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The Scene profiles the 10 BC Idol acts in anticipation of tonight’s competition, B1

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BC students particpate in sexual assault task force

Disabilities bill delayed

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BY NATHAN MCGUIRE Asst. News Editor

BY CONNOR FARLEY News Editor

At Tu e s d ay ’s U G B C S t u d e n t Assembly (SA) meeting, the proposed agenda was centered on bringing to the floor and carrying out two primary functions: approving legislature on proposed amendments to the UGBC constitution and the first reading of two bills. The first bill aimed to reform SA Standing Rules, and the other addressed handicap access and disability awareness on campus.

While the first reading of the Standing Rules Reform Bill and voting on constitutional revisions were conducted, the disability awareness bill was never read.

The first 45 minutes of the original meeting’s agenda—which was chaired by president pro-tempore and Executive Vice President-elect Chris Marchese, A&S ’15—consisted of general SA procedures, such as roll call, executive updates, reports of standing committees, and reports of ad-hoc committees, but it also included the nominations and selections of two new senators: Alyse Belavic, A&S ’16, and Cassidy Gallegos, A&S ’16.

After a 10-minute recess 45 minutes into the meeting, executive vice president Matt Alonsozana, A&S ’14, chaired the remainder of the meeting and, on behalf of the SA, invited Phoebe Fico, A&S ’15, to speak before the assembly to promote disability awareness and handicap access on campus.

Althoug h Fico w a s or ig inally scheduled to speak at the previous SA meeting, inclement weather conditions resulted in the speech’s cancellation.

Fico, who has cerebral palsy and wrote in a Letter to the Editor in The Heights about the lack of handicap accessibility on BC’s campus, was invited

by SA to further advocate disability awareness and assist members of SA in promoting and creating enhanced disability services. Fico’s experiences with the University’s Disability Services Office prompted her to seek change, and they were meant to be met with action from UGBC with a SA resolution sponsored

by Senator Dan Ibarrola, A&S ’15. Due to prolonged discussion on Standing Rules reform, however, the resolution was never read.

Ibarrola had been slated to read the resolution at the last SA meeting, but it was rescheduled due to harsh weather.

The tabling of the disability awareness bill at Tuesday’s SA meeting marks the second time the bill has been postponed.

The resolution, as it reads, seeks “an increased need for disability-centered advocacy as expressed in Phoebe Fico’s

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Two BC students were invited to attend a White House discussion on sexual assault prevention.

Jessica Stevens, A&S ’14, and Joseph Palomba, A&S ’15, both staff members at the Women’s Resource Center (WRC), were invited to the White House last week to attend a round table discussion with the Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault.

President Barack Obama established the task force in January, and last Tuesday Vice President Joe Biden chaired the first of nine meetings before the task force will make a recommendation regarding sexual assault prevention in April.

“We’re going to help schools do a better job of preventing and responding to sexual assault on their campuses,” Obama said of the task force during an address on Jan. 25.

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While President Barack Obama often speaks about the end of the highly publicized wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, there are other, lesser-known operations still taking place outside of declared war zones, according to The New York Times’ National Security Correspondent Mark Mazzetti.

Mazzetti spoke on Wednesday night in an event sponsored by the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy, and focused on the characteristics and impacts of these fringe, or “shadow” wars conducted by both the U.S. military and the CIA. “The shadow war is a war that is ongoing and doesn’t show any outward signs of ending anytime soon,” Mazzetti said.

Mazzetti said that he wanted to center his writing—both for the Times and his latest book—around the shadow wars because the U.S. involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan has

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BC Fossil Free talks divestment Unofficial student group urges discussion on climate change

BY CAROLYN FREEMAN Heights Staff

CONNOR FARLEY / HEIGHTS EDITOR

Gubernatorial candidate and former CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Charles Baker, Jr. discussed the Affordable Care Act on Monday.

Charles Baker, Jr. addresses health care

BY NATHAN MCGUIRE Asst. News Editor

Charles Baker, Jr., the leading Republican gubernatorial candidate and former CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, delivered the keynote address on Monday at a health care forum sponsored by the Graduate School of Social Work (GSSW).

The forum, titled, “From Policy to Practice: Health Care Reform,” sought to address the impact that the Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly known as Obamacare, will have on the social work field.

“I am delighted that our school of social work takes a leadership role in the local and national conversation about health care reform,” said Alberto Gondenzi, dean of the GSSW, in his welcoming remarks. “We need

to be at the table when the issues of quality, access, and cost control are discussed. We need to demonstrate that social workers play a crucial role in the design, implementation, and regulation of health care reform.”

The Obama administration’s landmark reform was signed into law in March 2010, but most major provisions of the law will be phased in over the next year. Full implementation of some provisions is not expected until 2020.

Among other things, the law allows young adults to stay on their parents’ heath plans until age 26; creates state-based health insurance exchange marketplaces where Americans can compare and shop for federally regulated health plans; and requires individuals to have health care or pay a penalty fee.

Baker accepted an invitation by Marylou Sudders, the former state commissioner of public health and now an associate professor within GSSW, to attend Monday’s forum before he had decided to run for governor for a second time after losing to Deval Patrick in 2009.

Baker, who served as the state secretary of health and human services from 1992 to 1994, made clear that his address was not a political one. “For those of you looking for some sort of political stump speech, you will be sadly disappointed,” he told the audience of mostly social workers.

Rather, his focus was on the implications that ACA will have for social workers in

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Afghanistan 2014 series hosts ‘Shadow of War’

BY JULIE ORENSTEIN

“Because college should be a place where our young people feel secure and confident, so they can go as far as their talents will take them.”

Stevens and Palomba, who were invited to the Feb. 18 forum via an email from Biden’s office on Feb. 14, both work in the WRC’s Bystander Intervention program.

The program, which is in its fourth year at Boston College, trains and educates about 30 students each year to lead presentations that educate students about sexual assault and help identify the role of bystanders in sexual assault prevention.

Presentation leaders typically present to campus groups, classes, and in dormitories.

Stevens and Palomba recently created an

been discussed thoroughly in the years since the Sept. 11 attacks.

“The contours of these conflicts have been fairly well drawn,” Mazzetti said. “But so much of the history, in my mind, of what has happened since Sept. 11 has happened far outside of declared war zones: in Pakistan, Yemen, and parts of Africa. In many ways, this is the more interesting war to look at because this has set the terms and the rules for what is going to happen in the future.”

A unique facet of this type of war, Mazzetti said, is the multitude of legal implications surrounding the interrogations, targeting killings, and CIA movements that make up the bulk of these operations. “This is a war that is run, more than ever, by lawyers,” he said. “The issues that have been hashed out in this conflict have been more at the center of the legal parameters for how the U.S. carries out operations.”

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EMILY SADEGHIAN / HEIGHTS EDITOR

‘NYT’ correspondent Mark Mazzetti spoke on CIA and U.S military affairs on Wednesday.

The planet is close to its climate change tipping point, but three panelists hosted by BC Fossil Free on Feb. 26 in Higgins 300 led discourse on how divesting from fossil fuels could help reduce damage to the environment.

Divesting is a tactic where schools, churches, and cities take money out of an industry they find morally reprehensible and invest it in something else, said panelist Alli Welton said.

BC Fossil Free, an unregistered student group that is working to persuade the University to divest, hosted Divest For Our Future: A Panel Discussion on Divestment. The organization applied to be a registered student organization in the fall, but was rejected because their goal is to push the administration in a certain direction, said Alyssa Florack, A&S ’17, who joined the group in the fall. “ You c an’t tr y to change the administration,” she said. “We are trying to get registered for next year because we want to be seen as a legitimate student organization. This is a climate justice movement.”

Climatologist Jeremy Shakun spoke on the uncertainty the planet faces in terms of climate change. At this point, most of the big picture is known, but it’s the small details that will be discovered as climate change progresses, he said.

“We’re only a little way into this global warming story,” he said. “We’re really at a critical point where we can totally change which direction we’re headed. A lot of the uncertainty in climate change is really in the details.

“Climate change ha s a lot of inertia—once the environment starts to warm up, it is much harder to turn it around,” Shakun said.

“How long does it take to reengineer the entire infrastructure of energy systems on this planet? That’s going to take quite a while,” he said. “This ship is hard to turn around.”

Welton, who took time off from Harvard to focus on divestment, then spoke on the ripple effects divestment can have within the fossil fuel industry.

The decisions made in the next few years are the ones that will determine the future of fossil fuels and clean energy, she said.

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Sexual Assault Panel

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Today Time: 3 p.m.

Location: Heights Room

Middlesex County district attorney Marian Ryan, BC Law ’79, will lead a panel discussion about sexual assault and stalking on campus. A Q&A session will follow a presentation from legal experts, victim advocates, and college representatives.

Irish Music Concert

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Tenth Annual BC Idol

Today Time: 6:30 p.m.

Location: Walsh Function Room

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Sponsored by the Center for Irish Programs, this concert will feature the Irish music band Mist Covered Mountains. Donna Hebert, Molly HerbertWilson, and Max Cohen will perform on the fiddle, vocals, and guitar, respectively.

Friday Time: 1 p.m.

Location: Robsham

The 10th annual BC Idol will feature vocal performances by 10 BC musicians. Jesuit judges will offer witty commentary and audience members will cast votes for the contest winner. Proceeds will benefit the St. Columbkille Partnership School.

FEATURED STORY

Fedorchuk receives fellowship for math research

BY CONNER FARLEY News Editor Assistant professor of mathematics in the College of Arts and Sciences Maksym Fedorchuk was recently awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship for his work in the field of algebraic geometry from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, named after the former president and CEO of General Motors.

Founded in 1934 and overseeing an endowment of more than $1.65 billion, the foundation recognizes American and Canadian candidates who hold a Ph.D. in chemistry, computational or evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, ocean sciences, physics, or a related field.

As stated on the foundation’s website, the Sloan Foundation creates grants in an effort to support innovative research and education initiatives related to science, technology, and economic performance with the goal of improving the quality of American life.

To qualify as a candidate, applicants must undergo a rigorous set of application requirements and have authored an extensive list of scientific publications. According to Fedorchuk’s curriculum vitae, he has published 15 scholarly articles on geometric concepts, object mapping, and the moduli space of curves.

Fedorchuk earned his undergraduate degree in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and later his Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard

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Fedorchuk, a graduate of MIT and Harvard, has published 15 articles on geometric concepts.

University—his dissertation was entitled, “Geometry of Severi Varieties and the Moduli Space of Curves”—and prior to arriving at Boston College he was an assistant professor at Columbia University. Fedorchuk now currently teaches courses and collaboratively researches algebraic geometry at BC. Within the realm of algebraic geometry, Fedorchuk studies dimensionality, moduli spaces, and geometric structures. Such conceptual spaces are the constructs Fedorchuk referred to as algebraic geometers.

Fellowships from the Sloan Foundation are supplemented with $50,000 in research funding.

When discussing the work that went into his application and eventual selection for the research fellowship, Fedorchuk credited his award to his colleagues and collaborators, stating that without their contributions his work would not have achieved the recognition it has.

“The collaboration goes back to grad school … I totally owe the fellowship to my collaborators, to people outside of BC, too,” Fedorchuk said. “Again, three letters were written on my behalf … people who are experts in the area wrote on my behalf, and I’m grateful to them—without their support I would not have gotten the fellowship.”

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Fedorchuk also helps organize periodic mathematic conferences at BC where professors from colleges throughout Boston are able to share research and collectively address mathematical theory.

“At BC we have an active algebraic geometry group, which includes an assistant professor, Dawei Chen, assistant professor David Treuman, and we also have a visiting assistant professor, Ana Patel,” Fedorchuk said. “And so we have an active seminar where people come here for organized conferences.”

Dawei Chen, an active member within BC’s math research circles, recently garnered financially backed support toward advanced mathematical study through a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation—a five-year, $429,359 grant for his research on Teichmueller dynamics.

David Treumann was also selected as a recipient of a Sloan Fellowship last year.

Fedorchuk’s reception of the award marks the third Sloan Fellowship to a BC faculty member since 2012.

Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded for a two-year period, and extension dates can be applied for if all funds are not spent within the two-year period—remaining funds after the extended period must be returned to the foundation.

“The Sloan Fellowship will allow me to devote more time to my research and to collaborate with my colleagues at BC and at other universities,” Fedorchuk said in a statement to the Office of News and Public Affairs. 

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Saturday, February 22

to Walsh Hall.

from a motor vehicle in the Beacon Street garage.

12:26 a.m. - A report was filed regarding medical assistance provided to a BC student who was transported to a medical facility by ambulance.

9:15 a.m. - A report was filed regarding medical treatment provided to a BC student who was transported to a medical facility from Edmond’s Hall.

Tuesday, February 25

11:41 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a suspicious circumstance off-campus.

8:23 a.m. - A report was filed regarding medical assistance provided to a BC student who was transported to a medical facility.

1:10 a.m. - A report was filed regarding an intoxicated person of legal age.

11:03 p.m. - A report was filed regarding under aged intoxicated persons who were transported to a medical facility.

Sunday, February 23 12:09 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a suspicious circumstance in Walsh Hall.

12:14 a.m. - A report was filed regarding an underage intoxicated person at the Cushing Hall clinic.

3:33 a.m. - A report was filed regarding vandalism

2:13 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a fire alarm activation in Rubenstein Hall.

4:26 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a missing person.

7:40 p.m. - A report was filed regarding found property in the Lower Lots.

Monday, February 24 6:17 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a larceny

College Corner NEWS FROM UNIVERSITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY

BY NATHAN MCGUIRE Asst. News Editor The University of Michigan and Michigan State University are under federal investigation for their handling of campus sexual assault, according to The Huffington Post.

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights informed the two universities of the investigation earlier this week. The investigation into the University of Michigan was prompted by two complaints that alleged the school did not promptly respond to reports of sexual harassment. The Michigan State investigation is related to two complaints involving “Title IX sexual violence allegations,” according to Education Department spokesman Jim Bradshaw.

Federal officials will conduct interviews with students on the campus of Michigan State this week to gather information about how sexual violence allegations are handled on campus. They have not yet indicated when they will visit the University of Michigan.

The Detroit News reported on Tuesday that students on the University of Michigan’s campus were protesting the university’s handling of sexual assault when the federal investigation was announced.

One of the complaints against the University of Michigan was filed in 2013 by former professor Douglas Smith, and alleged that the university was slow to respond to the 2009 sexual assault allegations against former football player Brendan Gibbons.

Gibbons was arrested on sexual assault charges in November 2009, but police closed the case two months later because the victim did not contact the police to say whether she wanted to press charges, according to The Huffington Post.

“We will fully cooperate with the Department of Education and we believe that a review of our policy, programs, and investigations will conclude that the University of Michigan is doing what it should in this important area,” Rick Fitzgerald, a University of Michigan spokesman, told The Detroit News. 

6:10 a.m. - A report was filed regarding vandalism to a non-residence on the Newton roadways.

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

8:49 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a larceny from Stayer Hall.

—Source: The Boston College Police Department

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CORRECTIONS This correction is in reference to the issue dated Feb. 24, 2014, Vol. XCV, No. 11.

Two photos were incorrectly attributed to the article “Tracy K. Smith Talks Poetry, Sci-Fi Literary Inspiration.”

They should have run with the article titled “Thomas Discusses Violence In Jamaica,” instead.

VOICES FROM THE DUSTBOWL What would be your most epic Spring Break?

“Mexico with my friends.”

—Jack Irwin, CSOM ’17

“Exploring a foreign country.”

—Grace Petro, A&S ’17

“Surfing in St. John’s.”

—Jenny O’Donnell, A&S ’17

“Anywhere with a beach.”

—Erin Nunes, A&S ’17

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Sunrise, CSON Ph.D. candidate named Jonas Scholar sunset

By Jennifer Heine Heights Staff

Alex Gaynor As a conventional born-andraised East-Coaster, my innate habits cause me to stick out even more than your average American in the Philippines. To start, my walking pace is at least three times faster than the typical student’s.

Strike one. Additionally, my Filipino counterparts regularly tell me that my rate of speaking is so fast that they can hardly understand me.

Strike two. Add to that my general aptitude for being precisely on time, and this girl has just struck out.

Nevertheless, I take this as a unique way to explore what many people call the “sunrise, sunset” culture of the Philippines. Time isn’t always of the essence here, and it’s important to keep in mind that you’ll get there when you get there … even if you get there two hours late. Without the rigid schedules and to-do lists that many Americans—especially college students— are used to, there is substantially more time to sit back and enjoy life passing by between the sunrise and sunset of every day.

By not worrying as much about the future with a schedule of events and timetables, I’ve noticed that the Filipino culture is substantially more relaxed than American society. The day comes as steadily as it goes, and tomorrow will always be a new day, regardless of what occurred in the past.

Perhaps events may not always start on time, people will meander through the streets even if they have somewhere specific to be, and post-dinner porch-sitting will be a staple of community life. This mentality speaks volumes not only to the realized nature of the culture, but also to the resiliency and spirit that I’ve seen in many people I have met here, both the prosperous and the struggling.

The reality for many marginalized Filipinos living in overcrowded Manila is a day-to-day subsistence standard of living. Whether they own a small food stand or sell basic wares in the marketplace, the living experience for many people comes down to a day’s wages that can afford food but few simple luxuries.

This is a difficult standard of living, as day-to-day business leaves so little room for future savings for education and emergencies, but it stands as a testament to the strong souls of many people living here and around the world. This issue of subsistence-based living is obviously not unique to Manila and is too prominent in the global context, but what I’ve noticed is that this culture tends to approach it from a different perspective. The poor will likely still be poor tomorrow, but the fact that they are able to hope for a sunset tonight and a sunrise tomorrow is what propels a lot of the resilient Manila-folk that I have encountered to continue to strive onward into that sunset.

I’ve mentioned the notion of letting go and being present before, and I’ll reference it again. By acknowledging each day’s beauty and each day’s struggles, one is able to live more presently and openly. By expounding great worry upon next week’s organic chemistry exam, or the political violence in Ukraine, or how Boston College hockey may perform in the national championship this year, or what the state of the U.S. economy will be this upcoming fiscal year, we cannot appreciate the beauty in the sunrise and sunset of every day, and by focusing on minutia we detract from its splendor and sacred nature.

By learning to take the day in stride with its inevitable ups and downs, we can try to get away from turning life into a hamster wheel of worry and anticipation. The fundamental idea is being able to pause, look around and appreciate the day, and acknowledge the fact that this day will end and another will start. When that is accomplished, who knows what simple joys will be illuminated by the sunrise and sunset of each passing day once we are open to them.

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

Eileen Searle, CGSON ’15, was given a grant by the Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare and named a Jonas Nurse Leader Scholar.

There were 50 to 60 Jonas Scholars selected this year with generally one doctoral student and one doctor of nursing practice student per state, according to Searle.

The mission of the Jonas Center is to improve healthcare through nursing. The Jonas Nurse Leaders Scholars Program, created in 2008, funds doctoral nursing students through grants to help them pursue their educational and professional goals. The Jonas Center itself is funded through the Barbara and Donald Jonas Family Fund.

“I was very excited when I learned that I was selected to be a Jonas Scholar,” said Searle, who received her B.S. in nursing from Boston College in 2006, her M.S. in Public

Health from the Boston University School of Public Health in 2012, and her M.S. in nursing from BC in 2013.

“The Jonas family is actively engaged in promoting the future of nursing, and being able to be a part of their plan is very exciting.”

Mary Katherine Hutchinson, the associate dean for graduate programs at CSON, nominated Searle for the grant, which was to be given to a Jonas Scholar.

They worked together on the application to reflect Searle’s unique interests and CSON’s plans for supporting and helping her develop as a nurse leader and future nurse faculty member, Searle said.

“Having this grant will offset the cost of my tuition as I move into the dissertation phase of my program,” Searle said. “It will also help me attend conferences, including one hosted by the Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare, and present some of my research and network with others in my field.”

The conference hosted by the

Jonas Center will be held in fall 2015 in Washington, D.C., where Searle will join other attending Jonas Scholars.

She will also join one of the state Action Coalitions, which include nurses and other healthcare providers and who are part of the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, a national initiative by the Center to Champion Nursing in America. The goal of the campaign is to provide Americans with a health care system that allows nurses to perform to the best of their abilities.

As a student in the Ph.D. program at CSON, Searle is finishing her last semester of coursework and is preparing for her comprehensive exams in May. “When I decided to get a doctorate degree, I was torn between a nursing Ph.D. and one in public health,” she said. “I decided to return to BC to pursue my doctorate because my nursing background had shaped all of my decisions to that point, and I feel that strong nursing

UGBC proposes amendments UGBC, from A1 Letter to the Editor in the February 13 issue of The Heights.”

The proposed bill resolves to do so per the following resolution: “The Student Assembly hereby creates the Disability Awareness, Transparency, and Advocacy task force (herein referred to as DATA) which shall investigate and assess Boston College’s policies regarding students with disabilities. The committee shall also explore the possibility and necessary actions to create a disability focused representative board within the UGBC Division of Diversity and Inclusion.”

The reading of the disability task force resolution was scheduled to occur after discussion on the Standing Rules Reform Bill, but it was not achieved as a result of lengthy

discourse on proposed ways of changing internal SA policies.

The bill, as prepared and read by senators Isaac Akers, A&S ’16, and Joseph Manning, A&S ’14, at the meeting, is comprised of a list of proposed internal changes to the functions and responsibilities of certain offices within SA, such as office vacancies, position appointments, meeting agendas, committee membership, and expulsion.

(See table 1A.) The suggested edits to the constitution, presented by Alonsozana on Feb. 4—just two semesters after the SA approved its new constitution—mainly consisted of grammatical and interpretive adjustments.

According to Marchese, however, the proposed amendments would make unclear the distinction

Panel explores shifts in papacy

By Carolyn Freeman Heights Staff

Pope Francis and the ways in which his papacy is distinct from those of his predecessors was the focus of a panel Tuesday composed of Boston College faculty, the president of Assumption College, and the executive director of the Secretariat of Cultural Diversity.

M. Shawn Copeland, professor of theology, moderated the 90-minute discussion, which started with a talk of how much media attention Francis has received. Much of this media attention has focused on the difference between Francis and previous popes, Copeland noted.

The difference between one pope and his predecessor is often deliberate—a pope that is seen as different is often elected in response to changing times. However, the basic substance of the papacy is still in place, said Francesco Cesareo, president of Assumption College and expert in Renaissance history.

“We’re beginning to see [Francis] grow into the role of the pope,” Cesareo said. “As we see that, I think we’re beginning to see much more continuity with his predecessors than I think we would have expected.”

An important difference between Francis and previous popes is his origins—he is the first pope from the global south. This difference has rejuvenated many Latino Catholics because they now have a pope they can identify with, said Maria del Mar Munoz-Visoso, the executive director of the Secretariat of Cultural Diversity in the Church at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

The panelists focused on how Francis empowers Latino Catholics to get more involved in their church.

The Church in the U.S. is a church of many cultures. The Catholic Church needs to rediscover the diversity present in its midst, Munoz-Visoso said.

One of the problems with making progress is the issue of continuity within the Catholic Church, Copeland said.

Francis has taken to heart the creed of the Catholic missionary, emphasizing the need for clergy and ministers to go into the streets and meet people where they are. Francis sees the Church as a field hospital that has to deal with people where they are, said Richard Gaillardetz,

professor of Catholic systematic theology.

“All of his predecessors would have emphasized the mission, but this is a pope that has brought something distinctive about what the Church’s mission looks like,” Gaillardetz said. “It’s a little more open, dialogical in its engagement with the world, and that gives it a little different focus.”

The way Francis dives into the depths of the world gives him a different avenue to raise issues, Copeland said.

Copeland then brought up the challenges the pope and the Church face in this moment.

The pope wants to make the Church feel alive again, Cesareo said.

He sees this as a challenge, which is a different approach than the last pope took. Francis wants the Church to regain the relevancy that it lost in the last pontificate.

“Here is an individual who wants to breath new life into this church so that it has relevancy in this modern world,” he said.

Munoz-Visoso highlighted several themes that she believes will be a challenge for Francis. First, the widening disparity between the rich and the poor: Munoz-Visoso believes this society could become a place where people are no longer treated with the respect they deserve. Also, Francis is concerned with building a community where the common good is the goal, she said.

A third proposed challenge is that of the family, which is traditionally where catechism and religion are passed down.

“I think there is a genuine preoccupation in his mind for the wellbeing of the family as the cell of the Church and the transmitter of faith,” Munoz-Visoso said.

Francis is also facing the problem of reforming an institution that has a deeply rooted culture that is particularly difficult to change in a more than superficial way, Gaillardetz said. He also needs to face the challenge of engaging in dialogue with women from all backgrounds and cultures, he said.

Francis has realized that we need a new way of speaking about the Church, the Eucharist and baptism.

He uses the idea of mercy to form an image of the Church, Cesareo said.

“Where John Paul was ‘Do not be afraid,’ where Benedict was ‘Faith and reason,’—I think Francis will be the pope of mercy,” he said. n

between the Constitution—the guidelines and standards of conduct set for all of UGBC—and the Standing Rules—the guidelines that determine procedure in the SA. “Aside from blurring the lines between the Constitution and Standing Rules, the revisions also include substantive changes, such as making the press secretary a vice president,” Marchese said in an email sent to senators after Alonsozana’s Feb. 4 presentation.

“This was neither included in the original Constitution, nor was the idea vetted by the legislature.”

The current version of the Constitution will now include the edits after passing with all senators voting in favor of it and five abstaining.

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leadership and nursing care is vital to improving public health.”

Searle also works one day a week with Paul Biddinger, the director of the Emergency Preparedness and Response Exercise Program at the Harvard School of Public Health.

“Because my primary goal is to become a nurse faculty member and teach undergraduate nursing students, I work clinically in the surgical intensive care unit at Mount Auburn Hospital several days a month,” she said.

After taking her comprehensive exams, Searle plans to work on her dissertation, which will probably take two years to complete, she said. During these two years, Searle plans to search for a full-time faculty position.

“I am actively seeking out opportunities to strengthen my teaching skills,” she said.

Searle is also works as an adultgerontology primary care nurse practitioner, “providing primary care to all adults, from young adults

to the very aged among us,” she said.

“It is rewarding to try to find ways to help people live healthier and explore how their health impacts other areas of their lives,” Searle said. n

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Student group advocates divestment from fossil fuels BC Fossil Free, from A1

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BC students Joseph Palomba and Jessica Stevens were invited to attend a White House round-table discussion on sexual violence prevention.

BC Bystanders attend White House panel Bystanders, from A1 evaluation system to gauge the effectiveness of the program, in which they ask participants to complete a brief survey before the presentation, immediately following the presentation, and then three months after the presentation. Their research has indicated that freshmen learn the least from the program, while upperclassmen learn more.

“We talk about culture on BC’s campus, and college campuses, in general,” Palomba said of the presentations. “We talk about what we—as students—can do for our peers, proactively … We try to make it interactive.

We ask questions of the students, there are a couple of videos.”

Back in January, Stevens and Palomba participated in a focus group with two researchers from the University of New Hampshire (UNH) about developing a bystander marketing campaign at BC. Jane Stapleton, one of the researchers and the lead developer of the Know-YourPower Bystander marketing campaign, recommended to Biden’s office that Stevens and Palomba be invited to the White House to participate in the discussion with the task force.

The listening session, which included student advocates, researchers, and sexual assault survivors, was held in a conference room in Biden’s office and was attended by Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to Obama, and Lynn Rosenthal, an advisor on violence against women.

“Biden talked about how the meeting was a chance for the White House officials to listen to what we had to say since many of us had first-hand knowledge of what goes on at college campuses,” Stevens said in an email.

Biden addressed the participants and then asked each person to share their experiences and thoughts about how universities respond to sexual assault.

“He wanted us to explain what universities were doing well and what they weren’t doing well in regard to how they prevent and respond to sexual assault, and then what the federal government can do to help make colleges safer for students,” Stevens said.

Stevens spoke about the direct services that the WRC provides for survivors of sexual assault. Services include peersupport sessions, overviews of legal and medical options available to victims, and a 24/7 sexual assault network hotline. Many universities, especially those that do not have access to adequate funding, do not provide these services to students.

Palomba spoke about his experience with the Bystander program evaluation system that he and Jessica implemented at BC. The questions the surveys ask participants numerically rate their knowledge on the issues the program focuses on. The program’s effectiveness is based on the difference between the respondents’ pre and post surveys.

“[We] can state definitively—within

error—that it’s better for sophomores, juniors, and seniors, because they learn more,” he said. “They’re more aware of the issues after the presentation. They are also more likely to intervene after receiving the presentation.”

They also found that while men showed more of a net gain in knowledge than their female counterparts, women started off with much more knowledge. Their gains, therefore, were not as drastic as men’s gains.

After the meeting, White House officials asked Stevens and Palomba to send them more information about the research.

The Bystander Program at BC seeks to be proactive, rather than reactive, so it emphasizes the importance of educating students about how to prevent situations that may lead to sexual violence. It also encourages students to develop and execute plans if situations lead to sexual violence.

Biden emphasized similar points at the White House meeting.

CBSnews.com released a video of Biden’s opening statements to the media.

“We need to make it clear that everyone … has a responsibility here, especially men,” Biden told the student representatives in the video. “That means not looking the other way, that means seeing someone in trouble and helping, it means intervening, it means speaking out.”

Palomba said he would like to see more men become involved in the Bystander program. Currently, only about 10 out of the 60 presentation leaders are males. n

“This is about our lives here.

Ultimately, what climate change will do is it will threaten our water supplies and the regions we rely on for food right now,” Welton said. “If we go about trying to find climate justice solutions we can build ourselves a new world that’s better than the one we have right now.”

Welton’s generation is too young to work their way up to a government decision where it can make policy decisions itself, and individual lifestyle changes are not enough to significantly impact climate change, she stated.

“If BC disappeared off the face of the planet, it wouldn’t emit anything anymore. But, as a planet, we’d still be hurdling off the climate cliff,” she said.

“We have to come up with a way to create broader political change.”

The proposed solution would be to create broader political change through divestment. The fossil fuel industry has significant financial clout, but divesting from the industry could

create a ripple effect.

“I don’t want to inherit this horror story of climate change,” Welton said. “As the noise of the divestment movement gets really loud, that creates ripples in our political system.”

Divestment probably will not significantly hurt fossil fuel industries from a financial perspective, but it is important to divest from a moral standp oint , said David Zwick , an investment adv isor consultant at Progressive Asset Management.

When someone owns stock in a company, he or she owns a part of that company, he said. To ask the University to remove itself from fossil fuel investments is another way of saying that we should not make money from these unsustainable companies, he said.

“Should you be investing in things you don’t believe in? Should you be profiting from things you don’t believe in?” he asked. “It’s not that hard to say, ‘I’m not going to buy stock in these companies.’” n

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Members of student advocate group BC Fossil Free held a panel event on Wednesday.

Baker addresses Affordable Care Act, expansion of medical coverage Baker, from A1 terms of coverage expansion, the creations of the state-based exchanges, and cuts in Medicare.

As coverage is expanded to more people, Baker said, it will affect social workers in three ways. Specifically, he said it will change how social workers are paid for their services.

Currently, state and local governments pay for some of the services for uninsured people. Under the new law, social workers will be paid for their services by a combination of state and federal funds through Medicaid, a current government-run health care program for low-income families and individuals. The ACA significantly expands the eligibility requirements and funding levels for the program.

“Because of the limitations in support for primary care that have taken place over the course of the past 15 years, a whole bunch of people are now going to be eligible for coverage,” he said. “In many cases they’re going to discover that their ability to access

these services is going to be limited by the limitations we have within primary care currently.”

In a report released in early February, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported that in 2024 there will still be 31 million Americans without health coverage, and that about 14 million of those Americans will choose not to purchase insurance.

The Kaiser Family Foundation, a non-partisan research foundation based in California, found that an estimated 17 percent of the non-elderly population nationwide would benefit from the expansion of Medicaid. At this point in the timeline of the law, there has been no definitive estimate as to how many more people will opt to purchase coverage.

According to research published in the December 2012 issue of the journal Annals of Family Medicine, however, the total number of office visits to primary care physicians will increase by 101 million between 2008 and 2025 due to population growth and aging.

Population growth alone will require nearly 33,000 more primary care physicians,

according to the article, which was coauthored by Stephen Petterson, Winston Liaw, and four other medical doctors. As coverage is expanded under the ACA, the need for doctors will become more severe.

“I think one of the great challenges health care is going to face is figuring out—within the confines of what people are actually licensed to do, what people are actually going to be reimbursed to do, and what the rules of the games are going to require them to do—[who will] play to whatever their particular level of participation is in a team-based approach to care delivery,” Baker said.

He predicts that the coverage expansions and shortages of primary care physicians will require doctors, social workers, and other medical workers to play new roles in team-based approach. With that comes an inevitable movement away from one-on-one care.

With the creation of online health care marketplaces, Baker anticipates that more people will opt to purchase individual coverage, rather than insurance provided by an employer. n

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On Monday, gubernatorial candidate Charles Baker, Jr. analyzed the current state of health care.

‘New York Times’ correspondent Mazzetti talks CIA, Al-Qaeda activities ‘Shadow of War,’ from A1

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On Wednesday night, Mark Mazzetti discussed the ‘shadow’ activities of the U.S military.

Mazzetti briefly discussed the history of the CIA in terms of its mission and primary activities. The CIA’s focus has fluctuated between its original purpose—pure espionage and intelligence gathering—and the role it has often served as a paramilitary organization. In its early years, the CIA undertook operations ranging from assassination plots to coup attempts. The agency did not revert to more espionage-focused work until after 1976, when President Gerald Ford signed an executive order banning foreign assassinations by government employees.

Right before Sept. 11, the debate about the nature of the CIA resurfaced with the rising threat of terrorist organizations.

“The rise of Al-Qaeda raised concerns in the CIA about a large-scale terrorist attack,” Mazzetti said. “The question was, ‘How can the U.S., or the CIA specifically, go kill Osama bin Laden, or other Al-Qaeda leaders?’ They didn’t have the weapons to do it, and they didn’t have the authority to do it.”

Since Sept. 11, the CIA has been given more authority to carry out covert actions to capture and kill terrorists, taking the shape of a more paramilitary or man-hunting organization by using weapons such as armed predator drones, Mazzetti said. The actual military has sought to expand the battlefield

further through more special operations, a larger budget, and greater authority to send troops around the world.

The CIA and U.S. military, Mazzetti said, have come to mirror each other and create a new model of war, which manifested in the CIA-directed, Navy SEAL-implemented killing of bin Laden in 2011.

Mazzetti explained that he wanted to show what the shadow wars looked like on the ground, doing so through anecdotes in his book, The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth. He wrote about several characters who have taken part in the shadow wars outside of formal military operations, from a retired CIA officer who returned to join a private spying ring in Pakistan, to a Virginia woman who was obsessed with Somalian militant groups and was paid by the Pentagon to gather intelligence on them.

The U.S.-Pakistan relationship, Mazzetti said, is crucial since Pakistan is “the foremost laboratory for the shadow war,” and he focused specifically on relations between the CIA and the Pakistani spy service ISI. The two sides fundamentally do not trust one another, he said.

“The U.S. suspected that the ISI was working with militants, and the ISI suspected that the U.S. had deployed a whole secret army of CIA officers in Pakistan,” Mazzetti said.

“Things really went downhill from there.”

Taking questions from the audience, Mazzetti said that the shadow wars would likely not be different under a Republican president, yet Obama embracing what the CIA has offered in terms of these operations is indicative of how he hopes to carry out foreign policy with more clandestine actions and fewer boots on the ground.

Mazzetti also discussed how it is difficult to assess the success of CIA operations in Pakistan beyond crude body counts of AlQaeda and Taliban targets killed in drone strikes, and how, although the drone program is supposedly covert, it is “the most overt covert action in history.”

As defense budgets are reduced, Mazetti said that the CIA and military are gravitating toward methods such as drone strikes and paramilitary operations because their impact is more tangible. Traditional spying and intelligence gathering, he said, is murkier.

While the Israelis were the first to develop and use armed drones, the U.S. has developed them on an industrial scale since Sept. 11.

Mazzetti predicted that other countries, such as Russia and China, are bound to carry out drone strikes in the near future, using the same justification that the U.S. uses.

“The rules of the game have largely been set by the U.S., but there are a lot more players about to enter the game,” he said. n

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Bystanders’ efforts must lead to more dialogue While progress has been made on sexual assault education and prevention, BC still has ways to go Jessica Stevens, A&S ’14, and Joseph Palomba, A&S ’15, who both work in the Women’s Resource Center’s (WRC) Bystander Intervention program, attended a roundtable discussion with the Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault at the White House last week. Along with student representatives from other institutions, Palomba and Stevens met with senior White House officials, including Vice President Joe Biden, to discuss sexual assault prevention on college campuses.

This invitation is not only a testament to the important work that Stevens and Palomba are doing at Boston College, but it is also a further affirmation that sexual assault is not adequately addressed on college campuses across the U.S. The issue of sexual assault on BC’s own campus came to light last fall, when post No. 7122 on the popular Facebook page BC Confessions detailed three graphic cases of alleged assault. Although the post turned out to be a hoax, the circumstances described could very well have happened at BC, and this realization sparked a reevaluation of the attitudes surrounding assault on campus and the resources that the University offers for victims of sexual assault. While there was significant outrage in response to the Facebook post, dialogue dropped off after the student responsible for the post confessed to BCPD and the page itself was discontinued. The rapid loss of interest from the student body, further illustrated by the sparse audience at the follow-up event hosted by the Bystander Intervention group later that same week, was disheartening.

Last semester’s Bystander event was not the last opportunity students have to learn about preventing and responding to sexual assault, though. A panel event

with the District Attorney of Middlesex County, which was cancelled due to a snowstorm in the beginning of February, has been rescheduled for today at 3 p.m. in the Heights Room. The fact that BC is continuing to foster discussion and provide information about sexual assault is positive, and ideally events like this will become common, so that students have continual access to information about such issues. Administrators who deal with these issues—specifically, those in the WRC and the Dean of Students’ Office—must continue pushing for greater understanding of how to respond to sexual assault, and the University must continue to search for ways to prevent assault on campus effectively. Hopefully the White House task force will have salient suggestions when it releases its recommendations in April, but in the meantime BC ought to focus on expanding the success that the Bystander program has already seen. Palomba and Stevens have found that the program is effective, particularly for upperclassmen, in increasing students’ knowledge about sexual assault and teaching them how to intervene in potentially harmful situations.

The culture surrounding sexual assault at BC can only change with the concerted, combined efforts of both students and administrators. While there are some students, like Stevens and Palomba, who devote a good deal of their time to addressing these issues and trying to figure out ways to prevent assault, significant progress will only be made when more students are willing to talk frankly about what problems they see and learn about what individuals can do as bystanders to help prevent assault. To that end, it is imperative that the discussion continues at the University.

Combine performance deserves recognition

Achievement of former BC football players bodes well for their future, reflects positively on program Five former Boston College football players participated in the NFL Combine over the weekend, representing the school and the football program well with impressive performances as they try to make their way onto NFL rosters this spring.

Defensive end Kasim Edebali, offensive lineman Matt Patchan, outside linebacker Kevin Pierre-Louis, defensive lineman Kaleb Ramsey, and running back Andre Williams all worked out in Indianapolis and did not disappoint. Pierre-Louis recorded the fastest time for his position in the 40-yard dash, Ramsey notched the highest number of 225-pound bench press repetitions among prospects at all positions, and Williams, a 2013 Heisman trophy finalist, posted three top performances among the running backs.

While performances at the Combine are just one piece in the talent evaluation process for NFL teams, it bodes well not just for the players but also for the BC program that the school’s five participants stood out. Having more former BC football players in the NFL helps both grow the reputation of the University and strengthen head coach Steve Addazio’s pitches to potential recruits, as shown by the notable success of former BC student-athletes like Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan and Packers defensive lineman B.J. Raji.

The athletic department also deserves credit for continuing to promote the successes of former players, something which it has done consistently well for the past few years.

Students ought to keep safety in mind over break Away from BC, students must take extra care to make responsible decisions Today and tomorrow, many students will be leaving campus to enjoy their Spring Breaks outside of the Boston area.

With the popularity of service trips at Boston College, a fair number of students will be heading to the Appalachia region, volunteering in communities from New York to Mississippi. Other students will be taking advantage of the early timing of BC’s Spring Break to hit the slopes one last time this season. Still others will be trying to flee the recent cold spell by heading south. Wherever students go, they should do their best to stay safe while away from campus.

Although Spring Break is often con-

sidered an opportunity to get some rest and unwind two months into the spring semester, students should exercise caution and use responsible judgment while on vacation, as very real risks still exist. For example, last year, a student from the University of Southern California died after a fall from a balcony while on Spring Break in Mexico. Students should be especially careful of alcohol consumption in a foreign environment—while harm can still come from poor decisions made within the BC bubble, the stakes can be even higher elsewhere, especially when other locations may not have safety resources comparable to those available at BC.

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Rethinking capitalism Capitalism is under attack. Believe it or not, Boston College can help save it.

The 2008 financial crisis has led us down a path of economic soul-searching, and rightly so. As students at a Jesuit, Catholic university, it should concern us that public and clients’ trust was betrayed. It should concern us that millions lost their livelihoods and that families found it harder to make ends meet. It should concern us that in the aftermath of the Great Recession, our country is substantially more economically polarized. These are realities from which we cannot turn away.

Saving capitalism means addressing these concerns head-on. To overlook these problems leaves those who support free-markets open to charges of ignorance and callousness. People have lost hope in capitalism. Is it any wonder why restrictions on the free market and government interventions are more palatable than ever?

Not to confront these concerns is to make it even easier to believe that the system promises nothing more than inequality for all.

I refuse to give up hope in the promise of capitalism because it is not really the system that is amazing but what people can do within it. Here’s one point of view—as liberal democracies have proliferated around the globe, freer economic systems have meant that hundreds of millions have been able to lift themselves out of poverty. Millions of Chinese now enjoy a standard of living once thought unattainable just a generation ago.

Millions more are finding that their talents and abilities can be rewarded.

A free market respects individual talent and ability.

Can the same be said of more oppressive economic systems? Is it not truly a miracle to see what people can do with hard work, talent, accessible credit, property rights, and the rule of law? Capitalism empowers individuals to find happiness from their earned success.

Others believe this to be hogwash, and I don’t blame them. It is hard not to see people struggling on the streets, next to multi-million dollar apartments. It is hard to stomach child-poverty and food stamp participation rates that grow with each passing year. It is hard not to graduate from BC and want to do something.

One’s first reaction is to replace or curtail the free market or to abridge the economic liberties that our country ensures. Many of our lecturers imply this seductive

answer, but we know it to be wrong. We know other systems to be limiting individual liberties, to be the starting grounds for oppression, and to disregard the worth and dignity of others. Other systems are not the answer.

It is easy to diagnose these many economic maladies as a systemic problem with capitalism. I disagree. The maladies we see result when people in the system are divorced from a moral code—when capitalist leaders solely worship money. The problem is not with the system but a defect in our education of future leaders. Capitalism needs moral leaders—not just scions of profit. And that is why BC can play such a crucial role in saving capitalism.

BC educates men and women for others. Compassion resonates through everything we do, and BC can be a catalyst for compassionate capitalism.

Compassionate capitalism does not run away from individual moral obligations and social justice. We need leaders who do not leave solving the problems like poverty to others or the government. We need leaders who engage—who incorporate service into their worldview.

We need leaders who can check themselves. We do not need leaders who regulate the behavior only by threat of harsh laws and sentences. We do not just need law-fearing leaders, but also God-fearing ones. We do not need systemic regulations that deny the immense opportunities of the free market. Instead, we need leaders—men and women who think of others along with their own profit.

BC helps to foster this culture already, but we should own it more and expand it.

Educating these future leaders will not be easy, but truly healing our society does not mean upending it.

Bridging the gaps in our society does not mean highlighting its divisions. Moving our society forward does not mean curtailing the liberties that have saved us from falling backwards. Capitalism can be a force for good, but yes, it is also easy for people to be cold to others and the defects of the world around us. But see—the problem is also with people, not just with the system.

Even if capitalism makes it easy to have stone-cold hearts, then at BC, let’s continue to set more of those hearts on fire.

Matthew Alonsozana UGBC Executive Vice President A&S ’14

The following letter is in response to “BC Fossil Free should rethink strategy,” a letter from Matthew Alonsozana, originally published on 2/5/14:

Op-Ed misunderstands BC Fossil Free and its goals

Matthew Alonsozana’s Feb. 5 op-ed betrays its supposed intent for “a more sustainable BC.” We in BC Fossil Free (BCFF) have the same goal—BC must reduce our campus footprint and do so with quantified and clear goals—but we understand that such actions will do little to address the deepening climate crisis jeopardizing our future. As we correct some of Alonsozana’s mischaracterizations, we hope you will come to understand why young people on campus have been pushing for divestment and, more generally, fighting for climate justice.

Alonsozana says BCFF’s notion “that, ‘pretty soon there won’t be any more fossil fuels in which to invest’ is wildly off the mark.” We do not know where the quote came from. We, in fact, believe the complete opposite and do not understand how someone “familiar with BC Fossil Free” could so poorly understand the issue. Proven reserves of fossil fuels—coal, oil, and gas—contain roughly five times the amount of carbon we can burn to maintain a decent chance of staying under the 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F) threshold, which is the internationally agreed-upon limit that humanity must not cross. Our view is not a personal one. The most authoritative bodies in the world, from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to the International Energy Agency to the World Bank, are all in agreement—we are on a crash course for a destabilized climate if we burn all those carbon reserves.

We agree with Alonsozana that the BC community “shouldn’t trust BCFF as our financial advisors.” But we are not asking that. Instead, we ask BC to take seriously the rigorous work conducted by the London School of Economics’ Carbon Tracker Initiative and many others.

The assets of fossil fuel companies will plummet in value as concerned citizens pressure their governments to make good on their promise enshrined in the 22-yearold United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, ratified by 195 countries, to “stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference.” BC could take Alonsozana’s advice to “invest even more in energy,” or it could examine financial analyses conducted by MSCI, the Aperio Group, or Impax Asset Management. Their findings mirror those of S&P Capital IQ, that calculated the total returns of the S&P 500 Index with and without the top 200 publicly traded fossil fuel companies. Over 10 years, a $1 billion investment that excluded these companies would have grown to $2.26 billion, a full $119 million more than the investment that included fossil fuel companies. That extra $119 million could have paid the entire tuition of BC’s freshman class, with nearly $20 million left over.

Alonsozana does not understand the theory of change behind divestment. The former chief economist for the World Bank, Nicholas Stern, said climate change represents “the greatest example of market failure we have

ever seen.” Americans on the left and right now support action on climate to correct the market failure. However, the most profitable and powerful industry in the history of earth—the fossil fuel juggernaut—has Washington locked in chains. Beginning with its 20-year crusade to cast doubt on the science of climate change and continuing through its relentless corruption of our democracy, it is time we tamed the fossil fuel industry. Enter divestment—a coordinated attack against that central barrier to a stable climate.

Oxford’s Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment examined the fossil fuel divestment campaign and found that stigmatization poses a “far-reaching threat to fossil fuel companies and the vast energy value chain.” Divestment seeks to remove the social license of these firms.

A year ago, those of us in the fight for climate justice cited divestment’s past success in helping to end South African Apartheid. Today, however, we can already claim some victories. “Coal Seen as New Tobacco Sparking Investor Backlash” ran as a Bloomberg headline last November.

Storebrand, with $74 billion in assets, has already sold off coal and tar sands investments. Norway’s massive $800 billion-plus sovereign wealth fund is now considering selling off coal investments. The $233 billion Scottish Windows did so last year. Last September, a group of 70 investors with more than $3 trillion in combined assets wrote to 40 of the world’s largest fossil fuel firms urging them to assess the risks of the carbon bubble. Already divesting from fossil fuel companies writ large are 22 cities, nine universities, a plethora of religious institutions, philanthropic groups, and countless individuals.

Despite what Alonsozana thinks, BCFF continues to raise awareness on and off campus. We have reached more than 1,000 students directly in classroom presentations and in student groups. More than 1,000 members of the BC community have signed our divestment petition. BCFossilFree.org is well maintained, and we spread information and ways to get involved through Facebook and Twitter. We have three separate weekly meetings open to anyone, and five separate listservs. We had a panel yesterday at 7 p.m. in Higgins 300 with BC’s own Jeremy Shakun, a financial expert, and a climate justice activist from Harvard.

As Alonsozana now knows, we remain more than willing to “debate openly [divestment’s] merits.” Thus we are pleased he has agreed to a student debate during Green Week, which begins March 24. We hope to see you there and elsewhere as we continue fighting not just for our own future, but also for the poorest and youngest whose future becomes bleaker as we delay action.

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Jovani Hernandez Spring Break - Ah, it’s so close we can almost taste it. Spring Break is truly a wonderful thing. Here we are at a frigid 42 degrees of latitude, so there is really nothing more appealing than the idea of heading southward and sun-bound. After this stressful week of midterms, papers, presentations, etc., the idea of lying around and doing nothing is quite appealing. Wherever you are going and whenever you are leaving—whether that be an earlier flight out tonight or one after classes are over tomorrow—we at TU/TD wish you safe and happy travels. Now, we just have to make it through these last two days….

Buried Treasure - Recently, a Californian couple happened upon an old rusty can in their backyard that happened to contain a cache of old coins. Those coins turned out to be made of gold and worth close to $10 million. Now, if that doesn’t make you want to hitch up your wagon, grab your pickax and shovel, and go out West in the hope of striking it rich, we don’t know what would.

Texts from Mom - Despite the initial eye-roll the word “Mom” may provoke when it pops up on the screen of your phone, texts from Mom are the best. They can be sweet “thinking of you”s amusing anecdotes about your siblings, pictures of your dogs, or even just mistaken acronyms (“wait, you mean LOL doesn’t stand for lots of love?”). It also opens the potential negotiations for care packages, which is always a plus. Mom, we may not always text you back, but we promise your texts always at least make us smile.

oFFICE hOURS lINES - Right up until it’s time for an exam, most professors’ offices are ghost towns during office hours. Seriously we think we once saw a tumbleweed roll through the econ department on a Friday at the beginning of the semester. All of sudden, though, when exam time comes around, students flock to office hours like a pack of hyenas to a deer convention.

It’s a fierce competition for access to the limited resource that is the professor’s time, and only the most determined students will make it into the professor’s office. While we understand how it is often only in studying for an exam that one finds the questions one has about the material, really, folks, there has to be a better way of doing this. tOO mUCH cOFFEE - You are going to have to bear with us here for a second because we think very highly of coffee and could not get through most of our days without the coffee equivalent of a caffeine drip straight into our veins. There are some times, however, when things just go too far. All of a sudden, it’s time to go to your 9 a.m. class, you haven’t slept in the last 25 hours, and you know that if you don’t get that quintuple espresso on ice you won’t make it through your first two classes, much less the ones thereafter. But you don’t have time to eat and, all of a sudden, you start violently shaking, your heart starts beating at a million beats per minute, you are sweating, and you think you might die. You feel sick to your stomach. Yeah, as much as we are dependent on coffee, we don’t like this at all.

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The saying goes, “Home is where the heart is,” so I can’t possibly consider Boston College a home—or so I thought.

Being about four hours away from home, I sought a support system on campus. Before arriving, I only knew two kids from back home who were coming to BC, but I didn’t know them very well. One of them is a halfPuerto Rican, half-Dominican who sometimes loves too much for his own good, whereas the other is a self-proclaimed “Afro-Dominican sensation” who’s indecisive about a lot of things except his passion for education reform. Nevertheless, these two soon became three when we met a Jamaican-American who has a tough exterior worth breaking into. Fast-forward to today—we are now a group of six since we’ve become brothers with another Dominican who always takes the time to listen, and though I give him a hard time, a Mexican who has a good heart and great intentions. Many people pride themselves on the grades and accolades they achieve, but I constantly brag about the brethren I’ve come to know in my three semesters at BC. Despite the fact that I boast about and have laughed and cried in front of them, I haven’t always appreciated them.

Instead of concerning myself with the family I do have, I oftentimes think about the one I could have. As much as I’d like to have someone to eat with every time I walked into Lower, I don’t, and knowing this bothers me. I don’t mind being alone, but I hate feeling like I am. Although there are bound to be familiar faces in any dining hall on campus, they aren’t individuals who know me to the extent that my core group of friends does because I tend to be aloof with most. Channeling my inner Willy Lowman, I want to be well-liked, but it’s selfish of me to feel as though no one cares

when there are people across this campus who hold me in high regard—when I say I don’t have many friends, I disrespect those who have invested part of themselves in me.

The truth is, there are people at BC—students and faculty alike—who would be quicker to lend me a helping hand than some family members back home. While I criticize these people who see no value in being blood-related, I oftentimes recognize much of their thoughtlessness and selfishness in myself.

How could one expect people to continue caring when one isn’t willing to reciprocate the effort? Going to visit friends in 90 from Lower or paying $10 to see them perform in Robsham isn’t too much to ask, but I take my friends and family for granted.

She vacuums a college-educated family’s living room and leaves her 1-year-old daughter with a babysitter in order to help her husband—who slaves over a hot grill as he gets scolded because he misread an order written in a language foreign to him— with the bills.

Yet, knowing all of that, I’d rather let time fly than give them—my parents—a call.

In the past, I’ve described myself as “family-oriented” but never allowed this portrayal to go past being something I said or wrote. As Father Michael says, love is not a noun, but it is instead a verb—without action, family does not go past being kin. As humans, we oftentimes aren’t as aware of who cares as we are of who is present. In my immediate family, I have been absent for the greater part of two years—I missed my 1-year-old sister’s first steps, science fair projects presented by my 9-year-old brother, and goals scored by my 15-year old brother. Although I wish I would’ve been present during these moments in my siblings’ lives, I reminisce about times I’ve been home and realize that I oftentimes spend vacations in my room, not wanting to be bothered or criticizing, rather than encouraging, my younger brothers. My reasoning behind the way my brothers and I interact with each other—because they’d also rather watch television or hang out with their friends than converse and spend time with me when I’m home—is the family dynamic that exists within our household. With the exception of

my mother, explicit affection was never shown while I was growing up and the words “Te quiero mucho” were never part of regular conversation. Now that I’m in my second year at BC, however, I realize that love is—and always was—present in our family. To kids who don’t see their father much during the day, can’t be accompanied by their mothers to school functions or soccer matches, and don’t hear from their oldest brother whom they only see on holidays and in the summer, love may not seem to be what they’ve experienced, but that doesn’t mean it should stay that way.

From Feb. 21 to Feb. 23, the Organization of Latin American Affairs (OLAA) hosted Latino Family weekend. Although my immediate family could not attend, my 15-year-old brother did. He’s going through what I went through when I was his age—girls, wanting to go out, thinking he knows it all, and not seeing too far into the future. My brother and I have never had the best relationship, but in learning that he’s been struggling with classes, I vowed to make an effort to help him out since I had gone through similar struggles.

At first, my way of showing him I cared was through tough love, but this didn’t convey to him how much I really care. In bringing him to visit BC, I gave him an opportunity that I did not have prior to embarking on my own college journey, since I am the first person in my family to attend college. While he’ll never tell me how much spending time together meant to him, exposing him to my life at BC will encourage him to focus on meaningful things, rather than on the ills to which many of our peers back in the Bronx fall victim. I hope he can do for our younger brother what I have tried to do for him and also do so for our siblings, family, and community.

My brother’s visit meant that part of my “heart” was present in my new home and that old and new family can get along. All it took was a sign of love, so whether at BC, back home, or wherever you are, don’t forget to remind your family members that you love them.

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

Euthanasia and children Karel-Bart Celie The lower house of the Belgian parliament recently voted to extend a 2002 law, which legalized euthanasia, to minors. Under the proposed legislation, the former age limit, which had been set at 18, would be removed entirely.

The bill is awaiting approval from the Belgian king, who is expected to sign it into law amid considerable support from the populace.

The new measure would enable terminally ill children who experience “constant and intolerable” suffering to procure euthanasia.

The child would have to demonstrate a capacity for discernment—which would be assessed via a psychological evaluation—and would still require the written consent of one parent.

While the Netherlands has allowed euthanasia for children above the age of 12 under exceptional circumstances, the proposed bill would make Belgium the first country in the world to remove all age restrictions.

Naturally, the proposed measure has met resistance and has been the cause of a heated debate in the small country. Arguments made public on either side of the controversy, however, have been unhelpful at best. Those protesting the amended law argue that the measure is tantamount to “playing God,” and that we have no right to assume authority over the length of a human life—regardless of quality of life. In doing so, they overlook the point made by the philosopher David Hume nearly 300 years ago in an essay titled “On Suicide.” Hume argued quite simply that, since medical services have already interfered with “divine Providence” by lengthening lives, surely “interference” should not be grounds for the prohibition of shortening them?

Proponents of the measure, on the other hand, point out that we relieve the suffering of animals by euthanizing them and should therefore extend the service to children. In a twisted a fortiori argument, they hold that it is downright inhumane to provide such a “mercy” to animals and not to children. This very loose appeal to “mercy” seems to make no allowance for the distinction that has traditionally always been made between human beings and animals—a distinction that I believe most would agree is paramount to preserving human

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dignity. Logically speaking, the fallacy is a weak analogy. Putting down your dog and putting down your son are two substantially different actions. The reason euthanasia is such a contested issue is precisely because we want to prevent people from being slaughtered like cattle, as they were in recent history under the banner of “humane” German medicine.

Thus, on both sides, we see rhetoric that is less than helpful. The problem is that Belgians are much more likely to respond to appeals for “mercy” than to the less secular appeal to refrain from “playing God.” Indeed, the proposed measure is supported by almost 75 percent of the population according to polls.

Clearly, in a country where medical professionals receive very little ethical training during their medical education, it is the responsibility of intellectuals to intervene in the debate by advancing sound considerations instead of emotionally loaded maxims.

The most obvious reason for concern is the potential for abuse. Daniel Callahan, founder of the Hastings Center—a bioethics research institution based in the United States—has argued that the motives for euthanasia contain in themselves the ingredients for abuse. The two main motives for euthanasia usually advanced by its proponents are self-determination and mercy. Self-determination requires the patient to be competent (in order to selfdetermine), and mercy requires some form of “intolerable suffering” to be present. Both motives are usually presented together under a single justification for euthanasia. Yet, they are not intrinsically linked to one another, and a separate analysis of each raises significant ethical problems. Why must a competent person be suffering in order to choose death? Isn’t that an arbitrary stipulation that limits the all-too-loved principle of self-determination?

Why must a person’s motives, regardless of suffering, be questioned? Conversely, why are only the competent granted the “mercy” of an easy death? What of the mentally incompetent—must they languish in pain while the competent receive relief? Surely it is a capricious cruelty to deny “mercy” to the incompetent who cannot self-determine properly?

Callahan’s point is that there appears to be no good moral reason to limit euthanasia once taking a life for the purposes of self-determina-

tion and mercy has been legitimated. That is a serious danger that should cause any proponent of euthanasia to pause and reconsider.

Indeed, Belgium seems to have started down the path of limitless euthanasia—the dividing line between “competent” and “incompetent” is blurred significantly in the case of euthanasia of children. What will count as “reasonable discernment”? What guarantee do we have that a mumbled assent—in the midst of despair and physical anguish—will not be abused for the sake of convenience? These are not problems hypothesized for the sake of a polemical attack on euthanasia. These are real grounds for concern. All legislation is subject to abuse—this is part of the reason why euthanasia is illegal in all 50 U.S. states.

Another obvious consideration is the pressure on children. Proponents of the measure argue that the choice will only be available to them upon request. It seems unlikely, however, that a child battling cancer for over a year will not have become aware of this “avenue of escape.” Already under physical and psychicological stress, such children are unreasonably haunted by feelings of guilt over the burden they pose to their parents and caregivers. Who is to say that some children—and one would be too many—will not feel the pressure to choose?

If the option is there, how can one not consider it? In a way, not to choose is to have made a choice already.

Finally, the future of the medical profession itself is at stake. Primum non nocere, “first, do no harm,” is one of the principal precepts in bioethics. To cause death is very different from to let die. The first is to violate human dignity, while the second—in cases where medication or treatment becomes futile—is to uphold it.

Physicians must first and foremost remain advocates for their patients, not the agents of their death. There remains a sacred inviolability of human life—and the prohibition of taking such a life must remain firmly in place if we are to prevent abuse, especially in the case of terminally ill children.

Patrick Angiolillo is off this week.

Karel-Bart Celie is a guest columnist for The Heights. He can be reached at opinions@bcheights.com.

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Classifying the world Emma Vitale “There are two types of people in this world—people who classify others into groups, and those who don’t.”

We’ve all heard this phrase, or something similar, and it begs the question of whether the world is so simply categorized into two groups. Classifying people involves labeling, which is often frowned upon because it involves generalizations and stereotypes.

Often, labeling a person as a part of some group leads to changing attitudes toward and treatment of that person. But classification can also enlighten us about others and about ourselves, and I firmly believe that there are two types of people in this world—people who wait for things to happen, and people who go out and make things happen.

Many times, this distinction goes further—extrovert vs. introvert, optimist vs. pessimist, or thinker vs. doer. Extroverts are usually doers. They are bubbly, loud, and outgoing, and they aren’t afraid to try new things. They embrace the possibility of failure and, if they want something, they go and get it. Introverts, like me, tend to be the thinkers, and this is an advantage in many ways—it leads to more thoughtful decision-making, increased introspection and sense of self, and greater understanding of the consequences of certain actions.

Sometimes this pensiveness becomes a drawback, however. Thinking too much often results in worrying and focusing on the negative or unpleasant possibilities and, in effect, pessimism. I think in many regards, introverts could reap the benefits of so many more opportunities if they would only take a few risks and cross over into the realm of possible failure, but instead we often worry, think, and wait until the time has passed and we regret the missed chance.

This distinction is constantly on my mind, especially now that I am at Boston College. In college, I think everyone wants to be the extrovert on some level, the person who is the life of the party and who isn’t afraid to let his or her voice be heard. In the social sense, it’s a lot more fun to be that person, and the college life is in many respects built for that person. Everyone has heard the saying that, “these are the best four years of your life”—but for whom?

The quiet boy who has a hard time making friends and spends most of his time in his room? The girl who has a crush but is too afraid to say anything? The boy who meant to join a bunch of clubs but became intimidated and instead joined none? No, that statement is directed toward the people who can strike up conversations to make friends with anyone and everyone, who always have something to do or somewhere to go on the weekends, and who take advantage of the opportunities presented to them because they can’t imagine not doing so. (Granted, this invites the criticism that the idealized and media-portrayed college experience in which such extroverts thrive is not the experience everyone wants to have, but that’s an entirely different story.)

I find myself floating between these two types of people, but I relate more with those who wait for things to happen. I am, by nature, someone who wishes and dreams but has a hard time putting my thoughts into action. It’s not a coincidence that I have a board on Pinterest dedicated to cheesy quotes like, “stop thinking, just live” and “worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, it empties today of its strength.”

There are so many opportunities to make the most of BC, but a lot of them require a sort of personal risk, like trying something you’ve never done before, risking being “cut” or not called back, or doing things without the comfort zone of friends. These risks can (and often do) have great paybacks, but only for those who have the courage to take them.

The opportunities for happiness and success are everywhere, but you have to go and seek them out—they won’t come to you. If you want to sing but don’t audition for any of the a cappella groups or choirs, the closest you’re going to get to performing is in the shower. If you want to play soccer but don’t think you’re good enough and skip the tryouts, the best you’re going to do is kick a ball around with a few friends while the team has a real practice. Waiting for things to happen practically guarantees regret, and sitting around thinking about what you wish you were doing is fruitless.

I’m not saying that all introverts are pessimistic and unhappy or that it’s better to be an extrovert, but there’s something to be said for the assertive actions they display and the fulfillment that results. Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci once said it best: “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”

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

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Owens’ play in loss against Panthers gives Eagles hope for future Men’s Basketball, from A10 ways have my hands active to shorten the passing lanes,” Owens said of his duties against Patterson.

The freshman has also become quicker.

Known for his athleticism, Owens has developed his quickness working with the team’s trainer. He said that the extra work he has put in has helped to develop his quickness in transition when he switches from offense to defense.

On the other side of the ball, Owens can drive. He is quick to the rack and has excellent control over his body after he leaves his feet, which allows him to finish. Once his touch and confidence are built in the ACC, that aspect of Owens’ game will shine, as it did when he played in high school.

“I called his number tonight a couple of times so he could do it,” said Donahue.

“I think he can rip through. He’s way quicker and better with the ball than he gives himself credit for. I want him to be aggressive, because when he attacks the rim— first of all, he can finish, but he also has a great feel for the game.”

The freshman forward is a gamebreaker who can explode to the hoop for a dunk or finish to an alley-oop. He can also use his athleticism to maneuver his way around the boards. He had three rebounds against the Panthers and was able to create chances for BC to get second chance points.

At one point, the Eagles were within shouting distance and down 53-47, and a

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Garland Owens (right) defended Lamar Patterson when the Eagles played Pittsburgh on Wednesday night. Pitt’s redshirt senior scored 16 points, but turned the ball over five times. missed shot from Ryan Anderson bounced off the rim. Owens cut under the basket to tip the ball back into play. Under the hoop, Anderson failed to pick the ball out, but the opportunity for another shot was there and the freshman was responsible for it.

Syracuse outlasts BC for a difficult away victory Lacrosse, from A10 active defensive sticks, BC found it tough at points to get into a rhythm on offense, and the team turned the ball over with an alarming regularity.

Head coach Acacia Walker was disappointed in the offense’s performance. “The game is won with possession, and we can’t throw the ball away,” Walker said. Although junior middle Mikaela Rix scored a hat trick and junior Covie Stanwick, sophomore Sarah Mannelly, and senior Moira Barry each scored two goals apiece, the 17 BC turnovers ultimately downed the Eagles.

BC’s inability to win face-offs at key times was also costly. With BC leading 5-4 halfway through the second half, Syracuse went on a 4-0 run that ultimately proved too much for the Eagles to overcome. The first goal of that sequence came off a failed free position shot from Stanwick. The subsequent three goals came when Syracuse was able to win the draw and carry possession into the attacking zone. In five minutes, the Orange netted four goals by four different players, without BC ever getting a chance in its own offensive zone.

Walker did see some positives in the way her team fought, however. “I think our defense was here to win, you know, our midfield did their job,” she said. “I just think offensively in transition, we’ve got to take care of the ball more.” Defensively, BC was facing a tall task against a Syracuse offense that had scored 21, 25, 18, and 18 goals in its first four games. The Eagles proved they were more than up to the task, however, limiting the Orange to just 11 goals on 18 shots on goal. Senior defender Kate McCarthy’s performance was of particular note, as she consistently drew the assignment of shadowing sophomore attack

Kayla Treanor. Syracuse’s leading pointscorer, Treanor, already had 16 goals and 11 assists coming into the game, averaging almost seven points per game. Treanor did tally three assists and two goals, but for the most part, McCarthy was able to keep her away from the crease. Syracuse’s scoring was spread across its lineup, showcasing why the Orange are such a formidable team. Seniors Katie Webster and Alyssa Murray notched three goals apiece, while freshman attack Taylor Poplawski scored twice, and junior Gabby Jaquith netted SU’s final goal with an open netter with 1:38 left in the game.

For stretches of the game, however, BC was firmly in control of the Orange, and much of the credit must go to goalie Emily Mata. Mata saved seven shots, stymieing SU on several point-blank attempts. Walker was more than satisfied with her junior’s performance in net. “Yeah, Emily’s been working really hard in the last couple of weeks to have a game like that,” Walker said. “Unfortunately we just came out short, and Syracuse is an incredible, incredible team.”

On the other end of the field, Syracuse’s own junior goaltender, Kelsey Richardson, was equal to the task, making six saves of her own in her first complete game of the season. Richardson constantly kept Syracuse close, never allowing BC to take more than a one-goal lead at any point in the game.

Syracuse deserves most of the credit for holding BC to nine goals with its aggressive defense and solid goaltending, but it’s hard to view this performance as one of utter domination by the Orange. BC had the opportunity to win this game, but instead, the Eagles did the one thing that can drive any coach up a wall—they turned it over. n

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Swimming, tennis struggle

By Tom DeVoto Heights Staff On Wednesday, the Boston College men’s swimming and diving season culminated at the ACC Championships in Greensboro, N.C. The first night of a four-day event consisted of the 200meter medley relay and the 800-meter freestyle relay.

Despite finishing last in the race 200medley relay race, the BC relay team composed of Sean Murphy, Andrew Stranick, Timothy Benage, and Dan Kelly set a school record with its time of 1:29.20. The anchor Kelly had a personal time of 18.90.

BC’s Nick Henze, Matthew Zerweck, Drew Cuttic, and Anthony Richardson finished 10th out of 10 participants in the 800-freestyle relay, and by day’s end, the

Eagles sat 60 points behind the leading Wolfpack.

In tennis action, the BC men’s squad traveled south to Providence on Tuesday to take on Brown University, where the Bears handled the Eagles en route to a 6-1 victory. Brown’s Justin To scored a win in the No. 1 singles match against BC’s Philip Nelson in three sets: 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-3.

BC got a victory from senior Jonathan Raude in the No. 2 singles battle over Gregory Garcia, but it would go on to drop the next four matches in straight sets.

The Eagle team of Nelson and freshman Aiden McNulty took down Brown’s top doubles team by a score of 8-3, but the Eagles couldn’t compete in either of the other two doubles matches and conceded those by a score of 8-2 and 8-4. n

One week ago, though, when the team was on top of the world, Owens was not.

He played less than a minute in the Eagles’ shocking upset of the nation’s No. 1 team, Syracuse. Against Miami, the Eagles missed open looks and the ship began

to sink once again. Owens saw just eight minutes on the floor in the team’s worst loss of the season.

Trailing Pittsburgh by 15 points with 5:24 remaining in the first half, everything was out of hand. Shots were not going

down and Jamie Dixon’s travelling squad was trampling BC down low and in transition. Another late comeback spurred by Olivier Hanlan was not enough. Suffering their 21st defeat of the season, the Eagles watched the same movie again. n

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Hanlan hits 1,000 as BC stumbles again

By Johnny Carey Heights Staff Boston College entered its ACC matchup with Pittsburgh on Wednesday night coming off of two games which ended with very different results. After upsetting then No. 1 Syracuse on the road a week ago, the Eagles were embarrassed by the University of Miami 69-42 on Saturday. The question for the Eagles on Wednesday was simple: Which team will show up—the team which took down mighty Syracuse or the one that limped off the court in Coral Gables?

The answer to this question was neither. As a whole, BC didn’t play a particularly bad game Wednesday night, but at the same time, it was by no stretch a masterpiece. It was another night of “more of the same” at Conte Forum for the Eagles, falling 66-59 in a tightly contested battle to a superior team in which BC appeared to be very close to the upset.

“We’ve done that a lot this year— played against good teams and played them hard,” said BC head coach Steve Donahue. “We just haven’t had enough to win.”

One facet of the game that has been especially troubling for Donahue’s Eagles has been rebounding. This trend

continued on Wednesday as Pitt took an early lead beginning with its domination on the boards. BC allowed far too many second chances in the paint for Pitt, as the Panthers tallied seven offensive rebounds in the first half alone while BC was only able to muster up three. Pitt also proved superior on the defensive boards, grabbing nine rebounds as opposed to BC’s four.

BC actually held a quick 7-2 lead after an emphatic dunk by junior guard Patrick Heckmann. With the way the Eagles rebounded, though, this lead had no chance of holding up. In the second half, the Panthers continued their ownership of the boards, snagging another six offensive and 11 defensive boards, totaling 33 by the final buzzer. BC continued to look upward as its ACC opponent snatched board after board, finishing with a dismal 18 rebounds for the game.

While the Eagles as a whole were anything but sharp in the first half, Olivier Hanlan did what stars are supposed to do. He essentially carried the team on his back for the entirety of the first half, scoring 14 of BC’s 26 points. He went 6-9 from the field in a half in which the rest of the team shot a weak 5-14. In the process, Hanlan became the third player in BC history to reach the 1,000 point milestone in

his sophomore season.

Coach Donahue raved about his star sophomore post-game. “I love his competitiveness,” he said. “He brings it every night, every day. He’s done everything we ask to help build this program.”

Hanlan had stretches where he appeared to score at will, keeping the Eagles in a game that could have otherwise easily been a blowout. The sophomore finished the night with 25 points and three assists, shooting an impressive 10-15 from the field.

Unfortunately for Hanlan, no one else could consistently get going. Only five players in total scored for the Eagles, including just a two-point contribution from Will Magarity. Had one or two more players stepped up their game just a bit, the Eagles could have been looking at their second impressive win in a week’s time—unfortunately, the team fell in a familiar fashion.

Donahue summed it up best. “I look in our eyes and we don’t have that, ‘This is okay we’re going to figure this out and get it done,’” Donahue said.

“We don’t have that like they have it.

We’re working on it, we’ll get there, but we don’t have that. I think that true belief in yourself and what you’re doing for 40 minutes, we don’t have that yet.” n

Who best represents BC athletics?

Column, from A10 Among alumni, there would probably be a different result—my guess is that it would be Bates. He’s the one who has publicly made it his mission to enhance BC athletics, from the campaign for a better game day experience to town hall meetings with ticket holders and fundraising events for the Flynn Fund. While the Flutieera crowd may pull him through at least to the final four, the way that Bates goes about the pubic parts of his job would eventually sway the vote.

Bates would serve as the face similar to how the president is seen as the face of the country. He does a lot of work—behind the scenes and in the open—to reinforce the general impression of the University and its athletics.

When it comes to the administration, though, the results would be different. From University President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J. to Chris Cameron, the associate athletic director in charge of athletic communications, they would want to showcase BC’s best and brightest—a two-sport athlete with a 4.0 who spent last summer feeding children in Uganda—and

if nobody filled those criteria, they would fill the spot with someone like Alex Amidon or Patrick Brown, the former wide receiver who holds the career record for receiving yards and recipient of the Anne and Gerald B. Healy Scholarship for academic excellence, the latter a senior captain of the hockey team heralded for his leadership through attitude, not necessarily points. This face would be the one on the big screen at football and hockey games, enforcing the student part of student athlete.

Bring the vote to students, and the results would be close. Some still living off of their Heisman-high would carry Williams through to the late rounds. Others, wrapped up in the excitement of a 28-game point streak, would pledge their allegiance to Gaudreau.

They would want to see one of their peers representing the athletic department. Just like when the cheers rise up every time either of these gentlemen gets the ball or the puck, that same support for the visibly successful athletes, the ones who you know are going to make an impact, would show through in the voting.

This column space is not, however,

a democracy, so put the vote down to me, and I can easily make the choice.

He’s consistent, experienced, and so very Boston as well as BC. Eyepatch or no eye-patch, no face deserves to represent BC athletics more than Jerry York’s, whose incredible track record on the ice combines with an approachable Boston accent and a genuine care for the wellbeing of his players and of the University.

“In York We Trust”—a phrase that comes out as naturally as when you substitute in “God,” and York’s face serves as a rallying point for students with pride in their school’s tradition of success.

It’s hard to pick just one person, because there are so many lenses through which you view BC and its programs.

From the academic poster-child to the president-like figure to the living legend, they all appeal to their demographic and do the school justice in their own way, but no one combines success, tradition, humility, and care for the University quite like York does.

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

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The women’s basketball team takes on Maryland tonight in Conte Forum. This weekend, the baseball team is competing in the Snowbird Classic, and will take on Villanova on Saturday. Men’s basketball takes on Florida State next Tuesday. The Penguins and the Blackhawks meet up at Soldier Field, home of the Bears, in the NHL Stadium Series on Saturday.

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The women’s lacrosse team beat Ohio State on the back of Covie Stanwick’s six goals. The men’s hockey team won its Friday night game and tied with UMass Lowell on Saturday. Stetson won the first and last game of the weekend series, while the Eagles won the middle game. No. 5 Duke upset No. 1 Syracuse in a close game.

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Tonight, the Eagles host the Terrapins in their second-to-last regular season game. The Eagles, 12-16, are currently on a four-game slide, their last win coming on Feb. 6 over Virginia. Last week, standout Nicole Boudreau put up 25 points in an eventual loss to Clemson, and her offensive prowess will need to be present in order for the Eagles to best a competative Terrapin team. Maryland, 22-5, has won its last two games after dropping one to Duke on Feb. 17. Just one week earlier, the Terps had a big win over the same Clemson team that bested the Eagles, putting up almost 100 points.

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WHO WOULD DO BETTER IN THE PROS NEXT YEAR? Hanlan has NBA-caliber size and skills

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Westbrook’s place when he went down with an injury. His stats have improved considerably each season since his debut in 2011, and they show no signs of slowing down at this point.

Gaudreau, however, will likely spend time with the Flames’ minor-league affiliate, the Abbotsford Heat of the AHL, before he gets a chance in the big leagues. The time to go from prospect to everyday player in the NHL is much longer than that of the NBA, in which many rookies only play a single season in college and become franchise centerpieces in their first season.

Despite the fact that some short players in hockey been successful, like NHL veterans Brian and Stephen Gionta, Nathan Gerbe and Martin St. Louis, each of those players are considerably bulkier than Gaudreau. While most players in the 5-foot-8 range are around 180 pounds, Johnny Hockey is currently listed at 159 pounds. At that weight, he would be the lightest player in the league.

Each player has the potential to be wildly successful in his respective sport, but this one comes down to Gaudreau’s size. Hanlan is better suited for the professional level, and it’s considerably easier to break out in one’s rookie campaign in the NBA. Look for Hanlan to make an impact off the bench for a contender next season. 

Heights Staff Johnny Gaudreau is undoubtedly one of the best players in college hockey. He’s quick, smart, and a magician with the puck. There’s just one glaring problem: he’s too small.

Gaudreau, despite his immense amount of talent, might get lost among the massive defensemen bearing down on him in the National Hockey League. Just imagine him trying to work his way around 6-foot-9 Zdeno Chara. That’s the reason he fell into the fourth round of the 2011 NHL Entry Draft, and that’s why he’ll struggle to make an impact early for the Calgary Flames.

At 6-foot-4, however, Olivier Hanlan is on the taller end as far as NBA guards go. With teammate Joe Rahon handling most of the point guard duties, Hanlan plays primarily as a shooting guard for head coach Steve Donahue.

Nevertheless, Hanlan has no problem bringing the ball up himself, and will most likely be a point guard in the NBA. Hanlan is fast. Unbelievably fast. When Hanlan decides to drive to the basket, there are only a few people in college basketball who he can’t beat off the dribble. He’s showcased that ability in games time and time again, most notably against Florida Atlantic University, in which he went for 38 points on 11-of-19 shooting.

In Boston College’s 3-pointer-heavy offensive, everyone is given plenty of opportunities to show off their shooting ability. Hanlan currently ranks third in scoring in the ACC. He sits just over a point behind Duke’s Jabari Parker, whom many experts project to be one of the top three picks in the upcoming draft.

What cannot be overlooked, though, is Hanlan’s significance as a leader and a facilitator on the court. Hanlan has scored over 20 points in a BC victory only once this season, against Florida Atlantic University—he doesn’t need to score big in order to help the team. His ability to find teammates and spark plays, even when he doesn’t get recognized with an assist, would be valuable to any NBA franchise.

The biggest knock on Hanlan is his ability to play sound defense. In the modern era, though, professional basketball has become defenseoptional. Just ask James Harden, Steve Nash, or Nick “Swaggy P” Young.

While it would be dumb to assume that Hanlan will get drafted early in the first round and start immediately in the NBA, he could be a key role player coming off the bench in his first season. Energy and production off the bench are absolutely vital in professional basketball, especially during an 82-game season.

Despite the fact that his minutes might be limited early, Hanlan could find himself taking a career path similar to Reggie Jackson, another BC basketball star. Jackson logged important minutes off the bench for his first two seasons in relief of teammate Russell Westbrook, and started in

For The Heights It’s hard to explain just how good Johnny Gaudreau has been this season. A quick look at his numbers gives you some idea of what he’s done, but not the whole picture. His ridiculous pace of almost two points per game this season puts him a laughable distance ahead of anyone else in the country, he’s first in the nation in game-winning goals, and he has registered a point in all but one game this season.

By any statistical measure that you look at, it’s hard to say that Gaudreau isn’t the best player in college hockey by a wide margin.

The same criticisms about his size persist, though, and have led people to believe that he will not be successful when he inevitably turns pro. Meanwhile, Olivier Hanlan has been linked with the NBA draft despite being in the midst of a 7-21 season wherein he has not played as well as his numbers indicate. While Hanlan may indeed have a professional career in his future, he is not close to being as ready as Gaudreau.

The most noticeable part of Gaudreau’s game outside of his statistical dominance is just how much better he makes everyone around him. He is virtually untouchable when

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he has the puck, and he has the ability to open up all kinds of space for his line mates. This has never been more obvious than this season.

Gaudreau was put on a super line with Kevin Hayes and Bill Arnold earlier this season, and the three of them have been putting up points at a remarkable rate. In fact, they have been so dominant that all three rank in the top four in scoring across all of college hockey.

Last year, however, they were not skating together. Arnold and Hayes had decent enough seasons, with Arnold putting up 35 points and Hayes putting up 25 while missing a significant amount of time, but this year they have been unstoppable. Hayes has more than doubled his point total from last year already with 51, while Arnold has jumped to 44. It’s certainly worth mentioning that both of them had success at Boston College before being put on Gaudreau’s line, and that they both are NHL draft picks themselves, but it is impossible to deny that being able to play with college hockey’s most dominant player has lifted their games immensely.

As great as Gaudreau’s offensive game is, it is his defense that may allow him to succeed in the NHL one day. He is easy to lose on the ice because of his small stature, but the trust that Jerry York has for him in the defensive zone is evident. To start with, Gaudreau has six empty-net goals on the season. While this can lead some to think that his goal totals are inflated as a result, what it really shows is the faith that York has in him.

Empty-net situations typically occur when a coach wants the best defenders on the ice to protect a one-goal lead with a minute left in the game, and Gaudreau is always out there.

More amazing is the fact that York sends Gaudreau out on the penalty kill time and time again. The PK is a situation in which players are frequently asked to block shots that risk an injury and play for long stretches in their own zone.

BC is full of great penalty killers like Quinn Smith and Michael Sit who do not contribute nearly as much offensively as Gaudreau does.

Yet Gaudreau always finds himself on the ice when his team is down a man—and often with the first unit. Simply put, Gaudreau is not a one-dimensional player. He is a stud in all three zones and as good at preventing goals as he is at scoring them.

Hanlan, on the other hand, is still raw. His defensive game has a long way to go, and he has been criticized for disappearing on the court for long stretches of games. His assist numbers have only climbed slightly as a sophomore, his turnovers have gone up, and his shooting numbers are down across the board. Therefore, while Hanlan may have a bright future in the NBA some day, the simple fact is that Gaudreau is the more prepared player today. 

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2014

BC lacrosse tormented by turnovers No. 10 Eagles fail to upend No. 2 Syracuse on Wednesday, slip to 4-1 on the season

BY TOMMY MELORO Heights Staff There’s a word in sports that can turn the tide of a game, cause a shiver to go down a fan’s spine, and give coaches fits. That word 11 is “turnover.” A Syracuse poorly timed Boston College 9 turnover can destroy any momentum a team may have, lift the spirits of the recovering team, and even lead directly to points. A bad turnover in the defensive zone is akin to handing the

opponent a scoring opportunity in hockey.

A turnover in basketball is giving up your own scoring opportunity. Turnovers are never good, and if they pile up, they can destroy a team more thoroughly than the opposing team ever could.

Going into Wednesday afternoon’s matchup, both the No. 10 Boston College Eagles and the No. 2 Syracuse Orange were flying high, both coming off of weekend wins over tough opponents. While BC gave Syracuse a run for its money, it ultimately came up short, falling 11-9 to the Orange.

Early on, the Eagles hung tough, taking a 4-3 lead into halftime and leading 5-4 with just over 16 minutes to go in the game.

Then, the tides turned, and the turnovers took their toll.

BC’s previous game, a 9-7 win over Ohio State, featured an opposing defense that played tight around the crease and rejected any opportunity to drive on net. Syracuse’s defensive game plan could not have been more different. No matter where the ball was, a Syracuse defender was right there.

This restricted the ability of BC’s offense to think, let alone move the ball and create scoring opportunities. Combined with EMILY FAHEY / HEIGHTS EDITOR

Junior attacker Covie Stanwick had two goals and three assists in BC’s loss to the Orange.

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Loss No. 21: A Tough Pitt to Swallow

BY ALEX FAIRCHILD Asst. Sports Editor Three years ago, Steve Donahue had a freshman cover one of the ACC’s best scorers. Boston College’s Gabe Moton battled Virginia Tech’s Malcolm Delaney 1-on-1, as Donahue looked to breed one of his youngest on-ball de66 Pittsburgh fenders. Moton did not mark Delaney Boston College 59 for the entire game, and the senior was able to put up 19 points, but when the guard was on the Hokie, it was a learning experience. Moton spent another year at BC, before transferring out.

For most of BC’s 66-59 defeat to Pittsburgh on Wednesday,

Garland Owens was tasked with guarding redshirt senior Lamar Patterson. Standing at 6-foot-5, 225 pounds, Patterson is a forward who can hang out on the arc to drain 3-pointers or take the game into the palms of his hands. Averaging his best season yet in terms of scoring, the Panther puts up 17.2 points per game.

BC plays a lot of help defense and everyone gets a possession or two against each opponent, but Owens was paired against the fifth year player more often than not, especially in the second half.

“I felt confident, because I knew I had my teammates behind me,” Owens said. “Playing help defense, they’re there to help along the wayside.”

Owens played a season high of 30 minutes on Wednesday

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evening, scoring seven points and wiping the glass three times.

While he turned the ball over twice and still has much to learn, the freshman was able to show off his improvement. Defensively, Owens did well against one the ACC’s best teams. Patterson put up 16 points, but he also turned the ball over five times, one of which was a result of Owens stripping the redshirt senior in transition.

Whenever Owens guarded the forward on the perimeter, he would stand tall with his arms as high, or as outstretched as he could put them.

“Always be active, because he’s a good passer, so to just al-

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From York to Williams, who is the face of athletics at Boston College?

MARLY MORGUS MLB.com is currently hosting a Twitter contest in which it asks participants to tweet who they think is the “face of the MLB” using a couple of hashtags, and votes are being compiled into a bracket a la March Madness. As of last night, the website had made it to the semifinal round featuring David Wright of the Mets and Felix Hernan-

dez of the Mariners, with Wright up by about six percentage points.

As the Mets continue on to what could very well turn out to be their biggest win in living memory, I started to wonder who would make the bracket to be the face of BC athletics, and who would advance to the final round.

Some took the MLB poll as an opportunity to weigh in on what they thought was the most attractive face in the MLB—an SBNation article gave a rundown of each player to be considered, taking into account elements such as swagger and jaw definition.

In this case, Chase Rettig gets my vote, hands down. Other voters,

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however, have taken the contest as an opportunity to select who they think best represents the MLB in terms of character. While Rettig may still be in the running when you factor in those qualifications, other faces jump to mind before his.

Athletic Director Brad Bates is one of the most public figures around when it comes to athletics, as well as football coach Steve Addazio. Then there are the other obvious candidates—Johnny Gaudreau, Andre Williams ... the list goes on.

When the votes came in, though, I think there would be a huge discrepancy depending on the demographic of

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the electorate.

If the American public chose the face of BC athletics, it would come down to a close race between Addazio and Andre Williams, Williams most likely edging out Addazio toward the end.

They’re the guys who get the TV time. Addazio was the miraculous coach who took a team from a 2-10 season to a bowl game, and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gotten texts from distant family members or far off friends telling me “how much they like this Addazio guy” and how he “has good energy.”

That fan favorite would have

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been overwhelmed, however, by the media storm surrounding #Andre44Heisman—the quiet philosopher/ novelist who transforms into a freight train with the ball in his hands and was depicted in his own College Game Day segment in the run up to his fourthplace Heisman voting finish. Across America, casual viewers saw Williams smash through tackles, winning their hearts and their votes for the face of BC Athletics. Williams did his job as the face of BC athletics this year, putting it on the minds of people from outside the usual fan base.

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JUNIORS TREY AMAR AND MICHAEL FELIX LAUNCHED THEIR BRAND IN 2011, AND THEY PLAN TO START A NEW LINE THIS SPRING, B5

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By John Wiley, Arts & Review Editor Ariana Igneri, Assoc. Arts & Review Editor Michelle Tomassi, Asst. Arts & Review Editor

For the 10 acts participating in tonight’s BC Idol, the show is about fulfilling a dream. Those dreams may mean something different to each contestant when he or she takes Robsham’s stage this evening, but they’re all competing to achieve something bigger than themselves. For some, BC Idol is a sentimental way to cap off college. For others, it’s a chance to be courageous and break into freshman year, and for others still, it’s an opportunity to express the things they’re most passionate about.

Previewing the annual event, The Scene talked with each student act—about singing, performing, and, of course, the BC Idol experience.

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BY: SEAN KEELEY

JOHN WILEY Whenever I get the chance to speak with an artist on campus, I find myself tagging the same question to the end of each interview: why do the arts matter at Boston College? The answers I get are never quite what I’m hoping they’ll be—they seldom get published, and when they do, they get drastically condensed. The responses tend to have a lot more to do with personal opinions than with the school itself. The more students I ask, the more convinced I become that there isn’t anything that intrinsically attracts artists to BC. If I tried asking a similar question of athletes—why do sports matter at BC—I imagine the responses would be filled with long histories of BC athletics: lists of players, championship titles, current records of teams, names of influential coaches. Students very directly correlate athletics with the image of the University, while performance groups, and individual artists, are looked on as having histories very separate from the school.

Perhaps it’s unreasonable to imagine any Division I school would be defined by its artistic culture. It’s not like alumni are going to dust off their best BC apparel to tailgate a Sexual Chocolate show. The “We are BC” chant is unlikely to break out at a Hello…Shovelhead! performance, and after a great show at the Bonn, the crowd isn’t going to come out with statements like, “Wow, we really looked good today.”

The arts will inherently make for less of a “we” and more of an “it” or “them” conversation.

BC has no exceptional reputation as a place for arts, and the reason I keep asking the question of “why here” is that I’m really surprised it doesn’t.

Admittedly, it’s not an art school, but when it comes to college tours and even the literature that the University puts out for prospective students, the school’s many performing groups and active artists are often underrepresented. Coming to BC, I had no idea the theatre department could put together shows that could rival anything in professional theatre, or that BC is home to two of the Northeast’s premier step teams. There’s little discussion of the school’s vibrant community of spoken word artists or its competitive circle of comedy groups.

A lot of the issues with diversity at BC boil down to the disproportionate emphasis placed on very select aspects of its culture. The problem is not that the students here are too much alike, but rather that the generally accepted identity of the University suggests they are, when so clearly they’re not. BC is looked at as a monolith, and the effects can be stifling.

Artists at BC seem reticent to associate their work with the identity of the University, and in many cases, see what they do as something entirely separate. It’s not obvious to them why the arts would matter specifically to BC, and they’re not ready to think of their work in terms of the question. On one level, it speaks to the honest motives of BC artists, but on another, it indicates that the arts have been given no real place in the oral history of the University. While other area colleges like Emerson, MIT, and Harvard have built the arts into their identities, BC has kept performances groups on the fringes.

Perhaps embedded in the vague answers of these artists is the sense that, if they were to scrutinize the importance of the arts at BC, they would be confronted by the fact that they don’t especially fit into the school’s ongoing narrative. They’re not so ready to commit their stories to the monolith, and they’re relatively comfortable with the idea that their lives as performers are something separate from their identities as BC students.

Although the artists themselves might not be losing much in keeping this distinction, however, the University is. While the dialogue surrounding athletics does well in boosting the esteem of the school, for many students, there’s something to be desired in the way we talk about ourselves. In theory, “We are BC” could be a powerful statement on diversity, when in practice, it means little more than “we’re just fans.”

I think it’s about time we start a new conversation on what it means to be an Eagle.

So why do the arts matter at BC?

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

2. TAKING DOWN PIERS 1. HAROLD RAMIS (1944-2014)

Harold Ramis, the comedic mastermind whose credits include such films as Ghostbusters, Caddyshack, and National Lampoon’s Vacation, died Monday from complications arising from vasculitis. Though hardly a household name, Ramis had an extensive career as actor, writer, and director, helping to launch the careers of comedians like John Candy, Chevy Chase, and Bill Murray. His 1993 comedy Groundhog Day, starring Murray as an arrogant reporter forced to relive the same day until he gets it right, is widely acknowledged as Ramis’ masterpiece. Ramis was 69.

After three years on the air, British television journalist and former tabloid editor Piers Morgan has been fired from his primetime gig at CNN. The network announced Sunday that Piers Morgan Live has been cancelled, with a final airdate to be determined soon.

Morgan made headlines for his uncompromising position on gun control and, most recently, a controversial interview with transgender activist Janet Mock that found him sparring with the transgender community. Alas, all the controversy couldn’t stir up the ratings necessary to keep the brash Brit on the air.

4. ‘MIDNIGHT’ SURPRISES Beyonce may have set the bar impossibly high when it comes to unexpectedly dropping music, but on Tuesday two big acts followed suit. Kid Cudi suddenly dropped his album Satellite Flight: The Journey to Mother Moon on iTunes Tuesday at midnight, the same time Coldplay released “Midnight,” a surprise new single reportedly from an upcoming album. “Midnight” has been earning comparisons to Bon Iver, while Cudi’s album is stoking anticipation for his Man on the Moon III, set to arrive in 2015.

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In an announcement timed with the digital release of its megahit Frozen, Disney unveiled its new digital movie service on Tuesday. Disney Movies Everywhere is a cloud-based service integrated with iTunes, allowing viewers to access the Disney, Pixar and Marvel digital libraries through their laptops and Apple devices. At long last, Disney’s blockbusters can be experienced as always intended: on a tiny iPhone screen near you.

Everyone’s favorite HBO star and think piece subject, Lena Dunham, has just been tapped to host Saturday Night Live for the first time. The Girls creator and star will be appearing on the March 8 episode, along with musical guest The National. Despite her lack of hosting experience, Dunham isn’t a complete stranger to SNL—the show spoofed Girls back in September, in a sketch featuring Tina Fey and newcomer Noel Wells in the role of Dunham.

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Choosing favorites: collaborating with Kanye West MATT MAZZARI We’ve officially reached a point in music news where the headline “Band Pussy Riot Beaten and Arrested” doesn’t really evoke any sort of reaction beyond “Again? Sigh,” so I guess there are no real surprises anymore.

That said, it was certainly unexpected to hear Kanye West announce that James Blake, a British electronic musician with only two LP releases, is his “favorite artist” currently performing. He’s offered to collaborate with Blake on his next album, which he claims will be to Yeezus what Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A. was to Nebraska. For people confused by that analogy, Nebraska was a dark, solo, acoustic LP widely regarded as a brilliant departure from Springsteen’s usual sound. Born, of course, is one of the most recognizable albums of all time and has at least three iconic songs that define Bruce as an artist for many listeners. West is basically promising the magnum opus of the decade.

So yeah, that definitely took some people off guard.

First of all, who would have guessed that Kanye West’s favorite artist isn’t Kanye West? In his original words regarding Blake,

Kanye did not deliberately describe himself in the third person, which was disappointing. Still, he came pretty darn close: “Just go listen to [Blake’s] music, and say, ‘Hey, that’s Kanye’s favorite artist.’”

I still think it would have been better if he went full-out Dr. Doom. I can sort of imagine him doing it: “James Blake does very good work. The Yeezus approves. Now the Yeezus is tired and requires nap-nap.”

But all joking aside, West is an incredibly talented artist and arguably an even more talented producer. As a salesman, West is an undisputed champion of the bizz.

Jay-Z, Beyonce, Ludacris, Kanye West, Alicia Keys, John Legend, Kanye West, Jamie Foxx, and the esteemed Kanye West have all released songs featuring Kanye West’s own private production label, and Kanye West could not be more proud. Seriously, though, the guy has not only made some of the most innovative hip-hop of all time, effectively proving himself an unparalleled creative force in the studio, but he’s also been involved in managing music behind the scenes since as early as 1996. West has a preternatural understanding of pop, and this gift has made him one of the most influential men in the entire industry.

Needless to say, any up-and-coming

artist given the tremendous opportunity to be produced by or (even more incredibly) to collaborate with Kanye must be excited to the point of spontaneous combustion. Can you imagine? You’re 26 years old, you’ve been working as a singer/songwriter in studios for just over three years, and suddenly you’re on the fast track to success! From doing remixes in your bedroom in 2009, you’ve made it to 2014 having beaten out the Arctic Monkeys and David-freaking-Bowie for the 2013 Mercury Prize! Now one of the most (justifiably) egotistical men in mainstream music just singled you out as his “favorite” act, and he wants you to help him make the next Born in the freaking U.S.A. How pumped up would you be? How starstruck can you possibly get? This is like something out of the first six minutes of a Fairly-Odd Parents episode, wherein Timmy Turner is getting everything he wishes for, and it seems like nothing can go wrong. I imagine anyone in that position has got to be totally bugging out right about now. All aboard the Gravy Train, choo flippin’ choo!

All of the expected sentiment is definitely reflected in Blake’s response to Kanye’s compliment, wherein he said excitedly: “I thought it was nice.” ...Wait, what?

You thought it was “nice”?

I’ve heard people have more enthusiastic reactions to their high school reunions.

Heck, I’ve heard people be more excited about the FOOD at their high school reunions.

The artist went on to express more thanks in a voice so monotone that he felt the need to call attention to it at the end of the interview: “I’m really excited. My monotonous tone of voice won’t show you that, but I’m excited.”

Okay, Mr. Roboto. What’s the deal, here?

Well, to be honest, Blake may be reserving his excitement so that people don’t jump to the assumption that this collaboration is definitely happening. It’s not unheard of for an artist to get overzealous about an album that never winds up being released.

If that’s the case, then it’s actually rather admirable.

Still, this whole interaction has gotten some brow raises.

Guess there are some surprises left after all.

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

THIS WEEKEND in arts

BY: ARIANA IGNERI | ASSOCIATE ARTS & REVIEW EDITOR

1. BC2BOSTON: BLUE MAN GROUP (THURSDAY 2/27, 7:30 P.M.)

5. ‘MAN IN A CASE’ (ONGOING)

BC2Boston is selling subsidized tickets to see Boston’s Blue Man Group at the Charles Playhouse. Tickets are $30 through Robsham Theatre’s online box office. Two tickets per BC ID.

Presented by ArtsEmerson at the Cutler Majestic Theatre, Man In a Case is a play that fuses music, dance, drama, and video. The show is running through the end of the weekend.

For tickets and show times, see artsemerson.org.

2. BC IDOL (THURSDAY 2/27, 7 P.M.)

6. ‘NON-STOP’ (OPENING FRIDAY)

Celebrating its 10th year, BC Idol is taking place this weekend., featuring 10 acts and three Jesuit judges. Tickets are $10 online and through Robsham, with proceeds benefitting the St. Columbkille Partnership School Music Program.

3. CHORDUROY CONCERT (THURSDAY 2/27, 8 P.M.)

BC’s music group Chorduroy is hosting a concert at Roggie’s, with cheap drinks and live performances by Thomas Harpole, A&S ’14, Times New Roman, and Bobnoxious & The Master Craftsman.

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4. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE CONCERT (THURSDAY 2/27, 7 P.M.)

JT is bringing “Sexy Back” to Boston tonight, playing a show at TD Garden for his 20/20 Experience World Tour. Tickets start at $64.40—not many are left, but more may be available through ticketmaster.com’s partner sites.

Liam Neeson and Julianne Moore star in Non-Stop, an action-thriller about an air marshal whose passengers are threatened with death should the government refuse to pay a large ransom. The movie opens nationwide on Friday.

7. SEAVER’S EXPRESS CONCERT (THURSDAY 2/27, 10:30 P.M.)

Seaver’s Express, BC’s own indie-rock band, will be playing a show at the Cantab Lounge in Cambridge tonight to kick off spring break. Tickets are $7 at the door. The show will take place at Cantab’s downstairs club.

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KElley orcutt (cranbury, nj) & terry peng (edison, nj)

Zubair Panjwani (Miami, Fl) & Sean o’hara (upper brookville,ny)

Christy Coco, A&S ’17, is no stranger to the stage. Coco performed in the Dramatics Society’s Godspell last fall, and she will also be in a Robsham main stage production of The Drowsy Chaperone at the end of April. Coming into Boston College, Coco found a musical outlet in the theater, and this semester her friends advised her to try out for BC Idol. Coco is also friends with Caroline Portu, last year’s winner and A&S ’16, which further encouraged her to take a shot at becoming BC’s next Idol. “I really like taking songs everyone knows, like songs on the radio, and putting a spin on them and making them more personal to me,” Coco said. Her song choice for the show reflects that style—she will be performing an acoustic version of “Clarity” with pianist Will Gerhardt, who was the music coordinator for Godspell.

-M.T.

Chloe Mansour, LSOE ’17, began her musical career in theatre, and oddly enough, predominantly in male roles, starring as Jojo in Seussical and Mowgli in The Jungle Book. Chris Colgan, CSOM ’16, has been playing piano since age 5.

Mansour and Colgan come from opposite ends of the country—Laguna Beach, Calif. and Sarasota, Fla., respectively—but when the two met working together in the Bostonians a cappella group, their partnership for BC Idol seemed natural. When it comes to music, Mansour likes belt-y songs—her current favorite on the radio being “Say Something”

by A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera—while Colgan leans toward music like Pharrell’s “Happy.” The two friends are taking the BC Idol process in stride.

Mansour auditioned for BC Idol with Anna Kendrick’s “The Cup Song,” but not having brought a cup to the auditions, she had to take one from the trash.

“I cleaned it first,” Mansour qualifies. “I washed it off.”

-J.W.

For Lauren Milo, A&S ’14, performing at BC Idol is about coming full circle.

Singing in the competition as a freshman and now again as a senior, Milo sees the event as the perfect way to bookend her collegiate career—“It’s the best way to wrap it up for me,” she said. A lot has changed over the last four years, said Milo, and while she’s nervous to have her family see her perform for the first time in a long time, she’s also excited to have the people she cares about supporting her as she does what she loves.

To the Sinatra-Fitzgerald inspired artist, the night is also about a sense of accomplishment. “Everyone has a senior moment,” she said, “and I think this is mine.” -A.I.

Although she was interviewed alone, Kelley Orcutt, A&S ’14, wouldn’t have her picture taken without her musical partner, Terry Perry Peng, A&S ’14. The two met during their freshman year—Peng was a trombone player for BC bOp! and Orcutt a vocalist. Orcutt describes Peng as her “best friend” and a brother, and it felt right for them to perform in BC Idol together this year. Orcutt has been singing since age 6, with her favorite genre of singing being jazz. For her performance on Thursday, she will be singing a Beyonce medley, because while she’s hesitant to compare herself to other artists, Orcutt sees Beyonce as a person she would like to be. Music has led to many of the most relationships Orcutt has at BC, and she considers singing at 10:15 p.m. Mass the best part of her week. “It’s not really a performance— it’s more just a chance for me to give something back to the community,” Orcutt said. -J.W.

Zubair Panjwani, A&S ’15, grew up in what musically was a somewhat unusual household. Both his parents moved to the U.S. from India in their late teens, and inspired by the sounds of the late ’70s, took especially to artists like Michael Jackson. Panjwani’s family was never particularly interested in classic rock groups like The Beatles, and as a result, much of what Panjwani listened to was simply what he found on the radio. At a young age, Panjwani took interest in voice and dance, singing at religious ceremonies and performing in his high school a cappella group.

He joined the Acoustics his freshman year at BC. Today, he considers his style of vocals to be heavily inspired by artists like John Legend, Miguel, Frank Ocean, and Justin Timberlake. For Panjwani, performing at BC has helped him to better understand himself—he sees BC Idol as a new outlet, and will perform with Sean O’Hara, A&S ’14, who he met in the Acoustics. -J.W.

jared reinfeldt (nashville, tn) & hans friedl (chicago, il)

kamau burton (stanford, ct) & christian rougeau (south bend, in)

Benjamin stevens (sufern, Ny) & chris vu (Redonda beach, ca)

tara sung (torrington, ct)

Ana-Maria tablada (Miami, Fl)

“Jared, his voice is like butter, the thickest, smoothest voice out there,” explained Hans Friedl, A&S ’16—Friedl will be playing guitar for Jared Reinfeldt, A&S ’16, on Thursday. Reinfeldt’s musical career at BC began last semester when he stared as Judas Iscariot in a Bonn production of Godspell. Born in Wisconsin, Reinfeldt later moved to Washington, and he has spent the last few years in Nashville, Tenn. Naturally, country music has a special importance for Reinfeldt, but more broadly speaking, he appreciates any music with a story and considered his greatest inspiration to be Michael Buble. For his BC Idol audition, Reinfeldt and Friedl performed Josh Turner’s “Your Man,” a song that, unfortunately, was deemed inappropriate for Thursday’s family audience.

That said, Friedl still expects Reinfeldt’s voice will get Robsham hot and bothered.

“When he gets to the chorus and he belts it, I expect a lot of undergarments,” Friedl said. -J.W.

Freshman Christian Rougeau, A&S ’17, is exploring all of his options to play music at BC—including BC Idol, which he said he learned about from just casually passing by a flyer.

Rougeau, a trained violinist, connected with his vocalist friend, Kamau Burton, A&S ’17, after hearing about the opportunity. The pair will be playing a song by Neo, merging their styles together to create an R&B, classic-jazz vibe. The competition is Rougeau’s way to find his niche here. Working to complete a double degree from BC as well as from Berklee College of Music, Rougeau is already involved with the Music Guild and Chorduroy on campus.

“I don’t really know how everything works,” Rougeau said, “but I’m hoping to see where everyone at BC is musically.” -A.I.

Benjamin Stevens, CSOM ’17, and Christopher Vu, A&S ’17, only came together last week, but they have plenty in common going into Thursday ’s competition. Both have backgrounds in classical music—Vu’s mother was a concert pianist and taught him to play at a young age, while Stevens has been playing the cello since age 4. Stevens is currently in the Music Guild and is pursuing a music minor, and Vu is taking music classes and considering the minor as well. Vu described his style as similar to artists such as James Booker and Duke Ellington, while Stevens is more of a cross between the lead singer of Imagine Dragons, Usher, and Michael Buble. Stevens and Vu are more excited than nervous for the show—the chance to perform in front of an audience, as well as gain exposure to other student artists, is an exciting motivation for this jazzy duo. -M.T.

Bc Idol: Meeting the Contestants

Christy Coco (New Canaan, CT) & Will Gerhardt (Seattle, WA)

BC Idol is junior Tara Sung’s, A&S’15, chance to express the reasons why she sings. “I want to share the love I have for God—it’s like my greater purpose,” she said. “It’s more than just a hobby to me.”

Sung claims that she’s “not that musical,” but the fact is, she’s been pursuing music for a good part of her life, singing in her church when she was younger and joining BC’s Christian a cappella group, Against the Current, as soon as she got to college.

While she’s not used to having to perform without her group, Sung believes her time alone on stage will be the ideal opportunity for her to share both her passion for music as well as her faith in God. -A.I.

Opera music is still a relevant genre today—just look at 13-year-old Jackie Evancho, who blew everyone away with her opera performances on America’s Got Talent. Ana-Maria Tablada, A&S ’16, will be taking her opera talents to the BC Idol stage, and is hoping to gain more confidence performing for large crowds. Tablada started piano lessons at age 6 and sang choir from grades fourth through 12th, and only began solo performances until the end of her high school career. At BC, Tablada is part of OpShop, an opera workshop that puts on three performances a year, and was a member of the University Chorale her freshman year. With musical inspirations such as Kristin Chenoweth and Sarah Brightman, Tablada is looking to take the stage at this year’s BC Idol, and have the opportunity to truly connect with the song she’s performing.

-M.T.

THE HEIGHTS

B4

Thursday, February 27, 2014

‘Satellite Flight’ is launching point for Cudi’s next release

BY RYAN DOWD Heights Staff

Kid Cudi could coast through the rest of his career on the suburban party anthems of his 2009 album Man On The Moon: The End of Day. From this first album, tracks like “Pursuit of Happiness” and “In My Dreams (Cudder Anthem)” could strike the perfect vibe for a group gathering. That’s what it comes down to with Cudi: the vibe. Like him or not, one cannot deny that his voice soundly matches the far-off aura of his production, whether the actual content is there or not. And like him or not, one cannot claim that he’s mailing it in here when he produces and writes nearly all the tracks on the album.

For the surprise release Satellite Flight: The Journey to Mother Moon, the vibe is there—that innate Kid Cudi sound—but beyond the distinct sound, the content is somewhat lacking. Frankly, there isn’t a whole lot of content to judge from either. Of the 10 tracks on the album, four are predominantly instrumental. Therefore, if you do the math, Satellite Flight: The Journey to Mother Moon contains a whopping six tracks on which Cudi raps, and even these tracks follow the Cudi formula of long, heavy hooks and shy verses. Satellite Flight: The

Journey to Mother Moon is an EP dressed as an LP. It’s dressed as a compelling bridge from his 2010 Man on the Moon II: Legend of Mr. Rager to the upcoming Man on the Moon III, set for a 2015 release. But it’s a repetitive, wobbly bridge.

It’s not that Satellite Flight is devoid of good tracks or interesting ideas—the two just don’t match. The first four tracks follow Cudi’s tried and true allusion of going to the moon, but here Cudi hollows out the songs and warps them as if he really did record them on a space ship heading to his beloved space rock. The two tracks of this set on which Cudi raps—“Going to the Ceremony” and the pre-released “Satellite Flight”—exemplify this hollow vibe in both presentation and lyrics. Here, Cudi’s hook claims, “Where I’m going, it’s all happening / I’m going, it’s all happening.” It’s these kinds of hollow, ambiguous lines that revolve through the first part of the album. They’re lines that hope to set that right vibe, but they do it in a detached manner, never inviting the listener in.

After the fourth track “Copernicus Landing,” which is essentially four and a half minutes of the same retentive beat, the album picks up a bit. It leaves the arena of the spaceship and heads into the mind of Cudi. “Balmain Jeans” is a rhythmic,

For The Heights

The musician Beck Hansen, better known by his stage name, Beck, is one of the few male musicians in the business who goes by a single moniker. Unlike his fellow artists who are known by a mononym, however, Beck’s music was never as simple as his single name suggests. Starting from the unexpected success of his 1993 hit “Loser”—which blended folk, rap, and the delta blues—he has proven himself capable of mixing

different types of music into a song that’s both original and catchy, and his new album Morning Phase is no different.

The album begins just as the title suggests: in the pleasant morning phase—or perhaps, morning haze might be more accurate. The opener to the album, “Cycle,” is only 40 seconds of sound, but it is beautifully executed—its string arrangements perfectly translate the morning into sound. It’s as if you are listening to what a sunrise would sound like.

The dreamy morning feeling continues on the next track, “Morning,”

SATELLITE FLIGHT: THE JOURNEY TO MOTHER MOON KID CUDI PRODUCED BY REPUBLIC RECORDS RELEASED FEB. 25, 2014 OUR RATING

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‘Satellite Flight: The Journey to Mother Moon’ has Cudi’s signature vibe, but the tracks themselves lack strong content. intergalactic search for someone to “help [him] take off his Balmain jeans”—and he wants someone “who electrifies [his] body.” The track doesn’t really have much to do with traveling to the moon, but it is more bearable than the first 15 minutes of the album.

“Too Bad I Have To Destroy You” follows the same pattern of deviance, and it is perhaps the best track on the album. Here, Cudi sets out to disprove those who say he can’t rap and only moans. Cudi moves with good

in which Beck uses xylophones and chimes to create a whimsical feel.

This whimsy is juxtaposed with his excellent acoustic guitar work. The song is reminiscent of the beauty that washes over you when listening to Nick Drake. Beck’s vocal effects are the evocative of early Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd—his voice would be unspectacular without them. The atmosphere that Beck creates in these opening six minutes is so beautiful, light, and airy that it could comfortably go on forever.

Much like the morning itself, however, this ambiance, too, fades.

MORNING PHASE BECK PRODUCED BY CAPITOL RECORDS RELEASED FEB. 21, 2014 OUR RATING

PHOTO COURTESY OF CAPITOL RECORDS

Beck Hansen balances light, fresh melodies with more sombre tones in latest album ‘Morning Phase.’

SINGLE REVIEWS BY CONNOR FARLEY COLDPLAY “Midnight” An ambient fusion of Bon Iver and Imogen Heap-type vocals, Coldplay’s newly released “Midnight” exhibits both patience and development. As it approaches the shade of neo-psychedelic noise-pop we’ve come to expect from bands like Animal Collective, “Midnight” reflects, if nothing else, the band’s continued expansion into unfamiliar territory.

TOP SINGLES

1 Happy Pharrell Williams 2 Dark Horse Katy Perry feat. Juicy J 3 Talk Dirty Jason Derulo feat. 2 Chainz 4 All of Me John Legend 5 Drunk in Love Beyonce feat. Jay Z 6 Pompeii Bastille 7 Team Lorde 8 Say Something A Great Big World feat.

Christina Aguilera

flow and fires off a long introductory verse following up on “Balmain Jeans.” Against a light beat, Cudi’s first verse fires off and is no doubt the highlight of the album.

The rest of the album reverts to heavy hooks or none at all. “Return of the Moon Man (original score)” is a thumping, thematic piece of work that deserves to blast in movie theaters across the country this summer, but the rest of the remaining tracks have a certain idleness about them—float-

ing somewhere in between the album’s auspicious beginning and tongue-twisting middle.

Regardless of individual track quality, Satellite Flight is still a bridge, and it’s hard evaluating a bridge when one doesn’t really know where that bridge is heading. Maybe in a year when Man on the Moon III is released, we’ll be glad we had this bridge, clunky as it may be. In the meantime, it’s another batch of fresh vibes for Cudi’s “vibe-ing” followers. 

Beck’s lyrical talent is on the rise with ‘Morning Phase’

BY PHOEBE FICO

CHART TOPPERS

The lightness of the morning is gone and replaced with a hangover.

The next part of the record is filled with regret and alienation. This is especially recognizable in the appropriately titled, “Say Goodbye.”

The light folk and psychedelic air is quickly replaced with a much heavier acoustic guitar sound that recalls the work of artists like Neil Young and Jim Croce. The song would be nothing more than a transition from one mood to the next and would be easily forgettable if it weren’t for Beck’s attention-grabbing guitar-layering—he contrasts the steadiness of his fingerpicking with dissonant rhymes. It makes for an odd sound, but then again, nothing that Beck does in this album is ordinary.

While most songs on the album provide a thought-provoking take on the folk genre— drenched in a paradox of melancholy and sunlight that evokes the sounds of the ’60s—none of the songs is particularly catchy. That changes with the first single off the album, “Blue Moon.” The song is one of the only ones within the album that has a steady drumbeat—and for Beck, it’s a steady march to loneliness.

The song combines the “oohs” and “ahs” of his backup singers with the brilliantly catchy keyboard melody, and this all happens around the end of the song, which is striking, considering what has come before it.

The only other particularly catchy

MIKE GORDON “Ether”

song on the album is “Blackbird Chain.” It has the same arresting guitar and classic slide guitar sound used in old Western movie scores.

On the track, Beck promises to read his lover “a brief account of the last frontier.” Unlike “Blue Moon,” however, “Blackbird Chain” is a much happier song, as he promises to “never refuse you”—it’s a somewhat unusual part of an album that ultimately is lyrically and musically about loneliness.

This is best personified in “Wave.” Beck is only accompanied by ominous strings on this track, and his vocals are so sparse (with the same Pink Floyd-esque effects that were heard on “Morning”) that they seem only to come in waves. When he does sing, he declares that he moves from place to place in the form a “disturbance,” and he ends the song with a menacing refrain, simply repeating “isolation.”

Morning Phase seems to go in a cycle, as the title of the first track suggests. It goes from light, airy happiness in the beginning to immense sorrow and then back to sunny and happy vibes. While it ends up—both musically and lyrically—in the same place that it started, the album never feels stale, as new elements are added to each song. The record is neverending in its creativity. If anyone has earned the use of one name, it’s Beck. He is singular. 

TOP ALBUMS

1 Frozen Soundtrack Various Artists 2 The Outsiders Eric Church 3 Cole Swindell Cole Swindell 4 Now 49 Various Artists 5 Beyonce Beyonce

Source: Billboard.com

MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK

BY LUIZA JUSTUS

“DARK HORSE” KATY PERRY

When you watch this music video, baby, you should know what you’re falling for. The brandnew addition to Katy Perry’s collection of colorful, whimsical, and flamboyant music videos is up to par with the others, and then some. The Egyptian-themed “Dark Horse” video portrays Perry as an evil Queen who turns men into crumbling stones. Per usual, she parades around the screen in myriad different hair colors, styles, and costumes. The video highlights how pretty she is, albeit in a less sexualized way than her past ones have done.

There was clearly a lot of thought put into the composition and photography of the video, as each shot is intricate and full of detail. Surely, there are a bunch of angry Youtube comments regarding her use of Egyptian culture as a fashion statement rather than as an accurate portrayal of its history and faith, but maybe Perry had no intention to insult any viewer. Cultural appropriation aside, the music video is simply a visual expression of the song itself. The lyrics of the song are about a woman who is essentially crazy, warning her lovers about the intensity of being with her.

The video is a visual representation of that concept, and it does it in an extremely theatrical way.

Each frame might as well be a picture right out of a fashion editorial. The producers use a lot of computer-generated images and effects to complete the ethereal look. The colorful sets are filled with dancers in costumes who move in unison to the “trap” beat of the song. All in all, this is a solid pop music video that is not deep or meaningful, but manages to entertain—which is exactly what viewers have come to expect from Perry’s career. 

BECK “Blue Moon” Like the utter formlessness of Phish?

Appreciate the improv-happy ecstasy of America’s greatest existing jam band? Well, Phish bassist Mike Gordon had other things in mind for his solo venture “Ether.” The only single off his new album Overstep, released on Feb. 25, too neatly and plainly mails in a Pink Floyd-esque tune. Sorry, Mike. (I still love you.)

A multifaceted exploration in folk, pop, and alt-soul, Beck’s “Blue Moon” is pretty enough. It is a bit fuller-sounding than some of his instrumentally minimalist cuts, and Beck seems to be harkening back to a slightly more upbeat “Guess I’m Doing Fine” from his 2002 album Sea Change.

The Heights

Thursday, February 27, 2014

B5

Outside the Lines

Scene Style The making of BC juniors promote ‘Valid Culture’ with personal brand model magic

Michelle Tomassi

Established: 2011 Founders: Trey TrayAmar Amar MichaelFelix Felix Michael

Photos Courtesy of Paola Cisneros

Michael Felix, A&S ’15, and Trey Amar, CSOM ’15, (top left) began the brand in 2011, and plan to premiere a new line this April at the Black Student Forum’s spring fashion

By Ariana Igneri

Assoc. Arts & Review Editor Valid Culture is not just a clothing line. As its name implies, it’s lifestyle—a culture.

What started as an inside joke between Trey Amar, CSOM ’15, and Michael Felix, A&S ’15, eventually grew into a brand that has garnered a decent amount of attention across campus.

Initially, they designed two simple black hoodies for themselves, printing the Valid Culture logo on them. They developed the idea for their sweatshirts from fashions they had seen online, but they adapted the look to fit their own styles—they “validated” it, Amar explained.

He and Felix wanted clothes that suited their personalities, which couldn’t necessarily be bought in stores—but it “never occurred to [them] to make a business.”

When people began seeing Amar and Felix wearing the hoodies around, they started asking whether and where they could buy them. From those first two pieces, Valid Culture expanded, and it

is continuing to expand, to include not only more kinds of apparel (crew necks, t-shirts, sweaters, beanies, and tanks), but also more kinds of fashions.

Amar describes the look of Valid Culture as “urban wear” or “street wear,” comparing it to brands like Obey. Although these comparisons are simple enough to make, the Valid Culture brand is not so easily defined. While it is influenced by what Felix and Amar consider their own sartorial preferences, the brand is meant to bring together a number of looks—from prep to skater. It’s meant to be, as Amar said, “a melting pot of ideas and styles.”

This kind of open-mindedness characterizes both the Valid Culture look and attitude. To Amar, the brand is about embracing “things you might not necessarily be comfortable with.” True to its name, Valid Culture supports “validating or making your own culture.”

“That’s what we want the brand to mean,” Amar said. “Even if they don’t like the clothes, we want people to understand the state of mind behind it.”

Because Amar and Felix want Valid Culture to reflect a diverse range of fash-

ion influences—and hence appeal to a broad spectrum of people—they’ve been recruiting more members to their team.

They look for fresh ideas and new angles for the brand. Recently, they hired a photographer (Paola Cisneros, A&S ’15), two bloggers (Bernadette Deron and Jennifer Sosa, both A&S ’15), and a representative (Owie Agbontaen, A&S ’16). Although Amar and Felix are excited to be expanding their crew and bringing in different perspectives, it’s not easy to do.

“It’s a very cool process, but we’re also letting go a little bit of what we love,” Amar said.

This kind of expansion will enable Valid Culture to reach people not only at Boston College, but at other schools as well. Amar and Felix actively promote and market their apparel through Facebook, Twitter, their website, their blog, and word-of-mouth, but they aren’t stopping with social media. They’ve been trying to give the brand a more physical presence on campus, starting with the Black Student Forum’s spring fashion show.

“It’s definitely a first for us, but we’re ready to learn on the fly,” Amar said.

Planned for April, the show has allowed Felix and him to explore new directions for their line. They plan both to innovate with new designs and bring back some of its classic ones for the show.

Although Valid Culture has “played it safe” in the past, Amar and Felix plan to take more risks with the brand moving forward.

“We wanted people to know who we were first, before we started doing crazy things—like with designs and colors,” Amar said. “But now that we’re expanding, we’ll do more noticeable things. We’ll grab attention.”

Amar and Felix have created quite the following for Valid Culture so far.

Whether it’s the brand’s trendy street apparel, the duo’s independent outlook, or a combination of the two, the exact ingredients to Valid Culture’s success aren’t obvious. What is clear, though, is that Valid Culture is catching eyes and starting conversations on campus.

“It sort of sounds controversial,” Amar said. “A lot of people are intrigued by the name—people think it signifies some sort of movement, and I really think it could be one.” n

Fashion Forward

Fast food fashion: the misguided McDonald’s collection Jeremy Scott’s latest collection for Moschino is more of a fad than an enduring statement of style

Therese Tully It can be easy to get caught up in all of the fashion trends swirling around the stratosphere, especially during this runway show time of year. All of a sudden you are dropping phrases like “It girl,” “street style,” “hot-spot,” and “cutting edge” into your daily conversation. You will use any excuse to bring up the latest collections and shows in blatantly preposterous ways. Your friends are starting to abandon you, and your roommates are wishing they could. But you just can’t stop the word vomit—pastels, leather, lace, S/S2014, fashion darling. You are starting to hate yourself.

It can be good to take a step back and remember that, sometimes, fashion gets out of hand. Sometimes even the most incredible designers seem to crack up under the pressure of runway shows and award shows that are so inescapable at this time of year. Sometimes a bad idea will be born and the fatigue of fashion weeks around the world will negate said designer’s usually fabulous sense of judgment.

I believe that one such brand to fall victim to this tragedy would have to be Moschino. The designer who is out of hand these days: Jeremy Scott.

Now I will be the first person to argue about the artistic endeavor that is fashion design. Inspiration can come from anywhere and may be buried

among the pleats and frills of a design, or tucked behind the sleek edges, or manifested in a chic shoe. Inspiration is truly a fickle beast and can rear its sometimes ugly head at almost any moment. The trick is knowing when to listen to its guttural call, and when to ball up those notes and toss them out. In this case, burning might have been better.

I am referring to what has quickly become known as Moschino’s McDonald’s collection, which made its debut at Milan Fashion Week. Although some argue that haute couture is too far removed culturally, too out of the mainstream, it seems that Scott has tried a tad too hard to dispel these critiques.

McDonald’s—are you for real? The collection plays with the signature ketchup red and mustard yellow that we have all come to know, and maybe love? I don’t know, but for me it brings up memories of soggy fries and stomachaches.

Scott does not stop at utilizing this color duo in his collection. Oh no. Golden arches are found scattered throughout, sweaters, handbags, etc.

French fry shapes dot sunglasses, and punny phrases are stitched onto perfectly good sweaters: “Moschino Over 20 Billion Served.” Golden arch pumps will leave you shuddering. I couldn’t help but think of those awful Halloween costumes sold specifically for grown women who, it is assumed, want to be as naked as possible on a chilly night in October. You know the ones that I mean, the ones that are pretty much lingerie or a tight dress but are disguised as real costumes. Along the lines of Adult Sexy Cookie Monster or Adult Sexy Minnie Mouse. Adult Sexy Ronald McDonald, anyone? No takers?

Scott also paid some very literal homage to Spongebob Squarepants and Fruit Loops cereal, because hey, why not? (Granted, the Fruit Loops dress is kind of amazing.) My real question is, why? What sort of name are these pieces creating for themselves? Surely this collection will make a splash and make some news, but are you really creating pieces that people want to wear? Will this add to the legacy of Moschino in years to come? As far as fads go, I think the answer is, tragically, yes, which makes me question the sanity of my beloved fashion cohorts. It seems that some of the pieces, including a McDonald’s-inspired backpack, have already sold out from the Moschino website.

Sigh. I’m not usually one to turn away from some fashion fun, but it all seems so wasteful in a way. These pieces will be faddy for a while, speckling the

street style radar, showing your fashion blog fans that you are hip and ironically cool, but then what? I love pop culture just as much as the next person—and at times, maybe even more—but this seems a touch crazy.

This combination of art and pop culture and fashion has left me with a bit of a stomachache. This inspiration was not filtered quite enough. It is found in a far too concentrated level, dangerous maybe, floating down fashion runways and into homes. Beware the golden arches! My only true disappointment with Scott’s collection is the absence of a Shamrock Shake-themed piece. St. Patrick’s day is right around the corner, you know!

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

antonio calanni / ap photo

The newest Moschino collection, with McDonald’s and Spongebob motifs, is bold, but too literal.

The question of how far a model will go for the sake of fashion is still up in the air— just like Kate Upton’s most recent Sports Illustrated photo shoot. In its most recent Swimsuit edition, SI managed to get Upton to pose in a skimpy gold bikini under zero gravity conditions, by shooting her in a Zero Gravity Plane at the Space Coast Regional Airport at Cape Canaveral in Florida. A similar method is used for astronauts as they train for their missions, but the difference here is that Upton was challenged to keep her hair (and the girls) in place while floating around a chamber, all while giving a flawless, effortless look.

It appears SI will do just about anything to put their models in the most absurd conditions—I mean, you would not put a swimsuit model on a beach or near water.

That would be too obvious. For the 2013 edition, the magazine had its swimsuit models pose in all seven continents, and where did Upton end up? Antarctica. She posed in nothing but bikini bottoms and a white jacket, with the headline “Kate Upton Goes Polar Bare.” While I commend SI for the pun, I can’t help but wonder if this, along with other extreme photo shoots, is really necessary, and if the risks involved are truly worth the final product.

The truth is, I understand the appeal. I was a religious follower of America’s Next Top Model for the entirety of my high school experience, and now I can’t help but “smize” whenever I’m posing for a photo (smiling with your teeth is, once again, too obvious).

Tyra Banks put her contestants through some pretty unbelievable conditions, and I can’t help but cheer on the girls who brave through such challenges. I felt pride in Ambreal for overcoming her fear of heights for the Cycle 9 photo shoot on top of a skyscraper, even if she barely escaped the bottom two. I worried for the girls who posed with alligators, tarantulas, and live bees, but I marveled at how calmly some of them were able to pose with these creatures crawling on their skin. The more extreme the shoot, the more memorable it is, and the ability of a model or a photo to leave an impression has to count for something.

The flip side is that viewers tend to hate on the models who chicken out. We cannot stand the girl who refuses to sacrifice her long locks for a pixie cut per Tyra’s makeover request, or the one who plays the “sick card” when her sub-par photos land her in the bottom two. Any girl who refuses to pose nude like everyone else somehow stands out as the outlier, even though her concerns are warranted. In any other situation, these would be considered rational reactions, but in the world of modeling, that behavior is simply unacceptable. It doesn’t seem possible to refuse Banks, and the mentality forced upon models and their audience is that if you’re in the competition, you’ll do just about anything. More often than not, they do. Just look at CariDee English in Cycle 7, who reached the point of hypothermia while posing in icy cold water, and was later chided for not speaking up. Another example is Danielle Evans, who sprained her ankle after walking in 10-inch heels for a Cycle 6 challenge. When there’s so much pressure to push through the pain, it can be easy to forget that supermodel does not equal superhuman.

These may seem utterly ridiculous and discouraging to the average viewer who sees these models as another species of beauty, ready to submit themselves to zero gravity, zero-degree temperatures, and zero clothing just for the sake of a single photo. While we can blame the modeling industry for setting impossibly high standards and mistreating their women, the reality is that each girl can refuse at any point. It may be difficult to say no with so much pressure, but denying one opportunity leaves doors open for plenty others. In addition, maybe we shouldn’t be so quick to assume that the models are being forced to submit themselves to these conditions—perhaps Upton just wanted to be part of an unprecedented photo shoot in SI history. Other types of art—such as dancing, sculpting, or acting—have their “high forms,” so why can’t modeling push the boundaries as well? What models, and the industry as a whole, should strive for is a balance between preserving physical health and safety, and maintaining an element of risk—after all, it’s what makes a piece of art so enthralling.

Whether that risk is in subject matter, overcoming a fear, or in the clothes themselves, the drama and awe of modeling deserves to be recognized as an art form. Without that suspense, how else would we be able to ponder what Kate will be Upton-ext?

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

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Thursday, February 27, 2014

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THIS WEEK IN...

BY MAGGIE MARETZ | HEIGHTS STAFF

BOATS

COMEDY

BEER & SKIING

Spr ing is just a month away, and now is the time to make that dream of sailing into the sunset come true. For nine days, residents of Boston with a pension for all things nautical will have access to the New England Boat Show, which will take place in Boston from Feb. 22 to March 2 in 300,000 square feet at the state of the art Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. The boater’s paradise will feature over 800 new boats as well as Captain Dave Carraro, the star of National Geographic’s TV show Wicked Tuna. Visitors can check out all kinds of boats, including luxury vessels, fishing boats, family, runabouts, navigation equipment, marine gadgets, fishing gear, a Sailfest, and the Miss GEICO Offshore Race Boat. There will also be seminars, clinics, and an interactive learning center to help people learn about buying, caring for, and upgrading boats.

On Tuesday, AlzTogether hosted its annual event Comedy for a Cause at the Improv Asylum in order to raise funds and awareness for Alzheimer’s disease and simultane ously have a fe w laughs .

Improv Asylum’s house teams produce some of the freshest faces in Boston comedy, and the show featured a series of comedy actors and improvisers who collaborate to create a lively, entertaining show of sketch comedy for a live audience.

The show is unique in that the actors putting on the show are open to suggestions and will create comedic scenes based on input from the audience, which means the show is never quite the same as the one before it.

General admission to the event is just $20, with 65 percent of proceeds going toward the Alzheimer’s Association.

Bud Light has partnered with The Pour House to bring adults an opportunity to drink and play games, with a chance to win amazing prizes. This weekend, Bud Light will host the 2014 Boston Ski Bash.

The par ty is sche dule d to take place at The Pour House on Boylston St. The event will include food and drink, and will feature a variety of games . The main event of the evening’s festivities includes a high-stakes tournament of rock, paper, scissors. All participants will receive a prize, but the ultimate winner of the giant tournament will receive an epic weekend in Breckenridge, Colo., which is a perfect location for skiing enthusiasts. Participants must be 21 years or older to play, and the competition will take place on Saturday, March 1 beginning at 2 p.m. and ending at 5 p.m.

MARDI GRAS

MARKETS

Although very far from New Orleans, Boston reserves the right to celebrate its own version of Mardi Gras this weekend. Beginning this Saturday, singer/songwriter and producer Shaun Wolf Wortis and the Legendary Vudu Krewe will host their 21st annual Mardi Gras Ball. The event will place an emphasis not only on celebrating Mardi Gras, but also on local music in Boston.

In order to promote travel to the event, the MBTA will run until 3 a.m. The event will feature several special musical guests, including singer/songwriter Will Dailey, Hayley Jane, Abbie Barrett, The Boston Babydolls, and Amber Casares. All proceeds from the event will benefit the New Orleans Musicians’ Clinic.

The Ball will take place at T.T. The Bear’s Place in Cambridge on Saturday, March 1 at 8:30 p.m.

The exhibit is open until July 20, 2014.

If you are one of the Boston area residents who is feeling antsy and looking to shop for some new, interesting things, and sate your desire to peruse the markets, South of Washington District has the cure for you. This Saturday, March 1, the SoWa district of Boston will host its Winter Market at a new location, 1500 Washington St. The new location will allow consumers to shop indoors at a bright, airy community gym near Boston’s popular South End restaurant and shopping district. The market will feature art, artisan handmade goods, indie designer clothing, and vintage specialty foods. There will also be products available from previous crafters, artists, and designers, as well as various items by new merchants. The market will be open every Saturday from Feb. 1 through April 19, including a special Home Decor Market on March 15.

BOSTON FOODIE

BOSTON POLICE BLOTTER

Cook brings a variety of choices close to BC students

February 22 Taxi Driver Claims He Was Assaulted by His Fare At 2:02 a.m. officers received a radio call to 37 Greycliffe Rd. for six females assaulting a male taxi driver. Officers spoke to the victim, who stated he picked up the six females from downtown and gave them a set price of $40.00. Victim further stated when they arrived at their destination they wanted him to drive one of the girls to a different location. He stated the girls paid him for the fare and got out of the taxi yelling at him and left one of the doors open. He had to exit the taxi to shut the door and at this time was struck in the face by a white, blond female wearing a short skirt.

February 23 Suspect Orders Pizzas and Tries to Run Off With Them At 2:28 a.m. officers received a radio call to 356 Chestnut Hill Ave. (Roggie’s) for an assault & battery report. Upon arrival, officers spoke with victim who stated he was delivering a pizza to Walsh Hall at Boston College. He phoned the suspect and told him he would meet him in the lobby. The victim parked his car at the parking garage at St. Thomas More and was approached by two males. One of the males grabbed the pizzas and ran away with them. The victim chased the suspect and retrieved the pizzas from him. The victim dialed the phone number provided and heard it ringing near the hallway of Walsh Hall. He then observed the suspect with the phone ringing, laughing and running away. Incident to be further investigated.

PHOTO COURTESY OF COOK

Restaurant provides a cool but casual environment in the heart of Newton

BY GUS MERRELL Heights Staff

Source – The Boston Police Department

Imagine a restaurant in which one can order just about any kind of food—seafood, pasta, hamburger, pizza, tacos, salad, or steaks. Chef Paul Turano’s new restaurant Cook seeks to be just that. Turano envisioned a restaurant where diners could look at a menu with a wide variety of dishes that are not limited to one specific cuisine.

There are not many places in the city where one can order fried chicken, a wild mushroom flatbread pizza, shrimp tacos, or a kale and Brussels sprout salad from the same menu.

That’s what makes Cook unique. No matter what your taste preferences are, Cook wants to make sure that there is an item on the menu that appeals to you. Turano says that the owners will frequently add to or change their menu in order to continue to broaden the assortment.

Cook has certainly succeeded as a restaurant that tries to attract a diverse audience. Its rustic yet modern atmosphere with hardwood floors and exposed light bulbs is at once stylish and casual, appealing to its varied customer-base that is made up primarily of Newton residents. “[Newton] has a great demographic—lots of traffic, which makes it ideal for everyday restaurants,” Turano said. “Being close to BC brings lots of traffic, by definition.” He also says that while he does not get college kids very regularly, he is interested to see if there is a spike in attendance once school ends.

As it has garnered more interest, Turano has seen it become the “everyday restaurant” that he envisioned. Open for dinner seven days a week, lunch Monday through Friday, and brunch on Saturday and Sunday, one can get a meal at Cook almost anytime.

It is clear that Turano is passionate about his cooking. “Ever since I’ve been 5 years old, I wanted to be a chef,” he said. “The only thing I’ve ever wanted to do is own a restaurant.”

With the recent opening of Cook, Turano is now the owner of two restaurants. His other restaurant is called Tryst, located in Arlington, and it is a little more upscale than Cook. Cook was designed to be a little more open-ended than Tryst, according to an interview with Turano in Newton Patch, a simplistic restaurant without much of the bells and whistles often associated with the industry. It’s supposed to be a comfortable destination—almost a second home for the customers.

Since graduating from culinary school at Newbury College in 1995, Turano has managed three restaurants already, and has quickly been acclaimed as one of Boston’s rising culinary

LOCATION: 825 Washington St. CUISINE: American SAMPLE DISH: Smoky Pepper Grilled Cheese stars. Turano has received many awards and accolades for his work, especially with Tryst, and he seeks to continue that success with Cook. Since it opened last September, Cook was an immediate hit.

Customers from all walks of life came through the doors—families, students, young people, old people. “We wanted to make Cook a restaurant for everyone,” Turano said. “We wanted it to become a restaurant they would never get tired of.”

He urges all the college students in the area to come check out Cook. “We’d love to see you come by,” Turano said. “Say hi to me if you stop in.” 

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Thursday, February 27, 2014

BENNET’S BANTER

Another group of Bostonians

SPRING DAYS holiday blurbs

For those staying in Boston for break waiting for warmth, a list of city activities

BY KELLY COLEMAN | HEIGHTS STAFF

BENNET JOHNSON There is something beautiful about Boston on a brisk Saturday morning.

Around 6 a.m. last weekend, I ventured toward the Boston Rescue Mission with a group of student volunteers. I hopped off of the T at Park Street station and was struck by the frigid winter wind blowing in my face. Although many people passed by us and vanished into the warmth of the underground trains, our group of students reluctantly trudged through Boston Common—many longing to crawl back into their beds with the rest of the Boston College community.

Upon arriving at the Boston Rescue Mission, we all prepared various meals to distribute to the homeless community.

These were foods that were donated, ranging from leftover pastries from Panera to sandwiches from restaurants on the North End. Our group ventured back toward Park Street with tubs of food, where hundreds of homeless individuals gathered, patiently awaiting our arrival. On this chilly Saturday morning, crowds of hungry people formed orderly lines—hoping for a free meal— while others were huddled by the drafty doors of the Massachusetts State House, passing hours dozing in front of a warm building.

What was remarkable about this whole situation is that my entire perspective on homelessness changed.

The group of individuals that gathered across from the State House is among an increasingly vulnerable homeless population living amid pricey new condos, hotels, and upscale restaurants in downtown Boston. The people are a growing number of youth and young adults struggling to survive on the streets, even as temperatures plummet into single digits on some days.

Instead of aggressively fighting and pushing their way toward the front of the line to have easy access to a large supply of food, these people patiently waited their turns in line. There seemed to be a sense of community among them, giving off a pleasant atmosphere, even though these people had very little reason to be very happy on that freezing morning.

As each member passed through our line, selecting pieces of food that would last him or her for the day, our group of students was shocked by the variety of people that made up this population.

Some individuals were very communicative, discussing topics ranging from the weather to Mayor Martin J. Walsh, WCAS ’09, while others simply nodded at us, thanking us for our service. Each person offered a different story, but it was clear that each was very thankful for a group of BC students willing to sacrifice a Saturday morning to distribute food.

Homelessness isn’t just an issue affecting a small group of individuals—it is a major problem within the city of Boston.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development reported last January that Massachusetts’ homeless population has risen 14 percent since 2010 to include nearly 20,000 people. Even the number of homeless students in preschool through 12th grade is at a record high, with 935 individuals living without the supervision of a parent or legal guardian.

The state of Massachusetts has made strides to mitigating the problem of homelessness in Boston. Last October, the state put up an average of 2,100 homeless families in motels, a new record. According to the state Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development, this number exceeded the number of families living in shelters.

Other non-profit organizations like the Boston Rescue Mission, Pine Street Inn, and Youth on Fire have offered more services to combat this driving trend of homelessness in our city, depending on the help of volunteers.

After distributing the remains of our supply of sandwiches and cookies, our group headed back to T, this time noticing numerous homeless people huddled together for warmth in the underground stations. As we all return to the BC Bubble, their problem goes on.

Perhaps in the future, others in the BC community can spend their Saturday mornings making an impact on one of Boston’s pressing problems.

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

EXPERIENCE WEEKDAY BARGAINS

BRING WILLY WONKA TO LIFE

EXPERIENCE A DIFFERENT CANTAB

Many students find themselves saving Boston excursions for the weekends because of their hectic weekday schedules. There are many discounts and deals, however, that hot spots around Boston offer to try to attract customers during the workweek. The Improv Asylum, for instance, charges $20-$25 per ticket to its Friday and Saturday Mainstage shows, but an equally hilarious sketch comedy routine called House Teams performs on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. for only $5 admission. You could also sneak away to the Frog Pond before the warm weather rolls in, where there are “College Nights” on Tuesdays from 6 to 9 p.m. for only $2 admission when one shows a valid college ID, as opposed to the usual $4.

Chocaholics, assemble! There is a chocolate factory in Somerville. That’s right, folks, Taza Chocolate, located at 561 Windsor St. in Somerville, offers tours of its chocolate factory, Wednesdays through Sundays, for $5. Guests can learn how the factory makes its stone-ground, Mexican-style organic dark chocolate, sample the chocolates, and see the company’s chocolate-making machines. Reservations are required, can be made online, and should be made a week in advance, as tours are limited to 18 guests.

At the factory store, customers can learn about the chocolate-making process from chocolate experts, as well as view the factory machinery in action through the store’s windows.

Every Wednesday night, Cantab opens up the mic for some slam poetry. On March 5, the Wednesday over break, doors will open at 7:15 p.m. and a valid 18-plus ID is required. Once there, different segments of the performance will include open mic, beginning at 8 p.m., which is executed in three-, two-, and oneminute rounds. Winners of this week’s open mic will qualify for the 2014 World Slam competition. Open mic is followed by the week’s featured performer. That night’s performer will be Jeanann Verlee, a poetry editor for Union Station Magazine and award-winning author of Racing Hummingbirds. Verlee will perform around 10 p.m. Finally, the night will close with an 8x8 speed-slam series.

PAINT STUFF AND DRINK WINE

DANCE LIKE IT’S WARM

GO TO THE BEACH

The Paint Bar is a magical place where you drink wine and paint. What better way to spend an afternoon than to channel liquid bravery into artistic fearlessness?

Through the Paint Bar website, click on “Calendar” to book reservations. On this calendar, one can view the projects available that day, so one can make a reservation based on what picture he or she would like to paint. Prices typically hover around $35 per person. Some nights offer “collaborative painting,” when two people work on two separate canvases, but combine them afterward to create one big, beautiful painting. The Paint Bar has two locations: one at 823 Washington St. in Newtonville and the other at 248 Newbury St. in Boston.

The Havana Club, located at 288 Green St. in Cambridge, offers salsa and bachata lessons and social dances most nights of the week for low prices. On Mondays, beginners and intermediate dancers can take a lesson from 8 to 9 p.m. in salsa and bachata dancing for only $5. For only $5 more, all dancers can stay after for the party—9 p.m. to midnight—and tear up that dance floor with their new moves! Monday and Tuesday night parties are 18-plus, while Friday and Saturday nights are 21-plus.

Tuesday nights also offer rueda lessons—a Cuban style of dance for which people dance in a large circle of partners.

One person calls out different moves to execute, and the partners follow suit.

While it may be too cold for swimming, the beach is never out of season. If Jim Carey and Kate Winslet can prance around there in the dead of winter in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, one can go get his/her toes wet in March. Take a look around South Boston.

There are plenty of well-loved hangouts, such as Castle Island, home to Pleasure Bay and Fort Independence.

Pleasure Bay is a popular, sunny beach area with consistently high water quality, making it fit for swimming and fishing. While touring inside is reserved for the summer, pedestrians can still admire Fort Independence’s beauty and historical significance from the HarborWalk at Castle Island.

Coalition lobbies representatives for employment programs Youth Jobs, from B10 society.”

YJC not only works to create jobs for teens, but teens also work for YJC. Many members of the group’s leadership are currently enrolled in Boston public schools or were in high school when they became involved in YJC. Acting as speakers at rallies, meeting with politicians, and reaching out to the community, teens at YJC hold essential positions for the same reasons that the group looks to increase teen employment. “The issue here is teen jobs, so we think that it is most important to be organizing with the constituency that is facing the problem that we are trying to address,” Lazerow said.

The opportunities YJC now works to encourage were few and far between at its outset due to the recent economic recession. Funding by the state for jobs in the summer of 2010 was expected to result in a loss of 2,700 youth jobs—equivalent to a 50 percent decrease. Then, with only half of today’s amount of coalition members, YJC was able to mobilize 1,000 local teens to rally and establish relationships with local government that resulted in successfully saving all of the youth jobs funded by Boston and Massachusetts for that summer.

“We are unpaid lobbyists and frequently see those paid lobbyists having to face cuts in their line items—the fact that we have been able to have these wins is huge,” Lazerow said.

A f t e r a c h i e v i n g m o r e s u cce s s throughout 2011, such as winning $9 million in youth jobs funding, YJC looked to the private sector as its next step.

Through creative action and meet-

AP PHOTO / ELISE AMENDOLA

Activists marched to Beacon Hill, advocating for more employment opportunities in Boston and across the state of Massachusetts. ings with hospital executives as well as corporate leaders, the group was able to win over 30 new private sector jobs and continues to work in order to increase their funding.

“There are so many benefits to hiring teens,” Lazerow said. “We are talking about tomorrow’s leaders, presidents, CEOs, entrepreneurs, doctors, lawyers—all of these young people are really an investment in the future.” In addition to the future benefits of youth working, YJC emphasizes that young people can add creative perspective and innovative energy to regular workplace settings.

Beyond the benefits to companies from teens working, YJC hopes that increased funding in youth working

programs will work to bring equilibrium to the state’s economic inequality. According to studies conducted by The Brookings Institution, published coincidentally on the same day as YJC’s recent rally, Boston is one of the U.S. cities with the largest income gaps and economic disparities. Lazerow and the majority of YJC believes that increased funding for youth jobs could work to decrease this disproportion and prove beneficial for the city’s public health.

Currently YJC has teens working at many locations, including companies like State Street, Fidelity Investments, and even some local hospitals, but over the next few years they hope to see a progression in scope. “I would love to see teens working all over the place—es-

pecially other trades that are solid in terms of salary and benefits,” Lazerow said. “There is a lot of room for teens to get involved anywhere.”

YJC hopes to expand its mission both by following up with the legislative process in the spring, and after the successful response by the public and the media surrounding its February rally, the organization is considering a national campaign.

“It is exciting that young people are organizing around this issue that is so close to their hearts and to see people take notice of this action that is happening,” Lazerow said. “This effort seems to just be really great, and we are hopeful to continue connecting with as many new partners and allies as possible.” 

Film festival to host famous producer and composer Film Festival, from B10 to share in that,” Delany said.

The upcoming film festival event does not center solely on the Harvard student body. On the contrary, the student-run organization has opened up submissions for almost the entire country’s collegiate population, and it hopes to create a forum in which all people can share.

“In the end, we are all the same generation,” Delany said.

Getting a project of this scale off the ground required more than just a pitch to a few teachers and a few emails. The original projection for the festival’s magnitude was much greater than what it has become. About a year ago, Delany and her friends had to set aside the idea for some time because the faculty members they approached about helping out with the festival hesitated to take on a project of such size.

Describing the original size, Delany said that one of the original goals was to get professionals such as James Franco involved in the festival, but the issue of space availability on campus and a lack of money to pay for space elsewhere impeded such plans.

As the project gained momentum, though, the students became more realistic about their goals. “There have been a lot of steps backward,” Delany said. “We had to start small and scale up because it was such an ambitious project.”

The project eventually earned the support necessar y from Har vard’s administration. The organizers of the film festival gaining their status as an official student organization coincided with a documentary group requesting to have a film screened at the festival and two speakers committing to appear on a panel that will be present at the event. One of these speakers is

Ben Seresin, a cinematographer whose works have included such films as World War Z and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The other speaker is Elizabeth Hunter, a producer and writer who has written for the television series ER. Additionally, one of the judges is Carter Burwell, a composer recognized for his work in Fargo and Twilight, and who has also received a Golden Globe nomination. Delany said that the festival’s entrants can find excitement in the prospects of people like Burwell viewing their work.

The Harvard College Film Festival will also enjoy the presence of another speaker, entrepreneur Courtney Spence, the CEO of Students of the World—an organization sponsoring the festival, and one that promotes using media for social change. “[Spence] will give a talk about social change and why media is an effective tool for

achieving that, but also a little about what the process of being an entrepreneur and what starting a company is like,” Delany said. She and the rest of the organization are still looking for a keynote speaker.

The film festival is currently scheduled to take place April 12-13, but it will begin on April 11 if a keynote speaker is available. Delany confirmed that the organization is still looking for submissions, guidelines for which can be found at www.harvardfilm.com. The event is open to the public on a first come, first serve basis, and all events will take place on Harvard’s campus.

As the project draws closer to completion, Delany said that she has found reassurance in the past few months that the event will work out, and that the most exciting part of the process is seeing people submit their films—a sure sign that the event she has worked on for so long will succeed. 

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Thursday, February 27, 2014

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Body Worlds exhibit draws locals and tourists alike Exhibit, from B10 gens, is a method of extracting bodily fluids and fat from specimens and then pumping in plastic to replace them, allowing spectators to see inside the human body, learn how it works, and see how it can be affected by disease.

One of the key themes of the exhibit is promoting lifestyle changes. Body Worlds Vital promotes health awareness with side-byside comparisons of a smoker’s lungs and an alcoholic’s liver to healthy organs. The exhibit also has a display that shows how obesity affects the body.

Besides the various health displays, Body Worlds Vital showcases cadavers in various sports poses.

“What’s incredible about this exhibit is that visitors are able to see under the skin of a baseball player, two hockey players, and even two flamenco dancers,” McGill said.

Since its opening during the holiday season, the Body Worlds Vital exhibit has seen a wide variety of spectators flock to Faneuil Hall.

“A major success we’ve had is that the museum has been able to track how many people have been coming in and out of the museum and where they’re coming from,”

McGill said. “It has been helpful that we’ve seen a huge number of college kids come through the exhibit, and our expectation is that many more students will want to come see the exhibit.”

One of McGill’s preliminary goals as general manager was to attract a number of local residents to visit Quincy Market.

“One of our goals from the beginning was to bring as many locals as possible back to the exhibit,” McGill said. “We’ve seen a large number of locals and families return to Faneuil Hall Marketplace, which has been great for the local community.”

During the last few months in Boston,

McGill hopes to attract more visitors by offering different types of promotional events. The exhibit will host a sketch night for art students on March 5, offering students a chance to work with actual models. Body Worlds Vital will also offer a college night later in March, when students will be offered a discounted ticket fee of $15 and Faneuil Hall will be open for extended hours.

Based on the current success of Body Worlds Vital, McGill plans to host future exhibits in the Boston area, including the Titanic and Art of the Brick.

“Body Worlds has been a great success, and I’m excited about our future,” McGill said. 

Startup founder discusses nature of visual media ‘Sorry for Partying,’ from B10 a bootleg, but Mitchelides was not concerned about taking any kind of legal action against the salesman of the shirt—with a high-profile athlete wearing the startup’s name, the transgression amounted to nothing less than free marketing.

Mitchelides said that the company has only stepped in if it felt that someone was using the brand for something that the startup would not endorse, such as drunk driving. Otherwise, Mitchelides said that the involvement of the startup’s community actually serves to keep the brand fresh and perennially able to serve its users effectively. Indeed, Mitchelides said that maintaining the startup’s relevance is heavily rooted in keeping a finger on the pulse of its community.

The way that people party and socialize has changed since his time at Miami University in Ohio, and the way that people interact with the company’s product changes as well.

In its earlier days, the startup’s website focused primarily on promoting content by student-writers, a path taken by many websites, only to find that users were most engaged by visual content—one photo that the company posted to Facebook, for example, garnered around 75,000 likes within 24 hours.

With its new iPhone app, the startup is seeking to harness the appeal of visual media by combining the ideas made familiar to people by the massively popular apps Snapchat and Instagram.

According to Mitchelides, college students concerned about future careers are reluctant to release compelling visual content from the confines of their phones. Now, however, the company’s new Sorry for Partying app allows users to post photos from social gatherings anonymously.

Without ever having to log in using Twitter, Facebook, or an email address, the only information the company receives regarding users is their location, which allows the company to analyze partying trends by location. What college, for example, actually is the biggest partying school?

The app includes a flagging system through which users can report controversial content, said Mitchelides, who added that the brand is not limited to the type of fraternity-style partying that people might typically associate with the company’s name but also includes people who party in different ways, such as through dancing.

According to Mitchelides, the startup hopes to expand the app to Android in 2014 and will continue to introduce new features to the app.

Despite its current success, Mitchelides insists that getting Sorry for Partying off the ground was no easy task. “The reality of it is, like with any startup, everything looks good on paper,” he said, but that, even when good ideas are executed, there is the possibility of failure. “We just managed to do a really good job of just not giving up, and that’s definitely not an easy thing to do.” 

PHOTO COURTESY OF ANDY MITCHELIDES

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BY ADRIANA OLAYA | FOR THE HEIGHTS

BOSTON UNIVERSITY

Students protest scheduled Robin Thicke show Many Boston University students are demanding the cancellation of an upcoming Robin Thicke concert.

Members of a BU organization, Humanists of Boston University, have started a petition on change.org, according to Fox Boston. The petition, which recently reached 1,500 signatures, calls on BU’s administration to take action and cancel Thicke’s concert, scheduled for March 4 at Agganis Arena.

The students in Humanists of Boston University feel that many of Thicke’s songs, particularly his chart-topping and Grammy-nominated “Blurred Lines,” are sexist, and that his celebrity comes in part from his blatant misogyny.

“Thicke’s hit song, ‘Blurred Lines’ celebrates having sex with women against their will,” states the group’s petition. “Lyrics such as ‘I know you want it’, explicitly use non-consensual language ... while watching the extremely explicit video, the

HARVARD An unidentified Harvard student recently gained access to Harvard’s high-powered “Odyssey Cluster” for an unconventional purpose.

The super computer, as explained by Harvard doctoral graduate David Simmons Duffman in an email to the Crimson, can generate the same amount of data in eight hours as a personal computer can generate in a year. Such power is extremely useful for the super computer’s normal purpose—scientific computing. The unidentified student, however, used the research network allegedly to compete in a mining competition, taking up significant resources in the process, said The Verge. The student saw the Odyssey Cluster as a potentially lucrative tool for Dogecoin mining, since the super computer can lend more power to the enterprise. Dogecoin is a well-known and widely used virtual currency, akin to Bitcoin. The computer cannot be used for “any non-research related activity,” however, and the student has been banned from further use.

insinuation grows from subtle to explicit to obnoxious.”

“Boston University has been a bedrock for feminism and ideologies of equality more generally,” the petition reads. “It is a dishonor to our feminist history to symbolically idolize Robin Thicke by allowing him to perform his misogynist music at our university.”

Patrick Johnson, president of Humanists of Boston University, believes that Thicke and his music are “a blatant form of reinforcing rape culture and sexism.” To further their point, the group has scheduled a protest outside of Agganis Arena the night of the concert.

Nevertheless, Boston University released a statement stating that the concert is unlikely to be cancelled. The statement states that the university did not schedule Thicke’s concert, instead saying that it is merely a stop along Thicke’s 16-stop tour.

NORTHEASTERN Northeastern University recently broke ground on its Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex, to be located on Columbus Ave. The complex is the newest chapter in the partnership between Northeastern and the city of Boston.

“A science complex of this scale has the chance to be a shining example of the best Boston has to offer,” said Mayor Martin J. Walsh, WCAS ’09, during his remarks at the ceremonial groundbreaking, according to Northeastern’s official website. The facility will be approximately 220,000 square feet and will house wet and dry lab facilities, educational laboratories, classroom space, and offices for faculty and graduate students. The complex, which is set to open in 2016, is a part of the university’s continued efforts to “expand its capacity to engage in path breaking research across disciplines,” according to Northeastern’s official website.

The six-story, LEED-certified facility is also meant to encourage interdisciplinary research and will be shared

by Northeastern’s many science colleges.

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MIT MIT will soon be co-hosting an event with the White House. The workshop, which will take place at MIT, is scheduled for March 3 and explore the topics of “big data” and privacy, according to MIT News. The event, titled “Big Data and Privacy: Advancing the State of the Art in Technology and Practic,” will boast keynote addresses by White House Counselor John Podesta and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker. The workshop, which stems from President Barack Obama’s call for increased focus on privacy issues in the digital age, will also feature panels focused on big data technologies. The event is co-organized by the MIT Big Data Initiative at CSAIL and the MIT Information Project and will be open to the public with registration. “There’s a lot of complexity to handling these issues, and our faculty look forward to exploring them at the workshop,” said Daniel Weitzner, director of CSAIL’s Decentralized Information Group and former deputy chief technology officer for Internet policy in the White House, according to MIT News.

The beauty of a Boston winter SARAH MOORE

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As I struggled to trudge my way up Brookline Ave. two Saturday afternoons ago, a few choice four letter words came to mind when thinking about Boston winters. The wind seemed to be coming from all directions, blowing both my hair and scarf so violently that I was nearly blinded, until I managed to duck into the snow-free safety zone that is the Fenway movie theater.

Although this is my first winter in the northeast, it didn’t take long for me to understand that “light snow” in Boston is much different than “light snow” in Maryland. This realization was what led me to the movies on Saturday, along with seemingly every other Bostonian, instead of to the adorable, hot chocolate and ice-skating filled day in the Common that I had hoped for.

The snow had ruined my plans and it was ruining the little composure I was clinging to after the cramped, Saturday afternoon T-ride. Irritated and dripping, I stared out of the theater’s glass doors at my roommates attempting to brave the wintery-mix. They sloshed across the street in their kneelength jackets, hoods up and heads down, in the same way that I, and every other Bostonian, had embraced the cold.

It is easy to see the beauty in snow when you are looking out on the street from a heated, fluorescently lit movie theatre lobby. To appreciate how it seems to blanket everything so effortlessly. To even almost feel sorry for the cousin of the clean, white sheet that envelopes each storefront, the gray and salted mound that is piled sadly along a curb, knowing that with a small gust of wind it could have instead settled comfortably on a stoplight or an awning.

It is easy to see the inconvenience of snow when you are braving the weather to finally make the muchneeded trip to the Plex that you have been avoiding. The bitter chill, the uncomfortable, hot-cold feeling when you finally make it indoors, the constant, and valid, questioning of the state of one’s extremities.

When I was younger, snow used to be a universal good, either meaning a white Christmas or the possibility of a day free from school. Now snow seems to have lost its illusion as every one of those hood-up, head-down walkers was intent on getting somewhere.

We take advantage of it for snowturkeys, as a means to campaign, and for a winter-themed Gasson-gram that is sure to get upwards of 80 likes.

But more often than not, we make our snow turkeys and take our smartphone pictures with our hoods up, and rush, irritated, into the nearest building on the Quad.

I’m not suggesting that walking to class through the snow sans any form of coat is the way to go, but there definitely is merit in maybe keeping one’s hood and head up. To actually look around and notice how pretty snow-dusted Gasson is through your contact lenses, as opposed to that of your Lilly Pulitzer-encased iPhone.

Maybe, just maybe, if we are able to see it in the snow, we can start to see the real beauty of other things as well.

So start with the snow. Liam Neeson didn’t seem to mind it last week—granted, he can arguably take on anything—and neither should we.

Yes, it is cold and wet, but it is also soft and delicate. It makes walking down the Million Dollar Stairs all the more interesting, and adds some variation to the green roofs we grow accustomed to seeing in the first semester. Eventually it will end up gray and melted or only as a grainy residue left on a pair of Bean Boots, so we might as well see the beauty of snow while we can, and thank its gracious effort to make Carney look almost as nice as the other buildings on Middle Campus.

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

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EDGE OF TOWN

Aesthetic & function

RYAN TOWEY In high school, I was known to wear the same thing every day. Jeans or shorts, a t-shirt, and my black Under Armor sneakers—what I called “my uniform.” Functionality was consistently my concern. Those clothes made me comfortable, and it was just easier for me to stick to a routine.

I compromised very little for aesthetic, and ended up looking a little oafish for most of my high school career. Upon entering college, however, I recognized the need to sacrifice some comfort for appearance.

Beacon Hill, one of Boston’s most iconic neighborhoods, currently finds itself in a similar battle between functionality and aesthetic, though in the opposite direction.

In December, the Beacon Hill Architectural Commission rejected a city proposal to install 259 pedestrian ramps, which, according to The Boston Globe, would bring the city into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. This demand for modern functionality, the commission argued, threatens Beacon Hill’s traditionally colonial aesthetic, and the city should consider revising the proposal so as to disturb the neighborhood’s appearance as little as possible—granite ramps instead of concrete ones, tactile strips in gray instead of the more noticeable yellow. The city responded that using granite is not economically viable.

While other historic districts in Boston, such as Bay Village, have agreed to similar proposals except with brick-red warning strips, Beacon Hill is still holding out.

It is, of course, a shame to see the beauty of a city disappear in the face of modernity.

There is something especially great about seeing the Prudential Tower while walking down residential streets in the Back Bay, but there is something daunting about it as well.

The greater shame, however, is marginalizing Boston’s disabled in one of the city’s most visually spectacular neighborhoods.

Why, after all, should a man who has struggled with a physical disability his entire life struggle still more when he wishes to take a stroll through Beacon Hill?

In fairness, it would be imprudent to disregard the concern of Beacon Hill’s residents entirely—the city would be remiss to alter the neighborhood cheaply if it could afford to do it in a more expensive, but less visually destructive way.

Assuming that the use of granite instead of plastic is too expensive, however, the residents of Beacon Hill ought to consider their less fortunate neighbors. Even a blind man—with no visual understanding of the neighborhood’s aesthetic—should be able to walk down a given street without fear of harming himself if the atmosphere pleases him or if the route is convenient.

Despite its unique colonial character, Boston cannot remain stuck in the past.

This city has a duty to all of its citizens, and no neighborhood—regardless of how historically significant it may be—should stand in the way of progress unless tradition is too severely threatened. Surely, the residents of Beacon Hill will recognize this, especially if they are able to establish compromises similar to those obtained by other historical neighborhoods.

I am certainly not radical. Even my attempt to change my own aesthetic—from the consistent and comfortable clothes of my high school life to a more inclusive style—has been relatively conservative.

While I have upped the ante a bit, many of my friends still joke that all I wear is blue.

If my metaphor has not yet been obvious enough, I say this to the residents of Beacon Hill—the clothes one wore in high school may have been comfortable and reassuring, but it is important to step outside one’s comfort.

As I made the necessary sacrifice of functionality for aesthetics, Beacon Hill should be able to sacrifice some small measure of its beauty for the sake of the disabled population’s greater comfort.

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

The Youth Jobs Coalition has been working since 2009 to bring employment opportunities to the state’s teens

BY SARAH MOORE Heights Editor More than 1,000 students took to the Boston streets, neon posters in hand, to rally for increased youth job funding last Thursday.

Teens from across the city and state were brought together by local group Youth Jobs Coalition (YJC) to take advantage of their February vacation and march past the Massachusetts State House advocating for lawmakers to endorse a summer jobs program for 2015 that could cost up to $24.5 million.

Founded in 2009, YJC is a partnership of 40 Massachusetts-based youth and community groups that work together in hopes of creating more, and better, employment opportunities for teens. This jobs rally, which is held each February, is just one of the various campaigns and efforts that YJC hosts in attempts to further its goal of “building youth power, winning youth jobs.”

“Over the past four to five years, we have been able to win over $50 million back to the youth’s work budget,” said community organizer at the Youth Jobs Coalition Dylan Lazerow, who works with teens to encourage their inclusion in the employment world.

“Youth need jobs many times to support their families, but really to support themselves,” he said. “Many of our participants are well on their way to being on their own, and we see employment as a really important part of being a dignified member of

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Harvard prepares for film festival

Startup looks to keep parties alive and well

Founder of festival discusses planning and film culture

‘Sorry for Partying’ recently launched new iPhone app

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Nicole Delany, founder and co-head of the Harvard College Film Festival, knew two months ago that the project she had been working on for over a year would finally come to fruition. Delany, a senior at Harvard University studying social anthropology with a selfdescribed focus in media, was showing her mother the festival’s website when she recognized that it had strong layout, a mission statement, sponsorship, contact information, and, most importantly, a place to submit films.

Delany said, however, that it took her a fair amount of work to reach the point of being able to say, “Wow, this is really happening,” and that even now she questions what she got herself into.

The film festival is the brainchild of Delany and one of her friends, both of whom hoped to fill a void they saw on campus. “We saw this gap, that there wasn’t much content being created on campus,” Delaney said of Harvard’s film culture. Because of a limited access to resources, only a small number of students are concentrated on creating film and other kinds of media. “We wanted to find a way to open up that space and get some creation going,” she said.

“When you take a course in film, the teacher is of course going to have their own idea of what film is, and we wanted to encourage all different kinds of film making and a way for our school

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oversees the operations of the entire exhibit.

This includes monitoring ticket sales, staffing employees, and working with Body Worlds representatives in Germany and throughout the U.S. McGill was also one of the key leaders responsible for bringing a Body Worlds exhibit to Boston. While some criticize placing multiple human body displays in a 271-year-old marketplace, McGill believes that the location of Faneuil Hall is optimal.

“I believe Faneuil Hall is a key spot for our exhibit,” McGill said. “The location receives over 18 million tourists per year, and many guests are [from] out of the state or even out of the country.”

Human body exhibits have been a source of controversy over the years. While some critics question the origin of the bodies on display, Body Worlds Vital—created by Dr. Gunther von Hagens, the scientist behind the Body Worlds exhibits—remains one of the few with an official body donation program.

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When Andy Mitchelides wakes up in his East Cambridge apartment, he’s surrounded by merchandise—boxes of clothing bearing his startup’s name, Sorry for Partying, are stacked throughout his home.

Mitchelides, who founded Sorry for Partying five years ago, is not bothered by the fact that his fast-growing startup is run out of his bedroom—far from it.

“I think that there’s this misunderstanding that to be successful you need to have this massive office space and tons and tons of resources working on something, and we just found a way to build this thing differently,” said Mitchelides, who works alongside Jason Carrigan and Demitry Toumilovich to run the company during nights and on the weekend—all three men have other, full-time jobs.

A lifestyle brand that taps into an enthusiastic demographic primarily made up of people between the ages of 18 and 24, the startup has grown not as a result of vast resources, but due to its widespread appeal. The startup now runs a website, a Facebook page with upwards of 40,000 likes, and, as of earlier this month, a new iPhone app—all without spending a single marketing dollar to date.

“I think it’s a brand that’s highly shareable,” Mitchelides said. “What happens is a lot of people start telling their friends about it, and I think that just attributes to the potential for organic growth.”

A year ago, for example, New England football player Rob Gronkowski was photographed wearing a Sorry for Partying tank top.

The shirt Gronkowski purchased was actually

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The Body Worlds exhibit, which has been in the city since fall, will remain until April 1.

Body Worlds exhibit features the inner workings of the body

BY BENNET JOHNSON Asst. Metro Editor Boston’s citizens have had the opportunity since late fall to witness a Body Worlds exhibit, an anatomical exhibition seen by more than 40 million visitors worldwide.

Body Worlds Vital, an exhibit featuring more than 200 chemically preserved individual human specimens and 15 whole cadavers all stripped of skin, is open to the public on the second floor of Faneuil Hall until April 1.

“Our Body Worlds exhibit in Boston is an anatomical display that celebrates the potential of the activity in the human body,” said Ryan McGill, the director of operations of Boston Exhibits LLC and general manager of Body Worlds Vital. “Visitors have the opportunity to see what the human body looks like from within—without the skin and fat.”

After graduating from Northeastern University, McGill went on to serve as a captain in the United States Marine Corps. After his military service, he was hired as director of operations and general manager for Boston exhibits. As general manager, McGill

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