The Heights February 15, 2016

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A walk through the upcoming residential selection process, A8

The South Asian Student Association put on its 19th annual culture show in Robsham this weekend, B8

Dennis Clifford and Matt Milon prevented BC from getting embarrassed by Syracuse, B1

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Vol. XCVII, No. 8

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A letter was sent out to private universities who have amassed wealth greater than $1 billion since the end of 2014.

The letter requires that colleges and universities answer a series of questions on the use of their endowment funds. The lawmakers’ intent is to guarantee that these schools are using the money to sponsor their “charitable and educational” purposes.

Questions included “How does your college or university determine what percentage of the endowment will be paid out this year?” and “What percentage of financial aid does your school devote to financial aid for student tuition?”

“Despite these large and growing endowments, many colleges and universities have raised tuition far in excess of inflation,” Orrin Hatch, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said in the letter to the 56 universities.

In 2014, Boston College’s endowment reached $2.131 billion. In 2015, it rose to $2.220 billion with a 4.1 percent change in market value.

“We have received the questionnaire and will comply with the request in a timely manner,” University Spokesman Jack Dunn said in an email. “Boston College has always been and remains a good steward of its resources.”

Under the Internal Revenue Code, most colleges and universities are tax-exempt entities because of their educational goals. According to the Internal Revenue Code 501(c)(3), these schools meet the educational purposes “that the Federal government has long recognized as fundamental to fostering the productive and civic capacities of citizens.”

The survey also aims to determine how to manage the tax breaks that donors receive after giving to these universities.

Nine other Massachusetts schools were on the list to be surveyed, including Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Williams College.

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The National Weather Service released instructions and safety protocols to maintain safety in the cold weather, noting that such temperatures can bring about frostbite within 10 minutes of exposure. It suggests that people dress in multiple light layers, and breathe through scarves when outside.

Similarly, Boston College Emergency Management has posted on its Facebook page to remind students to dress for the weather and the dangers of frostbite and hypothermia. The organization posted infographics educating and warning students about wind chill conditions.

“A sprinkler head in the lobby of Conte Forum froze, causing minor water damage,” University Spokesman Jack Dunn said about the effects of the temperature on BC. Dunn said that there were no other weather-related reports on campus.

The water damage occured midway through the B C men’s basketball game against Syracuse, so fan entrances into the arena were not affected by the incident.

BC Athletics posted messages on the video boards towards the end of the game alerting all fans to avoid the Beacon St. lobby on their way out of the stadium.

In the coming days, however, temperatures in Chestnut Hill are supposed to rise to over 50 degrees. While rain is in the forecast, snow is not expected until Monday.

This comes after severe winter storms last February, when snow piled up to over 110 inches. Last year’s storms set records for snowfall in Boston and cancelled classes for BC students on four separate occasions. BC has not had a snow day this year.

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The Elections Committee has been working to modify the procedure for creating the questions for the Undergraduate Government of Boston College’s presidential debate.

In past years, the questions were drafted by the Elections Committee, the AHANA Leadership Council (ALC), the GLTBQ Leadership Council (GLC), and anonymous students.

After concerns were raised last week by the presidential campaign of Elizabeth Foley, MCAS ’17, and Joseph McCarthy’s, CSOM’17, the Elections Committee decided to look further into the debate procedure. Foley and McCarthy were concerned with UGBC’s involvement within the elections, as ALC and GLC are subsects of the organization. Their team believes UGBC’s involvement is a conflict of interest if candidates were associated with the organization prior to the election.

The Ele c tions Committe e me t Thursday night to discuss possible reforms. The Committee voted to modify the procedure to limit ALC’s and GLC’s involvement with the drafting of the questions. With the reform, the Elections Committee would consult ALC and GLC on topics having to do with diversity on campus, but the Committee would have the sole responsibility of drafting the questions for debate.

ALC and GLC would also educate the Elections Committee on the proper terminology to use when posing debate questions.

“We definitely understand the concerns on both sides,” Rachel Mills, cochair of the Elections Committee and MCAS ’16, said. “ALC and GLC issues on campus are a big deal and we don’t want to cut them out completely. But [we] also understand that them being a part of UGBC could be a conflict of interest.”

The Committee decided to void Thursday’s vote, however, as there was no discussion with Diversity Inclusion prior to making a decision.

At the meeting , eight of the 15 members of the Elections Committee were present. All eight originally voted unanimously to make the change in

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Professor Kerry Cronin’s dating lectures are some of the most popular events on campus.

With Valentine’s Day around the corner, love was in the air at Boston College—or was it?

Professor Kerry Cronin, associate director of the Lonergan Institute and a philosophy department fellow, claims that BC students are uneasy when it comes to dating and often fall into the prevalent “hookup culture.”

On Thursday, Feb. 11, Cronin hosted a talk called “Save the Date,” in which she explained the 10 rules of hooking up and discussed how to go on a proper first date.

“I know why you’re here,” Cronin said. “And you know why you’re here.

Because you don’t have a good plan this weekend. People want to hear about dating and hookup culture, and I get that.”

Cronin began the talk by explaining how student culture changes from day to night.

“During the day, you are the nicest, loveliest people,” she said. “I always say this about BC students. You hold doors for people at like a quarter of a mile away. But at night, it’s something different. I realized years ago that there’s this weird kind of separation of the daytime culture and the nighttime culture.”

Cronin realized this disparity years ago when talking to a few of her senior students. She asked them how they were going to manage their relationships after graduation.

“They look at me. They stare at me.

Nothing,” she said.

The students explained how dating

is complicated, and it is much easier to hook up. Although she had heard this before, Cronin was not aware of how prevalent the hookup culture was at BC. She was extremely surprised that out of the eight students, only one had been on a true first date.

She soon realized that there are three types of people in different relationships at BC. “Number one, lots of people are involved in ‘pseudo-married couples,’” she said.

Cronin describes these people as roommates or friends who have a significant other. She said these couples can get ahead of themselves and become serious too quickly.

“We know these people,” she said.

“Why do we know these people? Because we hate these people. You’re just

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Michele Norris, an award-winning journalist and special correspondent for National Public Radio, will speak about her memoir Grace of Silence: A Family Memoir, which grew out of her desire to learn how America talked about race, in the The Heights Room on Feb. 16 at 1 p.m.

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Monday, February 15, 2016

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Committee is sponsoring the 34th anniversary of The Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship Banquet on Feb. 16 at 5:30 p.m. Rev. Gregory Carl Chisholm S.J. will speak at the event in Gasson 100 and will honor the scholarship finalists.

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The International Club of Boston College and the Campus Activities Board are hosting “Countries, Cupid, and Cupcakes,” an event in which international students can talk about their home countries. The meetup will be held on Feb. 15 at 6 p.m. in the Vanderslice Cabaret Room.

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Gif]% <Xiej J\Zfe[ 8nXi[ On Feb. 12, Andy Hargreaves, a professor in the Lynch School of Education, received the Horace Mann League of the USA’s 2016 Outstanding Friend of Public Education Award, an honor presented to the public schools’ leading advocates and thinkers.

“He pushes himself at an extraordinary pace,” Dennis Shirley, a Lynch School professor who co-authored two books with Hargreaves, said. “In return for a brutal schedule, he has the reward of being highly impactful in the field.”

Hargreaves, who has studied how to improve the work of teachers, principals, and schools for nearly 30 years in his native United Kingdom, Canada, and the U.S., has contributed to more than 30 books as an author and editor. This award is his second recent major recognition—in late 2014, he shared the $100,000 Grawemeyer Prize with co-author Michael Fullan for their book Professional Capital.

“Andy’s work—specifically his recent books—and his ability to communicate to many audiences made a direct connection with us, and we’re pleased to honor him as a friend of public education,” Jack McKay, executive director of the Horace Mann League, said.

Most recently, Hargreaves served as the premier of Ontario on education policy, launched the new Journal of Professional Capital & Community and served as presidentelect of the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement.

“Horace Mann stood for great things—access for all to school, a strong teaching profession and the public good,” says Hargreaves, who came to BC in 2002, following 15 years at the University of Toronto.

“To receive an award in line with those values is one I am grateful to accept and puts me in company I’m honored to keep.”

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Abby is 14 years old and has a rare genetic disorder called CDKL5, which causes her to rely on others for everything—she cannot walk, talk, or stand on her own. She relies on a feeding tube and is legally blind. She has limited communication skills and suffers from seizures, sensory issues, sleep abnormalities, scoliosis, and severe neuro-developmental impairment.

The programs of the Campus School, her mother said, have helped Abby—she is more social and she responds to others, is able to make her opinions clear, take a few steps with assistance, bear her own weight, and hold a toothbrush.

Walter was among the speakers at a special legislative briefing conducted by MAAPS—the Massachusetts Association of 766 Approved Private Schools— as part of its #OurSchoolsCount campaign to fight for fair special education funding in the fiscal year 2017 state budget.

In the past month, eight-yearold Dorian Murray, a Rhode Island resident diagnosed with terminal cancer, has become a trending topic on social media.

Telling his dad that before he died he wanted to be famous all over the world, Murray has received thousands of messages with the hashtag #DStrong. Messages even came in from Justin Bieber and other celebrities, and he received a visit from Patriots star Rob Gronkowski.

This Friday the Boston College community joined the rest of the world in fulfilling Murray’s dream of becoming famous. In a two-minute and 30 second video posted on the Church in the 21st Century Center’s (C21) Youtube account—produced by John Walsh, CSOM ’17, and Lea Nelligan, CSON ’18—students from across the BC community joined in a fun and light-hearted tribute to Murray. Within hours of posting the video, it spread across social media and had over 3,000 views.

“I had no idea that this would become this big,” Walsh said.

The idea for the video came about two weeks before, when Nelligan saw her friends and family posting on social media about Murray and the #DStrong movement. Murray’s story especially hit home with Nelligan, whose mother was diagnosed

and treated successfully for cancer when Nelligan was in elementary school.

“I was thinking that it would be nice to take a picture of a bunch of students at the next Agape Latte event holding signs saying that he was famous at BC,” Nelligan said.

Nelligan proceeded to email Karen Kiefer, the associate director of the C21 Center who helps put on the Agape Latte events, about her idea and they both decided to do some kind of tribute for Murray at the February Agape Latte event. The day of the event, Nelligan discussed her idea with Walsh as they were making signs for the picture. Walsh, who had produced the “Boston College Shake It Off ” video last year, had the idea to make a video using all different groups from the BC community dancing, holding signs, and saying “Dorian, you’re famous at BC.” Walsh and Nelligan spent that week contacting different student groups, professors, and administrators asking if they would participate in the video.

The video features several dance teams, the pom squad, the Appalachia group, the marching band, and classes in Devlin 008.

“Everyone we asked to help out with the video was so generous, which I think is a great testament to the BC community,” Walsh said. “I apologized to Fuego [the Latin dance team] when we asked to shoot during their practice, but

Gasson and Fulton were occupied with faculty and administrators Feb. 12 from various schools in the Boston area as they discussed the best practices for promoting intercultural skill development among students in their study abroad endeavors.

The Boston Intercultural Skills Conference was a daylong event based on a similar forum hosted by Wake Forest University. With the assistance of other Boston schools and Boston College departments, the Office of International Programs began planning over the summer to organize this conference, which is the first of its kind to be held in New England.

It consisted of two keynote addresses and breakout sessions after each one. The first of the two speakers was Steven Duke, the assistant vice president for global strategy and international initiatives at the University of Nebraska, who opened with a discussion about the importance of enhancing intercultural learning in study abroad programs. He explained that through the most current research and personal experience, teachers can learn about how to give their students the most educational, immersive experience possible as they travel. Duke had helped to initiate the conference that takes place at Wake

Forest every year, which is one of the reasons that the OIP decided he would be an ideal speaker.

The second keynote speaker, Matthew L. Goode of the BC Center for Teaching Excellence, asked the audience to consider the importance of student reflection as a part of these programs. Several panelists shared personal anecdotes about strategies that have inspired productive reflections from their own students.

In one of the breakout sessions, BC political science professor Kathleen Bailey described her experience leading a summer course called “Kuwait: Politics & Oil in the Gulf.”

She focused on the role that culture shock plays in an American college student’s trip to a foreign country such as Kuwait.

“They all tell me they are not going to experience any culture shock at all,” she said, prompting a laugh.

Bailey then explained that she prepares them for the difference in cultural behavior but that she is careful not to talk about it too much, for fear of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Thus, she has learned that it is a careful balance. The surprise of different customs, such as gender segregation, is inevitably confusing to students every year when she conducts the program. Bailey explained that at first the students tell her that their heads hurt because they are having such

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Students create a video to grant terminally ill boy’s wish to become famous. they said, ‘No problem. Our time is your time.’”

Because of the outpouring of support during the production and the response that the video received, both Walsh and Nelligan described the experience as humbling and inspiring.

“As a college student, it is easy to forget about home and about other people’s struggles and pain,” Nelligan said. “It is important to be reminded that there are people suffering and that we can be present to them and make a positive impact when we come together.”

As Walsh and Nelligan hoped, the video created enough traffic on the Internet that it reached Murray’s family. By Friday afternoon, Murray’s grandmother, who saw the video that morning, sent

an email to the Office of Public Affairs expressing her heartfelt thanks for the support and solidarity in the BC community.

For the Murray family, the video could not have come at a better time. The Facebook page “Praying for Dorian,” which has close to 100,000 likes and thousands of messages of support to Murray and his family, was hacked on Thursday night and had to be shut down. The BC video was able to divert attention away from this unfortunate situation and continue the message of love and support for Murray.

The video ends by fading to a black background with the words, “You’ve inspired hearts around the world. And now you’re forever famous.”

Friday, Feb. 12

8:39 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a larceny from Conte Forum.

1:52 a.m. - A report was filed regarding medical assistance provided to a BC student who was transported to a medical facility from the Commuter Lot.

1:33 p.m. - A report was filed regarding property that was confiscated from Rubenstein Hall.

trouble figuring the culture out.

“You are learning things and seeing things through a different pair of eyes,” Bailey said. “And it hurts.”

Yet, she has seen a pattern in which the students grow accustomed to the differences in social norms after several weeks.

Lynne Anderson, the director of the Program for English Language Learners at BC, also spoke about her background leading the creative writing workshop “Food Writing in Paris.” Before discussing her experience bringing students abroad to France, she explained that teachers can learn a lot by looking at the international students here on the BC campus.

While she recognized the comfort of traveling with peers from their home country, she talked about how pushing these students to immerse themselves further can be extremely beneficial.

“There is a fine balance between support and autonomy,” Anderson said.

Other breakout sessions included “Navigating the Faculty-Student Relationship Abroad,” “Integrating Short-Term Programs into Undergraduate Curricula,” and “Utilizing Technology In and Out of the Classroom.” Although the speakers on each panel were mostly members of the BC community, there were

several educators representing other universities, including Brandeis and Yale.

The conference was a collaborative event that allowed for the sharing of teaching perspectives from different institutions. They focused on the various factors that come together in a student’s experience studying abroad, including relationships, sightseeing, and levels of cultural immersion. An overarching theme throughout the day was the essential need for an open mind that is willing to learn. The more open a student is to learning about and embracing the cultural differences of the country they are visiting, the better the experience is in the end. This was made evident to each of these professors in the students’ reflections.

“The purpose of study abroad is to suspend judgment,” Bailey said.

Erin Shevlin, the summer and internships program manager in the OIP, thought the event was successful.

“Attendees seemed to appreciate the balance of knowledge-sharing provided in the keynote addresses with the more informal, discussion-based breakout sessions,” she said. “The opportunity to connect with colleagues doing similar work at other local institutions was a big strength of the event.”

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CORRECTIONS Thursday’s UGBC Debate article indicated that Joseph Arquillo was the campaign manager for UGBC president Thomas Napoli and EVP Olivia Hussey.

Arquillo was not the campaign manager and did not attend meetings with senior campaign leaders.

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The Elections Committee, however, did not meet with Afua Laast, LSOE ’16, and James Kale, LSOE ’16, the heads of ALC, or Nick Minieri, the chair of GLC and CSOM ’16, before coming to a decision, Minieri said. Laast, Kale, and Minieri emailed the Committee on Thursday morning hoping to meet to discuss the issue before the vote on Thursday night, Minieri said. ALC and GLC had not been in contact with Foley, McCarthy, or any member of their campaign team either, he said.

After the vote was cast, Minieri came into contact with the Office of Student Involvement, which heads the Elections Committee.

OSI confirmed that there was still time to reach a new decision. Mills then spoke with OSI, and it decided to ignore the vote until further discussion could take place between the Elections Committee, ALC, and GLC. Diversity Inclusion is planning to meet with the chairs of the Elections Committee and its graduate advisor next week to discuss changes to the debate.

The Elections Committee sees the change as an opportunity to reach out to other groups on campus and diversify the questions even further, co-chair of the Elections Committee Rachel Mills said.

<e[fnd\ek N`cc Y\ I\m`\n\[ Endowment, from A1 All eight Ivy League schools are also being reviewed.

The 13-question survey asks about endowment management, endowment use and spending, how the school handles donations, and conflict of interest policies. The survey must be completed and returned by April 1.

The lawmakers compiled the list of universities based on data published annually by the National Association of College and University Business Officers. Their report also mentioned that in 2014, endowments had an average return on investment of 15.5 percent and an average payout rate of 4.4 percent.

Last month, Tom Reed, a Republican congressman from New York, proposed a bill that required schools with endowments over $1 billion to give 25 percent of their investment income to aid financially needy students.

Under the draft bill, if the universities did not comply, they would no longer be considered a tax-exempt entity.

“Specifically, we are working to hold colleges accountable and ensure that they are using their endowments to offer direct student aid to students from working and middle class families to help them afford college,” Reed said on his website.

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The second type of people are people who opt out of any form of relationships. These people use the excuse that they are too busy or cannot find the right person to date.

Cronin, however, believes that there is always time for dating, and among the thousands of students at BC, there are many dating possibilities.

The third type of people are involved in the hookup culture.

Cronin believes this is a majority of BC students.

She then outlined the 10 main rules for hooking up, poking fun at what she views as a problematic social script.

“If you’re going to participate you must follow these 10 rules,” she said.

The first rule is to avoid being awkward.

“Awkward people suck,” she said.

She explained that young people are inherently terrified of social awkwardness.

They go as far as distancing themselves from certain people in order to avoid a potentially awkward situation.

The second and third rules are to go out and to drink.

“You need to drink if you are going to participate in hookup culture,” she

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said. “Alcohol is the fuel the hookup culture needs.”

The next set of rules relates to the hookup itself. Cronin said while hooking up, it is important not talk about it, not to ask strange questions, and to know where your belongings are, in case you need to make a speedy escape and avoid an awkward situation. She also explained to students that staying overnight is the wrong move, as

the next morning will be extremely uncomfortable.

The last set of rules relates to the aftermath of the hookup.

Cronin criticized the belief that students should tell the story of the hookup to their friends because it is a great ego boost and it helps improve social status.

“The 10th important rule is this: get over it. It wasn’t a ‘thing,’” she

said.

Cronin believes that students are not fully satisfied with the hookup culture and want to seek more, but they are too nervous to ask others on dates.

“Isn’t it strange that the most formal, high-pressure thing is asking someone out for a cup of coffee?” she said.

This anomaly prompted Cronin to create the infamous “dating assignment” for her students. As a final project for a junior and senior seminar she taught, students were required to take another student on a date.

She told students if they did not complete this assignment, they would not pass “the class.”

Cronin outlined specific rules for the date. First, the student must ask the other student out in person, not over text message.

The date must last 60 to 90 minutes, and it must take place somewhere off campus, where walking with your date is required.

“First dates are reconnaissance work only,” she said. “This is not a 2 a.m. walk around the ‘Res.’” Cronin believes that the point of a first date is for students and their dates to be themselves. Only then can a true relationship begin to form.

“The date should end in an Aframe hug: shoulders in, all genitalia out,” she said.

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B8PC8 =<IE8E;F Flash back to the spring of my senior year of high school. As the last days of the year came to a close, all we could do was squirm in our seats, impatiently waiting for graduation and talking about college to pass the time between now and the end of one of the most important phases of our lives. With the changing of the season came a change in energy among the senior class, as a barrage of sweatshirts emblazoned with college colors meshed into a dizzying rainbow that disrupted the usual blue and gold motif of the school building. In retrospect, we were hormones and fear masquerading in college sweatshirts and graduation gowns—our big-man-on-campus attitude was just a childish demand to the adult world to acknowledge our presence.

Amid all the excitement, I found that I wasn’t as happy as everyone else. I would wear my Boston College sweatshirt as proudly as my closest high school friends would wear their own schools’, but their stark differences hinted at the elephant in the room that we never wanted to mention: we were all going to different colleges, and we were afraid for the future of our friendships.

We were a motley crew coming from different walks of life, yet destined to sit together in the same class and join the same clubs that would solidify

our friendship throughout high school.

Looking back, high school was merely a crossroads in our individual lives, and we were destined yet again to go our separate ways to become the scientist, the writer, the engineer, the teacher, and the chef. I certainly wasn’t going to stop my friends from following their dreams, as I trusted them to not stop me from pursuing mine.

We’d have reunions whenever our schedules would line up, all meeting at a friend’s house and always starting the conversation with the standard “How’s college?” We would reminisce over the “good old days” of high school like adults in a mid-life crisis, if that says anything about how much more we had yet to learn.

But as the conversations wore on, I found that we would struggle to talk about anything besides high school.

Old inside jokes would come up but quickly lose their humor, and the names of classmates I struggled to remember would form strange consonants and vowels in my mouth. The memories of asphyxiating uniforms, morning announcement music videos, wood-paneled classrooms, influential teachers, and weekend retreats that had started to become blurry around the edges would come into focus for a fleeting moment, before receding back into memory. The mire of our past had become the only foundation that we could all stand on. If we didn’t pay attention to our surroundings, we would

never have guessed that we were actually drowning.

When my friends said they wanted to see me and visit BC, I was thrilled at the prospect at introducing them to my second home. I just had to enjoy a meal with them at Eagle’s Deli in Cleveland Circle, laugh at our exhaustion climbing up the Million Dollar Stairs, and see their awestruck expressions standing in front of Fulton Hall and hearing the sound of the Gasson bells ringing in the middle of a quiet, snowy evening.

A picture of my best friends superimposed on a #gassongram represents the two halves of my life, my past and my future, meeting in the present. I found it hard to reconcile the two in an image that almost seemed like it was Photo-

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shopped. In the end, the Gothic spires towered over all of us.

After my high school graduation, I went through every social media account I had and cathartically purged myself of the company of other classmates I was confident I would never see again. Social media is currently the only tether I have to my high school friends, but with each new status update and picture on my news feed, the more I realize that we are all becoming different people, and I wonder if they feel the divergence as much as I do.

Do I miss my high school friends?

I can’t give you a definitive answer.

While I would like to say that high school was the last thing on my mind as I strolled up Linden Lane for the first time as a member of the BC Class of 2018, I knew that I wouldn’t have made it here if it weren’t for the support of my friends. If we are the product of our past experiences, then I hope that I was as formative a part of their lives as they were a part of mine. But as time goes on, new college friends will replace our old high school ones and the “good old days” will soon refer to these four years of maturation and true adulthood. I know we’re all happy with where we are now and with what we’re doing. I know we’ve met the right people who will challenge us to grow as individuals.

I don’t know the next time I’ll see my high school friends again, but when I do, I know that a new elephant will be in the room: the gut-wrenching realization that one day, I won’t recognize their faces anymore.

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Gfk\ek`Xc :clY =ffkYXcc K\Xd Gifm`[\j 8k_c\k`Z Flkc\k ]fi Jkl[\ekj 9P <B8K?<I@E8 J?CP:?BFM =fi K_\ ?\`^_kj What does Boston University have that Boston College doesn’t? Apparently, a club football team. But worry not, because Robert Jacques, CSOM ’18, and Michael Cerminaro, MCAS ’19, are rectifying this situation by spearheading the effort to form the first club football team at BC. For the past year, the two of them have been working diligently to allow this club to take shape. The club is still in the approval process, but the approval meeting is scheduled for this April. Jacques and Cerminaro have lost no time.

“This September we made it our goal to be as prepared for the meeting as we can be, so they have little to reject it on,” Jacques said. “So we’ve been working on the budget and the constitution, working on getting the roster together.

It’s been an interesting year.”

Right now, Jacques and Cerminaro’s roster has 49 members. “[That’s] only counting people that we have all their information for,” Jacques said. “We have a few others, but just to be sure we are counting those who gave us everything.”

At the last major meeting in December, around 40 students showed. Since the club is still in the approval process, the members are part of one of three committees within the club: finance, membership, and rules. Presiding over the committees is the E-Board, of which Jacques is president and Cerminaro is vice president and head of the finance committee. If the club is approved, there will be an additional player’s side, and the club members can both play and be a part of the management process.

“We’ve really been working hard, honestly,” Cerminaro said. “There’s a lot of things that go into it. I don’t even know if I was expecting how much work

it would take, but we’re trying to take every step necessary to please the [BC] committee and give us the best chance of being approved.”

A club football team is different from varsity, because club football is almost completely student-run and less of a time commitment. Club football also provides a different experience of football. In high school, many students join a team and do not have a say in how the team is run or what the team looks like. Club football, meanwhile, is more democratic—it will give students a chance to be part of the process, and have a voice in what they do.

“Nothing against the student athletes, but [club football is] truly representative of the student body,” Jacques said. “No one on the team is getting scholarships and no one was recruited to come here. It’s just people that go to KELSEY MCGEE / HEIGHTS EDITOR

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K_\i\ Xe[ 9XZb 8^X`e1 DXjjXZ_lj\kkj kf k_\ DXjfe$;`ofe C`e\ JILL LALLY If I can help to normalize this idea of “abnormal” college experiences, of transferring, of taking time off, of figuring it out, then so be it. I’m happy to do so. What worries me is not the idea of failing, but rather the idea of complacency in our fellow, young, 20-yearold peers. This may be the only period of time in our lives that we are able to just up and run, to leave without fear

of serious consequence, to go figure out who we want to be and where we want to be it. One day we are going to know our immediate future—our careers, our kids, our spouse(s). Use this time wholeheartedly and, well, a bit recklessly.

BC is an incredible institution, truly. Similar to many of y’all, however, the Heights was not my first choice straight out of high school. And to no surprise, I grew restless as the months rolled by. I, like many of you, held high

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hopes and expected to have the world as my oyster when shipping up to Boston. I expected maybe two hours of class a day instead of the three classes, two recitations, and four-hour lab my days turned out to be. Finals clubs and brown rice Alaskan maki-maki were seemingly replaced with less-thanposh Newton pregames and slightly less-than-edible grilled chicken from Stuart.

So while my best friends from home were pontooning on the Chattanooga River and fratting it up on the Gulf Shore, I decided to re-apply to my “dream university.” And, sure enough, I wasn’t rejected. Being so terribly indecisive, however, I was now caught between taking the chance of transferring or staying on a campus that had grown comfortable. As petty and pre-med as it may sound, it ultimately came down to academic prestige and the university I thought would most positively impact my med school application. Medically speaking, BC was the lesser option.

Consequently, however, I found myself even farther from where I wished to be as a person, beyond simply a pre-med student. Lacking the school spirit, the big city, the undermining emphasis on service, and—though many may argue—the lower-stress environment of the Heights, I grew homesick for BC. Surprisingly enough, my year abroad in the South was nothing like I imagined it would be.

Although the first few months radiated an exciting sense of unknown, I found that all those petty aspects that drove me away from BC were amplified there. Maybe transferring was the right decision—who knows—but I certainly choose the wrong place to go. Thus, as my sophomore year progressed, the emptiness of the Heights began to set in, and my youthful restlessness began to chip away, realizing the grass was not always greener.

So here it goes: College might not be the path you envisioned, nor the easiest, nor the one that brings the most immediate joy. But hey, it’s not supposed to be.

Yes, I am here to tell all you underclassmen that BC isn’t so god-forsaken after all. I am also here, however, to tell you that there is a certain pride that comes with taking chances to figure out what it is you’re looking for, even if that means going it alone, and especially when the journey is not easy. You may never up and run on the scale that I did, but at some point in your college career, I urge you to choose to do so.

Yes, transferring is a hassle to say the very least, but we’re so young. While we’re 21 years old (or so our IDs say), the last thing on our minds should be the fear of taking chances.

With the consistency set by our mundane, daily routines of core classes and O’Neill study sessions, it’s so easy to grow ignorant of the freedom we

have during college. We must not forget to work our way out of these paths, some pre-determined by our parents, some pre-planned by our advisers, and some pre-preparing us for futures we aren’t certain of in the first place. But by throwing ourselves into uncomfortable situations and feeling so hopelessly lost, we force ourselves to figure it out—to figure something out. Although my time abroad in the southern United States wasn’t what I had envisioned, I learned so much about myself from the process, and for that I am tremendously grateful.

Now, I’m not suggesting you necessarily transfer (or transfer back) if you are unhappy, transferring (or transferring back) certainly isn’t the means to all ends. But rather, be spontaneous within Boston: go abroad in a non-BC program, take a gap year to travel or a semester off for an internship, go somewhere, do something. We’re going to have to pick our battles later on in life, so let’s use this time to gauge which ones are worth the fight in the first place. Please don’t let the idea of having the typical, traditional college experience sway your decision or your pride, because for this brief period in our lives, it’s just as easy to remain stagnant as it is to figure it out.

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conjunction with our Test Kitchen initiative,” Cripps said. “This program was to help test new items in the different If you are a Boston College student dining halls across campus to see how that is hungry past 8 p.m., there is one it is received.”

One of these dinner items is the place to go—Late Night. Hosted in both McElroy and Corcoran Dining Halls Holy Grain, a cooked-to-order dish that from 8:30 to 12:00 Sunday-Thursday, offers four types of grains (wheat berand later on weekend nights, the central ries, red quinoa, barley, and bulgur) and food hubs for the late-night eaters on four different proteins (tofu, chicken, campus offer more than the coveted beef, and shrimp) that received positive reviews. chicken fingers and mozzarella sticks.

“We have tried from time to time, Late Night has been open for over 35 years as a safe alternative for students resoundingly it keeps coming back to chicken finat night. gers and moz“It started zarella sticks ,” as an initiative Michael Forcier, between Stugeneral mandent Affairs and ager of McElroy Dining Services Commons, said. so the students “By far nothing would have a comes close. place to go on We offer grilled campus at night,” chicken at Late Derrick Cripps, Night at McElgeneral manag—Derrick Cripps, general roy because we er of Corcoran manager of Corcoran Commons f e e l t h a t i t i s Commons, said. one option that “The great thing they can always about BC’s Late Night program, unlike most of the have.”

Late Night isn’t going to offer schools in the area, is that ours is all on everything that every student wants, the mandatory dining plan.”

While mozzarella sticks and chick- so students need to look at the options en fingers are the most popular items on that are available, and if they aren’t the menu, there is a push for healthier happy, reach out to the dining staff with options to be added to the late-night their ideas. They want to hear student fare. But due to health laws, items like feedback and are willing to try new salad and fruit bars cannot be kept open options that make sense for the dining so late. By law, these fresh foods need to program.

“A dietician intern is working right be discarded after a certain amount of time, and since a minority of students now,” Forcier said. “She has been interare taking these options, it doesn’t make viewing and talking to students right now. A lot of times people don’t realize sense to keep them running.

McElroy and Corcoran are run what we do have. We are going to try under different management teams, and take the items that we do have in but they are both trying to implement the grab and go cooler and put them in the existing salad bar so they are more healthier options.

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“The great thing about BC’s Late Night program, unlike most of the schools in the area, is that ours is all on the mandatory meal plan.”

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It’s occurred to me that while we, as students, and publications in particular I might add, love talking about these subcultures that we have created in our minds, we have overlooked a very major one.

I’ll put it this way: no matter how long you’ve been attending school here at BC, if you’ve never awkwardly held a door for someone, it means that you have probably have never eaten, gone to class, gone to the library, or likely even left your residence hall. I suppose I’m leaving out the possibility that you could also be a bad person, but I trust that’s not the case—you’re an informed reader of The Heights, after all! But I digress…

Individual temperaments aside, a distinct collective consciousness exists on this campus surrounding this doorway dilemma. Surely, nearly everybody who walks these halls has found him or herself trapped in one of the many purgatories created by the nature of this culture, of disconcerting door decorum disorder.

I, like most people I know, am by no means an expert on this confusion. I grapple with these doorway interactions daily, and as I meditate upon it now, I realize that writing this piece will be an exercise in exploring the nuances of door etiquette just as much as it will be an exercise in elucidating them. In other words, we’re in this together right now.

The only thing that I know is that I know

absolutely nothing about how to properly hold a door in certain situations, and often this confusion has derailed entire days of mine. We’re on the same page, literally and figuratively. With this Socratic ignorance of mine now established in ink, let’s (again, we’re in this together) work it out. So, let’s take this opportunity to address the matter at hand: consider this column a tentative first endeavor to dictate a decree on door decorum.

It’s important first to state that the door-holding culture at BC is superb. It’s a beautiful thing, and it should be cherished and nurtured. This column is by no means a condemnation of the culture that is undoubtedly pervasive at BC, as I personally find it hugely redeeming.

Keep it up, everybody. I’m just here to let you know you’re not alone if the awkwardness that comes with the territory feels like too much to bear.

This being said, I think the main takeaway is don’t sweat it. For example, if you’re walking well ahead of another individual and happen to be opening the door with a substantial margin between you and that individual, you should feel no remorse in just letting the door close.

Holding the door for that person will just make her feel obliged to pick up her pace and do an awkward backpackon quasi-run-trot to demonstrate her understanding of your polite gesture.

She doesn’t want that. You don’t want that. Let that door close behind you and don’t fear. Now, as with all situations, there are obvious exceptions in which you should probably commit to holding the door for an extended period. Exceptions include individuals on crutches, or people carrying large objects which would otherwise inhibit their ability to efficiently open a door, to name a few.

These situations aside, don’t sweat it. Let that door close behind you with ice in your veins. The person trailing you will feel better that he doesn’t feel obliged

to run for the door, and you can get on with your life. You’ll be a better person for it, and there’s no need to feel like a heartless beast.

Now this is just a preliminary guide, and is by no means an all-encompassing guide to door discomforts.

Surely, we will all continue to do battle with these situations for years to come.

For example, one scenario I often encounter is one in which you’re within door-holding range, but cannot feasibly slow your momentum in time to stop and properly hold the door. In these scenarios, I usually push the door hard enough that, in my mind, it will still be open enough for the person approaching. In reality, however, I’ll generally end up pushing the door open too forcefully, and the spring-loaded door will end up bouncing back and actually closing forcefully on that poor individual. I have no cure for this other than to perfect this door-pushing form, but surely this issue will plague me for the remainder of my time here.

You might think, “but James, the real question is, who cares? I’ve never even vaguely thought about this problem before in my life. I hold doors in a totally normal, socially acceptable way, and I’ve never have a second thought about it. I plan to carry on my really enjoyable and fulfilling life. Why do you torture yourself over ridiculous things like cheese trays and doors? It seems like you’re making it your mission to sabotage my life by trying to force these awful existential dilemmas into my daily narrative.

Why would you wish this upon me?”

In short—I wish you nothing but the best in the future, stranger. As I’ve mentioned in previous columns, any outcomes involving existential crises are genuinely fortuitous consequences, rather than consequences of design.

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9: J_flc[ Lj\ GfglcXi M`[\fj kf Jgi\X[ D\jjX^\j This past Friday, the Boston College Church in the 21st Century Center released a new video tribute to Dorian Murray, an 8-year-old cancer patient.

Murray was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, a pediatric cancer, when he was four years old. Recently, his cancer was determined to no longer be treatable. This sparked a social media campaign, driven by the hashtag #DStrong, to spread awareness of Murray’s struggle, and has sparked a considerable outpouring of support from people across the country.

BC’s recent contribution to this campaign comes in the form of the previously mentioned video, a compilation of students dancing around campus locations, a style seen in a number of previous C21 videos. Students hold signs reading, “Hey Dorian, you are famous at Boston College” and “#DStrong.”

This video is clearly a positive and worthwhile use of resources toward a good cause. Besides the obviously praiseworthy aspects of this project, it also illustrates the possibilities of the video format BC has been using to further marketing and publicity for the past year.

Many videos, including C21’s Taylor Swift “Shake it Off ” video and the many Office of News and Public Affairs seasons videos such as “Fall” and “Winter,” have generated serious traction online and have been useful marketing tools.

While the University needs these videos to improve enrollment numbers and achieve publicity goals, it should also begin using this new tool to further other causes and campaigns.

Many of the videos produced serve mostly as attractions for prospective BC students and do little to address the issues that current BC students face or the various efforts of the administration in areas such as mental health and positive body image.

These marketing-focused videos remain

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important for the purpose of admissions, but the medium should be expanded to disseminate information on other topics meant for current BC students and their interests.

The DStrong tribute video is a good example of a cause B C can adv ance through the use of these popular videos.

There are many messages that BC should address and campaigns that these videos can further.

Some examples of this would be the many mental health awareness campaigns, Love Your Body week, and diversity and inclusion campaigns.

K_\ ;Jkife^ ki`Ylk\ `j X ^ff[ \oXdgc\ f] X ZXlj\ k_Xk 9: ZXe X[mXeZ\ k_ifl^_ k_\ lj\ f] k_\j\ gfglcXi m`[\fj% K_\ ZXdgX`^ej Xe[ \]]fikj f] jkl[\ekj ZXe Y\ X[[i\jj\[ dfi\ fg\ecp Xe[ [`i\Zkcp `e k_`j nXp% There are many talented people on campus with the skills and motivation to disseminate information and messages through online formats such as the DStrong video.

BC should seek out these people and strive to use them in the creation of widespread online projects such as this, which can gain considerable traction on social media.

The campaigns and efforts of students across campus can be addressed more openly and directly through these kinds of videos.

This would demonstrate engagement while also promoting interest and furthering the relevant cause.

“Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.”

-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

LETTER TO THE EDITOR A Response Regarding Proposed UGBC Debate Changes In 1998, The Heights published “Debate Format Unbalanced,” an editorial admonishing the Elections Committee for acting as the sole moderators of the UGBC election debate: “This restriction … gives a few governing people, who are supposedly unbiased, the right to dictate the agenda of the debate. The idea that one body of people will choose all of the questions is rather limiting.” Sixteen years later, the new editorial board takes a different position asserting that including members of the AHANA Leadership Council (ALC) and the GLBTQ Leadership Council (GLC) in the debate is a conflict of interest, as these councils exist within UGBC. Although any effort to make the debates more fair should be taken seriously, we urge the candidates, the editorial board, and the Elections Committee to consider this issue in its historical context and to think critically about the unintended consequences of denying ALC and GLC participation in the debate.

Concerns over a conflict of interest ignore several truths. First, ALC and GLC leadership refrain from endorsing candidates during the election in order to ask questions at the debate. Secondly, the presumption of unfairness obscures the fact that members of UGBC are diverse thinkers who look for different factors in an ideal candidate. Previous involvement in the organization does not guarantee the support of its members. Finally, the assumption that including ALC and GLC leadership is a conflict of interest is not only unlikely, but degrading; it implies that the organization’s members care more about getting their supposed friends elected than they do about the real, substantive issues.

Never in our experience has any team been given the debate questions prior to the debate or any other unfair advantage by

UGBC in general, ALC, or GLC. The ramifications of implementing the suggested changes are significant. ALC and GLC exist to represent the interests of underrepresented groups of students on campus. They are part of UGBC because it provides funding and protection of their advocacy work. Members of ALC and GLC conduct research, create policy recommendations, and advocate in meetings with administrators. In the case of GLC, it is the only student group that works to address policy issues facing the LGBTQ+ community. As such, the questions that these councils ask during the debate take into account the challenges they have faced in their work. This is a lens that affinity groups and individual students may not be able to offer. The history of these councils reveals that both their voice and status on campus have been threatened numerous times. By having the opportunity to pose questions to the candidates, these councils are ensuring the future leaders of UGBC care about their communities.

With this in mind, we recommend that the Elections Committee continues to allow student leaders in ALC and GLC to ask questions at the debate. This is not about giving these groups special privileges—it is about ensuring there is equal and adequate representation in the debate.

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A curriculum revamp at the Woods College of Advancing Studies is renewing a focus on online and non-traditional education. The Woods College will now offer master’s degrees in cybersecurity policy and governance, applied economics, and health care administration.

Some of these courses are entirely online, while others include in-class aspects as well.

As a college designed to provide students with practical degrees that prepare them to practice specific skills, the Woods College has taken a good step in expanding its offerings and creating programs that maximize benefit.

With a focus on non-traditional education, the College benefits from constantly evolving to meet the needs of the workforce interested in further education.

The College appeals to professionals who have already begun working in a specific field, like law, and a renewed focus on online classes allows more time-constrained students to pursue these newly offered master’s degrees.

By evolving with the times and creating new ways for potential students to attend, the Woods College exemplifies the importance of expanding into online offerings and new fields, such as the cybersecurity degree.

This degree has already generated interest from lawyers and other law professionals attempting to master new skills necessary for the future of law and technology services.

Another positive aspect of this revamp is the increased inclusion of Boston College undergraduates in Woods Courses.

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Full-time BC students are permitted to take one four-credit class per semester in Woods. It also offers an “accelerated master’s program” which accepts a maximum of two undergraduate courses that can be counted as part of a graduate degree. This allows students to earn a graduate degree in less time.

The appeal of these offerings lies in the uniqueness of some Woods College classes, as well as the preparatory aspect for those students interested in a graduate education.

These efforts to include traditional BC undergraduates in the Woods College and

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With a considerable amount of students interested in broadening the scope of their classes and possibly gaining a head start on their graduate studies, these increased offerings present a good opportunity that students should consider taking advantage of during their time as undergraduates.

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Smoking a cigarette is optional, but highly recommended.

HYPOCRISY - It tends to get a bad rap, but we personally love hypocrisy like a small malformed rabbit we found in the backyard. Shamelessly saying one thing while doing the other is the best. It’s what separates us from savage animals.

A GNAWING FEELING OF DREAD - Waking up every morning with the terrifying certainty that everything is falling apart around you and that your world is one step away from total ruin is a good way to keep on your toes. So next time you wake up at 4 in the morning drenched in sweat, with your stomach in knots, remember that at least no one can call you apathetic.

BEING APATHETIC - Sometimes a casual shrug is the best way to confront a situation. When the world confronts you with responsibility just wave your arms in the air and sing “Where have all the flowers gone?” in the gentlest of gentle voices.

My parents never gave me the sex talk. I distinctly remember witnessing the infamous car scene in Titanic through the gaps between my mother’s fingers, straining to hear the unintelligible noises escaping from the TV. Fifth grade puberty videos introduced an impressionable 10-year-old to one of the most horrifying things about female development: the tampon. Middle school health class was my awakening to horrifying realities of puberty and adolescence. Sex, emotions, and their many complications were things I never wanted to address in front of my peers, especially those who loved crude humor. So naturally, I became the brunt of their accusations of naivete. Since then, discussions about sexuality, especially female sexuality, have become more sophisticated and have been contextualized in college hookup cultures. Despite all of this, there seems to be a muted quality to many of the conversations I have been a part of about women and sex, that there is deeper desire to not offend rather than to educate. That is, until I went to see The Vagina Monologues.

For those who don’t know, The Vagina Monologues is an episodic play written

by Eve Ensler that gathers a diverse and engaging group of women to deliver their testimonies about, essentially, what it means to have a vagina. The spectrum of personalities includes characters such as a transgender woman, a vagina workshop participant, a woman who witnessed her daughter giving birth, and a Bosnian rape survivor. Boston College’s production was outlandishly hilarious and devastatingly beautiful, tapping into the deep well of human emotions through effusive storytelling and exaggerated moaning.

Throughout the performance, I felt an unabashed pride for being female—not that I was ever ashamed of it before, but I felt celebrated throughout this performance. Through my perceptions, I could only imagine the wonderful things that

this pride could do for all women at BC, showing them to never feel the need to be embarrassed for being their unapologetic selves.

The Vagina Monologues dug out all the awkwardness, beauty, tragedies, instances of self-love, and hairy moments of womanhood and shoved them in my face that evening. There was no “feel free to step outside if this makes you feel uncomfortable,” no disclaimer before orgasmic moans erupted from the stage.

The production showed that the truth is uncomfortable, but in order to learn anything, one must learn how to not only bear the discomfort, but to embrace it.

BC has wonderful groups on campus to address women’s issues—however, there is a sense of coddling that permeates the messages they express. The rawness of emotions and truth gets trapped behind a barrier, constructed with the objective of protecting the teller and the listener from each other—the teller from the listener’s judgment and the listener from the truth’s abrasiveness.

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It is the pursuit of “the lesson learned” that reveals the depth of experience and character within an individual. And finally, when the individual grasps insight from

the truth, he or she experiences a feeling that is nearly orgasmic. No judgment and no pretense. If conversations about sensitive issues at BC could be carried out with the golden ratio of lightheartedness, story weaving, and enlightenment, we would all arrive at countless realities together.

I honestly had no idea what I was getting myself into when I purchased the tickets for The Vagina Monologues, but I left with a new appreciation for vaginas and the testimonies of their owners. For me, watching the performance was more than just watching a work of art unfold before my eyes. It was a proclamation against the oppression that women face in today’s society. It was a statement of ownership of one’s body.

In the span of the performance, I laughed until it hurt, and then I kept laughing, I fell in love with the exceptional acting and the wonderful storytelling, and I empathized with characters that were so different from me. All fear and shame paled as the mystified and misunderstood facts of life materialized in the consciousnesses of all the audience members. The implication was that these weren’t just stories, but they were lived experiences and that each woman’s experience was just as unique and worthwhile as the next.

I realized that these sorts of open conversations are the ones that are necessary for discussing sensitive issues regarding sexuality at BC. Women on college campuses are at a high risk of feeling embarrassment about their own bodies from their peers, resulting in lower body confidence or feeling “slutshamed.” Rumors and accusations spread like norovirus, infecting their minds with misguided ideas of ugliness and inadequacy. Especially in today’s age, as sexual assaults plague campuses, such open conversations are necessary to put an end to the silent suffering by allowing men and women alike to celebrate female strength and beauty. Honest dialogue would allow students at BC and on other college campuses, to open themselves to vulnerability but find strength in the support provided by their peers.

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STRAYING FROM THE SYLLABUS Whenever a professor proposes a change of readings or assignments, just grab the sides of your head, cross your eyes, and scream the lyrics to “Uptown Girl.” In this chaotic world of ever-changing circumstances, can’t we at least be able to rely on the infallible syllabus?

HYPOCRISY - What a terrible thing!

Emphatically waving our finger in the air with an expression of haughty indignance, we denounce hypocrisy and everything it represents.

THIN WALLS- You’re lying in your bed trying to get some sleep, when you hear the first shriek. The laughter from the adjacent room rips through the wall like a chainsaw through a thinly stretched layer of cowhide.

They have returned. “No,” you whisper, your voice quivering. “NO.” A conversation erupts in the room next door and within minutes you have heard an extremely detailed account of how that tramp Jill is going out with Dan just because his family has a summer home in Newport. She doesn’t even care about him! Standing up from your bed, your eyes red from lack of sleep, you sprint to the other side of the room and begin pounding your fists against the wall while screaming maniacally.

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E@:?FC8J ?@JJFE> 2008 isn’t a year that inspires too much nostalgia in Americans. The global financial crisis and Iraq War don’t exactly make us yearn for “the good old days,” but there was one thing about that year worth remembering with a bit of blissful sentimentality: the presidential race. We didn’t know it at the time, but McCain vs. Obama, with the exception of the Palin debacle, was a treat for the American people. There were no scandals over classified emails and campaign money of questionable origins, no crude, insulting debate exchanges, and, relative to the election of 2016, there was very little anger. It was an election of optimism, despite the desperate state of the country—optimism inspired by two competent and respectable candidates up for election. Now, almost a decade later, with America rebounding economically and having extracted herself from a good deal of the foreign conflict that defined 2008, where is that optimism?

Somewhere in the eight years between then and now, it went up in a giant cloud of fearful smoke. Perhaps it was with the rise of ISIS in the Middle East and with the creation of an entirely new, highly publicized terrorist threat. Perhaps it is a product of the American economy’s not recovering from the crisis of 2008 as rapidly as many voters expected it to. Perhaps it is not related to any specific, recent occurrence, but instead a culmination of a decades-long disenchantment with the American political system, built upon a generation of unrealized promises and undelivered reform. Or, perhaps it is because there are no presidential candidates who actually inspire optimism.

To the presidential hopefuls of 2008, who crisscrossed the country delivering speeches and meeting for respectful, sub-

stantial debates, this year’s election would seem ridiculous. If John McCain and Barack Obama of eight years ago were reproduced and thrown onto the current political stage, would they not find it absolutely foreign, and not a little unnerving? Would they not look on the blustering candidates on both sides of the aisle, shouting their infeasible ideas at maximum volume and with minimum detail into a rioting crowd, as empty-headed demagoguery? Would they not wonder why the candidates aim not to inspire their voters, but to terrify them?

This year’s election is being widely referred to as an election of fear. Would they not wonder where the calculated optimism of the American people, which bore Barack Obama to a historic victory in 2008, has disappeared to?

The optimism of 2008, in hindsight, hinged heavily on the quality of the presidential candidates. A certain level of trust between the American people and the establishment they were in the process of electing elevated what would have been an otherwise bleak situation to a potentially bearable one. This is a remarkably different situation than today’s, in which Hillary Clinton, the supposedly de facto standard bearer of the Democratic Party, has seen her levels of trust fall to an unelectably low level after various scandals, and Donald Trump, the leader in the Republican primaries, inspires genuine fear in a significant amount of the populace.

Consider, also, how this year’s candidates use rhetoric. The nominees of 2008 tried to earn votes in an entirely different way than the angry pulpiteering we see today—they made people proud to cast their ballots and made them believe there was a future for America. The candidates of 2016 preach panic. They preach that America is headed toward destruction if we don’t elect them quickly and angrily. But is that really the case?

America already hit her relative low. She hit it eight years ago when the economy was in shambles, the military was caught up in a costly, unpopular Iraq War, and the people were overwhelmingly disappointed in the

leadership they had chosen. Since then, America has withdrawn a huge portion of troops from Iraq and exited Afghanistan entirely, and the economy, though not back where it was at the height of its 21st-century boom, is on its way to full recovery.

Why, then, are people so incredibly pessimistic, and so incredibly prone to political fury? Perhaps a new outlook is necessary. The vague anger that has defined this election was always there, hanging around the fringes of politics, but the general disappointment with the current crop of mainstream candidates has been forced into political relevance. A Democrat, for instance, who wants to vote for Hillary Clinton but cannot fully trust her, is left with only one option if unwilling to cross party lines. That option is Bernie Sanders, a socialist. And on the other side of the aisle, a voter who aligns with Jeb Bush ideologically but cannot bear to watch him stumble hopelessly down the campaign trail is faced with an equally extreme set of alternative candidates.

Perhaps the American people were not asking for a “political revolution,” to use a trademark phrase of Sanders. What if it’s the only option they’re being given? Candidates that represent the huge portion of the electorate that normally sits somewhere in the ideological center are dropping like flies, succumbing to scandal and insurmountable flaws of personality. And as they go, the chance for an alternative to extreme policy goes with them. Had the American people been presented with another clean, ObamaMcCain-style matchup, the grassroots extremism and rhetorical vulgarity that is ruling this election would have remained on the fringes of politics, grossly overshadowed by respected ideologies of the reasonable left and right No wonder American optimism has been supplanted by rage. An election of this polarity, stranding such a large amount of the moderate electorate in limbo, is hard to be optimistic about. McCain-Obama, we miss you.

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D8KK?<N 9<;L>E@J Last Monday marked Boston College’s 20th Beanpot championship. The very next night, the women’s team took home its sixth trophy. There was cause for great celebration on the Heights, but elsewhere I was surprised to see murmurings of discontent.

I’m talking, of course, about the Internet—that virtual hive of faceless, seething contempt and vitriol. Browsing articles and sports blogs after I got home from the game, I was shocked by the number of comments complaining about just how boring the Beanpot has become. I almost couldn’t believe what I was reading because after a 28-minute power-outage delay, three scoreless periods with incredible goaltending on both sides, and a phenomenal shot from Alex Tuch to end the whole thing in a firsttime-ever 1-0 score, the farthest word from my mind was “boring.” Commenter after commenter seemed to think that BC and BU’s joint dominance of the tournament’s 64-year history was beginning to overstay its welcome. I chalked the fervor up to annoyed Northeastern or Harvard fans who were struggling with the disappointing realization that this year was still not going to be their year, and went to bed.

Imagine my renewed surprise at finding an article the following day on Yahoo! Sports arguing that it may be time to blow up the whole tournament format. For many of the same reasons I had read from commenters the night before, the author came to the same conclusion: expand the tournament to include other New England teams. Though I’m sure someone with a much higher college hockey IQ than my own could explain the reasons why this idea might theoretically work, however unrealistic, I have to say that I absolutely hate it. And while I can concede that a theoretical expansion might spice things up and increase the level of competition, I must admit that those words are also far out of my mind when I think of the Beanpot.

Even though the tournament has only been around for a little over a third of our school’s history, the first thing that comes to mind when I think about the Beanpot is tradition.

Like all great sports rivalries, the Beanpot has a long and storied history filled with heroes and villains, triumphs and defeats. But where the Beanpot transcends college rivalries like Navy-Notre Dame, Harvard-Yale, or even our very own hockey grudge against BU, is in the sense of community it generates. The atmosphere at the Garden during a Beanpot is just somehow inescapably different than that of a Battle of Comm. Ave. matchup at Kelley Rink or Agganis Arena. It isn’t just the impressive venue, though that certainly helps, and it isn’t quite the sense of history, either, as the Beanpot is younger than our personal rivalry with BU. There’s an oddly intangible magic about playing for something tangible—that coveted trophy.

When the tournament is on and the Garden swells with generations of Eagles, Terriers, Huskies, and Crimson, the sense of history is well and truly alive. From older fans in jerseys of teams long gone to future Eagles and Terriers hoping to see their favorite player emerge the hero, the Beanpot is a convergence of Boston sports culture past, present, and future. It’s my girlfriend’s father telling me about getting stuck in the Blizzard of ’78 and me someday telling my kids about the 28-minute power outage and three aching, scoreless periods. In an era when BC and BU have all but forgotten their commuter-college pasts, the Beanpot stands as one of the final vestiges of last-century Bostonian culture. It radiates an energy of hometown community and humble beginnings. A rivalry in which four of Boston’s greatest teams grab their gear and meet in the middle of the city to see who’s best. BC and BU trundling down the B Line, Northeastern on the E, and Harvard fittingly crossing the river on the Red Line. And even in an era when our programs have veritable superstars playing for them, this tight-knit association makes the little kid skating for the first time on the Frog Pond believe that someday he or she could play in the Beanpot.

So while I respect Providence, Lowell, UVM, and all the other great New England teams, I would never want to see them included in the Beanpot. And to the long-suffering fans of Harvard and Northeastern, hang in there. Just ask the Navy Midshipmen and their fans what a win after 43 years feels like.

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As a club sport, BC would play against other club football teams. The geographic area that has the highest concentration of club football teams is the Northeast. Because of this, BC

would have plenty of matches, from going up against the BU club team to teams from Sacred Heart University, University of Vermont, Eastern Connecticut State University, Bunker Hill, and Northeastern University.

Cerminaro and Jacques are doing their best to get space on the football field on Brighton campus. They also already know what they want practice

to look like.

“We’re looking at two or three times a week, most likely they would be later in the day just so that we can allow people to clear out their schedules,” Cerminaro said. “We need to get kids there on a consistent basis to go over plays and formations and things like that. In terms of time commitment, it would be less than high school football,

but still definitely something you’re going to commit yourself to.”

The football club is always happy to accept more members. They are also looking for a volunteer coach, preferably a graduate student. Students from all class years, however, are encouraged to be in touch if they have any interest at all.

The upcoming semesters, Ceminaro

assures, are full of promise for the team and anyone interested in getting involved.

“If, and hopefully when, we get approved, we can just promise everyone that next year’s going to be blast,” Ceminaro said in a pitch to prospective students who find themselves on the fence about reaching out. “We’re going to make it the best that we can.”

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N`k_ iffd j\c\Zk`fe aljk X ]\n n\\bj XnXp# I\jC`]\ nXekj kf dXb\ k_\ gifZ\jj Xj j\Xdc\jj Xj gfjj`Yc\% 9P E@:FC< JLFQQF =fi K_\ ?\`^_kj If you are stressed out about the upcoming housing selection process, don’t panic. We’re all in this together, and the Office of Residential Life is here to help. Gregory Jones, director of housing operations, Andrew Gresenz, housing assignments specialist, Noor Ibrahim, assistant director of housing assignments and occupancy, and Peter Kwiatek, assistant director of off-campus housing, have offered their wisdom in the hopes of helping students make smart decisions about where they will live next year.

On Campus BC offers three main types of rooms: traditional, suite, and apartment styles. The ResLife website outlines which residence halls offer what types of rooms, as well as additional information about the layout, common space, required meal plans, and more.

Two new residence halls will also be available through room selection for occupancy in the fall: 2150 and 2000 Commonwealth Avenue.

“2150 includes four- and six-person apartments, while 2000 has one- and two-bedroom apartments,” Ibrahim said. “At 2000, some of the apartments have been updated, because some were

old, but the majority of the renovation in the building is around common space. There is a new lounge on the second floor that opens onto the back patio and a new lounge/reflection space up on the 17th floor. They’re also redoing the entire first floor lobby, so that will look different. Both buildings have brand new furniture.”

Ibrahim added that the group selection process begins on Feb. 29 and continues for a couple of weeks.

“Every day is different,” she said. “For example, February 29 is for six-person apartments. Students form groups and the group leader submits the request on the Agora Portal. The group then gets entered into the lottery and receives an email later that same day letting them know if they’ve been selected to pick a room or not. If students don’t get a pick time then they have to try for another day with a different sized group.”

The ResLife website outlines which groups pick on what day, the first being six-person apartments on Feb. 29 and the last being traditional style on Mar. 17.

ResLife reassures that the only preference in the lottery process is class year. Each student receives an eligibility code based on his or her graduation date, and once the numbers are added up, the group is placed into

a category.

The appeals process is an opportunity for students to petition for an additional year of housing outside of their guaranteed years. ResLife reviews appeals on a case-by-case basis, with priority being given to those who demonstrate a significant need over others to be on campus.

“We also grant appeals based on what I would call fairness,” Jones said.

“For example, if a student transfers into the school of nursing from A&S, they would then receive an additional year of housing, because all nursing students receive four years by admissions. If there’s a policy that grants four years of housing, we make sure it’s honored.”

For those still worried about the upcoming weeks, Noor reassures, “Make the best decision that you can right now, and be smart about it, but if something doesn’t work out we’re here to help.”

Off-Campus Another option for students is to live off campus. Juniors typically live off campus because it’s nontransferable for those who only have three years of guaranteed housing.

When looking for off-campus housing, Kwiatek asserts the best thing students can do is connect with the current tenants of whatever property

they are interested in.

“While ResLife doesn’t associate with any particular real estate agencies, what we will do is if someone says they’re looking at an apartment on Commonwealth Avenue and there are current BC students living there, I will reach out and ask if they don’t mind sharing their experience,” Kwiatek said.

ResLife also has a Web site where local landlords, property managers, real estate agents, and even students can post listings. Furthermore, ResLife will sort through properties and take down properties if it has heard about a negative experience or views something inappropriate. It is impossible, however, for ResLife to verify and vet everything that is posted, so it is important that students are smart consumers.

A recent issue for students has been move-in dates. Most places require a one-year lease starting Sept. 1, however classes begin in August for the next two academic years.

“We advise students to get in writing that they can move in August 28 if at all possible,” Kwiatek said. “Many landlords will say that they’ll try and get you in earlier, but if possible get it written on the lease beforehand. What ResLife can do is if there are BC tenants with an expiring lease, we can get them

on campus earlier. That way we can tell the landlord the students are gone and the place can be cleaned for the new people to move in early.”

ResLife is trying to make off campus more of an experience for students by connecting with them through information sessions, housing fairs, group meetings, and more events.

Furthermore, once students sign the lease and move off, ResLife wants to keep them engaged through community activities.

“There’s a neighborhood cleanup group that meets after home football games in the fall to pick up trash and go out for breakfast afterwards,” Kwiatek said. “There will also be an a capella night at Fuel America in March and we’ll sometimes set up spontaneous free breakfast at the bus stop. We are trying to make our presence known and make sure students know that just because they’re off campus doesn’t mean they’re out of sight or out of mind.”

One of the mo st imp or t ant pieces of advice Kwiatek offered was for students to take a breath and hold off on rushing into anything.

He has helped students find housing well into the summer and advises students to think twice before hastily signing a lease if they still have doubts.

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“Non-traditional students now make up 85 percent of all undergraduate students in the country,” Dean of the Woods College of Advancing Studies Rev. James Burns, S.J., said. “[One of our goals] is to have a program that’s very strong for them, but also relevant.”

The redesign includes offering master’s degrees, such as cybersecurity policy and governance, applied economics, and an entirely online master’s in healthcare administration, which will debut in the fall.

“We have built out a suite of courses that are fully online and others that are hybrid,”

David Goodman, academic dean of the Woods College, said in an email. “We will continue to develop this so that each semester there are additional offerings.”

Woods now also offers certificate programs in, among others, human resources, information technology, marketing, and accounting, as well as a sports leadership graduate certificate. According to Goodman, the school plans to offer additional certificates in global affairs, forensics, and law enforcement/safety officer leadership. The certificates generally require four courses, while a master’s program requires 10.

“Our degrees aren’t meant to be theoretical in the way that they might in a traditional master’s program or a program that might lead to a doctoral degree,” Burns said.

“Ours are really designed to give students a theoretical background, but also to give them the applied, practical, technical skills they need to be successful and to lead in their organizations.”

The centerpiece of the new master’s offerings is the cybersecurity policy and governance degree. The program was designed using input from industry professionals and an advisory board, which researched the cybersecurity field and determined that BC could fill a substantial gap by creating a more policy-centered course of study.

Employees of the FBI, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and National Grid are among the program’s instructors. According to program director Kevin Powers, students learn applied ways of approaching cyber risk and learn how to recover from cyber attacks.

Burns said the cybersecurity degree has been particularly appealing to law students and current lawyers, many of whom see competency in the field as an important skill for navigating the changing landscape of technology and law. Graduates typically choose between four or five job offers, with titles like “chief information security officer”

and “cyber intelligence analyst.”

“It’s designed for folks who need to be the intermediary, as it were, between boards of directors, boards of trustees … and the folks who are doing the intellectual coding, architecting, kind of the front line, more technical aspects,” Burns said.

The certificates offered by the Woods College are also a key part of the curriculum redesign. Burns said that many students get certified in something to help their job prospects or to develop further expertise in a field, and the certificates can also be “stacked.” If a certificate requires four courses, for example, those courses can all be applied to a 10-course master’s program later on.

The Woods College is also moving toward including more traditional BC undergraduates in its courses. Currently, full-time students can take one class per semester in Woods, which is appealing because Woods courses are four credits instead of the usual

three. Woods is also the only BC school that offers some classes, like the popular Nutrition for Life.

Burns said that about 300 to 325 traditional BC undergrads take a Woods class in any given semester. Students can also consider accelerated master’s programs, in which Woods will accept up to two undergraduate courses to count toward a graduate degree, allowing some students to finish graduate school in 12 months.

Burns, who took over as interim dean in 2012, and Goodman both stressed that the redesign is in the spirit of Woods College namesake Rev. James Woods, S.J., who served as dean for 44 years.

“We have built the renewed Woods College upon the foundation of Fr. Woods’ years of service, keeping the mission of Woods at the heart of all we do while also making sure the key components are meeting the needs of the current post-traditional learner,” Goodman said.

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D@:?8<C JLCC@M8E As a former Little League catcher, I have a soft spot for goaltenders. They’re the ones who play 60 minutes in a grueling hockey game while everyone else plays 20 minutes or fewer. They may be stationary in terms of actual strides across the ice, but they make plenty of quick movements, up and down, side to side. An elite goaltender can take your team from a best-of-seven bowout in the second round of the Eastern Conference Playoffs to a Stanley Cup title.

(Someone please tell that to Garth Snow, the general manager of my beloved yet eternally on-the-cusp New York Islanders.)

In fact, if the Hockey Gods, wherever they may live—probably in Chicago in the last five years, at least—just renamed the sport “goalie,” I wouldn’t be opposed.

So it’s with that passion that I began my writing career by focusing on Boston College’s own netminders. But I didn’t realize that I would be delving into such dominance.

Last January, I wrote that BC women’s hockey goalie Katie Burt was on a path to become something special for this program.

At 18, she had already appeared twice in Sports Illustrated, made the U.S. U-18 Team, and nearly led the Eagles to their first national title. She was Hockey East’s goaltending champion in her freshman campaign and a Second Team All-Star in the conference. I hinted that BC’s cheers of “Burt!

Burt! Burt! Burt!” wouldn’t only become commonplace at Kelley Rink, but around the country. If I had known about the National Women’s Hockey League, I’d have probably brought that up, too.

In the fall, I guessed that Thatcher Demko’s season would resemble that of the classic Comeback Player of the Year story.

Last season, Demko crushed Hockey East competition, suffering around a poor offensive Eagles team to will Jerry York’s crew into the NCAA tournament. He had a .925 save percentage, 2.19 goals against average, and 19-13-3 record in 35 games. This was all while playing with a torn labrum in each of his hips. Yet, now fully healthy, it was only a matter of time before Demko became a star.

I never expected this.

Each team’s electric offense—first in the country for the women, third for the men—have kept the Eagles atop the Hockey East standings for much of the season. But the two goaltenders have not only thrust each BC hockey team into their typical, playoff-contending modes even with games to play in the regular season. They have made BC a favorite, if not THE favorite, for the national title on both the men’s and women’s side. And it begs the question: Are Thatcher Demko and Katie Burt having the best tandem goaltending season in Boston College hockey history?

Let’s dive into the record books.

First, we obviously must restrict this search to 1994-95 and beyond, given that that was women’s hockey’s first varsity season. Another rule: it has to be an equally great season from both goaltenders. Just because Scott Clemmensen dominated the scene in 2001 doesn’t mean we can count the season if Lisa Davis didn’t do the same.

A quick look tells me that there are only three women’s goalies we can consider: Alison Quandt, Molly Schaus, and Corinne Boyles. The three BC greats played from 2005-06 to 2013-14, meaning that we can limit our search on the male side to just four goalies: Cory Schneider, John Muse, Parker Milner, and Demko, in his rookie season.

We’re talking about some heavy hitters with these goaltenders. Schaus was a two-time All-American, two-time Patty Kazmaier Award finalist, and two-time U.S. Olympian. Schneider is now a Vezina Trophy candidate for the New Jersey Devils and was an All-American himself. Muse has two national championships and won the Walter Brown Award in 2011.

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Dennis Clifford turned around, fist pumped, and shouted to an ecstatic bench.

The beleaguered center hadn’t played his best offensive half in the first. He looked slow on his decision-making.

When he had successfully penetrated Jim Boeheim’s patented 2-3 zone—and he did a good job at it, too—he froze, unable to make the layup even with open pastures in front of him. When Syracuse’s

inside players collapsed on Clifford, he panicked, holding onto the ball instead of dishing it out to one of Boston College’s open players along the perimeter.

But the fifth-year senior suffering through one of the worst four-year stretches in program history refused to be denied. He snatched his own offensive board, pushing away two Orange defenders for a layup that briefly gave BC the lead.

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Boston College men’s basketball has yet to win a road game in the 2015-16 season, and after Sunday afternoon’s loss to Syracuse University, that statement remains true.

Yes, the game was held in the friendly confines of Conte Forum, but those confines were anything but friendly to the Eagles. Fans packed the stands for a virtual sell-

out, but an estimated 80 percent of fans sported the classic orange and blue colors of the visitors. Granted, BC is a just about an ideal ACC travel destination—located in a popular city with easy travel and cheap game tickets, road fans are almost guaranteed to see a win.

And upstate New Yorkers will take any reason to get the hell out of Syracuse.

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As the final seconds of the first half ticked off the clock, Kelly Hughes, stationed on the left wing, shook loose f rom her de61 Virginia fender with a Boston College 50 pump fake and dropped in a one-handed floater from 12 feet out. Nineteen minutes and 54 seconds after the opening tip, she’d finally made her first field goal.

The Boston College junior finished with seven points, less than half her season average, and “Splash Sister” Nicole Boudreau only managed to score three as the Eagles (13-12, 1-11 Atlantic Coast) lost 61-50 to the University of Virginia (14-12, 4-8) on Sunday in

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“They have good athletes, big players,” BC head coach Erik Johnson said of Virginia in his postgame press conference. “They can really stick to our shooters.”

Stick they did.

Cavaliers guard Breyana Mason was stapled to Hughes all evening, forcing Hughes, BC’s top scorer, into a 3-for-14 night from the field.

Working with a minus-six offensive rebounding deficit, the Eagles entered the locker room at halftime having been outshot 37-24. Compounding that disparity was BC’s issues dealing with Virginia’s full-court zone press—Johnson’s team burped up seven turnovers in the first quarter, many of which came on ill-conceived passes up the floor.

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Success was hard to come by on the other end for much of the night, too.

Johnson audibled to a 2-3 zone after the Cavaliers racked up 19 first-quarter points.

Averaging 15.1 points per contest entering the game, UVA’s Mikayla Venson, who has the handles of Kyrie Irving, put a quick end to that defensive experiment.

By the end of the third period, Virginia had built an 18-point lead.

The Eagles ripped off a 14-2 run to start the fourth quarter behind stellar play from redshirt junior Kailey Edwards, but it proved too little, too late.

The damage had been done in the first three periods, and Virginia handed BC its seventh straight loss in ACC play.

Ever the optimist, Johnson is con-

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vinced that his team’s level of play has far exceeded its record.

“If you’d told me that my team was gonna be 1-11 in ACC play, I would have told you you’re crazy,” he said. “We’re better than we were last year. We’ve got better culture, we’ve got better talent, we’ve got an inside game with [freshman center Mariella Fasoula].”

He’s right. Glimmers of hope abound, but Fasoula deserves the loudest applause. She has put up double figures in the scoring column in each of her last 11 games—that’s remarkable consistency.

On Sunday, she scored 14 points on 7-of-10 shooting and snared five rebounds.

Fasoula excels at establishing deep

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THUMBS UP SORRY KANYE, NO MERCY HERE  Women’s hockey built up a 20 lead against Vermont. In the final minute of the game, when it was clearly out of reach for the Catamounts, Kenzie Kent knocked in another goal to give BC a 3-0 lead. This team shows no compassion and no mercy and they love it.

TAKING OVER THE TERRIERS  Lacrosse opened its 2016 season with an 18-9 rout of Boston University. Starting the season off with a win is always great, but starting off with a blowout against BU on the Terriers’ home field is even better.

FIRST WEEK DOWN - Well, it’s officially been one week since the Super Bowl. We made it through the first week without football, and that’s always the hardest.

God willing, we can make it through the coming months without too much anguish.

THUMBS DOWN FIVE ON THREE? - Men’s basketball is in trouble. Syracuse defeated BC 75-61, and three players combined for 52 of those 61 points. No, that’s not a typo.

We get it, injuries have impacted the Eagles a lot. But that’s no excuse for a majority of your team’s total offense coming from just three players.

ANOTHER ONE - Women’s basketball opened the season with a five game win streak and then a six game win streak on their way to an 11-1 record. They exceeded their earlier streaks when Virginia handed them their seventh straight loss. Oh, and now they’re 13-11.

MIFFED AT MERRIMACK - Just one day after a convincing 6-3 victory over Merrimack, men’s hockey allowed a last-minute goal to bring the final score to 5-5. Jerry York’s squad hasn’t allowed a five-goal game since last year’s NCAA Tournament loss to Denver. But don’t worry yet, Eagles fans. Everyone is entitled to one “what the hell?” regular season game.

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Boston College women’s hockey’s 3-0 win over Vermont was one of those victories that will be remembered Boston College 3 more for Vermont 0 its future implications than for the game itself.

Sunday afternoon’s recordbreaking win kept the Eagles (320-0, 22-0-0 Hockey East) perfect

on the season as they clinched their third straight Hockey East regular-season championship over the Catamounts (8-22-2, 6-14-2).

The shutout was goaltender Katie Burt’s 13th of the year and 22nd of her career, both representing new program records. BC also broke a school record with 13 total shutouts this season.

The milestone marathon in Burlington started when Makenna Newkirk set up Kaliya Johnson for a deep shot in the first period.

Johnson’s attempt was tipped by Andie Anastos, and the deflection slid past Vermont netminder Madison Litchfield for the game’s first goal. Newkirk’s 21st assist of the season brought her point streak to eight games, spanning some of the Eagles’ most important games of the year.

In the second period, Meghan Grieves continued the scoring with her ninth goal of the season, a wrist shot above the glove of Litchfield, to give BC a 2-0 advantage.

With less than a minute remaining, senior stars Alex Carpenter and Haley Skarupa battled for possession of the puck deep in Catamount territory. Carpenter emerged with the puck and found Kenzie Kent in front of the net for the sophomore’s third goal in the last three games.

Kent’s finish also helped Carpenter move ahead of Northeastern’s Kendall Coyne for the national points lead, as the Olympian’s 35th assist gives her 72 points on the year.

Skarupa received credit for the

assist, too, leaving her in third place behind Coyne and Carpenter with 60 total points this season.

The last series of the regular season is slated for next weekend, when Skarupa and Carpenter will be honored for Senior Day against Providence on Friday. Anything less than a standing ovation will be inappropriate for the legendary pair.

Sunday’s win may have been quiet, but it sure sent a statement to potential playoff opponents: Good luck scoring on this defense.

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It must be frustrating to keep losing to the same team.

Rivalries quickly turn into jokes when one Northeastern 3 side conBoston College 5 stantly wins over and over. The winning players get cocky or, even worse, disinterested, like the Mets—MLB’s defending National League Champions—when they roll into Philadelphia and take down a pitfiul Phillies team.

The losers, who may have at one point dominated or at least kept the rivalry competitive, get angry that they keep losing. And when losing players get angry, they can get dirty, allowing their frustration to seep out onto the playing field.

At one point, Northeastern and Boston College women’s hockey was a proud rivalry. As few as three years ago, the two teams duked it out for several competitive games that went both ways. The Eagles took the regular-season matchups that season, while the Huskies claimed the more prestigious games, including a victory in the Hockey East Championship on Mar. 9, 2013.

Since then, Katie Crowley’s team has, for lack of a better term, owned the Huskies. With their victory today, the No. 1 Eagles (31-0-0, 21-0-0 Hockey East) took down No. 6 Northeastern (25-6-1, 19-3-0) for the fourth time this season to move to 11-0-1 against the girls from St. Botolph Street. With two goals and an assist, freshman Makenna

Newkirk led the way. The win also clinches the No. 1 overall seed for BC in the Hockey East Tournament as well as the Hockey East record for wins in a single season.

But it wasn’t nearly as easy as their 7-0 victory over the Huskies in Tuesday’s Beanpot final.

The Eagles started out with one of their flattest periods this season. BC’s offense had a tough time keeping the puck in its own offensive zone early in the first. That frustration forced Lexi Bender to the box with an interference penalty. A mere three seconds later, Northeastern sharpshooter Denisa Krisova knocked in the puck from the blue line to give the Huskies a 1-0 lead. Things didn’t look better when the Eagles’ best defender, Megan Keller, was sent to the box for holding superstar Kendall Coyne.

Led by Bender, the Eagles easily killed off that penalty, swinging the momentum back their way after NU’s Halle Silva was called for a slash. Eight seconds later, Newkirk fired a shot that bounced off goaltender Brittany Bugalski right to Keller. The defenseman slipped with the puck, but it landed perfectly to Haley Skarupa, who fired a one-timer that tied the game. It wouldn’t last long, as an exciting second period was kicked off by Coyne.

The 2015 Patty Kazmaier Award finalist took advantage of a scrum in front of Katie Burt to give Northeastern the lead once again.

But soon after, the freshman from Scottsdale, Ariz., took over. The first came off a great forecheck by Andie Anastos in the corner to Bugalski’s

left, who skirted the puck out to Dana Trivigno. The captain of the second line shot it between the circles to Newkirk. She moved in quickly before backhanding it top shelf past Bugalski.

Less than two minutes later, after a hooking call on Heather Mottau, Newkirk was at it again. Team points leader Alex Carpenter found Newkirk across the ice, giving her a great feed to shoot it bar down on a very small window above Bulgaski’s right shoulder to give BC a 3-2 lead. Following the game, Crowley praised her freshman for yet another standout game.

“She’s a talented kid,” Crowley said. “I think sometimes she can get overlooked because we have national team players on our team, but I tell you, that kid, she’s a special player, and you could see that today.”

Yet Coyne, a member of Team USA, would not be denied a chance to strike back against her bitter rivals. She laid in a beautiful unassisted goal that flew past Burt, her 41st of the season, to knot the game up a mere minute after Newkirk gave BC the lead.

Even that wouldn’t last long. Lauren Kelly went to the box late in the second for hooking. This gave Kenzie Kent just enough time to tie the game with two seconds left in the period after a deflection from Skarupa. With the assist, Skarupa is now tied for third all-time in Hockey East play with 133 points—only Carpenter and Coyne have more.

In the third, the Eagles showed off their defensive skills. Burt masterfully handled several mobs in front of her, using her stick, glove, and body to toss

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Alex Carpenter tallied one goal and two assists in the 5-3 victory. away anything that came toward her.

Bugalski tried her best to match Burt shot-for-shot, but when Northeastern head coach Dave Flint called her to the bench for the extra attacker, the game was sealed. Carpenter expertly stole the puck in the neutral zone, skating in easily for an empty-netter in a 5-3 final.

She’d get punished for it by NU defender Taytum Clairmont—a hard check knocked the Eagles’ captain into the boards and onto the ice for a

few moments, but Crowley confirmed afterward she was okay. She couldn’t, however, deny the hatred the two teams showed.

“I thought it was a very chippy game, and a little bit chaotic out there, but I thought the team really handled it well,” Crowley said.

But at this point, it shouldn’t be hard for the Eagles to handle a rough-and-tumble game with Northeastern. They’re the ones who keep winning.

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Boston College men’s hockey brought the Beanpot back to the Heights, taking down Boston University on Monday night. The women’s team followed suit the next evening, beating Northeastern and earning BC a clean sweep in the tournament.

As the sun rose Wednesday, focus then turned to Sunday, when

BC lacrosse was set to begin its 25th season. And what better way to start the season than travelling down the illustrious thoroughfare that is Comm. Ave. to take on archrival BU? Originally scheduled for Valentine’s Day, the 17th matchup between the teams was rightfully moved, as there is clearly no love in this relationship. Forecasted temperatures of sub-zero caused the game to be moved to Friday at 3 p.m., which was no problem for the Eagles in an 18-9 victory.

Obviously, this was a game the team was fired up for. But for some, there was a little more meaning.

One such player is Sam Apuzzo, a freshman middie from West Babylon, N.Y. After piling up numerous

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Then there is senior middie Caroline Margolis, a Raleigh, N.C., native, who has a history of success in maroon and gold. Named an Inside Lacrosse Preseason Second Team All-American and recipient of a 2016 ACC Postgraduate Scholarship, this Eagle came into the season opener soaring. On Friday, she only flew higher. In a seamless transition from last season’s performance of 37 goals and 28 assists, Margolis netted

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four goals on five shots and added an assist for five points. As her final season begins, she showed on Friday that she is going to make it count.

Apuzzo and Margolis combined for nine total points, but there were many more to be had by the Eagles.

Six other players added points to the total, with four of those recording a multiple point-scoring game. This high-scoring affair had to begin somewhere. After 1:16 of play, Sarah Mannelly, a Tewaaraton finalist, did just this and netted the first goal, giving the Eagles the lead. This was a lead the maroon and gold would not give up.

Much to the dismay of the Terriers, the offense is not the only side of the field the Eagles dominated.

The defense allowed just nine goals,

bolstered by a solid performance from junior goalkeeper Zoe Ochoa.

The Longmeadow, Mass., native recorded eight saves on 16 shots on net. Freshman Lauren Daly replaced her late in the game, recording one save on two shots on net.

BC and BU have met 17 times in the history of the two programs.

Before today, the series was tied at 8-8. Today, the Eagles leaped to the winning side of this heated rivalry, bringing the series to 9-8. A season opener that includes beating your nemesis 18-9 is quite the way to bring in the new year of competition.

No. 9 BC hopes to have the same success of its debut performance as it prepares for difficult ACC play and another bid in the NCAA Tournament.

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Down two of their best players, freshmen Jerome Robinson and A.J. Turner, the Eagles (7-18, 0-12 Atlantic Coast) relied heavily on Milon and Clifford to lead the charge. The two combined for 41 points in a 75-61 home loss to Syracuse (18-8, 8-5) that made Conte Forum look more like the Carrier Dome East. Milon and Clifford were an effective 15-of-23 from the field (65.2 percent) while the remainder of the roster shot a paltry 7-of-25 (28 percent).

The Eagles fought off Syracuse shot-for-shot early in the first half, forcing the 6,000-plus Orange faithful to keep clapping, as per tradition, until Malachi Richardson knocked down a 3-pointer four minutes into the frame.

But the stout Orange defense locked down BC. Helped by several sloppy turnovers, Syracuse went on a 13-0 run led by Tyler Lydon and Michael Gbinije to put the Orange up 21-11 halfway through the first.

Even when BC played good defense, the Orange overcame it. At one point, BC forced Richardson to hold onto the ball until the last second. He chucked up an ugly jumper as the shot clock expired, yet it still found its way into the net, wasting BC’s best defensive series of the half.

But back came the Eagles led by Milon, the sharpshooting freshman with a hot hand from beyond the arc.

Milon scored 15 of his 25 points in the final 10 minutes of the first. That gave him a new career-high, surpassing a 16-point effort against Harvard

from earlier this season. Following the game, Boeheim noted how the young guard exploited the zone by getting open.

“Milon’s a deadly shooter, and they did a good job of finding him,” Boeheim said. “I don’t like to see him out there against us.”

His strong effort cut the Syracuse lead to 35-32 at the half, with BC carrying all of the momentum into the next frame. And Clifford, the senior leader, came out of the locker room strong. He grabbed several tough boards over Syracuse’s tough, physical defenders, boxing men out to gain some hard-fought layups. Once again, Boeheim lauded a BC player for his outstanding effort.

“I thought Clifford has gotten better all the time,” Boeheim said. “If he hadn’t had the [season-ending knee] injuries, he’d be a really good player.”

Little did the Eagles know that pushing the ball to Clifford inside was exactly what Boeheim wanted them to do.

The Orange forced Clifford, the only big man on the roster who plays meaningful minutes, to control the ball inside, making the necessary adjustments around the 3-point line to lock down Eli Carter and Milon.

While Clifford was successful in the paint and helped to open up some lanes, BC’s supporting cast couldn’t take advantage of this new, single-dimension offense. And, as head coach Jim Christian explained, without Robinson and Turner, there wasn’t really another option but to stick with Clifford in the middle and hope for the best.

“Gbinije is 6-6, 6-and-a-half, 6-7, and [fifth-year senior Trevor]

Cooney’s been playing for five years, so to put smaller guys in the middle of the zone, it’s very difficult to get them the ball,” Christian said.

At that point, the Eagles collapsed defensively. Syracuse controlled the clock, especially in the last four minutes, and broke the game open on a big 21-4 run. After knocking down only 3-of-13 shots from beyond the arc in the first half, the Orange was effective in the second, hitting 8-of-10, many coming from Lydon and Richardson. That, coupled with the strong defensive effort, proved Boeheim’s system works to perfection.

“If we’re scoring, we’re going to give up a two,” Boeheim said. “And we got to take away the three. They can’t catch us if we take away the three.”

Taking away the three was something the Eagles simply couldn’t do.

BC allowed Syracuse to knock down several “walk in threes,” as Christian calls them. Many were on individual defensive breakdowns that showed BC’s fatigue. It’s hard to fault them for being tired. With a short bench, three players—Milon, Carter, and Clifford—had to play 37 minutes or more and control most of the offensive possessions.

But Christian doesn’t give excuses anymore, not even for a team that hasn’t won an ACC game in almost a calendar year and is built almost entirely on freshmen.

“You can feel sorry that we don’t have a lot of guys, and we’ve got two guys over there hurt, but the guys who are playing, that game’s in the balance,” Christian said. “You have to be mentally tougher and get through that.”

malachi richardson Tyler Lydon, from B1 But the fact that a water pipe burst in the Beacon St. entrance lobby didn’t make Conte feel any more like home, either.

Freshman guard Matt Milon and senior center Dennis Clifford had career nights, but the rest of the Eagles struggled as BC (7-18, 0-12 Atlantic Coast) fell to Syracuse (18-8, 8-5) by a score of 75-61.

Considering that BC played arguably its worst game in its first meeting with the Orange this season—a 62-40 defeat a month ago—one has to feel better about the Eagles’ output the second time around.

“Offensively, for the most part, I thought we were terrific, playing against a very good defense,” head coach Jim Christian said following the loss. “Our problem was defense in the second half. We gave them about three or four ‘walk-in’ threes, and you can’t do that.”

While the Eagles held the Syracuse offensive attack at bay in the beginning of the game, a lazy defensive effort in the waning seconds of the first half set the tone for a mediocre defensive performance in the second stanza.

Following a missed shot by Malachi Richardson with just seconds on the clock, Trevor Cooney—a BC killer through and through—snuck into the paint, grabbed the rebound with minimal resistance, and threw

up a layup before time expired, stretching the ’Cuse lead to three points.

In the second half, freshman Tyler Lydon took over the game for the Orange. The 6-foot-11 swingman has the shooting touch of a guard, but the size and strength of a power forward in the post. He made the Eagles pay in both zones, torching BC for 20 points on 66 percent shooting.

Lydon catalyzed the possession that broke BC’s back with 10 minutes remaining in the second half. Following a missed reverse layup from Garland Owens, Lydon grabbed the board, sprinted to the wing , and demanded the ball from Richardson. He obliged, Lydon buried the trey, and what could have been a seven-point deficit was suddenly 12 points.

Lydon was the shining star for the Orange, but head coach Jim Boeheim’s team received something that Christian’s did not—a supporting cast that, you know, supported.

B e h i n d Ly d o n , M i c h a e l Gbinije dropped 17 points, Richardson contributed 15 points, and Cooney produced 12 points of his own. The Orange only played seven during the entire game against BC, but four of those players were in double figures.

For the Eagles, Milon and Clifford combined for 41 of BC’s 61 total points. Eleven of the remaining 20 points came from Sammy B arnes -Thompkins ,

most of which were scored in garbage time. The nine points left were contributed by Eli Carter, who played all but one minute in the contest, and Garland Owens, who finished with as many fouls as points. “ We had some guys that needed to step up tonight because of our injuries, and they did not,” Christian said. “We have to learn, and those guys are going to have to keep working.”

Car ter ’s p erformance on Sunday was especially questionable—the graduate transfer only connected on two of his nine shot attempts. While Carter grabbed nine rebounds, he assisted on only one basket and turned the ball over three times, concerning numbers for BC’s primary ball handler. In his first few games in the maroon and gold, Carter was the first—and, sometimes, the only—reliable option on offense.

As the season went on, however, his shooting percentage dropped as Milon’s, Clifford’s, and injured guard Jerome Robinson’s numbers increased. Carter is still a big part of the offense, but he does not appear to be the primary contributor that he was in BC’s first few games.

There is never love lost between BC and Syracuse, and a Valentine’s Day showdown between the two teams seemed to be somewhat fitting. Unfortunately for BC, the Orange was feeling it just a little more on this day.

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But her game isn’t solely predicated on brute strength— she has a craft down low, as well.

On one possession midway through the first quarter, Fasoula stood at the left elbow, searching for open teammates. When no one broke free, she drove middle, executed a nifty spin back toward the baseline, and finished with a lefty scoop.

Absent from the BC bench was redshirt freshman forward Ella Awobajo, who watched the

game in street clothes from a lower bowl section near the main concourse.

“Life is bigger than just basketball,” Johnson said. “Sometimes players have some struggles off the court. You know, Ella just needed a little break right now to be able to get some things together. She’s a wonderful kid.

We’re hoping to get her back soon.”

The prevailing color on Sunday night wasn’t maroon, gold, blue, or orange—it was bubblegum pink.

To raise awareness for the Kay Yow Cancer Fund, which was established in 2007 by former North Carolina State Uni-

versity coach Kay Yow, both teams trotted out pink-themed jersey kits. BC players wore pink Under Armour shoes, and coaches from both teams threw on their hottest garb in support of the initiative.

The Play 4Kay event hits home for the BC women’s basketball program.

Hoops alumna Clare Droesch is currently waging a battle with breast cancer, and Johnson used the evening’s theme as an opportunity to have Droesch FaceTime with the team before the game.

“This game was about a lot more than just basketball,” Johnson said. “It was a big learning experience for our players.”

JULIA HOPKINS / HEIGHTS EDITOR

Kelly Hughes (23) had one of her worst shooting days of the year, going 3-for-14 from the field with seven points.

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The result is somewhat troubling for the Eagles (21-4-5, 12-1-5 Hockey East), who haven’t allowed five goals in a game since their loss to Denver in the NCAA Tournament last year.

In a back-and-forth contest that

featured five ties, Casey Fitzgerald reclaimed the lead for BC when he received a pass from his brother and wristed a shot past Warrior goaltender Drew Vogler at 8:11 of the third period.

But with just over a minute remaining, Merrimack (8-15-7, 2-9-7) pulled its keeper and used its extra skater to sneak the equalizer past Thatcher Demko with 55 seconds left.

Overtime couldn’t produce a winner in a five-minute stalemate.

Nevertheless, the Eagles extended their unbeaten streak to 12 games dating back to 2015—good for best in the country.

Austin Cangelosi opened up the

scoring less than three minutes into the match, taking a feed from Miles Wood and providing a top-shelf finish to put BC on top, 1-0. The early scoring trend would continue, as the Eagles scored in the first two and a half minutes of each period on Saturday. But for every BC goal, the Warriors had an answer.

Coming into Saturday’s showdown, the Eagles had played shutout power-play defense as of late, killing every PP opportunity over their last five games. That streak came to an end against Merrimack, though, as the Warriors scored two straight power-play goals in the second period to take a 3-2 lead against the recently crowned Beanpot

champions.

Ryan Fitzgerald scored his second goal of the night, assisted by his younger brother, with five minutes left in the second frame to even the score at 3-all.

But just 19 seconds later, Merrimack recaptured the lead when Mathieu Foget took advantage of a 2-on-1 chance and flicked the puck past Demko and into the back of the net for his second goal of the night.

Less than two minutes into the final period, Wood intercepted the puck in Warrior territory and fired off a shot at Volger, who deflected the puck to Adam Gilmour. The junior forward had just served 10 minutes in the penalty box for mis-

conduct, but immediately made his presence known on the ice when he gathered the rebound and poked it past the MC netminder to tie the game once again.

Five minutes later, it was BC’s turn to take advantage of the power play.

After Craig Wyszomirski was tagged with a five-minute penalty for elbowing Matthew Gaudreau, Casey Fitzgerald used a pass from his brother and a convenient screen on the goalie to wrist in the go-ahead goal from deep midway through the third period.

With only seconds remaining, it was Jonathan Lashyn who played hero for the Warriors. Desperate

for an equalizer, Merrimack sacrificed an empty net for another attacker in an attempt to blitz BC and force overtime. Lashyn exploited a crowded crease and wristed a deep shot through traffic that found the back of the net. Demko never saw it coming.

The Eagles will travel to Burlington next weekend for a series against Vermont before closing the regular season with a pair of games against UMass Lowell.

Postseason play is right around the corner, and while high-scoring affairs may be exciting, BC will certainly need to reemphasize its work on the blue line if it wants to add to its trophy collection.

JXe]fi[ EfkZ_\j Knf >fXcj `e M`Zkfip Fm\i k_\ NXii`fij 9P D@:?8<C JLCC@M8E Jgfikj <[`kfi A few short years ago, Merrimack College’s Lawler Rink was nothing but a high school-esque patch of 3 Merrimack ice with Boston College 6 bleachers enough for 1,000 or so people. Since men’s ice hockey head coach Mark Dennehy took over, he has built this program into one that has proved it can compete in Hockey East, the country’s top conference. Dennehy has recruited well enough and has convinced Merrimack’s higher-ups to give him the facilities he needs to think about succeeding.

He hasn’t found consistency just yet. Take a look at this season. Merrimack (8-15-6, 2-9-6 Hockey East) started out hot, climbing as high as No. 13, before taking a pitfall with a poor January that saw the Warriors light the lamp only 10 times all month.

But Dennehy has proven he can bring wins to North Andover, Mass. After all, he got the Warriors to the NCAA tournament in 2011, one of only two appearances for Merrimack (1988 being the other).

Tonight wasn’t one of those nights.

The Warriors collided hard with No. 3 Boston College in a 6-3 loss at Kelley Rink. The Eagles (21-4-4, 12-1-4), meanwhile, maintain their perch atop the Hockey East standings, matching last season’s win total with five games remaining in the regular season and not including BC’s inevitable date with the playoffs.

Early on, you knew it wasn’t

going to be one of those days for head coach Jerr y York’s superstar offense. At 4.07 goals per game, the Eagles boast the country’s third-best offense. But after tonight, you might think their average was four goals per period. What is more incredible is that they scored in four different ways: even strength, power play, penalty shot, and shorthanded.

Ryan Fitzgerald helped the Eagles get started only a minute into the game. He shook a Merrimack defender out of his skates, pulling the stick over his head before dishing it behind him to Adam Gilmour. The junior sent it high on goaltender Collin Delia for his ninth of the season, giving BC an early 1-0 lead.

Gilmour then gave his own dose of generosity. He took advantage of a hitting from behind penalty on MC’s Mathieu Tibbet, sending a cross-crease pass to a wide-open Zach Sanford, who easily backhanded the puck into the net. Gilmour, a Minnesota Wild prospect, has struggled compared to his breakout sophomore campaign when he was one of the season’s biggest contributors. Now a role player, Gilmour appeared to find the stroke he has been desperately missing all season.

“Adam Gilmour had his best game he’s had this year,” York said. “He could be a real key player for us down the stretch.”

A slashing call on Austin Cangelosi allowed the diminutive center to do what he does best—take a penalty shot. Like his beauty in Jan. 15’s game against Boston University, Cangelosi moved left-right-leftright-left-right before slotting it

past Delia. Even better was his celebration, which, as he used his stick as a makeshift violin, harkened back to the days of Fiddle Kid. Even when the Eagles took penalties, they scored. Travis Jeke had a seat late in the first period for tripping. Cangelosi and Michael Kim did an excellent job snuffing out any chance

by Merrimack—they stayed hot on their defensemen at the point as they attempted to rocket the puck in for a chance at a deflection.

Their aggressive play forced a turnover initiated by Matthew Gaudreau. He skated down the left side before firing a crisp pass to Colin White on the other end. The freshman and Hobey Baker candidate rifled it into the net before barrelling into Delia, but no matter: the goal still stood.

Merrimack never quit, as its defensemen and alternate captains, Jared Kolquist and Marc Biega, each notched goals to cut BC’s lead to 4-2 entering the third. Yet, unlike previous third periods in which they’ve allowed late leads to slip, the Eagles came back firing.

Alex Tuch, the big hero on Monday night in the Beanpot final, slotted the puck past Delia’s left side only 13 seconds into the period for his 12th of the season. Ten minutes later, Sanford found the net again, going bar down for his second of the game after a dish from Kim. And by the time Biega got his second with four minutes remaining, BC had all but officially secured those two points.

Though the competition the next two weeks won’t be as intimidating—BC will travel

DREW HOO / HEIGHTS EDITOR

Zach Sanford (24) knocked home his 10th and 11th goals of the season past Merrimack goaltender Collin Delia on Friday. to North Andover tomorrow before bussing up to Burlington, Vt. to play sixth-place Vermont next weekend—York stressed the necessity of keeping sharp.

The Eagles aren’t the holders of the Bertagna Cup just yet, and they’ll need to stay hot to fight off BU, Notre Dame, Providence, and UMass Lowell for the No. 1 seed in the Hockey East Tournament.

“I thought that was a really important game for us,” York said. “Coming off an emotional win Monday night coming right back here to play … all the important stuff is staring right at us.”

On the other end, Dennehy was unimpressed with his team’s performance, especially in the

first. He felt the Warriors weren’t ready to play at the pace that BC had coming out of the gate. It’s not for a lack of preparation, as he stressed that the team has been watching the tape of the Eagles’ strong first periods against BU and Harvard in the Beanpot. Rather, he just felt they weren’t mentally prepared.

“When you’re playing a really good team in their rink, it can’t be a 50-minute effort,” Dennehy said. “ We stood around and watched … I didn’t think we played in the first 10 minutes.”

Though he reflected on his own team tonight, he noted to reporters earlier this week how he can build his program to the level of BC’s. He lauded York’s ability to stay competitive every

year without experiencing a dip in production, using an analogy to do so. “[BC] is like a great white shark that loses a tooth, another one just rolls to the front,” Dennehy said. “They don’t have to grow another one, it’s just there.”

It’s fair for Dennehy to want to model his program off BC. Entering Friday, the Warriors hadn’t defeated York’s cre w since Feb. 15, 2013, an overtime victor y at L awler Rink . But Merrimack’s luck on the road has been a different story. The Warriors haven’t taken a game at Kelley Rink since Halloween night, 1997.

And now, they’ll have to wait another year to do it.

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It’s hard to believe, given the great seasons goalies on both ends have had, but in the last 10 years, the only men’s goaltender to have a goals-against average under 2.00 per game in a single season was Milner in 2011-12 (1.66). Boyles, a sophomore, couldn’t match him, coming in at 2.15. As a junior and senior, she dominated opponents: 1.83 in 2012-13, 1.67 in 2013-14.

Milner couldn’t live up to his junior campaign, allowing a full goal more per game. While Demko performed well in his freshman campaign, his 2.24 GAA only came in 24 games.

You can see the same story when it comes to save percentage. Milner’s 2011-12, when he stopped .937, hadn’t come close to being repeated by any of Muse, Schneider, or Demko before this season. Schaus and Boyles each had great senior years, when they each stopped 94.2 percent of the shots that came their way.

But each pale in comparison to the 2015-16 seasons by Burt

and Demko. The goaltenders have already surpassed the program’s single-season shutout records. Including Sunday’s 3-0 win over Vermont, Burt has 13, two more than Schaus’ 11 in 2008-09. And with his 1-0 domination of Boston University in Monday’s Beanpot final, Demko overtook Schneider with his ninth of the season.

Demko now has a 1.80 GAA and .935 save percentage this season, again while playing all but two games this season.

Those numbers are third and first, respectively, in the York Era. Burt has broken all those records already. Entering Monday, she had an unbelievable 1.14 goals against average and a .946 save percentage. Those totals are on pace to be the best all-time in program history for a single season.

Individually, they’d be great.

But together, they’re unstoppable.

The only question is, can they keep it up? The statistics are flashy, but, as Demko would probably tell you, the only thing that makes a goalie good is if he can win a national championship. His first helmet back when he was a freshman

showed the names of the four goaltenders who had won a title at BC: Bernie Burke (1949), Clemmensen (2001), Muse (2008 and 2010), and Milner (2012). To date, Demko has gotten as far as the 2014 Frozen Four, but has laid eggs in the Hockey East playoffs and in last year’s NCAA Tournament. And the path doesn’t get easier.

Hockey East is tougher than it has been in many years, with BU, UMass Lowell, Providence, and Notre Dame all national title contenders. And several teams from outside the conference, such as North Dakota, St. Cloud State, and Quinnipiac, have put up incredible seasons.

In her freshman campaign, Burt had trouble in the biggest game of the season. She set a single-season record for wins with 30 while losing only three.

But those three were huge—the Beanpot final, the Hockey East final, and the national semifinal.

Though she has proven she can win the big ones after Tuesday’s Beanpot final, she’ll have tougher competition lying ahead. No. 6 Northeastern, a team burned by the Eagles for three years now, is hungry to

ABBY PAULSON / HEIGHTS EDITOR

Thatcher Demko and Katie Burt have each put up fantastic seasons, vaulting BC from great to national title contenders. face them again in the Hockey East playoffs. Led by stout netminder Ann-Renee Desbiens, Wisconsin has only one loss. And defending champion Minnesota has reloaded again, thanks to the triumphant return of 2013 Patty Kazmaier

Award winner Amanda Kessel.

But if they can get through those teams, this isn’t a debate anymore. It’s a definitive statement.

So soak it all in, because any goaltending duo will be hard-pressed to beat Burt and

Demko in 2015-16.

Except maybe Burt and Demko in 2016-17.

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A washed-up actor who played America’s most outstanding attorney until his fast-paced legal drama fell out of favor and was cancelled,

Dean Sanderson (Rob Lowe) begrudgingly goes back to Boise, Idaho. Despite sporting a demeanor that’s calm, cool, and always contemplative onscreen as Grinder—his brow forever furrowed in that “I’m just on the verge of solving hunger, homelessness, and the oil crisis” kind of way—Dean is actually utterly clueless when it comes to actually being a lawyer.

When his beloved character, the Grinder, is swept away in the ever-changing tides of the television industry, Dean struggles with the stark reality that he has overstayed his 15 minutes of fame. Unfortunately, not even a super-cool celebrity name can save him now.

Having traded a glitzy Hollywood lifestyle for one in his significantly less glamorous hometown, Dean assumes his stint as a savvy TV lawyer qualifies him to run the family law firm—a small practice owned and operated by his father, Dean Sr., and younger brother, Stewart (Fred Savage).

In the fourteenth episode of The Grinder, Dean moves into his brother’s house and makes himself comfortable—much too comfortable for Stewart’s liking. Despite having been out of the acting industry for a long

while now, Dean is still just as dramatic as ever. Seemingly stuck in the realm of simulated courtroom reality, unable to escape the theatrics of an overly-produced, primetime TV drama, Dean just doesn’t know how to function in the real world. So, Stewart sends his brother to a therapist.

The hilarious Maya Rudolph guest stars as Jillian, a therapist Stewart has been seeing ever since his superstar brother waltzed right back into his life. Spouting advice like, “Take control of the steering wheel that is your life,” Rudolph’s comically cliched portrayal of a metaphor-making shrink is the perfect addition to an already stellar cast of characters.

Soon after his first therapy session, Dean is swept into the dramatics of it all, as he gets some sort of high from reconstructing his life and helping others to do the same. A TVlawyer-turned-life guru, Dean tries to counsel Stewart’s family members, close friends, and important clients. Having developed a knack for pushing his easily irascible brother’s buttons over the course of the show’s first season, Dean continues to drive Stewart to insane.

The Grinder is just great. Charming, satirical, and ingeniously self-aware, the new show

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Due to its talented cast, ‘The Grinder’ is an able jab at TV tropes with both poise and tact. rivals the likes of New Girl and Samberg’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine in the realm of incredibly smart Fox comedies. It focuses often on the show within the show, as Dean’s real-life persona is almost indistinguishable from his TV character’s. Creators Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul have put together a modern courtroom comedy that makes fun of those stiff, have-to-roll-your-eyes episodes of longrunning legal series Law & Order.

It’s early evening, and the conference room is bathed in a warm afternoon light that seeps through the slits of the window blinds. While staring wistfully out the window, a contemplative Dean Sanderson interjects at the perfect

moment, as always, and the room goes silent.

Despite his comment having no pertinent connection to the discussion at hand, his low-toned mumbling of legal jargon he doesn’t understand sure does sound really cool. Noticing his brother’s agitation, Dean explains.

“It’s a stage whisper, it makes whatever I say sound more dramatic,” he reassures Stewart.

At that exact moment—one that comes well into Rob Lowe’s first season of The Grinder—it is abundantly clear that Lowe is really good in this role. As if reading the minds of his faithful viewers, he glares at his on-screen brother and proclaims confidently, “Trust me, I know what I’m doing.”

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Trying to review Life of Pablo feels like commenting on a cultural movement that has just begun. In April 2006, Kanye came to Boston College. The Heights memorialized the concert with a front- and back-page poster-like spread and an editorial—“Kanye even better than expected.” The secondary headline for the article is rife with the attitude that must have permeated Conte Forum that fateful night, back when I was 11 and had no idea BC existed, let alone that my favorite rapper was there. It reads “Energy level ‘touches the sky,’” a reference to Late Registration stand-out “Touch the Sky.” The obsessive fervor that infected that issue of The Heights is what the build-up for this album has felt like. Just over a month ago, Kanye announced that the album would drop Feb. 11.

At first, it was called #SWISH. Then it was WAVES. After that, 10 days before the album was set to be released, Kim Kardashian West, his wife, tweeted a poll that suggested the album wasn’t done, let alone named. The anticipation has been extraordinarily, aptly, manufactured. Feb. 11 came. I missed half the livestream—I was in class—and the parts I saw were spotty (thanks, Tidal).

But I heard enough to get excited. Feb. 11 passed. Feb. 12 came. That night, at least around me, people buzzed with anticipation. Where is it? Is he pulling a Frank Ocean? He has to drop it by midnight, right? Goddamn it, Kanye, don’t do this to us. Then Feb. 13, and the album still wasn’t out. A friend sent me a link to illegally downloaded files from the Madison Square Garden show. That made things okay—temporarily. Thankfully, Saturday night, The Life of Pablo was finally released.

This time, I don’t know if we would write the same editorial—“Kanye even better than expected.” That implies that he blew past some sort of imposed level of expectation. Instead, he maneuvered around any expectations people had—for him to be contrite, for him to release the album when expected—and dropped 58 minutes of gospel choir, nasty beats, and Kanye being himself.

When My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy came out, we immediately knew it was important. The build-up for this album has meant that we immediately get how important Kanye thinks it is. But

the album itself doesn’t have the same immediate thud of universal critical acclaim that Fantasy did. In that way, it’s closer to Yeezus—with each listen, I feel closer to getting it. It doesn’t hit you in the face like “All of the Lights” or “Power.” He’s more vulnerable here than he has been since 808s & Heartbreaks, and more honest than he was on Yeezus, even. The album is rife with guest stars, from Rihanna to The Weeknd, and their spots stick with Kanye’s emotional theme.

One of the most immediately evocative verses from The Life of Pablo is from Chance the Rapper in “Ultralight Beam,” one of the best songs on the album. The verse is sandwiched between a gospel choir and Kanye’s verse, and features reminiscences of an earlier time: the rhythm behind “I met Kanye West, I’m never going to jail” is directly lifted from “Jesus Walks’,” “I made Jesus walk, I’m never going to hell.” There’s a lot of that here, Kanye in-jokes, references to how people see him, to current events, to his family.

Kanye isn’t self-aware, exactly, but he’s aware of how un-self-aware people think he is. That makes the 44-second “I Love Kanye” one of the critical moments on this album. He raps about pink polos—a throwback to his College Dropout days—and how people miss the old Kanye, and hate “the new Kanye, the bad mood Kanye.” I mean, it’s true.

Kanye used to be fun. Now he’s political.

On this song (it’s not even a song, really) he acknowledges how people miss his straightforward rap days and how he actually doesn’t care. There’s a meme that’s been floating around the Internet since Kanye first got cocky that says “I love you like Kanye loves Kanye.” I have a Valentine’s Day version of it stuck on the door of my room, courtesy of UGBC (#thanksUGBC). And now, in this song, we have Kanye saying it. He knows.

More than awareness of common Kanye culture, The Life of Pablo shows that Kanye gets what’s going on in the corporate world, the social world. In “Highlights,” another standout, he raps “I need every bad bitch up at Equinox.”

Almost immediately after this lyric rang out to Madison Square Garden, Equinox had tweeted an appropriately themed advertisement. Kanye knows what he’s doing here, and I don’t know if he’s trying to be funny, or what. We can reasonably assume that he’s being ironic. Actually, that’s a lie. We can’t

really assume anything.

For all the smack talk Kanye is guilty of, he really loves his family. In “No More Parties in L.A.,” he raps “I be worried ’bout my daughter, I be worried ’bout Kim, but Saint is baby Ye, I ain’t worried ’bout him.” The line is mildly misogynistic, but also genuinely sweet. Baby Ye! What a concept. That moment, along with some of the best raps on the album, make that song the closest thing The Life of Pablo has to a party hit. “FML” is a vulnerable plea to Kim about their relationship problems.

It closes with Kanye plaintively asking her, “Don’t stop your loving.” Happy Valentine’s Day, Kim. There is so much to say about this album, from the album cover that was definitely made in Microsoft Paint, to Kanye’s string of baffling tweets, to the “F—k Nike” chant he started at Yeezy Season 3. There is so much to say about his models at Madison Square Garden, ordered to stand stock-still, who wore rags and raised their fist in a Black power stance. It all feels so big.

With all of those trappings—not garish, exactly, but definitely dramatic—it’s hard to focus on the music. Kanye, better than expected? Nope, he just blew away whatever preconceptions anyone had. Back when this was still #SWISH, I tried to extrapolate what this album was going to be based on “Real Friends” and “Wolves.” And those two songs are still standouts, definitely, but there is so much more Kanye is doing here. The most accessible way to explain the album is that it’s a combination of Yeezus and 808s & Heartbreaks, two albums that I immediately disliked, then grew to love. He’s definitely not the old Kanye, and he expresses that in the 44second diss track to those who haven’t grown with him.

Twelve years ago, Kanye rapped, “We’re all self-conscious, I’m just the first to admit it.” Now, he’s the first to do something else. And what that is, I’m still not exactly sure. The music is great, but none of the songs are bangers, exactly. There isn’t an instant crowdpleaser like the poppy beat of “Bound 2” or the fierce verses of “Monster.” Instead, he’s focused on the artistic value of the album. Kanye doesn’t care if you don’t like it. But he knows you will.

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6. BREAKDOWN Jonathan Kellerman 7. THE NIGHTINGALE Kristin Hannah 8. BLUE Danielle Steel 9. ROGUE LAWYER John Grisham 10. THE FORCE AWAKENS Alan Dean Foster SOURCE: New York Times

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In this context, the ambitious and sprawling 17-track Is The Is Are makes sense.

The album is supposed to be a chance for Smith to retrieve relevancy and redemption in a discourse that’s been largely focused on anything but music. Stating

that he needed to stay alive at least as long as it took to record the album, Is The Is Are is intended to capture the evolution of Smith’s pain into strength and artistry.

Even a year before the release, Smith promised more introspection and a greater emphasis on vocal quality. But when “Dopamine” dropped toward the latter end of 2015, it was obvious that the single still sounded very much like DIIV. Despite the tonal similarities, Smith showed he still had a penchant for intertwining the immediacy of pop with meditative deposits of self-awareness.

Subsequent single releases affirmed that Is The Is Are wouldn’t likely be the massive changeup Smith had promised earlier, but still proved challenging with its depictions of addiction and recovery.

Much of Is The Is Are reveals an artist almost too tired to get the full weight of his message out. Once the vocals trickle in on “Bent (Roi’s Song),” Smith’s persona feels almost helpless against incoming waves of self-doubt. Though the delivery may come across as weak-willed,

the intent is deliberate in revealing the robbing intensity of addiction. Smith isn’t shouting out so much as quivering beneath compulsions and a glaring lack of self-control. The guitar arrangements alternate between moments of sharp pain and a precarious sense of emotional relief. The song is also notable in its use of distorted guitar textures. Compared to Oshin’s reverb-soaked, dream-pop production, “Bent (Roi’s Song)” is more indebted to classic shoegaze aesthetics, with its tremolo-affected repetition and intermittent bursts of feedback. It offers a brief glimpse into what Smith may have been referring to when he suggested that Is The Is Are would take a new direction.

While double-LP’s can sometimes be afflicted by purposeless space, the middle of Is The Is Are offers several beautiful melodies that alternate between shimmering lead guitar passages and earnest vocal takes. “Yr Not Far” remains memorable despite its inherent subtlety and limited lyrical contributions. “Mire (Grant’s Song)” offers a reprisal of the critical self-

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Several critical songs seem to suggest singer Zach Smith is trying to put drugs in his past. awareness first explored in “Bent (Roi’s Song).” The song is also creative in its use of feedback as an all-consuming force that mars clarity before revealing a newly acquired sense of direction. Some songs give off a sense of unruliness. “Incarnate Devil” seems to retouch on sonic elements that seemed more fully realized during earlier songs on the album. Despite this, Is The Is Are is fairly judicious and conscious of not wasting space.

While Is The Is Are is not the obvious masterpiece that DIIV may have intended at its production’s outset, it does offer a self-contained portrait without becoming overly self-absorbed. Expanding on a template present in the early ’90s, the revelations of defeat and redemption feel authentic and substantial. Despite Smith’s occasional fatalistic posturing, Is The Is Are suggests that DIIV still has plenty of room to maneuver creatively.

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Monday, February 15, 2016

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9: J8J8 :fddle`kp Le`k\j# 9i\Xbj ;fne :cXjj\jË 9Xii`\ij `e ÊBX_XXe`Ë Kahaani, from B8 The audience was overjoyed while watching each genre-specific dance—from the flashy moves and stylish costumes of Bhangra, to the upbeat sequences and perfect timing of Garba, each new dance of Kahaani brought with it an impressive level of detail and effort. Near the end of the show, percussionist Sourabh Banthia,

CSOM ’17, made an entrancing display of South Asian instrumental music, blending contemporary drumming techniques with punjabi dhol and Tamil “kuthu.” Other non-dance-specific acts included a SASA fashion show led by Aditya Luthra and Akash Desai, both CSOM ’17, as well as a skit telling the story of an elderly man’s journey from rural India to the United States. Directors Suraj Mudichintala and

Ameet Kallarackal, CSOM ’18, delivered an excellent dose of comedic relief to the audience, leaving no one in the audience without a smile.

The lighting team behind this year’s Culture Show deserves an honorable mention—several times, the lighting made Kahaani the standout performance that it was. On a number of occasions, dancers would be backlit by a bright

red screen, forcing the audience to see only silhouettes of the dancers. Perhaps more than any other detail of the show, this trick of lighting kept every single eye in Robsham glued to the mystical movements of SASA’s performers.

At no point during Kahaani did the audience appear bored or uninterested, speaking volumes not only for the pacing of the show, but also for the acts

themselves. With every passing dance, viewers shouted their approval, calling out the names of the dancers they were most impressed with. Most shows have a tendency to become fairly onedimensional, with little to no audience interaction. But this could not be said of Kahaani. Perhaps more than anything, this is what made Kahaani such a joy to attend.

AMELIE TRIEU / HEIGHTS EDITOR

Each academic year was given its own dance number in this year’s annual South Asian Student Association culture show, which featured a diverse range of skits and songs in Robsham Theatre last Saturday evening.

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“Gender Identities” provides reflection on gender’s position within the black community.

>\e[\i# Jkil^^c\ `e FËE\`cc 8ik Gender Identities, from B8 existence as well as the integral part she plays in the future. Above the excerpt is a portrait of a black woman with closed eyes and head tilted, resting in silence. This image, coupled with the accompanying poem, calls to mind a sense of struggle, in spite of the implied strength and power that the woman depicted possesses.

Another piece quotes Corinthians 13:4-8 as it speaks to the purity of love, which pays no mind to wrongdoing and prejudice, while exuding qualities of patience and kindness. The image of a homosexual black couple reinforces the simple, yet poignant point that love truly is blind.

One of the most provocative pieces is a collage of statements from BC undergraduates. In the piece, thoughts about identity fill a lined page. Including several “I AM…” statements, as well as how some individuals view themselves within the social fabric, the collage is fascinating as it calls one to assess how one views oneself within these same conditions. And within such thoughts, ideas of solidarity cannot fail to come to mind.

Within these statements, students raise issues in both a personal and interpersonal fashion. Where some may feel they are comfortable with themselves, there remains a sense of unease when relating themselves to

others. One quote reads, “I identify as female, but if I didn’t I probably wouldn’t be accepted in my racial group.”

These kinds of notions relay the struggle Garcia-Ornelas hoped to highlight, as in many cases individuals try to find harmony between themselves and their racial identities.

This warrants reflection, not only by those who may relate to such ideas, but also by those who may not “look within themselves and reflect on their own biases about issues around gender identity,” as Garcia-Ornelas put it.

“I create art to evoke conversation about my pieces,” Garcia-Ornelas said.

“They are social justice focused and at times unfiltered because I want to express the truth in my work. I do it in support of those who have been oppressed do [sic] to the injustices of society.”

“Gender Identities: Expression in the Black Community” is a worthwhile exhibit to examine the relation between identity, race, and gender. During Black History Month, the exhibit will call to mind important issues being discussed in the world today.

As many people search to find themselves , work s like these w ill certainly lend some perspective to the positions of others, as well as help situate ourselves within the larger social fabric. The feelings of solidarity, of the human condition, remain as inspiring as they are empowering.

To usher in this frigid February weekend’s festivities, Boston College’s jazz ensemble, BC bOp!, serenaded the gathered crowd of freeze-fleeing listeners with its Valentine’s Day-themed performance, “In the Name of Love.” Decked out in lovely suits and stylized bandstands, the members of BC bOp! imbued the Heights Room in Corcoran Commons with a passionate zest and spirit that enraptured the audience.

The Heights Room was a premier venue for bOp!’s concert, since its spaciousness allowed for a dance floor that the audience could groove on during some of bOp!’s more fast-paced, popular numbers. Songs like Earth, Wind, & Fire’s “September” and Mark Ronson’s “Uptown Funk” had the large crowd shaking the entire Heights Room with an overwhelming energy.

In many respects, bOp!’s covers of more popular songs are what makes bOp! so memorable. While the more traditional jazz numbers are still very much at the heart of bOp!’s performance, its covers seem to holistically grab audiences’ attention, and for good reason, too. It’s hard not to get lost in Mike Mastellone’s, CSOM ’18, take on the Frankie Valli classic “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You.” His performance is just about

as engaging as one could possibly be, and he’s sure to receive a standing ovation each time he sings it.

That being said, this isn’t the first or second time bOp! has played this song at one of its concerts. While Mastellone’s hit may be one of bOp!’s biggest crowd-pleasers, it would be interesting to see the ensemble take on more new songs with each new performance. “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” isn’t the only song that bOp! has recycled this year. “That Cat is High,” “Footloose,” “Uptown Funk,” and “September” have all been featured in bOp! performances before, and while these songs can definitely be labeled as “crowd favorites,” a regular bOp! attendee may hope to hear bOp! tackle some more modern hits. bOp!’s performance, on the other hand, was made up of much more than just the jazz ensemble’s recycled hits. Because this is Valentine’s Day weekend, bOp! went through a few songs that most definitely lived up to the performance’s title, “In the Name of Love.” Songs like “April in Paris” and “Kiss From A Rose” kept the show’s theme centered on romance and its tone multifaceted. Pairing Nina Simone’s romping “Feeling Good” with the jazz classic “Almost Like Being In Love” showcased bOp!’s variability, as well as its horn and saxophone sections’ prowess and solidarity.

“In The Name of Love” also featured some standout individual performances.

Max Warwick, CSOM ’16, and Sanjay Pamaar, MCAS ’18, gave the horn and saxophone players a magnificent beat to weave in and out of on “Hay Burner.” Adam Fung, MCAS ’16, provided stunning vocals for “Feeling Good.” Meanwhile, Andrew Tort, MCAS ’18, and Justin Solle, MCAS ’16, rocked out through several keyboard solos throughout the show. While bOp! only exists because of the musicians’ togetherness, these and a few other notable individual spotlights keep the show’s pace up and highlight the individual talent that bOp! is rife with.

Friday night’s performance was emblematic of BC bOp! in many ways.

The show exuded professionalism, yet kept the atmosphere accessible and welcoming to those who aren’t entirely familiar with the jazz classics. While it would be nice to see more of a variety with bOp!’s covers of contemporary popular songs, it’s entirely necessary to note that hits like “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” and “September” overflow audiences with excitement. This energy was best shown on the dance floor, where the audience seemingly danced without a care in the world. bOp!’s soulful melodies demanded them to.

JULIA HOPKINS / HEIGHTS EDITOR

The BC jazz ensemble performed an eclectic mix of Valentine’s Day love songs, jazz classics, and more contemporary covers.

AN EVENING AT THE ‘BIG SHOW’ WITH SEXUAL CHOCOLATE, DOBC, AND B.E.A.T.S.

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Overjoyed, I hopped in the car right away. These occasions proved too infrequent to be taken lightly. As I buckled myself in, my brother and sister joined me, exuding an excitement equal to mine. By the time my parents got the car started, all I could think about was what I was going to get. We were going to Blockbuster. There were so many choices, lining the walls on all sides, stocked on the shelves high and low. Meandering the aisles as a child never failed to evoke a sense of adventure. As we pulled up to the parking lot, I was ready to begin my search. I was dead-set on finding something. That was the fun of it. I did not have any clue what I was looking for, and yet I set about my search with an unwavering determination.

That kind of enthusiasm was imbued in me every time the family ventured to rent a couple of movies. When I was younger, I’m sure I was just as excited to get out the house as I was to find a movie to watch. Blockbuster represented as much of an escape from the house while we were there as an escape that would continue to free us when we popped in the DVDs and tapes in blue cases back home. As an adolescent, those trips evolved into a challenge, another way in which competition would manifest itself in my siblings and me. We knew the stakes.

And so it became a battleground to test our abilities. Who could find the best movie?

In the limited time we were there, I had to ask whether I would put faith in Battlefield Earth or Jurassic Park III. Turning over the boxes, scanning text, and analyzing cover art to see if the movie was worth our time. We all only had one shot. Bringing home our three selections, each of us vied to test his or her choice first.

As I became more aware of the world in my teenage years, I found myself drawn to the vibrant red cases reading “New Release.”

These were the movies I had heard others talk about. Something new. Discovering movies in this relative sense, their influence over me grew. Movies had their own language. Terms like “box office,” “critical reception,” “reaction shot,” and “McGuffin” became significant additions to my diction.

“Good-bad-movie” remains one of my favorites. And so movies became something you could take and experience outside of a single viewing.

The short distance from my house made Blockbuster even more appealing. As age made the shelves smaller and my eye more adept at finding things that were interesting, I found there was a certain charm to the store. The shelves changed, but the game remained the same. Search for something, anything. It did not matter if it came from the New Hollywood era in the ’70s, some cerebral world-questioning ’90s trip, or even a Hong Kong action flick—it was in there for a reason. Sometimes you would think, “Who was the last person to watch this?” If I asked that, it would be coming home for sure.

And just like that, Blockbuster closed. It had fallen victim to the same fate as books, newspapers, movie theaters, television, and the sense of safety we had in our own homes—the Internet.

Though they overcharged for films, probably degraded the environment when they burned all their VHS tapes, and never could stock The Tigger Movie, I miss the tangible aspects, the personality of the store, and the genuine sense of Stockholm Syndrome.

As everything becomes more impersonal, I hope, in the age of Netflix, we do not lose sight of the nature of film. When you rented a disc or VHS, there was always the sense that you were sharing something with someone else. This may be due to the fact that the previous viewer did not rewind the tape, but it is also because that is the nature of movie rentals. The human element was there in the employees and the co-patrons.

You returned the movies, not because you feared the late fees, but because you would be giving someone else the opportunity to see the film too. Without Blockbuster as the intermediary, the onus is on us to share with everybody else what we know to be out there.

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AMELIE TRIEU / HEIGHTS EDITOR

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This was the case with the South Asian Student Association’s latest culture show.

Kahaani, SASA’s 19th annual culturally based talent performance, was featured in Robsham Theater this past Saturday night. All ticket proceeds from the event went to Pratham USA. SASA’s display featured students from across all classes performing in a variety of media—mostly dance, but skits, singing, and instrumental numbers as well. From beginning to end, every section of the show was a delight.

Kahaani began with a routine by Boston College dance troupe Masti, which performed to a sampling of Bollywood songs, blowing away the expectations of the audience and starting the night off on the right foot. Masti’s performance transitioned into a rendition of “Sun Saathiya,” with a particularly beautiful

piano accompaniment by Suraj Mudichintala, CSOM ’16. Throughout the night , SA SA presented the audience with grade-specific dances—freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors alike all proved how well their hard work had paid off. On a technical level, the sophomores stole the show with excellent choreography and a very funny introduction video. By far the most heartwarming moment of the night was the class of 2016’s final dance together—each dancer poured obvious passion and an overwhelming sense of camaraderie into the final act, making it arguably the best part of Kahaani.

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KRISTIN SALESKI / HEIGHTS EDITOR

The collection of poems and pictures commissioned by Boston College can be found in the first floor of O’Neill Library throughout the remainder of Black History Month.

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our ventures into the cosmos. This has been an age of self-searching as people everywhere seek to orient themselves within our societal framework. The question “Who am I?” has never been more common and remains as elusive as ever. “Gender Identities: Expression in the Black Community,” on display on the first floor of O’Neill Library, poses this question as it pertains to gender and identity in the black community.

Artist Frank Garcia-Ornelas, GSSW ’16, was commissioned by the Thea Bowman AHANA and Intercultural

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Center, the Vice President of Student Affairs, and Boston College Libraries to create the exhibit for Black History Month. Through its display of photos and quotations , Garcia-Ornelas hoped “to ignite some emotions which hopefully encourage the viewer to examine their own ideologies,” as he said in an email. In looking at other people’s struggles, one may come to better understand oneself.

The galler y displays numerous pieces which draw on the role of identity within the black community in one form

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or another. Upon entry into the gallery, one is greeted with stanzas from poet Vernon J. Davis, Jr.’s “Beautiful Black Woman,” setting the tone for the rest of the pieces.

Within the poem, ideas of a sound mind, will, power, and beauty are attributed to the woman. These factors culminate in the final line, which states that within the woman “lies the future.”

The poem exalts the black woman, implying her importance for her current

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