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University, parents aim to keep Campus School at BC Connor Farley | News Editor

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We plan to take all of the reasons we love our school and translate them into a sustainable program on behalf of the Campus School.

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- Kristen Morin, co-chairwoman of the Parent Advisory Committee

After months of shared deliberation between the Boston College Campus School, the parents of Campus School students, and the BC administration, the University has announced plans to keep the Campus School on BC’s campus.

In November 2013, Campus School Director Don Ricciato signed a letter of intent to explore a potential affiliation with the Franciscan Children’s Hospital’s Kennedy Day School (KDS) in Brighton, which oversees approximately 70 students with multiple disabilities from ages 3 to 21. If the affiliation had gone through, it would have meant the Campus School relocating about two miles off campus.

After holding several conversations with parents of Campus School children throughout the semester, University officials have decided to work with parent leaders to create a long-term strategic plan that would avoid relocation and ensure the continuation of services for special needs students at BC. The decision was reached after University President William P. Leahy, S.J. asked Ricciato, Interim Provost Joseph Quinn, and Vice President for Human Resources Leo Sullivan to organize monthly meetings with Campus School parents, during which sustainability plans could be discussed. Through conversations with volunteers, parents, and others who advocated for the retention of the Campus School’s current loca-

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University addresses financial aid

Team drops from UGBC elections

BY NATHAN MCGUIRE

Enrollment Office clarifies FAFSA, CSS

Asst. News Editor

BY CONNOR FARLEY News Editor On Feb. 3, U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) issued a public letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan claiming that 111 of 200 colleges and universities were using misleading information about the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) in a report conducted by the House Committee for Oversight and Government Reform.

The schools drawn into question by the Committee were accused of misleading prospective students to believe they had to submit fee-based financial aid applications in addition to the FAFSA to qualify for any aid at all. Boston College was one of the 111 schools Cummings cited as only vaguely explaining that students only had to fill out the FAFSA to apply for federal aid.

Although the letter claimed that universities may be setting financial hurdles as a means to discourage low-income students from applying, and thus allowing colleges and universities to not have to dole out as much institutional aid, the University holds otherwise.

“It’s actually the opposite,” said Bob Lay, Dean of Enrollment Management

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On Tuesday evening, former U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe discussed the state of polarization and lack of bipartisanship in Congress.

Former U.S. Senator talks bipartisanship

BY CAROLYN FREEMAN For The Heights

Former U.S. Senator from Maine Olympia Snowe spoke about polarization in the United States on Tuesday night in a Chambers Lecture Series event.

Snowe began her political career in 1974 in the Maine House of Representatives, winning her late husband’s seat at the age of 26. She later served in the Maine State Senate, before being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1978. She served for 16 years in the House and then began her tenure as a U.S. Senator in 1994, a position she held until December 2012.

In total, her career in government totaled nearly 40 years.

Her speech was characterized by her insistence that progress cannot come when Congress is so polarized. She discussed how Congress became so polarized, and what should be done to diminish this problem.

In 2013, she published Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress, which aims to explain how the Senate and Congress in general work.

“More than ever, we need to have these conversations in order to have a better understanding of one another and of the issues and problems that are confronted in our states,” Snowe said. “What can we do to make the government work again?”

Polarization will not diminish in the

short term, she said, and bipartisanship must occur outside the institution. She said her travels across the country led her to believe that change must occur from outside the government, not within. In her travels, she also observed widespread fear that this partisanship would become an institutionalized part of our culture. She said that she reassured those concerned that it is possible to move past partisanship.

“Yes, we can defeat the machinery of partisanship and we can bridge the political divide, in spite of what the polarized voices of the political classes have you to believe,” she said.

Snowe used the budget as an example

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STM professor Rev. Daniel Harrington, S.J. dies at 73

BY JULIE ORENSTEIN Assoc. News Editor

When Rev. Daniel J. Harrington, S.J. was a boy, he believed that he could never become a teacher or priest because he had a stutter.

He believed this until the day he read a passage from Exodus in which Moses says, “I am slow of speech and slow of tongue,” after which Harrington thought, “If Moses could do it, maybe I can.”

“Whenever I stumble, I go back to Moses,” Harrington said in a 2012 interview for the New England Jesuit Oral History Program.

“I often regard reading that biblical text as the seed of my vocation as a Jesuit priest and biblical scholar.”

Harrington, a New Testament scholar,

author, and professor in the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry (STM), died Feb. 7 at age 73 after a nearly five-year battle with cancer.

Harrington spent almost six decades in the BC community, both as a student and as a professor. Born in Arlington, Mass., he attended Boston College High School on a full scholarship and immediately entered the Society of Jesus upon graduating in 1958. He later received a bachelor’s degree from Weston College, a master’s degree from BC, a doctorate from Harvard University, and a bachelor’s and master’s of divinity from the Weston Jesuit School of Theology and BC. He was ordained in St. Ignatius Church in 1971.

Over his career as a theological scholar, Harrington authored more than 60 books,

hundreds of articles and essays, and upwards of 50,000 abstracts and 25,000 book notices for the STM journal New Testament Abstracts (NTA), of which he was general editor from 1972 until November 2013. He was also the editor and a contributor to the 18-volume Sacra Pagina commentary series on the New Testament.

Christopher Matthews, professor of New Testament in STM and Harrington’s co-editor of NTA for 28 years, said that one of Harrington’s most apparent talents was a capacity for sustained academic work, in addition to a regular course load as a professor.

“Most admirable—not to say amazing—is that Dan seemingly accomplished all of this

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On Friday, Feb. 7, BC professor and New Testament scholar Harrington died at 73.

Less than two days after officially launching their campaign for UGBC president and executive vice president, Michael Moazampour and Robert Watt, both A&S ’16, dropped out of the race late Tuesday morning in order to support the team of Nanci Fiore-Chettiar and Chris Marchese, both A&S ’15.

The Elections Committee (EC) confirmed in an emailed statement on Tuesday evening that Moazampour and Watt had dropped out of the race. The team notified the EC of their decision on Monday night.

“Throughout these two weeks, we have gotten to know the opponents quite well, so much so that Robert Watt and I are stepping out of the presidential campaign in full support of Nanci and Chris,” said a statement posted to Moazampour’s Facebook wall at around 11 a.m. on Tuesday.

This latest development in an election that was initially uncontested leaves two teams vying for students’ votes. Fiore-Chettiar and Marchese were originally the only candidates who filed for the election by the initial Jan. 16 deadline. In coordination with Fiore-Chettiar and Marchese, however, the EC extended the deadline. One week later, two more teams declared their candidacy— Lucas Levine and Vance Vergara, both A&S ’15, and Moazampour and Watt.

Fiore-Chettiar and Marchese and Levine and Vergara rallied their supporters at the EC’s campaign kick-off event on Sunday evening. Moazampour and Watt, however, turned out few supporters—they received no votes in the straw poll at the conclusion of the event.

According to Moazampour, who said it was a strategic decision, his campaign decided not to invite their supporters to the event.

“Nanci and Chris continuously impressed us with both their friendliness, humility, knowledge, and passion,” Moazampour said in an email. “We considered the impact of our running, and found that splitting the vote, especially our strong sophomore base, would be unjust to such kind hearted people. If anyone deserves it the most this year, it is Nanci and Chris.”

According to Marchese, Moazampour and Watt reached out to him and

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things to do on campus this week

Diversity Celebration

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Today Time: 7 p.m.

Location: Heights Room

This event, called Speak For Your Change, will feature performers who will celebrate the racial diversity of BC students through spoken word, poetry, song, and dance. The event is co-sponsored by FACES and ALC.

Job Market Discussion

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Presidential Debate

Today Time: 7:15 p.m.

Location: Fulton 230

Sunday Time: 8 p.m.

Location: Cabaret Room

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Economists Mike Strain and Stan Veuger from the American Enterprise Institute, a nonpartisan think-tank, will discuss the state of the economy and the job market that students will face after graduation.

The Elections Committee will host a debate between the two candidate teams vying for UGBC president and executive vice president.

This will be the only public forum between the two teams before voting begins on Tuesday.

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MLK scholarships recognize Marks, other finalists

By Sarah Doyle Heights Staff At a celebration of the 32nd Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Committee Scholarship Ceremony, Patience Marks, A&S ’15, was selected out of five finalists to receive a scholarship of $20,000.

The scholarship is awarded annually to a Boston College junior who demonstrates strong academic performance, extracurricular involvement, and community service, as well as the intention to work toward intercultural communication and social equity.

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship Committee was formed in 1982, intially with a $500 award. That amount doubled in 1983 to a $1,000 scholarship.

Currently, the recipient is awarded a $20,000 scholarship, and each of the other four finalists is awarded $3,000 toward his or her senior year tuition.

Additionally, each student receives a $1,000 gift certificate to the BC Bookstore for the purchasing of textbooks, and a framed portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr., originally drawn by a former member of the committee.

The four finalists were Gaetan Civil, A&S ’15; Mohamed Diop, A&S ’15; Vanessa Omoroghomwan, A&S ’15; and Cusaj Thomas, A&S ’15. Each student, including Marks, was introduced with a video of a personal reading of his or her application essay.

In her essay, Marks wrote, “[My

EMILY FAHEY / HEIGHTS EDITOR

Patience Marks was honored with the MLK Scholarship at an event on Wednesday evening. minority status] has never stopped me from being the change I want to see in the world.”

After receiving the scholarship, Marks said, “I knew that if I lost to any one of [the other finalists], I would be happy, because they’re all fighting for the same purpose.”

The 2013 scholarship recipient, Philip McHarris, A&S ’14, spoke about his experiences as a recipient and his work toward his own goals.

“While the pursuit can be quite arduous, I can say the Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship has helped me in a myriad of ways,” he said. McHarris helped review the

applications for the 2014 scholarship. “I can sincerely say that these finalists are all phenomenal,” he said.

The ceremony featured two speakers— University President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J., and John H. Jackson, president and CEO of The Schott Foundation for Public Education—and a performance by Voices of Imani, a student vocal group.

“We are to draw from the strength, from the example, from the life of Dr. King,” Leahy said. “We are challenged to act as bridges, as bridge builders. And we are challenged to act as ambassadors.”

Jackson, who delivered the keynote ad-

POLICE BLOTTER

2/8/14-2/12/14

Saturday, February 8 12:17 a.m. - A report was filed regarding medical assistance that was provided to a BC student who was transported to a medical facility.

1:32 a.m. - A report was filed regarding medical assistance provided to a BC student who was transported to a medical facility by ambulance from Rubenstein Hall.

1:58 a.m. - A report was filed regarding medical assistance provided to a BC student who was transported to a medical facility by cruiser from Walsh Hall.

2:26 a.m. - A report was filed regarding an underage intoxicated person at Fitzpatrick Hall.

12:36 p.m. - A report was filed regarding medical assistance provided to a BC employee in Stuart Hall.

7:43 p.m. - A report was filed regarding an elevator entrapment in Walsh Hall.

9:57 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a past larceny from a BC student at Corcoran Commons.

Sunday, February 9

11:31 p.m. - A report was filed regarding an unsecured office in Maloney Hall.

1:06 a.m. - A report was filed regarding the civil possession of marijuana in Edmond’s Hall.

1:13 a.m. - A report was filed regarding an intoxicated non-BC affiliate of legal age.

MIT sent out erroneous emails to applicants last week with a line at the bottom that read: “You are on this list because you are admitted to MIT!,” according to The Boston Globe.

The error occurred when admissions officers were cleaning and consolidating two separate email lists—one of prospective students and one of admitted students. The admissions office typically does this throughout the application process to update applicant preferences.

The email ser vice that MIT uses, however, merged the footer from the admitted student list onto the prospective student list.

When the office sent out a mass email about financial aid to prospective students, some noticed the footer informing them they were admitted to the university.

1:36 p.m. - A report was filed regarding recovered stolen property at the Mods.

3:53 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a missing person in Fitzpatrick Hall.

7:53 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a larceny in O’Neill Library.

9:53 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a suspicious circumstance at Fitzpatrick Hall.

For tho s e alre ady acce pte d through MIT’s early action program, the line was routine, but admissions counselors noticed the error when confused prospective students began posting on an MIT admissions blog.

“My guess is that overall a very small number of our current applicants even noticed this,” said Chris Peterson, the admissions counselor for web communications. “I didn’t even know until someone pointed me to the MITCC thread about it.

But any number of people getting this kind of mixed signal is too many.”

The footer of the email sent to prospective students should have read: “You are receiving this email because you applied to MIT, and we sometimes have to tell you things about stuff.”

The admissions office apologized for the error and promptly changed the footer to the original one for prospective students. 

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Wednesday, February 12 1:22 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a vandalism in Duchesne East/West.

Tuesday, February 11

COLLEGE CORNER NEWS FROM UNIVERSITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY

BY NATHAN MCGUIRE Asst. News Editor

dress, talked about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s work and the importance of recognizing struggles and purpose in life.

“When we talk about leaders, we only talk about the highlights,” he said. “We never talk about the places and spaces they existed in often. The places we’ve all been to, the places of weariness …

We know that Dr. King and others have all been there. But they gave us a model of how to act when we get there. At some point, we’ve got to find a level of faith and understanding that will pull us through those lonely moments.”

Jackson also stressed the importance of recognizing not only certain students, but all students, as having a purpose and value in life.

“We never know who’s in what position,” he said. “So our challenge is to represent all. Each of us has been given a calling, and each of those callings represent a larger piece in the puzzle. I’m not here to tell you what your role is, because that’s part of your journey. But I am here to tell you that you play a very specific role.”

In addition to the annual scholarship, the committee also provides funding to freshmen, sophomores, and juniors for Advanced Study Grant projects that promote social justice and equality. This year, the recipients were Lucas Allen, A&S ’16; Malia Allen, A&S ’15; Ganapathiram Thangavel Arivudainambi, A&S ’16; Gavin Buckley, A&S ’16; Jessica Franco, A&S ’15; Natali Soto, CSOM ’14; and Victoria Torres-Vega, LSOE ’14. 

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VOICES FROM THE DUSTBOWL “What is the most romantic spot on campus?”

“In front of Gasson.”

—Mike McShane, CSOM ’17

“The labyrinth.”

—Dominic Rosato, LSOE ’17

“Bapst Library.”

—Jillian Burke, LSOE ’17

“The Plex.”

—Alex Portelli, A&S ’14

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Rhythm of life and jazz

ALEX GAYNOR Life can be a lot like jazz. The funny thing about jazz is that, contrary to many other genres of music, it doesn’t always come with a plan. Chords are not always carefully recorded, the length is entirely variable depending on the players, the mood, the situation, and the most exciting factor is that something new can come from every different jam session. What’s important is a group of musicians—or in the metaphorical life sense, everyday people—standing on a stage, or in a dance club, or even in a friend’s basement, instruments—or skills—in hand, ready to compose art and meaning together.

To a music fanatic like myself, and a lover of jazz, I think of our lives as a musical composition, especially something like a jazz improvisation. In jazz, typically a piece starts with a core theme, which is then tossed around to many different players and instruments and changed while still keeping the basic motif in place. What may seem entirely free-styled is actually a central theme being warped by what the individual musician has to offer the piece—this type of co-creation requires input from the entire group.

Why is this relevant to the non-jazz fans among us? I believe that despite being a fun genre of music to swing dance to or play in the background of a hip cocktail party, jazz really has a profound existential grounding in how we as humans invest meaning into our lives and how we could function as a community if we tried hard enough. The same ideas apply to many of the groups of the post-hippie “jam band” scene, with their group effort and unpredictability. So in reality, Phish and Miles Davis actually may have more in common than the everyday listener may pick up.

The weight and meaning of our lives isn’t necessarily a fixed objective, because we aren’t meant to be passive recipients of existence. The American mindset typically trends toward the idea of the rugged individualist who acts willingly out on their own, which is contrary to the motives of jazz.

A piece becomes much more stimulating when the trumpets improvise the central theme on their instruments, which is different from what the bass player may find as an interesting interlude to add to the art of the piece of the whole, which is entirely different from the piano player’s idea of what would be a good way to change the motif. Yet, it all comes together in the resolution as a cohesive musical entity that required the input from all members of the group. It’s similar in communities as well. Ideally, one should have the ability to add their own skills, talents, experiences, and perspective to the group, just like a jazz musician.

If we all lived a little more like the music of Duke Ellington or John Coltrane, perhaps we’d have a better idea of what it means to function as a true community.

We have tremendous freedom as individuals to pursue our own ideas and pathways of life, but perhaps this freedom is tied up with our peers in the musical composition that is life. The back and forth nature of jazz has the ability to create true beauty, by staying faithful to the natural art while also coming forth with something unique and perhaps better than the original. I think we all possess a choice: we either pick up a trombone and join the band or sit to the sidelines and passively accept art and meaning being thrown at us without taking part in it ourselves. Perhaps if we partake in the former, as the trumpet legend Louis Armstrong would say, we could truly create—as cliche as it may sound—“a wonderful world.”

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

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BCVC hosts career fair, featuring tech startups

BY GIANNI MATERA For The Heights

On Monday night, in the Heights Room, the Boston College Venture Competition (BCVC) held its second annual Startup Career Fair. Over 30 firms were represented, ranging from small mobile application firms to large e-commerce companies.

According to Paul Hillen, chairman of the executive board of BCVC and CSOM ’15, last year’s event was widely praised by BC students who keep close tabs on the technology scene both on and off campus. “ When I re ache d out to companies who came last year, I asked them, ‘Hey, did you hire anyone?’” Hillen said. “And all them said they hired at least one person. Some hired up to three.

That’s really cool, that’s success for us.”

This year’s companies were recruiting for positions that included everything from fulltime software jobs to social media internships. While most of the attendees were business and computer science students, many other majors were also in attendance.

“BC talent is becoming more diverse,” said Justin Robinson, BC ’11, chief marketing officer and co-founder of Drizly Inc., an alcohol delivery service based in Boston and New York. “There are English majors and Spanish majors and math majors who are all interested in joining tech startups. And also lots of people who want to learn how, or are working toward, becoming an engineer. It’s part of this booming job market.”

The career fair is part of BCVC’s mission to strengthen the entrepreneurial spirit on campus.

“So much in [the Carroll School of Management] is finance, accounting, or consulting,” said Hillen. “We want to say, ‘Okay, there’s a whole different field you can work in, which is tech and startups.’ And what’s cool is that a lot of these [firms] are very mission driven, they have

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Over 30 companies were represented at the Boston College Venture Competition’s career fair for students interested in technology startup businesses. good cultures, they give you a lot of responsibility and sometimes better experiences. So the whole point is to show a whole different area to work in compared to the traditional routes.”

Alexander Smith, CSOM ’15 and a tech enthusiast, was one of more than 200 students in attendance.

“The business cards that are exchanged here have a lot more impact than potential contacts made at larger companies,” Smith said. “ We also have more in common with the representatives here. Many are recent BC grads— they’re more in touch with the student body.”

Like last year, companies expressed a deep interest in the start-up movement at BC. Har vey Simmons, BC ’11,

CEO of New Balance discusses marketing

BY REBECCA MORETTI Heights Staff

“Believe it or not, it seems like just yesterday that I was sitting at a college business lecture like all of you,” said Rob DeMartini, president and CEO of New Balance, at an AHANA Management Academysponsored lecture.

A California native, DeMartini has worked at New Balance since 2007 after 18 years working at Procter and Gamble.

“New Balance is one of America’s great success stories,” DeMartini said.

William Rile y started the Brighton-based company in 1906 after he noticed that his chicken had perfect balance due to their threeclawed feet. The company continued mainly as an arch support company until 1960, when it introduced its first running shoe, called “The Trackster.” In 1972, Jim Davis bought New Balance, which consisted of six people, and he transformed it, expanding the product line as sales began to grow rapidly.

“It is a very thoughtful and values-driven company,” DeMartini said of the 100 percent privately owned New Balance, which also boasts local factories. “We are the only company in America that manufactures athletic shoes in this country.”

“New England was the shoe capital of the U.S. all through the 19th and 20th centuries,” he said.

“In the ’80s, when people figured out that offshoring was much more profitable, domestic manufacturing stopped.”

New Balance employs 1,300 U.S. factory workers, which incurs greater costs than it would if it outsourced its jobs. That has not, however, deterred the company from keeping its U.S. factories in business.

“Jim believed in making shoes in the U.S.,” DeMartini noted about the chairman. “When people started selling factories, he started buying.

We are now exporting shoes to other countries and selling them at a premium.”

Th e c o m p a ny t o o k o n a marketing position based on the love of the sport, straying away from the business of sponsoring athletes.

“Companies like Nike were

pushing very hard to sponsor athletes,” DeMartini said. “We didn’t like how some athletes behaved and took on a different marketing position. Over time we lost our performance edge completely.

“As a private company, I felt ownership was looking at the brand like a parent looking at its children … not seeing the faults,” he said. “We wanted to reface the brand and got back into the business of sponsoring athletes at a top level.”

Today, the company sponsors athletes like Olympic gold medalist Jennifer Simpson, tennis player Milos Raonic, and tennis player Nicole Gibbs. DeMartini also noted that about one-third of major league baseball players wear New Balance products. Not merely focused on fame and rankings, the company is concerned with the character of the athletes it sponsors and is careful about who represents its brand.

“We reinvented the way we looked and created a new retail format,” DeMartini said. “It has completely changed the way people experience our brand.”

DeMartini also talked about social media’s growing value in the world of marketing. His own company has had people voluntarily advertise its products on sites such as Instagram and Facebook.

“It’s not about what we say about our brand,” he said. “It’s about what you say about our brand. We’ve got the business growing again—we’ve added a billion dollars in sales in the last three years.”

In five years, New Balance’s sales growth rate has been faster than those of both Nike and Adidas.

“We believe strongly that it all starts with a great product,” he said. “It’s amazing what you get out of people when you lead them to a higher purpose. We are making products that people use for pursuing their passions.”

For a CEO, DeMartini believes it is important to be able to boil an idea down to a clear and simple point. The ability to create a vision and to articulate that vision—along with passion and commitment— constitute the responsibility of a good CEO, DeMartini said.

“There are many ways to make a living out there,” he said. “Do something you like.” 

works for Evertrue, an alumni networking platform that helps academic institutions do a better job at tracking and engaging alumni.

“The success of BC entrepreneurs over the last few years has been absolutely remarkable,” Simmons said.

“And it’s more than just raising money—theyre making an impact on the ecosystem here.”

John Gallaugher, associate professor of information systems , is a B C VC advisor and has mentored many of the entrepreneurs that have come out of BC. “I look around this room and I see at least three startups that cut their teeth in entrepreneurship at BC, that raised more than $1 million, and are now here

recruiting ,” Gallaugher said.

“Achvr was started by an MBA student of mine… they raised over a million bucks.

“Dri zly just raise d $2.25 million, started by BC students ... So the kind of entrepreneurial activity that you’re seeing at B C— t h i s i s n’t s i mp l y a n abstract intellectual exercise.

Boston College students are fundamentally building bedrock businesses that are raising capital, that have real customers, and are now here hiring. So I’m just thrilled.”

Tech firms were focused on hiring computer programmers, as were other firms at the fair, who are trying to keep up with digital innovations in their industries.

Many of the recent BC grads said they believed that technical talent

at BC was becoming stronger and more numerous.

Alex Pedicini, BC ’11, is a Community Manager for Ubersense, a mobile and web application that helps athletes and coaches improve their skills through video and collaboration.

“The kids here have been i m p r e s s i v e ,” P e d i c i n i s a i d regarding talent w ithin the computer science community. “[The numbers are] small but they’re growing fast. When I was here I didn’t even know anyone else who was going down this track. But it seems like there’s more kids who are doing it now.”

B C V C ’s Ve ntu re C ap i t a l Competition will take place later this semester. The submission deadline for student firms is Monday, March 3 at 5 p.m. 

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New Campus School plan in the works

BC clarifies aid requirements FAFSA, from A1 (DEMO). “Rather than presenting obstacles to students, our goal is to offer students opportunities that will make attendance and success at Boston College possible.”

Lay, who has overseen BC’s Enrollment Management team since 1988, said that creating barriers to admittance has never been the University’s objective, and, contrary to Cummings’ letter, BC actually creates ways to enhance financial opportunities for prospective students.

“The most important point is that we want to encourage students to look at all of their financial aid options so that they can go to these schools,” Lay said.

“We’re not discouraging anybody, but we don’t want to trick people by saying ‘Just fill out the FAFSA and you will get all the aid you’ll need.’ That’s just not going to happen.”

Chief Financial Strategist Bernie Pekala also noted that it would be more misleading for universities, particularly private institutions, to hinder the process of completing fee-based forms like the CSS/PROFILE since those forms allot far more aid than the federal level.

“The difficult situation, the conundrum we’re in, is that if we just get a FAFSA in and we provide them federal aid, that’s all [students] will think they’re eligible for,” Pekala said. “So these schools are trying to encourage them to complete their application because that will then qualify them for institutional aid.”

Although it is within students’ rights to fill out just the FAFSA when applying for financial aid, it is to their advantage, Lay said, to apply for institutional aid via the CSS/PROFILE—the application that allows schools to distribute private, institutional aid.

“It would be a mistake for a student to think ‘All I should do is fill out the FAFSA form,’ because at most they might get $6,000 and a Pell Grant … but $6,000 is not even one-tenth of the price of BC,” Lay said. “The same is true for the other schools [listed in Cummings’ letter].”

Although the CSS/PROFILE includes a $25 fee plus $16 for each additional institution, it accounts for a greater background of information on students’ family income circumstances, ensuring that the optimal amount of aid is distributed to the proper students. The fees associated with the CSS/PROFILE

can also be waived by the University for students who fall within a certain income bracket.

“The frustration is, the College Board has schools, has members, and has a group of advisors to talk about need analysis. The federal government—the Department of Education—does not,” Pekala said of the lack of oversight that may go into federal financial aid consideration.

Pekala said that BC’s tax code can cause issues for financial aid selection as well, noting that the FAFSA can be manipulated to report a deceptively low level of family income—a falsification that the CSS/PROFILE prevents.

Given that the FAFSA only takes into consideration tax returns and assets, it is not uncommon for wealthy families with financially savvy tax accountants to manipulate the application, and thus qualify for the full level of federal aid by reporting negative adjusted gross income (AGI) or zero income.

“They look at your tax return and they look at your assets, but if you have most of your assets in your home, they don’t look at that,” Pekala said.

“The schools that are spending their own funds are making sure that they give it to the students that truly demonstrate the highest levels of financial need,” Lay said. “We want to be responsible in how we give out financial aid, and that’s the reason we require the PROFILE.” While the Enrollment Management team—which is comprised of financial, retention, and undergraduate recruitment strategists—did update its financial aid information webpage to include more descriptive language on FAFSA policies on Feb. 6 as a result of Cummings’ letter, there was never an intentional effort on the University’s behalf to mislead students, Lay and Pekala said.

“Once the Chronicle of Higher Education article hit our desktops, several of us reviewed the website and we determined that the financial aid information on the admission website was vague and instructions needed to be clearer,” Lay said in an email. “Our Director of Student Financial Strategies, Bernie Pekala, worked with the Director of Student Financial Aid, Mary McGranahan, in Student Services to initiate a review all of the financial aid information posted for prospective students and to provide clarifications ASAP.” n

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After exiting the UGBC elections, Moazampour and Watt leave two teams to contend.

Moazampour, Watt end bid for UGBC presidential race UGBC, from A1 Fiore-Chettiar on Monday night to inform them that they were dropping out of the race and that they would be endorsing their team.

“Nanci and Chris seem very genuine in their interests for running,” said Moazampour. “They have had a clean race, and I have personally witnessed their kindness without them realizing. They are truly inspiring. Their knowledge is a large asset that is necessary for the betterment of UGBC.” Moazampour and Watt said that they hope to integrate their ideas and perspectives with Fiore-Chettiar and Marchese’s message, and that they will actively work on their campaign.

“I believe their endorsement of us shows that they entered this race not for the titles, but for the students,” Marchese said in a statement. “They openly state that they don’t want to split the sopho-

more vote, which would hurt our vision.

This proves they [were] in the race for the right reasons.”

Matt Alonsozana, current UGBC executive vice president and A&S ’14, said that their dropping out of the race shows how difficult it is for underclassmen candidates to gain strong support and momentum in an election that features two junior teams.

“We will actively participate on Nanci and Chris’ campaign because in doing so we are helping out the student body and the progress of our school as a whole,” Moazampour said.

Campaigning on campus will continue until voting ends on Wednesday night.

The two teams will also be permitted to campaign in Newton residence halls today and in specific residence halls on Monday.

On Sunday at 8 p.m. the EC will host a debate between the two teams in the Cabaret Room. n

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On Feb. 11, Olympia Snowe discussed increased party separation in government.

Snowe addresses polarized politics, state of Congress Snowe, from A1 of how the bipartisan system has broken down in recent years. Former U.S. President George W. Bush was able to pass the No Child Left Behind education legislation through bipartisan collaboration. She claimed that this maximized the potential of public office.

Currently, the bipartisan process has broken down and devolved into a series of winner-take-all votes. The process is now more about sending a message to one’s political base than it is about policy, she said.

“Nowhere is it more indicative that the process has broken down then when you look at the budget process,” Snowe said. “The largest economy in the world is operating without a budget.”

This is no way to govern a great nation, she said. She compared the lockdown in Congress to a Democratic ship and a Republican ship passing in the night—one is in the Atlantic Ocean, and one in the Pacific, she said. The two parties are separated on keystone issues—taxes and long-term debt—which has resulted in negligence on critical issues. That led to the worst post-recession recovery in history because of this uncertainty in Congress, she said.

“We should be far beyond where we are today when it comes to economic growth and job creation,” she said. “But it’s because Congress is feeling the openendedness and uncertainty.”

The uncertainty is due to increased

party separation in the government. In 1982, The National Journal determined that there were 344 members of the House of Representatives who came between the most conservative Democrat and the most liberal Republican. At the end of 2012, there were 13. Today, there are four of these bipartisan representatives. There are zero senators who fall into that category, she said.

Congress is currently at the highest level of polarization since the end of Reconstruction, she said.

“Suffice to say, the red states are getting redder and the blue states are getting bluer,” she said.

Snowe went on to say that change is still possible, even though approval ratings of Congress are at an all-time low.

She has created a list on her website, called Olympia’s List, that supports and recognizes more moderate elected officials. She supports those candidates who are willing to work across political lines, she said.

“We are a representative democracy,” she said. “We can demand bipartisanship, and we’ll get it.”

Bipartisanship is essential to reach policy goals and make progress. The recent extreme polarization has hindered the country’s progress, she said.

“Bipartisanship is not a political theory,” she said. “It’s a political necessity. It’s essential to getting things done.

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activity effortlessly,” Matthews wrote in a tribute to Harrington. “Further, you always got the sense that Dan really enjoyed what he was doing. I’ve only met a couple of people in academia who did not seem to get the point of sabbaticals—Dan was one.”

Matthews also said that, in the days before computers, Harrington would diligently write out his books by hand on yellow legal pads.

“For a mere mortal to see this process— writing without rewriting—was to discover another great gift that Dan possessed, which might be expressed as lack of self-doubt, or knowing exactly what he wanted to say and how he wanted to say it,” Matthews said.

Professor of theological ethics Rev. James Keenan, S.J. was Harrington’s student at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology and the two later co-taught courses on scripture and ethics at Weston for seven years. Keenan said Harrington was like the “colleague from heaven,” making his fellow professors’ lives easier through his ability to concisely summarize and clarify readings and correcting their work.

Pointing to Harrington’s work on NTA and the Sacra Pagina series, as well as his own writings, Keenan called his late colleague the most important chronicler of biblical history and theology in the past 50 years. Particularly after the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, which renewed Catholic doctrine from a modern perspective, Harrington was central in giving the English-speaking world access to what Catholic texts were being read, introducing many to names from biblical history that they would not know otherwise.

“The man who’s most responsible for Catholics reading the Bible in the English language is Dan Harrington,” Keenan said. “No one had more influence than he did.”

As a professor in STM, Harrington focused on areas such as biblical languages, the interpretation of the Bible in antiquity and today, the Synoptic Gospel, and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Harrington was a longtime faculty member at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology before it re-affiliated with BC to form STM in 2008.

Rev. James Martin, S.J. was a student of Harrington’s at Weston Jesuit and pointed to three outstanding characteristics that his former professor, whom he called a “model Jesuit,” exhibited: clarity, patience, and kindness.

“Dan was exceedingly patient,” Martin said at an event in December honoring Harrington after he announced that 2013-14 would be his final year of teaching. “Despite his erudition, there was never any question that was too basic or too elementary. He answered all of

them thoughtfully, generously, and, of course, accurately, which meant that everyone felt respected and valued—another gift.

“In a sense, Dan’s teaching was very much like Jesus’ use of the parables, communicating complicated truths to us in simple ways,” Martin said. “And as with Jesus’ parables, this was a great act of charity and love.”

Martin recalled that numerous Jesuits and classmates at Weston Jesuit told him to take as many courses as he could with Harrington, even if he was not particularly interested in the topic of study.

Beyond his teaching and scholarly work, Harrington celebrated Mass weekly at St. Agnes Parish in Arlington for more than 40 years, as well as at St. Peter’s Church in Cambridge for more than 20 years.

“What I am trying to do in both parishes— I do not claim to be the greatest preacher in the world—is basically break open the Scriptures and share what I know about them with ordinary people who do not have a theological education,” Harrington said in the interview for the Jesuit Oral History Program.

His devotion to biblical study was also matched by a passion for sports. Matthews said that Harrington seemed to know baseball, basketball, football, hockey, their players, and statistics as well as he knew the Bible.

“Most days began with a recap of a Red Sox or Bruins game — evidence that [Harrington was] a scholar of sports as well as the Bible,” Matthews said.

Harrington played baseball growing up in Arlington and was the goalie for the BC High hockey team.

“It taught me a lot about winning and losing,” Harrington told the Jesuit Oral History Program about hockey. “When you are a goalie, they put your mistakes up on a board and everybody can read them. So that was a good thing: learning to live with success and failure.”

As he faced an advanced form of prostate cancer in the last years of his life, Harrington continued to write, research, and teach for as long as he could.

“When he was dying, he would say, ‘So long as I can teach the Bible, I’m okay,’” Keenan said.

Matthews noted that Harrington “confronted his circumstances without selfpity.

“As he reflected on his own life and career in the months before his death, more than once Dan told the story about the advice he had received as a young man to ‘do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life’—Dan believed that he accomplished that goal., he said. n

tion, and consideration of their proposed strategic plan, the administration agreed to work with parents, with the intent of keeping the school on BC grounds.

“The decision to collaborate came about as the organic outcome of the process we undertook,” said Kristen Morin, co-president of the Parent Advisory Committee and BC ’86, in an email. “It began with our receipt of the notification of a potential merger. We knew that Boston College benefits from our children being on campus and our children benefit from being a beloved part of the University. We had always known that, but the outpouring of support we received strengthened our resolve to work on a solution together with Boston College.”

Quinn also noted the benefits of the mutually agreed upon approach to restoring the sustainability of the Campus School.

“We are very pleased to have reached this agreement,” he said in a statement to the Office of News and Public Affairs. “These discussions have been very helpful as they have given Campus School parents a better understanding of the issues facing the school, while giving Boston College a greater appreciation of their commitment to preserving and strengthening the program.

“The Campus School parents asked for an opportunity to keep the campus school at BC, increase enrollment and balance the school’s budget, and we have agreed to give them this opportunity,” Quinn said. “We are all committed to making this plan work.”

Over recent years, the Campus School has seen declining enrollment, dropping from 49 students in 2007 to 38 in 2014.

Parents and administrators are seeking to raise this number in order to generate financial sustainability for the school.

To increase enrollment, the strategic plan proposes to use improved marketing strategies and will detail ways of recruiting area families with special needs children to the Campus School, with the goal of having additional tuition dollars cover the deficit that the Campus School currently runs.

“The Campus School parents asked for an opportunity to submit a Strategic Plan that will assess the school’s strengths and weaknesses, provide strategies to increase enrollment, and fund capital improvements through fundraising efforts,” said University Spokesman Jack Dunn in an email. “BC administrators have agreed to review the plan and its feasibility for strengthening and sustaining the Campus School.”

“We plan to take all of the reasons we love our school and translate them into a sustainable program on behalf of the Campus School,” Morin said in a statement to the Office of News and Public Affairs.

Another component of the plan will include fundraising methods aimed toward funding improved equipment, namely SMART Boards and lifts, for students and volunteers. Although the Campus School’s current location in Campion Hall lacks both the size and technological advantages of KDS, parents and administrators believe a college setting and plans to enhance the school’s facilities will ultimately provide special needs students a better learning environment.

According to Dunn, although KDS remains under capacity, the school has been cooperative throughout the process and is understanding of the decision.

“The leadership of the Kennedy Day School understands that we want to give parents an opportunity to help the Campus School to achieve sustainability here on the BC campus,” he said.

Chris Marino, co-president of the Campus School Volunteers of BC and A&S ’14, said that the structure of the plan—regarding administrative oversight and marketing efforts—will provide a basis for the Campus School to grow.

“That’s definitely one of the main goals of this collaboration we’re having with Boston College, and they’ve been very helpful so far in allowing us the time to work on that—in trying to get the referrals we need so [the Campus School] is not under-populated,” Marino said on increasing enrollment.

Morin said the group constructing the plan consists of not only Campus School parents, but also staff and outside supporters who will work directly to achieve desired results.

“While this is a very sensitive issue and stirs lots of emotions we also know there is a business model behind all successful institutions,” Morin said in an email. “We did not want to make our case on emotion alone as that would prove to be a short term solution. Rather our committee developed the outline of a new direction based on facts and potential outcomes to create a sustainable program.

“In the end, the dministration did not only listen but truly heard what so many of our stakeholders were saying,” she said. n

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The Boston College community, as well as the larger Catholic community, recently lost an influential figure in Rev. Daniel J. Harrington, S.J., who passed away Feb. 7 after an extended battle with cancer. A renowned biblical scholar and author, and a professor in the School of Theology and Ministry (STM), Harrington’s life was centered around the Boston area, as he attended Boston College High School, Harvard University, the former Weston Jesuit School of Theology (now combined with BC to form STM), and BC itself.

Harrington impacted not only the students in his courses, which were focused on the New Testament, but also his colleagues and the Catholic world. He worked tirelessly to make biblical texts more accessible to as many people as possible, and his ability to concisely communicate abstract concepts was admirable. Harrington has been credited as a central figure in chronicling biblical theology in recent decades and producing vital commentary on the Scriptures through his multi-volume “Sacra Pagina” series.

Despite his continuous and exten-

sive academic pursuits—which produced more than 60 books, hundreds of articles, and tens of thousands of abstracts and book notices—Harrington could always be relied on to review his colleagues’ work and provide helpful feedback. Outside of BC, he celebrated Mass weekly at two local parishes, and strongly supported making the Scriptures open to those who did not share his theological education. After Mass one Sunday, a woman approached Harrington and asked for a copy of his homily, which she particularly enjoyed. The next morning, she found a handwritten copy of the homily in her mailbox. This level of dedication to not only his biblical study, but also his faith and community, is what set Harrington apart.

Even as he dealt with poor health in his final years, Harrington continued to teach and publish as long as he could, serving as the co-editor of the STM journal, New Testament Abstracts, until November 2013. He viewed life and confronted mortality with gratitude, patience, and kindness, and will be greatly missed as a model example of the Jesuit order.

New photo exhibit shows flexibility of McMullen BC community should take advantage of opportunities offered by on-campus museum On Saturday, a photography exhibit titled Paris Night & Day: Photography Between the Wars is set to open at the McMullen Museum of Art in Devlin Hall, where it will run through June 8. The installation will focus on Paris-based photographers working between 1918 and 1939, and will feature the work of Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Ilse Bing, Andre Kertesz, Bill Brandt, Lisette Model, Dora Maar, and Brassai. Paris Night & Day was curated

by Boston College art history professor Asher Anderson, and much of the research for the exhibit was done by students in Anderson’s “Photography in Paris: 1900-1945” class.

The efforts of Anderson and the art department to include undergraduate students in the planning of the exhibit is commendable and will likely increase undergraduate interest. Hopefully, the contributions of Anderson’s class mark the start of a trend, and the McMullen Museum will continue offering opportunities for students to get involved with the

museum’s nationally recognized exhibits in the future.

With the strong focus on international studies and study abroad at BC, Paris Night & Day is a particularly relevant exhibit to undergraduates at the University. Several of the featured artists are among the most recognizable names in photography, and the space itself is one of the more impressive art venues in the Boston area. The installation’s focus on photography makes the content very accessible to most students, and is something the museum hasn’t featured in recent years. The museum has been very successful by bringing in a mix of art styles with its last few installations, and hopefully will continue this open spirit going forward.

The McMullen Museum has a history of showing internationally recognized work—students and professors should take advantage of the museum’s accessibility and celebrate the University’s continued dedication to bringing world-class cultural opportunities to BC.

Eagles’ dedication earns impressive dual Beanpot This week’s victories are indicative of BC’s remarkably successful hockey programs Last season, the Boston College men’s ice hockey team set a school record when it won the Beanpot tournament for the fourth consecutive time. This year, the team set another record with a fifth consecutive Beanpot title. Also impressive is the fact that the BC women’s hockey team won the women’s Beanpot on Tuesday, marking the second time in the last five years that the BC hockey programs have swept the tournament.

As integral parts of their respective teams’ efforts, Patrick Brown, senior forward and captain, and Taylor Wasylk, women’s Beanpot MVP and senior forward, are also deserving of recognition. When the game was tied in the third period, Brown scored the game-winning goal in the Beanpot final, tipping the puck in after being flattened by a defender. With two goals and one assist in the tournament—including

the game-winning goal against Northeastern in the final—Wasylk put on a noteworthy performance. Additionally, veteran goalie and co-captain Corinne Boyles exhibited admirable leadership throughout the entire tournament.

The men’s win marked the Eagles’ 19th Beanpot title and the eighth under head coach Jerry York, BC ’67. Currently, the men’s team is ranked No. 1 in the nation with a 22-4-3 record. For the women’s team, under the leadership of head coach Katie King Crowley, this victory marks its fifth Beanpot title, and it is ranked No. 7 in the nation with a 21-5-3 record.

This string of victories is indicative not only of the quality of players that BC has attracted and retained over the past few years, but also of the ability of the athletics department, York, and Crowley in developing and maintaining quality programs in the long term.

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The following letter is in response to “Congressman criticizes BC, other schools for unclear FAFSA policies” by Connor Farley, originally published on 2/10/14:

Socio-economic diversity and the FAFSA Boston College’s bubble has burst. The controversy surrounding previously unclear FAFSA policies touches a nerve on the Heights. Congressman Elijah Cumming’s (D-Md.) investigation about potential violations of the Higher Education Act has ignited discussion not only because it contradicts our character as a Jesuit university, but also because it parallels national unease with inequality of income, education, and opportunity.

Regardless of the reasons behind the oversight, which may have made the financial aid process more difficult for some students, it is a poor reflection on BC and was rightly corrected as soon as possible. The deeper questions about socio-economic diversity at BC that this incident has raised remain unresolved.

Socio-economic diversity is the most underappreciated aspect of our student body. A school that was founded 150 years ago for underprivileged students finds itself at a crossroads. We attract more highachieving students from across the socio-economic spectrum than ever before. Several columns and essays have been written about the unsaid pressure that students can feel to fit in—materially and socially—in a BC community that is known for being a “model” campus in terms of style and mannerisms.

Arguably, students’ socio-economic status determines more of their daily decisions than race, gender, or creed.

The amount of money one is free to spend determines if you can afford tickets to events, how many times you eat out, what type of liquor you drink, and whether or not you’ll look to hold a job while studying. It is a complex issue to grasp, especially since it is so often correlated with race.

Yet, there are trends of which we as students should be mindful. Students are more likely to be hanging out with friends of the same socio-economic level. Unintentionally or not, cliques foment a tense campus environment at odds with the spirit of Jesuit education. In this day and age, socio-economics threatens our shared identity as BC students more than anything else. Student leaders are right to lobby for institutional fixes to these trends, but we, as fellow neighbors and Eagles, can already play a large role in bridging and preventing these potential divides.

Class may become a point of contention; it need not be so if we can all build up school spirit and equal access to traditions. Where does school spirit fit into

this? We should be viewing each other as Eagles, first and foremost, and to have a shared identity as Eagles, we need shared experiences like the Beanpot.

It didn’t matter how much the people next to you were worth. When that final buzzer sounded, you just wanted to turn around and hug them.

Tickets to events like these can be expensive and hard to obtain, and true campus-wide traditions are few. Student leaders can tackle this issue headon with a clear advocacy strategy. First, we ought to lobby for greater resources and funding for the Montserrat Coalition—an on-campus initiative that works to make the BC experience more accessible. Second, we can better build up, re-brand, and improve true community-wide traditions such as Homecoming, cultural and performance shows, and annual programs such as the Boat Cruise, Gala, Ball, and Showdown—a direction in which the current UGBC administration has been moving. Third, the newly formed Programming Board can prevent the formation of cliques by holding smaller scale mixers for the freshman class in cooperation with organizations like RHA and FYE. Finally, we need opportunities where students from all backgrounds can just relax and celebrate together. Expanding UGBC’s Pub Series and even lobbying for an on-campus bar is a step in the right direction. Other solutions abound, especially via Athletics. Why don’t we have more transportation for students seeking to go to away games and also hosting game watching events on-campus? There are even more creative ways that we can build up school spirit and a shared identity.

BC is not a bubble, and its evolution will parallel the social trends around it. For as much as the national consciousness struggles with the issue of inequality, BC also will have to address it in terms of its socio-economic diversity. It would be wrong to exacerbate the issue by highlighting class differences or further dividing the community. The solution lies in a higher level of opportunity for all students to see themselves as neighbors and BC Eagles.

The FAFSA incident has burst our bubble, but with a student body that nurtures a shared identity and common experiences, we can be prepared for whatever lies in store.

Matthew Alonsozana UGBC Executive Vice President A&S ’14

BC should improve handicap access on campus Imagine this—coming back to campus and finding that the Quad at the center of campus has been considerably raised off the ground and an 11-step staircase was put there, making your mornings getting to class and your whole life on campus that much harder, combined with the fact that the routes that would make your life easier—those without stairs— are difficult to find without the proper signage. Or imagine walking out of O’Neill Library to go to your evening journalism class to find that the rain water from the daytime has completely frozen and has now combined with the snow to make it literally impossible to get to class without the help of extremely kind strangers, who hold onto you the entire way because walking in these conditions with your crutches that have rubber tips makes you feel like Bambi on ice.

How would you feel? These are the challenges faced every day at Boston College by the students that have physical disabilities.

While other minorities on campus, whether they be ethnic minorities or those of sexual orientation, have groups, such as AHANA and Spectrum, that legitimize their issues, the students with physical disabilities do not have such a group and, as a result, their problems are most of the time forgotten or even worse, pushed under the rug. As a student with a physical disability—cerebral palsy that forces me to walk with crutches—I have complained about the lack of adequate snow removal three times this semester because, whenever it snows, all of the walkways are never properly cleared, such that there is always a thin layer of snow, slush or ice left, making it completely unsafe for students with balance issues, which is common among people with physical disabilities. When I complained, I was simply told that the reason why the snow was not properly removed was because they could not predict the snow and if it would stick, despite them having the same weather report that every other person has. This sentiment enrages me.

Newsflash—we’re in Boston! If it snows, it sticks!

Similarly, the Disabilities Service Office said that the

only solution to these problems is getting up earlier and using the provided Eagle Escort van. While the van is a helpful service, it can help only so much, as once you arrive on campus, you must maneuver around it and that is made difficult by the lack of adequate snow removal.

Another thing that similarly flabbergasts me is the fact that many of the handicapped accessible routes are around the back of buildings or are further away than the regular routes. This always astonished me, that not only at BC but everywhere, because how about using some common sense and putting the routes for the people who can’t walk closer to the actual building? It flabbergasts me. A similarly shocking thing to me, is when there are accessible routes, often they are not open. Last year the accessible entrance to McElroy was not open past 7 p.m. This prevented me from getting dinner many times. Likewise, the accessible route to Bapst library is always closed and the security rarely wants to open the door. So, you must call the BC police, which normally takes an hour.

I assure you, this is not just my problem. I was asked by the Disability Services Office to talk to a handicapped prospective student, who wanted to know how accessible the campus was and how good the snow removal was. I had no choice but to tell her the truth—that both were often handled more than poorly. If they were to be given a grade, it would be a D, at best. The University’s lack of concern about these things will prevent very smart and capable students from coming here just because of their physical capabilities.

The mission of the Disability Services Office says, “that students with disabilities [will] receive support services and accommodations that permit equal access to all Boston College programs and the opportunity to realize their potential and develop effective self-advocacy skills.” I just wish they would stick to that.

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Patrick Angiolillo Hillside Coffee Bar - We would like to thank you, Hillside Coffee Bar, for all of the support that you provide us in our sleep-deprived days. We don’t think that you get the love you deser ve, especially since the opening of the new Stokes Chocolate Bar. You are kind of like the older brother after the younger child is born—with all of the attention being showered on the newborn, you feel neglected and unloved.

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Grandmothers’ Cookies - A s college students, one thing that is often lacking from our diets is delicious homemade baked goodies. Because of this, we appreciate it all the more when our grandmothers take the time to bake some cookies, brownies, and other delicacies and send them in care packages for Valentine’s Day. While most of the focus of the day is on significant others, we would like to make a special shout-out to all the grandmothers out there because your cookies really get us through the week.

Today we run the risk of becoming too familiar with things. For us at Boston College, this can mean getting sucked into the “college bubble.” For others, whether older or younger, it can mean getting too entrenched in the normal, the expected, the unsurprising. Obviously, for many, this can be offset by travel, new jobs, changing relationships, etc. But, on the whole, we do run the risk of becoming too familiar with things-as-they-are.

By way of illumination, let me share with you a story from a friend. Rev. Robert Imbelli shared with me a short anecdote of Pope Pius X about familiarity—once, the pope noticed a man quickly shuffling back and forth in front of the tabernacle in a church. The man gave little regard to the tabernacle, not genuflecting or bowing or showing any sign of respect as he passed it. In response, the pope quipped, “That man must be either an atheist or the sacristan!” The point of the joke obviously being that familiarity can breed (unintentional) disregard.

In our daily lives we are often caught up in the familiar routines we have. We go to class, get dinner with the same folk, watch the same shows, listen to the same music, and do the same things on the weekend. We simply fall into the routine trap of everyday life, and there is nothing inherently wrong with that.

But we run the risk of things becoming just too familiar—of us losing sight of the uniqueness, individuality, or otherness of people, places, and things. This fact extends beyond our routines to our opinions, values, and beliefs—thus, our political affiliations become routine; our moral lives become code books, manuals as dense and impersonal as the operating guide for a Mac or PC; our faiths devolve into ritual motions; our friendships become chores; our opinions on everything

from world matters to state elections to the recent PTA meeting all become a homogenous heap of singular mindset. In short, we become governed not so much by our reason or our heart as by our routine.

So I propose we defamiliarize. How do we do that? Or, what does that even mean?

Defamiliarization is a term that was coined by the Russian formalist Viktor Shklovsky (1893-1984). Essentially, the goal of defamiliarization is to revitalize a given artistic object.

Any form of art is liable to become habitual or over-familiar, but by defamiliarizing (ostranenie, “making strange”) the art form can regain its potential to stimulate and provoke. As Shklovsky, in his 1925 essay, “Art as Technique,” put it, “Art exists that one may recover the sensation of life, it exists to make one feel things, to make the stone stony.”

But this concept of defamiliarization extends beyond the literary and visual arts.

Its socio-anthropological ramifications run deep. Our “social cognition,” Judith Howard explains in her article of the same name, is our automatic classification of things we perceive—our habitual act of placing everything we encounter into its appropriate, preexisting category. And it is an all too routinized process. In this way, our very lives become formalized realities. If we were to be cliche and say that our lives are canvases on which everything is painted, then our collective life would probably be something like The Last Supper, Starry Night, or the Mona Lisa—an all-too-familiar work of art (the analogy is imperfect for obvious reasons, but the sentiment holds true if we consider these pieces of work over-familiarized in Western consciousness).

Every moment of our lives ought to be the last brush stroke on The Creation of Adam, or the final polished niche of the statue of David.

What, then, are we to do? My proposal is simple. We defamiliarize. We need to recover the mystery of life, of all the things that have become mundane, quotidian, and otherwise usual to us. We need to again see the awe of our lives—everything that constitutes our daily, religious, occupational, or political lives.

If we re-evaluate, re-consider, or re-classify our decisions, beliefs, opinions, behaviors, and

more, we will appreciate why we hold those very things so dear. Or we will change (hopefully for the better).

Permit me to share a personal example.

Every week I attend Mass. And at every Mass there is a moment where the congregation claims to “join the heavenly host in their unending hymn of praise” of God, singing “Holy, holy, holy, Lord of Hosts, heaven and earth is full of your glory…” For me, as I am sure is the case for many of my Catholic brothers and sisters, this prayer, the Sanctus, can become simply a routine. It is “just what we say every week.” But, for me, this has changed in the past year, as I have been studying liturgical texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls. In these, the Scrolls community calls upon the heavenly hosts to praise God so that the people might join the angels in worshipping Him. In learning about this other worshipping community and their attempts to commune with the divine through the use of similar prayers, I have come to more fully appreciate my own tradition’s use of the Sanctus. We are not simply saying words. It is not “just what we say every week.” It is a beautiful and transcendent moment in which my church is truly sharing in the praise of the highest heavens, offering to God the sweet aroma of our prayer, as the Dead Sea Scrolls community might put it.

When we defamiliarize, we see the world in its beauty again. The process is not a one-time thing. It is continuous. And it may contain some hard work. But if we constantly defamiliarize ourselves to the new and the old, we will always appreciate the fullness of things. The point is not to change as much as to appreciate. To reflect on life is to experience the fullness of life. There is a lot we would have differently, I am sure, but there is just as much that we let go by us with little notice—beautiful little things that deserve all the awe and affection that we give to the masterpieces of art and giants of literature. If we can defamiliarize these things, why should we not be able to defamiliarize ourselves?

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

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The End Of Flappy Bird - The most recent gaming fad to hit the mobile phone market is dead.

Recently, the creator of the game Flappy Bird pulled his game from all of the app stores because of the addictive nature of the game.

It is a rather unusual ending for an extremely popular game, as the developer is likely losing the potential to profit from ads on each additional app downloaded.

What is worse, though, is that enterprising iPhone owners have recently been stopped by eBay from trying to auction off their phones that already have the game preloaded. Apparently, it violates some copyright/licensing policy of the site’s that prohibits selling hardware that is not returned to factory settings.

Addie’s Lines - These lines are about as amorphous and ill-defined as cottage cheese. It is always unclear exactly for what the unorganized groups of people in front of you are waiting. Do they want salads? Are they waiting for a custom-made pizza? Or are they just waiting for a BBQ-chicken pizza to come out of the oven?

No one really knows because everyone just stands around awkwardly waiting to get through. If only Addie’s set up the partitioning to direct people to different stations….

Large Winter Coats - This is not to say that we don’t love large winter coats. Hailing from the cowboy boots-part of this country, we are well aware of how necessary they are and, in fact, quite enjoy them. What remains an unsolved dilemma for us, however, is what to do with them in the classroom.

If you are in a large lecture hall, they absolutely swallow up you and the person next to you. If you are in a small classroom and you put them behind your chair, said winter coats will crowd onto the desk of the person behind you.

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Emma Vitale Nothing major happened in my life in 2013. There was no huge milestone or huge tragedy—it was just a good year with its normal ups and downs. Yet, moving into the second month of 2014, I still can’t help but feeling like I left something behind. As I’m nearing the halfway mark of my college career and already feeling nostalgic, I think what I’m missing is my last tangible connection to freshman year.

My first year at Boston College spanned from August 2012 to May 2013, and it was quite the unforgettable year. Although I’m very happy that I have moved on from the Newton bus and have started to experience the perks of being an upperclassman, there are aspects of being a freshman that I’m sad to leave behind.

The most obvious and, perhaps, most superficial of these to me is how the “I’m just a freshman” excuse no longer works.

If you haven’t quite mastered navigating O’Neill, Fulton, or the Plex, yet and you’re a freshman, it’s not a problem because you’re still learning the ins and outs of buildings.

But getting lost around campus as an upperclassman? It’s pitiful, but it’s something that happens to me quite often—possibly due to the fact that I avoid the library, CSOM-mecca, and gym as much as possible—but the issue remains. This lack of first-year excuse affects other areas of our BC livelihoods, as well, like the pressure to find internships or start solidifying your career path. If you push off the internship or career center as a freshman, you don’t need to sweat it because you have that first year padding, and only the ridiculously ambitious start thinking about the real world that early (or so you tell yourself ).

Yet once you hit sophomore year, it seems everyone has the career bug, and if you don’t dress up in that suit and meet with

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potentially-maybe-probably-not future employers, you’re doing something wrong.

“I’m just a sophomore” doesn’t have quite the same implications as “I’m just a freshman” does. I’m not saying this is necessarily a bad thing—we do need to start thinking about our career path at some point, and we should take advantage of the opportunities BC affords us—but I miss the ease of freshman year, when your main expectation was simply to make it through the year in one piece.

The ease and acceptability of meeting new people is another advantage of freshman year. Sure, as you get more involved in organizations and upper-level classes sophomore year, it gets easier to meet people—I’ve expanded my network of friends so much this year—but it is much more difficult to break into friend groups. When you get to college freshman year, you experience something you haven’t since probably elementary school—you have to make all new friends. It’s terrifying, but everyone is in the same position, meaning everyone is open to making friends and meeting new people to find out with whom they connect.

But once those groups are solidified by the end of freshman year, the norms of meeting and making friends change. It’s as if it is no longer acceptable to hang out with a different crowd, let alone switch groups. Why branch out when you have “your group”?

I’ve found this time and time again this year—there are so many more opportunities to make good individual friends, with whom you can enjoy lunch or dinner dates or the occasional one-on-one hangout, but they have their set friend groups and you have yours, and that’s accepted as an established norm. But I think this line of thinking leads to a whole lot of missed opportunities.

I’m a firm believer in avoiding lifestyle ruts, and when you only hang out with the same people, you’re perpetuating that rut. There is no single group of people with which we fit, and I miss the open friendship atmosphere of freshman year.

A final thing that I think gets left behind freshman year is the idealism and energy that comes with being a first year college student. We all have hopes and expecta-

tions about our school and experience when we first come to campus, whether they are social, personal, or otherwise.

During the course of freshman year, some of these are met, and some are not, and that changes what we expect our experience to be. Maybe you thought you would love every class, or you would enjoy the nightlife more, or you would have time to do all the clubs you wanted to, and those things didn’t happen. Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t particular to BC—it’s the same with any college experience —and I’m not saying it sucks that everything isn’t ideal and perfect. But very soon into freshman year our expectations conform to the reality of our experiences, and that initial idealism of college life is gone. By sophomore year, we know what to expect and we run the risk of simply going through the motions of college, finding our standard work-play-work routine and failing to appreciate it for the novel experience it is.

This is one of the reasons I’m so involved in the Student Admission Program (SAP) here at BC—whenever I talk to prospective students and families about BC and my experience here so far, I’m reminded not only of the excitement I felt when thinking about where and how to spend my four years of college, but also why I chose BC and why it was the right decision for me. I love feeling that energy and excitement about college, the same that I had coming to BC a year and a half ago.

And it’s not that I’m indifferent or lacking vitality here, but there’s nothing like the enthusiasm and eagerness of a first-semester college freshman—except, perhaps, a first-semester college senior.

The good news after such a “Wow, it sucks getting older” column is that it’s never too late to return to these aspects of freshman year (well actually, you’re on your own with the lack of the first year excuse). Join a new club. Make more of an effort to branch out in friendships. And remember why you’re at BC in the first place.

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

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Reflecting on love Jovani Hernandez What do Smokey Robinson’s “Ooo Baby Baby,” Maxwell’s “Fortunate,” and Miguel’s “Adorn” have in common?

They’re all love songs.

I’ve found myself singing along to and being moved by these songs, but I can’t say I’ve ever been in love (though I was close that one time in kindergarten when a girl shared her 64-count Crayola crayon box with the built-in sharpener with me). Why do I feel a connection with what Smokey sings if I don’t have a significant other to whom I’ve done wrong? I don’t belong to an “us,” yet I recite the lyrics to “Adorn” with such conviction that you’d think I wrote the song and had Miguel sing it because I felt ill that week. I know what you’re thinking—one doesn’t have to be in love in order to enjoy love songs—but in the four minutes and thirty seconds that “All of Me” by John Legend lasts, I’d be lying if I said someone in particular didn’t come to mind. Sometimes this person is that girl I met at the freshman barbeque during our first week as college students, and other times it’s a girl from one of my classes to whom I’ve never spoken but whom I love hearing speak because she articulates herself in a way I wish I did. Oftentimes, however, it’s someone fictitious—a person created in my mind who is about her work just a little bit more than I am so that I can be kept in check; who has a nice sense of style; who is willing to learn from me just as I’m willing to learn from her. Ultimately, this person is someone for whom I don’t mind making an effort and vice versa. Although everything you’ve read up until now has been true, you haven’t gotten the full story.

On (many) weekends between the hours of 9 p.m. and 2 a.m. (or until the “liquid courage,” as Kerry Cronin puts it in her famous dating talk, wears out), I tend to reject that vision of love for another, more stereotypically collegiate one—the “hook-up.” As this is very much a part of today’s college culture, I cannot exclude it from consideration and I must admit that, sometimes, I, too, am guilty of being one of those “jerks who just want to hook up.” I did not, however, own up to this part of my identity until recently—I wanted to believe that, because I didn’t make “hooking up” my sole pursuit, such a reputation was not applicable to me.

Early in my freshman year, I recognized that I was trying to fit this mold so that I could have a story to tell my friends, who were all bragging about their recent “hook ups.” The realization I had, however, only lasted until the next weekend. A year and a half later, I cannot say that I have fully left behind this “hook up”-driven approach to love, but I think there’s some worth in the acknowledgment of my shortcomings.

Everyone wants to feel loved, but not everybody looks for love in the same places or considers love to have one concrete definition.

Simply looking at my actions, “love” has been capitalizing on the physical with no intention of going past a “hook up” session. Yet, if you were randomly to ask me to define love, my response would include something about selflessness, sacrifice, and solicitude, because I am more considerate of others’ emotions than I have conveyed, have less bravado than my wandering hands have suggested, and possess more yearning for meaningful interactions than I have communicated. The misalignment between my actions and words largely derives from the fact that love requires work and vulnerability. While one night is easier to commit to than a year, momentary pleasure isn’t satisfying in the long term.

When people ask how my love life is going, I usually respond by saying it’s unsuccessful, since I’ve been single for about four years. Although it’d be nice to have a significant other with whom I could stay in on the weekends and spend Valentine’s Day, I don’t need one. What has been constant in my life, however, has been the support, affection, and guidance that my family and friends offer—but seldom do these groups of people come to mind when I think about love.

It is easy to take for granted those who care about us and to think of love solely in terms of romantic attraction. My roommates noticing I’m quieter than usual and inquiring about this is love; my youngest brother being anxious for me to return home is love; my mother working while my 1-year-old sister stays with a babysitter is love. I am and always have been surrounded by love, but I have not been most mindful of this fact.

I may not completely relate to the fool Frankie Lymon sings about, or have a certain girl from Ipanema in mind like Frank Sinatra does, but I have loved ones for whom I can do (and will do) a better job of loving.

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

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Like “grit” and “heart,” “intangibles” is a word that has been abused and cliched to a point where its meaning—if it ever really had a coherent definition—is bastardized and hopelessly muddled. Brown provides an easy target for “intangible” talk, but that would be a discredit to him.

A better and more meaningful description for Brown would be “glue.” He’s the type of player that—in the midst of 24-point streaks, flashy goals, and massive hits—keeps doing the little things right. Brown’s the fundamentally sound leader, the glue that keeps the squad together.

Coming into Monday night, the senior had seven goals and nine assists for 16 points on the season. In the Beanpot semifinals against Boston University, Brown had zero points, making it into the box score thanks to his four shots on goal. From the instant the puck was dropped in the championship game, though, it was clear that the whole night would be very different.

The BU game was a frustrating three periods of hockey.

Devoid of any sort of rhythm for long stretches of time, it devolved into a whistle-marred scrap battle—but whatever element had been missing in the semis erupted in the first frame of the final. The refs put away the whistles, calling just three penalties over 60 minutes, and allowed back-and-forth, fast-paced hockey to run TD Garden: heart-pounding near misses, punishing hits, and scoring chances galore.

BC goaltender Thatcher Demko earned his keep early, making 16 saves in the first—with shots coming through the screen from close range as BC struggled to clear the crease—and Northeastern’s Witt performed similarly, stopping 10 shots.

At 8:40, though, Hayes broke through and beat Witt to put BC up one. In typical fashion of the country’s top line, everyone was involved as Gaudreau cut down the wing to the red line and dished a pass to Arnold, who tipped it to Hayes for the finish.

As the game swung between shootout and slugfest, that 1-0 score held and the tension rose until 18:36 in the second period, when Kevin Roy—a ghost for much of the game up until that point—jumped on BC’s blown clearance pass.

Deking and burying his shot into Demko’s right side,

Roy provided a perfect sitter for John Stevens, who fired it home as the Eberly Award-winner watched helplessly from the other side of his net.

BC outshot the Huskies 16-6 in the third period, but the stats don’t tell the full story. The two teams swung back and forth, causing heart palpitations for both contingents of fans, and Northeastern was down BC’s throat for much of the period, forcing phenomenal saves and goal-line clearances out of Demko and his defense.

The Beanpot war raged on, and as the two goaltenders continued to produce save after save, the game began to feel primed for overtime.

Then, at 14:30, Brown broke the deadlock.

Battling with Stevens just in front of Witt’s crease, Brown was jockeying to set up a screen, struggling to put himself in a position where he could redirect a shot at the Huskies’ goal. As Isaac MacLeod pulled back his stick and fired in a shot from the point, Stevens threw down Brown, dragging him to the floor.

Many players would have thrown their hands in the air looking for a call. Most would have lost focus on the play.

Not Brown.

Sprawled on his back, Brown kept his eyes on the puck and somehow managed to get a piece of it with his stick—just enough to fling it past Witt and secure the championship for BC. “That’s an amazing goal for us,” York said. “I need to see it on film, but I think it’s going to be a highlight reel [one].”

A few minutes later, Gaudreau would put the game out of reach with an empty netter. Then, with 50 seconds remaining and Witt back in net, Brown took a victory lap.

Picking up the puck at center ice, Brown raced toward net on the fast break, and with some quick stick handling, demolished Witt glove side.

In a game full of doing the little things right, it was a rare moment of eye-widening flash from the captain—a reminder of what the glue can do.

“Most teams you see in the country, their very best player’s their captain,” York said. “Historically that’s the way it is. Patrick’s got such leadership skills that he didn’t have to be our best player. He didn’t have to be an All-American or a Hobey Baker candidate [for the] team to recognize him.

We vote for our captains, and it was unanimous that he’d be our captain.” n

Veteran players come up big in final Women’s Beanpot, from A10 The Eagles peppered Desjardins throughout the first half of the period, jumping out to a 10-2 lead in shots.

With 3:28 left in the first period, the Eagles were finally able to cash in on their multitude of chances as senior Taylor Wasylk picked off a Northeastern pass near the right dot, skated in on net, and ripped a quick wrister over the blocker of Desjardins and into the top corner of the goal.

The second period was more of the same for the Eagles. Puck possession continued to be the name of the game as Northeastern was able to muster up just five shots on goal in the period, despite heading to the power play twice. The only scary moment for the Eagles in the second period came around the 14-minute mark, as Northeastern freshman Hayley Scamurra executed a slick spin-move and blew a shot past Boyles, who was bailed out by the post. At the end of the second period, the Eagles held a 1-0 lead and a 22-13 advantage in shots.

A completely different feel encompassed the third period, however. BC’s dominance in the possession department faded, as Northeastern appeared poised for a comeback. A resilient Boyles, though, would have none of it. Boyles, the recipient of the Bertagna Award as the tournament’s top goalie, stood on her head in the third period, denying all of the 12 Northeastern shots she faced.

Boyles’ exceptional play, coupled with an opportunistic power play unit, propelled the Eagles to victory.

Following a body-checking call on Heather Mottau of Northeastern, BC’s power play moved in for the kill.

Co-captain Meagan Mangene took a perfect pass

from junior Emily Field and scorched a wrister past Desjardins, giving the Eagles a 2-0 lead with less than 10 minutes to play.

“When you go on the power play, it’s an opportunity to put away a team sometimes, and I think we had that opportunity and that our kids did a good job doing that,” said BC head coach Katie King Crowley. “We needed a goal there.”

About five minutes later, the Hockey East’s top power play unit ensured that the women’s Beanpot title would be coming to Chestnut Hill. Assistant captain Melissa Bizzari snuck a quick, low wrister past Desjardins, who appeared to be caught a bit off-guard by the shot.

Crowley emphasized the importance of the Eagles’ power play execution after the game.

“I think that’s one of the things that really helped us in tonight’s game,” Crowley said. “It doesn’t matter what formation we’re in. We’re figuring out how to get pucks to the net and how to get goals when we need them.”

The Eagles would hold on to defeat Northeastern by a final score of 3-0 and ensure that both Beanpot trophies will reside in Chestnut Hill this year. This win marked the fifth time the BC women have won the Beanpot title.

Senior Taylor Wasylk was named Beanpot tournament MVP by members of the media following the game, due to her superb offensive performance against Northeastern and Boston University. Wasylk scored what proved to be the game-winner in the championship game, after putting up a shorthanded goal and an assist against BU last week.

“MVP’s cool,” Wasylk said. “I wasn’t expecting it, but it’s definitely exciting to make an impact senior year. Most importantly, we won the game and won the trophy.” n

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Erik Johnson’s women’s basketball team will host No. 2 Notre Dame tonight. The Eagles were on a seven-game win streak headed into the heart of ACC play, though the Fighting Irish broke that run. Including the loss to Notre Dame, the Eagles have won just two of their last 10 games.

Meanwhile, the Fighting Irish remain perfect with a 23-0 overall record and 10 ACC victories. Coming to Conte Forum after a 37-point stomping of Syracuse, Notre Dame is led by sophomore guard Jewell Loyd, who averages 17.7 points and six rebounds per game. BC freshman Kelly Hughes comes into the game hot from behind arc, hitting 71 percent of her 3-pointers in the last two games.

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With six minutes to go in the Beanpot final, the Huskies still had a chance at bringing down the Goliath that is Boston College. Through 44 minutes of fastpaced, physical, and intense play, they clung to the Eagles, looking to become the first team to upset the reigning champions in the tournament in four years.

“There’s a reason why they’re No. 1 in the country,” said Northeastern head coach Jim Madigan. “I thought our guys battled. We had a chance to win with under five minutes left. Those are the situations, where if you can win as the underdog you want to be in.”

In the end, the game would come down to close chances for each team. On those opportunities, though, it was BC that would come through, pulling off a late statement to win its fifth straight Beanpot championship.

“When it comes to big games like this, it’s all about the little plays and you’ve just got to bear down and finish your opportunities,” said Northeastern forward Braden Pimm. “We had the chances, we just didn’t bear down enough to get one by.”

Early in the game, the pieces were coming together. Northeastern goaltender Clay Witt, who boasted the highest save percentage in college hockey entering the night, was on his game.

The game was at full tilt right from the start, and Witt stayed composed, racking up 10 saves in the first period and 14 in the second. With Witt performing well, it looked like the Huskies were going to put up an early lead on the Eagles when, just under seven minutes in, Eagles goalie Thatcher Demko was caught off-guard and Northeastern found the net. After a review of the play, the net was deemed to have been off its bearings, negating the goal and the potential Husky lead. Two minutes later, Kevin Hayes struck first blood for the Eagles.

Hayes’ shot, which came off of a pass from Johnny Gaudreau that was tipped by Bill Arnold, fired into the top left corner of the net before Witt could react.

For 44 minutes, however, that was the only blip on the scoreboard, and Northeastern played its cleanest game—at least in terms of penalty minutes—in 12 years, not sending a single player from the box.

The Huskies finally managed to even the score late in the second period when a bad pass from Scott Savage was inter-

cepted by Northeastern’s star forward Kevin Roy. Roy hadn’t been much of a presence on the ice during the majority of the first two periods, failing to gain a significant chance on goal through more than 38 minutes of play. Madigan was still happy with his effort, though.

“I thought he played well,” Madigan said. “He was jumping, looking for opportunities to get in and around the net, you know, everyone knows when he’s on the ice, kind of like how we know when 13 and 12 are on for them. And a couple times he had shots blocked, they were stick on puck on him a lot, and they converge on him.”

While the Eagles could control most of Roy’s scoring efforts, this time he charged the net, shooting one at Demko for a near miss that rebounded straight back to teammate John Stevens, who finished the effort, going top shelf.

With that point finally lighting up the scoreboard for the Huskies, they would go into the third period deadlocked with the Eagles.

“I liked the way our team played, competed hard, battled for the whole game,” Madigan said. “Through two periods I liked where we were, being 1-1 or up a goal or down a goal in the third period, you’ve got a chance to win.”

The game was within reach, and the Huskies started out the third period with a breakaway chance that nearly tipped the scales in their favor, but Demko, who would end the night with the Eberly Award for his goaltending performance during the tournament, saved the near chance to keep the game even.

“If we score then it’s 2-1 and they’re chasing us a bit,” Madigan said. “As the game went on, you look at our third periods and our third periods have been our best period, we shortened the bench a little bit but they were relentless.”

The Eagles began to kick into gear, dominating the neutral zone and keeping the Huskies from setting up opportunities on offense. While the Eagles created chance after chance, it was Witt who kept Northeastern in it.

“I thought he played fabulous,” Madigan said. “I thought both goalies played really well tonight, and he gave us a chance to win.”

Witt made save after save, diving through the crease, scrambling, and at one point even batting the puck out of the air with his stick to clear it after nearly a straight minute of attack from the Eagles’

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Part of it has to do with removal.

You’re not at TD Garden or in the Iceberg Skating Palace in Sochi, so you don’t feel the level of excitement that comes from the crowd around you, but the real value that is lost comes from the brief way information is conveyed via a single-sentence tweet.

I don’t think that any level of media—writing, tweeting, or otherwise, will ever replace the experience of watching the game and, apparently, I’m not the only one. A survey put together

by NBC recently revealed that about two-thirds of people are still likely to tune in to primetime coverage of Olympic sports, even if they have already been made aware of results.

The survey tells us that the Olympics, and I would argue many other sporting events—the Beanpot and college football included—go so far beyond the results. As fans, we will always take a quick update on the score if it is the only thing available to us, but something put down on paper or on a computer screen will never encompass the entire experience.

The bits of media that we do consume are supplements. While watching a game, I’ll often glance down my Twitter feed to see what others are saying about it, and after the game I may read a story online.

While that enhances my experience, it will never replace it.

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As an avid fan of team USA, I’ll probably check the scores when they pop up on my Twitter feed during odd hours of the day, but when it comes time, I’ll still happily sit myself down to watch the performances, the graceful turns, painful falls, and the gold medal moments, regardless of how much I know about them before hand.

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He couldn’t hold on forever, though.

“They kept on coming at us and they’d get us in our own zone and every time we’d get it out we’d be tired looking for a change and they’d be coming again,” Madigan said.

With five and a half minutes remaining to play, Isaac MacLeod managed to get a shot off from the point. Patrick Brown, who had been competing for space in front of the net, had just fallen, but from the ground he managed to get stick on puck for the tip. It was a tiny deflection, a tiny moment, but it was enough to tip the scales in the hard-fought game as the Eagles managed to finish their scoring effort, beating Witt to go up 2-1.

“In the third period, we just couldn’t match their speed,” Madigan said. “They came at us and we didn’t have enough response. On that winning goal we did a good job of tying Brown up in front of

the net, and he was falling, but somehow we didn’t have his stick and he scored the wining goal.”

From there, the floodgates opened as the blow that was Brown’s goal made way for an empty netter from Gaudreau four minutes later, and a final cherry on top from Brown once again with under a minute to play, after Witt had been put back in goal.

In the beginning of the third period, the stage had been set for an upset, but the little things—a missed opportunity there, a minute deflection there—were what cost the Huskies their first Beanpot title since 1988.

“I’m not walking away happy with a loss,” Madigan said. “But I’m happy with the way our guys competed and battled and they prepared themselves for this game. That’s the part that stings the most, because you walk out of here a little hurt because you didn’t get the job done.” 

Marly Morgus is the Assoc. Sports Editor for The Heights. She can be reached at sports@bcheights.com.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY NOTEBOOK

Eagles take individual awards to complete Beanpot sweep of Huskies

BY ALEX STANLEY Heights Staff

The No. 7 Boston College women’s hockey team took the Beanpot title on Tuesday against Northeastern, a day after the men’s team won the same tournament. Goals from Taylor Wasylk, Meagan Mangene, and Melissa Bizzari helped the Eagles to lift the trophy over glove-strewn ice.

MVP and Bertagna Goalie Award Senior forward Wasylk was named MVP of the Beanpot tournament, while goalie Corinne Boyles received the Bertagna Goalie Award for the most outstanding goalie of the tournament.

Through the course of the two Beanpot games, Wasylk recorded two goals and one assist. Her goal in the final proved to be decisive, as it helped BC maintain the lead from the first period on and kept Northeastern chasing. She intercepted the puck in the Northeastern third, swung onto her favored left hand, and fired the puck into the upper left corner of the net.

Boyles was given the task of keeping the lead that Wasylk made. Boyles made 25 saves on the night, recording a shutout, and even succeeded in making 12 saves in the last period of action.

“We were back on our heels a little bit, and we weathered the storm, so to say,” said head coach Katie King Crowley.

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As a graduate student, Boyles was excited to take home the trophy in her last year of eligibility.

“This whole night has been awesome,” she said. “The team came to play.

I watched the team win it my sophomore year, and this is the first time I have gotten the trophy in my hands on the ice when I was playing.”

Chloe Desjardins Northeastern’s junior goalie Chloe Desjardins has made a habit out of coming up with big performances against BC. On Jan. 12, she recorded her career high in saves against BC, ending a 3-2

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In the first period, Desjardins outlasted a relative shooting gallery with a seemingly constant forecheck from the Eagles leading to a lot of offensive pressure. Desjardins made 12 saves in that period, allowing one goal from Wasylk.

“She gave us a chance, and I came in after the first [period] and I told the girls, I said, ‘You know, it could be 3-0,’” said Northeastern head coach Dave Flint.

Desjardins spoke modestly of her performance for the Huskies.

“I was struggling myself at first with rebounds and stuff, not helping my team like I should help them,” she said. “But, that’s my job—to do my best and keep

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them in the game, and at the end, I did one mistake that didn’t keep them in the game.”

Desjardins managed to hold the score at 1-0, until about 10 minutes were left in the game. She let in two goals in the last 10 minutes.

“I don’t have any regrets,” she said.

“BC played very well.”

In addition to giving BC trouble on this occasion, Desjardins has spelled trouble for Northeastern’s opponents throughout the entire Beanpot tournament. Her 27 saves were crucial in Northeastern’s first round upset of Harvard, at the time.

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TROPHY COLLECTORS Five for five: Patrick Brown sparks BC to another Beanpot championship

BY CONNOR MELLAS Sports Editor

At 6-foot-1, 206 pounds, Patrick Brown is strong, but not that Kevin Hayes, effortlessly-burying-defensemen-into-the-boards type of strong.

He’s got hands, but not those Johnny Gaudreau, deke-anything-on-legs sort of hands. Brown is a solid all-around two-way hockey player, but statistically, he’s the sixth best forward on the team, and his name is often lost in the hurricane of accolades whirling around Hayes, Gaudreau and Bill Arnold.

On Monday night in the Beanpot final, though, it was Brown who came through when Boston College needed a spark the most. It was the center who, sprawled flat on his back struggling for a piece of the puck, scored the game winner in BC’s 4-1 victory over Northeastern and then practically deked Clay Witt out of his pads for the fourth goal.

When the Eagles won their fifth Beanpot in five years, it was Brown who reminded everyone in attendance why he’s captain of the No. 1 team in the nation.

“Here’s a player that was kind of a lightly recruited player by us,” said BC men’s hockey head coach Jerry York after the game. “He played maybe 10 games his freshman year, but he just had something about him, he kept

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The No. 7 BC women’s hockey team took on two-time defending women’s Beanpot champion Northeastern at Kelley Rink on Tuesday and defeated the Huskies 3-0 to keep pace with the boys and claim its first title since 2011.

“It was awesome to see them holding up that trophy,” said BC goaltender and co-captain Corinne Boyles. “We came in here to do the same thing.”

Northeastern headed into the game riding a seven-game win streak, while BC looked to rebound after seeing its 11-game unbeaten streak end against Connecticut on Saturday.

The first period was all Eagles. A player in a white sweater seemed to be everywhere the puck was in the first frame. BC’s crisp passing and strong skating resulted in an early domination of the possession game. Only two minutes in, BC junior Kate Leary swiped the puck from a Husky defenseman and moved in all alone on net. Northeastern goaltender Chloe Desjardins, however, was there to stonewall Leary.

Desjardins’ solid play in the first was essentially all that kept a lethargic Huskies squad afloat early on in the game.

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Beyond scores or updates, the true experience is in watching the game MARLY MORGUS I have a weakness for ice dancing.

My fondness for the sport—and I classify it as such because of the incredible strength, coordination, and practice that it takes to pull off a foxtrot on ice—may at first seem out of place among my other athletic preferences: mainly college football and any type

of hockey. Upon further investigation, though, the captivating aspects of ice dancing—the perfect coordination between pairs, the fluidity and deliberateness of each movement, and the perfectly timed transitions between skaters—hold true through all great athletic endeavors.

Nine hours separate Boston’s Eastern Standard Time Zone from Sochi, Russia, where the world’s greatest athletes—ice dancers included—have gathered for the Olympics. As a result, on Feb. 8, when the first ice dancing competition was taking place as a part of the new figure skating team competition, I was made aware of the USA’s

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Meryl Davis and Charlie White’s score long before I had a chance to catch the event on TV. Davis and White, as Twitter alerted me, scored a 114.43, the top score of that element of the team competition.

When the event came on NBC primetime, however, I still watched.

It’s not just the difference in time zones that makes this topic relevant. As I sat at Monday night’s Beanpot final, I put out update after update on Twitter, trying my best to describe the way Clay Witt dove for the puck or the complicated maneuver that Patrick Brown made on his game-winning goal.

I can tweet the results, let them be

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known to anyone who cares, and even give a brief description. Just like I will never be able to live tweet a particularly complicated ice dancing combination in a way that will give you the same feeling as though you were watching it unfold in front of your eyes, though, my little updates will never convey the full picture of the big moment. There’s no complete substitute for watching the game.

It’s something that we will always struggle with as writers: how do you convey the true magnitude of a sequence or play without your audience experiencing it first hand? You can use all the descriptive language you

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want, but is there really a good way to describe a particularly agile sprawl from Thatcher Demko? And where do you draw the line where descriptive language becomes too much?

No matter how hard I, or any sports writer, try, it’s impossible to convey that moment of stress when a shot ricochets off the post, only to be covered by the goalie less than a second later. I’ll never give you that instantaneous lurch in your stomach when your team makes a fatal error, and I’ll never make your heart leap as high as it would when you see the unlikely game-winning goal hit

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Thursday, February 13, 2014

SCENE AND HEARD

BY: ABIGAIL FARR

MICHELLE TOMASSI From the first time I picked up a piece of literature to my current status as an English major, I’ve been trained to look beneath the surface. Rain is not just rain—it’s a symbol of rebirth, spiritual cleansing, or baptismal renewal. A green light is not just a green light (thanks, Gatsby). A woman can never put on a white dress without also signifying her innocence and purity—obviously.

There’s a whole collection of symbols that I, along with my other fellow English majors and literary enthusiasts, have stored up, ready to apply at any given moment.

It started out as a classroom practice, but I find myself falling into this analytical mindset in my everyday life. It’s come to the point where I have to stop myself from holding a pen in my hand in preparation for annotation mode, even if I’m just reading a book for fun. If I haven’t marked up a book, it feels like I have neglected it, as though underlining and circling is my way of expressing love and attention for the characters. Not everyone shares my sentiments—some might even hold to the belief that a book is meant to be read, not vandalized with a pen. But for me, the ink is not a way to violate the pages, but a way to stain them with my memory and my presence— to let the next reader know that I was there, so that even strangers can connect just by holding the same book in their hands.

I’ve always wrestled with the question of whether authors intend to have their books read so thoroughly, and if there’s even any point to extracting these meanings from their novels. Clearly I’ve decided that there is—otherwise, I wouldn’t be studying what I am today. That fear still creeps up once in a while, however, especially when someone confronts me with the dreaded question: “What’s the point? It is what it is, and nothing more.”

I didn’t think, however, that I would face that question in one of my own English classes.

In this course, we read Alexander Pope’s mock epic The Rape of the Lock, a poem filled with objects that signify more than what they are at the surface—symbols, if you will. At least, that’s what my classmates and I assumed, until we read a critical essay

by Jonathan Lamb suggesting the contrary.

In his essay “The Rape of the Lock as Still Life,” Lamb argues that Pope did not intend for his things to take on a deeper meaning or to possess “thingness.” (Side note: I’m still not entirely sure what “thingness” is, but hopefully I’ll figure that out by the end of this course and get back to you.) Rather, Lamb believes that Pope’s things are merely present as what they are—a lock of hair is a lock of hair, nothing more and nothing less.

Just as a still life painting should not be interpreted beyond the objects on the canvas, The Rape of the Lock should be viewed only as a world of surfaces. In essence, Lamb is asking us to ignore our tendency to look for alternate meanings and just observe the things for what they are.

I’m sorry, but I have to politely disagree with you, Mr. Lamb.

If we can’t know for sure what Pope intended, there’s no way to argue one way or the other—and win. Lamb is entitled to his opinion, as am I, so I don’t think that we can tell people how they should read their texts. If books were written for universal interpretation, then the author would just go ahead and include footnotes—something to the extent of “Reader, this IS a symbol” or “Reader, this is NOT that complicated, so stop reading into it.” I’m sure that would make reading easier, but definitely not as fun.

I’ve experienced this confusion in narrative interpretation from a writer’s standpoint, as well. In my creative writing classes, there are always a few students who take some of my writing to mean more than what I intended or make comments that stray from my original purpose. Surprisingly, I don’t feel worried or concerned that I’m not communicating effectively, and I don’t feel the least bit offended. Rather, I see it as somewhat of a compliment—they’re not just reading my writing, but thinking about it as well. They are looking beneath the surface.

And that’s what art, in literary or landscape form, is really about—making us think, and helping us to see things that we wouldn’t expect in our everyday lives. Therefore, it doesn’t seem to be problematic if the creator’s intentions do not align with the interpretations of those who experience their creations. It’s okay to apply a text (or any art, for that matter) to your own life and appropriate it based on your own beliefs, instead of trying to act as a mind reader of the author. “Art for art’s sake” may be relevant, but art is created for your sake, too. In other words, embrace being a little selfish—you deserve it.

Michelle Tomassi is the Assistant Arts & Review Editor for The Heights. She can be reached at arts@bcheights.com.

1. CHILD STAR’S LEGACY

2. NY FASHION WEEK

Beloved child star Shirley Temple passed away on Monday at the age of 85. She was best known for her work in the Great Depression, and films such as Bright Eyes, Curly Top, and Heidi saw wild success, even in the dismal economy.

Temple was a favorite of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and she served the U.S. as a representative to the United Nations and ambassador to Czechoslovakia.

Temperatures were low and heels were high as the fashion world tipped its hat to New York.

Fall collections took center stage, while celebrities lined the front rows. One hot trend for Fall 2014: plaid. Another trend: bold patterns and bold colors—an unprecedented trend in high fashion, which has long favored neutral patterns and equally conservative colors.

4. HERE’S JIMMY! Last Friday, Jay Leno said a tearful goodbye to The Tonight Show after 22 years on air. Jimmy Fallon is set to take over the coveted time spot on Feb. 17. Fallon is leaving his 12:35 a.m. late night spot in the very capable hands of Saturday Night Live alumnus Seth Meyers.

3. OPENING CEREMONY

5. PRESIDENTIAL AFFAIR

While Russia had yet to complete the rest of the Olympic Village, the country spared no expense on the opening ceremony. This year’s Olympic ceremonies opened with a bang, featuring a display celebrating Russia’s heritage and the transitioning on its government. Despite the relative success of the ceremony, however, the lasting image of this opening will likely be one of the Olympic Ring that failed to open.

The French media—apparently bored with the affairs of its own president—started a rumor this week about President Barack Obama having an affair with Beyonce. Photographer Pascal Rostain even claimed that the story would be published in the Washington Post.

While the president and Beyonce aren’t “drunk in love,” the rumor ignited something of a media firestorm. Fear not, there’s no scandal brewing in Washington—well, at least not between these two.

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Cite your sources: copyright controversies in music industry MATT MAZZARI

Recently in music news, a lawsuit was filed against Frank Ocean for copyright issues involving “Super Rich Kids,” the fifth single from his album Channel Orange.

The track samples Mary J. Blige’s 1992 song “Real Love” and was released as a single in 2013. What’s odd, though, is that Blige isn’t the one suing. See, “Real Love” actually partially sampled from a song called “Top Billin,’” recorded in 1987 by Audio Two. So technically, Audio Two owns a certain percentage of the song and in turn, a certain percentage of Ocean’s.

Oh, but that’s not all! The band Audio Two isn’t the one filing the lawsuit, either!

It turns out that the drums from “Top Billin’” are actually a remixed version of a song from 1973 written and performed

by Roy C and the Honeydrippers. The owners of that song, a record label called TufAmerica, has registered its complaint on the grounds that it owns 3.15 percent of “Real Love” and was never contacted about or compensated for Channel Orange. This means that Frank Ocean sampled a sample

within a sample that was actually already a sample. It’s a level of recursion generally reserved for Inception jokes, but TufAmerica is anything but messing around—they’re also suing Blige for the sample in “Real Love,” even though that song is old enough to drink in Massachusetts.

Ah yes, the wacky world of music ownership law spins on.

It’s worth noting that both sides involved here are infamous for this sort of thing. For his relatively brief career, Ocean has been the subject of sampling controversy an inordinate number of times. He was sued by producer Micah Otano for another track off Channel Orange, “Lost”—Otano claimed that he was not credited for the sampled song in question, “Daylight.”

Before that, the Eagles threatened to sue Ocean for illegal use of “Hotel California” in his song “American Wedding.” Ocean’s argument for why he never credited the Eagles there was that he never “made a dime” off that track because he released it for free, so he therefore didn’t owe any royalties. He also posed an interesting—and shamelessly blunt—question regarding Don Henley’s determination to sue him for the

song: “Ain’t this guy rich as f—k? Why sue the new guy?” Whether that’s a legitimate defense, it definitely deflates the urgency a bit. Still, someone could just as easily ask Ocean: “Well, why do you keep not crediting your samples?” Either way, Ocean clearly has been down this road before.

Then in the left corner you have TufAmerica, a subsidiary of Tuff City, which is one of the most notoriously litigious labels in the business. In fact, copyright lawsuits are essentially all they do: most music media outlets have dubbed Tuff City a “sample troll,” meaning a company whose main business is buying, selling, and legally disputing music rights. The label’s founder, a former journalist named Aaron Fuchs, claims to have pioneered this contentious business strategy. “Here I was making money for sample clearances,” he said in a 1994 interview with Billboard. “While the average publishing person was still looking for the next ‘Just the Way you are.’” From everything I’ve heard about this guy, he’s like a freaking James Bond villain. In recent years, his company has sued Kanye West, Jay-Z, the Beastie Boys, EPMD, Christina Agulara, and LL Cool J. Yes, that’s right: LL

Cool J—you could have sued Jay-Z twice for all I care, but you mess with LL Cool J and,

by God, you’re playing with fire.

My only comment on all of this is to point to how absolutely ludicrous the entire matter of music copyright has become. Why, I ask you, is it so difficult for musical artists just to cite their sources?

Can’t Ocean do the 11 minutes of research necessary to find that the song he’s sampling is actually a sample of a sample itself? Or, you know, just write an original riff for once? And on the other hand: why is the decline of the music industry repeatedly blamed on Internet piracy when there are record companies like TufAmerica that exist solely to abuse the impossibly broken copyright laws in the U.S.?

How is it fair that consumers are punished with higher download prices while, people like Fuchs become millionaires off of art they had no part in creating?

Also, can’t we all just leave LL Cool J alone?

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

THIS WEEKEND in arts

BY: ARIANA IGNERI | ASSOCIATE ARTS & REVIEW EDITOR

1. BOSTON LOVES IMPRESSIONISM (FRIDAY 2/14 TO SUNDAY 2/16)

5. PARIS NIGHT & DAY (ONGOING)

The MFA’s first crowdsourced exhibit Boston Loves Impressionism features 30 paintings chosen by the public. In honor of its opening and Friday’s holiday, the museum is hosting a series of special events, including a screening of When Harry Met Sally. For more information, visit www.mfa.org.

Opening this Saturday, the latest exhibit at the McMullen Museum of Art features the work of 20th century Parisian photographers including Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Dora Marr, who all captured the City of Light in new, innovative ways. Admission is free.

6. SEXUAL CHOCOLATE BIG SHOW (FRIDAY 2/14, 7:00 P.M.)

2. BUGS BUNNY FILM FESTIVAL (SATURDAY 2/15 TO SUNDAY 2/23)

The Bugs Bunny Film Festival is coming to the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, where they will screen episodes featuring Bugs Bunny and other Looney Tunes characters for the next three weekends. Matinee tickets are $8. See brattlefilm.org for show times.

3. CCE CHOCOLATE-COVERED IMPROV SHOW (SATURDAY 2/15, 7 P.M.)

The Committee For Creative Enactments’ Valentine’s Day-themed improv show is taking place in Fulton 511 on Saturday. Admission is free.

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4. NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL (THURSDAY 2/13 8 P.M.)

Held at Berklee Performance Center, Newport Jazz Festival: NOW 60 will feature the talents of seven musicians, all paying tribute to the genre. Tickets start at $45 through http://tickets.celebrityseries.org.

Boston College’s all-male step team Sexual Chocolate is presenting its “Big Show” in Robsham on Friday.

The Valentine’s Day performance will also feature The Heightsmen. Tickets are $10, available either online or at the box office.

7. WINTER’S TALE (ONGOING)

Winter’s Tale, based on the acclaimed novel by Mark Helprin, tells the story of two star-crossed lovers (Colin Farrell and Jessica Brown Findlay) in early 20th century New York. The movie opens Friday.

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BY JOHN WILEY, ARTS & REVIEW EDITOR ARIANA IGNERI, ASSOC. ARTS & REVIEW EDITOR MICHELLE TOMASSI, ASST. ARTS & REVIEW EDITOR

The scene: Paris, emerging from the violence and social upheaval that corrupted Europe throughout World War I. A chance for a blank slate—not only politically, but artistically as well. An opportunity arose to break from the past and portray society with a new perspective, one built upon a sense hope and renewal. Photography was one of the mediums which artists used to foster this newfound creativity, and to explore the possibilities of innovation within a single snapshot of reality Paris Night & Day: Photography Between the Wars is the latest exhibit to be featured at Boston College’s McMullen Museum, opening on Feb. 15. Photographs from 1918 through 1939 are included in the collection, displaying the various ways in which photographers utilized new technology and dark room techniques to convey the faces and streets of Paris in unconventional and unprecedented styles.

Photographers of this time period rejected the more contrived aesthetic of pictorialism, the dominant form of photography in Europe during the early 20th century that attempted to emulate the paintings of fine art through the intervention of the human hand. In contrast, French photographers between the wars embraced photography that actually looked like photography, focusing on objectivity rather than on the subjectivity that was often thought to be the source of tensions in Europe in the first place.

The Scene gathered insight on these photographers from Boston College art history professor Asher Anderson—who is the curator of the upcoming McMullen exhibit—and Elizabeth Bayoff, one of his students and A&S ’14. Anderson described the time period as a “magical moment” when a circle of artists were able to feed each others’ creative energy, leading to many innovations in the realm of photography. Three photographers in particular—Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Dora Maar—had individual approaches to photography that culminated in an overall exploration of representing reality. The Scene explores their stylistic and thematic interpretations of Paris between the wars—and their contributions to the field that continue to influence modern photography.

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For Man Ray and other American artists who made significant contributions to Dada, Surrealism, and the avant-garde, photography may have seemed like an odd choice. It was his skillful manipulation, however, that allowed for his photos to take on a surrealist edge, as Anderson explained.

“Surrealism, in a very simple way, is interested in the unconscious rather than the conscious, and the unseen and the dreamt or the imagined rather the seen and the recorded,” he said. “In a way, photography is a bad choice for someone interested in surrealism. However, Man Ray’s genius was using photography to invent things that we don’t see in the real world using darkroom techniques.”

After moving to Paris in 1921, Ray opened up a portrait studio and began exploring these stylistic possibilities of photography, eventually leading to several innovations such as solarization—a technique in which a photo is exposed to light midway through the development process, which reverses some of the light and dark tones in order to defamiliarize the subject.

“He didn’t invent [solarization], but he tried to make it his own,” Bayoff said. “He tried to call a photogram a rayograph, and that’s an image made by placing objects directly on top of the photographic paper and then exposing it to light.”

Also known as “camera-less photography,” the rayographs and solarization had the effect of “making the mundane seem absurd or fantastic,” Bayoff added.

Ray’s intervention in the development process, Anderson explained, could also be seen as a precedent for modern-day photo experimentation with programs such as Photoshop.

Ray’s portraits took on a more dream-like quality with the addition of these manipulations, such as his “Self-Portrait with Studio Camera” (1932) and “Portrait of Dora Maar” (1936). The self-portrait contains a recognizable profile shot of Ray’s face, as well as the camera itself, but his use of solarization creates a slight distortion in the image, resulting in a somewhat abstract reality. Maar, who was a friend of Ray, posed for an unconventional portrait, as seen in the placement of her hands and fingers within the frame of the photo. While Maar’s hand rests delicately on her forehead, a set of smaller doll hands are cropped into the bottom corner, creating a striking contrast that is grounded in reality while maintaining an illusionistic effect.

“She’s absolutely beautiful,” said Bayoff, who noted that the portrait of Maar is one of her favorite photos taken by Ray. “It’s an unexpected portrait. You don’t really think about how she got into that position and notice that the hands are repeated.” Ray even challenges the idea of the traditional nude portrait and experiments with various angles, draping, and solarization—evidence of his unique ability to balance a strippeddown reality with imaginative creation. -M.T.

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“Sometimes the pictures disappear, and there’s nothing you can do,” remarked French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. “You can’t tell the person, ‘Oh, please smile again. Do that gesture again.’ Life is once, forever, and new all the time.”

Cartier-Bresson was born in 1908 to one of the wealthiest families in France—this was a point of embarrassment to him, as he was known best for his common touch and interest in the everyday. He was a “street photographer,” to use modern terminology. Cartier-Bresson’s work has been extraordinarily influential to photography, even during his own life—he is often considered the inventor of photojournalism. As far as his methodology goes, CartierBresson’s “decisive moment” has gone on to be one of the most influential ideas in photography today. (Ironically, Cartier-Bresson had mixed feelings about this phrase.)

“It seemed to be almost magical, that you pick these moments out of everyday life that seem to have this natural logic to them and that became very influential,” Anderson explained. “Especially in the years after the war, there was a movement called humanist photography that used his approach to capture delightful moments from the everyday, but not always with his ‘decisive eye.’”

Unlike his surrealist contemporary Man Ray, CartierBresson did not manipulate his photographs, but rather he took them to resolve the chaos of the world, identifying forms within it. He believed there were no new ideas out there, just new arrangements of them.

Cartier-Bresson’s brand of street photography, and generally spontaneous style, interestingly was only made possible by technology invented during the early years of his adulthood.

“During the 19th century photographers used large, heavy cameras with glass plate mechanisms, so they were lugging around 40 to 50 pounds of material throughout the world or around the city that they were traveling,” explains Anderson. “In the 1920s cameras started to become smaller, but the Leica camera was developed, which is handheld—it takes roll film rather than glass plate film, so it’s much lighter, and it can take photographs quickly with a much shorter exposure time.”

One of Cartier-Bresson’s most iconic photographs shows the silhouette of a man jumping into a puddle. Named the photo of the century by Time magazine, the image was taken at the last possible moment the man could be suspended over the puddle without making a ripple—in regard to his perfect ordering, Cartier-Bresson was a surrealist photographer. He went to an art school in Paris at the same time as surrealist pioneer Dora Maar, and like her, he met and became involved with the Surrealist circles during the first 10 years of his career.

Paris Night & Day focuses predominately on this surrealist stage of Cartier-Bresson’s career, which took place during the period between the wars.

In World War II, Cartier-Bresson was a prisoner of war in France, and he only escaped after three unsuccessful attempts. He worked for the resistance as a photographer—the McMullen exhibit will also feature some of these photos, taken around 1945 as the war was ending. These photos were especially documentary in nature, and later in his career, Cartier-Bresson leaned strongly toward the photojournalistic end of the spectrum. -J.W.

Although she was an artist in her own right, Dora Maar always lived in somebody else’s shadow—she’s often recognized not for her poetry, painting, or even photography, but rather for her passionate, nine-year affair with cubist painter Pablo Picasso.

“Maar is probably best known for being Picasso’s lover and muse and being the model for his ‘Weeping Woman’ paintings,” Anderson said. She also had a close relationship with Man Ray, posing for several of his famous pictures. “But she was an extraordinary photographer, too,” he said. “And I think her skill as a photographer is insufficiently appreciated.”

Maar’s work exhibits not only raw talent, but also refined and practiced expertise. While most other artists featured in Paris Night & Day learned from experimentation or through friends, Maar was formally educated. She had art history, graphic, and photography training, “so that kind of sets her apart,” Anderson said.

Like other photographers of the period, Maar’s pictures have a surrealist quality to them. “The exposure of the subconscious and how it exposed itself in the world,” Bayoff said, was a major theme that defined surrealist art. She relied on similar motifs as her contemporaries—mirrors, reflections, and even shadows—but distinguished her work by her manipulation techniques in the dark room and by “looking for a unique perspective out in the world.”

Her photo of a shop window, for example, is “emblematic of surrealism” in that “it’s very ambiguous,” Bayoff said. Because of the angle of the shot and the lighting, the viewer can’t tell the difference between inside and outside, between the passersby and the mannequins. This piece, like her others, is about making the audience a “little more uncomfortable about what they’re looking at,” Bayoff said.

Maar’s “serendipitous” photograph of a man on the street, crouching down and peering into a manhole, is also representative of her trying to “thematize sight” and “confuse our perceptions,” Anderson said. “It has this implication that he’s looking into another world,” he said. “Because he’s upside down, we get the sense that the street is upside down, so everything is kind of reversed.”

In and of herself, Maar inspired Picasso, Man Ray, and others in the Parisian artistic circle, but Anderson said that she “should be better known for her own creative production,” which, as Bayoff described it, focused on “making the every day a little bit more fantastic.” -A.I.

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New Church album stands outside mainstream country

BY RYAN DOWD Heights Staff

As mainstream country turns to pop more and more for inspiration, resident outlaw Eric Church seeks to distance himself from his contemporaries with his fourth studio LP The Outsiders.

Ever since his scorching performance of the album’s title track at the Country Music Awards back in November, critics and country fans have had their eyes on the February release of The Outsiders. Whereas Church’s beer- and truck-loving peers have toed a crossover between country and pop sound, The Outsiders is part oldschool rock album, part country music manifesto, and it’s Church who pulls it all together for a mostly smooth, occasionally bumpy ride. Church doesn’t pack any punches. He never has, and rather uses his latest album to reflect upon fatherhood, his conflict with old pal Jack Daniels, and the role of Nashville in country music. The Outsiders is Church growing up—at the age of 36, no less—and it shows in both his stormy arrangements and honest songwriting.

“The Outsiders” kicks off the 12track album with a blaze of righteous fire. The whole album isn’t quite Church seething behind a wave of guitar riffs growling, “We’re the junkyard dogs / We’re the alley cats,” but it’s the title track that gives the

album its edge and sets it apart from its contemporaries.

The second track, “A Man Who Was Gonna Die Young,” is more oldschool Church—soft, eclectic instrumentals with honest lyrics reflecting on his rebel, whiskey-shooting days.

It’s Church’s voice—his twang and lyrics—that make The Outsiders a country album. It’s the mix of hell-raising rock tracks (“The Outsiders”) and the stripped down, simpler ones (“A Man Who Was Gonna Die Young”), which make the album an accomplishment.

It’s this combination of calling out his contemporaries while also looking at himself that makes Church more compelling than his peers.

Most of the tracks sound distinctive enough. Church has another headbanger akin to “The Outsiders” with “That’s Damn Rock and Roll” later in the album. Most of it, though, lies somewhere in between riled rock and roll and the quieter, sentimental stuff. “Roller Coaster Ride” and “Talladega” are two of those tracks that lie in the middle. They’re catchy, but not mind-numbing Florida Georgia Line “Cruise” catchy. Like a lot of country tunes, “Roller Coaster Ride” is about a girl—not her jeans, but about getting over her. It’s catchy in the way it produces an unshakable urge to stomp one’s boot through its entire four-and-a-half-minute runtime. “Talladega” is catchy in Church’s winding lyrics reminiscent of summer at the

Despite the fact that most people don’t listen to albums in their entirety, the recent drop by Los Angeles electronic group The Glitch Mob is one that can be taken as a complete set of songs or viewed separately as indi-

vidual, unique, and distinct variations of the groups true message. Titled Love Death Immortality, Glitch Mob’s latest work is a quality-produced piece of art for the college-aged and younger demographic. Simply put, don’t listen to this song if you are the classical music buff looking for the next concerto.

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With his fourth album ‘The Outsiders,’ Church succesfully distances himself from his country-pop contemporaries. racetracks. It trades boot-stomping for chorus-belting.

Church could have crafted an album of summer songs like “Roller Coaster Ride” and “Talladega.” It would have sold like Chief—his 2011 platinum effort—and he’d likely move from there to headlining stadium tours. The Outsiders will still sell, and Church will headline a tour across America this summer, but Church takes a different track in the last third of the album. His eight-minute manifesto on Nashville “Devil, Devil

The Glitch Mob is a collaboration of three artists—ediT, Boreta, and Ooah. Prior to 2010, it was a five-piece group and also included Kraddy and Kitt-D. This full-length album is from record label Glass Air Records, and it features 10 tracks.

The album opens with a ripcord in “Mind Of A Beast,” then moves into a

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LA electronic group The Glitch Mob probes the boundaries of EDM while building on the style of its debut.

(Prelude: Princess of Darkness)” plays on the Charlie Daniels Band’s “The Devil Went Down To Georgia,” calling Nashville “the Devil’s bride.” This seems hypocritical coming from a star who resides in Nashville and made for himself a name in the city. Later in the lengthy track, though, Church pleads, “angel, angel let this Devil out of me.”

It’s a bold declaration, one Church doesn’t shy away from, although its placement right before his second single off the album, “Give Me Back My Hometown,” takes the listener

out of the flow. It comes off as indulgent—not contrived, but carried away.

Church is heavy handed. His brashness is one of his endearing qualities, but the album would have been better off without an eight-minute track.

Despite the late hiccup and a couple of lulls along the way, The Outsiders is a firm step in a new direction for country music. And in many ways it’s a step back—back to Johnny Cash and Hank Williams, because that’s where country music’s been most compelling: on the outside, looking in. 

mixture of intense bass and striking synthetic beats in “Skytoucher.” The next track then slows it down with “Our Demons,” a softer but hightempo synth melody including a vocal contribution from rocker Aja Volkman of the band Nico Vega—Volkman also appears later in the album in “I Need My Memory Back.”

Other featured artists on the album include Metal Mother (“Becoming Harmonious”), Yaarrohs (“Fly

By Night Only”), and Sister Crayon (“Beauty of the Unhidden”)—yes, these are real names of real artists.

It might come as a surprise to listeners that Love Death Immortality is only the second album from The Glitch Mob, which has chopped up plenty of remixes and singles in between Love Death Immortality and its 2010 debut record Drink The Sea. The album feels inspired by the group’s former work but is noticeably a departure from the mainstream’s generic soundscape. For listeners who are avid Electronic Dance Music (EDM) fans, it offers an array of new sounds, creating something of a foundation for EDM efforts to come.

The positive gains on Love Death

Immortality can without a doubt help The Glitch Mob gain a broader fan-base. The possibility remains, however, that The Glitch Mob will lose listeners who were expecting strictly the same kind of music that Drink the Sea brought to the electronic scene. While Love Death Immortality rises above the soundscapes of popular EDM, it marks something of a mainstream conversion for the Los Angeles group.

For those returning fans, or even for new listeners looking to check out some creative-styled sounds closer to the boundaries of EDM, Love Death Immortality offers a new style that’s entering the charts with an unusual aesthetic.

Although The Glitch Mob is certainly talented, there’s nothing particularly extraordinary about the new album. Rather, Love Death Immortality is a sign of progression.

Imagine a cross between Daft Punk and Skrillex. Only time will tell what the legacy of The Glitch Mob might be. For now, the group holds its ground with distinctive charm. The band is promising, but it is not a force to be reckoned with just yet. 

Sun Kil Moon’s folk record ‘Benji’ gleams with sincerity

BY CAMERON HARDING For The Heights

Indie-folk troubadour Mark Kozelek has released his sixth studio album, Benji, under the moniker “Sun Kil Moon” (the official band name, although Kozelek is pretty much the only member). This new release features 11 tracks that culminate in a deeply personal, melancholic, and mesmerizing album. What’s most striking is that Kozelek has taken the autobiographical approach to songwriting to unprecedented levels. While the album has a unique structure and unorthodox method of storytelling, Benji probably won’t be remembered for its mass appeal. In fact, nearly every song is an unblinking observation of life, death, and suffering, vocalized by Kozelek’s weary blend of talking and singing. Despite the album’s inexorable gloominess, Sun Kil Moon has produced some of the most sincere, honest, and candid songs ever released.

The concept and lyrics are easily the most recognizable feature of Benji. If nothing else, the album is extremely direct, detailing facts and reflections with fairly endearing simplicity. The opening track, “Carissa,” narrates how Kozelek’s second cousin, a 35-year-old mother of two, and his uncle were burnt to death in similar fire accidents. Many of the following tracks are equally brutal, and focus

on shootings, murder, accidents, tragedies, suicides, losses, and regrets.

One of the beauties of Kozelek’s lyrics, however, is that their descriptiveness makes it easy to vividly imagine each episode playing out.

While the tone is determinedly bleak, there are rare gems of positivity and happiness buried deep within Benji. Waves of nostalgia float in and out of Kozelek’s narrations. Tracks like “Dog” shamelessly reveal embarrassing details as Kozelek reflects on his teenage sexual exploits and failures. “I Love My Dad” is saturated with empathetic messages about race, class, and family while also entertaining with its laconic humor. A printed copy of the lyrics for any given song may resemble a short story. The problem is that, while many of the tales are riveting, Kozelek’s half-singing, half-talking delivery begins to sound like a rant every now and then. Some details are simple and charming, but a few feel mundane and meandering, which detracts from the story. Furthermore, Kozelek’s confessions and revelations may simply be too mopey for many to tolerate. Nonetheless, nearly every part of Benji feels heartfelt and cathartic. Kozelek willingly lays out explicit emotion and detail that make for a very organic sound.

The instrumentation on this album is remarkable as well. The production is natural and flowing. Almost every second of Benji’s hour-long runtime is

SINGLE REVIEWS BY JOHN WILEY DJ FRESH VS JAY FAY FEAT. MS. DYNAMITE “Dibby Dibby Sound” “Dibby Dibby Sound” is blowing up in the UK, entering the BBC Top 40 charts at No. 3 this week. The song could potentially be too European for its own good, but then again, is there ever such a thing? DJ Fresh, Jay Fay, and Ms. Dynamite are ready to go viral in the US—“Thrift Shop” and “Gangnam Style” come to mind with this one.

TOP SINGLES

1 Dark Horse Katy Perry feat. Juicy J 2 Happy Pharrell 3 Talk Dirty Jason Derulo feat. 2 Chainz 4 Say Something Christina Aguilera feat. A Great Big World 5 Let Her Go Passenger 6 Timber Pitbull feat. Ke$ha 7 Counting Stars OneRepublic

The Glitch Mob lives on with ‘Love Death Immortality’

BY STEFAN TODOROVIC For The Heights

CHART TOPPERS

dominated by acoustic melodies and elegant fingerpicking. Frankly, the guitar work alone could satisfactorily carry every song on the record without additional support. Luckily, while their use is selective, back-up vocals, nylon-stringed classical guitar, drums, bass, keyboard, and tambourine also kick in with beautiful impact. Some listeners, however, may be dismayed by the overemphasis on guitar—the music, while usually hypnotic, does get a little drawn out and sluggish at

times. Still, there are excellent uses of sound effects and mixing, giving each song its distinctive atmosphere.

It’s genuinely interesting how Benji easily captures multiple vibes without sacrificing its consistently melancholic undertone—it makes the album as a whole feel very connected.

Although it’s a wonderful composition, the most glaring problem with Benji is that it may appeal to a rather narrow audience. Listening to these four-to-10-minute monologues

requires a certain kind of patience and commitment to appreciate. Indeed, it’s a style of music that may only be captivating and enjoyable for those in just the right mood for it. Also, while the forwardness of the lyrics has a refreshing degree of shock value, this can easily be a deal-breaker for casual listeners. After all, one doesn’t exactly listen to these songs for the catchy chorus. Still, there are many poignant moments in Benji that are truly memorable. 

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As Sun Kil Moon, folk artist Mike Kozelek releases ‘Benji’—a raw, poignant album requiring more than a casual listen.

RICK ROSS FEAT. YOUNG JEEZY “War Ready” Does Rick Ross and Jeezy’s reconciliation earn them a 7-minute collaboration? Probably not.

Ross goes 50 or so gunshot sounds over his sample limit on this track, and while he might sound “war ready,” the former correctional officer sounds hardly ready for his 19-track record Mastermind coming out in less than a month.

TOP ALBUMS

1 Now 49 Various Artists 2 Frozen Soundtrack Various Artists 3 Unorthodox Jukebox Bruno Mars 4 Love, Marriage, & Divorce Toni Braxton & Babyface 5 After The Disco Broken Bells Source: Billboard.com

MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK

BY ARIANA IGNERI

“FALL IN LOVE” PHANTOGRAM

After two months of diligently teasing its upcoming album Voice s with songs including “Black Out Days,” “Bill Murray,” and “Nothing But Trouble,” electro dance duo Phantogram released its music video for “Fall In Love,” the final single off next week’s highly anticipated record.

In the video, the upstate New York pair—singer Sarah Barthel and producer Josh Carter—fuse timeless elegance and gritty glamour. The entire video is shot in classic black and white, while wild lights swirl, flash, and reflect off the silver studs and spikes on Barthel’s sleek leather jacket. Behind the illuminated projections, Barthel rocks out, Carter bangs on drums and a keyboard, and a naked girl seductively flips her hair back and forth on a dark pedestal. Conceptually, it’s simple, but visually, the video has a lot going on—in all the right ways.

The result is something that resembles an optical illusion, with stripes, dots, and zig-zags rushing across each frame and giving the video a sense of depth and dynamism. It’s beautifully confusing, geometrically entrancing—sexy, even.

The sound of “Fall In Love” is as psychedelic as the video.

It pushes and pulls, creating an undeniable sonic tension that drives the song the whole way through. It melds Carter’s hip-hip sampling and stuttering synths with Barthel’s intoxicatingly smooth and breathy vocals seamlessly, as is characteristic in the rest of Phantogram’s music.

As a whole, “Fall In Love” is a trippy aesthetic experience that will leave fans addicted and ready for more from the duo. 

BAND OF SKULLS “Nightmare” The latest single off the Band of Skulls’ forthcoming album Himalayan (due April 1) doesn’t demonstrate any radical change in the Southampton trio’s sound. If anything, “Nightmare” shows compromise—the English rockers seem inclined to bow down to pop aesthetics from across the Atlantic, and not so ready to entertain.

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On Valentine’s Day, the question becomes unavoidable: what’s going on here? When it comes to the dating culture at Boston College, the script isn’t so clear anymore. Professor Kerry Cronin gave a lecture in two parts this week on dating at BC, the first titled, “Bring Back the Date,” and the second, “Making the Move: Navigating Dating Transitions.” These lectures described three levels of dating, what they mean in choosing where to go, and just how dressed up to get on Valentine’s Day. Cronin explains.

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What is a level-one date?

“Level-one dating is reconnaissance work only—it’s for second and third dates that you’ll have with the person.”

-K.C. Where should we go?

KC: “For a level-one date, you should be going to White Mountain for ice cream, Crazy Dough for a slice of pizza, Dunkin’ Donuts for hot chocolate or coffee—the hot chocolate is really good there. Chocolate Bar, maybe, but I like the off-campus thing. Any place for 60 to 90 minutes.” -K.C.

What is a level-two date?

“Level-two dating is dates three or four and beyond. You can date somebody for a long time before you move into a relationship, but you’re dating, and everyone knows what’s happening—everybody knows everybody is involved, and interested, and you’re not dating other people.” -K.C.

Be sure to factor in travel time when planning a level one date and also ensure that you’ll actually have the chance to talk to the person—the movies are a bad idea.

Where should we go?

“In those dates, you actually want the third or fourth date to go to a movie or go to a play. If you go to a movie or play, you have something to talk about, because you’ve done all the ‘Who are you? I’m finding out about you,’ and now by date three or four, you need something to talk about, because you can’t keep digging around in someone’s personal life that early.” -K.C.

Who pays?

“There needs to be some food thing that you’re buying for the person, but the both of you together should not cost more than $10 dollars.” -K.C.

Go somewhere you feel comfortable talking to the person.

This is an opportunity to get into more emotional detail, but also, you don’t want to frontload your emotions on an unsuspecting partner.

What should I wear?

“For a first date, you should be wearing casual clothes, but clean. They cannot be sweats.” -K.C.

Who pays?

“This is when you start trading off who pays—don’t split it, but trade off so it’s fair.” -K.C.

On level-one dates, you should present your best self—but that said, jeans are all right. Stay away from dirty clothes, and be sure not to wear “the uniform”—keeping too close to social scripts can make you disappear.

What should I wear?

“This is when you need to up the ante with what you’re wearing. You need to actually dress to show something to the other person—not to ‘show something to the other person’—but to show something about yourself.” -K.C.

“If suddenly you realize you’re on a bad date, use it as an opportunity to educate somebody.” -K.C. If a first date goes awry, and it’s clear you’re going nowhere with the person, turn it into teaching opportunity and let the person know what’s wrong in his or her presentation.

It might be slightly uncomfortable at first, but the troubled dater will appreciate your work eventually.

Level-two dates are an opportunity to express your hipster self or your preppy self. Dress to let the other person know you’re really trying. Make it clear that you’re serious about the fact you’re actually dating him or her, and that you’re not just going out as friends or stealth daters. It should be clear that you’re dressing nicely and doing it for the other person.

What is a level-three date?

“These are long, planned dates, or nothing dates.” -K.C. Where should we go?

“Level-three dates are: You get in a car and go somewhere.

Part of your time with that person is spending time with that person’s family and friends. You’re spending time with that person’s friends, even if you don’t feel like it.” -K.C. A strong level-three date might involve renting canoes on the Charles River or taking the T to Cambridge to spend the date in Harvard Square—these can be long endeavors.

Strike a balance between making plans and going out, and just being able to hang in for the night. It also becomes especially important in level-three dating situations that you find an opportunity to go out without each other. Be intentional about spending time with friends.

Who pays?

When you’re in a relationship, you’ve probably already developed some system. Being fair is still important, and it’s important to keep actually going on dates.

What should I wear?

“When you’re in a relationship, you don’t need to have a date plan, and similarly, the way that you dress—you dress up for planned things or way down.” -K.C. “You’re ready to lean in with the person on their tough stuff, and that stuff’s allowed, but it shouldn’t be therapy.

Dating is not therapy. Even relationship work is not therapy, especially in college.” -K.C. Leaning in doesn’t mean dressing up all the time. Washing your hair every time you see a person no longer is essential in a level-three situation. Be comfortable and open with each other, in the way you dress and act.

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Fashion Forward

My kind of valentine: an open love letter to fashion and style From maxi skirts and makeup to the classic LBD, each item in a wardrobe is deserving of affection

Therese Tully It’s Valentine’s Day again, but no, I am not going to give you some fabulous fashion ideas for your date night with its nauseatingly precious plans. Also, I am not going to gloss over this day like it doesn’t exist or indulge in anti-Valentine’s day rhetoric. This is a fashion column, is it not? We should at least pretend like it is.

Today, I got into bed with a big, sugary hunk of Valentine’s Day cake from Lower (the kind that is long and skinny and shaped like a rose—I’m sure you know it, it’s amazing) and was ready to bemoan my circumstances before my post-work nap. Just then, my roommate reminded me that Valentine’s Day is not just about romantic love but the capital ‘L’ kind of Love, too. I think she meant that I was supposed to celebrate all the people I love, like her, and that’s all nice and good. But it got me thinking that I could celebrate the fashion I love, as well. And I do love my wardrobe—it deserves to know how much I love it this year. So here it is: a valentine for fashion.

In the words of the immortal Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “How do I love thee, let me count the ways (fashion).” Admittedly, the parenthesis are my own, though I am sure Elizabeth would love my interpretation of her great work.

I love thee, maxi skirts, for the way I can wear you in all four seasons, from beachy summer days to cold winter nights. I love the way you are somehow so much more comfortable than pants, yet still make me look put together. I love the different fabrics you come in, from pretty, pleated chiffon to comfortable, loving jersey. I love the way you move as I walk, and you give me the freedom to dance. I love you for covering up my legs when I haven’t had time to shave.

I love thee, stiletto heels, for the way you take me from shrimpy to loftier heights. I love the way you can dress up a pair of pants and are the perfect companion to any dress I may have. I love the way you hurt me, because I know it’s worth it. I love the way you first made me feel grown up and like a woman, and I love the way you never cease to give me that feeling. I love you when you are strappy and I love you when you are platformed, I love you when you are chunky, vintage, expensive, or cheap.

I love thee, soft Italian leather bag.

You are a perfectly fabulous shade of robin’s egg blue, and you are as soft as a pat of butter. You hold so many things and complement every outfit. You come from far away in Milan, but you fit in right here with me, right in the crook of my arm. You are a story, an accessory, a companion, and a conversation piece. This is why I love thee.

I love thee, blazer—and pencil skirt, you too. I love the way you instantly transform me from a yoga pant-clad wash-up to a young professional woman with a mission. You will lead me through interviews, and maybe into a job someday. You are a state

of mind, you are feminine, and you are strong. I love the way you change the way I walk, stand, and carry myself. I love how you lead me to new places.

And just a few more things I love …

I love thee, snow boots, for taking me all the way to the Arctic Circle, for letting me keep sure footing on international ice, and for allowing me to have adventures.

I love thee, bright red lipstick and nail polish—thank you for complementing any and all of my fashion choices.

I love thee, Boston College quarter zip sweatshirt for tying me to the school I love—and for having sneaky pockets.

I love thee, harem pants, for not taking yourself too seriously. And peplum top, you too.

Cardigan and little black dress, for

always being there whenever I need you.

And last of all, I love you, Paige boyfriend jeans. Because even though you aren’t jeans from an actual man that I have stolen and lovingly worn as my own, you remind me that you can in fact love fashion and have a relationship with it. A relationship that can grow and change, blossom and flower anew each year. A relationship that is loving and trusting. I don’t need to get my wardrobe an anniversary present, it never argues with me, and I never have to say sorry to it. Happy Valentine’s Day to you, fashion—thanks for another great year.

Therese Tully is a senior staff columnist for The Heights. She can be reached at arts@bcheights.com.

photo courtesy of Hanna Uhlin

Valentine’s Day is an appropriate time to declare love for various things, clothing included.

John Wiley “Conservative. Intolerant. Close-minded.

Words often used to describe Boston College.”

These were the words of Larry Griffin, the then editor-in-chief of The Heights, when The Vagina Monologues first came to BC in February of 2002. Griffin’s column, titled, “Broken barriers and open minds,” told the narrative of a small group of students that overcame the University’s stereotypical conservatism—and arguments of its “Catholic identity”—to put on Eve Ensler’s controversial 1996 play with the help of the Women’s Resource Center. Griffin went on to applaud the intellectual courage of the administrators who made the show possible, and he ended referencing an unusual sound coming from the O’Connell House.

“That sound you heard on Saturday night wasn’t a raucous party or the cracking of a few beers, those typical sounds you hear every weekend on the BC campus,” wrote Griffin. “The sound was barriers breaking and minds opening—resounding like the bells of Gasson over the entire campus.”

Twelve years have passed—can you still hear it?

The narrative has changed remarkably little for The Vagina Monologues. Now an annual tradition, the BC production has served as a talking point for dozens of reviews, columns, and editorials—published in The Heights and elsewhere—over the last decade.

The vast majority of these pieces shared Griffin’s positive spirit, praising the courage of the cast and commenting on the radical, empowering message of the show.

Notably, an outspoken minority has occasionally resurfaced the criticisms referenced in Griffin’s 2002 column. Most recently, the now-dissolved Observer published an “Open Letter to Fr. Leahy” last February recommending the show be discontinued for its “controversial exploitation of human sexuality.”

But for a play allegedly so controversial, The Vagina Monologues is unusually longlived. Simply put, no show at BC compares to it in terms of longevity. (The closest thing, in the way of a recurring show, is probably the Chorale Christmas concert.) Minor changes will be made to the show from year to year, with the monologues themselves interchangeable to a point, but the basic framework has stayed the same.

There comes the question: is The Vagina Monologues as typical to BC as the “cracking of a few beers” at this point? The answer, for me at least, is a resounding “no.” Last Saturday was my first time seeing the show, and honestly, I really thought I knew what to expect. I’ve seen some pretty unsettling things in my life, and knowing the basic premise of the show, going to it seemed safe enough. I expected to hear a set of the wellmeant parables of “positive sexuality.”

That’s not what I got. One monologue in particular haunted me that night. “The Little Coochi Snorcher That Could” recounted an interview of a woman in the shelter system who got raped twice growing up, once as a young girl by one of her father’s friends, and again at age 16, by a 25-year-old woman.

What I discovered later that night, with some research, is that modern productions of the show actually sanitize the original interview.

The second encounter actually happened when the women was 13, and removed from the details of this incident was the line, “If it was rape, it was a good rape.”

The show, if properly understood, will be devastating. It should break your heart.

Those too ready to accept or reject the play somewhat miss the point. Some might say the show is morally ambiguous, or even immoral—I say it’s morally mute.

The empowering bit of the performance has nearly nothing to do with the play itself.

The show has plenty of laughs and beautiful moments built in, but some key pieces of it—the sexual violence, the mutilation—it’s not something anyone actually “endorses.”

Eighteen years after its writing, Ensler’s play remains one of the most disturbing in American theater, and yet, these stories must be told.

The Vagina Monologues becomes empowering not through its story, but rather the willness of a brave few to tell it. The space between acting and living is irreparably closed in these performances. The parts aren’t learned—they’re lived.

“Conservative. Intolerant. Close-minded.”

Do these words still apply to BC—did they ever, really? Twelve years ago, it was difficult to imagine The Vagina Monologues coming to BC. Today, it’s difficult to imagine it ever leaving.

At the bottom of the program for this year’s show, there was a note reading, “The actors hold note cards to represent that the words are not theirs, but those of the original interviewed women.”

None of the actors held note cards.

John Wiley is the Arts & Review Editor for The Heights. He can be reached at arts@bcheights.com.

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Thursday, February 13, 2014

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THIS WEEK IN...

BY GUS MERRELL | FOR THE HEIGHTS

POLITICS

MUSIC DATING ART UNDIES

Days after the t r a g i c sh o o t i n g o f a 9-year-old boy in Mattapan, just outside B oston, Mayor Mar tin J. Walsh, WCAS ’09, is reviving a gun buyback program that ended in 2006. Walsh believes that this event should serve as a wake-up call to the Boston community that there are far too many guns on its streets. In the first month of 2014, Boston has seen an increase in reported homicides, up from two in 2013 to eight.

While Walsh is still discussing the exact details of the buyback program with the Boston Police Department, he says that a buyback is only a short-term solution to the issue at hand. “We need help from the community, we need help from these people to let us know where these guns are, who has these guns, so we can get them off the street,” Walsh said, according to CBS Local.

The world celebrated the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ arrival in America this past Sunday, and, on Thursday, there will be a tribute concert in the iconic musical group’s honor at the Wilbur Theater. Starting at 7:30 p.m., the concert will feature the soundtrack mash-up “Love” that The Beatles recorded in 2006.

Originally produced for a Cirque du Soleil show by the same name, the soundtrack has since been remixed for this concert.

“What people will be hearing on the album is a new experience, a way of re-living the whole Beatles musical lifespan in a very condensed period,” said producer George Martin, according to Open Media Boston. Whether one is an old Beatles fan or a young listener, the tribute performed by over 20 musicians is bound to be an exciting way to celebrate the musical legacy that is The Beatles. Tickets start at $40.

As Valentine’s Day draws near, the singles of Boston should rejoice in response to the results of a survey released by an online financial site, NerdWallet, which ranks Boston the number one city for singles. The rankings were based on various demographics, including percentage of the population that was unmarried and the cheapness of a date.

When dividing the rankings by gender, Boston ranks second overall for single men, behind New York City. The ladies are unlucky, not even in the top 10.

With all the charm, culture, and history that Boston has to offer, it is easy to have a fun and relaxed date. So, if you’re still without a date for Valentine’s Day, hit the streets, and chances are you can find someone with whom to grab a drink without too much of a problem.

A r t i s t To n y Matelli received his first solo exhibit in the Davis Museum at Wellesley College last week.

Featuring works from the past five years as well as works created specifically for this showing, the exhibit shows the three states of matter—solid, liquid, and gas—in ways that defy one’s actual understanding of how those elements function physically.

Matelli’s works are often hyper-realistic in appearance but will feature some twist on how the object interacts with space.

“Arrangement” is a painted bronze sculpture created in 2012. It features a vase of flowers—perfect in appearance, with careful attention paid to each individual petal and leaf—floating upside down. Matelli uses his distortion of gravity and atomic states to create drastic reorientations of perspective that astonish the viewer.

Boston will participate in the annual Cupid’s Undie Ru n , a n i nte r n a tional fundraiser for the Children’s Tumor Foundation (CTF), for the first time this year. On Feb. 15, contestants will run a mile half-naked through the streets of Boston, clad only in their finest bedroom attire.

The CTF is dedicated to eradicating neurofibromatosis, a genetic disorder that causes tumors to grow throughout the nervous system, causing loss of senses, chronic pain, and learning disabilities. Cupid’s Undie Run is a way for contestants to take off their pants in the name of research and cut loose in this unique fundraiser. All proceeds go directly to the CTF, and the event is hoping to raise $3 million in its 2014 event.

Registration fees are $50, but spectating is free of charge.

BOSTON FOODIE

BOSTON POLICE BLOTTER

Sweet Cupcakes provides a treat for Valentine’s Day

February 7 Suspect Comes Around Counter and Tries to Attack Clerk—At about 2 p.m. officers received a radio call to 215 Harvard Ave. for an assault and battery in progress. Officers spoke to the victim who stated she was familiar with the suspect. The suspect entered the store, came around the counter, and tried to attack her. Victim fought the suspect by kicking and pushing him. The suspect fled on Harvard Ave. towards Commonwealth Ave. February 9 Suspect Enters Through Rear Bedroom Window, Puts Dog in Tub—At about 9:25 p.m. officers received a radio call to 79 Elmira Street for a breaking & entering report.

Officers spoke to victim who stated he went out for a short time and came home to his apartment ransacked and his dog in the tub locked in the bathroom. Officers observed the rear bedroom window broken and the screen cut and removed. The suspect fled through the rear door. The victim reported Xbox One, Xbox 360, iPad, iPod, Bose speakers, digital camera, clothing, and medication all stolen.

Suspect Ransacks House as Victim Hides in Bedroom—At about 9:01 a.m. officers received a radio call to 130 Englewood Ave. for a breaking and entering in progress.

Officers spoke to victim who stated unknown persons rang his doorbell four times but he did not answer. Moments later he heard glass break and someone in his apartment.

Victim states the suspect went through each room and tried his door but could not gain access because it was locked. Officers observed their kitchen window ajar. Victims reported a laptop, a MacBook Pro, and a flat screen TV were stolen.

PHOTO COURTESY OF SWEET CUPCAKES

Forrester, owner of Sweet Cupcakes, hopes to bring product a local vibe

BY MAGGIE POWERS Heights Editor

Source – The Boston Police Department

The enthusiasm for her company came across when talking about boxes, of all things. Courtney Forrester, owner of Sweet Cupcakes, has a passion for her product that was palpable when she described the craft boxes for the cupcakes: how the design was not a sticker, but imprinted, and the complementary bows. If the thought she puts into the packaging is any indication of how delicious the cupcakes are, Boston is in for a treat.

After working as the head of public relations for the Four Seasons in Boston and for the Isabella Gardener Museum, and following lots of baking at home, Forrester began to consider the cupcake business. “In order to offer guests I was entertaining at home a dozen different flavors, I would have to make a dozen of the flavor and that became a little overwhelming, particularly also if you were serving a full meal,” Forrester said.

When she and her husband traveled the country, she noticed cupcake and other individual dessert shops popping up in other cities, and thought to herself, “Why not Boston?”

This awareness of being a New England company and maintaining sense of its Boston roots are very important to Sweet’s business model. “Where our shops are located—Harvard Square, the Freedom Trail, Newbury St.—we have a lot of local customers,” she said. “But we have a lot of people that are visiting the city, too, and you want to make sure you’re giving them the best impression of Boston.”

Now with five locations scattered across the city–soon to be six with the addition of a new store in Chestnut Hill Square and an online store–Forrester could not be busier. The original mission of the business, however, has not changed.

“We really have stuck to our guns in terms of baking it from scratch every. Single. Day,” she said. “You know, there are times in business discussions that people say ‘Oh, you really don’t have to do that, it tastes just as good the second day,’ but we do, we really are committed to

that. And that’s our primary focus.”

A whimsical excitement entered her voice when discussing the actual cupcakes that mirrored the nature of the treats themselves. She explained almost scientifically how one of Sweet’s signature cupcakes, the vanilla-vanilla cupcake, is different from a yellow cake (and is much more difficult than yellow cake, due to the lack of butter and egg yoke) and how it is made with real vanilla beans.

The true sense of passion for the baked goods crept into her voice when she started to tell the story of the red velvet cupcake. “The gal that helped us to decorate the store was from Nashville,” she said. “We had a customer asking us to make it, so she brought in some real southern cookbooks, I mean dog-eared edges. And we just started at trying to create the best and most authentic red velvet cupcake we could in New England.”

This care that goes into each cupcake is especially

LOCATIONS: Back Bay and Harvard Square CUISINE: Dessert SIGNATURE DISH: Vanilla–Vanilla Cupcake important to Forrester around Valentine’s Day. One of the most important days of the year for a bakery, a day when Sweet will bake between 10,000 and 12,000 cupcakes, has been in the works since December. This year the store will be featuring a brownie cupcake with a cutout heart and filled with pink buttercream frosting and a strawberry-pink champagne cupcake. Just like everyday at Sweet, Forrester loves sharing in the joy of the everyday celebrations with her customers.

“It’s really our day,” she said. “Everything from our packaging to our ribbon to our store is about doing something sweet for someone, and I think it speaks to our product that we are in demand on a day that people are looking to give someone special a little taste of luxury.” 

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Bennet’s Banter

Boston’s history comes alive Bennet Johnson When you’re a kid, you grow up hearing stories about the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, and John Adams. With nicknames like the Hub, Beantown, the Athens of America, the Walking City, and Titletown, you know that this city is something special.

This is Boston—one of the oldest cities in the U.S., and home of the Red Sox, Paul Revere, and seafood to savor.

What makes Boston special is not just its sports, chowder, or 60 colleges and universities. Boston is set apart by its rich history.

When you’re sitting in your American history class listening to Mr. Grossman lecture on the Revolutionary War, not much comes to mind. You can read about the events or see pictures of them in textbooks, but you’re not really experiencing the rich history from halfway across the country.

Coming to Boston changed my view on history. I was no longer reading a dry textbook full of statistics about Boston. Instead, I am walking the same streets as America’s founding fathers, and this is experiencing history.

Earlier this week, I made a trip to the Commonwealth Museum. The museum is publicly funded by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and it is located in the State Archives Building. The museum is also right next to the JFK Library and Museum and is just a short hop off the T’s red line.

What’s special about this museum is that it hosts some of Massachusetts’ greatest artifacts that protect our liberty, including the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780–the oldest constitution in America–and even original copies of the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights. The museum brings these stories to life in its interactive exhibits.

While I was strolling around the museum, I noticed a young boy and his mother looking at the original copper plate engraved by Paul Revere depicting the Boston Massacre. What surprised me was that the boy was fascinated by the plate enclosed behind temperature-controlled glass.

With his face pressed up against the glass, the boy smiled and yelled, “Mommy look! This is the plate I was reading about. It is so cool.”

If you’re like me, you like to see things directly in front of you. My childhood propensity has followed me into adulthood. There is something about the tangibility of a newspaper, book, map, or letter that makes it seem all the more real holding it in your hands. I can read a biography about JFK or a summary about Paul Revere’s midnight ride, but that experience is less meaningful to me than going to walk the Freedom Trail or visit the JFK Museum.

The young boy at the Commonwealth Museum felt a wave of joy when he saw Paul Revere’s plate. His excitement was palpable, as he was thrilled to see the tangible copper plate that he read about in his textbook that has been around for hundreds of years, since our beginning days as a nation.

Similar to the little boy, most people like seeing things right in front of them. If you’re at Fenway Park watching the Red Sox beat the Yankees, you’re in the same shoes as Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth. If you’re walking the Freedom Trail in downtown Boston, you’re seeing buildings like the Old State House that have been around since our beginning roots.

There is so much history around us that Bostonians take for granted. Go out and truly experience some of the buildings and artifacts that make our home one of the most historic cities in America. Ranging from Paul Revere’s house to the USS Constitution museum and even Faneuil Hall, there is so much history within our grasp.

You just have to take a step outside.

Bennet Johnson is the Asst. Metro Editor for The Heights. He can be reached at metro@bcheights.com.

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Cambridge company crafts products with a message 2b design builds home decor from village rubble

By Sarah Moore Heights Editor Raja Moubarak and Benedicte de Vanssay de Blavous Moubarak are uncovering the beauty of brokenness in more ways than one.

Their company, 2b design, based in Cambridge, Mass. and Beiruit, Lebanon, is rooted in redefining what it means to be broken by repurposing rubble from Middle Eastern villages into modern home decor.

From lampshades to coffee tables, Beyt by 2b design is creating special pieces with even more unique histories in order to preserve a quickly disappearing architectural significance.

Created in 2006, the concept of 2b design originated as French designer Benedicte and her husband Raja moved to Beirut, Lebanon.

While living in Beirut, Benedicte was struck by the amount of traditional houses that had been destroyed due to violence and unchecked real estate development. In an effort to preserve the unique style of what was left of the Levantine homes, she began to collect pieces of their rubble, such as portions of balconies, railings, and window frames, and decided to repurpose them into new furniture. “She wanted to find a way to prolong their historical significance, and that was 2b design,” said Raja, cofounder of 2b design and Benedicte’s husband.

After an unsuccessful search for an artisan to turn 2b design from an idea into a company, Benedicte looked to people coming from broken backgrounds for help. She teamed up with a group of disabled Lebanese iron workers to start the company’s flagship brand, Beyt.

Based in humble beginnings, 2b design continues to maintain its original values by using recycled home material from the Middle East in 90 percent of each piece of furniture, and hiring only disabled and marginalized individuals to be trained as artisans. “If we were going to have to train people, we thought, ‘Why don’t we train those who have no access to the job market?’” Raja said. “We work with

Photo Courtesy of 2b design

2b design not only creates home decor in an effort to maintain Middle Eastern culture, but also trains disabled individuals to be artisans. the beauty of broken pieces—it makes sense to work with the beautiful people who may be broken in mind, body, or spirit.”

Since the founding of 2b design, Raja and Benedicte have worked with outreach groups in order to provide access to jobs for the impoverished and disabled as well as persons of different faith backgrounds.

“Our mission is to restore the unseen beauty of the broken,” Moubarak said, speaking not only about the restoration of furniture but other aspects of brokenness that characterize the current state of the Middle East.

As Beirut is located in a region that is constantly pulled in three different directions, Raja and Benedicte hope that bringing people of different faiths and cultures together will help to establish a sense of unity. “We try to work with Jews, Christians, and Muslims who are in a state of tension in order to potentially unite different faith backgrounds,” Raja said. “The benefit of a multi-religious team is that they co-create

all of the pieces together.”

This effort to unite the “brokenness” of cultural relationships in the Middle East is echoed in the names Raja and Benedicte chose for their company’s flagship brand.

“Beyt is very symbolic by nature, it reflects our mission,” Raja said. The word “beyt” is synonymous for both Jews and Muslims as it can be translated to “house” or “home” in both Hebrew and Arabic.

Along with cultural brokenness, the mission of 2b design extends to fixing what Raja calls the “broken environment” of the Middle East, as every piece created is repurposed in some way. Since the company began, 2b design has used over 90,000 pounds of reclaimed raw materials to create its unique furnishings.

Although at its core 2b design is a small business, Raja and Benedicte view this title as a way to transform and improve the world.

“Our objective is to get to a larger scale, not to become big in wealth but to be able to touch more people,” Raja said. “We want to

collaborate with other organizations and attract customers with likeminded values and principles.”

This desire to attract customers with similar ideas as 2b design led Raja and Benedicte to decide on Cambridge as the U.S. hub of their business, with Raja saying, “Boston is a very open-minded place—because of the rich environment of colleges and universities, we thought our concept would be well accepted.”

Although located in a quaint gallery in residential Cambridge, the goals of 2b design are always growing. Raja and Benedicte hope to hire more marginalized women in the U.S. and continue working on interreligious reconciliation, as well as collaborations with organizations such as Habitat for Humanity and Pine Street Inn. “We want everyone, at the end of the day, to realize we are all human beings,” Raja said.

“With compassion and understanding, you can change the world.” n

Three students curate art exhibit at museum Museum, from B10

Photo Courtesy of Cycle for Survival

Cycle for Survival has raised over $42.9 million for cancer research since its 2007 founding.

BC alum Barry Gallup attended event in daughter’s memory Cycle for Survival, from B10 “What Cycle for Survival does, I believe, is allow the best and brightest, at MSKCC and beyond, to take bigger risks–and that’s where the cures are going to come from,” said Ross Levine, a physician-scientist at MSKCC. “I want everyone participating in Cycle for Survival to realize that they have a direct impact on the lives of cancer patients now and a tremendous impact on the lives of cancer patients moving forward.”

Jennifer Goodman Linn and her husband, Dave Linn, founded Cycle for Survival after noticing a gap in research funding for rare cancers. According to the National Institute of Health (NIH), a rare cancer is one affecting fewer than 200,000 individuals in the U.S. Approximately half of the 1.6 million diagnosed cancer patients in the U.S. have rare forms of the disease. Rare cancers include pancreatic, thyroid, brain, stomach, ovarian, and pediatric, among others. Despite their prevalence, research on rare cancers is severely underfunded—thus, treatment options are limited.

A patient of the MSKCC, Goodman Linn was diagnosed in 2004 with a sarcoma, a rare cancer. Her desire to beat cancer and help other patients diagnosed with rare cancers came to fruition through the creation of Cycle for Survival. Linn passed away in 2011, but her fervor and legacy lives on through the success of Cycle for Survival.

Dave Linn hosted the Boston Cycling for Survival event on Sunday, with numerous patients, survivors, doctors, and supporters in attendance. The high-energy event focused on empowering those affected by cancer, both patients and supporters alike. Over 800 adults and children gathered at the Boston Equinox to show their support. A “tribute wall” lined the room with the hand-written, personal messages and stories of those with loved ones affected by cancer. The day included two cycling sessions with numerous cycling teams participating, all dressed in apparel that featured Cycle for Survival’s slogan—“Join the Battle.” This call to action echoed throughout

the entire event, fostering a great sense of community and empowerment among the supporters and patients.

The event also featured an Impact Ceremony, an emotional reflection on those who lost the battle to cancer, and an inspiring look at all that Cycle for Survival has accomplished.

“If somebody is diagnosed, they are not alone,” Linn said at the ceremony. “They have the entire Cycle for Survival community right there standing together with them.”

One of the featured speakers at the impact ceremony was Barry Gallup, Sr., the associate athletic director for football operations at Boston College. Gallup has been greatly influential in the BC football community, with over 34 years of experience as a member of the staff. Following his time as one of the best receivers in school history, Gallup served as a BC assistant coach for 20 years and returned to his alma mater as assistant athletics director for football operations after nine years of head coaching at Northeastern.

Gallup, along with his wife Victoria Gallup and his son Barry Gallup, Jr., represented Team FabuLisa at Cycle for Survival, cycling in remembrance of his daughter, Lisa Gallup.

Lisa, BC ’09, was diagnosed with a stage IV sarcoma in 2011. At the time of her diagnosis, Lisa was a nurse in Manhattan. Despite intense chemotherapy and radiation treatments, Lisa continues to care for her patients, ran a halfmarathon, finished a triathlon, and received her master’s degree from NYU before her death. Her desire to help others suffering from cancer like hers drove her to bring Cycle for Survival to her home of Boston. The Gallup family continues the Boston location of Cycle for Survival, one of the most successful locations in the country, in honor of her legacy.

“I have been fortunate to be in a lot of bowl games—I was with Doug Flutie when he won the Heisman trophy,” Gallup, Sr. said. “But Cycle for Survival is the most inspirational and emotional and inspiring event that I have ever been a part of. We are going to win this battle against cancer.” n

with most of the artists hailing from Dorchester. Of the 24 pieces, 18 are by Dorchesterbased artists, including Laurence Pierce, Stephen Hamilton, Shaanti Williams, and Adam Bullock.

In the past, the Commonwealth Museum hosted a number of special projects celebrating Black History Month. Last year, the museum hosted a viewing of the movie Lincoln, with guest speakers including Massachusetts Secretary of State William F. Galvin and Tom Putman, director of the JFK Library.

“We wanted to try something different this year,” Collins said. “We are a history museum, and we’ve never given students the opportunity to host an exhibit like this before.”

The three BAA students put in long hours of work after school to create A Story We Share. Not only did the students curate the exhibit, but they also chose the specific pieces of art, contacted and gathered information on the artists, and even came up with the final title.

“This type of opportunity for these students is unbelievable,” Collins said. “It is an impressive hands-on experience that they can add to their resumes.”

Although the students were involved from the beginning to end, the catalyst of this project was Destiny Palmer, a teacher at BAA who also works for College Bound Dorchester and is very involved in Boston’s arts community.

Palmer offered her networking skills to her three BAA students, and she is one reason why their passion for art is visible in this exhibit.

“My favorite part of this exhibit is the idea that these students get to develop these life skills, something they might not have gotten to do otherwise,” Collins said.

A Story We Share hopes to attract a large audience. The museum’s main visitors include groups of children viewing some of Boston’s

historical documents, as well as students from UMass Boston and Northeastern University.

The Commonwealth Museum also attracts people who are visiting the Massachusetts Archives building and the neighboring JFK Museum.

“This exhibit is a great way to honor and celebrate this month through the artists’ views of their lives,” Collins said. “I think people will react to the art, and it will provoke interpretation and conversation.”

The Commonwealth Museum also offers its visitors an opportunity to see some of Boston’s oldest documents. The students’ exhibit is held on the top floor of the museum, and visitors can venture down to the main floor of the museum to learn about the rich history of Massachusetts. The museum highlights the development of rights and democracy in Massachusetts. Although the museum is a public facility under the Secretary of the Commonwealth, the facility iincludes historic artifacts, such as John Adams’ Massachusetts Constitution of 1780, the copper plate Paul Revere used to engrave his Boston Massacre image, as well as original copies of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. Admission to the exhibit and the entire museum is free of charge.

“What’s remarkable about our museum is that visitors can see and experience the documents that you read about in your American History textbook,” Collins said. “The experience is surreal.”

Although the historical documents will be there for years to come, the students’ exhibit will only be on display throughout the month of February. Collins acknowledged that allowing students to curate a professional exhibit is a big change. Still, she emphasized that this exhibit is far from ordinary: “Change opens doors, and this exhibit will offer people who come here a chance to see something truly incredible,” she said. n

Bennet Johnson / Asst. Metro Editor

The Commonwealth Museum is hosting a Black History Month exhibit during February.

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Kulhawik calls Boston a ‘global arts mecca’ Kulhawik, from B10 here. I just don’t have television—that one TV station—as my platform. Now I have many platforms.”

One of her most prominent outlets is her website joyceschoices.com which she launched shortly after she left the air.

“I’m really pretty old school, but I’m open to everything new,” Kulhawik said, adding that she is aware that online media is the means by which most people will receive their news in the future. She has found that her skill set translates online well—though she is still working to build the kind of relationship with her online audience that she had with her television audience.

“I was always big on interacting with my audience,” Kulhawik said. Her office was instructed to respond to every piece of mail that was directed to her, and she always tried to take phone calls—even if it was to talk to an audience member who disagreed with her point of view. Kulhawik wants to enter into those conversations online, but she said that the sheer number of people in the online world sometimes makes it difficult.

Kulhawik’s efforts to bring herself to the community in a new format, however, appear to have paid off—she seems to be absolutely everywhere.

President of the Boston Theater Critics Association and a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics, she will

soon be live-tweeting the Academy Awards for boston.com. This Sunday, she will interview Marni Nixon, the voice of Natalie Wood in West Side Story onstage at Symphony Hall, before the Boston Symphony Orchestra plays the score live during a screening of the film.

“I am just very engaged in trying to use myself the best way I know how,” Kulhawik said. “I find it very satisfying to just use what I know and put it out there in the world.”

Her work is not limited to the arts, however. “Women are a subtext for everything I do,” she said, adding that the treatment of women is one of the “watershed issues of the 21st century.”

Kulhawik, who is a graduate of Simmons College, will host Hillary Clinton at the Simmons Leadership Conference this spring.

A three-time cancer survivor, Kulhawik also serves on the American Cancer Society’s advisory board and has helped raise millions of dollars for the society’s first “Hope Lodge” in Boston.

Currently, Kulhawik said that she is optimistic about a newfound cohesion in the city’s arts community. She credits MassCreative, an organization that works to promote the arts community, with helping to convince many politicians of the importance of the arts.

“Right now it feels like there is a real momentum around organizing the arts community,” she said. “This is

THE HEART OF THE CITY

A different take on a Valentine

MAGGIE POWERS

PHOTO COURTESY OF JOYCE KULHAWIK

After her work with WBZ-TV, Kulhawik has used her clout to make an impact online. really the first time that we’ve had that experience here.”

Kulhawik said that, though she has been offered work in cities like Los Angeles and New York, she has never considered leaving Boston. Her dream, she said, is for Boston to “be acknowledged as the global mecca for arts that it is.”

When Houghton offered Kulhawik her first television job over lunch, she was certain she would not be in it for the long haul. “I thought, ‘Well, this will last six months, and then I’ll get a real job,’” she said. “And it turned into—literally—the rest of my life. Well, almost, the rest of my life. Now I’m finding out there’s a whole new chapter." 

Search committee looks to reduce achievement gap Superintendent, from B10 most important decision,” Walsh said in a press release. “We are glad to have the space to make the right choice, given that the District is in great hands with Interim Superintendent John McDonough. This Search Committee represents every facet of education, from elementary school to college, from parents to teachers to administrators. With their broad knowledge base and vast experience, I know they will work diligently to search every corner of the U.S. to help the Boston School Committee make the best possible choice for our students.”

Keeping Boston’s potent academic

reputation in mind, it seems that the Search Committee has the opportunity to pursue high-end goals beyond just those for an equitable, quality education. One of the Committee’s notable goals is to eliminate the achievement gaps between students.

The issues faced are not unique to any particular grade year, however, as the Boston school system spans from elementary schools to the collegiate level. To ensure it has represented all members and diversities of the Boston community equally, the 12-person search committee includes members selected from all backgrounds, including former school administrators, phi-

lanthropists, businesspeople, parents, and teachers.

Andrew Vega , a member of the committee, has a record as an active schoolteacher that stands out.

An eighth-grade literature teacher at Orchards Gardens K-8, Vega was a College Board AP fellow in 2009 and a Teach Plus Teaching Policy fellow in 2011. Today, he holds a position as an American Achieves teacher fellow. He has served as an advisor on teaching for a number of national organizations and for policy-makers of all levels, including President Barack Obama’s top education advisors.

The leaders of the committee are

Hardin Coleman and Robert Gallery.

Coleman holds his Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Stanford and currently serves as the dean of the School of Education at Boston University. Gallery is the president of Bank of America Massachusetts and received his M.B.A. from Northwestern University.

In its effort to hire a superintendent

by September, the committee must recommend a firm for a national search, host community meetings for public input, narrow the candidate list presented by the firm, and propose three finalists for an extensive interviewing process, which will be completed in part by Walsh himself.  W

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MIT forms new opportunities for Saudi female scientists MIT has created new opporunities for Saudi Arabian female scientists to study at the university.

This opportunity is due to the support of the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals and Saudi Aramco, as well as the support of MIT’s Center for Clean Water and Clean Energy. The two have forged a partnership to establish a postdoctoral fellowship program for Saudi female scientists and engineers. Through the fellowship, the women are able to conduct research in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Malak Al-Nory is the first fellow for this specific program. She began at MIT in September of 2012 under mechanical engineering professor Stephen Graves. Al-Nory’s research is focused on the modeling and optimization of supply chains and mathematical programming models for strategic and operational planning. During her time

BOSTON UNIV. Last year’s arrest and police response were not enough to keep Boston University students from having a “Snowbrawl’” for the second year in a row. First created during 2013’s winter storm Nemo, the impromptu “epic snow showdown” returned this past week, according to Boston Magazine. Undeterred by last year’s police incident, which made national headlines, a Facebook group was created in order to organize the snow-pelting event on the Esplanade.

“As chill as [last year’s] event was, we can do even better,” event organizer Chris Lisinski told Boston Magazine.

In order to make the event run more smoothly and eliminate the chances of being shut down, however, Lisinski posted the following on the event’s Facebook group: “This is all in good fun and good spirit. That individual threw a snowball at a police officer, which is not quite the best idea. So don’t do that.”

with Graves, the two were able to define the supply chain components and activities for water desalination, as well as to propose systematic methodologies and mathematical models in order to create “feasible, economical, and environmentally aware” system designs for water desalination, according to MIT News.

Al-Nory now serves as dean of graduate studies and research at Effat University, where she received her undergraduate degree as well as the opportunity to earn the Ibn Khaldun fellowship.

“The fellowship at MIT has given me great exposure to a world-class educational process and allowed me to build connections with the top scientific research communities,” Al-Nory said regarding her experience with the fellowship, according to MIT News. “There is no doubt that this opportunity has been the greatest honor Effat has offered me.”

NORTHEASTERN Northeastern and other schools, including UMass Boston, Harvard, and MIT, are attempting to shift away from driving on campus by reforming their transportation policies. Northeastern in particular has provided discounts for public transportation frequently used by students and has also made it increasingly difficult to park or drive on its campus, according to Boston.com. Perhaps less conventional, however, is the implementation of the Hubway bike-sharing service. “The millennial generation believes in alternative modes of transportation,” said Kirstie Pecci, a staff attorney at the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group Education Fund. “If the state gives them these options, they can hop on board.” While many Northeastern students see this policy as limiting, others are content to make due with public transportation.

“You can take [the T] downtown and get pretty much anywhere you need to go,” Northeastern sophomore Mitch Gallerstein told Boston.com.

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HARVARD Tragedy struck Harvard early Monday morning. A traffic accident involving a minivan and a tractor-trailer resulted in the death of one undergraduate student and the injuries and hospitalization of several others, according to WCVB News.

The northbound lanes approaching exit 7A in Mercer County, N.J. were closed following the accident, and the events remain under investigation. The deceased student’s identity has not been released, as Harvard officials have been unable to contact the student’s parents, wrote Interim Dean of Harvard College Donald H. Pfister in an email released to Boston.com. The students participated in a competition in Virginia over the weekend and were returning to campus. Pfister did not describe the nature of the competition or the number of students involved, but he urged students to keep those harmed by the accident in their thoughts and advised them to seek university support services as needed. “This is a terrible tragedy that has affected all of us in the college,” he said.

This strip of space, a Metro column on Valentine’s Day Eve, is basically begging me to talk about what a wonderful city Boston is to celebrate Valentine’s Day. How romantic, I should sigh. You can hold hands and walk down Newbury St. or share meatballs like in The Lady and the Tramp in the North End. Sorry, not this column, not today.

Disregarding the fact that I have personal issues with Valentine’s Day (it’s an over-commercialized load of crap. If you love me, tell me the other 364 days of the year. Hallmark shouldn’t have to remind you), my celebration began and ended right on campus, one week too early.

Enter The Vagina Monologues, performed every year at universities across the country around Valentine’s Day to generate “broader attention for the fight to stop violence against women and girls,” according to vday.org. It seems to me that The Vagina Monologues incorporates more significant substance to the nature of my gender than does any celebration of love on Valentine’s Day. The performance itself was wonderful, and I was thrilled to see a show discussing such important issues in McGuinn 121. Many of my peers transformed on stage, acting as voices of strength, beauty, vulnerability, and witness to the joys, and some of the horrors, of the female experience.

The Vagina Monologues is widely celebrated, and with good reason. But my (ever-wise) roommate leaned over to me right before the show was about to start and said, “I wish there were more guys here.” McGuinn 121 was sold out, but most of the ticket holders were women. When I glanced around after her comment I counted maybe 15 guys total from my seat in the top right of the lecture hall.

Gentlemen, trust me, I can see why you may be a little squeamish to devote your time and money to something with “vagina” in the title. Were there topics that would make you squirm?

Absolutely. But, there were also vastly important topics, like female circumcision and rape, that were discussed.

In one of the final monologues of the play, it was stated that we were there to “honor the women who have been murdered, raped.” The sense of empowerment and solidarity in the room was incredible–however, creating this among primarily women doesn’t help the cause all that much, as it needs to be a conversation between both genders.

The Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TED talk, recently popularized by Beyonce’s song “Flawless,” makes important points that were echoing through my head on Friday night. She asks, “Why do you need to say my experience as a woman, why can’t you just say my experience as a human being?” What has gone wrong in our culture when we need to have a play devoted to my experiences and struggles simply because of my basic anatomy?

“Culture does not make people, people make culture,” Adichie states toward the end of her talk. The Vagina Monologues is a tangible example of the changing culture, dually opening a conversation about both respect and equality for females—but the lack of men in the audience reminded me that we have a long way to go before this conversation is over.

At the end of the performance, all the women in the show were out on stage. Clothed in all black with various touches of red, they looked powerful and happy. They looked beautiful. I just wish more of the boys on campus were there to see strong, striking women who fly in the face of the “BC biddie” we see so many of everyday.

This Valentine’s Day, rather than holding hands in the Common, ponder the lessons that were demonstrated by The Vagina Monologues. Love isn’t just about roses or even romance—it’s a demonstration of mutual respect, from and by men and women alike.

Maggie Powers is an editor for The Heights. She can be reached at metro@ bcheights.com.

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RYAN TOWEY My dad told me to be careful as I walked out to the edge of the rocks. It was a Saturday afternoon, and I was excited to be at the Garret Mountain Reservation—known to me only as “Garret Mountain” or “the place with the cliffs and the castle.”

Located in Passaic County in New Jersey, the reservation is home to Lambert Castle, which was constructed in 1891. My father would take me there so that I could climb on the reservation’s rocks surrounding Lambert Tower, a part of the reservation that had fallen into disrepair—from my high vantage point I could see Paterson, N.J. sprawled in front of me, and, if you looked hard enough, New York City in the distance.

As a kid, this was my very limited view of the world—a small expanse of Jersey and the distant detail of the city.

The New Yorker played with the idea of having a limited view of the world on its March 29, 1976 cover by Saul Steinberg, called, “View of the World from 9th Avenue.” The cover provides a one-point, bird’s eye perspective of the city’s detailed streets, but then the cover becomes far less specific. A small blue ribbon—the Hudson—separates the city from a red band of color labelled, “Jersey.” The rest of the drawing incorporates a relatively undetailed depiction of the West and small blobs that make up the countries across the Pacific.

Designed to critique the narrow vision of the world possessed by New Yorkers, the cover has been imitated to describe other viewpoints, including Boston’s. I did not even know that such a version of this cover existed until I saw it on a professor’s office door (to that professor, thanks for the column idea for the week). Called “The Bostonian View of the World,” the small poster depicts the Custom House Tower front and center, with the John Hancock Tower to the left, as well as the Common and the State House. Like the original New Yorker Cover, the rest of the cover depicts less detailed geography in the distance—the Charles River, Cambridge, San Francisco.

The cover’s theme, however, is highlighted by a small detail in the drawing.

A sign on one of the city’s streets reads, “The Hub.” This sign speaks to the spirit of the original New Yorker cover—this city thinks it is at the center of the world.

While I doubt that this urban-centric attitude is as potent in Boston as it is in New York, any vein of this self-absorbed sentiment is worthy of critique. No city is the center of the world, and nor should it be. Each urban setting brings a unique cultural contribution that is not less than that of another. Furthermore, no city, no state, no country should be the center of one’s understanding or viewpoint.

For a short while when I was growing up, I thought New Jersey and New York City were the whole thing, only to learn that Boston has proven an equally fruitful and rewarding location for me to grow.

Perhaps I am too harsh. There is, of course, something to be said for a city’s pride and a basic national patriotism, but this should never come at the expense of greater awareness. I prefer a world in which the typical New York perspective is one of extended consciousness that inspires a different kind of cover for The New Yorker, a cover that would depict the city in all of its detailed beauty but would then go on to present the great western expanses with equal care and attention.

And I prefer a little boy who stands on the rocks of Garret Mountain with his father, sees the whole impressive expanse of Paterson and the distant New York City, but still knows that there is so much more.

Ryan Towey is the Metro Editor for The Heights. He can be reached at metro@bcheights.com.

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Students curate exhibit at Massachusetts Commonwealth Museum in honor of Black History Month SHAANTI WILLIAMS / ARTWORK | BRECK WILLS / HEIGHTS PHOTO ILLUSTRATION

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he Commonwealth Museum of Massachusetts opened an exhibit called A Story We Share: Massachusetts Artists Celebrating Black History and Culture, a studentrun art show that celebrates Black History Month, on Feb. 5.

Although an exhibit displaying black artists during February is rarely unusual, one unique aspect of this exhibit is that it is being curated by three Boston Arts Academy (BAA) high school students.

“This type of show is something that the museum has never done before,” said Mary Collins, WCAS ’13.

Collins is the director of special and public programs at the Commonwealth Museum, and she has worked there for almost 19 years. Collins credits her Boston College education and teaching experience for her success in directing museum events.

“My background in teaching and education have been a natural segue for me to reach out and host an event like this,” said Collins.

This is the first time the Commonwealth Museum has collaborated with an academic institution. The three BAA students

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Committee to find new superintendent for city’s schools B Y V INCE R UBERTONE For The Heights Mayor Martin J. Walsh, WC A S ’09, and Boston School Committee Chair Michael O’Neill announced the organization of a Search Committee to begin the national search for a new permanent Superintendent of the Boston Public Schools (BPS) on Feb. 6. This is the first time in almost 10 months that an official effort has been made to find a replacement for current Interim Superintendent John McDonough,

yet the committee will be operating under a strict deadline, as it hopes to have a new superintendent in place by September.

The delayed search stems from Boston’s election of a new mayor last year. Since the superintendent joins the mayor’s cabinet, few potential candidates were willing to look seriously into the position until the mayoral election concluded. Additionally, the mayor has significant influence over whom the search committee appoints to the chief role, for that very reason. Prospective

administrators had another reason to bide their time, however. According to Massachusetts’ Open Meeting Law, the candidates’ names must be made public. A person still supervising another district risks damaging a relationship with his current employer if openly applying for the Boston position, and his career may grow more difficult should he not secure the job.

“If that scares them away, so be it,” O’Neill said of the law, which has posed an issue in the past. Indeed, O’Neill’s lack of serious concern is likely rooted

in the knowledge that Boston’s public school system already has a strong foundation.

“BPS is nationally regarded as one of the best urban school systems in the nation,” O’Neill said. In addition, the area has one of the largest groups of universities and non-profit organizations ready to offer their aid to the public school system.

“The selection of a permanent school superintendent will be our community’s

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Kulhawik strives to revamp career through new platforms Former TV anchor discusses future of city’s arts coverage

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Over 800 people gathered in Boston on Sunday to help raise money for cancer research.

Cycle for Survival hits Boston, raises funds for cancer research

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On Sunday, over 800 people gathered in Boston for Cycle for Survival, an annual indoor team cycling event that raises funds for rare cancer research at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC).

The event is a part of a larger national movement, as Cycle for Survival is annually hosted in 13 U.S. cities. The athletic fundraiser is hosted by Equinox, which is a founding partner of Cycle for Survival, in locations across the country. The event features a high-energy, four-hour cycling session taught by Equinox cycling instructors, with numerous teams pedaling to meet fundraising goals.

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Owned and operated by the MSKCC, the nation’s leading center for cancer research, Cycle for Survival donates all of its proceeds directly. Within six months of each cycling event, all of the funds raised go to pioneering rare cancer clinical trials and research studies at the MSKCC. The immediate and direct funding significantly reduces the time it takes for treatments to reach patients, and it has led to better and more effective treatments for numerous cancer patients, according to a press release. Since its conception in 2007, Cycle for Survival has raised over $42.9 million for cancer research and has contributed to over 85 clinical trials.

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In 1978, Joyce Kulhawik thought she had lost her chance.

Having just quit her job as an English teacher, she had decided to audition for a new show on WBZ-TV called “Evening Magazine”—only to forget her script.

“I couldn’t wait to get out of there,” she said. “I thought I’d blown it.”

But then producer Tom Houghton told her that she might have something that he was looking for. He told her to drop the index cards and just talk. Still, Kulhawik was certain she would never hear from him again.

Three weeks later, however, Houghton called her for lunch.

Today, Kulhawik is best known for her Emmy award-winning work on WBZ-TV, for which she was an arts and entertainment critic between 1981 and 2008. According to Kulhawik, the arts beat became very competitive when she first went on the air.

“At one time there were five or six full-time arts and entertainment reporters in town,” Kulhawik said. As in so

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many places, though, the arts was one of the first things to take a hit in the face of budgetary problems.

When her career on WBZ-TV came to a close, Kulhawik said that local arts coverage on television became essentially nonexistent. To those who say viewers can find arts coverage elsewhere, Kulhawik feels that they are mistaken—nothing can take the place of regular, local coverage of Boston’s arts scene. When she first went off television, local groups would still call her asking that she attend their events or new conferences just for the reassurance that there would be at least one qualified person present to ask an intelligent question. “[The arts] should be covered by experienced, knowledgeable people who know something about the beat,” she said. “You wouldn’t put somebody who didn’t know anything about sports on the sports beat.”

After leaving television, Kulhawik knew that she needed to reformat her career in order to continue sharing her expertise, and she started saying yes to whatever she could—hosting events, moderating panel discussions, conducting interviews in front of live audiences, and writing for print news sources.

“The only thing that’s different is

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