—a nonessential element that Americans definitely don’t need more of, but will gladly take anyway despite it being totally deleterious to their health. See extra whipped cream, tanning beds, and Nicolas Cage movie marathons.

Stick with the breakfast in bed. Buy a bouquet of fresh flowers, if she likes that sort of thing. But for the love of all things pure and good in this beautiful world, do not take your mom to see Mother’s Day. Unless, of course, you believe that the sacred bond between mother and child could be strengthened by watching and ridiculing this year’s ridiculous, holidaydriven disaster.

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It seems fair to call the Game of Thrones premiere the most hotly anticipated premiere on television this year. It’s hard for other programming to compete with a winner of 26 Emmy Awards, whose vocabulary is now regularly used in media to describe real-world political conflict.

Game of Thrones, based on the Song of Ice and Fire book series by George R.R. Martin, derives its success from apparent paradox—it’s loved not only for its epic fantasy and world-building but also for explor-

ing eerily real personal and political struggles.

Its scale and characterization, however, lend it the notoriety of having an unwieldy number of characters and an unusual amount of sexual and graphic content. It’s also infamous for killing its apparent main characters, like in season three’s “Red Wedding.”

The show follows members of the seven great houses of Westeros as they grapple with each other to contest their late king’s seat. All the while, ancient magic looms, from the dead rising in the North of the world to dragons hatching in the East. Sound confusing or only vaguely

familiar? Luckily, HBO has prefaced the episode with a three-minute recap of the main plotlines beginning from season one.

The Game of Thrones season-six premiere, “The Red Woman,” saw a revisitation of most of the show’s major arcs, which was a good way to re-familiarize viewers with the show’s most recent drama. At the Wall, the Night’s Watch, a military force tasked with keeping order in the North, discover their dead lord commander, Jon Snow (Kit Harrington), betrayed by his fellows. At Winterfell, Jon’s halfsister Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner) and their childhood friend Theon Greyjoy

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(Alfie Allen), escape the tyrannical House Bolton’s forces and finally run into Brienne (Gwendoline Christie), an event long in the making.

At the capital, King’s Landing, Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj CosterWaldau) reunites with his sister Cersei (Lena Headey), bringing home their daughter’s body. Meanwhile, Margaery Tyrell (Natalie Dormer) languishes in the prison of the Faith, the Seven Kingdom’s dominant religious order.

Across the Narrow Sea in the citystate of Braavos, Arya Stark (Maisie Williams), newly blind, begins training to fight in a visually painful sequence.

Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke), captured by a nomadic Dothraki horde during her quest to find a fleet to sail to conquer Westeros, finds mercy in Dothraki culture. Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage) and former adviser-of-kings Varys (Conleth Hill) struggle to keep order in Daenerys’ city, even as rebels set fire to her ships.

Jorah (Iain Glen) and Daario (Michiel Huisman) search for their queen in the wastes outside the city.

But while the episode serves primarily as review of season five and exposition for the new season, it certainly doesn’t lack twists of its own. First, on Westeros’ southern tip of Dorne, Ellaria Sand (Indira Varma) stages a bloody coup resulting in the death of Dorne’s crippled prince and

his son. At the Wall, the titular “Red Woman” Melisandre (Carice van Houten), a priestess of the fire god R’hllor who proved a key political strategist in past seasons, is revealed to be an ancient woman disguising herself with magic. The unfazeable Red Woman herself is shown in a state of uncertainty from which her character has the potential to develop.

Ramsay Bolton (Iwan Rheon), up until now a seeming sociopath, actually mourns his murdered lover with visible emotion. On top of that, he seems perturbed by his father’s ignominious threats of disinheritance.

Game of Thrones has, in previous seasons, received fan criticism for straying from Martin’s written plot, but the showrunners’ changes now seem crucial to reduce the scale of the show, which continues to sprawl outwards in the novels. Interactions between main characters, which will hopefully increase over this season, and well-thought-out character deaths will advance the show toward its final conflict in an exciting but manageable way.

This season’s premiere shows Game of Thrones’ ability to pace itself and to deliver on its cliffhangers, balancing character development with its own sweeping scale—traits that it must maintain if it is to keep audiences’ and critics’ interest for its probable final three seasons.

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Forget all you thought you knew about making the sweet beverage best for an afternoon of blistering heat, because when it comes to creating Lemonade, Beyonce has everyone beat.

On Saturday, the R&B megastar brought yet another buzzworthy album into a world that had long awaited her imminent return. After a three-year stint spent eerily absent from the public eye, Beyonce returns radiant and more unapologetic than ever in her emotion-laden LP Lemonade, a 12-track affirmation of her unique vocal talent, lyrical mastery, and firm stances on some of the most pressing social issues plaguing the public today.

Following the surprise HBO showing of her hour-long “visual album” and the subsequent online release of the new songs, Queen Bey has received massive praise for the reclamation of her Southern roots and

successful stray from the perky, R&B dance beats expected of the artist.

Throughout this new release, her sith studio album as a solo artist, Beyonce opts instead to incorporate blues-rock infused with a palpable Americana spirit. It’s punchy, it’s incredibly powerful, and it’s a little bit of a beautiful mess as far as fluidity goes.

Expertly blending genres in wild, unprecedented ways—peppy reggae, atmospheric pop, and breathy love ballads collide in an overstimulating auditory experience—Beyonce brings the same energy and infectious, feminist attitude from her self-titled 2013 release, but with a few changes. Instead of the lustful and love-saturated lyrics that served as the foundation for Beyonce, Lemonade tackles a rather sour subject instead: infidelity.

“Hold Up,” with its upbeat, glowy tone paired with a bold reggae percussion, is a vocalization of Beyonce’s internal monologue as the star ruminates over her husband’s alleged adulterous acts. Despite its depressing lyrics, Beyonce searches for answers as she sing-speaks, “Know that I kept it sexy, know I kept it fun. There’s somethin’ else I’m missing—maybe my head, for one.” Much like the choppy but triumphant “Sorry,” “Hold Up” is an instant album standout—a titillating and feisty Beyonce track boasting a catchy hook that just won’t quit.

In attempts to reclaim the rock

genre, Beyonce draws from Alabama Shakes’ fearless frontwoman Brittany Howard with familiar, bluesy beats and muffled vocals in “Don’t Hurt Yourself,” a screechy and shrill collaboration with Jack White that culminates in harshly shouted lyrics.

Another rage-filled rock song is the singer’s triumphant “Freedom,” a Kendrick Lamar collaboration whose lyrics are laced with vengeance and empowered ferocity. In her last refrain of the song, Beyonce confidently asserts, “I’ma keep running / Cause a winner don’t quit on themselves.”

Adding to the star-studded collab

series featured on Lemonade is “6 inch,” the sultry and slow-paced track in which the The Weeknd lends his soulful tone, shining as more than a mere accessory to the song’s sensual aesthetic.

Lemonade is a surprising venture into the realm of rock for a singer so firmly established in the R&B/pop realm. Immaculately produced in spite of the purposely muddled background instrumentals, the album’s sound and accompanying lyrics beautifully encapsulate Beyonce’s proud embracing of her race, womanhood, and strong Texas roots.

The singer’s second visual album—a truly spectacular feat of cinematic artistry—reveals the all-toounderestimated struggles of women worldwide. Separated from the video, however, the music spins an entirely different story—Beyonce’s own story, to be precise, a more personal and intimate experience of a loving wife wronged, a strong woman scorned.

In Lemonade, Beyonce does what she does best: astound an audience.

With disjointed tracks, an inventive clash of genres, and a tracklist rife with warnings against infidelity, Lemonade is perfectly unapologetic.

Well, Juice has arrived, finally.

The self-titled debut album from the two-time Battle of the Bands champs, eight-piece outfit is here. Released in casual conjunction with Arts Fest (the event with the big white tents), Juice’s Juice is part culmination, part celebration of where the band launched its first major musical concoction (Arts Fest, circa 2014), and where that

mixture has come from there—in the form of its titular Juice.

Juice is a delightfully textured album, mixing three voices, two guitars, an electric violin, drums, bass, and keys. It walks, runs, and skips. It’s got pop, jazz, and hip-hop. It’s a collection Juice has been touting for two years now, from the earlier “Where I Wanna to Be” to the more recent “BCY.” Produced by Mike Davidson, whose credits include St. Vincent, Regina Spektor, and Ghostface Killah,

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Juice captures much of the band’s live show in a bottle, a tall task considering the rising crescendos most songs reach at the end, “Pineapple Groove” being an example.

The band’s name is a fitting allusion to its own varied composition of the talents of Ben Stevens, lead vocals and CSOM ’18, Kamau Burton, acoustic guitar and vocals and MCAS ’17, Christian Rougeau, violin and vocals and MCAS ’18, Daniel Moss, guitar and MCAS ’17, Miles Clyatt, drums

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and MCAS ’17, Chris Vu, keyboard and MCAS ’17, Rami El-Abidin, bass, and Michael Ricciardulli, guitar and MCAS ’17.

Among several central threads, Juice seems to be about aspiration, and girls. Juice is just fun, but it also converses with itself in an interesting way. The set-closing anthem “Where I Wanna Be” is about projecting “a place so far away.” And just two tracks later, we arrive at “BCY,” a song that basically describes that perfect, fleeting day, that urges you to “feel the sand between your toes / let the music in your soul / Can you dig it, dig babe?”

Side note: No one, including Shaquille O’Neal or Cyrus, has ever said “can you dig it?” better than Ben Stevens.

“BCY” makes a turn itself. After a strumming interlude, Burton comes in with, “rebirth, renew, let loose, sit back cuz you gotta live your life.” It’s a move that occurs in a lot of Juice songs. In a normal song, there’s “the bridge”—the last verse that’s a bit different from the others, before the song walks back the other way for the last chorus. You’ve listened to music before.

But a Juice bridge, usually around the three-minute mark (most Juice songs approach five), more than dips

its toes in a new form. It’s more like a sequel that can affirm, complicate, respond, or reprise the tension through the first part of the song or even a previous song. “Where I Wanna Be” doubles down on its optimism. Juice doesn’t really do irony. It’s part of its charm. “Gold” explodes into a violin solo. In a lot of aspects, “Gold” is Juice at its most confident.

“How You Gonna Do Me Like That” is kind of like a fireside chat about the ladies. Burton, Rougeau, and even a few guests try to one-up each other. But at the turn, things slow down to a jazzier pace.

These are the moments and interactions between songs that show an album that’s having a whole lot of fun but also revising itself as it goes along.

You can now get your Juice experience in the comfort of your own home/dorm. And Juice isn’t perfect. Its instincts are usually to go big, and while Juice does live in this expansive fusion of sound, the band is often at its best when it makes a turn into a quieter place.

But if the band does one thing live that it replicates here, it makes you feel good. Juice is about good vibes.

And Juice is no different.

Fresh off Cage the Elephant’s most recent album, Tell Me I’m Pretty, single “Trouble” sounds like the soundtrack to a Clint Eastwood classic, playing through the muted daylight of an LA sunset. Its newly released music video only serves to add characteristics of a classic Old Western, following the journey of a young cowboy through the desert while the band performs in traditional, old-fashioned clothing.

Lead singer Matt Shultz said that in this video, his directorial debut, he wanted to create something that looked like “John Wayne … in a [Jean] Cocteau play.” Describing the adventures of the video’s young cowboy as a “metaphorical journey that hopefully people could read between the lines,” Shultz realized this goal by paying homage to both films and music videos before this one’s creation.

The video opens with wideview shots of the desert and clips of the band performing the song to an audience of no one.

These clips remain interspersed throughout the video as it becomes increasingly more surreal—after the protagonist kills a rival in a duel, he is haunted by the victim’s ghostly image, chased by paparazzi-like fans, invited to a coven of painted men and ladies that almost perfectly echo the video for The Killers’ Mr. Brightside, and is sucked into the whirlwind of a life of fame as he takes on his new role as the king of the desert.

By the end of the video, it’s clear Shultz is trying to express his and his fellow band members’ adjustment to the life of fame. But even without this greater meaning, “Trouble” is an aesthetically pleasing and entertaining watch, combining nostalgia for the Old West, the early 2000s, and simple, solitudinous life all in a four-minute video.

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BEYONCE “Hold Up” “I Love Me” is a catchy pop tune that contains nothing unique. It truly is the purest form of bubblegum pop. Casting aside these typical critiques of Meghan Trainor, there’s nothing to really hate about this track. The song’s cheesy positivity message is an acknowledgement that this isn’t supposed to be musically engaging.

“Hold Up,” the second song from Beyoncé’s Lemonade project, proves once again that everything she releases instantly turns to gold.

Boasting an eclectic array of collaborators—Ezra Koenig, Diplo, and Father John Misty—“Hold Up” brilliantly pairs island vibes and damning lyrics, simultaneously fun and dramatic.

The defining element of Drake’s best music is its utter assault and dismantling of the beat. He has brought a new kind of rhythm to rap, and it can be intoxicating, but it’s missing in “One Dance.” Auto-tuning plagues the monotonous verses, and a relentless beat makes this song generic and boring.

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The senior corner outfielder doesn’t often exhibit power, but is consistently one of BC’s best at getting on base. He batted .300 last season, good for second on BC, and didn’t go more than two consecutive games without a base hit.

Logan Hoggarth, from B8 One of those more recent problems came during his freshman year at BC. Baseball head coach Mike Gambino, then in his third season with the team, wasn’t impressed with the defense he inherited.

To address his concerns, especially the infield defense, he recruited a bunch of shortstops—the position that arguably requires the most defensive skill and athleticism—with varying skillsets. Then he’d spread them out across the field and see what stuck.

It was perhaps the earliest step of Gambino’s ideal vision to have his players be exceptionally versatile. While junior Johnny Adams has owned short for the past three seasons, Joe Cronin, a guy with great hands and the potential for power, has made the shift to be an everyday first and third baseman. Gabriel Hernandez, a quick, switchhitting player, has found playing time both at third base and left field. Nick Sciortino, a slower high school shortstop with a strong arm and a high baseball IQ, has been the Eagles’ starting catcher for each of the past three seasons.

Hoggarth, unlike some other guys, didn’t make that switch the moment he arrived.

In year one, he was listed as an infielder.

He played third base all fall, but started his first few collegiate games as a designated hitter. His first start in the field was at third—he played both third and shortstop as a high schooler—and for a good chunk of the season he floated between starts at DH and the left side of the infield. But then, one of BC’s regular outfielders went down with an injury, and someone needed to take his place.

Gambino approached the freshman about making a start in left.

“He was a good infielder, but we had better infield defenders than him,” Gambino said. “But he could run, he had a strong arm, and he could swing it, so he slides out as a way to keep him in the lineup and give him a better matchup for his skillset.”

Hoggarth felt another safety net being pulled out from underneath him, but he was ready to accept anything that would get him in the lineup.

The thing was, he’d never played so much as an inning in the outfield.

“It was the scariest time of my life,” Hoggarth said. “It was so foreign … The first ball that was hit to me, I must have done three full 360s around before I caught the ball.”

After his premiere—a windy day against Georgia State at Al Lang Stadium—Hoggarth continued as an everyday player in left. With the help of assistant coach Greg Sullivan, BC’s primary outfield coach, Hoggarth became more acclimated to the wild, grassy expanse beyond the comfort of the

infield dirt.

Primarily, he had to learn to read the ball off the bat. As an infielder, he’d felt comfortable making the instinctual plays on ground balls and line drives, but the outfield works differently. With far more distance separating the moments of the actual hit and the point where the ball is due to land back down, there’s time for it to naturally tail away, get pushed in any direction by the wind, or get lost in the glare of a sunny day.

An outfielder has to recognize spin of the bat, take into account the external conditions, and take the most accurate route to position himself for a catch.

In other words, if you haven’t gone through extensive practice, it’s pretty hard.

“I thought, ‘It’s just outfield, you go out there and it’ll be easy,’” Hoggarth said. “You go from playing infield, pretty comfortable, think you’re pretty good at this, and then you go to outfield and you just get put in your place.”

He was ready to accept the challenge, as he’s always seemed to be when a new obstacle forces him to veer off a comfortable path. Per the advice of Gambino, Hoggarth played both outfield and third that summer. When he arrived back at BC in the fall, however, he made a decision for both his own competitive nature of staying in the lineup and to help fill the needs of the team—he was going to fully commit to being an outfielder.

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eff Burke is a prankster.

You can sort of tell it from just looking at him (or his Twitter feed).

The former BC pitcher, who was taken by the San Francisco Giants in the 32nd round of the MLB Draft this past summer, won’t hesitate to have some fun—even if it comes at the expense of his friends.

When Burke entered BC in fall of 2012, he was randomly paired with Hoggarth on Upper Campus, almost all the way in the back corner in Fenwick 118. The two got along great from the start, despite Hoggarth’s slight OCD and Burke’s sloppy tendencies. With their athletic schedules as they were, they spent a majority of their days together, and then continued to room together for three and a half years, until Burke signed with the Giants, and graduated early from BC at the end of last fall.

He’s now in the Arizona League. When they lived together, Burke liked to mess with his roomie, most often by scaring Hoggarth as he took his notoriously long showers.

“I don’t think he appreciated that,” Burke said, laughing.

Hoggarth wasn’t always the victim—one time, while one of their other roommates was away, Hoggarth helped Burke move all his stuff, including his bed, into their

common room.

Ultimately, the good-hearted pranks helped the two solidify their bond, which to Hoggarth has become as tight as he’s ever felt with a friend.

“I talk to him all the time, I Snapchat him all the time,” Hoggarth said. “He has become my best friend. I go to him for everything.”

Coming from Hoggarth, that friendship truly means something. If he has remained loyal in rooting for the Red Sox in the past 12 years, he’s even more committed to his family and friends.

“He’s one of those guys that if you called and said, ‘Hey, I’m in a bind,’ he’d hop on a flight to wherever you were,” Burke said.

“He’s as good of a buddy as you could ask for.”

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he goal is to get out.

At BC, there are certain practices in place for studentathletes to help keep them afloat with a challenging university workload. One of these rules requires that athletes attend six hours of study hall a week as freshmen, which aims to provide them with a feasible balance of their academic and athletic schedules. After the first semester, athletes have the chance to opt out of these required times—but only if they can reach (and maintain) a GPA threshold.

For baseball, that means keeping a 2.8 cumulative GPA or reaching a 3.0 GPA the previous semester. That may seem easy for someone like Hoggarth, who led his high school team with a 3.9, but handling a college athletic schedule is different. It requires planning, focus, drive to commit to doing well in class—not to mention having to listen to his teammates give him a hard time for studying so much.

“He’s done really well academically,” Burke said. “As much as people gave him a hard time freshman year, he’s one of the few guys who got out of study hours and stayed out of study hours on our team.”

Hoggarth, who has kept well above a 3.0, had the independence to get work done when he needed to.

Of course, that commitment has reached the ballfield as well. After hitting .400 his senior year of high school, the tough reality of ACC pitching hit caught up with him.

“We used to give him a hard time because when he first came in, he couldn’t hit a [collegiate] breaking ball,” Burke said. “So we’d always throw him breaking balls.”

In general, Hoggarth feels he spent his first two years in college learning how to hit.

He had the tools and ability, but he didn’t really have an approach heading into each at bat—against lower levels of pitching, he’d never needed one. But now that the pitching was good—really good—he needed

to learn how to attack with a gameplan heading in.

With the help of volunteer hitting coach Jimmy Van Ostrand, who has since relocated to Arizona, Hoggarth has developed into a hitter with a confident mental strategy for every game. In one basic approach, which may differ depending on scouting reports, the results of pregame hitters meetings, or most likely using his own eyes to see and adjust, Hoggarth will plan to attack the fastball and “spit” on the curveball. This not only increases his likelihood of correctly timing the pitch, but can also project a strong level of confidence to a pitcher who observes him comfortably taking a pitch that might have been intended to fool him.

“That really helped me stay consistent throughout the season,” Hoggarth said. “I never really got into a slump [last year]. If I went 0-4, I got back on track the next day.

It never really continued.”

That consistency has shown on the stats sheets. After batting a measly .189 in 49 games his freshman year, he improved to .239 sophomore year and then spot-on .300 last season—second on the team only to Chris Shaw, probably the best BC baseball player ever. His average has regressed down to .281 through 32 games this season, but he has already knocked in more RBIs this season (15) than last season (12), despite having just about half the number of at bats.

He has made just one error in the outfield, and has launched the first two home runs of his college career—the first, a grand slam in the opening weekend against Northern Illinois, and the second a three-run shot in the Beanpot last week.

Hoggarth’s individual improvement has been a reflection of the growing program around him, which, in part due to his play on the field and the support of the guys playing with him, is on its best pace in the six-year Gambino era.

“I’m gonna miss coaching that kid a lot,” Gambino said. “He cares about his teammates, he cares about his team. He’s a special kid.”

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ot everyone can make it to the Bigs.

It’s a simple fact, and one some players accept far sooner than others. With its 40 long rounds and a plethora of Minor League teams, baseball has the highest percentage of high school athletes that will eventually make it to the pros—but that is just 0.5 percent. Making and staying on one of the 30 big league teams is far harder.

As a strong athlete who managed to hit .300 against some of the best collegiate competition in the country, Hoggarth still has a chance of playing baseball at the next level, but he has recognized the odds

against him.

His ambition and foresight led him to search for a place to intern last year. With the busy schedules of spring and summer ball, baseball guys don’t have time to take on any traditional internships. But Hoggarth managed to get a position this past fall with Athlete Network, a company that essentially serves as a LinkedIn for athletes, both professional or recreational.

Hoggarth was the ambassador at BC, promoting the network on campus. He met with Director of Athletics Brad Bates along the way as part of his job to get athletes signed up with the site, and by the end of the semester finished in the top 20 percent among interns across the country, ranked by performances on tasks.

“Every week, the rankings came out and you would get to see where you were,” he said. “If you were down, you were like, ‘Dang, I have to do better.’ If you were up, you were like ‘Hey, I’m top dog.’”

By finishing in the top 20 percent, Hoggarth’s resume was sent to employers on site, a good network moving forward in the future.

“Whoever hires that kid, it’s going to be a great hire,” Gambino said. “Logan and I believe he’ll do something with dealing with people, whether it’s sales or managing people, cause he’s a really good people person.”

There’s no reason to believe that he won’t—Hoggarth has accomplished pretty much everything he has put his mind to in the past. Even at a younger age, he had a knack for following through on his word.

About 10 years ago, when Hoggarth was 14 or 15, he got a picture of Fenway Park with a set of fake tickets. Back then, he said that one day he would play at Fenway—a promise that he nearly fulfilled his freshman year, when he was at but didn’t play in the Beanpot. Last spring, it officially came true when he took the field in the Beanpot, getting the start in left field against the University of Massachusetts. He went 2-3 with a double and a walk in that game, scoring the insurance run in a 2-0 win—his first Beanpot win.

That’s a story he said he has never told anyone, which just says all the more about him. But he doesn’t need to talk about himself for people to recognize his impact on those around him.

“He was a great guy on the field, and a great guy off the field,” said Rich Carroll, an assistant coach of Hoggarth’s high school team. “He was always helping people out, trying to make other people better, and that’s why people love him.”

After the game, Logan’s mother kept a pair of tickets from the game and put them with the old picture in his room. Right where they belonged.

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varsity fencing was one of the program’s main requests. In that court area, there will be a 200-plus-seat social gathering area, something the Plex does not have.

Finally, the fourth floor will have a “feature track” that encompasses the whole floor, as well as two racquetball courts, two squash courts, and an evaluation and wellness room for BC’s personal trainers.

Despite these additions, Groden is not content with the pool area.

The four-lane shallow pool is meant as a teaching pool for children, rather than to serve the BC community—the varsity team and general population alike. While it has been approached to Groden as an opportunity to allow more swimmers to practice or as a warm up and warm down area, he says that conditions heated to that temperature are not suitable for that purpose.

Most notably, the new pool complex will not have a separate diving well, and the 1-M diving board will be attached to the deep end of the eight-

lane pool. In addition, the new pool cannot accommodate a 3-M dive—a standard event in NCAA swimming and diving—because the current plan’s ceiling is too short, a fact that Groden referred to as “devastating” for his program.

“When [Bates] told me that there wasn’t going to be a 3-M board, I told him that it’s ridiculous in some version of what it’s going to do to us,” Groden said.

By not having a separate diving well, Groden estimates that the length of time at swim meets will increase by an hour and a half to two hours.

That, along with not having suitable practice facilities, will hurt BC on the recruiting trail and dissuade swimmers from wanting to become part of the program, he said, One of Groden’s biggest concerns is his lack of involvement in the process. He said that, about a year ago, he was initially approached with two plans for a pool in the new facility.

Immediately, he replied to Bates with his concerns that the pool would be insufficient for the program, suggesting changes that could help. For

months, he had not been contacted further on the matter, he said.

According to Groden, on Dec. 15, 2015, Bates informed him that there would be no 3-M board, and that the plans would be released the following week. In February 2016, days before BC’s announcement, Groden was shown the official plans by Seguin and Taylor. At that point, Groden “was told that no changes would be discussed.” While he has asked for copies of the plan, he has yet to receive one. Groden believes that BC Athletics left the plans “intentionally vague” because they were concerned about backlash.

Seguin stated that NCAA rules do not mandate the 3-M dive as part of competition, and that there are options available to offset that in a competition.

“One of the things to remember is that this building is for multiple constituencies,” Seguin said.

“We’re averaging about 2,500 faculties, students, and staff that use the building on a daily basis. … So with those 2,500, the whole undergraduate population, along with the

varsity teams, we had the balance on the building. To be able to do the 3-M board, what’s on the other floors would have to be eliminated. That was one of the compromises.”

Despite Groden’s dissatisfaction, Taylor said he was given the opportunity to express his concerns fairly, and that several surveys and the input of experts was included in these plans.

“Tom had an opportunity to give his input, which was delivered, and there was a lot of groups and a lot of research done,” Taylor said.

Groden said that, while nothing has been official, he has been told by insiders in athletics that the Board of Trustees not only threatens his program but “plans to cut as many as 17 sports,” noting fencing and tennis as two in particular. Bates said these claims were untrue, and that the University is committed to the swimming and diving program.

“We did an analysis of our entire department, and the priority was program preservation,” Bates said.

“So the fact that we’re moving forward with a swimming pool that’d

be eligible for competition is a sign we’re committed to the program, so that should reaffirm the University’s commitment to swimming and diving.”

Though BC routinely finishes last or next-to-last in the ACC swimming and diving championships, Groden said this is largely because of the program’s inherent disadvantage of not being able to offer scholarships. The men’s side has not had scholarships for over 20 years, while the women’s team had the last of its scholarships moved to women’s hockey in 2012. But Groden does not see a problem with that. BC has the maximum number of athletic scholarships a school can have, according to Groden, and if they have to go to any team, it might as well be women’s hockey.

“They did pretty well with them in terms of them being the top team in the country,” Groden said with a laugh.

BC swimming and diving is the only non-scholarship programs among Power Five conferences.

Almost every swimming record BC

had that was set by a scholarship athlete has been broken by those not on scholarship. Groden specifically highlighted graduating senior captain Dan Kelly, who qualified for NCAA Nationals with a 19:81 in the 50-meter freestyle. BC is coming off of its best season: a 12-1-1 record in which the Eagles defeated longtime rival Boston University for the first time in a decade and the University of Massachusetts Amherst for the first time in 20 years.

Yet if these plans for a new pool are followed through, BC may have difficulty getting those big wins going forward.

“Swimming and diving are the same sport, we score them together,” Kelly said. “And so the analogy I keep going back to is no school would have an 80-yard football field, or no school would tell the baseball team that they can’t bat the last two innings. It’s affecting our scoring, it’s affecting our competitiveness, and I don’t think the administration recognizes that.”

Heights Editors Shannon Kelly, Alec Greaney, and Carolyn Freeman contributed to this report.

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Most Likely to Be a Character in Harry Potter Hope Dragelin (freshman, swim and dive) MacGregor Mooney (sophomore, fencing) Franny Hock (senior, volleyball) I’m just going to say what everyone’s probably thinking: There is no way that Hope Dragelin would be a Muggle. Not with a name like that. Hope probably comes from a long line of Dragelin wizards and witches who have been practicing magic for centuries. MacGregor Mooney, on the other hand, strikes me as more of the professor type.

Probably teaches a potions course.

Franny Hock would most definitely be the Hogwarts librarian, patrolling the shifting staircases with a stack of books and some quaint eyeglasses.

Most Likely to Fight a Pirate Will Turner (sophomore, men’s tennis) Aye, he may not look like Orlando Bloom’s character of the same name in the Pirates of the Caribbean series, but he may be just

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as skilled. The Charlotte, N.C. native is rumored to practice with his tennis racket three hours a day so that when he sees a pirate, he can kill it.

Most Consecutive Consonants Audra Hampsch (sophomore, field hockey) Five straight consonants. You can count them yourself. That’s five more than the number of ACC wins BC football and men’s basketball had this season.

Honorable Mentions Christopher Brown (freshman,

men’s hockey) Connor Bacon (freshman, baseball) Fallyn Boich (junior, women’s track and field) Christopher Brown may not shorten his name to mimic pop star Chris Brown, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have anything in common. First of all, they both love ice. Not to mention, Christopher can still “Run It!” as a forward for the men’s hockey team, skating from “Wall to Wall” to try to spark the offense. Okay, I’m done. “Forever.”

Meanwhile, Connor Bacon is

a name that’ll make any opposing pitcher hungry—expect the first baseman/outfielder to take advantage of any meaty, juicy pitch over the plate. Lastly, Fallyn Boich is a fitting name for a thrower on the women’s track and field team. “Fallyn” is what a thrown object does in the air, while “Boich” sounds like the noise that object makes when it hits the ground.

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Spring seems to have finally sprung in New England, which meant clear skies and warm weather awaited Boston College softball as it traveled to Providence, R.I., to take on a regional rival, Providence College. With the bulk of the spring season in the rearview mirror, BC (24-21, 7-8 Atlantic Coast) looked to build upon a successful season with a win over Providence.

The game was close throughout, but the Friars (17-26, 2-12 Big East) snuck away with the win at Glay Field thanks to some heads-up baserunning plays, along with some Eagle errors. A late BC surge in the top of the seventh challenged Providence’s lead, but would leave the Eagles just shy of a comeback with a final score of 7-6.

Jessie Daulton managed to get on base early, but that was all

for the BC bats, as they couldn’t muster up any more offense at the game’s start. The Friars were first to strike in the bottom of the first. After managing two quick outs, BC pitcher Jessica Dreswick surrendered her only run of the day on a hit by Providence’s Julianne Rurka. But Providence’s momentum ended there after a pop up closed out the inning.

The second inning featured squandered opportunities for the Eagles. Megan Cooley hit an infield single to the shortstop and stole second to put herself into scoring position. But a fly ball hit out to center field by Jordan Chimento proved to not be deep enough for Cooley to advance, as she was gunned out at third trying to tag up. The third inning exemplified the level that the BC offense has been capable of playing at all season. Taylor Huntley replaced starter Christina Ramirez on the mound for the Friars after another Daulton

single, but Providence found no relief. Though Daulton was thrown out at second while trying to steal, BC was put back in striking distance after a few walks put a couple of bodies on base. Primed to score, BC’s Chloe Sharabba sent a Huntley pitch sailing over the center field fence to give the Eagles a 3-1 lead.

The Friars didn’t stay down for ver y long though, and a big fourth inning helped them regain the lead. As Providence came up to bat, the Eagles called up right-hander Allyson Frei to come in relief for Dreswick. Frei walked her first batter, but was able to pick off Brittney Veler at second during a run-down to record the first out.

But another walk and a Friar double set Providence up for a big play. It got just that in the form of a Kiki Baldassari grounder that was thrown away on the play to first, moving her

to second, and scoring two runs.

With the game tied at 3-3, Providence mustered up one more run on a single that scored Baldassari, the third unearned run of the inning.

The E agles continue d to shoot themselves in the foot as the game continued. In the fifth, an error in right field put another Friar in scoring position, and Providence grew its lead on a single by Paige Mulry. The sixth inning featured more scoring for the Friars. After an early walk, two doubles tacked on two more runs for Providence.

But the Eagles didn’t go down without a fight. In the top of the seventh, facing two outs and a bases-loaded situation, Chimento knocked a bases clearing double to score three RBIs, putting BC back into the game. But a strikeout ended BC’s hopes of finishing the comeback, dealing the Eagles the loss by a final score of 7-6.

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no outs in the fifth, and it looked as though it had another chance to make the game competitive again.

Yet this time, it wasn’t meant to be.

A strikeout and a lazy fly ball left the bases loaded for senior Scott Braren. On a 2-2 count junior Oliver Powers would dial up some velocity, getting Braren to swing through a high fastball, stranding three Eagles. It seemed as though once the pop of the catcher’s mitt was heard, the Eagles gave up the ghost.

Despite scoring two runs on walks in the bottom of the ninth, the most exciting moment of the final four innings came when a foul ball caromed off the Beacon Street garage into a garbage can behind the backstop, eliciting a halfhearted cheer from nearby fans. The Eagles got 13 hits, but never at the right times, and they left 13 men on base.

The high-powered Br yant offense scored in six of the nine innings, and had at least one batter reach base in every inning. It even took five innings for it to record its first strikeout of the

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day. It put on a masterful display of situational hitting, and strung together long chains of quality at bats.

Seniors Zach Wood and Robby Rinn combined for seven hits and eight RBIs leading the offensive charge. It was truly a team effort, however, with eight of the nine starters collecting at least one hit and at least one RBI. After an upset series win over No. 4 Louisville, such a bad loss will certainly stunt the Birdball’s momentum.

“We are built on pitching and defense,” head coach Mike Gambino said. “If we’re not pitching it, we’re not going to have a great chance.”

Birdball will welcome ACC opponent Virginia Tech this weekend in an important conference series, so there is no time to dwell on the loss.

When asked what he is going to emphasize in the following 43 hours until the first pitch against the Hokies, Gambino summed it up concisely: “We’re not happy with what happened here. We’re going to learn from it. We’re going to regroup. The message is we are going to get back to doing what we do.”

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Sports Editor This is the team that prevented Birdball from making the playoffs last season. Last year, it was on the road the weekend Chris Shaw returned. Now, the Eagles will welcome the Hokies into the Birdcage for a crucial threegame series. BC likely needs to take 2-of-3 at least to stay alive in the race for one of the ACC’s 10 playoff spots. I predict that the Eagles will take all three in an act of utter revenge.

Prediction: BC 3-Virginia Tech 0 RILEY OVEREND

Assoc. Sports Editor As much as I’d like to predict a weekend sweep of the ACC’s worst team, I can’t. Not after the HUMILIATING loss to Bryant on Wednesday. I worry about BC’s pitching staff, which allowed 18 runs on 20 hits to the Bulldogs—burning through eight pitchers along the way. Birdball’s offense shouldn’t have a problem with the Hokies’ pitching, and its weekend starters are emerging as some of the conference’s best. But I can’t trust this team to play consistent baseball for three straight games—the Eagles haven’t had a series sweep.

Prediction: BC 2-Virginia Tech 1 ANNABEL STEELE

Asst. Sports Editor I don’t want to get ahead of myself, but I’m calling this one right now. Birdball will take this series , no problem. The Hokies are just too bad to get e ven one game off of B C right now. With exactly four conference wins under its belt , Tech is no match for the Eagles . Plus , B C will be thirsty to prove it s elf af ter a humiliating lo ss to Br y ant .

Expect some pretty big blowouts this weekend to keep Birdball’s playoff dreams alive.

Prediction: BC 3-Virginia Tech 0

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I@C<P FM<I<E; As you’ve probably already noticed, it’s been a slow week in the college sports world. Here in Chestnut Hill, an exciting weekend featuring a no-hitter from Jessica Dreswick and Birdball’s series win over No. 4 Louisville has given way to a sluggish week for Boston College Athletics. The spring season, which includes only five sports, became even more barren when Tuesday’s baseball game against Holy Cross was postponed due to rain.

It’s that time of year when the school takes one big collective yawn right before finals begin, and the sports scene follows suit.

Fans have good reason to be tired. We’ve suffered through one of the most frustrating athletic years in BC history. Even our best teams, men’s and women’s hockey, teased us with national title aspirations losing in Frozen Four heartbreakers. However, there is one thing that our student-athletes have that 14 other ACC schools can’t take away from us: some impressive names.

Names go down in history. Names carry meaning. Names can shape images and create brands. Once you’ve heard Red Sox outfielder Mookie Betts’ name once, it’s nearly impossible to forget.

With a lull in the action, I set out on a mission to find the 2015-16 Eagles with the coolest and most memorable names. I didn’t know what I was going to find. I sifted through all 23 varsity rosters—from fencing to women’s track and field—and, naturally, ranked and sorted the most noteworthy names by category. There may not be much in a name, but hopefully it will give BC fans something to smile about during such a sad year for the University’s athletics.

First Team Scott Savage (junior, men’s hockey) Tara Ferraris (freshman, sailing) Dempsey Arsenault (freshman, lacrosse) Madeline McCracken (freshman, women’s soccer) Kelly Laughinghouse (junior, rowing) Bug Pech (senior, skiing) Out of Boston College’s 716 student-athletes, these First Teamers are the cream of the crop. Scott Savage embodies the meaning of savage. The bone-crushing blue-liner slams opposing skaters against the boards for a living, bruising forwards as a member of Jerry York’s elite defense. He’s an enforcer.

Watch out.

He’s joined by Tara Ferraris, who should immediately quit sailing and take up racecar driving because, wow, that marketing dream-come-true would take NASCAR by storm. Ferraris also earns bonus points for having a sister, Allison, on her team. Next up is Dempsey Arsenault, one of those unique athlete names that just rolls off the tongue, like a Kobe Bryant or Babe Ruth.

Before I die, I want to see women’s soccer head coach Alison Foley summon Madeline McCracken from the bench and sub her into the game by yelling “Release McCracken!!!” And even though Bug Pech may be one of the most unconventional names I’ve ever heard, she’ll have no trouble with the title of her autobiography, Bug’s Life.

All-Alliteration Team Lucy Lytle (freshman, field hockey) Wade Waddell (freshman, sailing) Colton Cardinal (sophomore, football) Lucy Lytle narrowly missed the cut for the First Team, but here she leads the pack with a name that sounds straight out of a Dr. Seuss story. The best part? She’s only 5-foot-1.

If professional football isn’t in the plans for linebacker Colton Cardinal, he can always fall back on a career in country music.

“Tailgating in My Truck” by Colton Cardinal would crack the Billboard Top 100 based on its name alone.

All-Irony Team Scott Sinks (sophomore, sailing) Molly Slowe (freshman, women’s hockey) Sam Schmal (junior, football) While Molly Slowe isn’t the best name for a speedy forward, it certainly isn’t the worst. But a sailor named Scott Sinks?

Really? That’s like a football player being named Johnny Concussions. If I were Mr. Sinks, I’d try to avoid any floating structures

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n Aug. 13, 2004, Hurricane Charley made landfall in Cayo Costa, Fla., a chain of barrier islands just west of Fort Myers. The category 4 storm was the first hurricane in Florida to top a category 2 ranking in almost 20 years, and did so with surface winds of up to 150 mph and waves surging up around 6 feet. After moving through the Sunshine State, it stayed mostly out to sea along the East Coast, but by then the damage had been done: $15.82 billion worth of destruction, making Charley the second-most costly hurricane in U.S. history at the time.

One of the storm’s many victims was the Port Charlotte Little League, a set of teams that played its games about 45 minutes north of Fort Myers. Their fields were ravaged by the onslaught of rain and wind, and after three more hurricanes that September walloped Florida for more than $8 billion each, those tasked with leading the recovery that winter had their hands full.

But then, the Boston Red Sox, still basking in their glorious World Series run of 2004, came down South for the spring. A small gang of the Sox’ biggest “Idiots”—a light-hearted label adopted by centerfielder Johnny Damon to describe the squad’s laid-back demeanour—had agreed to appear on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, a show that cast five openly gay experts to help straight men improve their cultural know-how. As part of the filming, the five men and the five players—Damon, Kevin Millar, Doug Mirabelli, Tim Wakefield, and Jason Varitek—teamed up to fundraise for the league. In total, their efforts raised $100,000 to cover the costs of rebuilding the fields. But they didn’t stop there.

The Little Leaguers at the time were invited to come play with the pros at City of Palms Park, the Red Sox’ spring training facility at the time.

One of those lucky kids was Logan Hoggarth, an 11-year-old utility player who would eventually become a staple in the lineup of Boston College baseball. But back then, he was just psyched to get on a field with players he’d grown up

watching on TV. “I was little, so it was the coolest thing I’d ever experienced in my life ’til then,” Hoggarth recalled 12 years later.

He didn’t get to take any cuts against Wakefield’s famous dancing knuckleball, but does remember the pitcher throwing him some soft toss while Varitek caught. More than anyone, though, he remembers Damon—“the caveman” with that crazy long hair.

“He was just the coolest guy,” Hoggarth said.

“Wakefield, Varitek, and Damon—they were so nice … the very least I could do is support them in whatever they do.”

Hoggarth has never forgotten that day, nor their efforts that got the Little League program back up and running. He has been a “Royal Rooter” ever since, a loyal, diehard fan of the team that enabled him to keep playing the sport he loved. That attraction even factored into his initial decision to attend BC. He was excited not just for the close proximity to regular season home games, but even more for the opportunity the Eagles have to face the Red Sox in an exhibition game each spring—one of the most special games of the season for him, in large part because his family can make the games.

“It was unreal, because I had all my family there,” Hoggarth said. “All my friends, all my family watching me play big leaguers was just the coolest experience ever. People dream of doing that, and I actually got to live it.”

Despite being likely the only freshman on the BC team with the distinction of having already played on the same field as the Red Sox, he never really brought it up with his teammates, that year or any of the four he has gotten to face the Major League club. More than anything, he seemed confused by the idea of sharing the story without being asked about it. In his mind, it was a very cool event that stuck out in his childhood, but happened long ago. Why brag about that?

Then again, Hoggarth isn’t one to brag about anything, really. That’s not who he is.

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our years before Hoggarth got his first day on the big, big field, he was just a small, athletic kid from North Dakota. His father, Kevin, recalls him swinging

bats and clubs ever since he was 2 years old in Jamestown, N.D., his hometown, while Logan especially remembers playing baseball and hockey. But his dad loved baseball, so Logan became a baseball kid.

The move down South came just as he began to really get going in Little League. Hoggarth wasn’t excited about having to leave all his friends and family, but his father got a better job and his mother wanted to reach warmer weather, so to Florida they went. It wasn’t an easy transition for him at first, but the move did have one immediate benefit: he now had the chance to play baseball year round.

He took advantage of the weather and the resources he had, consistently going out with his dad to hit extra balls. Kevin’s enthusiasm for the game rubbed off on Logan, who credits his dad for instilling in him a passion for baseball.

But Kevin also knew his limits—he had never played the game himself, and though he coached Logan at a young level, his expertise soon paled in comparison to the seasoned coaches of the competitive Florida travel teams. Instead of becoming a Friday Night Tykes parent, as so many are in Southern youth ball, Kevin took a step back and let his son do his own thing.

“Having your dad yell at you during the game, that’s not very fun,” Hoggarth said.

More than anything, this move from North Dakota ousted Hoggarth from the comfort of his original safety net, something he has come to appreciate and credits for his development as a younger player. But he has also continued to adapt since then. It gave him the confidence to play up with older kids as a teenager on travel teams for most of his life. It also gave him the drive to make the move up to Boston for college, despite having established a decade’s worth of connections in North Port, Fla. “Those opportunities would allow me to grow on my own, would allow me to find myself, deal with problems on my own,” Hoggarth said.

“Not having the safety of being home, or being near home, or calling mom and saying ‘come get my laundry.’ I have to go do my laundry myself.”

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9`i[YXcc <dYXiiXjj\[ Yp 9lcc[f^j `e 9cfnflk Xk J_\X 9P 9I@8E D8CFE<P =fi K_\ ?\`^_kj In baseball, pitchers are often advised to have a short-term memory. Whatever the results of your last outing might be, good or bad, it must be left in the past—there’s no time to dwell on what’s already happened. Boston College baseball (21-16, 7-12 Atlantic Coast) hosted Bryant University (30-7, 13-1 Northeast) on a beautiful afternoon Wednesday at Shea Field, but it was not such a beautiful game for Birdball, as it found itself on the receiving end of an 18-6 beatdown at the hands of the Bulldogs. While no one who attended the game would classify the contest as memorable, the Eagles are going to have a hard time trying to forget.

The Eagles’ pitching staff, which is held in high regard as the team’s backbone, was broken early beyond repair.

The staff—which, on Wednesday, consisted of six freshmen and two sophomores—combined to allow 18 runs on 19 hits and eight walks. The run and hit

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totals allowed by the staff is the most since April 3, 2011 when BC lost to the University of Miami, 19-4.

The onslaught began early with the Bulldogs tallying three runs before freshman BC starter Thomas Lane could record his first, and only, out of the game.

They went on to score three more runs in the inning before the Eagles got a chance to rebut. The Eagles responded with one of their own before Bryant scored another two in the top of the second.

With the score at 8-1, it would’ve been easy for the Eagles to surrender, but they continued to fight. Birdball took advantage of a throwing error on a bunt by sophomore Jake Palomaki and wellplaced sacrifices to scratch three runs across and keep the game competitive.

In the top of the fourth, however, Bryant continued to pile on the offense, putting up four runs and keeping BC at an arm’s length. But again, BC did not roll over. Birdball loaded the bases with JULIA HOPKINS / HEIGHTS EDITOR

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BC made several comebacks today, but couldn’t overcome Bryant’s offensive onslaught.

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