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Athletics reviews Gold Pass system

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hugging him and patting him on the back to complete an emotional day at Conte Forum.

Kelley was remembered by the team with a slideshow and moment of silence on Sunday evening, before its ACC matchup with rival Notre Dame.

After being diagnosed with ALS in September 2011, Kelley served as the team’s sports information director, until the disease limited his abilities. The University helped Kelley move into an apartment at 2000 Commonwealth Ave. after he could no longer use

Having passed the halfway point of the first year of Gold Pass implementation, the Boston College athletic department is pursuing student feedback and new initiatives to further develop and improve its ticketing system.

Beginning this past weekend, the athletic department is utilizing small student focus groups to gain feedback on the system and explore ideas for the Gold Pass in the future. The groups— comp ose d of roughly 10 student s each—will target various demographics of the BC community, including high-, mid-, and low-range Gold Pass users, non-Gold Pass participants, and transfer students.

“The driving force for year one was attendance,” said Jamie DiLoreto, associate athletics director for External Operations. “Things I’m looking at going into year one to year two is improving our processes. I want satisfaction rates to be extremely high.”

In an effort to gain a wider range of feedback, Athletics is targeting a March 10 release date for a general survey that will seek to gather information on what students’ expectations were going into year one, their experiences with the Gold Pass thus far, and their expectations entering year two.

Among the questions Athletics is focusing on are issues of earning points for road- tripping to games, matters of

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A legend’s passing: remembering Dick Kelley

BY ALEX FAIRCHILD Heights Editor After a three-year battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease, Boston College Sports Information Director and Assistant Athletics Director Dick Kelley passed away on Thursday evening at Massachusetts General Hospital.

For over two decades at Chestnut Hill, Kelley served as the primary contact for BC’s men’s basketball team. He assisted the men’s ice hockey, soccer, and football teams,

as well. In the early 1990s, Kelley taught a newswriting course for BC’s communication department.

Kelley, who graduated from BC in 1987 with his bachelor’s degree in communication and political science, returned to his alma mater in 1991 as an assistant sports information director, after being an assistant media relations director at Boston University. For BU, he worked with the men’s soccer, basketball, and baseball teams. In 1999, Kelley was the assistant media coordinator for the East Region First and Second Rounds of the NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament, which

was hosted by BC at the Fleet Center.

Raised by his parents Ann and Ed in Andover, Mass., Kelley became a member of the College Sports Information Directors of America and the U.S. Basketball Writers Association. The latter organization awarded Kelley with its Most Courageous Award last February. A ceremony at center court before the men’s basketball team’s game with Virginia honored Kelley with the award. Thenfreshman Joe Rahon’s last-second shot to beat the Cavaliers happened in front of Kelley, who was seated on press row. After the buzzer sounded, the team rushed over to their hero,

Swiss Jesuit discusses faith, Christian-Jewish relations

BY JULIE ORENSTEIN Assoc. News Editor

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Last Saturday in Robsham Theatre, the Chinese and Korean student associations hosted ‘Jade,’ the organizations’ annual cultural performance.

CSA, KSA host 14th annual culture show

BY ARIELLE CEDENO Heights Editor This past Saturday, the Chinese Students Association (CSA) and the Korean Students Association (KSA) presented their 14th annual Culture Show, the Jade Awards. The show celebrated the diversity of Chinese and Korean cultures through an array of traditional and contemporary cultural performances.

As one of the largest events of the year for both organizations, the cultural showcase included 13 performances and over 150 studentperformers. Each performance explored a different facet of Korean or Chinese tradition, both old and new. In conjunction with this year’s theme, the production was conducted as a competition show, with each individual performance competing to win the honor of the Jade Award. The pretext of competition allowed for a fluid transition between the performances, as the masters of ceremony, Austin Hong, CSOM ’16, and Alison Chan,

A&S ’16, announced each new piece as a new contender for the award.

The show commenced with the traditional Chinese Lion Dance, a celebratory dance in which the performers imitate a lion’s movements. The extensive choreography by Tony Hu, A&S ’17, and the elaborate traditional lion costume helped make an impactful first performance. Other traditional Chinese performances included an impressive kung fu fight routine set to contemporary music, choreographed by Thinh Nguyen, CSOM ’15. The Dragon Lantern performance, a traditional Chinese dance that uses mounted paper lanterns to imitate dragons, illuminated the theater as the performers lined the aisles with their lanterns, making intricate designs and patterns. The ancient Ribbon Dance, in which dancers create sharp, rhythmic movements using long colorful ribbons, was modernized through the incorporation of contemporary music in lieu of traditional Chinese music. Other acts that explored

contemporary Chinese culture include the Chinese pop music dance and vocal performances, and the Chinese yo-yo routine, in which the performers juggled colored, glowin-the-dark discs on the traditional Chinese yo-yo—a modern approach to a traditional Chinese pastime.

The display of Korean culture began with the Salmunori drum routine choreographed

by Woo Young Choi, A&S ’16, featuring the repetitive percussion of four instruments used to represent the natural elements: thunder, clouds, rain, and wind. The Korean Fan Dance featured dancers in traditional Korean dress, using fans to elegantly imitate images and form patterns.

In one of the more intense performances of the night, students meticulously executed the Korean martial arts tradition, Tae Kwon Do. Similar to the Chinese pop music performances, there was an array of contemporary

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An international prospective on Christian-Jewish relations was highlighted in the third annual Pope John Paul II lecture Sunday night, which featured Rev. Christian M. Rutishauser, S.J. of Switzerland, speaking on the “Jewishness of Jesus” and renewing Christian appreciation.

Rutishauser is in the Provincial of the Swiss Jesuits, as well as a lecturer on Jewish studies at the Faculty of the Philosophy of the Society of Jesus in Munich, Germany.

He is also a member of the Commission for Jewish-Christian Relations of the Swiss and German Bishops Conference and the Vatican delegate at the International Liaison Committee for the Relations with the Jews. In addition to authoring articles and giving lectures around the world on his area of study, Rutishauser led a pilgrimage on foot from Switzerland to Jerusalem two years ago.

Rutishauser broke his lecture into four chapters, each focusing on separate facets of the Christian-Jewish relationship. The first chapter looked at the theological history of the two faiths, noting that many scholars have begun to treat Jesus as simply another historical figure from the ancient world in a modern secularization of faith.

“Many believers gradually came to realize that history alone could not provide adequate spiritual nourishment,” Rutishauser said. “Additionally, there was a danger that Jesus would become one early religious founding figure among many.

“The secular, historical perspective of Jesus has to be widened to include the history of the New Testament period as a whole, and of course, also that of the Old

Testament. The text of the Bible must be read as a document written by believers in antiquity—there is no alternative in order to get the original meaning.”

He also discussed how two religious movements—the Messianic movement and the Rabbinic movement—that sought to reinterpret the history of God’s guidance arose out of the catastrophe that was the destruction of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem.

“They shared core elements of faith, but interpreted them in opposite ways,” Rutishauser said.

A third faith, he said, was formed as Islam began in the seventh century. Islam takes up the same topics and themes as

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Rev. Christian Rutishauser, S.J., discussed the ‘Jewishness of Jesus’ at last Sunday’s event.

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Mass of the Human Race

Today Time: 7 p.m.

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The McMullen Museum will host a free opening reception and special evening viewing of its new exhibit on Parisian interwar photography. The exhibition was curated by professor Asher Anderson.

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Tuesday Time: 8 p.m.

Location: St. Ignatius Church

Assistant professor of music Ralf Gawlick will premiere his eight-voice a cappella Mass with the Grammy-nominated artists-in-residence Choir of Trinity Church Wall Street.

Lecture-Recital Tuesday Time: 4 p.m.

Location: Gasson 100

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Musical group Camerata Mediterranea will celebrate the influence of Arabic and Muslim civilization in medieval Spain with a lecture-recital sponsored by the Institute for the Liberal Arts.

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BC Symphony Orchestra performs winter concert

BY DANIEL PEREA-KANE Heights Staff The Boston College Symphony Orchestra enlivened a cold, wintery afternoon yesterday with an early 20th-century piece by Jean Sibelius.

Sponsored by the BC Music department, the Orchestra performed Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43 as part of its winter concert.

Before conductor of the Symphony Orchestra John Finney introduced the piece, Marissa Baudino, LSOE ’14, announced upcoming concerts including one tonight at 8 p.m. in St. Ignatius Church. The performance will feature the world premiere of the “Mass of the Human Race” by assistant professor of music Ralf Yusuf Gawlick, sung by the eight-voice, Grammy-nominated Choir of Trinity Church Wall Street under the direction of Julian Wachner.

After the orchestra finished warming up, Finney introduced Sibelius as the best known composer to come out of Finland, before stating that the orchestra elected not to have written program notes so as not to give the audience preconceived notions about the piece.

Still, Finney did offer some brief thoughts on the piece, comparing it to an exquisite ballet.

“I’m going to give you a few preconceived notions just to keep in the back of your mind,” he said.

“This is the kind of music that is sheer beauty of melody.”

He also discussed how Sibelius would have seen many beautiful winter days like yesterday while living in Finland.

“One of the things that Sibelius does is to introduce a melody in very small snippets so when he introduces a melody, you have that kind of deja vu of ‘Oh, I’ve heard that before,’” Finney said in in his

introduction before having the orchestra play part of the piece as a preview to illustrate his point.

The first part of the symphony, Allegretto, featured many echoing and overlapping melodies and featured the string section of the orchestra heavily.

The second part, Tempo Andante, Ma Rubato began with a drum roll and then plucking of the violincello. This part also featured the wind section more and was more sober and dramatic than the first part.

“Occasionally, you’ll hear a melody presented without any adornment at all,” Finney said about the piece, referring more to this part.

It continued with low ebbing sounds, flourishes of the flute, a building of the bass and timpani drums, and an abrupt ending.

“Another thing Sibelius does is to overlap things so that there is one beautiful melody and another beautiful melody has already started,” Finney said.

The third part, Vivacissimo, began with high-pitched violins and was more ebullient than the second part, with pounding drums and a chill-inducing climax.

“There’s one beautiful melody with all the violins together with no other accompaniment at all, first played by the entire brass section and then again played by the entire wind section,” Finney said, referring to this part.

The fourth part, Allego Moderato, was magisterial, with whirring sounds toward the end and a final resounding climax. The hour-long concert ended with one minute of sustained applause.

Many students in attendance came to the concert as part of coursework.

“As a student taking intro to music, I enjoyed it as my first concert as it allowed me to apply what I’ve learned so far,” said Jude Poku, A&S ’17. 

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Friday, February 14

6:30 p.m. - A report was filed regarding medical assistance provided to a BC student. The student was later transported to a medical facility.

1:15 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a fire alarm activation in Voute Hall.

Sexual Empowerment and Awareness at Tennessee (SEAT), a student organization at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, is being challenged

by Republican state lawmakers over its second annual “Sex Week,” a series of on-campus events to be held in March.

According to The Huffington Post, the week will feature lectures on sexuality and sexual health, as well as discussions about sexual violence and abstinence, poetry readings, and art and dance shows. After attracting criticism from lawmakers last year, the university cut funding for the week, though SEAT was able to fundraise privately in order to have the events take place as planned.

This year, despite no visible opposition from members of the UT-Knoxville community, several Republican lawmakers have filed resolutions condemning the event and made attempts

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to change the distribution of student activity fee money to defund SEAT’s programming.

University of Tennessee Chancellor Jimmy Cheek, however, pointed out that students voted to implement the mandatory student activity fee—only five percent of which goes to programming. A board with student and administrative representatives voted in the fall to award $20,000 to SEAT to put on Sex Week, and the UT student newspaper The Daily Beacon calculated that only 0.27 percent of student programming fees go toward Sex Week.

Cheek said that students have the right to choose what programs they want on campus.

“That’s the role of great universities—to allow the free exchange of ideas,” Cheek told The Huffington Post. “If we don’t have different ideas, if we don’t have controversial ideas expressed, then we’re not really accomplishing the real mission of the university.” 

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VOICES FROM THE DUSTBOWL “If you could only eat one dining hall food forever, what would it be?”

“I would rather starve.”

—Saika Suzuki, A&S ’17

“Steak tips.”

—Collin Pratt, A&S ’17

“Spinach wrap.”

—Andrew Craig, LSOE ’17

“Mozz sticks.”

—Melissa Dix, A&S ’17

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Fluff ruins pure games

Adriana Mariella The Olympics is the worst.

Not the games themselves, but the feel-good concept that we’ve tacked onto the Olympics that temporarily satisfies NBC’s need for primetime coverage every two years. As I watched the opening ceremonies, I couldn’t help but wonder which athlete will be this year’s Cinderella story, who will be this year’s Michael Phelps or Fab Five (though I have a few ideas). Even more, I wonder if he or she will be able to pull off another remarkable win for Team USA. For us, the games are not just an opportunity for patriotism or the enjoyment of sports at the highest level—they are indubitable proof of the kind of justice we long for. We anxiously wait not only for outcomes, but also for the victory of that athlete whose story establishes him or her as the deserving newcomer, the one persevering after a debilitating injury, the legend-in-the-making.

The Olympics plays out for us a familiar American story about hard work paid off—it reminds us of everything that’s romantic about capitalism. I am constantly rooting for the unlikely victor, the one whose success seems worked for rather than effortless, the underdog who learned to ice skate with no lessons and with her big sister’s hand-me-down skates.

The more meager the beginnings, the more delicious the victory.

There’s even magic in loss.

When our should-be victor loses, when his or her leg gives out midrace, or when he or she misses the triple axel he or she has made hundreds of times before, we are still as emotionally affected as we would have been if he or she had won. We see his or her story as one of slighted victory rather than one of failure and defeat. If he or she is lucky, the poignant loss will be the subject of a Visa commercial next Olympics season, narrated by Morgan Freeman.

I don’t want to discount the games entirely—they do show us real human perseverance and are a humbling example of immense accomplishment. For those who make it to the podium, I can only imagine that the experience of victory is just as magical as we’ve been told it is. For them, their stories are not just this year’s media victories, but ones lifetimes in the making, ones viscerally felt.

For those of us watching at home, though, the magic of victory is partly fabricated. Since I’m no judge of talent (and since skating backwards seems like a medalworthy accomplishment to me), I root for whomever’s back-story is conveniently relayed to me as the races and routines play out on screen.

I know I sound like some sort of Olympics Grinch, but the games have become so focused on reassuring us that the world is a great place where all who deserve victory encounter it. They can’t inspire the next generation of Olympians or show us how amazing humans really are when we’re not getting the unfiltered story.

This is unfortunate because the Olympics is the one thing that doesn’t need NBC’s “feel-good” narratives or the embellishments of the entertainment industry to be the demonstration of real perseverance. These athletes are the real deal, Celine Dion is in a world of auto-tune, Babe Ruth is in a world of HGH. Yet, that pure talent is lost when what could be unadulterated victories are hidden behind fluffy human-interest reporting. We don’t need NBC to make the Olympics exciting, it implicitly is. I want the Olympics to be the stronghold of authenticity I always thought it was. Until then, I’ll just have to cheerlead the deserving Team USA with the sad, underlying awareness of the narratives that NBC paid $775 million to broadcast.

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

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Barrozo backs adoption bill in letter to Congress

By Nathan McGuire Asst. News Editor

An assistant professor in the BC Law School helped organize 24 full-time law professors to sign a letter urging Congress to support the Children in Families First Act of 2013 (CHIFF), legislation that would redirect U.S. resources to ensure that children grow up in families.

Paulo Barrozo, who focuses on international law, criminal law, and legal theory, worked with Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Bartholet to draft the letter of support.

Thirty-four professors from Harvard Law have signed it.

“When I wrote my colleagues with detailed background information about CHIFF they immediately saw the importance of the central provisions the letter highlights,” Barrozo said in an email. “Their overwhelming support was forthcoming, and I felt very fortunate to belong to such a faculty.”

The bipartisan legislation was introduced in the Senate on Sept. 19

by Senators Mary Landrieu and Roy Blunt and in the House on Oct. 23

by Representatives Kay Granger and Karen Bass. If passed, CHIFF would realign U.S. foreign assistance and goals to promote adoption throughout the world. “[This bill] is about recognizing the fundamental truth—and I think universal principle accepted—that children actually belong in families,” Landrieu said in a press conference about the bill in September. “They are born into families—they should stay in those families where they can, family perseveration is important, but when children are separated from families, we need to do … a better job of reconnecting children to families because it’s fundamentally important to their welfare and development.”

By some estimates, there are over 150 million orphans in the world. Over the last eight years, however, there has been about a 62 percent decrease in

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Barrozo worked with Bartholet of Harvard Law School in order to draft the letter, which outlines the professors’ support for the bipartisan CHIFF Act. U.S. families adopting children from other countries. The process can take years to complete, and on average it costs about $30,000, according to the State Department’s 2012 report on inter-country adoption.

“CHIFF would simplify [the adoption] process for families who want to adopt internationally and help foreign governments develop stronger child welfare systems that can find a caring family for every child in need,” said a press release issued by Granger’s office in October.

The bill would not increase current spending levels, but rather it would redirect current funding to new programs that would work more efficiently and effectively. It would

create a new State Department bureau by moving the Office of Children’s Issues, Adoption Division into a new office that would advocate for child welfare abroad. A Senate-confirmed leader would lead the new bureau, which would be called the Bureau of Vulnerable Children and Family Security. Further, the bill would permit the State Department to consider countries’ adoption efforts when allocating foreign aid.

The bill would also streamline the roles of U.S. government agencies dealing with adoptions so that they could better partner with religious communities and adoption agencies.

The colleagues’ letter outlines the three major principles of the

legislation that the faculty members support. Most importantly, they highlight that CHIFF will recognize that children have a fundamental right to a nurturing and permanent family, and that the bill will commit the U.S. to vindicate this right domestically and abroad.

One of two sub-points the letter addresses is that the bill would prioritize reunifying children with their original parents or finding them homes within their home countries.

“CHIFF comes after millennia of prejudice against adoption and almost two decades of radical discrimination against adoption that brings adopting parent(s) and adopted children across international borders,” Barrozo said.

Some foreign nations have long sent needy children to institutions before allowing them to be adopted by prospective parents from other countries.

“CHIFF promotes the idea that if countries wish to give preference to families residing in country, that preference should be pursued concurrently with adoption across borders,” he said.

In addition to the writing the letter, Barrozo and Bartholet have also contacted every member of the Massachusetts congressional delegation. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Reps. Joe Kennedy and Jim McGovern have signed on as co-sponsors of their house’s version of the bill. n

Burns Library exhibit displays historical menus

Emily fahey / heights editor

From now until May, Burns Library will display an array of historical menus from its archives. The menus offer insight into cultural, social, and culinary trends throughout history.

Students, groups perform at event celebrating diversity

By Julie Orenstein Assoc. News Editor Spoken word poetry, a cappella, and dance performed by Boston College undergraduates were the central focus Thursday night at “Speak for Your Change,” an event celebrating diversity and cultural identity.

FACES, which co-hosted the event along with the AHANA Leadership Council (ALC), is committed to educating the BC community about issues of race and identity and facilitating dialogues to eliminate racial polarization and discrimination. The concept behind “Speak for Your Change” was to share stories conveying individuals’ experiences with and feelings about race, as well as to feature artistic performances that honored various cultures.

Rusty Cosino, A&S ’17, began the evening with a spoken-word performance that reflected on his life growing up as a first-generation Filipino-American in San Francisco. Cosino shared that he felt caught between the older and younger generations of his family, calling himself the hyphen in “Filipino-American.” Although he often felt weighed down by expectations

and external pressures, Cosino said he refuses to be Americanized.

“There’s nothing more American than being yourself,” he said.

Two songs from R&B and soul a cappella group B.E.A.T.S. (Black Experience in America Through Song) followed Cosino’s poetry.

Andrea Alonso and Tom Evans, both A&S ’14, were featured soloists on renditions of Michael Jackson’s “Man in the Mirror” and Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy,” respectively.

Alex Li, A&S ’14, then shared a poem entitled, “Letter to My 14-Year-Old Self,” which traced how his identity has changed in the seven years since the death of his father.

“Appreciate the silence of your peaceful soul, don’t be so eager for the future,” Li said. “The time will come when silence will feel like a fallen friend. You will yearn for the days when innocence was as familiar to you as your father’s laugh, and that too that will fade.

“Listen to jazz and remember that the best things in life are always improvised,” Li said. “Even in the darkest of days, remember you are never alone. Even in the darkest of days, breathe deep, and remember.”

Amanda Espiritu, A&S ’14, performed two pieces of slam poetry, both touching upon issues affecting women and their treatment in society.

“I’m sorry I’m having the time of my life being me, and that you think being single makes me lonely,” Espiritu said. “Honestly, being in a relationship with the wrong person is the loneliest thing in the world.”

Espiritu also spoke on the portrayal of women in the media, and how women are frequently made to feel inferior if their appearance does not match the cultural conception of beauty.

“No one looks their best all the time, but you can be your best self,” she said.

The event also featured dances honoring the Irish and Indian cultures, as members from both BC Irish Dance and Masti performed throughout the evening.

Danny DeLeon, A&S ’15, another spoken word performer, said, “My pockets may not be lined with gold or green, but I understand the power of a smile, I understand the power of hug, I understand the power of faith, of love. I understand that happiness cannot be bought. I wouldn’t

change the world, but first, I want to see more of it.”

The final musical performance was by South Asian musical group Shaan, which performed several traditional songs as well as a rendition of Justin Timberlake’s “Mirrors.”

Yanyi Weng, LSOE ’15, shared episodes from her experience as an immigrant, focusing on how she learned to speak up for her family and those who could not speak up for themselves. One of these instances involved writing a letter to her mother’s boss, as her mother did not speak English and struggled to communicate in the workplace. Weng now works as a translator for her mother’s company, using the position as an opportunity to speak for her fellow immigrants.

She also spoke about a trip she took to Jamaica and what she gained from the local people, discovering that everyone is afflicted by fears and uncertainties, whether this fear is manifested outwardly or not.

“While we may not struggle with physical deformation, we struggle with emotional and spiritual deformation,” Weng said. “We live our lives as though we were

trapped in our bodies with our minds immobilized by fears.”

The final student performer was Franchesco Martinez, A&S ’14, who discussed examples of racism in his life.

“I was a dark piece of matter, insignificant thoughts that didn’t matter, sub-human existing in the subconscious,” Martinez said.

“They taught the student body with a book of lies that I was different. I never understood their violence so to them, I was ignorant.”

Lillie Albert, an associate professor in the Lynch School of Education and the faculty advisor for FACES, closed the evening by reflecting on her time growing up in the 1960s during the height of the Civil Rights Movement. Rather than sharing an original piece of writing, Albert recited Maya Angelou’s poem “Still I Rise,” which resonated with her because of her past experience. She also said that she has looked to the poem as a source of strength when she has felt challenged by racial issues during her 18 years at BC. “You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise,” Albert read. n

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Dick Kelley dies at 48 Kelley, from A1 the stairs in his condo. The apartment allowed him to stay involved with the athletic department. Ryan Anderson regularly walked or took the bus to visit him.

When Anderson came to BC, Kelley was healthy. The junior grew close to Kelley in his time at BC and would visit the SID’s office.

“DK has had a humongous impact on my BC experience,” Anderson said on Sunday after the men’s basketball team game against Notre Dame. “When I showed up, my recruiting class, he was completely healthy.”

Even as Kelley’s condition worsened, he continued to meet with members of the team.

Kelley had last season’s recruiting class over for dinner in its first week on campus to get to know them. He had 10-minute talks with Olivier Hanlan and Rahon on being a studentathlete at BC. Kelley spoke to them about the importance of representing the school well and being involved in the BC community. Those conversations were some of Kelley’s last before the disease virtually took away his ability to speak.

Kelley loved BC and what the school

stands for. He had great influence over those who spent time with him, especially Anderson.

“Just the impact he had, calling me into his office, texting me, going to eat with him at dinner, and stuff like that,” Anderson said.

“I’m always going to be extremely thankful for the things that he helped me with in my BC experience.”

Kelley will be remembered as an exceptional sports information director. He served student-athletes, his colleagues, and members of the media from the Boston-area and around the country.

Kelley mentored the likes of Matt Ryan, Reggie Jackson, Mike Mattou, and Jared Dudley in his tenure at the Heights.

Kelley is survived by his parents, his brother Ted, wife Carrie, brother Patrick, nephews Michael and Ryan, and nieces Emma and Meghan.

Visitation hours for Kelley will be held on Monday, Feb. 17 from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Lehman, Reen & McNamara Funeral Home in Brighton, and the Funeral Mass will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 18 at 10 a.m. at the Church of Saint Ignatius of Loyola.

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Longtime member of the BC athletic community Dick Kelley, BC ’87, passed away at 48.

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The atheltic department will assess the future of, and further develop, the Gold Pass system.

Gold Pass undergoes review Gold Pass, from A1 seniority, the potential for carrying over points year to year, and other game day point-earning possibilities. Ultimately, DiLoreto is concentrated on making the system as fair and clear as possible.

“For me it’s getting a majority of students who think the process is fair,” DiLoreto said. “I think we’ve made great strides in that this year overall with the Gold Pass. I know it’s not perfect—that’s why we’re doing a survey now, because I really want to gauge what their thoughts are. What did we do really well? What can we improve on? And from a process standpoint, what do they want to see in year two?”

One project Athletics is already exploring is the development of a Gold Pass smartphone app. While all the specifics aren’t nailed down yet, the app is being worked on with Row 27 Studios and will be used to increase student awareness of point totals and game alerts.

“I want this to be built by the students,” DiLoreto said. “At the end of the day I want it to be exactly what the students would want it to be.”

While the app would seek to improve communication between the athletic department and students, for students without smartphones, a continued email

alert system and a potential off- and inseason newsletter would be available as alternative options.

The app is still some ways down the road, but right now, Athletics is working on incentivizing students to continue to use their Gold Passes in the spring.

“It’s up to us within the next month— the next two to three weeks—to figure out the specifics,” DiLoreto said. “We’ve talked about a lot of concepts, but what we really want to do is nail down the specifics of what we’re going to offer, depending only on when the weather starts to get good and we can actually have folks out to watch and attend games.”

Going forward, DiLoreto said an ideal ticketing system would foster high attendance, provide a feeling of reward and an understanding of the process, create a strong return rate, and result in an overall feeling of fairness.

“The goal at the end of the day for us is to get people to be passionate and support BC Athletics within an understanding that the students’ demands are very high right now, academically, with all their time management,” DiLoreto said. “And we’re understanding that and trying to figure out the best ways to communicate with them and make sure that they’re aware of when games are coming up and then incentivize them in ways to attend.” n

Chinese and Korean student associations perform ‘Jade’ ‘Jade,’ from A1 vocal and dance routines set to Korean pop music, or K-Pop. Closing the Korean acts was a performance by Aero-K, the Korean hip-hop dance group and former winners of the cultural category in the ALC Showdown, an annual dance competition.

Beyond the performances, the show included a presentation from the Boston chapter of the non-profit organization Kollaboration.

“Kollaboration Boston is a branch of Kollaboration, a national non-profit that promotes Asian-American involvement in the music and entertainment industry,” said Grace Lee, executive director of Kollaboration Boston and A&S ’14.

Kollaboration seeks to foster positive perceptions of Asians and Pacific Islanders

in the arts by providing a platform for artists to showcase their talents, through talent competition.

The Boston chapter, founded by Boston College alumnus Eric Nam, A&S ’11, has seen much growth since its establishment in 2011.

“This year at Kollaboration Boston we are trying to expand our reach to other schools, and show our support for cultural shows and cultural organizations in Boston,” said Eric An, director of operations and CSOM ’14.

The showcase concluded with a modern dance routine, including performers from both CSA and KSA. The joint performance promoted inclusiveness between Chinese and Korean cultures, while still acknowledging the individuality of cultural distinctions. By doing so, the routine communicated the aim of the the Jade Awards—an appreciation of cultural diversity and acceptance. In the end, no single

performance was awarded the Jade Award, but—in conjunction with the theme of cultural acceptance—all on stage shared the honor.

Beyond its modern exploration of Chinese and Korean tradition, The Jade Awards served as a platform for generating greater, more

knowledgeable cultural discussion.

“Culture Show not only gives members the opportunity to explore these two amazing cultures, but also allows us to share them with both the Boston College community, and the greater Boston area,” Hong said. n

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CSA and KSA members promoted Asian heritage through their annual culture show, ‘Jade.’

Christianity, yet not the same sacred texts.

“While all three faiths are sister religions, it is only Judaism and Christianity that are twins,” Rutishauser said.

The second section of the lecture discussed the view of Christianity in light of Judaism and some of the fundamental questions at the heart of the relationship between the two religions. Among these questions were those regarding the old covenant between God and the Jewish people and the new covenant with the Church through Jesus, and whether they were two separate covenants or the renewal or extension of one covenant.

He also questioned what meaning Jesus could have to Jews if God made a covenant with them before Jesus’ time, and where Christians stand on Israel as the Promised Land.

“Too often in history, Church reform and revision took place at the expense of the Jews, and this often went unnoticed,” Rutishauser said. “It is crucially important that Christians remember their relationship with Judaism constantly.”

Rutishauser then moved on to a more detailed discussion of the Feast of the Circumcision of Christ and the day of Judaism as lenses through which one could learn about the enduring Jewish elements within the Catholic tradition.

“The Church’s relationship to Judaism must be entrenched into the liturgical calendar in the celebration of the faith and the prayer itself,” he said. “Only then do we truly reach out to the grassroots, and we don’t remain only in a circle of scholars or people with special interest.”

The Feast of the Circumcision was abolished in Roman Catholic liturgy in 1960, for reasons, he said, still relatively unclear. In recent years, though, there have been calls by some Catholic theologians to reintroduce the celebration of the feast. Rutishauser said that the liturgy for the feast would have to be carefully considered to reflect the revised understanding of Christian-Jewish relations since the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s. Vatican II focused on relations between the Catholic Church and the modern world, including other religions such as Judaism.

“After a long history of rejection and persecution, the relationship of the Christians to the Jews is indeed a hallmark of true peace,” Rutishauser said.

Within the last two decades, several European countries have begun to recognize a day of Judaism in order to raise public awareness of the redefinition of the Church’s relationship with the Jewish faith. While it has been proposed that the Vatican institute an official day of Judaism for the entire Church, each bishop conference has been left to introduce its own day based on the varying relationships between the Church and synagogue around the world.

“The day of Judaism was conceived as a day of dialogue,” Rutishauser said.

“At the same time, it is a day of reaffirming the Church’s Jewish heritage.” n

Lessons learned from Dick Kelley, a friend and role model Austin Tedesco “There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness.” – David Foster Wallace Despite some relentless questioning, Dick Kelley wasn’t going to budge.

“How good are they? Are they going to be ready to go right away? Do you think they’re going to start?”

They were questions I should’ve known wouldn’t get answered. Kelley just sat in his chair on the other end of a thin table in the Boston College media suite and stared at me like I was crazy. He took a few deliberate breaths and shook his head.

It was the spring of 2012, I was an annoying-as-hell freshman on the BC student newspaper, and Kelley had information I wanted. Two guards, Joe Rahon and Olivier Hanlan, were set to join the BC basketball team in the fall. Kelley was the basketball sports information director, and there was at least mild hype surrounding their arrival.

“Austin,” he said, “you don’t understand.

They’re just such good people.”

Displeased, I prodded some more. I asked if Hanlan could play defense and how deadly Rahon was from three, and each time Kelley gave a variation of the same response. He said I needed to meet them when they got to campus. He said that I just needed to talk to them. They weren’t even officially students yet, but Kelley still talked about the two players with pride in his voice. They were going to be Eagles, and that meant they were going to be loved by Dick Kelley.

Kelley died last night at Massachusetts General Hospital. He was diagnosed with

amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in September of 2011, and the horrible, unfair disease crippled him until yesterday when he passed away peacefully.

A lot of people are going to say that Kelley, affectionately known as DK, was the true embodiment of BC and everything it stands for—but that wouldn’t be fair, because he set the bar even higher than that.

Throughout his fight with ALS, he was an inspiration. Before that, though, he was the best role model I’ve ever had.

It’s a little awkward and potentially uncouth to share stories about DK in a newspaper column after his death, but although he touched plenty of extremely fortunate lives at the Heights, there are still a lot of people who never got to experience his passion and care. So I think some stories need to be told.

As I packed up my stuff to leave the media suite that day, Kelley griped at me with a lovable grin.

“What, you’re just going to leave?” he said. The interview I’d done with a player had ended, my hoops questions were going nowhere, and I had started putting my stuff into my backpack because there was nothing left for me—except DK. Feeling bad, I stayed and talked. He berated me a bit about how The Heights didn’t print the scores of every game in our sports section. I tried to argue with him, saying that they’re all online and will be online forever, but that just made it worse. I had dug myself into a hole. There was no debating with him when he knew he was right. We were the historical record of the University, and the scores needed to be there. And, well, now there’s a weekly scoreboard in every Thursday print issue.

A few months later, I messed up again.

It was way worse this time. The basketball team was doing headshot photos one day, and Kelley said I could come by and interview any players I wanted about their trip to Spain over the summer. It was incredibly generous access, and I was almost giddy when I told then-Sports Editor Greg Joyce about it.

So I got to the media suite that day, and I waited. The headshots were taking place in the interview room next door. I assumed Kelley would come grab me when they were free. Ten minutes passed by, then 20, then 30, and still nothing. I didn’t hear any noise on the other side of the door, but I was a stupid, inexperienced quasi-reporter and I was too afraid to text DK and check in.

“Where have you been?” he asked when he saw me sitting in the media suite nearly 45 minutes after he had told me to meet him. It was the most frustrated he’d ever been with me. The players had come and gone already, and I had missed them.

I apologized profusely. I felt like crap. All I wanted to do was leave and not bother him any more, but he wasn’t having it.

We walked through the Conte Forum maze from the media suite up to Power Gym. The ALS had already started to hit, so he walked slowly and with a limp. It didn’t keep him from telling me how dumb it was for me to sit there the whole time and not say anything, though.

Once we got to the gym, he grabbed Rahon and point guard Jordan Daniels and had them take a break from their prepractice shootaround to answer my (likely stupid) questions about the Spain trip. DK wanted me to learn from the mistake, but he wasn’t going to punish me for it.

Ryan Anderson, a forward in my class,

came over to say hi to DK after the interview. They chatted and then DK introduced us, although Anderson and I had talked in interview settings before.

“Why aren’t you guys friends?” Kelley said. “You should be.”

We made excuses about living on Newton and Upper, but that wasn’t the case. I’ve always been awful about connecting with student-athletes on anything except their sport, and that’s not the basis of any sort of real friendship. Although he worked in athletics and loved basketball, DK rarely wanted to talk about it, neither with the media nor with the athletes. He knew that there was so much to people beyond the sports they played or covered, and he found that more interesting and more important.

“Athletes have coaches who instruct them on the game,” Kelley wrote in an email last May. “They don’t need me weighing in on their play or rehashing the recent games.

I hope to engage them in non-sports talk. I take an interest in their lives away from the athletic arena. I have other interests and so do they.”

Kelley was responding to questions I had sent him for a feature I was working on.

The Heights had selected him for its Person of the Year, and since he couldn’t speak anymore because of the disease, we did the interview over email. I sent him four questions. It took me more than two hours to write them. I knew if I did one little thing wrong—if I misspelled something, got my grammar wrong, or asked something dumb or trite—he’d never let me hear the end of it, and I’d also in some way be letting him down.

My four questions totaled 182 words.

His response was 668 words of beautiful, thoughtful, and pristine English. DK

couldn’t even type anymore, so he had to shift a cursor around a computer screen by moving his head, letting a dot set on the wire between his glasses tell the cursor where to go. I have no idea how long it took him—probably hours. When I got his response, I sat there in my bed crying in the middle of the day.

I wanted to see him, partially because I had to for the feature, but mainly because it had been way too long. Kelley hadn’t been around Conte Forum much since his disease had gotten worse. Knowing I needed material for the story, Kelley had me come by his apartment on a day that he’d ordered pizza for members of the basketball team.

His family and an old friend were there, too. I ended up having way too much to write about. Kelley played it off like a lucky coincidence, but I knew, even when he was suffering through his fight, he was still helping and still teaching me.

A couple days later, I needed DK to clarify a few facts for the story. He responded in less than an hour. After a thoughtful answer, he concluded the email with: “Please feel free to email me if you find you need anything else.

Good luck with finals.

DK” He made me want to be better. He influenced more lives on this campus than we’ll ever be able to count. He will be sorely and severely missed.

“There might not be angels, but there are people who might as well be angels.” – David Foster Wallace. n

Austin Tedesco is an editor forThe Heights. He can be reached at news@ bcheights.com.

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‘The Heights’ endorses Fiore-Chettiar & Marchese The Heights endorses Nanci FioreChettiar and Chris Marchese, both A&S ’15, for president and executive vice president of UGBC. The Fiore-Chettiar-Marchese team’s platform offers the best and most realistic vision for Boston College’s student government in the year ahead. With well-developed plans of action for many of their platform points and extensive UGBC experience under their belts, Fiore-Chettiar and Marchese are best equipped to execute their vision for UGBC in the year ahead.

UGBC currently stands at a crossroads. Both last year and this year were spent looking inward—last year with the creation of an entirely new structure for UGBC and this year with its implementation. UGBC, and whoever leads it next year, needs to move past this transitional phase, turn outward, and focus on building new relationships with both students and the administration. In the past, UGBC’s reputation has largely been defined by the successes or failures of its most visible projects—namely, the Fall and Spring Concert. UGBC must take the recent divestment of the programming department as a chance to establish a name for itself as a serious and responsible organization with the capability to advocate for more than students’ entertainment.

In this new structure, Fiore-Chettiar and Marchese have the clear advantage.

As current senators, both have a considerable amount of UGBC experience— Fiore-Chettiar in both the executive and legislative branch, and Marchese in the legislative branch, where he is now serving as the president pro tempore of the Student Assembly (SA). Both are wellversed in how the student government works and what steps must be taken in order to effect their proposed changes.

Although they do seem like a classic example of an insider team, Fiore-Chettiar and Marchese are aware of UGBC’s past shortcomings and have expressed both frustration with the way things are currently run and a desire to change UGBC culture and the manner in which it interacts with the rest of BC. They both advocated for more transparency in the SA this year, and, if elected, they promise to increase student awareness and access to UGBC’s initiatives, advocacy, and expenditures. Their plans include regular State of UGBC meetings, town halls, and more outreach to students, all of which are promising in terms of keping the student body informed and holding UGBC accountable for its actions.

The team of Lucas Levine and Vance Vergara, both A&S ’15, on the other hand, lacks a realistic plan for implementing its platform points. While Levine and Vergara outline several short-term goals in their “100 Days Plan” that may appeal to many students, they have not detailed any coherent larger vision, or even laid out the steps they would take to execute their immediate plans. They also appear to have little understanding of how policy advocacy works. While Levine and Vergara have been extremely active over the past three weeks, they offer the student body no specific way to hold them accountable for sustaining that level of commitment and energy—which is essential for the year-long term in office. Although running as outsiders lends their team a certain amount of strength, it is far more important that they seem to have no real perception of how to effect change in the organization.

Fiore-Chettiar and Marchese offer a balanced combination of short-term goals that can be accomplished during the next year and long-term objectives for which they can lay the groundwork.

For example, they want to advocate for increased student rights, especially regarding free speech on campus, and use UGBC’s budget to support more green initiatives.

They also seem to have a good grasp of the larger, often unaddressed, cultural issues facing BC students. Starting within UGBC, they want to increase the number of students who receive Bystander Education training, by encouraging Registered Student Organizations (RSOs) to have their members trained in the Bystander program—they said that they would incentivize that process by using it as a factor when making funding decisions. Another concern that has been a focus of their campaign is that of socioeconomic status, which they want to address both by increasing campus

discussion on the topic through forums like BC Ignites and by offering new resources, such as a UGBC-run iClicker rental program and a BC-specific textbook exchange website, to help students cut costs. Both of these plans are well within the purview of UGBC, can be accomplished during a single year, and would help students save money on essentials for a college education.

These kinds of specific and measured goals are indicative of the sort of planning which their opponents lack. Both Levine and Vergara are deficient in UGBC experience and lack a nuanced understanding of how the student government, advocacy, and the University administration function.

Given that advocacy is the primary role of the new UGBC, the possibility of unprepared leaders in such a position is disconcerting.

In their long-term vision, the FioreChettiar-Marchese team has outlined several areas in which it can build a foundation for the next few UGBC administrations. Eventually, they would like to see both behind-the-scenes improvements, like a student seat on the Board of Trustees, and more visible changes, such as the establishment of an on-campus pub. Fiore-Chettiar and Marchese have broken down the path to achieving said goals into steps and are taking a realistic approach to what they can and cannot hope to achieve in one year.

In addition to a well-developed platform, Fiore-Chettiar and Marchese have drafted a timeline, which matches most of their platform points with specific dates by which they should be accomplished. This is a welcome variation on the usual campaign material, as it provides a straightforward and easy way for the student body to hold the team accountable for the promises they make during the campaign season—a perennially difficult task. Along with a timeline, they have broken down some of their platform points based on difficulty, recognizing that some of their goals will take more time than others.

There are certainly areas in which the Fiore-Chettiar-Marchese team must improve. As UGBC insiders, Fiore-Chettiar and Marchese likely do not have the best perception of what the average BC student wants from the student government, which is one of the areas in which the Levine-Vergara team excels. Throughout the campaign season, Levine and Vergara have made a visible and concerted effort to connect with the student body and learn what changes they want to see. If elected, Fiore-Chettiar and Marchese must follow in the footsteps of their opponents and put in the time to step outside of the UGBC bubble and communicate with students from many different parts of the BC community, so as to remain aware of what concerns most BC students. Additionally, in order to raise awareness of what UGBC does for the student body, they ought to execute smaller, yet more visible, parts of their platform early in the year.

Although Fiore-Chettiar and Marchese are both strong candidates, the team dynamic is of some concern.

While serving in the SA this year, they have often voted against each other on major resolutions. This is disconcerting, given how important it is for the president and executive vice president to work well together. In order to be successful next year, Fiore-Chettiar and Marchese need to step fully into their respective roles. Within UGBC, they should work to foster a collegial and professional atmosphere among the departments and branches and must be willing to compromise when necessary.

If elected, they must also keep in mind that it is far easier to talk about transparency in someone else’s administration than it is to remain committed to their promises of a open government—when problems arise, they must be willing to stay honest with the student body about their shortcomings.

While the Levine-Vergara team brings a fresh perspective and some good ideas for UGBC, the Fiore-Chettiar-Marchese team will do better in today’s environment at running the student government and making the most of their year in office. Their team is in the best position to draw on this year’s transition and set the foundations for further action in the years to come.

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LetterS to the Editor The following letters are in response to “University, parents aim to keep Campus School at BC,” an article by Connor Farley, originally published on 2/13/14:

Campus School staff gives thanks Last October, Boston College began exploring the possibility of affiliating the Campus School with the Kennedy Day School at Franciscan’s Hospital, and the subsequent moving of the Campus School to their facility.

During this process BC became aware of the passion and excellence for which we are recognized. The outpouring of support from all facets of the BC community and especially from parents of Campus School students and the Campus School Volunteers has been amazing. Current BC students and alumni as well as former Campus School students and their families from many years past contacted us and wrote letters about the positive impact their experience the Campus School had on their lives.

Their appreciation gave the staff affirmation for our work and commitment to our students.

As announced in Thursday’s Chronicle and Heights, the Campus School will remain in Campion Hall and continue to be an integral part of the BC community. Parents, staff and University administration will be working together to develop a strategic plan to improve the School and its services. We deeply appreciate the opportunity that BC is giving us, our students, and their families to work together to continue building a school that fulfills the mission of providing our students with the best possible services.

The Staff of the BC Campus School

Campus School parents say thank you Father Leahy and the administration at Boston College have gotten a lot of press lately related to the possible closure of the Campus School. Now that BC has made the decision to keep the Campus School on campus, it’s time for us, as parents of a Campus School student, to acknowledge that decision and express our appreciation. I know we speak for all the Campus School families when we say thank you. We cannot tell you how much this means to us.

Our 6-year-old son, Jack, has been a student at the BC Campus School for three years. Jack has Down syndrome, epilepsy, severe developmental delays, and many other complex medical issues. He is also a sweet, gentle, adored little boy who loves his school more than anything. Since starting at the Campus School, Jack has thrived and grown and become a valued member of a community. The exceptional teachers, therapists, staff, and volunteers recognize Jack’s value and potential and make it their mission to teach and support him in a positive, encouraging environment. Jack lights up when he’s at the Campus School. The Campus School is the best thing in Jack’s life, and because Jack is the center of our family, the Campus School is the best thing in our lives.

In the past three years since Jack started attending the Campus School, our family has made so many wonderful memories at BC. We’ve attended a BC football game, walked around the reservoir with students and staff at the Fun Run, Walk & Roll, celebrated Jack’s birthday with Baldwin, and cheered for the Campus School volunteers running the marathon. Jack has taken the ice with the hockey team, shopped at the campus bookstore, interacted with student athletes on Spirit Day, enjoyed performances by BC music, dance, and theater groups, and gone trick-or-treating through the hallways of Campion Hall. Jack’s life is fuller and richer because of his experiences at the Campus School and at BC in general.

When we heard that the Campus School might close,

we were devastated, confused, and scared. Like so many other parents, volunteers, students, alumni, and staff, we wrote a letter to the committee deciding the fate of the Campus School expressing our concerns. In our letter, we challenged BC to do the right thing and to “preserve the magic of the Campus School.” We are so relieved, impressed, and grateful that BC has decided to do just that. We recognize that BC is making sacrifices to keep the Campus School on campus. While we firmly believe the value of the Campus School outweighs those sacrifices, we don’t take them for granted. As the parents of one of the younger students at the Campus School, we hope this collaboration between BC and the Campus School continues for years to come. We’d be delighted if Jack could attend the Campus School until he graduates at age 22.

We also want to say thank you for outpouring of support we’ve witnessed from the Campus School volunteers and so many other BC students, alumni, and faculty members. To be honest, being the parents of a child with severe special needs can be isolating. More than ever, we feel like we are a part of a supportive and loving community. Before Jack started school, it was our hope that he could make a friend or two. Now, three years later, Jack has hundreds of friends—classmates, yes, but also two wonderful buddies who hang out with him weekly, hundreds of volunteers, and so many other BC students and staff members.

As we expressed to the decision-makers in our letter, “Having Jack in our lives has changed us for the better. Jack has taught us invaluable lessons about compassion, sensitivity, and acceptance, and the true meaning of value, potential and success. In making this decision, you have an opportunity to demonstrate what BC values.”

Thank you, BC, for demonstrating what you value.

Ben and Robyn Dollar Parents of Campus School student

BC made right decision on Campus School The Campus School Volunteers would like to take this opportunity to thank Father Leahy and his administration for hearing the students, parents, faculty, and volunteers of the Campus School, and offering us the chance to not only keep it at Boston College but also strengthen it into the best program possible. The Campus School has been a staple of the BC community, and I believe that we can do even more to help these students grow as members of our University. As I have often said before, our volunteers benefit infinitely more from our relationships with these students than we can ever offer them. In my opinion, there is no better example of the Jesuit ideals than in the work done at the Campus School. These students challenge us in our everyday lives to think beyond ourselves, and find meaning in something greater.

In collecting and reading letters from each volunteer, the same message came through—the Campus School has made a difference in the BC community. Everyone who has been touched by some element of the Campus School shares in the belief that it is a place that epitomizes the values of BC, and creates men and women for others. It is difficult, and maybe even impossible, to adequately express what the students of the Campus School mean to us, but there is no doubting the inspiration felt there everyday.

When I heard about the potential closing, I began to think about what the Campus School has meant to me over my four years at BC. I thought about the first time I met my buddy, Phillip, and how I have had the chance to watch him grow and see his personality change. I thought about putting together Semi-Formals each spring, and cheering for the students as they made their way into the

celebration. I thought about the friendships I have made with other BC students, who have equally benefited from knowing the power of the Campus School. I thought of all these things and realized just how much our University would lose without the Campus School.

I also realized how blessed I was to have found this place, because in many ways I had never had to think about my life without the Campus School before. I had become so accustomed to the Campus School being a part of my college experience, and I just assumed it would be there forever. The thought of it closing was a reality check, and showed me just how much more the Campus School has meant to me than I had ever realized. To think that future Eagles would go through their four years without even knowing the existence of this school was so difficult to fathom.

That is why the Campus School Volunteers would like to thank BC for giving us this chance to make ourselves better. We not only want the Campus School to get by at BC, but we want it to soar to new heights and thrive here.

You have given us this opportunity, and we will make the most of it. We would love nothing more than for future generations of Eagles to share in this experience. Words cannot express the gratefulness we share as a community, not only for giving us this opportunity, but also for helping us to truly recognize the inspiration that the Campus School has offered each and every one of us here at BC. Chris Marino Co-President, Campus School Volunteers A&S ’14

Gratitude for BC’s Campus School decision It is with utmost gratitude that I write to you today with regards to the decision to give us an opportunity to implement our strategic plan to keep the Campus School on the campus of Boston College. We are elated by this decision and eager to begin working towards the many goals set before us. We are committed to our children, our school, and our staff. With the proper supports in place, I am confident that the Campus School will be the best it can be and a school that will continue to make BC proud.

I thank you for sending us two amazing men and

ambassadors with whom we were blessed to work, Joe Quinn and Leo Sullivan. They were willing to listen to us and carry our message to you. They were consummate gentlemen, attentive and engaging.

I truly believe that the Holy Spirit was working overtime through all of us on this endeavor and I thank the good Lord that the Campus School has been give a second chance.

The Heights welcomes Letters to the Editor not exceeding 400 words and column submissions that do not exceed 700 words for its op/ed pages.

The Heights reserves the right to edit for clarity, brevity, accuracy, and to prevent libel. The Heights also reserves the right to write headlines and choose illustrations to accompany pieces submitted

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Submissions must be signed and should include the author’s connection to Boston College, address, and phone number. Letters and columns can be submitted online at www.bcheights.com, by email to editor@bcheights.com, in person, or by mail to Editor, The Heights, 113 McElroy Commons, Chestnut Hill, Mass. 02467.

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Giving thanks for the Campus School Introduction to politics Mary Kate Nolan BC Grounds Crew - Thank you to the grounds maintenance department of Facilities Ser vices for keeping our roads clear and our dignity intact, so that we could still wear our rubber-soled sneakers on the way to the Plex and not risk falling on our face—or, even worse, slipping on the treadmill.

God forbid the men of Boston College would have to exchange their Sperrys for Bean Boots in order to trudge their way up the million dollar stairs. Thank you for keeping enough snow around to remind us that it’s February in Boston, but not enough to remind us that we’re in the middle of a polar vortex. Your late night work makes the trip to Late Night a lot more bearable. Without your hard work, BC would be less safe … and a lot less fashionable.

BC Hockey - Thank you to men’s and women’s hockey for not only maintaining the winning legacy of BC Hockey, but also for making it socially acceptable for students to party on a Monday night. Because of you, students from all around campus gathered at 1 a.m. around the locked gates of the Mods in hopes of catching a glimpse of the few lucky students taking a sip from the Beanpot. Thank you for also being the sole reason I’m Shmacked came to BC.

A couple of weeks ago a friend asked me to join her at a prayer service dedicated to the faculty, students, and volunteers of the Campus School. She told me that the future of the Campus School was in jeopardy and that it would be a great opportunity to voice my support. “In jeopardy?” I thought. I guess a lot had changed during my semester abroad. I did not know much about the Campus School controversy. I decided to go to the prayer service and learn more about it. I found out that the Campus School was facing the possibility of being relocated to the Kennedy Day School for disabled children, a few miles from Boston College’s campus. Faculty and parents voiced their concerns about the implications this might have on the BC community. The stories that I heard touched my heart more than I anticipated. They converted me to a Campus School advocate.

Faculty member Meg Hennessy, who happens to be a BC graduate, told a story about her life-changing experience as a Campus School volunteer. She talked about how she felt dejected during her first semester at BC. She was lost and contemplated transferring. One day, when she was feeling particularly down, she stumbled upon a group of Campus School students when she was walking back to her dorm. She followed them into Campion Hall and was introduced to the Campus School. The students and faculty embraced her with a warm welcome. She recognized it as a place of joy and hope, rather than sadness and frustration. Wanting to get involved immediately, she signed up as a volunteer.

Her weekly play dates with her Campus School buddy inspired her to pursue a degree in special education. After graduating from the Lynch School of Education, she started teaching at the Campus School. Had the Campus School been in a different location, her life might be drastically different.

Next, the co-president of the Campus School Volunteers, Chris Marino, stepped up to the podium. His story is one of admiration and friendship.

Now a senior, he has been volunteering at the Campus School since his freshman year. That is where he met his best friend—whom he calls the most honest and kindest person he has ever met in his life. On BC’s campus, it is hard not to get caught up in the superficial things. Every corner you turn, you hear about partying, clothes, or gossip. Marino explained that for an hour a week he could escape all of that and focus on a relationship that lacked the everyday drama. He said that he and his buddy exchanged smiles, laughter, and perspective. Marino argued that his buddy taught him more life lessons than any of his other friends. He taught him how to learn with an open mind and love with an open heart. He fought to keep the Campus School at BC because he wants future generations of BC students to experience the joy of volunteering with the Campus School.

The rest of the prayer service was a combination of laughter, smiles, and singing. We did not mourn the potential loss of the Campus School. Rather, we celebrated its tenure at BC. Parents, students, faculty, volunteers, and guests joined hands to pray for the health and well being of the BC community. I felt a secure connection among the congregation. Everyone involved did it out of love and sincerity. It made me upset that such a strong example of Jesuit tradition could be torn right out from under our feet.

At convocation, we are repeatedly

told that, by the time we leave BC, we will be “men and women for others.” We will embody the Jesuit ideals and become moral leaders in our community.

After I left the prayer service, I couldn’t help but feel cheated. It seemed like we were abandoning our commitment the Campus School students who bring such a strong sense of community to BC. Therefore, I was relieved when I read the announcement in the BC Chronicle that the Campus School parents and administration have reached an agreement.

They have devised a plan to balance the budget and increase enrollment, while maintaining its location on BC’s campus. Although it gives a significant responsibility to the parents of the Campus School, they promise to contribute to fundraising efforts to keep their kids at BC. Nevertheless, the announcement makes me concerned for the future.

Perhaps the parents are not so successful at increasing enrollment. Perhaps they cannot effectively cut spending.

Will we go back on our word? Will we strip BC students of the opportunity to interact with the caring and kind faces of the Campus School? Will the parents of Campus School students be forced to send their children elsewhere? As members of the BC community, it is our Jesuit responsibility to help those less fortunate than us. For the past 44 years, the Campus School has been the most poignant example of the Jesuit tradition at BC. It has fostered a more charitable community on our campus. We have found the money to fund the school for the past 44 years. What has really changed is our commitment to service.

Together, we need to focus on what the Campus School is about, and that is helping students with special needs to grow and flourish and a warm and loving environment.

Mary Kate Nolan is a staff columnist for The Heights. She can be reached at opinions@bcheights.com.

A different kind of Valentine’s Day

President’s Day - Why do you show no love to our nation’s presidents, BC? At many of our peer institutions, today is a day off for the celebration of the legacy of the U.S. presidency. Although it is right around the birthdays of Messrs. Lincoln and Washington, it’s additionally an opportunity to celebrate the lesser known presidents—you know, like William Henry Harrison, William Howard Taft, and Chester A. Arthur. This year, with Patriot’s Day coinciding with Easter Monday, we are denied a day off. BC should have compensated by giving us a vacation today. Think of all of the fun presidents-themed events that we could have had....

Off-Centered Text - You know what really bothered us this Valentine’s Day?—The type on the traditional candy hearts being off-center on many of the individual hearts. We understand that it is not possible for the type to be centered on all of them, but this year there seemed to be a preponderance of hearts with most of the words going off the side. Candy heart factories, you need to get your s—t together.

Post Valentine’s Day PDA - To the couples who insist on holding hands while walking from Upper to Mac—we get it. Your love can brave the dangerous, icy road conditions and frigid temperatures, and your intertwined hands can ward off frostbite. But let’s not lie—no one is actually enjoying this. Such public displays of affection are only acceptable on one day of the year: Valentine’s Day. Valentine’s Day is officially over, however, and holding hands while waiting for the Comm. Ave. bus is no longer considered cute. Especially for those freshmen—you’ve known each other for literally one semester.

Please confine all public displays of affection to crowded, off-campus basements and sweaty Mods.

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Kimberly Crowley I’m not sure if all of my readers will feel the same way but, personally, Valentine’s Day seemed to be a much bigger deal this year. Maybe it’s because it fell on a weekend, or because I’m a senior and people are already sensitive about the status of their relationships, or because it has been so cold recently that people were desperate for someone with whom to cuddle. I’m not sure. Whatever the reason, I had heard so much talk about Valentine’s Day before Friday night—and most of it less than positive—that I half expected to hear a voice broadcasted across the school declaring, “may the odds be ever in your favor” early Friday evening—and, by the time the early hours of Saturday morning rolled around and I walked around campus, observing both allied hoards of drunk people commiserating and individual drunk people crying on the side of the road, I was sure I had missed the cannon that signified the start of the games.

By the time I got back to my room, I was confused as to why Valentine’s Day had never felt this dramatic to me before this weekend. I started thinking of how I had spent Valentine’s Days past and, suddenly, had a flashback to something I had not thought about since high school. My Valentine’s Days were always special because I always had a Valentine, and he was my hero the other 364 days of the year.

My dad travelled all the time for his work when I was a kid, and, for some reason or another, he was never home for the majority of the month of February, including his birthday on the 13th and Valentine’s Day. So, starting when we were very young, to make it up to us, my dad would leave rhyming scavenger

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hunt clues with my mom for her to place around the house on Valentine’s Day morning before my sister and I would go to school. We would wake up in excitement, wait for Mom to turn on the video camera, and start trying to decode Dad’s chicken scratch handwriting. For 15 minutes or so, we ran around the house, tearing things apart, looking for our candy—and, in the end, there were always three boxes of candy hidden somewhere, a little box each for my sister and me and a much bigger box for Mom. It was never about the candy, though.

For 15 minutes, Dad had been with us on Valentine’s Day, and those were the best 15 minutes of the whole day. In elementary school, the day wasn’t about the Valentine’s cards each person in the class put in my self-crafted mailbox; in middle school, it wasn’t about how many people would choose to continue to keep giving me Valentine’s cards even though it wasn’t required; in high school, it wasn’t about whether my boyfriend would choose to celebrate with me. It was always about Dad, the valentine who loved me so much during the whole year that he would do anything to try to make the day special.

Remembering this, I sent my dad a message on Valentine’s Day, among all the feelings of loneliness and exasperation, jokingly asking him where my box of candy was this year. He has been living apart from my mom, sister, and me because he recently started working a new job in a different state, while my family works on transitioning out of my home state of Ohio after my sister graduates high school at the end of the year.

He had been trying to go home to Ohio for Valentine’s Day but, due to flight cancellations because of the snow, he wasn’t going to get in until late that night—and, while I would not have seen him either way, I felt sad that my mom and sister wouldn’t be able to celebrate with him either. My mood changed, though, when I got a response to my inquiry about my chocolate in the form of a group text message from my dad to the three lead-

ing ladies in his life: “A calendar date, red chocolate hearts, an annual show of affection. But Mother Nature got mad. She snowed in your dad, leaving him short of Valentine’s Day perfection.”

Now, the poem isn’t perfect. No one in my family would pretend it is—but it served its purpose, as it was hard to remain sad after reading it. Staring at my dad’s message, I realized that Valentine’s Day had never been sad for me because it had never really been different from any other day of the year. In making it about family, Dad made the focus of Valentine’s Day not on the people who would choose to demonstrate their love for me on that day or on the boyfriends who might come and go, but instead on the strong family unit around me that loved me each of the other 364 days of the year.

So, for those of you who are still feeling the impact of “Singles Awareness Day” or whatever other name you use for it, I encourage you to try to take a moment to reframe your thoughts. I’m not going to be one of those people who rants about how Valentine’s Day is a stupid holiday and therefore you shouldn’t care. While I’m not the holiday’s biggest fan, I think Valentine’s Day, at its essence, is sweet. It encourages you to think about people in your life who matter to you and to tell them they do, which you know I’m all for if you’ve read my other columns—however, I find it unfortunate that the focus is on romantic love and momentary shows of it. Instead, I am going to suggest to those of you who are still feeling sad—and even to those of you who aren’t—to take a moment to focus on all the people who love you during the other 364 days of each year. For you, this may be your dad, or it may not be. It may be childhood friends, roommates, neighbors, cousins, or any number of people.

But they’re there, and I encourage you to find them. You’ll feel better—I promise.

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

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Nate Fisher The fourth floor of Maloney Hall rings with the sighs of thousands. They’re in the elevators again. Piles of fliers are being dragged down hallways around Lower Campus, and heaved into trash rooms engorged on this wasted paper. And the knocking, the I-swear-to-God if-it’s-another-one-of-them, the knocking quite literally hits home. We’re never safe. Each knock thunders with the terror of another awkward interaction.

UGBC election season is back.

Now, before I make the claim that UGBC’s yearly elections primes students for a lifetime of political apathy, I must stress that this is not an attack on the character of any of the candidates. I don’t begrudge them for running.

I don’t even begrudge them for their aggressive campaign strategies. That’s politics. You do that to get elected because you have to. And I can’t use their campaigns to make judgments on their character. I can’t gauge how earnest they are with their strategies, or how one campaign interacts with the other. I can’t say for sure how opposed they are to the agenda of the other candidates.

I have no basis on which to judge how sincere their apparent emotional investment in their platforms is.

And that’s part of the problem. The imagery associated with UGBC campaigns is so sanitized and cliche that it becomes nearly impossible to glean any personality or distinction between the candidates from them. It all seems so achingly sincere, but that sincerity is troubling when backing empty invocations of school pride. The posters and the videos roll out, lathered with this kind of stuff. Pair some platitudes and vague declarations with a certain color eagle design and you’ve got a winning poster. Slow fades and meaningful real-talk glances toward the camera give you a perfect campaign video.

Sprinkle in some handheld-camera-filmedwalking-around-campus-talking footage to get that everyman politician effect that every good politician wants. We’ve seen it all before. Expect to see it again. In 20 years, the UGBC election eagle image will be your city’s skyline in a mayoral race. Appearances at Hillside will transition effortlessly to photo ops at that timeless sub shop you take your kids to after their baseball games. Gasson Hall, meet Main Street USA, and welcome to the Society for Abused Imagery.

Politics has a formula. How different are the candidates, really, when they’re both trafficking in the same imagery and rhetoric?

Are their platforms really that different? Both candidates run as the reform candidate, and the same kinds of promises get made every year. “Transparency” is a term that gets waved around. “Repairing UGBC’s image,” too. But when every campaign talks about transparency and repairing UGBC’s image in the same way with the same image, the impression students get is of a very un-transparent government. It reminds students that this is just something candidates will say to get elected. So why have any faith that what these candidates promise isn’t just pandering?

We can’t be sure, and that makes us wary.

In too many ways, we are reminded of real world politicians, and we remember how duplicitous they can be. This fear grows as elections heat up and these junior politicians strive to stress just how different they are from each other to make the election seem important.

But the perception is that there’s really nothing distinguishing most of these campaigns, and the campaign imagery/rhetoric does little to change that. Why the red eagle versus the blue one? Or, perhaps the more accurate question: “Why?” Only a couple weeks ago, UGBC was desperate to get enough candidates for the election. That’s very telling.

We should expect our student body to recoil at the smell of politics. Everything that smacks of political gamesmanship triggers that feeling of disillusionment sweeping the nation.

At the most malleable point in our generations’ lives, America was as idealistic as it had ever been in the last 40 years. Change we can believe in. Faith. In politics. That seems laughable now. One short college career span later saw a Congress totally mired in internal squabbling to the point of shutdown, along with the bitter, slow death of a grassroots protest movement.

Political activity has been reduced to the bare minimum—a Facebook profile picture change here, a Huffington Post link there. And we’re only 20! We will bear this scar for the rest of our lives. Down at the timeless sub shop, our kids will ask us how baseball players can make so much money when there are people around the world starving, and how come there’s not a law making those players give their money to the poor people? We will scoff. Don’t believe me? Ask your parents—they might have been hippies once. It took Watergate to well and truly kill one generation’s idealism. All it apparently takes now is an abstract eagle design and a three-word slogan. Politics is boring.

Now let’s talk about staplers.

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

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Feste’s drama rendered insignificant with ‘Endless’ romance themes

BY CATHERINE MALCYNSKY For The Heights Warning: this review contains spoilers … you’re welcome.

If a) you are worried that the smoldering intensity of your love affair with a misunderstood stranger could potentially inspire your parents to end their own marriage, b) you have broken into a zoo with your friends and were playfully showered ENDLESS LOVE by a welShana Feste coming elephant, or c) you find yourself unable to wear anything but blue Converse to signif y your endearing, free-spirited lack of social grace—this is the film for you! Just in time for Valentine’s Day, for the bargain price of $13.95, you can sit back in a reasonably comfortable movie chair at Regal Fenway Stadium and spend the next hour and 40 minutes of your life wishing that you’d rented that Nicholas Sparks movie instead.

In case moviegoers haven’t seen enough 20-somethings play high school students, 25-year-old Gabriella Wilde

plays the lanky, extremely privileged Jade Butterfield (a name which somehow evokes both nursery rhymes and exotic dancing), continuously described as the social outcast of her high school who could always be found “with her nose in a book” (although no such books ever appear on screen). Opposite Jade is her secret admirer of two years, the coiffed hunk David Elliot (24-year-old Alex Pettyfer), who quickly decides to make it his mission to sweep Jade off her feet after graduation —a stimulating challenge proved possible within the first five minutes of few words and fewer clothes.

Their summer romance is complicated not only by Jade’s prestigious, fast-approaching, totally-realistic, straightout-of-high-school medical internship at Brown University, but also by the over protective tendencies of Jade’s stonefaced father (who disapproves of David after he takes a stuck-up socialite’s car for a spin while valeting at the country club—the scoundrel). Although other unresolved conflicts arise, such as exes, vehicular mishaps, and whatnot, the essential conflict lies in Jade’s father’s stink-eye, which may have stolen the show in all its middle-aged glory.

Although for the most part the film was overrun with flat characters in various Pottery Barn-style mansions, its one attempt at capturing any real emotional struggle was immediately thrown at the audience in the opening monologue of the film: Chris, book-worm Jade’s older brother, passed away of cancer two years earlier. Although Jade is too wrapped up in her own sexual awakening to think much about her deceased sibling, her father remains devastated by Chris’s death. Director Shana Feste could have used the unconquerable grief of losing a child to humanize the antagonist, thus complicating this otherwise-simple story, but the evil Mr. Butterfield is instead only villainized for his attempts at keeping his daughter close (rather than allowing her to frolic about with an aspiring car-mechanic with a dark past).

Another missed opportunity for redemption was the subtle sexual tension between Jade’s mother and David (a plot twist that would be most unwelcome in movies less predictable), though by the end of the film it appears that this air of intimacy between the two was, regrettably, accidental.

The script of Endless Love takes a

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Feste missed several chances to redeem the film, leading to an unsubstantial romantic drama. back seat to the favored montages of romantic bliss (a secret caress amid a crowd, a flash of underwear in the forest, a fallen bra strap on the bike handlebars, a see-through white dress paraded through a grassy field, etc.) but one must commend the two lead actors for their one respectable accomplishment, which would remain untraceable unless one Googled them: they are both British, and did a fairly good job of feigning American accents (though it is entirely possible that their vapid facial

expressions distracted the audience from noticing any slip-ups).

If you have seen either the trailer for Endless Love or any Lifetime movie, it is all too likely that you have already seen the bulk of this film, and may be better off saving your $13.95 for something more rewarding, such as a new book, or a pizza. In short, this film is nothing more than another middle-school make-out movie financed by Valentine’s Day, and is just as endless as it promises to be. 

Remake of 1987 film is ‘RoboCop’-out

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The newest version of Verhoeven’s film has a strong cast and visual effects, but doesn’t strive to be anything other than a modern action movie.

BY STEFAN TODOROVIC For The Heights

Movie directors have much to consider when it comes to entertaining increasingly fanatical audiences, who’ve come to demand violence on the screen. So much is expected from the modern blockbuster, and accordingly, so much is paid. The result is a violent culture of film—a constant stream of graphic content has become an accepted ROBOCOP part of Jose Padilha the consumer’s life.

Whether it may be action or adventure, romance or comedy, the genres start converging to give shape to this shared public experience of mainstream media.

In the modern era, the film industry has begun to take prefabricated plots from past films, and reinterpret these former understandings of media, adding the violent inflections of our time.

Director Jose Padilha’s remake of the 1987 film RoboCop reimagines the science fiction plot for the modern audience. The film stars Joel Kinnaman and features some old-timers like Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman, and Michael Keaton. In a way, RoboCop is the epitome of the action-packed modern day movie.

But is this remake worth a trip to the multiplex? Put simply, it is not.

Despite thrilling visuals, strong production value, and a somewhat

star-studded cast, RoboCop simply fails to entertain. In part, this is due to the remarkably high standards viewers have for modern action films. The film is torn between the precedent set by recent films like the Bourne trilogy and the 1987 original version. RoboCop tries for a lot, but ultimately, has no perception of what it wants to be.

This RoboCop is the sentimental story of Alex Murphy (Kinnaman), a good cop gone rogue, transformed into an impressive, mechanical killing machine with the ultimate goal of achieving peace within the city. The film is set in the city of Detroit in the year 2028.

Jackie Earle Haley plays the supporting part of robot creator/programmer Rick Mattox in RoboCop, and gives one of the stronger performances in the film. The cast is male-dominated—female roles are admittedly scarce in this remake, but they are not altogether dismissed. Abbie Cornish (Limitless) plays Murphy’s grieving and confused wife—she is conflicted since her husband is not technically dead. Other female roles include Karen Dean (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), the no-nonsense Detroit police chief, and Liz Cline (Jennifer Ehle), a stern business associate.

The script of RoboCop doesn’t shy away from its roots, keeping mostly in character with the 1987 film, but modern variations on its central themes help make this remake relatable to a much-changed public. One of the better features in the “new” RoboCop is the cen-

tralization of the main character. While the 1987 Paul Verhoeven film told the story of a machine that realized it was, in fact, a man, this revision focuses on the man trapped inside the machine.

It’s not a problem that director Padilha and writer Joshua Zetumer went and remade RoboCop. The biggest problem with this RoboCop, however, is that it is pretty much just a remake and not enough of anything new.

If for nothing else, the film is almost worth seeing for its scenes with Keaton (as the head of Omnicorp) and Oldman (as an ethically conflicted scientist).

Oldman does incredible work in his role, with his initial appearance being one of the film’s most dramatic and rewarding moments. The film’s best material, though, comes in the extended sequence when Murphy is forced to terms with his fate. The movie’s climax comes when the not-so-dead policeman discovers what’s actually inside his suit.

RoboCop is flawed as a whole, with a story that is overly contrived. It attempts to give a somewhat informing view of the future—exploring themes involving politics, trans-humanism, the freedom of choice, and unruliness of corporate leaders—but doesn’t emerge as anything particularly special.

It’s easy to imagine a $100 million movie generating some good money—so it seems Jackson can sell any film (i.e.

Snakes on a Plane). But for this copturned-robot-turned-vigilante, the payout just doesn’t seem to be there. 

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Sexual Chocolate’s Valentine’s Day show in Robsham followed the storyline of ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,’ and featured the Heightsmen a cappella group in the role of the Oompa-Loompas in the fantastical, dance-packed retelling.

Sexual Chocolate’s ‘Willy Wonka’ themed show draws crowd to Robsham ‘Big Show,’ from A10 the strenuous ways of Unpleasantville, infusing the story with elaborate, acrobatic, perfectly-synchronized step performances. These performances served as both impressive numbers in their own right as well as transitions from scene to scene.

In addition to the mind-blowing step and the clever storyline, the Big Show thrived on its spectacular acting.

The members of SC got their chance to shine, and everyone was animated and theatrical as they seamlessly delivered their lines. The humor of the show was upbeat and relatable, cracking jokes about pop culture, ’90s Disney shows (i.e. That’s So Raven), and even those Sarah McLauchlan animal rights commercials that make everyone want to cry. If for some reason the on-point comedy was not enough to keep the audience engaged, the cast frequently

drew the audience in by breaking the boundary between the stage and seats, whether by sending performers running through the aisles, encouraging the audience to clap, or by transforming the spectators into the interactive audience of a cheesy reality cooking show.

As Cupid’s story escalated, leading him through the typical new-fame stages of narcissism and recklessness, and ultimately resulting in his arrest for robbery by Detective Valentine

(hence, Valentine’s Day), the men of SC delivered a performance full of sass and energy, despite the many late-night rehearsals they endured in preparation. What’s more, despite the various scenes of dropping to the floor, rolling around, jumping up and down, running around, etc., only one hat was ever lost, and when it happened, Cupid played it cool.

Once the show was over, and the audience had gotten its fill of Valentine’s

chocolate, the men made sure to put the “sexual” back in Sexual Chocolate. In a foxy finale, the boys sauntered down the aisles with roses in their mouths and made sure the audience members got their money’s worth with a sensual striptease (there’s just no other way to say it).

Overall, come 9 p.m., the men of SC had given a witty and fun performance about both brotherhood and chocolate, leaving it all—including their shirts—on the stage. n

Students art show offers depth, eccentricity ‘Student Art Show,’ from A10

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Kertesz’ ‘Mondrian’s Glasses and Pipe’ is one of the photos featured in the new McMullen exhibit.

‘Paris’ comes to the McMullen ‘McMullen,’ from A10 is a matter for debate—the definition of photography depends on conceptions of utility, technology, and science—this exhibit nonetheless tracks the progress of photography and camera technology at the hands of scientists and artists alike. There are numerous photographs on the bottom floor that were made with innovative techniques, such as “rayographing,” a technique coined by Man Ray that utilizes leather exposed to light-sensitive chemicals; solarizing; and cliche verre, a process wherein lines scratched onto a piece of glass are imprinted onto an existing photograph.

The exhibit follows not only the progress of technology and innovative photographic techniques but also the changing movements of art reflected in photography and the changing subjects of Parisian photographers. Eugene Atget, a French flaneur and documentary photographer whose work began in the late 1880s, was worried about the modernization of the city and the changes of the new century, and he made it his goal to document “Old Paris” before it fell out of existence. His “Windmill, Abbeville,” ca. 1900, has an archaic windmill, looking obsolescent, in the foreground of a plain with a newer windmill behind it over a rustic’s shoulder—a juxtaposition of old and new.

Andre Kertesz, on the other hand, a Hungarian who immigrated to Paris in 1925, adopted Modernist and avantgarde principles, and his work appears often throughout the exhibit. When another artist asked him what he preferred his subjects to be, he reportedly responded, “something which is not in the Louve, but which is there,” pointing

to a barge on the Seine. His photographs have less conventional subjects than Atget’s and often feature Modern aesthetic principles like predominately geometric forms, blocks of grayscale tones, and flat planes. One photo, “Mondrian’s Glasses and Pipe,” 1926, depicts two pairs of glasses, a bowl, and a pipe on a white table. The glasses invite the reader to see the principles at work: the flatness of the table contrasting to the round bowl and pipe, the quotidian objects made important and intriguing by their dark lines and contrast to the table, and the mystery of the owner of the materials.

A particularly interesting work of his within the exhibit, “Distortion #29,” features a naked woman in front of a funhouse mirror. Such unusual but provoking techniques mark his oeuvre.

Nakedness is a prominent feature of the exhibit. The bottom floor of the museum, dedicated to night photography, features pictures of prostitutes and their customers, sensual models, and suggestive glances. These pictures tell a story of the Parisian underground, one that is real, unabashed, and modern. Brassai dominates this part of the show, and his photographs possess a strange voyeurism combined with an intimacy of the city. His “Nude,” ca. 1933, is especially beautiful, catching a young woman in an arching pose on the bed.

From surrealism to fading images of iconic monuments like Notre-Dame, the Arc de Triomphe, and, of course, the Eiffel Tower, from the sensuality and warm darkness of the night to the bright contrasts and exposure of the day, this show tracks one of the most fertile, broad, and dazzling periods of art through the photographs of interwar Paris. n

well positioned, with the man’s eyes resting at the eye level of an average individual. His face has a look of surprise. His eyes look back at the viewer and seem to ask, “Why am I holding this skull? Why am I in yellow, green, and maroon? What am I doing in the painting?”

The man doesn’t provide any answers, but asking is interesting enough.

Next to our multi-colored man is “Bare, 2013” by Rachel Lee, A&S ’16, and the two pieces are a telling work of contrast. While “Yorick” is a vibrant work, “Bare, 2013” is a work with hardly anything going on. It’s an acrylic painting that’s not really a painting—just a tattered canvas painted white.

Here, viewers have to ask their own questions. Maybe it’s about the struggle of actually putting something worthwhile on canvas.

Maybe anything someone puts on canvas is worthwhile. “Bare, 2013” forces the viewer to come to some sort of conclusion before moving on to what’s next. It’s one of the works in the collection that makes the viewer stop and slow down.

Further down the collection is “Vulpis Vulpis” by Patrick Hughes, A&S ’14. It’s a digital print of a fox with the text, “What the Fox” at the bottom—almost begging the viewer to insert “Does” and “Say?” to complete the famed declaration of one hit wonder Ylvis. But “Vulpis Vulpis” has more in store than vaguely referencing a YouTube sensation. The framed digital print has a clean look, but the fox itself at the center of the print is blurred, indistinctive. The ground around the fox is peppered with arrows, and the fox seems to be rearing up in defiance. The blurry, arcane image of the fox seems to be tapping into an old traditional

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Set up in the Bapst basement, the exhibit is sponsored by the Art Club and BC Libraries. collection of animal images—or simply a play on the Pokemon “Vulpix.” Again, viewer discretion need apply.

Set against this digital work is an old-time work of charcoal on aged tan paper called “Some Kind of Mysterious,” by Johanna Tomsick, A&S ’17. The work is of a dark, human-shaped figure—which incidentally, has other figures within its own. Tomsick has another similar piece of art in the collection.

“Voyager” is the biggest work in the exhibit, in regard to the pure size perspective and perspective that make “Voyager” noteworthy.

From a moderate distance, “Voyager” is an image of a man’s face—his eyes and nose. As the viewer gets closer, though, the man’s face morphs into a swirl of ink and charcoal and a series of planets. “Voyager” is a constellation, or at least a representation of one. Its size and vision set it apart from most of the other works in the show.

At the edge of the show next to one of Bapst’s unnamed, mysterious doors lies the show’s only series of photographs. “Untitled”

by Jean Bower, A&S ’17, is a series of three photographs. The first is of a beach, with a winding string of rods thrust into the sand.

The second is intertwining hands resting on a wooden board that reads “Good Bye.” The final photograph is a black and white photo of a city street, as a man and woman share a cigarette next to The Little Bar. These are quiet photographs—some of the real gems of the show. And what sets them apart from your friend’s Instagram profile is the depth in each: the waves in the background, the wedding rings resting on the hands, and the smoke billowing between the two city dwellers. There’s similar depth present in many of the show’s pieces, a depth that’s pleasantly surprising and unexpected for a student art show. n

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A nose and pair of watchful eyes transform into a series of planets in Johanna Tomsick’s ‘Voyager,’ which is the largest piece in the exhibit.

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THE FINER THINGS

SWEET, SWEET CHOCOLATE

Learning about love, actually

ARIANA IGNERI Love is perfect in the movies, but in life, there’s no script for relationships.

For Valentine’s Day on Friday, you might have spent the evening with a date at the theater, seeing Winter’s Tale, About Last Night, or Endless Love—all chick flicks suited for the occasion. On the other hand, you might have spent the night in, either alone or with friends, re-watching Katherine Heigl comedies and indulging in heart-shaped chocolates. Regardless of what you did this weekend, though, you’ve probably seen a movie like one of these at some time or another and thought, “Hey, why can’t my life be that romantic?”

Our conceptions of love, sex, and relationships are shaped by Hollywood—by the sweet, over-the-top displays of affection, the neat and tidy endings, and the sparkling happily-everafters constantly depicted on the silver screen.

We can’t help but think about these things idealistically, and that’s in part because: Noah wrote Allie 365 letters, every day for a year.

Jack selflessly gave up his life for Rose when the Titanic sank into icy waters.

Jake Ryan arrived, a high school hero, in his red convertible when Sam thought her family forgot her 16th birthday.

With characters and plots like those, it’s little wonder why we consider romance the way we do—our expectations are rooted in fiction rather than in reality.

As a society deeply invested in entertainment culture, it’s near impossible to ignore the media. It affects, almost inevitably, the way we live and the way we love.

And for that reason, researchers have taken a growing interest in the subject, studying the impact romantic movies have on actual relationships. While not many studies have been conducted as of yet, those that have been concluded that, whether we realize it or not, we’re influenced by what we watch.

In a study from several years ago, Kimberly R. Johnson and Bjarne M. Holmes (both M.D.) found that we knowingly use films as examples for our own lives. They suggest that, “individuals actively observe media portrayals of behaviors in romantic relationships for insight into how they themselves could behave in their own relationships.”

Other parallel research indicates that the effect can be subliminal rather than deliberate.

So even if we’re not purposely watching rom coms to figure out what love is like—even if we’re not using them as how-to-guides— those movies still shape what we perceive as normal. Over time, the repeated themes and images don’t seem contrived. Instead, we subconsciously believe them to be true.

But the truth is, they’re not true. They’re condensed and exaggerated representations of love that don’t always play out in real life the way they do in 90 minutes on our TVs. Two friends won’t always be able to reconcile the tension between being just friends versus lovers, and being a bridesmaid at 27 different weddings won’t always ensure that you’ll be able to walk down the aisle yourself. There won’t always be a boy standing outside the window with a boombox, professing his affection, Autumn won’t always be a fortuitous replacement for Summer, and there won’t always be 50 first dates to go on—because that’s not how it works.

Romantic comedies are fun and heartwarming, but it’s important to take them for what they are. In the movies, it’s: boy meets girl, passionate bliss, complications, apologies, love’s true kiss, and the end. Real relationships, though, don’t flow so easily—there isn’t a foolproof script outlining the way.

In life, relationships are hard and take a lot of courage, just like Kerry Cronin, a professor within the philosophy department, explained in her lecture series last week. You have to be brave enough to make the moves you need to make, she said, and you have to trust your future, even if that means getting your heart broken. There’s no playbook to follow, and the silver lining isn’t always so obvious when things aren’t going well. No matter how it goes, though, relationships are growing experiences.

We’re learning a lot about love by watching movies—maybe more than we are by really loving. We need to stop looking for flawless, unattainable models, and realize that the beauty of real relationships is that they’re not perfect. They’re flawed—beautifully flawed.

And sorting those problems out with someone you care about and making the relationship work—that’s what’s what love is, actually.

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

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BY CATHERINE MALCYNSKY For The Heights For those who know Sexual Chocolate (SC) only as Boston College’s all-male step team—and therefore assume that SC’s skills are limited to choreography step dances—are definitely mistaken. By 7 p.m. on Feb. 14, Robsham Theatre was packed full of people excited to see what SC had in store, and when the curtain lifted, expectations were met with much more than just dance.

Valentine’s Day proved to be the perfect backdrop for the Big Show (which also marked SC’s 15th anniversary): the theme allowed the men to not only play with idea of chocolate in a quirky and creative way, but also to give their own version of the origins of Valentine’s

Day through a variety show of step, comedy, theatricality, and music.

The show was opened by the Heightsmen (BC’s all-male a capella group) who made several appearances throughout the show as the serenading, green-haired Oompa Loompas.

The Heightsmen chose fun, familiar, sultry songs such as “Mirror” by Justin Timberlake and the infamous “Ignition Remix” by R. Kelly.

Judging by their dance moves, they were having just as much fun as the audience while they sang. Each of their neatly harmonized numbers was met with great enthusiasm not only from the crowd, but also from the SC members who shared the stage, which made for a fun, welcoming dynamic.

The rest of the show followed the tale of down-on-his-luck Cupid, the neighborhood

hacky sack looking for his big break in Unpleasantville—a town without love, happiness, or chocolate. When Cupid meets chocolate entrepreneur Willy Wonka, he is presented with a golden ticket, and begins to plan out how he will use his ticket to rise up as a businessman and a local hero.

Along the way, Cupid encounters the salesmen, chefs, postmen, and Neighborhood Watch of Unpleasantville, all with their own ideas on how to make, package, market, and protect the chocolate that Cupid has been gifted. All the while, Detective Valentine and his policemen work to reinforce

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‘Paris Night & Day’ opens in McMullen

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Photos present portrait of Paris between wars

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BY LOGAN WREN Heights Staff The McMullen Museum of Boston College reopened this past Saturday with its new exhibit Paris Night & Day: Photography Between the Wars.

The exhibit is a large selection of original photographs taken within Paris between the first and second World Wars, roughly encompassing a period from 1918 to 1939. It features artists such as Louis-Jean Delton, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ilse Bing, Eugene Atget, Man Ray, Doraa Maar, and others, with a sweeping selection of nearly 100 photographs.

Oddly enough, the show does not focus on the turmoil caused by the wars themselves, outside of a small mention of the effects that they had on Parisian art and wider artistic movements like Surrealism. This must be due largely to the fact that Paris was left relatively undamaged by either war (in WWI, a faux Paris was actually built to trick German bombers, similar to some of London’s tricks in WWII), but it also speaks to the goals of this exhibit and the visions of the artists during the interwar period. These artists were focused on the changing life of the city, new artistic forms and movements, and the rapidly changing technology and art of photography.

On Aug. 19, 1839, the French government announced the invention of photography in Paris by a man named Louis Daguerre. Daguerre created the daguerreotype—an image produced on a highly polished piece of copper, which was accordingly named after him.

Although the creation of photography

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Jazz group BC bOp! performed on Wednesday, previewing its weekend shows in New York City.

BC bOp! plays concert in Cabaret Room to kick off New York tour

BY ARIANA IGNERI Assoc. Arts & Review Editor Kicking off its big trip to New York City, Boston College bOp! hosted a concert in Vanderslice Hall’s Cabaret Room on Wednesday night.

The instrumental and vocal jazz ensemble, conducted by BC Band Director Sebastian Bonaiuto, played six lively and smooth songs, starting with “Bemsha Swing.” With a couple snazzy saxophone solos, a sparkling piano melody, and a skipping drum rhythm, the song allowed bOp! to display its ability to blend distinct but complementary voices harmoniously.

“Such Sweet Thunder” and “Fly Me to the Moon” were the two other exclusively instrumental pieces the group performed. The first was playful and mysterious while the second was skipping and bright, but both resounded beautifully with the shining sounds of its brass section. bOp!’s strongest songs, however, were those featuring its vocalists. Amber Glavin, A&S ’16, scatted back and forth with Matthew Hewett, A&S ’16, to “Muddy Water.” The tone of her wispy voice with his rich, full one created an elegant and soulful vibe that defined the rest of the show.

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Despite a number of notable songs, the ensemble’s rendition of Gnarls Barkley’s hit “Crazy” was the highlight of the night. Adriana Cassanos, A&S ’17, owned her solo with her sultry, controlled voice, singing “I remember when, I remember, I remember when I lost my mind.” Cassanos harmonized with the seven other vocalists skillfully, building the song’s energy up until the group sharply ended and proclaimed together, “I think you’re crazy.”

The evening closed with the clattering and clashing of cymbals—bOp! went out with a bang to “Sing, Sing, Sing.” At the show’s conclusion, the audience applauded but was surprised it was over so quickly—it ran for less than 45 minutes.

Although brief, the concert was a nice preview to the larger and longer performances that were scheduled for bOp! throughout the weekend. The group played at Hall High School in Connecticut on its way to Manhattan on Friday, the Tea Lounge in Brooklyn on Saturday, and the Lincoln Center on Sunday, doing a clinic with members of its Jazz Ensemble. While bOp! has played in a number of different places over the years, including Disney World and even Moscow, there’s really no better place to stop and explore a passion for jazz than in New York City. 

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Coiled in the basement of Bapst Library, the Spring Student Art Show presented by Boston College’s Art Club and BC Libraries offers a contemplative collection of student art. Students hailing from all disciplines were encouraged to submit their work, and the result is a fine collection of varying types of art—traditional canvas painting, digital prints, and photography, among others. Some of it seemed fairly straightforward—like a digital print of a fox—and some of it is anything but straightforward, like a canvas painted an acrylic white with tears and rips. That’s where most of the show lies, between the simple and the truly bizarre.

One of those works toeing that line is “Yorick” by Vincent Roca, A&S ’17. “Yorick” is an oil painting on canvas, and at first glance, is a portrait of a young man—and that’s where the simplicity dies. Painted with swirls of yellow, green, and maroon, our man seems to be holding a skull in his right hand with a generous array of bed head. The painting is

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‘Yorick’ by Vincent Roca, A&S ’17, is one of the pieces featured in Bapst art show.

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Wins over Catamounts clinch regular season title

BY MIKE HOFF For The Heights

Right now, with the current form of the Boston College men’s hockey team, its opponents need to play exceptionally well and be lucky Boston College 5 to beat BC. On Vermont 3 Saturday at Gutterson Fieldhouse, University of Vermont played pretty well, even better than BC for considerable stretches, and it wasn’t enough. BC won both the game, 5-3, and its third trophy of the season—Hockey East’s regular season title—clinching the top spot in the conference with three games remaining.

“We had to play near perfect to beat these guys and we just didn’t do it this weekend,” said Vermont head coach Kevin Sneddon.

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The win was primarily powered by BC’s, and college hockey’s, top line of Bill Arnold, Johnny Gaudreau and Kevin Hayes. Each of the three scored a goal, and it’s more than fitting that the trio was the primary factor in the game’s outcome, because it was the main reason BC was in the position to lock up the regular season title with two weekends of games left on the conference slate.

After dropping a home game to Holy Cross the day after Thanksgiving, BC head coach Jerry York put the triumvirate together as BC headed into the bulk of its conference play. After the first game in which the team’s three best forwards skated together, York said, ”there’s a chance they could be a very good line for us.” They have been way, way better than

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Pat Brown continuted his hot streak in the Eagles’ series against Vermont with two goals on Friday and an assist on Saturday.

HOLY STRUGGLE

CONNOR MELLAS The “holy crap” reaction in sports is a phenomenon all fans and athletes encounter at different points of their athletics-related life. An elegantly accurate phrase, it’s that this-is-not-actually-happening-right-now feeling— good or bad—that clutches you by the spine and drags you to the edge your couch and limits of mental composure, forcing you to watch the scene unfold in giddy or terrible tension.

According to the official straw poll I completely fabricated over the weekend, 98.7 percent of U.S. men’s hockey fans watching Saturday’s game against Russia experienced and survived a “holy crap” moment shortly after 11 a.m Eastern Standard Time.

If you woke up at 7 a.m. on Saturday, hit snooze between two and five times and made it to the couch by 7:30, you saw Team USA take on Russia in Olympic hockey, an event that—regardless of the lack of Cold War or medal round status—inspired enough stars and stripes patriotism on Twitter and Facebook to make Miracle and Rocky IV jealous for attention.

For the first two and a half periods, the game was tense, testy, and exciting—good for sure, but not quite a truly great game. When the Americans and Russians headed into overtime deadlocked at two goals apiece, the intensity of sudden-death hockey made for even better viewing. Chicago Blackhawks forward Patrick Kane had a chance to win it for the U.S. on a breakaway, but Russian goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky stonewalled him. As 4-on-4 overtime hockey transitioned to a penalty shootout, the game’s tension came increasingly close to exploding out of TVs across the U.S. Prior to Saturday morning, it’s likely that the majority of Americans had never heard of T.J. Oshie, a forward for the St. Louis Blues hailing from Minnesota. By game’s end, Oshie had gone viral.

After the first three rounds of a shootout, international hockey rules permit the same player to take multiple shots. Leaving international veterans, including Kane—a bona fide shootout dazzler and two-time Stanley Cup winner—glued to the bench, U.S. head coach Dan Byslma had Oshie—a 27year-old who has never scored more than 20 goals in an NHL season—take another shot, and then another one, and another, and another, and another.

Cue the “holy craps.”

With the help of some huge saves from U.S. goaltender Jonathan Quick, Oshie’s ultra-confident, looping skateup to the net and Bobrovsky-splaying dekes produced four breathtaking shootout goals on six shots and a victory for Team USA. In a matter

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Eric Atkins had four of the Irish’s six threes, while BC spread the wealth more.

While BC has been a weak rebounding team this season, it hung with Notre Dame.

The two teams were deadlocked in terms of turnovers. No Eagle had more than one.

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There have been plenty of players who have graced the basketball court in Conte Forum over its 25-year history, but there can’t be many who have so outwardly enjoyed 73 Notre Dame their time on the floor as Boston College 69 much as Ryan Anderson.

The Boston College forward flashes a wide smile when things are going well for his team. Even if the Eagles are behind, Anderson’s expressive and emotive demeanor rarely shrinks away, he vigorously claps his hands in between plays and when he takes brief breaks on the bench. Although he’s been a part of 58 losses during his two and a half seasons in Chestnut Hill, his ability to openly enjoy the moments in between the lines has never ap-

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peared to fade.

In December of last season, BC was making a second-half run against New Hampshire. Anderson had strung together a few impressive plays that cut the Wildcat lead to seven, and then he hammered home a strong two-hand dunk the next time down the court. Before his feet hit the floor, Anderson slapped two hands on the backboard and let out an excited scream. The officials called a technical, breaking the momentum, but the Eagles still went on to win.

Anderson’s dunks had a different vibe last night when BC hosted Notre Dame in a 73-69 loss. That joy wasn’t there. He opened the game with a soft slam, expressionlessly fell to the floor, and then jogged back up the court to play defense. It happened again in the second half.

Dick Kelley, the team’s longtime sports information director, died on Thursday night after battling ALS since 2011. The BC players and coaches wore circular patches reading “DK,” as Kelley was affectionately known, on the left portion of their jerseys,

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and none may have covered a heavier heart than the patch on Anderson’s jersey.

“He’s been such a tremendous role model for me,” Anderson said of Kelley in May. “If I had to say someone that’s impacted me the most since I’ve been at BC, it’s definitely Dick Kelley.”

Kelley had relationships with all of BC’s players, but his bond with Anderson was one of the strongest. The junior regularly stopped by Kelley’s third-floor office in Conte Forum, and when the disease was too strong for Kelley to come into work, Anderson made the trip to Kelley’s apartment for dinners.

“Our recruiting class was the last class that really knew him when he was healthy, and any time someone takes time out of their day, like he used to, to just make sure we were having a good time at BC and having a great experience here is something I’ll never forget,” Anderson said last night after the game.

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Eagles top Black Bears

Softball team defeats Valpo but loses to the Wolverines

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With its regular season drawing to a close and its momentum from the Beanpot victory over Northeastern in hand, the Boston College Boston College 4 women’s hockey Maine 1 team traveled to Orono, Maine this past weekend to play the University of Maine Black Bears.

Maine did not have much worthy of bragging about on paper, but its opening attack in Saturday’s game was enough to put some shots on net within the first three minutes of play.

In net for the Eagles was junior goaltender Megan Miller, while sophomore Meghann Treacy was defending the Black Bears’ goal.

Miller finished the first period with nine saves while Treacy tallied 10.

Maine was able to acquire a power play in the seventh minute, but the Eagles were able to hold off the attack, and BC finished the period with more face-off wins along with the lead.

At the end of the first period, the score was BC, 0, Maine, 0.

Early in the second period, a face-off won by the Eagles led to an assist by senior forward Taylor Wasylk, giving junior forward Kate Leary her seventh goal on the season.

Leary scored at 2:55.

The intensity began to rise shortly after the goal, as Maine’s freshman forward, Karissa Kirkup, got called for tripping. This led to a BC powerplay, but then freshman forward Kristyn Capizzano was charged for interference, making it a 4-on-4.

It wasn’t long until the Eagles were able to find a rhythm, and in the 12th minute, Haley McLean added one more to the scoreboard, making it a two-goal lead. This was McLean’s fourth goal this year. McLean

Unable to stop an explosive Michigan lineup’s rally, the Boston College softball team lost its final game in the 2014 Ragin’ Cajun Invitational, 6-5.

Through the first five innings of the contest against Michigan, BC seemed unstoppable, largely because of the dominant pitching of Nicole D’Argento. In this span, the BC captain kept the opposing Michigan players hitless and yielded only one walk. She gave her team the early edge by working craftily, striking out four batters through the first five innings, and five batters total—a far cry from the 11 Valparaiso players she fanned this past Saturday. Even so, early in the game, D’Argento exhibited a tenacity comparable to that which she showed in BC’s 6-0 win over Valparaiso: a one-hitter.

Decent hitting and base running complemented D’Argento’s pitching performance. In the second inning, freshman third baseman Tatiana Cortez belted her first collegiate homerun, launching the ball beyond the centerfield fence. The hit was a two-run shot, as freshman first baseman Jordan Weed scored from first and gave BC its first lead, 2-0.

In the fifth inning, sophomore second baseman Alana Dimaso scored by way of an RBI groundout from D’Argento, and sophomore outfielder Megan Cooley—acting on the opportunity presented by a wild pitch from Michigan’s Sara Driesenga—was able to dart home, making the score 4-0.

With two frames remaining, victory seemed within BC’s grasp. In the last innings, though, Michigan altered the game’s narrative, rallying to seize the final lead.

Great hitting sparked the comeback, as Michigan’s lineup—which had scored

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Corinne Boyles had 22 saves as her team captured the Hockey East regular-season title scored at 12:23.

Wasylk was able to tack on another assist as sophomore forward Haley Skarupa got her 17th goal of the season in the 15th minute.

Maine was able to produce a counter attack and add a goal of its own on the board before the period ended as senior forward Kayla Kalunzy released a shot past Eagles’ goaltender Megan Miller to shorten the lead back at two. At the end of the second period the score was BC, 3, Maine, 1.

With some slight momentum from the late-second period goal, the Black Bears were hoping to create something shy of a miracle for a home win.

High attacking pressure from Maine created multiple scoring chances in the opening five minutes of the third period, but Miller came up with close saves for the Eagles to preserve the lead.

The nail in the coffin came when Maine pulled its goalie for the extra attacker, as junior forward Emily Field scored the empty netter for BC, confirming the road win and putting the Eagles back on track. Field scored at 19:26, and the final score was BC, 4, Maine, 1.

Miller finished the game with 18 saves and the win, while Treacy suffered the loss while posting 20 saves.

The following afternoon, the Eagles and the Brown Bears met once again, BC with

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Orange too much for Eagles

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The Boston College women’s basketball team scored 47 points, its worst total thus far in the season, in a 71-47 loss to visitors Syracuse. The Eagles hosted the Orange at Conte Forum on Sunday afternoon, in a Think Pink game, sponsored by the Play 4Kay initiative.

From the first to last whistle, Syracuse employed full-court pressure on the Eagles. Guards Nicole Boudreau and Kelly Hughes were the primary bearers of this brunt, having to make the passes and decisions to get the ball into the offensive zone. The athleticism and speed of the Syracuse guards proved to be the Eagles’ undoing quite often, as BC recorded 18 turnovers and the Orange garnered 11 steals. Syracuse’s Rachel Coffey, Brittney Sykes, Cornelia Fondren, and Briana Day had two steals each for the visitors.

“We had way too many turnovers,” said BC head coach Erik Johnson. “I thought other than when we turned the ball over, Syracuse also slowed the game down and tried to have fewer possessions. You saw in the second half, they really decided to run out the clock and run plays under 10 seconds.”

Syracuse never stopped its fullcourt pressure and seemingly ruthless attacking of BC on the defensive end.

The Eagles never appeared confident in rushing past the pressure and catching the Orange with a counter attack. Johnson attributed this to a team that has to deal with focusing on multiple different aspects of the game and sometimes gets confused in the process.

“I thought we got sloppy, and I thought we got exposed,” he said. “We talk a lot about simple basketball, and the ability to catch and square, and just jab somebody off you … You’ve got a young team that is trying to please us [the coaching staff ], they’re trying to be

organized, and sometimes they just need to go play.”

Johnson also pointed to a lack of offensive rebounds, free throws, and changing up the tempo of the game as measures that proved unsuccessful in evening out the score line.

Play 4Kay The Eagles came out of the locker room decked out in pink from head to toe. Sporting all pink uniforms, many players wore pink headbands, and Katie Zenevitch even wore pink shoes.

This was in collaboration with the Play 4Kay initiative, which raises awareness for breast cancer and collects funds for research. Any spectator wearing pink received free admission into the game.

In keeping with this spirit, the Eagles wore a No. 15 on the sleeves of their warm-up shirts in commemoration of former player Clare Droesch, who is currently fighting breast cancer. Johnson took this Think Pink game as having more overall significance than the scoreline.

“Today was about a whole lot more than basketball—the Think Pink game and that initiative, we wore Clare Droesch’s No. 15 on our jerseys today,” he said. “She is one of our superstar alums, who is battling breast cancer. We had some survivors with us, in fact just address our team in the locker room.

They were incredibly inspirational. And just for them to remember that they are playing for something much bigger than themselves, and all of the things that the pink uniforms represent.”

Additionally, Johnson said that the team took time to remember Dick Kelley, the former BC sports information director who died last Thursday after a three-year battle with ALS. “The game, our sport and this university is about so much more than just basketball,” Johnson said. 

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a chance to clinch the Hockey East regular season title. This time, it took until the third period for either team to light up the scoreboard, but in the end the Eagles would emerge victorious.

Both goaltenders put up strong efforts in the first two periods, with Corinne Boyles stopping all seven of Maine’s shots in the first period and the Bears’ six attempts in the second. On the other end of the ice, Treacy stopped 14 in the first and seven in the second to keep the game knotted at zero through two periods of play.

In the third period, though, Skarupa came through for BC, netting three goals in under 10 minutes of play. Her first came just 4:13 into the period off of an assist from Andie Anastos. Danielle Doherty put a point of her own on the board just over three minutes later, then Skarupa made it 3-0 Eagles eight -and-a-half minutes into the third.

Maine came up with a response two minutes later as Brittney Huenke finally slipped a shot past Boyles, but the Eagles sealed it with another goal from Skarupa, who recorded her second hat trick of the season, with just over six minutes remaining in the game, bringing the final tally to 4-1 in favor of the Eagles for the second time in the weekend.

With the win, the Eagles clinched the regular season title. 

22 runs off 22 hits in the team’s last two games—began making solid contact.

Costly errors on the part of BC further aided Michigan.

In the sixth inning, with one out remaining, center fielder Lyndsay Doyle, right fielder Nicole Sappingfield, and shortstop Sierra Romero notched three consecutive hits, loading the bases. And cleanup hitter Caitlin Blanchard rocketed a single to score two of them.

In the seventh inning, back-to-back singles from Michigan’s Haylie Wagner and Taylor Hasselbach, and an error—which let Lauren Sweet reach base—loaded the bases. With one out remaining, once again, Sappingfield drew a walk, plating Wagner and reducing BC’s lead to a single run.

With the bases still loaded, the next batter, Romero, hit a single. The runners were set in motion by the knock, and a throwing error effectively cost BC the lead, as Michigan cleared the bases, gaining a 6-4 lead.

After Michigan mounted its comeback, BC attempted to make one of its own.

In the seventh inning, after Michigan’s reliever Megan Betsa pitched a no-hit sixth inning, the BC team loaded the bases: Sophomore shortstop Jessie Daulton reached on a fielder’s choice, and D’Argento and catcher Tory Speer both were walked.

BC was able to score only one run, though, as Wagner—who came in as relief—and a returning Driesenga, combined to quash the team’s last-ditch bid.

The 6-5 defeat, which was preceded by victories over Central Arkansas and Valparaiso and two losses to Memphis, was BC’s third of both the season and tournament. Leaving the 2014 Ragin’ Cajun Invitational, as well as Louisiana, the problems faced by BC in this past game—primarily the errors—have dropped the Eagles beneath the hallowed mark of .500. 

BC drops third straight in loss to ’Cuse

BY STEFAN TODOROVIC For The Heights

The women’s basketball team hosted the Syracuse Orange this past Sunday afternoon, making it the 44th meeting between the two teams 71 Syracuse and the first one Boston College 47 since 2005.

The Eagles were hoping to shake off an 82-61 loss against No. 2 Notre Dame last Thursday night and were coming into the game at less than full force without senior guard Kristen Doherty, due to her concussion symptoms.

“Not having Kristen in the game today put us in a difficult position,” said head coach Erik Johnson. “But we are a team and it all comes down to who’s next in line.”

As the Eagles took to the court, supporting breast cancer research by sporting all pink jerseys, the opening minutes of the game was rough as BC went down, 9-2, in the first four minutes.

Senior forward Katie Zenevitch led the Eagles with 10 points and seven rebounds—freshman Emilee Daley had a career-high 13 points, and freshman Kelly Hughes added 10 points.

The Orange didn’t waste any time, as they jumped ahead by confirming a strong 10-point lead within the first 10 minutes, as the score was Syracuse, 19, BC 9.

It seemed to be purely a battle from outside the arc as both offenses repetitively attacked from the 3-point line. Although BC leads the ACC in 3-point field goals, Syracuse was able to sink nine of its 15 attempts while the Eagles hit five of their 10 from downtown in the first half.

As the lead continued to stretch, Syracuse strived to gain the majority of its points from quick counter attacks.

“We kept giving the ball away and they [Syracuse] took advantage of each turnover,” Johnson said.

Sophomore guard Brianna Butler led the Orange with 18 points in the first half while the Eagles’ points were spread out fairly evenly throughout the team. Freshman guard Emilee Daley led the Eagles with eight points.

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Nicole Boudreau joined four teammates in double-digit scoring in BC’s loss to Syracuse.

At the end of the first half, the Orange had made a commanding 18-point lead and led 43- 25.

The story unfolding was that of Butler. A three by Butler made the Syracuse lead 19-9 with 11:09 left in the half. It was her third 3-pointer of the game. She would continue to hit 3-pointers as her fifth bucket of the half gave the Orange a 40-20 lead with under three minutes left in the half. Her sixth 3-pointer extended the lead 43-23 with 1:57 to play.

The Eagles found some momentum late in the first half with a 3-point shot

by Hughes, but the Orange answered back as their shots continued to fall from 3-point land.

Despite a handful of quality opportunities, the Eagles’ offense could not compete with the aerial attack from the Syracuse Orange.

Syracuse shot 57.1 percent from the field and 60 percent from the three-point

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line. ’Cuse hit nine of 15 3-pointers in the half. BC shot just 47.6 percent from the floor and went five for 10 from the 3-point line.

Butler began the second half with a 3-pointer to extend the lead to 51-25.

Butler hit her first two field goals at 15:31, giving her 23 points and ’Cuse a 53-28 lead. The Eagles never recovered as the Orange continued to press and hit longrange shots.

There was enough action to keep the spectators satisfied regardless of the loss suffered by the Eagles, as Syracuse ran a clinic in Conte Forum, the game finishing with a final score of 71-47, the lowestscoring game for the Eagles this year.

BC will travel to South Carolina to take on the Tigers of Clemson University in an ACC match up on Feb. 20, before returning back to Chestnut Hill for its last home game of the regular season to play the University of Maryland on Feb. 27. 

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Pat Connaughton scored 17 points and tallied four assists in his team’s victory over the Eagles. The junior forward played a huge role in closing out Boston College in the game’s final minutes.

BC suffers 19th defeat of season against ND

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On an emotional night, Ryan Anderson’s double-double was not enough to get BC a win.

Anderson plays for DK in loss Men’s Basketball, from B1 Before tip-off, Anderson walked to the Boston College bench with his head down. As the BC players lined up for the national anthem, Anderson stood a foot or two to the right of his teammates. A photomontage of Kelley played before the anthem began, including an image of Anderson and Kelley embracing after the Eagles’ win over Virginia last March.

He, along with sophomore guard Joe Rahon, held back tears. When the anthem finally started following a moment of silence for Kelley, Anderson lifted his head slightly, eyes closed. The game, and any sort of distraction, couldn’t start quickly enough.

“He just always used to make sure I had a smile on my face, and that’s all he really cared about,” Anderson said. “Just seeing some of the pictures today was real emotional before the game for us. It’s tough that we didn’t get the win.”

It hasn’t been an easy season for BC.

The team has disappointed despite some high pre-season expectations on the way to a 6-19 record through mid-February. Kelley never talked to the players about those things, though.

“Today was not the happiest moment of my BC career, but I was just trying to play as hard as I could, because that’s all he ever told us,” Anderson said. “He didn’t really care if we won or lost. It was just did we have fun, and did we play as hard as we could.”

Kelley used to ask Anderson about his mother or how his day was going, not critique his defense or his shooting technique. Even as Kelley’s ALS worsened, he kept sending the players emails throughout the season.

“I’m just going to miss stuff like that,” Anderson said.

Anderson put up 11 points and 11 rebounds against the Irish, he dove on the floor and wrestled for loose balls, he gave it his all—but he and his team still fell short.

“I was having fun and I was playing hard for him,” Anderson said. “But it just didn’t work out.” n

A lot has been said about Boston College’s men’s basketball team in the past four months.

The Eagles do not rebound. They are not athletic enough. They do not box out. Some even joke that BC should move to the America East for basketball, so the program can have a shot at making the NCAA tournament.

Others say the Eagles don’t get enough steals. They are too dependent on Olivier Hanlan for points and Ryan Anderson for rebounds. If there is one thing that should be said about this team that is positive, though, it is that Steve Donahue’s squad does not give up.

No team in the country has a better excuse to put its heads down, pack its bags up, and wait for next season to come. With expectations higher than they have been in recent years for what was once one of the conference’s better programs, the Eagles have had their worst season in years.

The Eagles are rarely out of a game despite what the scoreboard shows, though.

“The record is deceiving of how our team has improved,” Anderson said. “Anytime you play the type of schedule that we had, the record may not show the improvements that the team has made.”

Donahue’s team was doubled up at times late in the first half. The Eagles faced a 33-13 deficit against Harvard and a 38-19 hole at Virginia. While they were able to fight back against the Crimson before the half concluded, and the `Hoos later in the game, the Eagles lost, but did not give up.

The team’s 73-69 defeat at home to rival Catholic program Notre Dame was no different. While the Eagles were never down by more than 10 points, there were times when they could have let the game slip away.

Starting Will Magarity and Garland Owens, Donahue stuck with the team that kept up with Georgia Tech. Owens managed two

3-pointers from the corner in addition to a layup in the first half. The freshman forward led BC’s full court press when Donahue used that strategy to put pressure on Notre Dame guard Eric Atkins.

Magarity’s presence in the paint helped clog the lane early, and Anderson helped him out, but the freshman’s weaknesses were exposed. Pat Connaughton drove to the hoop on Magarity, who battled Garrick Sherman for much of the opening period. The freshman has yet to adapt to the physicality of the game, especially down low. While he is able to go body-to-body in a man defense, it was easy for Zach Auguste to plow his way through Magarity to the rim.

Without Anderson on the floor, Magarity served as the anchor of the team’s defense.

“We’re trying to get better on defense,” Donahue said. “So more Garland Owens, more Will Magarity, less 3-point shooters—Patrick Heckmann, Lonnie Jackson at times. We’re trying to get better and get growth on that defensive end somehow.”

BC’s offense did well to move the ball in the first half. While it was not the same quality as its games against Washington or Syracuse, when the spread offense was able to rotate the ball around, it was good enough to get seven solid looks from behind the arc that dropped through the nylon. Six of those came in the first half.

Down by just three at the intermission, the Eagles had the Fighting Irish within reach.

The visitors hopped out to an eight-point lead, though, less than three minutes into the second half through a dunk from Auguste, but consecutive baskets from Anderson lessened the deficit to four.

The teams kept close until a burst from Notre Dame put the visitors up by nine. A 3-pointer from Steve Vasturia finished his team’s 9-3 run and forced Donahue to call a timeout. The Eagles looked deflated, but they continued to press on.

After Donahue stopped play, Joe Rahon

got two of his own, but Atkins’ jumper put Notre Dame’s lead back to nine.

Down the stretch, the Fighting Irish found the hands of its veterans in Connaughton and Atkins. Connaughton scored six points in the game’s final six minutes to combat BC’s attempts at a last-gasp comeback. His layup with 4:53 to go put the Fighting Irish up 6155. It broke up a burst of confidence from the Eagles, which peaked when Hanlan scored after Anderson threaded a pass from the top of key to the sophomore, who was spotted under the hoop.

While the Eagles were able to come close, the team’s defense let them down in the end.

Without the defense running on all cylinders, it took the offense to keep the team in the game. Down by as much as 10 with 36 seconds remaining, Hanlan went to the hoop for a quick layup, and Patrick Heckmann came off the bench to spur the squad’s late push. The junior forward knocked down a late 3-pointer, and after Sherman missed two free throws, Heckmann went down the floor for a layup cutting Notre Dame’s lead to three.

BC had life. For a moment, the Eagles looked motivated, but they would fall again.

Now 6-19 and 2-10 in ACC play, Donahue’s task is to keep the team focused on each day and on each possession.

“My job is to inspire these guys every single day to reach their potential and figure out a way to get them confident and get their success,” Donahue said. “I want to win as bad as anybody, but there’s great growth going on that’s not showing up on the scoreboard.”

With the season coming to a close and the ACC Tournament just weeks away, all BC can do is improve.

“My number one thing in my job no matter what is, is to motivate, inspire guys to demand their best,” Donahue said. “It’s what our university’s all about—‘ever to excel.’ I pump myself up everyday. I get out of bed and honestly I say my prayers and I’m gonna try to motivate this group to get better.” n

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Eagles leave Hockey East foes in the dust Men’s Hockey, from B1 very good, and the Eagles haven’t been beaten during the 17 games that Arnold, Gaudreau and Hayes have been terrorizing defenses together. In those 17 games, they have combined for 91 points and a plus-70 rating.

After Chris Calnan scored the opener on a shorthanded breakaway, the line scored three consecutive goals that put the game out of reach. At the end of a first period in which the Catamounts outplayed BC, Arnold was in the right place to deposit a goal from Isaac MacLeod at the right post.Vermont finally capitalized two minutes into the second, but Gaudreau scored later in the period to make the score 3-1 and to also extend his point streak to 26 games. Hayes scored a little over five minutes later off an assist to put BC up three. Two Catamount goals in the third period were partially offset by a Scott Savage snipe from the blue line, created by excellent work down low by Chris Calnan and Destry Straight, and the score settled at 5-3.

For a couple of minutes in the first period, the main storyline emanating from this game was going to be the potential demise of BC’s first line, not its continued dominance. Arnold went down in a heap early in the first period after blocking a Vermont slap shot and had to be helped off the ice.

He would return later in the period and was healthy enough to score, but another player critical to BC’s recent and future success, defenseman Michael Matheson, mysteriously left the game and did not return. Matheson, a first-round pick capable of incredible highs and lows, such as his first period interference penalty for tackling a Vermont player in the neutral zone, would be a massive loss for York’s defense corps if he were to miss a significant amount of time.

Eagles junior goalie Brian Bil-

lett, playing in his first game since Jan. 17, when he allowed BU back in the game with shaky third period play, turned away 35 shots. Early in the first period, BC’s defense allowed some of those Vermont shots to be from dangerous areas, but Billett showed why there was a goalie rotation earlier in the season in Conte Forum.

Freshman goalie Thatcher Demko did not play up to his excellent standard on in Friday’s 4-3 win at “The Gut.” He was good, just not otherworldly. Catamounts captain HT Lenz beat Demko five-hold off a faceoff on a shot that Demko did not appear to see, and the freshman also let in two third period goals that were not unstoppable, the second of which came off a rebound with 18 seconds left. The goal gave Vermont a chance to steal a point, but the Catamounts couldn’t put another one past Demko in the game’s waning moments.

BC went ahead for the first time Friday night 30 seconds into the second period with a powerplay strike from Gaudreau, and the whole sequence encapsulated the season for the Eagles and the weekend for Vermont.

Aided by the 90-foot width of the ice at Gutterson, Matheson, Hayes and Arnold moved the puck around the Catamount zone expertly. Arnold eventually dropped a pass from the left faceoff dot back to Hayes at the point, who unloaded a one-timer though wide-open lane created by BC’s movement.

The puck rebounded off Vermont goalie Mike Santaguida right to Gaudreau alone at the left circle.

There was nothing Vermont could do about the puck finding its way to the country’s leading scorer’s tape, and there was nothing it could do when Gaudreau ripped a wrist shot past a sprawling Santaguida. The Eagles would lead the rest of the game and the weekend, just as they would lead Hockey East as they have all season. 

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Johnny Gaudreau: 15 goals, 18 assists

Ryan Fitzgerald: 3 goals, 9 assists

Michael Matheson: plus-13, 11 assists

Austin Cangelosi: 5 goals, plus-8

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T.J. Oshie’s six shootout attempts produced a heart-rate spiking spectacle for everyone watching the game.

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Women’s tennis keeps on rolling

BY STEVEN PRINCIPI Heights Staff

The Boston College women’s tennis team continued its hot start to the season with wins over Harvard and UMass Amherst on Saturday and Sunday. The Eagles defeated the Minutemen 4-3 on Sunday to improve to 7-0 on the season behind strong performances from Lexi Borr, Heini Salonen, and Jennifer Ren. On Saturday, BC defeated rival Harvard in a match that pitted two nationally ranked teams against each other. Borr once again put forth a solid effort, winning the opening doubles match with teammate Jessica Wacnik. Katya Vasilyev and Emily Safron were also key performers for the Eagles, who will open up conference play on Friday when they travel to North Carolina.

There was less success on the men’s side, as the Eagles continued to struggle in the early stages of the

season, dropping each of their two games to Bryant and Virginia Tech to fall to 2-5 on the year. Virginia Tech dominated the Eagles all day, winning 7-0 with every match in straight sets.

BC’s loss dropped it to 0-2 in ACC play. The Eagles are off until Feb. 26, when they travel to Providence to take on Brown.

The women’s track team took part in a pair of competitions over the weekend, running at the Iowa State Classic and the Brown Invitational.

The Eagles sent four members of their team to Iowa State to run the 5,000 meters. Liv Westphal was the best of the four, placing 17th in the race, and all three competitors met the ACC qualifying standard.

At Brown, Claudia DiSomma took first in the 800 meters while Kathy O’Keefe came in second in the same race. Molly O’Dea managed to take second in the 60 meter prelims and the 400 meters.

The men’s and women’s fencing teams both had their Beanpot this week, facing off with Harvard, Brandeis, and MIT at the Malkin Athletic Center. The men were soundly beaten by Harvard in their opening match, falling by a score of 26-1 in a match in which they were dominated from start to finish. The women fared no better, as they too were routed by the Crimson. Harvard’s men and women won their seventh straight fencing Beanpots on Wednesday, thoroughly dominating their competition all day.

BC’s ski teams competed in the Williams Winter Carnival over the weekend as well. BC placed 13th out of 15 teams while Vermont won by a comfortable margin. BC’s best score came in the men’s giant slalom event, where they placed eighth.Vermont finished first or second in every event, while BC routinely finished toward the bottom of the pack. 

of minutes, his clutch performance elevated heart rates to dangerous levels and lifted him from relative obscurity to newly appointed American hero— though he denied that label.

When I woke up from a nap two hours later—partially recovered from the morning’s stress—all I could think was that, as a public necessity, hockey should have more of those good kinds of “holy crap” moments. College hockey needs to embrace the shootout.

According to the 201213 and 2013-14 Rules And Interpretations for NCAA Ice Hockey, if teams are mutually consenting, shootouts can be used to break a tie if teams play a standard five-minute overtime. Ultimately, though, the game will still be officially recorded as a tie—which is exactly what happened on Oct. 25 when Boston College men’s hockey tied Minnesota 3-3 and then won a shootout that, baffling many people at the time, ultimately counted for nothing.

A meaningless shootout is ultimately—for the viewer at least—not an edge-of-your-

seat type of thrill, and ending a game in a tie denies closure, to paraphrase every American critic of soccer ever. If the NCAA adopted a league-wide shootout system—some conferences, including the National Collegiate Hockey Conference and the Big Ten, have their own in-conference setups—to break ties that actually counted for teams’ records, the entertainment value produced would far outweigh possible drawbacks.

There are no ties in professional hockey. During the regular season in the NHL, teams play a five-minute, sudden death 4-on-4 overtime period, and if the game remains deadlocked, it goes to a shootout. In the first round of the shootout, each team selects three players to shoot—if no one scores, the shootout turns into sudden death and no player can shoot twice until every eligible shooter has been exhausted.

The winning team receives the standard two points for a victory, and the losing team earns one, as opposed to zero points for a regulation loss.

Fusing an NHL-esque shootout system with the international-style opportunity to

choose the same shooters again after the first three rounds are over could create a thrilling way to end NCAA games and inject an entirely new element of coaching strategy into the game—imagine the possibility of Johnny Gaudreau lining up against Brown goaltender Tyler Steele instead of the two teams settling for a draw.

One of the biggest knocks on shootouts is the claim that the individualistic component of the finish takes away from the team-centric nature of hockey, but in the end, all team sports are made up of strungtogether individual performances.

While not all shootouts are as thrilling as Oshie’s scoring fest, incorporating shootouts with real consequences to college hockey would, on the occasion they arose, add another level of intensity to the game.

And if there’s one thing college hockey fans enjoy, it’s those “holy crap” moments.

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

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Rix, BC upset No. 11 Notre Dame in South Bend season opener

BY TOM DEVOTO For The Heights

Mikaela Rix was ready to welcome the No. 11 Notre Dame Fighting Irish to the ACC. Fueled by Rix’s six-goal outburst, the Boston Col10 Notre Dame lege women’s Boston College 15 lacrosse team outlasted Notre Dame in a 15-10 win. This was the first match of the season for the Eagles, ranked No. 20 in the country.

The Eagles wasted no time getting started, striking first just over a minute into the first half. It didn’t take long for the Irish to respond, however, as ND midfielder Caitlin Gargan drove to the net and found an opening top shelf to even the score.

Just minutes later, Gargan found herself at the goal line and once again converted, giving the Irish their first lead of the day.

Teammate Steph Toy capped a three-goal run for the Irish, scoring an eight-meter shot and stretching the Notre Dame lead to two goals.

BC went on a streak itself, scoring its second goal at 21:25. Less than two minutes later, sophomore midfielder Sarah Mannelly added another tally to tie the game again.

Forty-five seconds later, BC scored again to take back the lead on a shot from Rix. The lead would be short-lived, though, as ND’s Cortney Fortunato capitalized on a fast-break opportunity to bring the Irish even.

Gargan was on fire for the Irish, and following Fortunato’s goal she had a chance to go for the first half hat trick, but rang a shot off the post. Following the miss, BC’s Moira Barry benefitted from a good pass from Rix and scored, giving the Eagles a 5-4 lead.

Gargan would not be kept off the scoreboard for long, however, as she converted on another eight-meter shot. That goal was enough to even the score and give her a quick hat trick.

Boston College attacker Covie Stanwick was sent off temporarily with a yellow card, which requires the team to play man down for two minutes. Notre Dame took advantage of the opportunity on a play started by midfielder Brie Custis, who checked a BC player and allowed Molly Shawhan to pick up the ground ball. Eventually the ball found Gargan, who found an open Rachel Sexton on the fast break. Sexton took a shot and beat the Eagles’ defenders, giving the Irish a 6-5 lead.

ND’s Shawhan then drew a yellow card of her own, giving BC a man advantage as the teams reached the closing minutes of the first half. Rix capitalized on the scoring chance and ripped a shot in to tie the game once again.

The BC defense was not able to keep Sexton from scoring again as she grabbed her own rebound and scored on the followup. With 2:57 remaining, Mannelly got a late, unassisted goal to even the score for the sixth time. The score would remain 7-7

at the end of the half.

Rix got the second half started quickly, answering with a fast break goal for a hat trick of her own. The only person keeping the Eagles from scoring again was ND goalie Allie Murray, who made two big saves on the next BC possession to keep the Irish deficit to one.

At 26:55 the Eagles were finally able to sneak a ball past Murray with a goal from Caroline Margolis. Her first goal of the contest gave the Eagles their first multigoal lead of the game.

The lead didn’t last long—following a common theme in this match, Sexton became the third player in the game with a hat trick off an eight-meter shot to close the lead to one with 23 minutes remaining in the contest.

Another Notre Dame yellow card led to another BC goal, this time scored by Brooke Blue and assisted by Kate Rich.

Kiera McMullan responded this time for the Irish, scoring from the center hash to cut the BC lead to one.

Rix scored two more goals in the second half, sandwiching another ND goal by Gargan, bringing the score to 12-10 in favor of BC. Her most recent goal forced Notre Dame to make a goalie change, bringing in Liz O’Sullivan to replace Murray. Stanwick welcomed her by scoring lucky number 13 for the Eagles, and following two more goals from Mannelly and Rix, the lead was extended to five. It would remain that way until the end of the game. 

BC frozen in Georgia Tech matchup

BC baseball off to hot start with three-win weekend

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Facing a deficit with less than a minute to play, the Eagles put the ball into Olivier Hanlan’s hands. Hanlan lowered his head, 74 drove hard to his Georgia Tech left, and sank a Boston College 71 contested midrange jumper with 3.4 seconds to play, giving the Eagles a lead. With little time left on the game clock and a one-point lead at the McCamish Pavilion, Hanlan and the Boston College men’s basketball team appeared to be turning a corner against Georgia Tech.

After close losses to teams including Notre Dame, Toledo, and Providence, the Eagles’ efforts were paying dividends and they would finally be able to claim a quality win against a conference opponent. They had played a full 40 minutes of good basketball. They limited their turnovers to five. They had spread out their offensive attack, almost matching Georgia Tech’s points in the paint while also converting nine 3-pointers. It seemed like enough.

Cue Marcus Georges-Hunt.

Coming out of a timeout that seemed like a formality at the time, Georgia Tech inbounded the ball to Georges-Hunt, who ran the floor and created space on a screen before pulling up for a 35-footer over Lonnie Jackson. The ball swished through the bucket and a foul was called, making it a four-point play with less than a second on the clock. Final Score: Georgia Tech 74, Boston College 71.

Georges-Hunt totaled 11 points and five rebounds in addition to his last-second heroics. Daniel Miller also wreaked havoc for Georgia Tech, taking advantage of BC’s smaller lineups and adding 18 points, two blocks, and a steal. Role players Kammeon Holsey and Robert Carter Jr. collectively contributed a solid 25 points and 14 rebounds in the Georgia Tech win. Georgia Tech’s win came at a desperate time after dropping consecutive games to Virginia and Clemson. The team has also been forced to adjust to the losses of Solomon Poole and Trae Gordon.

GRAHAM BECK / HEIGHTS SENIOR STAFF

Mikaela Rix scored six goals in the Eagles’ 15-10 win over Notre Dame in the season opener.

EMILY FAHEY / HEIGHTS EDITOR

Olivier Hanlan had 21 points, but BC fell to Georgia Tech after a one-day delay in Atlanta.

For the Eagles, this game was a microcosm of the season. After maintaining an edge for much of the game and leading by five points with three minutes left, they had total control.

In those final minutes, however, Georgia Tech executed on both sides of the ball by converting buckets while also limiting BC to two points.

Despite the continued struggles down the stretch in close games, the Eagles found many bright spots. Olivier Hanlan opened the game by scoring 10 of the team’s first 21 points, and added nine points in the final 10 minutes of the second half. The trio of Jackson, Joe Rahon, and Ryan Anderson complemented Hanlan offensively by posting 33 points and eight assists.

Coach Donahue jumbled the typical lineups by starting freshmen Will Magarity and Garland Owens. Each freshman played about 20 minutes of action and contributed primarily on the defensive side of the ball.

The Eagles’ defense showed a more aggressive style in this game by challenging Georgia Tech’s guards on the perimeter.

As a result, the Yellow Jackets shot 33.3 percent from beyond the arc but were able to counter by feeding the ball to Miller, Holsey, and Carter Jr. on the inside. The Eagles compiled an impressive eight steals and two blocks in the solid defensive effort.

They were unable to rebound effectively on the defensive boards, however, surrendering 13 offensive boards.

Ultimately, even though Boston College has undergone improvement throughout the year, many of the same problems linger.

BC has little time to recover, as the Eagles face Notre Dame at home and a trip to the Carrier Dome to play undefeated Syracuse in the upcoming week. With seven regular season games remaining, there is not much time for the team to find a rhythm before ACC Tournament play begins. 

The Boston College baseball team played four games at Santa Clara University over the weekend, two against SCU and the other two against the Nevada Wolfpack.

The Eagles finished 3-1 on the weekend, dropping only their opener against the Wolfpack, and will look to build on their auspicious start as the days get longer and the snow begins to melt on Shea Field.

BC started off its season against Nevada on Friday with a 4-1 loss. The Eagles took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the second inning, but gave that run and another back in the top of the third when starting pitcher Eric Stevens gave up two runs on two doubles and a hitby-pitch.

Stevens kept the Wolfpack off the scoreboard in the balance of his six innings, but reliever Tyler Hinchiffe got touched up for two runs on two hits in the seventh. Nevada suppressed BC’s offense and maintained the three-run lead, but not without some drama. In the bottom of the eighth, the Eagles loaded the bases with two outs before left fielder Logan Hoggarth harmlessly flied out to center field. Nevada’s Jason Deitrich finished off his 10-out save with a clean bottom of the ninth.

The Eagles picked up two wins on Saturday, taking both ends of the double header at Santa Clara’s Schott Stadium.

The first game of the day was against one of BC’s Jesuit brethren, SCU, and the Eagles jumped out to an early 3-0 lead by the top of the third. Starting pitcher John Gorman kept SCU down for all of his six innings, striking out five and walking only two. Santa Clara pushed across its only run in the bottom of the eighth inning when Broncos shortstop Greg Harisis took BC reliever John Nicklas deep to left field.

The Eagles made that dinger moot in

the next half inning by plating a run of their own, and Jesse Adams struck out two in the bottom of the ninth to seal BC’s first victory of the season.

The most impressive win of BC’s infant season came later on Saturday, when the Eagles took down the Wolfpack 7-3, powered by a five-run sixth inning and five one-hit innings from top starting pitcher Andrew Chin.

Chin’s only blemish came in the bottom of the third, when Kewby Meyer came around to score after he doubled with one out for Nevada’s only hit off Chin. The redshirt sophomore retired the final eight batters he faced, and BC’s offense capitalized on the chance its starter gave it when it plated five runs on three hits and an error right after Chin left the game in the top of the sixth.

Nevada added two runs of its own in the bottom of the frame, but the score held steady in the last third of the game and BC took its second win of the day and season.

A 2-2 start would have been a morethan-fine weekend for BC head coach Mike Gambino’s team, and that’s what the Eagles were looking at when they went down 5-0 after the second inning on Sunday in the last game of the weekend against the hosting Broncos.

Gambino yanked starting pitcher Jeff Burke after the third inning, and the BC bullpen held SCU to just one run the rest of the way, opening the door for BC’s lineup to chip away at the deficit.

The Eagles added two in the fourth, two more in the seventh, and one in the eighth to pull within one in the game’s final frame. With runners on second and third, and no outs after Blake Butera’s double, Tom Bourdon singled to drive in Joe Cronin, and Butera scored on John Hennessey’s sacrifice fly to center field to complete the comeback effort.

After BC added another, Nicklas picked up the first save of his college career to cap off the 8-6 win and a successful weekend for the Eagles to start the season. 

Eagles sustain second 20-plus point loss to Notre Dame this season

BY SCOTT HILL For The Heights

Kayla McBride scored 19 points, Jewell Loyd scored 18, and the undefeated Notre Dame Fighting Irish coasted to an 82-61 82 victory over theNotre Dame Boston College Boston College 61 Eagles. The loss marked the seventh defeat for the Eagles in their last eight games, and with its 24th consecutive win, Notre Dame set a new team record for the most wins to start a season.

Prior to this, the previous record was 23, set by the 2001 national championship team.

The game was more competitive than the last time the two teams met, which resulted in a 95-53 victory for the Irish. Notre Dame showed signs of mortality for much of the first half against the Eagles, leading by only five points at the 6:55 mark thanks to the Eagles’ balanced scoring effort and good team defense. The Irish erupted on a 14-4 run to close the half, however, and put the Eagles down by 15 at the break. The Eagles never really recovered after that, coming out flat to start the second half en route to a 21-point drubbing.

The Eagles took their only lead of the game one minute in (2-0) thanks to Katie Zenevitch’s layup, but their lead was short-lived and by the 17:54 mark, they had surrendered it for good.

Zenevitch and Kat Cooper were the Eagles’

most reliable scoring threats and finished with 12 and 13 points, respectively.

The Eagles played good defense and shot fairly well (51 percent compared to Notre Dame’s 53.6 percent), but struggled mightily to get off good shots in their half-court offense. The Eagles’ offense was frequently bogged down in the half-court thanks to Notre Dame’s stifling man-to-man defense, which routinely forced the Eagles to hold the ball deep into the shot clock where they would invariably turn it over or take an ill-conceived shot. As a result, the Eagles took seven fewer shots than the Irish on the night and turned the ball over a whopping 20 times.

A reason for the Eagles’ inability to deal with the Notre Dame half-court defense was their lack of 3-point shooting—the Eagles finished 3-16 from beyond the arc. In contrast, Notre Dame is statistically the best 3-point shooting team in the nation and used several big threes from Michaela Mabrey to pull away from the Eagles in the first half.

The unusually sparse attendance was in no small part thanks to the inclement weather that had besieged Chestnut Hill throughout the day and into the night. Conte Forum was so quiet that at times the Boston College bench was the loudest sound in the gym—head coach Erik Johnson and the rest of the bench loudly counted down the shot clock as the Eagles offense struggled to get a shot off versus the stingy Irish defense. 

EMILY FAHEY / HEIGHTS EDITOR

Kat Cooper led the Eagles’ scoring effort against Notre Dame, but only put up 13 points in the eventual 21-point beat down.

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THE HEIGHTS

Monday, February 17, 2014

THE HEIGHTS

Monday, February 17, 2014

HEALTH&SCIENCE

Putting some faith in science

Poetry, Prose, and Research ‘Elements’ is BC’s undergraduate research journal and accepts research paper submissions of 1,500 to 5,000 words. Most submissions come from research papers written for class finals or chapters of senior thesis papers. The journal’s goal is to “become a forum for the exchange of original ideas” across undergraduate students and faculty. Some ‘Elements’ submissions have gone on to be published in educational textbooks for national use.

JOSEPH CASTLEN It’s called a paradigm shift, and when it happens, our understanding of a given scientific concept completely changes. It doesn’t happen often, but when it does, dramatic change occurs. New equations are formulated, some old ones are discarded or reworked, and the general theory behind a given phenomenon becomes generally regarded by the scientific community as factually incorrect.

One notable example of this is the switch from Newtonian mechanics to special relativity, which helps us to better understand the way objects move and interact with each other. The Newtonian model had been around for hundreds of years before it was overturned, but its history didn’t keep it from losing weight as a truly accurate model of how the world works. Despite the discovery of relativity, though, Newtonian mechanics is still taught in physics classes as a “good approximation” to reality, because special relativity can be pretty confusing.

Relativity was posited fairly recently by Albert Einstein, and as it turns out, it isn’t that different, in practice, from the Newtonian model—until you start talking about objects moving at extremely high speeds.

Time appears to slow down and everything around you seems to change shape as you speed up—basically, Einstein’s relativity is normal physics on LSD. As far as anyone could tell for the almost 300 years leading up to this paradigm shift, the Newtonian model worked perfectly.

There was no way to observe anything travelling near the speed of light back in the 1600s, and Newton’s laws worked for anything anyone could detect on Earth (very reliably, in fact), so it was accepted as the ruling scientific model for physics.

Other historic scientists have been even more unlucky than Sir Isaac Newton. The second-century Roman scientist Ptolemy created a model of the solar system that lasted for over 1,000 years. Its main feature that led both to its popularity and its eventual downfall was its egocentricity—his model had the Sun and the other planets revolving around the Earth, rather than the heliocentric view that is now accepted.

Clearly, science isn’t always right, but that doesn’t mean that it isn’t useful. It is our greatest tool—greater than can openers, toothbrushes, or those windshield ice scrapers. Given its track record of producing incorrect models and theories, however, is it realistic to assume that science can give us an accurate picture of reality, or is it just another tool that we can use to increase the quality of our lives?

Consider the following example: You notice that dogs always seem to have four legs and wonder if it is the case that all dogs everywhere are born with four legs. For years and years, you pay special attention every time you see a dog, counting to make sure it has exactly four legs. Your entire life, you never see a dog with two, three, five, six, or seven legs—always four. This doesn’t, however, necessarily give you enough evidence to say with certainty that all dogs have four legs. After all, there could be a breed of dog out there somewhere in the Amazon jungle with two extra legs coming out of its side, which would make your hypothesis wrong.

And you’d have no way of knowing.

This is called underdetermination in science—basically, you can’t take many observations, no matter how many, and logically say that the phenomenon you are observing is an absolute truth, because there could always be one exception to the rule.

The thing about science is that it isn’t quite as objective as it’s chalked up to be. Sure, there’s a method to it, it seems to progress forward, and you can make some pretty cool things with it, but at some point there’s a judgment involved. Whether it is how much evidence is enough to change what we believe about the solar system or how many four-legged dogs is enough to decide that all dogs are four-legged, there is some level of subjectivity involved.

No matter what you believe, you probably believe in something (like matter itself, or gravity, or evolution). What exactly you believe, however, may change a little through the course of your life, and it could just be wrong alltogether. Extreme skepticism of science can hinder progress and make for an uneducated society, but blind acceptance of everything it suggests to be true can produce the same effects.

Maybe it’s time to shift the paradigm through which we view knowledge and accept that it’s okay to put a little faith in science—just maybe not all of it.

Joseph Castlen is an editor for The Heights. He can be reached at features@bcheights.com.

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‘The Laughing Medusa’ is BC’s only all-female literature and arts magazine. The publication comes out annually and serves as a “safe place for talented young women to to express and examine [their] lives.” ‘The Laughing Medusa’ also devotes itself to promoting diversity in its submissions, as it aims for both a female and male readership.

The magazine hosts several events throughout the year to celebrate women in the arts.

‘Stylus’ is BC’s official literary magazine. The magazine is the oldest club at BC, founded in 1882. ‘Stylus’ is unique among other publications on campus in that its review process is open to the student body.

Meetings take place weekly in Stokes, and once a student attends three meetings he or she can vote on submissions.

Not only does ‘Stylus’ accept poetry and prose, the magazine also publishes art in the form of drawings or paintings.

‘Witness’ defines itself as a “journal of social responsibility.” The magazine encourages any expression, reflection, and critical dialogue that reflects a “spirit of solidarity” as a citizen of the world.

‘Witness’ accepts poetry, nonfiction, short fiction, feature articles, essays, criticisms, interviews, reviews, photography, paintings, sculptures, videos, and even music, which can all be viewed online. Its stated goal is to start a conversation on social justice.

undergraduate research journal, offers an opportunity to publish research papers (1,500-5,000 words) that are “well written, well researched, and on an engaging topic.”

The mi ssion of Element s i s to “become a forum for the exchange of original ideas within and across varied research endeavors of fellow undergraduates to the greater academic community by fostering intellectual curiosity and discussion.”

By submitting rese arch pap ers written for class, or perhaps a chapter from a senior thesis via elements. submissions@gmail.com, you could contribute to the Elements goal of “strengthening and affirming community of undergrads at BC.” Perhaps you have a spirited opinion piece on a controversial issue? BC’s Dialogue is a “unique journal that focuses specifically on controversial, insightful essays that are meant to promote dialogue among students and faculty.” The publication isn’t political or artistic, but rather, an educational journal that thrives on publishing a wide variety of topics.

Last but not least, is Witness, a BC “forum committed to broadening and deepening the conversation about global responsibility, social justice, and citizenship.”

Witness defines itself as a “journal of social responsibility,” and welcomes expression, ref lection, and critical dialogue that will “foster a spirit of solidarity as citizens of the world.” bc.witnessjournal@gmail.com welcomes any work that fosters an “awareness and ongoing discussion of social justice.”

Any style of expression is welcome, whether it is poetry, creative non-fiction, short fiction, feature articles, essays, criticism, interviews, reviews, photography, paintings, sculptures, videos, or even music (which can be featured and viewed at http://bcwitnessjournal.wordpress.com).

These countless literary journals only scratch the surface of the intellectual gold circulating BC’s campus every day. Individual clubs, departments, and organizations have their own publications, blogs, forums, and events through which students are encouraged to share their work.

If there’s one thing these numerous publications have in common, it’s their hunger for submissions. They all encourage writers to abandon their fear of submitting. Some writing may just end up going on to publication in educational textbooks for national use (Just ask Elements, it’s happened before). 

Magazines, from B10 for your masterpieces, too).

“Stylus is relatively unique in the way that it runs its review process,”Stylus Editor-In-Chief Sophia Gorgens, A&S ’15, said. Unlike other literary magazines that tend to function through a closed group of reviewers, Stylus welcomes anyone at BC to attend the weekly review meetings.

After attending three review meetings, anyone is permitted to vote on the submissions. One doesn’t have to submit work of his or her own in order to attend meetings, and, conversely, does not have to attend meetings in order to submit work.

Interested in submitting? Email bcstylus@ gmail.com. Interested in getting involved on the review end of things? Attend one of the weekly meetings Wednesdays from 8-10 p.m. in Stokes S109.

An additional publication of possible interest for female authors is The Laughing Medusa, BC’s only all women’s literature and arts magazine. The Laughing Medusa’s mission statement defines its aim to “engage the Boston College community with the artistic works of diverse women. The journal provides a safe space for talented young women to express and examine our lives. We hope to emphasize and explore our collective humanity, and hope that all readers, female and male, can see themselves in the pages of this journal.”

The Laughing Medusa publishes once annually and is accepting submissions this year until March 16. The council of editors is comprised of a group of 12 women who meet to anonymously review submissions.

Not only does The Laughing Medusa publish its annual literary journal, but it also hosts several events throughout the year, such as “A Room of Our Own,” described as “a night when the BC Community comes together to applaud and celebrate BC women in the arts.”

Additionally this year, The Laughing Medusa will be hosting an event called “Cadence and Caffeine” on Feb. 20 at 7 p.m. in the Stokes Chocolate Bar. The event will consist of an open visual art gallery as well as musicians and poetry readers, both male and female.

Through events such as A Room of Our Own and Cadence and Caffeine, The Laughing Medusa hopes to “give women in the arts a space where they can present their art to an encouraging audience, and be inspired to continue creating.” Interested in submitting or getting involved? Check out the Laughing Medusa Facebook Page or email bclaughingmedusa@gmail.com—any and all forms of art are welcome.

Less inclined toward the creative side with your writing? There’s still a place for publication. Elements, BC’s

CLUB SERIES FEATURING BC’S STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

Irish Society strengthens BC’s Irish heritage with cultural events, collaborations

BY CORINNE DUFFY Heights Editor

From its very foundation, Irish heritage has held profound significance at Boston College. Prevalent anti-Irish Catholic prejudice inspired BC’s forefathers to found the University in 1863 with hopes of providing higher education to those first-generation men otherwise denied it due to their ethnic roots, and Boston itself maintains a very large Irish population. It is fitting, therefore, that the Irish Society seeks to preserve, encourage, and partake in the ancestral tradition inherent within BC. Founded in 2010, the club collaborates with other Irish programs and enthusiasts at BC, in the greater Boston area and abroad, and it currently features around 50 active members.

By sharing in and emphasizing Irish music, film, sports, dance, literature, language, food, and traditional and contemporary history, the Irish Society of BC celebrates Ireland’s unique culture and national identity. “[Our] purpose is to increase awareness of and promote participation in Irish cultural activities in the BC community,” said Nicole Carroll, president of the club and A&S ’14, in an email.

In order to experience and appreciate as many aspects of Ireland’s

rich and dynamic heritage as possible, the club hosts a wide array of events throughout the year, focusing on a variety of cultural components and embracing many traditional Irish activities both on and off campus.

D ur ing the f all s eme ster the executive board screened John Michael McDonagh’s The Guard (2011), prepared popular breakfast dishes several times, allowing club members to taste traditional Irish cuisine, and held weekly Gaelic sports practices for their team —the Eagles Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA).

In Gaelic football, there are 15 players per team whose goal is to toss a spherical leather ball (similar to an American football) through two posts for three points, rather than touch down in an end zone for six points. It is also one of the few remaining strictly-amateur sports left in the world.

Additionally, the club worked alongside the Irish studies department and Gaelic Roots program to promote musical events, and collaborated with the Philippine Society to host a Halloween, halo-halo-eating (a Filipino dessert), and pumpkincarving event—“which originated in Ireland,” Carroll added.

An important theme within the Society is that many of the events it hosts emphasize collaboration.

“In addition to the Halloween event we co-hosted with PSBC, the Irish Society formed a connection with An Cumman Gaelach, the Irish language society at Trinity College Dublin,” Carroll said.

Furthermore, the GAA has cooperated with other Gaelic football teams from various Northeastern universities and clubs to play in games and tournaments, traveling to New Haven, Conn., Philadelphia, Pa., and Hartford, Conn. to compete.

“The Irish Society continues to work with the Irish studies department and Gaelic Roots program and hopes for more opportunities to collaborate with other groups in the future,” Carroll said.

Even after this busy fall, however, the Irish Society has even more planned for the spring, with events already underway. At its first event, on Feb. 23, the club will bake Irish soda bread together.

Of course, with March approaching, members are readying themselves for Ireland’s pride and joy: St. Patrick’s Day. The Irish Society, therefore, is hosting and participating in several functions leading up to the big event that is March 17.

Individuals will have the opportunity to learn about Irish football, Ireland’s second national sport along-

side hurling, experience Irish cuisine at a traditional dinner, and attend a student-run musical performance in the preceding days.

Following St. Patty’s Day celebrations, later on this semester there will be a student-directed ceili—a popular Irish form of folk dancing—in March, a poetry reading event, many Gaelic football games for The Eagles GAAs—including the National Collegiate Athletic Association-hosted championship—a scavenger hunt for pieces of Irish-American history taking place in Boston, and an April retreat to New York City.

Due to the Irish Society’s multifarious administrative requirements and cultural components , it has many different officers and executive representatives to direct the sports, music, fundraising, promotion, and logistics departments.

While the club does not hold regular meetings for general membership, it does host an informational session at the beginning of each semester for interested individuals, which outlines planned events and takes suggestions for additional ideas.

Those desiring to become involved in the Irish Society and learning about its upcoming functions and events can visit its Facebook page or become members by emailing irishsocietybc@gmail. com to be added to the listserv. 

THE HEIGHTS

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AN OPEN LETTER

Winter should give us a break CAROLYN FREEMAN Dear winter, Albert Camus said in The Stranger that “in the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer,” but I beg to differ. In the depth of this winter, all I’m learning is that I’m infinitely impatient. Winter, I think you’ve really overstayed your welcome. I knew there was no turning back once I was compelled to take out my winter jacket during those first few blustery days back in October, but at this point I really feel like you should leave.

The idea of a New England winter was charming, in theory. Back in August, I couldn’t wait for the tall snowdrifts and bright blue skies that I saw in college pamphlets and on L.L. Bean’s Instagram account. I pictured myself heading to class all bundled up in wool and plaid. For some reason, I thought my fictionalized Boston winter would be fun.

But reality struck pretty soon into first semester. I thought you would be so cozy, winter. I pictured a constant Christmas on campus. I imagined snowball fights and sledding and hot cocoa by a fire. It’s pretty clear that this vision of winter more closely aligned with that of a ski lodge than of Boston College.

The main thing that struck me is how gray you are. All the buildings here are even the same shade of gray as the sky. The sky is gray, the snow turns gray, campus is gray, and everyone’s faces are vaguely gray and depressed-looking. The bright crimson landscape of the fall turned so quickly into a barren and desolate vista. The Gothic feel of campus is beautiful in the spring and fall when there’s a little more color contrast, but not so much in the winter when everything around is monochromatic.

Winter, I’m sick of you. I feel like I haven’t seen the sun in weeks. I spend my days inside brainstorming the quickest routes between classes or frantically checking TransLoc to minimize the amount of time I have to wait for the Newton bus. My skin is as pale as the snowdrifts, and I think it’s getting even drier with each passing day. It reminds me of the scene in The Spongebob Squarepants Movie when our favorite porous protagonist is drying out under a heat lamp. I feel like Spongebob, except instead of a heat lamp, (I wish) it’s an arctic tundra that lacks moisture.

And as we all know, moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty.

I’m not even a winter rookie—it gets pretty cold in D.C. I had more than my fair share of snow days in high school. But the wind and the never-ending snow piles of Boston are just on a whole new level. This is winter 2.0. You’re like the threeheaded dog guarding the Sorcerer’s Stone. I just need to get past you and into spring, and maybe I’ll survive.

At this point, I’m even reminiscing about the gross, humid, and sticky D.C. summer. At least then I didn’t have to worry about the salt residue left on all of my boots or the fact that I look like I’m wearing the same exact outfit every day. It’s hard to accessorize when that big black coat covers everything, anyway. I long for the good old days when I didn’t closely resemble vanilla pudding. I’m even sick of wearing my fleece-lined leggings every day, if that’s possible. Wearing shorts outside seems like a fairytale.

I have noticed that some people do brave the cold and just wear gym shorts. By some people, I mostly mean freshman boys. Don’t you guys get cold in basketball shorts and sweatshirts when it’s -10 degrees with windchill? Or are you too macho for to feel the cold?

I went on a run outside the other day because it looked deceptively bright out, and I think I now have walking pneumonia, or something.

The cold infiltrated my lungs and made me cough uncontrollably. Four days later, I’m still feeling the effects of my 12-minute run around Newton.

Never again—at least not until we’re out of the depths of winter.

Regardless, I do have hope that spring will come again. I know the groundhog saw his shadow, but let’s not dwell on that. My friends from this area say it doesn’t really get warm until April, but I’m hoping this is the year that spring will come early. I can’t wait for the grass to be green instead of the swath of mud it is right now.

I’m excited to see the BC in flowers next to those random stairs behind McGuinn. Most of all, I’m ready to wear one or two layers instead of four or five every time I venture outside.

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

Monday, February 17, 2014

Comics showcase new perspective on history Comics, from B10 what’s important and digest it into their own form.”

Last semester, the course was taught

by Lynn Johnson and was focused on the history of Boston Common. The students are designing the exhibit for that course, which should be done by the end of the year. Sylvia Sellers-Garcia is currently teaching the fourth iteration, called Early Maps and Distant Places, according to librarian Elliot Brandow.

“Part of the course is about researching the topic and developing their own academic expertise on a subject, and part is about conceiving a way to share their newfound expertise, ensuring that their insights will be accessible to an audience that might not know anything about the topic,” Brandow said.

Remy Hassett, a history and secondary education major and A&S ’14, was skeptical about a class revolving around comic books.

She took it because she wanted to take a class with Richardson, but it ended up teaching her a new way to look at history, she said.

On the first day of class, students had to create their own syllabus, and there were a lot of disagreements. Ultimately, everything worked out and the class is proud of the exhibit, Hassett said.

Hassett compiled two panels based on

advertisements and edited the entire collection. She worked with technology services to print the panels for the finished product.

“I’m not quite sure how I ended up with this job, but I did,” she said. “I ended up going through the proofs so many times just to make sure the text was proofread and to make sure that the panels themselves looked how we wanted them to, with the right size font and the correct width for the borders.”

Looking at historical events through the lens of DC and Marvel Comics was fascinating, she said. While researching, she found herself focusing more on the advertisements, though, than on the actual story lines.

“I was fascinated by how, amidst the pages of the comics, they were trying to teach boys to be men—growing facial hair, becoming more muscular, and selling GRIT newspapers, for instance,” Hassett said. “I realized how there was a dramatic shift in ads in the ’80s, ’90s, and 2000s as technology became more prevalent in our daily lives.”

The process gave her insight into a new way to teach history. She hopes to carry what she learned about the importance of seeing history in a new light to her future job as a history teacher, she said.

“I would have never thought to use

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Students drew connections between comic books and historical events and trends. comic books to teach history before, but the entire class loved it,” she said. “Also, the whole process of curating an exhibit is something I hope to do with my own students one day, regardless of the subject matter. I think it’s incredibly important for students to take ownership of their material, and curating an exhibit is an incredible way to do so, and for students to proudly display their work.” Brandow, the senior reference librarian and history bibliographer, helped students explore secondary sources for their papers.

Justine Sundaram, the Burns reference librarian, helped the students sort

through the comic books.

“I enjoyed the energy that the students brought to the class and their exhibit,” Brandow said. “There is something about the excitement of creating a project that has life beyond the confines of the individual class and producing material that will be shared with an audience beyond the professor that adds vibrancy and energy to this course.”

Watching the students interpret history and produce an exhibit is wonderful, Richardson said. “I turned them loose into the comics,” she said. “They got into the collection and fell in love with it.” 

PROFESSOR PROFILE

Jean-Charles uses language, culture to talk about gender

BY DANIEL PEREA-KANE

WHO: Regine Jean-Charles

For The Heights Next week, Ohio State University Press will publish Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary, about violence toward women in Francophone Africa, by Regine JeanCharles, an assistant French professor in Boston College’s romance langauges and literatures department.

Jean-Charles offered some thoughts on the subject of the book: “Because of the history and politics of these countries, people write about, talk about, and theorize about violence a lot, but less attention is given to representations of sexual violence,” she said.

She is specifically interested in the issue of rape in Africa. “Instead of just talking about the rape of the African continent symbolically, we must also talk about what rape means for the bodies and subjects affected by it,” she said.

The book is also about how rape is represented in literature, film, and photography.

Jean-Charles, who is currently on maternity leave, began shopping the book in 2011. In addition to making a contribution to Francophone studies, she also wanted to make a contribution to gender and African and African diaspora studies.

Jean-Charles tries to teach courses related to her research. “It’s really great to talk with students about [these issues],” she said.

“Sexual violence is a hard topic, but students were interested in learning more about the subject in the context of literature.”

Jean-Charles teaches courses in both French and English. Although her approach remains the same to both types of classes, the experience is quite different for students. “In romance languages, I get students who are not necessarily interested in the subject matter,” she said. “What I love about that is that [for] my students in French, the world really opens up to them when they realize there are black people who are writing in French.”

TEACHES: French language and literature EXPERIENCE: Wrote a book about violence toward Francophone women in Africa FUN FACT: Speaks English, French, and Kreyol EMILY FAHEY / HEIGHTS EDITOR

One of Jean-Charles student’s lives changed after studying Francophone novels in her course. This student later decided to study abroad and use her French in Africa.

Jean-Charles, a Haitian-American, had parents who left Haiti in the ’60s and raised her in Wellesley, Mass. After Jean-Claude Duvalier, former president of Haiti, fell in 1986, her parents returned to Haiti and have remained there since. Jean-Charles visits her parents once or twice a year.

Both her parents are medical professionals and were resolute about staying in the country after the earthquake in 2010.

Growing up, Jean-Charles spoke French and English, but later learned Kreyol in college because research in Haiti requires the language. About 15 percent of Haitians speak French. “French is a legacy of colonialism, but it’s too simplistic to say French is for the elites and Kreyol is for the masses,” she said.

Jean-Charles also cited Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Michael Degraff, who wrote an argument against the binary of French and Kreyol in the country. “A lot of scholars remind us, we need to compli-

cate the way we think,” she said.

As for learning Kreyol, Jean-Charles believes it is easier to get from French to Kreyol than the other way around. Kreyol is a contact language born from interactions of slaves, indigenous people, French colonizers, and some Spanish influence.

Verbs in Kreyol always use the infinitive form, and there are no gendered pronouns in the language. Syntax is more similar to WestAfrican Languages than French, although there are many recognizable French words in it. “People have definitely developed an understanding that Kreyol is necessary,” she said. “Haitians have so much respect for those that learn the Kreyol language.”

Jean-Charles is working on a second book about the Haitian diaspora. Many scholars focus on the diaspora in the United States and Canada, but Jean-Charles wants to write about the diaspora in places such as Senegal, Spain, the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, and France.

In greater Boston, there is a large HaitianAmerican population. Jean-Charles remarked on the many Haitians who work in BC’s dining halls.

“I had a white student from Philadelphia who learned some Kreyol and did oral histories of some of the Haitians who work here,” she said.

As a professor at a Jesuit Catholic college, Jean-Charles also commented on the complicated legacy of the Catholic Church in Haiti, paying particular attention to the relationship between Catholic practices there and the African religion Vaudou.

“One of the things that was important in bringing down Duvalier was the Catholic Ti legliz,” Jean-Charles said. “Aristide used liberation theology, which initially added to his popularity. I do believe in the fundamental idea of Jesus Christ as an advocate for social justice and the poor.”

In the future, Jean-Charles would like to see an immersion trip from the University to Haiti that focuses on the history and culture of the country. There is already a service trip through the Connell School of Nursing, but Jean-Charles believes that an immersion trip would also be efficacious for students. 

HE SAID, SHE SAID Some of my roommates just met some abroad students, and they’re starting to develop some serious crushes. At the end of the semester when these students go back home, my roommates will be devastated, but if I warn them against getting too attached they’ll accuse me of jealousy. How can I avoid the imminent “I told you so” later?

As a true friend, you are obliged to guide your friends in the right direction and warn them of any impending heartbreaks. College students are prone to falling in love with all the wrong people at all the wrong times. It is up to their friends and family to coach them through such difficult periods. I highly doubt that your friends would accuse you of jealousy if you approach the topic of their love lives—the MARC FRANCIS subject of romance and guy-girl relations lies at the crux of most young adult conversations. As long as you do not have a reputation for behaving in an envious manner, then your friends should have no reason to suspect you of jealousy. If you remain visibly sensitive to your friends’ feelings, they should be able to detect your sincerity.

It is also important, however, to recognize that many college students willingly choose to participate in a university’s hook-up culture—perhaps your friends are not interested in developing emotional attachments with their foreign partners. Regardless of their reasons for getting involved with the abroad students, it would not hurt to make an effort to understand their points of view. Make the conversation about them. Ask how they feel about their partners and if they are going to be hurt once they part ways. I often discover that if you approach sensitive topics by displaying genuine interest in the other person’s views and beliefs, you can get your point across with ease. I advise that you begin the conversation by stating how happy you are for your friends and then allude to the unavoidable end-of-the-year split.

In short, you can’t.

Congratulations! You get to watch your friends make (what you consider) bad decisions that potentially affect your living space—and there’s nothing you can do about it.

In the midst of midterms, internship searches, and general life goals, there’s a phrase I’ve found myself saying a lot lately: Let yourself be 20 (or 18, or 19, or whatever age you are).

TRICIA TIEDT Your roommates may not be making the wisest, long-term choices in the love department—but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t take the chance. And, while you have legitimate, valid concern for their emotional well-being, it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t support them. Maybe your friends won’t end up heartbroken—but they probably will. That doesn’t change the fact that, right here, right now, your friends are excited and happy and taking chances. Let them.

They say hindsight is 20/20. Eventually, your friends will look back and reflect on their experience—maybe they’ll see then what you see now. Maybe they won’t. Truth be told, it doesn’t really matter either way. Being a good friend doesn’t mean agreeing on everything or saying “I told you so” when things fall apart. Being a good friend means being there no matter what happens. So at the end of the semester, when the people who are currently most important to them leave, be there. People will go in and out of all of your lives in the next few years—including yours. The ones who stay through it all are the ones that count.

Marc Francis is an editor for The Heights. He can be reached at features@bcheights.com.

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

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Architecture reflects BC’s academic goals Architecture, from B10 tury, however, through several renovations, BC had successfully adhered to its distinct architectural design.

The University’s architectural style can be described simply as collegiate gothic architecture. The central appeal, which enabled this particular design to gain favor over others, is that it bears certain meanings and associations which align well with the mission of BC and reflect the academic zeal of its first members. In addition to traditional implications of religious faith and moral probity, the Gothic Revival style connotes the idea of high-mindedness and scholarship, properly echoing the motto “Ever to Excel” and the exclusively liberal arts education for which the original educators strived to aim. The initial educational emphasis on Greek and Latin classics, English and modern languages, and religion and philosophy over physical or social sciences was tangibly projected to the architectural design of each building.

While modernity almost put a temporary end to the pursuit of medieval Gothic architecture, as shown by the distinctly contrasting design of O’Neill Library—constructed in 1984—from other older buildings, BC made another stubborn effort to bring back remnants of the past. It is evident that Stokes Hall, which was completed in December of 2012 and officially opened for use in January of 2013, tries to imitate the existing buildings on campus, said Katherine Nahum, a retired professor within the art history department. Even disregarding the fact that it was the first academic building to be constructed on the Middle Campus since 2001, however, it seems more accurate to describe it as a simplified rendering of older style rather than an exact duplication of other architectures in the Quad. Although the fulfillment of its purpose and function of providing more high-tech classrooms on campus deserves to be recognized, at the same time it leaves some regret due to its overly large size and lack of open space, said Nahum.

Some may agree that compared to Gasson or Devlin Hall, Stokes Hall possesses a subtle individuality, which makes it stand out instead of completing the sense of unity with other buildings on the quad. Although it made an effort to keep the identifying mark of Catholic architecture as safe and sound as possible, it seems appropriate to relate its overall architectural spirit to modernity more so than medieval Gothic style. It also occupies a previously open space where students enjoyed the sun or organized different extracurricular activities, leaving the area enclosed by buildings of the Quad the only remaining room for the creativity and diversity of the student body. On the other hand, by filling in an open field which revealed the inner activities happening on campus to the outside world, students are able to “feel protected and shielded” thanks to the presence of the new building, according to Nahum. Furthermore, its addition to the campus can be seen as the University’s symbolic gesture to match its pace with the quickly changing current world by pursuing academic expansion and progress toward modernity and innovation, she said.

BC’s architecture has come a long way to reach where it is today since its foundation 150 years ago. From construction of the oldest and most prestigious Gasson Hall to completion of the youngest and most modern Stokes Hall, it faced moments of decision between adherence to tradition and advancement toward change. While it is undoubtedly important for the University to preserve and inscribe its proud heritage in its visual representations, further observations suggest that it may be more meaningful to seek ways to achieve architectural harmony among all the buildings, regardless of whether they are past-oriented or future-oriented. n

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The Heights throughout the century The Olympic Legacy at boston college

The winter Olympics have never been far from BC’s campus, despite distance.

By Caitlin Slotter Heights Staff It’s February of one of those special fourth years, bringing, of course, the Winter Olympics. In the midst of this year’s honors, athleticism, competition, commercialism, and scandal, a look at previous Heights editions reveals how Boston College students anticipated and celebrated Winter Olympics in the past.

In February 2010, the XXI Winter Olympics in Vancouver generated much excitement among BC students. On Feb. 11, Kristen House, noting the criticisms surrounding the Olympics due to its glitz and over-glamorization, still advised BC students to “take this time to appreciate, at the most basic level, the skills of the world’s most talented athletes.”

House talked about “harboring a childlike excitement for the Olympics—if only because they encourage us to appreciate athleticism, healthy competitive spirit, and a break from society’s isolation.” She advised BC students to pay attention to the athletes’ stories and the genuine emotions behind the wins, losses, and displays of togetherness and sportsmanship.

In the Feb. 15 edition, Joseph DeMaio highlighted the must-see events of the XXI Winter Olympics. His first recommendation: curling. DeMaio wrote, “Where else do you get to see ‘athletes’ in tracksuits pushing rocks around and sweeping ice? The sheer absurdity of the sport makes it a must-watch.” Downhill skiing, luge, skeleton, hockey (especially women’s hockey, with then-current BC players Molly Schaus and Kelli Stack), and the snowboard Super Pipe were further recommended.

Meanwhile, he suggested that, “figure skating, speed skating, and ice dancing are all to be avoided,” due to obnoxious commentators, unfair judges, and uninspiring music. (An earlier Heights edition published on Feb. 16, 2006, however, asked BC students about their favorite Winter Olympics events, and figure skating received the overwhelming majority.)

Janine Hanrahan, in her Feb. 18 article, wrote about some of the more dramatic stories from the Olympics, including Georgian luger Nodan Kumaritashvili’s tragic death, Canadian skier Alexandre Bilodeau winning the gold in the men’s moguls freestyle skiing and the inspiration he received from his older brother’s struggle with cerebral palsy, and Chinese figure skating pair and married couple Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo winning the gold after skating together for 18 years and coming out of retirement.

Hanraham wrote, “It is not difficult to get behind any of the athletes.

They all work extremely hard to get where they are, and many of them have compelling stories.”

BC students, however, were more critical about the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. “The American media has seized upon scandals, bombings, doping incidents, and general negativity surrounding the Olympics to the point that most of Americans’ memories of past athletes’ performances are clouded by the scandals,” Jeff Weinstein wrote in an article from Feb. 9. “If newspapers across America actually took the time to tell the stories of commitment and dedication instead of corruption, maybe our impression of the Olympic Games would be different.”

In the Feb. 13 edition, an editorial elaborated this, mentioning that through prominent scandals “from Apolo Anton Ohno’s battle with the Koreans, to the French figure skating judge, to the rampant doping scandal, the media likes to highlight the tragedies of human nature as much as the triumphs, if not more so.” They also stress the importance of remembering the Olympics’ true purpose, however: to display the best of human nature and athleticism.

Another editorial mentioned North and South Korea walking as one nation at the opening ceremony, BC’s women’s hockey then-assistant coach Katie King being on her third Olympic team, and Michelle Kwan tragically being unable to win one last gold medal. They state that in the face of “a world divided over cartoons, nuclear weapons, religious wars, and terrible violence, the next two weeks provide us with a common ground that any language can understand: the spirit of competition.”

February 2002 saw the XIX Winter Olympics held in Salt Lake City.

In his Feb. 16 article, Ryan Brown wrote about the money donated by corporate sponsors to allow athletes to be able to compete in the Olympics. Instead of focusing on the commercialization, however, Brown wrote about the national pride behind corporate sponsorship, especially considering that these Olympics were held on American soil five short months after Sept. 11.

Brown stated, “this year, in the midst of a national tragedy and a war on terrorism, corporate sponsorship has taken on an entirely new meaning for many corporations. No longer is it solely about getting more consumers to purchase their products.” Instead, sponsorship was seen as a way to show support for America, especially American athletes in their endeavors to fulfill their dreams.

This year, during the XXII Winter Olympics, take the time to strip away the glitz and glamour, the scandal and negativity, the commercialization and propaganda, and truly appreciate the Olympics for what it truly is meant to be—a display of athletic competition and unification. Like BC students of the past, watch your favorite events, cheer for your favorite teams and athletes, and celebrate the Olympic tradition of sportsmanship and togetherness. n

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UIS, while unique, desperately needs an update Samantha Mancini While Boston College works extremely hard on the upkeep of its campus, the same cannot be said for the class registration process. BC UIS is the online portal used by all undergraduate students to register for classes each semester.

Aside from horrible pick times and the disadvantages of being an underclassman, students are also forced to face the challenges of the BC UIS system.

Upon logging in, students enter a virtual time machine that takes them back to a time where advances in technology were apparently obsolete. While the rest of the world has evolved over time, BC UIS has not. Not fast at typing? Not good at memorizing? If this is the case, there is no hope for you. BC UIS requires instantaneous decisions. A student must have a plan and be ready for battle prior to logging into the system. Not only are

students expected to memorize or use a cheat sheet for the class codes of the courses they desire, but they are also forced to race other students to see who can add and save classes first. I do not understand why a simple click cannot suffice. Nothing on the portal is a clickable link; everything must be manually typed, down to the corresponding section number of each course.

No one has truly experienced frustration until he or she has accidentally lost their spot in a class because he or she failed to type “save” after already having added a class to their portal. Therefore, it is possible to still lose a class even after already adding it your portal.

Unfortunately, this is a common mistake to fall victim to in the heat of the moment when the pressure it on.

Students should be able to add classes ahead of time and then at their assigned pick-times they will be able to view if the class is still available or not. Why can

other universities figure out a way to simplify this already stressful process?

Why must BC create these unnecessary complications?

With only a limited amount of classes and limited spots in each class, this process produces a potent need for an exceptional pick time. The entire system is solely based on luck. Students do not get priority for certain classes based on their majors, as they should.

Some majors require courses to be taken in a particular order. If students fail to obtain a spot in specific entrylevel courses, they are then restricted from taking higher-level courses.

Being a communication major myself, I have experienced firsthand how a student can potentially go an entire semester without taking classes in their major. Even seniors who are supposed to be given the “best” pick times are still left trying to compete with other seniors, who are given better pick times,

for classes they have waited all four years to take. This issue is ever more prominent with courses that only offer one section each semester.

BC UIS can only be accessed on computers that have the software already downloaded. The fact that the BC UIS system is still not fully compatible with Mac computers that have the OS Maverick update is just another manifestation of the system’s outdated nature.

It cannot even keep up with today’s newest technology. Apple is taking over, leaving almost every college student in the possession of a Mac computer. Since the majority of students are up to date on the most current updates of technology, this issue is incredibly annoying and inconvenient.

Samantha Mancini is a contributor for The Heights. She welcomes comments at features@bcheights.com.

For the record

Whipping up a little adventure in the kitchen

Samantha Costanzo When I lived on South Street over the summer, one of my then-roommates and I called it “the summer of growing up.” We both had jobs and internships, paid rent on our own, started relationships, and learned how to cook, all in a few months that flew by faster than we ever imagined they could.

Of all those seemingly grown-up things we did, though, learning how to cook seemed to be the biggest accomplishment.

It was completely new to both of us, and our survival pretty much depended on it—ordering takeout every day, on our budgets, wasn’t an option. So we learned how to make something for dinner without burning the apartment down.

Figuring that out starts with the most basic things—boiling water for pasta and microwaving a jar of sauce, scrambling up some tofu for breakfast, popping a piece of chicken with salt and pepper and rosemary on it into the oven. Even that required a few text messages home to my dad to figure out the right temperature for the oven, how long to cook it, and exactly how much pink in the middle of my chicken would be still too pink to eat. It’s all about baby steps.

Even the baby steps, though, are not without their pitfalls. I was on the phone with my mom while cooking one night and, never one to pay all that much attention to what I was doing to begin with, in the time it took to tell my mom about my day and turn my back for half a minute, the entire apartment was full of smoke.

Despite my desperate attempts to open up all the windows and doors, the fire alarm went off anyway, and the whole episode ended with my standing on a chair trying to reach the “off” button on the alarm with a broom. I ended up whacking the whole thing down to floor by accident, but hey, at least it stopped beeping, right?

Soon enough, little mistakes like burning dinner or setting off the fire alarm or accidentally cutting my finger while chopping potatoes (that was bound to happen, given how totally uncoordinated I am) were fewer and further between.

We graduated from making pasta to more complex things—quinoa and tempeh masterpieces for my vegetarian roommate, and my grandma’s Cuban recipes for me.

I learned to take more risks by looking up recipes online and making spur-of-the-moment decisions on what to make, despite never having tried that dish before. Sometimes those experiments didn’t turn out so great, but other times we were unabashedly proud of ourselves. “Look what I made!” we’d excitedly say to each other. “You should totally try some. It’s actually good.”

The actually there was key. We were so surprised at our success, but also at how happy and accomplished we felt when a new recipe went right.

I wish I had learned to cook much sooner than this summer, because every new recipe is an adventure. Most of the time I have no idea how something is going to turn out, so navigating through the ingredients and measurements is like figuring out directions with a map. Then into the oven or pan it goes, and I have to sit there and wait until I figure out where this adventure has led me. Everything may look like it’s going in the right direction, but I won’t really know if I’ve gone totally off track until the timer goes off and I can finally taste it.

Cooking helps break up the monotony of the days. At least once a day, if I’ve planned my meals out well, I have something I can look forward to doing—and eating. It’s a social activity, too, whether I’m eating dinner with a friend or making it with him or her. Either way, our conversations inevitably circle around to what we could have done differently with the recipe and what tweaks to make next time, and it helps me remember that there’s always something new to try.

Making a meal is easy if all you’re doing is microwaving things, but it’s also easier than you’d think to be a bit more adventurous. There’s no need to be afraid of turning on the oven or firing up the stove—as long as you pay attention, it’s pretty difficult to make a fatal mistake on a simple recipe.

And aside from making you feel a bit more grown up, cooking yourself a fresh, actually good-tasting dinner is a small triumph that you can feel proud about.

Samantha Costanzo is the Asst. Features Editor for The Heights. She welcomes comments at features@bcheights.com.

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History:

Frame by Frame

BY CAROLYN FREEMAN For The Heights Walking into the history department on the third floor of Stokes Hall and students will notice that some of the art on the walls is slightly atypical. At first glance, the oversized comic panels hanging on the walls look like pages torn from a Marvel comic book, but when students look a little closer, they will notice that each of the panels represents a significant historical theme, like Watergate, women’s liberation, or Sept. 11.

The Boston College history department teamed up with the Burns Library to create the Revealing America’s History Through Comics exhibit. The exhibit showcases panels that are compiled from various comic books to create a new story.

Students in the Making History Public class, taught this semes-

ter by Heather Cox Richardson, combed through over 11,000 comic books donated by finance professor Edward Kane to create their panels.

Students in the class selected different panels from comics that related to make one story. They then added their own captions and dialogue to change the original story into a retelling of American history. They completed the project last spring, Richardson said.

This is the second time this class has been taught, Richardson said. The first time, the class was on books from 1400 to 1800 and was taught by Virginia Reinburg.

“The concept of the class is to get students actually using the archival sources,” Richardson said. “They have to figure out

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Undergraduate magazines provide space for creativity BC journals allow students to showcase research, literature

BY CAROLINE HOPKINS Heights Staff

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A design contest was held in the early 1900s to determine the layout of the academic buildings for the then-new campus at Chestnut Hill.

Architecture echoes University’s mission

BY SOO JUNG RHEE For The Heights

Any Boston College student, even if he or she has never had any classes at these buildings before, can appreciate the grandeur of the buildings in the “Quad:” Fulton, Devlin, Lyons, and Gasson halls. In addition to the sheer size of the buildings, their distinct architectural styles, and the air of elegance and classiness with which they imbue the campus captivate the eyes of those who pass them every day, they create a virtual reality that students are living in the medieval era during which Gothic castles and churches towered over numerous villages and cities in Europe. In particular, the absolute splendor of Gasson Hall is marked with its own unique belfry

and the dynamic, golden statue of the eagle heroically spreading out its wings on the verge of a powerful leap from the ground.

The birth of the historic buildings on the Heights can be traced back to the early 1900s when the College moved its ground from the urban setting in Boston’s South End to the former Lawrence Farm in thenrural Chestnut Hill, where then-President Rev. Thomas I. Gasson, S.J. initiated the construction of the central building, which later opened as Gasson Hall in March of 1913, according to BC’s website. A design competition for the arrangement of the campus buildings was held, and Maginnis & Walsh won. The architecture firm boldly undertook the task of combining Gothic Revival architecture with a cruciform plan upon which the interior

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designs of the vast complex of academic buildings would be based. Dissimilar to the traditional Oxbridge models that characterized many American campuses then, the ambitious Gothic project never saw full completion, however. The central portion of middle campus that stayed true to Maginnis’ original plan included three buildings which still form the heart of BC’s campus—St. Mary’s Hall (under reconstruction at the moment), Devlin Hall, and Bapst Library—and was completed by 1928, and modernism began to have a tremendous influence on its development after the 1940s. Despite the rapid sweep of triumphant international modernism during the second half of the 20th cen-

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Many students have worked hard on academic papers. They’ve spent an excess amount of time researching, brainstorming, outlining, and writing. They’ve stayed in consecutive weekend nights to edit and perfect each sentence. Finally finished, they’ve never been so proud. They hand their baby in to their professors with a smile, anxiously wait two weeks, and finally get it back with a beautiful red “A” on top.

Of course they’re happy with the outcome, yet sometimes they feel unsatisfied. What happens now? Is their beautiful writing fated to join the ranks of crumpled-up papers at the bottoms of their backpacks?

Thousands of students have found themselves in this condition before, and they may just be overlooking the countless opportunities for literary publication here at Boston College. Whether a student’s masterpiece is creative, fictional, poetic, research based, or maybe even controversial in nature, there’s a place for publication within one of BC’s literary journals.

Chances are, students probably see fliers for several of these publications posted around campus, on the side of the O’Neill stairwell, on the bulletin boards in the residence halls, or maybe even on the back

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of the bathroom stall doors in various academic buildings.

Chances also are, students are overwhelmed by the number of different journals, unsure what distinguishes them, and, therefore, hesitant to submit a piece to any arbitrary email address.

This article highlights the basic spirit of several BC literary journals, hopefully inspiring students to change the crumpled fate of their prized writing, sharing it with others in the BC community apart from their adoring roommates and impressed professor.

Stylus is Boston College’s only official literary and art magazine. Founded by students in 1882, Stylus is the oldest club at BC, and one of the oldest collegiate literary and art magazines in the entire country.

It is a student-run organization, which publishes a print version of the magazine twice a year. Back in the “good ol’ days,” Stylus actually functioned as the literar y arts magazine and the newspaper, but ever since The Heights split off in 1919, Stylus has devoted itself exclusively to literary arts.

Stylus’ mission statement defines the publication’s aim “to cultivate literary and artistic excellence through publication.” In terms of submissions, Stylus accepts poetry, prose, and art (That’s right, doodlers, there’s a place

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Outsiders, insiders battle for UGBC leadership positions

BY NATHAN MCGUIRE Asst. News Editor The road to the 2014 UGBC election has been, at times, unconventional. At the Jan. 16 deadline only one team—Nanci Fiore-Chettiar and Chris Marchese, both A&S ’15—had filed for candidacy. The Elections Committee (EC) then reopened the deadline and two more teams joined the race: Lucas Levine and Vance Vergara, both A&S ’15; and Michael Moazampour and Robert Watt, both A&S ’16. Two weeks later, Moazampour and Watt decided to end their bid in favor of Fiore-Chettiar and Marchese.

Now, with only one day left until voting begins, the two remaining teams are mobilizing supporters and making a last-minute campaign blitz. The EC’s straw poll at the campaign kick-off event last Sunday showed a tight race between the pairs.

Matt Alonsozana, UGBC executive vice president and A&S ’14, has followed the campaign closely and thinks that the election will be close. Both teams could bring elements of change to the organization as it moves forward, he said.

Both teams have developed platforms that they say will make the organization more responsive to student con-

cerns, increase transparency, and work with other campus groups to advocate for policy initiatives.

Bringing change to UGBC, however, is a promise that many past candidates have made, and one that is difficult to deliver. Alonsozana described the organization as Byzantine—difficult to manage, and politically charged.

Fiore-Chettiar and Marchese would bring a style of energetic advocacy to the government, according to Alonsozana’s analysis of the team and their platform.

“I really think you would see a UGBC—from anyone’s perspective—that would be relatively more energetic, in terms of really advocating for hard positions,” he said.

They have both been involved with UGCB since they were freshmen, and have already established relationships with senators and University administrators. According to Alonsozana, a majority of SA senators support their team—however, some senators have worries about how the two will work together.

“You only need to look at their voting records to see that there’s something a little off when they say that there is going to be a new direction in UGBC when one [Marchese] has voted with [my] administration 100 percent of the time, and [Fiore-Chettiar] has been basically the leader of the

opposition,” he said.

At the end of last semester, Fiore-Chettiar was strongly opposed to the process that led to the constitutional amendment that split the programming board from UGBC. She abstained from the vote. Marchese, who worked on Alonsozana’s campaign last year and is the second highest ranking member of the SA as the president pro tempore, supported the amendment, but also expressed concern about the process. Marchese and Alonsozana have recently clashed over a number of small edits that Alonsozana has proposed to the constitution.

On the other side of the race, Levine and Vergara hope to get elected as outsiders, who have little experience with the organization that they hope to lead. Alonsozana believes that they would bring a fresh perspective to an organization that many think needs to change.

“I think they would really dress down the organization,” he said. “Some people say that a possible defect is that they don’t know the UGBC culture. I mean, I think that’s jumping the gun and assuming that the culture is a good thing.

You know, the culture might be a bad thing.”

Levine and Vergara have enlisted the help of two campaign managers who have intimate knowledge of the

workings of UGBC—Mike Keefe, Alonsozana’s chief of staff in the SA and A&S ’16, and Alison Takahashi, a class senator and A&S ’16. Keefe has taken a leave of absence from his position in order to work on the campaign.

While Levine and Vergara are not as well-versed in UGBC politics as Fiore-Chettiar and Marchese, both have served in other leadership positions. Levine worked as an intern for Senator Diane Feinstein (D-Cal.) over the summer, and Vergara serves as the co-president of the BC consulting club.

Alonsozana said that because Levine and Vergara have no previous UGBC experience, they will have to work hard to establish relationships with University administrators and retain talent in the SA. No matter who wins the election, Alonsozana believes the most critical issue UGBC must address is rebranding its image in the eyes of students and administrators.

“You can have a lot of great policy ideas, but if no one understands them and no one cares about them, then there’s no point in administrators listening to you,” he said.

“If this next team can’t nail down the rebranding—and if we can’t do it this semester, either—UGBC will really be in a rut for a long time.” 

Meet the Candidates Mary Rose Fissinger | Special Projects Editor The two teams vying for UGBC presidency and executive vice presidency both hope to reconnect BC’s student government with the student body it claims to represent, but their visions for achieving this goal and their experiences as students differ greatly.

Lucas and Vance Lucas Levine and Vance Vergara, both A&S ’15, first met in August of 2011, about a week before they started as freshmen at Boston College, over chicken and waffles. The two were recent graduates of rival high schools in the Bay Area of California, and had mutual friends who organized for the two future Eagles to meet before starting school.

“It was nice,” Vergara recalled of the lunch.

“We parted ways, and thought that might be it for a little while.”

When they arrived in Chestnut Hill just days later, however, they found the doors to their freshman dorm rooms to be directly next to one another. The two became neighbors, and then best friends. Two and a half years later, they became running mates for UGBC president and executive vice president.

The thought of entering the race did not cross either of their minds until the Elections Committee emailed the student body notifying them that the deadline for entering the election had been extended. Levine, who spent the fall semester studying abroad in Argentina, had returned to campus in January eager to get more involved.

“I saw the UGBC email, and it just instantly clicked,” Levine said.

An hour later, he saw Vergara in the library and pitched the idea to him. After several conversations in which each tried to gauge how serious the other was, the two decided to really investigate the possibility of running for president and executive vice president. They met with friends who had been involved with UGBC and current members of the UGBC administration, who gave them a better idea of what the job and the campaign season entailed. Three days, several conversations, and a few brainstorming sessions later, the two shook hands after a breakfast in Hillside, officially running mates.

The powder blue quarter-sheets now decorating several dorm room doors display the slogan that Levine and Vergara thought best described their campaign: “Bringing UGBC Down to Earth.” Without any UGBC experience between the two of them, they have been pegged as the “outsider team,” a label they believe can be used to their advantage.

“We just came in with a totally open mind and a totally fresh perspective,” Levine said. “I can see how, if you’ve been sitting in Student Assembly meetings for the last year, when you’re thinking of a platform, all you think about is constitutional reform like ‘What is the title of the person who’s in charge of communication or outreach or whatever. ’ I could see how that could happen. We wanted to come from a standpoint of being students, average BC students, people who could relate to the student body.”

Many of their platform points are things that Levine and Vergara believe, though they may seem trivial, will have a large impact on student life based on the amount of people they will affect—more staplers on campus, more printing

stations, better coffee in the dining halls. They hope that by accomplishing small things that impact nearly every student’s life, they will be able to reintroduce UGBC into students’ minds as an effective vehicle for accomplishing tasks that serve the interests of the student body.

Their “First 100 Days” plan seeks to do just this so that they can establish the trust needed from students in order to tackle the larger issues on their platform.

The ideas for many of these larger points came from the multiple meetings Levine and Vergara had with leaders of student organizations in which they asked what these students would like to see changed on campus, and how they could best address those issues.

“Lucas and I can’t make a platform for every type of student here,” Vergara said. “The people involved with those issues need to be making the platform. Our job is to carry out that platform.”

From these meetings, Levine and Vergara created platform points such as the ones advocating for more AHANA and GLBTQ education at orientation, establishing a task force to combat female self-esteem issues, and promoting mental health awareness. By going to those who know the most about these issues, they hoped to create platform points that are not only desirable but achievable.

Levine and Vergara’s slogan “Bring UGBC Back to Earth” speaks to another of their main concerns: increasing the accountability and transparency of an organization with which many have become disenchanted. They believe that their close friendship will help them accomplish one of their man goals, which is to bridge the gap between the legislative and executive branches, resulting in a government united in purpose. They also hope to update the website with senators’ names and contact information, as well as establish goals and deadlines for bills and task forces so that students can hold their representatives accountable.

“UGBC is facing an existential question right now,” Levine said. “The foundation has been laid over the last couple years in terms of the institutional foundation, the constitutional reform, the split with programming. We now have an idea of where UGBC wants to go in the future. And the leaders can choose to either engage what is one of the most passionate and caring student bodies in the United States, or they can go it alone.

And the students are not going to get involved unless they truly believe that UGBC can be a vehicle for these changes that will improve their lives the lives of all 9,000 students on campus.

You can say that “constitutional reform” is big because it has a nice long name, but in the end, if you’re not going to do anything with these new institutions that you’ve built, all you’re doing is wasting the 100 people’s time who are sitting in the Student Assembly and forgetting about why you got involved in the first place, which is to represent this incredible community.” 

bate Point e s D

A selection of quotes from last night’s debate

Undergraduate government should be a place where everyone feels welcome -V We need to have all our representatives know what transgender means and what it doesn’t -C It’s gotten to the point almost where the Student Assembly takes itself too seriously -L

We have a fresh perspective and we know how to use it -N BC students aren’t apathetic, they’re just not engaged -V I think a lot of students take for granted that we are a fairly wealthy university, but we have a lot of diversity amongst where we all come from in terms of wealth -C It has been said that we’re running on talking points. I think we’re just running on points that people want to talk about, because they’re excited about them -L

This is not something you can learn in three weeks. I’ve been working on them for three years because I can’t imagine doing anything else -N

Nanci and Chris On Jan. 14, Nanci Fiore-Chettiar and Chris Marchese, both A&S ’15, received an email from the Elections Committee congratulating them on being the new president and executive vice president of UGBC, respectively. Rather than celebrate, however, Fiore-Chettiar responded to the email, declining the position until every attempt had been made to generate a contested election.

The Elections Committee re-opened the sign ups, and now, a month later, the two face Lucas Levine and Vance Vergara, both A&S ’15, in the election that will be decided on Wednesday.

Fiore-Chettiar and Marchese’s decision to seek a contested election fits with their vision of a UGBC more connected to the student body.

Marchese expressed frustration at UGBC’s inward-looking focus—one that has frustrated members and nonmenbers alike for the past few years, this last one especially.

Marchese first decided to run for election over the summer, when, during free time at his summer internship, he happened across old Heights articles online from the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s that chronicled the actions UGBC was taking and accomplishing at the time.

“They fought tuition hikes, they protested Boston’s ban on kegs on college campuses, and I was really impressed by what UGBC used to be able to do,” Marchese said.

Over the past 20 years, however, UGBC has transformed into an organization so focused on institutional matters that it has ceased doing what it was meant to—be an advocate for students. This past year, according to Marchese, the Board of Trustees disinvited the president and executive vice president from meeting with them throughout the year, as had traditionally been the custom for UGBC’s leaders, due to the team’s unpreparedness.

“That should never happen,” Marchese said.

He did acknowledge, however, that by making the split from programming, the current UGBC administration positioned the organization well to make the transition back to being an advocacy group taken seriously by the administration.

Both Fiore-Chettiar and Marchese have been involved with UGBC since their freshman year.

Marchese has been a senator for the past two years and served as president pro tempore of the Student Assembly (SA) this year. Fiore-Chettiar served as the co-director of the Campus Awareness committee in UGBC last year, and has been a member of the SA since the fall.

Despite their previous involvement, however, Marchese and Fiore-Chettiar pledge to be different from the “UGBC insider teams” of past years, who often do nothing to end the bureaucracy and nepotism that many believe hinder UGBC’s effectiveness. Both Marchese and Fiore-Chettiar have expressed dissatisfaction with the current UGBC culture and hope to drastically transform it if they are elected.

Fiore-Chettiar was considering leaving the organization before she decided to run for president, and only felt comfortable running for the posi-

tion after she met Chris, whose vision for the organization she felt aligned with hers.

The two officially decided to run together in December, after returning to BC after Thanksgiving break. They worked on their platform extensively over winter break, revising it many times before finalizing the version that can now be found on their website. The recruited people in and outside of UGBC to help them create their platform, drawing on students from all grades and a variety of RSOs. Many of their platform points address the transparency and accountability issues that have plagued UGBC for many years.

“Nanci and I have both taken steps in the organization to try to change it,” Marchese said, pointing to a transparency resolution he sponsored and Fiore-Chettiar supported that required UGBC to allow interested students to find out how their money was being spent.

Initiatives like these populate the “Tangibility” portion of their platform, which focuses on ways UGBC can be more visible to the student body, by publicizing their ongoing work or through the accomplishment of relatively small goals that will improve student life on campus. Another section, “Advocacy,” contains short-term and long-term policy goals that tackle issues ranging from sustainability and conduct to free speech and civic engagement. The third section, “Communiversity” (a combination of “community” and “diversity”) deals with issues such as mental health, Bystander Awareness education, AHANA and GLBTQ issues, and socioeconomic diversity on campus. Nested under this heading are points which aim to continue or breathe new life into things that UGBC has worked on in the past—for example, GLC’s 10 year plan, and the Backgrounds program, which is a discussion program exploring various aspects of diversity that Fiore-Chettiar helped create last year.

The team believes that the programming split will enable them to accomplish all their goals because UGBC can now focus its efforts entirely on advocacy and policy.

“Now, everyone in the organization is there for the same purpose,” Marchese said. “Having 100, 120 people working toward the same vision will be so powerful ... Everyone has that issue or that project that they care about. If you put people on things that they’re passionate about, they’re going to work really hard toward that. If you have even just 75 percent of the organization doing that on a monthly basis, imagine what UGBC could do.”

Fiore-Chettiar believes that she and Marchese will work well together as leaders of UGBC and have the ability to take it into its new role as an advocacy organization.

“I thought that we had the same vision, and also the best differences which would allow us to bring different perspectives,” Fiore-Chettiar said. “I wasn’t going to run if it wasn’t with someone that I could believe in, and that’s why I ran with Chris.” 

FEB. 17, 2014 THE HEIGHTS C2

UGBC ELECTION GUIDE

Nanci and Chris

Lucas and Vance

Platform Points Feasibility Ratings

These are selections from each section of Nanci and Chris’ platform. For the full platform, see www.nanciandchris.com The following symbol contains each platform point’s feasibility rating, as designated by Chris and Nanci

These are selections from each section of Lucas and Vance’s platform. For the full platform, see www.lucasandvance.org

It is likely this will take multiple years to achieve

5

It is likely this will take more than 1 year to achieve

4

THE FIRST 100 DAYS

There is a good chance this will occur, but it may take more time

3

This is likely to occur, but it may take more time

2 1

Platform Points

This is very likely to occur, and relatively quickly

ADVOCACY

- Improve the coffee in Lower Dining Hall and McElroy Dining Hall - Bring printing to Lower Campus - Increase the number of filtered water stations on campus - Incorporate AHANA and GLBTQ information into orientation - Purchase vacuum cleaners for every floor - Put trash cans in eight-person suites - Put community staplers in academic buildings and residence halls - Improve awareness and access to Mental Health Resources on campus

4

Work with the Board of Trustees to gain student representation on the Board

3

Work with the Office of the Dean of Students to amend Boston College’s disciplinary hearing procedures

1

Promote civic engagement at BC

4

Work with the Bureau of Conferences (BOC) to increase usage of “green” materials, reduce waste, and promote sustainability

- 24/7 printing station on Lower Campus

5

Advocate for greater flexibility in fulfilling the core to allow students to pursue individual interests.

- Provide communal vacuums for each floor

5

Work with Office of Institutional Diversity to increase hiring of AHANA faculty members as well as raise the retention rate for these professors

- New laundry machines

BASIC STUDENT NEEDS

3

Work with the Women’s Resource Center to provide Bystander Education training to all UGBC members and expand training across campus

1

Work with the Office of AHANA Student Programs and FACES Council to advocate for stronger diversity training for faculty and administrators as well as for student leaders

3

Work with Montserrat to make the program more visible and included in the larger BC community Develop short-term goals that lay the foundation for future administrations to carry out GLC’s “Reaching New Heights” 10-year plan

1 2

- Bringing clarity to alcohol policy reform - Expansion of Pub Series

- Add daily late-night Mass to - Expand shuttle Lower Campus bus service to Newton Cen- Hold weekly outdoor student contre and cert series in early fall and late spring Chestnut - Lobby for a later start to Quiet Hours Hill on weekends

COMMUNIVERSITY { Community + Diversity }

Create and sustain a mental health campaign that includes an online resource guide for students

-More Parking

STUDENT LIFE UGBC REFORM - Bring UGBC to student body by publicizing updates on Agora portal, in the Quad, and on social media - Improve institutional memory to ensure implementation of successful initaitives - Improve transparency by adding vital information to UGBC website

TANGIBILITY

- Work to better unify executive and legislative branches of UGBC

5

Work with BC Dining Services, the administration, and the new Programming Board to develop a long-term plan for an on-campus pub

- Event collaboration with student organizations

1

Establish an iClicker rental program

- Support greater representation of women within the Student Assembly

2

Ensure that UGBC is transparent with the student body and held accountable

1

Write, print, and publicize a monthly report that outlines the actions undertaken by every UGBC division

GLBTQ ACADEMIC AHANA - Lobby for creation - Petition for AHANA LIFE of GLBTQ Resource education at Fresh-

1

Create a master plan for UGBC to guide the organization’s development

1

Ensure that all members of UGBC understand the mission, values, and purpose of the organization as a whole

Overall Goals EASY

These overarching goals guided the construction of the platform points. They are divided into three levels based on how easily and quickly they can be achieved Run the most transparent and accountable UGBC administration Implement innovative ways to connect UGBC with the student body Increase the quality of student life at BC

HARD

Increase student input in University decision-making Make Boston College more affordadble Influence the long-term direction of the University

MED

Plan events and initiatives that bring the BC community together, promote inclusiveness, and raise awareness Advocate for greater student rights, both on- and off-campus and both academically and residentially Integrate “Communiversity” issues across all UGBC divisions

Center

- Increase the GLC Budget - Increase Training for Orientation Leaders and Tour Guides

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- Better academic advising in Arts and Sciences - Help students pay for mandatory travel - UIS Smartphone App

man Orientation

- Support public discussion of diversity - Increase availability of funds for RSO retreats

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WIDER COMMUNITY -Advocate for increased funding for University Counseling Services

- Form a focused task force to address troubling women’s self-confidence statistics - Integrate the international and transfer communities - Introduce compost bins on campus