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Jim Christian’s developing Eagles remain winless in the ACC with a loss to UNC, B1

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An alumnus recently filed a Title IX investigation against Boston College through the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) after being found responsible for a sexual assault in 2012. The student served a three-semester suspension, but DNA evidence released the February following his suspension did not corroborate the student’s guilt. The

student maintains he was wrongly accused.

As a result, the student filed a lawsuit against the University on Dec. 4, 2015, complaining that the school is in violation of Title IX, seeking damages and that BC be mandated to comply with Title IX. Katie O’Dair, BC’s Title IX coordinator, said that this lawsuit lands BC on the list of 161 institutions who are under review.

“This is the first time BC has been involved in an OCR investigation of a

sexual violence complaint,” O’Dair said in an email. “Boston College is fully cooperating with the OCR in its review.”

O’Dair explained that the general protocol for an OCR investigation involves the OCR’s requesting information about policies, procedures, and cases, and possibly conducting interviews and a site visit.

The Title IX coordinator could not share any case-specific details, nor could Dean of Students Thomas Mogan, who deferred

the conversation to O’Dair.

According to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Postsecondary Education’s Campus Safety and Security Data Analysis, there were a total of 22 reported rape occurrences on campus in 2014 in on-campus student housing facilities. This goes alongside 11 reported occurrences of forcible sex offences on campus in 2013, 10 of which were in on-campus student housing facilities. In

the same records, Boston University had five on-campus rapes reported in 2014, and 8 forcible sex offences in 2013, while Harvard University had a reported 33 oncampus rapes in 2014, and 35 forcible sex offences in 2013. Data for 2015 has not yet been reported.

After the Association of American Universities released a survey covering

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Boston College has created a new strategic-planning committee called University Strategic Planning Initiative (USPI). The group plans to help identify institutional spending priorities for the next decade.

The campaign is part of a cycle at BC, which consists of creating a new planning committee to understand where the University is performing well and where it is lacking, and then hosting a fundraising campaign to support the changes that the University needs to make, Provost and Dean of Faculties David Quigley said. From 2003 to 2007, the University Assessment and Programming Initiative (UAPI) conducted research at BC. Based on those findings, the University launched the Light the World campaign, which raised $1.5 billion.

Though the University just announced that Light the World had reached its goal, the money has already been spent on improvements at BC, including the building of Stokes Hall and the hiring of 100 faculty members, Quigley explained.

USPI will conduct internal analyses of all eight schools at BC, gather infor-

mation and ideas from BC community members, and identify specific areas where BC should focus. It hopes to create a strategic plan for the University’s Board of Trustees to review within the next 18 to 24 months.

“The process is just getting started,” Quigley said.

The creation of the committee began in December, according to University Spokesman Jack Dunn, when members of USPI met in December at an orientation session to define what their goals would be and how the program would work.

USPI’s ultimate goal, Quigley said, is to understand how the University has changed over the past 10 years since the last committee completed its analysis.

They will look at the present strengths and weaknesses of BC and plan where they want BC to be 10 years from now.

University President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J., appointed Quigley and Executive Vice President Michael J. Lochhead as the co-chairs of the committee. The two leaders will work with a steering committee composed of four faculty members, two deans, and two students.

The co-chairs’ roles, Lochhead explained, are to provide coordination and structure to the committee.

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The five students were contacted by Dean of Students Thomas Mogan Dec. 15 and asked to meet with him. They were cited for disruption and unregistered protesting, McGillen said. Each member responded that he or she would be able to meet with Mogan after winter break, given that they were contacted during finals week.

Due to federal privacy laws, Mogan could not comment on any potential matters of student conduct.

So far, four of the five students have met with Mogan, according to McGillen.

“I asked Dean Mogan why I was selected and why the other people who were present were selected,” McGillen said in an email. “He stated that he chose students who he saw both at the caroling and at the workshop about direct actions, which was hosted on campus by Eradicate’s Graduate Student

Association.”

At this meeting in December, Eradicate educated students about direct action and introduced its 12 Days of Institutional Racism campaign, which it hosted from Dec.1 to 12.

“We will continue to protest around the issues of institutional racism until the concerns of students of color that have been raised and now backed by UGBC are concretely addressed by the administration,” McGillen said.

The resolution via conversation, according to the student handbook, is not a stage of the conduct system that comes with particular sanctions. But if the students are found in violation of these rules again, they could face larger consequences.

The Office of the Dean of Students has successfully registered at least five demonstrations on campus this year, Mogan said. Students and student organizations are required to register demonstrations, he said. This is standard protocol for colleges and universities across the country.

Last semester, when Eradicate posted fliers with infographics on them around campus without the administration’s approval, Mogan met with them to explain JULIA HOPKINS / HEIGHTS EDITOR

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In early December, members of Eradicate BC Racism participated in a Christmas carol parody protest, resulting in disciplinary action.

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Alan Gross, a former hostage in Cuba and humanitarian aid worker, will speak as part of the Clough Colloquium Series on Feb. 2 at 4 p.m. in Gasson 100. The series features speakers that have made significant contributions as ethical leaders in their respective fields.

NEWS BRIEFS 9: 8clde` IXeb **i[ Boston College ranked 33rd on Best College Values’ list of the 50 most powerful alumni networks with an overall score of 20.5.

The ranking of the top-50 universities was calculated based on the percentage of alumni that contribute financially to the university, employment rate post-graduation, the percentage of alumni that receive employment from career services, student feedback of alumni network helpfulness, and the school’s reputation.

BC followed schools on the list including the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Virginia, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Stanford University placed number one as the school with the strongest alumni network.

According to Best College Values, 26 percent of alumni donate to BC post-graduation and 30.8 percent of alumni are employed in management positions.

“BC’s Alumni Association has chapters across the nation and around the globe,” Best College Values said on its website.

“Alumni members enjoy many benefits, including help with career goals and invaluable networking opportunities.”

9lj_ :i`k`Z`q\j :fcc\^\j# 9: Jeb Bush, former Florida governor and GOP presidential candidate, spoke about universities’ lack of Friday classes, tenured professors who teach too few classes, and poor four-year graduation rates at a town hall event on Jan. 7 in New Hampshire. He cited Boston College, along with several other universities like the University of North Carolina and the University of Hawaii at Manoa, as examples of institutions with these issues.

“There are a lot of beautiful buildings being built on college campuses, but you can’t get a course on Friday afternoon,” Bush said at his appearance.

“And a professor, tenured professor, may not be teaching many more courses than one per semester.”

After fact checking Bush’s statements, The Washington Post deemed his speech worthy of “two pinocchios” for falsity.

While colleges often hold fewer classes on Fridays, The Washington Post said that it does not usually affect four-year graduation rates.

In addition, The Washington Post proved that the lack of classes taught by tenured professors is often due to their outside research. BC requires that professors continue their work outside of the classroom, in addition to teaching classes.

The Post also found that there are about 4,000 institutions that have tenured professors teaching four or more classes.

B C ’s histor y depar tment shared The Washington Post’s story and responded to Bush’s comments on Facebook.

“Actually, BC has one of the highest four-year graduation rates in the country, an incredibly committed, hard-working bunch of professors, and lots and lots and lots of Friday classes,” the history department’s Facebook post said.

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Professor Agbonkhianmeghe Orobator, S.J., from Kenya will lecture on “Faiths at war: conflicts, contestations, and claims in Africa’s triple religious heritage” as part of the Duffy Lectures in Global Christianity. The event will take place on Feb. 1 at 5 p.m. in Gasson 305.

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by Dr. Raghnall O’Floinn on Feb. 2 at 4 p.m. to mark the 125th anniversary of the opening of the National Museum of Ireland. O’Floinn will speak on the formation of the National Museum and its growth as a national institution.

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By Chris Russo Heights Staff Boston College’s Academic Advising Center and the Career Center have teamed up to create a new event series titled “Professors, Pastries, and Professions.” The first event will be held on Feb. 3 at 3:30 p.m. in Stokes 140S, the lounge space across from the Academic Advising Center.

Previously known as “Professors and Pastries,” this event series has been relaunched with the help of the BC Career Center, whose advisers it will now include along with professors.

“It is a chance to bring students, professors, and advisers together informally,” Director of Advising Rory Browne said.

The goal of these events is for students to meet with professors outside of the classroom setting in order to have casual conversation. The advisors from the Career Center will also talk to students about summer internships, as well as future job opportunities.

“It was conceived when we first opened the Academic Advising Center in 2006,” Browne said. “It has two purposes. First, it brings students, professors, and advisers closer together.”

Browne realizes that students often have a hesitation to see professors in their office hours. These events can ease students into becoming more comfortable with their professors and advisers in a more relaxed setting. It is meant to encourage students to

seek out faculty.

“Second, it will provide students with information about offerings, both curricular and extracurricular, here at BC,” Browne said. “BC has a lot of resources, interesting classes, majors, and minors.”

BC Advising has noticed that students often get stuck in a routine which can be tough to break. Browne’s hope is that these events will get students out of their comfort zones and will provide them with useful information and potential new opportunities.

Each event has a central theme, like how to succeed in business with a liberal arts degree, summer opportunities, and studying abroad.

“There has been an increasing emphasis on providing students advice,”

Browne said. He thinks that this event series will fulfill that goal.

While the first event will be held on Wednesday, the following two “Professors, Pastries, and Professions” are also planned for February. These events will cover fellowships and grants as well as interdisciplinary minors. Students can check the Advising Center’s website to find out the dates and times for future events.

“It is designed to be informal.

It is meant to be a relaxing time for both professors and students,” Browne said. “You can come in just for five minutes. Come if you just like the pastries. There are some students who come every week who enjoy the ambiance and refreshments.”

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Last year, UGBC held Happiness Talks as a part of the Happiness Project.

By Heidi Dong Heights Editor The Happiness Project is a global movement aimed at pursuing genuine happiness through a scientific method, sparked by Gretchen Rubin’s New York Times bestseller, The Happiness Project, which has sold in over 35 different countries. For the second time, UGBC will collaborate with seven other major campus organizations to bring The Happiness Project to Boston College from Feb. 1 through 5.

Last year, BC’s Happiness Project was brought to campus through collaboration between the Office of Health Promotion (OHP) and Un-

dergraduate Government of Boston College. This year, UGBC, the OHP, the Campus Activities Board, Agape Latte, the Random Acts of Kindness Club, The Gavel, Campus Ministry, Humans of Boston College, as well as other service programs are all collaborating to bring The Happiness Project to BC for the second time.

This large collaboration is part of an effort to reach as many students on campus as possible, in response to last year’s large turnout and positive student responses.

“This is going to be one of the biggest programs we put on this year, so far, because of the immense collaboration and the variety of interest areas

we are trying to target,” Sloan Renfro, a member of the executive council of UGBC and MCAS ’16, said.

The Happiness Project will hold events ranging from a Zumba class to the “What I Be” campaign and Happiness Talks. While the project’s focus last year was on positivity, the emphasis this year will be on authenticity.

“Not everyone can just wake up, get out of bed, and turn on their ‘happy switch,’” Theresa Rager, UGBC Director of campus dialogue and MCAS ’17, said. “It’s important to be authentic and show how you’re really feeling, and being your true self.”

This year’s Happiness Project is split into five specific areas of happiness: personal happiness, relational happiness, campus happiness, community and society happiness, and world and cultural happiness. Each day, the planned events will focus on one of these areas of happiness.

On Monday, Feb. 1 in Devlin 008, the Happiness Project’s evening events will kick off with the “What I Be” Closing Ceremony. The “What I Be” Campaign, which was held from Jan. 25 through Feb. 1, is a movement that is centered on empowerment through honesty. The campaign came to BC last October, when Steve Rosenfield photographed 70 BC students, who had written their biggest insecurities on their hands and faces.

The honesty and authenticity that the campaign focuses on are meant

to empower both the participants and those who are struggling with similar insecurities. The goal of the movement is to raise awareness and effect change. On Feb. 4, there will be a series of Happiness Talks that will feature the Authentic Eagles, students who write about their experiences finding their authentic selves at BC. During this event, a series of seniors who have written for Authentic Eagles will speak about what authenticity means to them.

“There are a lot of ideal BC student images that float around whether they are true or not, and it kind of creates a culture of negativity instead of positivity,” Rager said. “So we’re trying to say, like, ‘Get those stereotypes out of your head and embrace who you are and be yourself.’ And through that we hope that the positivity will sort of dominate over that negativity.”

The final event of the week will be a campus-wide Zumba class on Friday in Gasson 100. A School of Theology and Ministry student, whose focus in graduate school is centered on how body and activity connect to spirituality, will teach this class.

“It’s kind of important to remind ourselves of our values and refocus on positivity and authenticity, and kind of reflect on what campus culture we have going on right now, and what we can do to make it better,” Rager said.

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By Nicholas DeMott For the Heights The Church in the 21st Century Center (C21), in conjunction with Undergraduate Government of Boston College, will host its first Agape Latte event of the second semester on Tuesday, Feb. 2 at 8:30 p.m. As part of UGBC’s Happiness Project week, the caffeinated discussions about faith and life will lead off at Hillside Cafe with Fr. Terry Devino’s “Love Yourself ” talk.

Two years ago, Devino cap-

tivated the Hillside crowd in his first Agape Latte appearance when he quoted Anchorman and Taylor Swift during his talk on God’s love.

Devino will return to Agape Tuesday to talk about finding happiness in relationships.

“Fr. Terry will talk about how relationships help us grow in our faith and the importance of getting to know and love ourselves and others,” Karen Kiefer, associate director of C21, said in an email.

According to Devino, Gretchen Rubin’s New York Times best-seller

POLICE BLOTTER Wednesday, Jan. 27 10:52 a.m. - A report was filed regarding credit card offenses.

3:28 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a suspicious person at an off-campus location.

3:39 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a suspicious person at O’Neill Library.

7:10 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a bomb threat at the Boston College Police Headquarters.

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The Happiness Project is an important motivating factor behind his “Love Yourself ” talk and the related UGBC Happiness Project.

Rubin’s desire to achieve happiness led to her year-long project, which involved scientific research and personal exploration.

The Heightsmen duo of Paul Reilly, CSOM ’17, and Kamau Burton, MCAS ’17, will open the event for Fr. Devino around 8 p.m. Agape Latte will provide free desserts, coffee, and tshirts for attendees.

On the first Tuesday of each

month, Agape Latte, known on campus for its “Espresso Your Faith” mantra and gigantic coffee bean mascot, showcases a different speaker encompassing a different theme. Since 2013, free lattes, desserts, and conversations on faith and religion have drawn the interest of BC students.

“I clicked on [the Facebook event page] and thought the message of self-love is important,” Alyssa Stenta, MCAS ’17, said. “I’m hoping I can take away some advice on loving yourself first and how you can translate that into loving others.”

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7:02 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a larceny over $250 in the Walsh Hall lot.

11:12 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a fire alarm activation in Ignacio Hall A. 12:35 a.m. - A report was filed regarding medical assitance provided at Loyola Hall

—Source: The Boston College Police Department

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initiatives that encourage students to report assaults. She said that if BC is any indication of national trends, sexual assault is happening here, and all students need support.

This information comes in light of recent focuses from the administration on sexual assault on campus. In 2013, an increase in reported sexual assaults caused BCPD to review and report the latest Student Sexual Miscon-

duct Policy. In October 2014, BC revised this policy and the investigative process. In May 2014, the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault released a report with the goal of helping colleges and universities address, respond to, and prevent sexual assault on campus. In response, BC evaluated its sexual assault resources, with the hopes of making reporting assaults and violations easy

and available to members of the community.

Finally, in March 2015, administrators held a forum on the sexual assault policy, outlining the reporting process.

Currently, BC students are able to report sexual assaults to various outlets. Students can receive counseling from a confidential source, speak with someone in the Women’s Resource Center, file an internal statement to

the Office of the Dean of Students within the conduct system, or pursue criminal charges with BCPD. “BC continues to take proactive steps to enhance our response and prevention efforts not only to comply with Title IX, but also to adhere to our mission to care for and support all of our students and provide a safe campus environment,” O’Dair said in an email.

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To decide which students and faculty would serve on the committee, they looked at the previous strategic planning processes, including the UAPI, which ran from 2003 until 2007.

“I’d say we really did strive for balance on the steering committee so that we could have representation across the schools, include students in the process, and ensure that we had some balance with respect to gender” Lochhead said. “We wanted to make sure that we had a team that could represent the University’s interests well and ensure that we maintained an institutional view as opposed to a secular or

departmental unit view.”

The Steering Committee will begin in February with an assessment of all eight schools on campus and all of the vice presidential administrative areas to evaluate progress made over the past 10 years and identify strategic opportunities. The group will also examine University-wide initiatives.

“BC has long benefitted from a particularly thoughtful commitment to planning and periodically bringing the community together to discuss our concerns, our hopes, our ambitions,” Quigley said. “Mike Lochhead and I are working together to structure a process that will both be inclusive and at the same time focused and productive.”

Leahy, along with the Board of Trustees and senior leaders on campus, decided that 2016 was the right time to begin the next planning process, Quigley said.

“The world has changed,” Lochhead said. “In the last 10 years we’ve made a lot of progress but also need to take stock of what is happening in the world of higher education. Where does BC sit within that world presently and has anything changed in our set of assumptions that we think

we need to address? Building off of the direction that was set 10 years ago and the initiatives that emanated from that work is certainly where we are starting from in our assessment and planning work.”

And while the committee will look back at the history of previous campaigns—like the University Academic Planning Council, which concluded its research in 1996—it will also look forward to see how the University can improve.

“If you look at BC’s history over the last 40 years, there is a cyclical nature to institutional planning efforts,” Quigley said.

There will also be some differences with this new committee, Quigley said.

BC currently has much better data-collecting measures, he said, which allows the institution to better understand the realities of the campus.

Dunn and his team, as well as The Chronicle and the News and Public Affairs Office, will also work to keep the community updated over the course of the next 24 months, Quigley said, using a portal on the BC website.

There will be no major breaks from what BC has done in the past, Quigley said, but USPI will work toward understand-

ing how to build on the prior successes of the University and what needs to be improved.

“The committee is coming together to provide high-level oversight for a process—a process of engagement and assessment and some real consideration and thought about where BC wants to be in 10, 15, or 20 years from now. We need to marry all of those things together in a way that allows us to develop initiatives that address what we may identify as gaps or opportunities in order to propel BC forward and put it in the best position possible for the next 10 years.”

It is important that the committee understands what BC values as a community right now, Quigley said.

“There are certain fundamentals to this place, to our culture, to our values, to how we come together as a community that I would not want to lose,” he said. “And I think going forward we need to think about how do we preserve those?”

It is also important, however, to avoid complacency, Quigley said. The committee must contemplate what it wants BC to look like in 10 years and how BC can evolve as an institution.

“BC has a strong tradition of excellence in academics and also a commitment to social justice, both within our Boston community and globally,” Aimee Milliken, a graduate student in the Connell School of Nursing and member of the steering committee, said. “I hope that we can succeed in developing a strategic plan that continues to highlight both of these priorities, and that can serve as a model for other institutions.”

Quigley served on the UAPI committee in 2004 as a history professor in the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences.

“I think that the opportunity the last planning process afforded many of us to engage with colleagues across departments and across the University opened up for me the idea that by working together, by putting our best selves forward, that we can actually take a sense of individual and collective responsibility for building a better BC,” he said. “As a result of that earlier experience, I’m entering into this with a sense of trying to build on that success while aiming to get more people to the table with that sense that by working together we can build something even greater.”

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“Students have a right to express themselves,” Mogan said. “But, in con-

ducting demonstrations, they do not have the right to infringe upon others’ rights to a non-disruptive academic environment.”

In the past, Eradicate has not always been welcome to register its events on campus, McGillen said. The University’s policies toward protests on campus, however, have been changing. Although not yet expressed in written word, she

said, the University is moving to allow unregistered groups, like Eradicate, to register protests on campus.

Eradicate has attempted to learn as much as it can about the successes and failures of past protests, Ferreira said.

The group’s members have found that direct actions seem to be most effective.

“None of us is opposed to having difficult conversations,” Jack Dunn,

University spokesman and director of the Office of News and Public Affairs, said last semester in response to the infographic. “But the expectation is that they be respectful, civil, consistent with steadfast academic principles. So if they’re willing to work with us, we’re willing to work with them. But this policy with disruption at the expense of communication, at the expense of dialogue,

we think, is unproductive.”

With the announcement of the $1.5 billion Light the World campaign and the University Strategic Planning Initiative, Ferreira said the University has the perfect opportunity to address these issues.

Eradicate is excited about the future, given the current climate on campus.

“It’s a wonderful moment of opportunity,” Ferreira said.

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By Conor Sheehy Heights Staff Marina McCoy, philosophy professor and expert in Platonic philosophy, spoke about the interconnectedness of imagination and prayer Thursday night in Corcoran Commons. The presentation focused on how these two entities, which are core tenets of Ignatian spirituality, can be used to broaden a person’s spiritual insights and better discern motions of the soul.

Her talk was part of a series of talks on Ignatian spirituality co-sponsored by the Center for Ignatian Spirituality and Boston College’s Jesuit Collaborative.

Plato argued that our imaginations are limited in the sense that people can only truly understand a few facets of something because how one sees the world is shaped by one’s own history.

McCoy shared how she struggled to come up with how to write an appropriate eulogy for her grandmother’s funeral. She decided to tell anecdotes about her grandmother’s life.

“She was a physician, she had great courage to survive in a refugee camp after leaving her own war-torn country, she liked to drive her convertible, and drove it very fast,” McCoy said. “She liked to slice ice cream in rectangles out of the box by undoing the entire box and slicing it, instead of scooping it, and she absolutely hated to cook.”

She decided to articulate certain facets of her grandmother that she knew.

God is like this as well, she said, but no matter how much we know through our lived experience with God, we are always restrained in how we can understand Him. Aristotle points out that in mathematics and ethics, she said, people immediately jump to specific examples.

The different answers we get to specific problems are shaped by constant mathematics or ethical principles. McCoy questioned why understanding God is not done in the same way. She pointed out that our imaginations can allow us to better reconcile our desires with those

which God wants of us.

Ignatian contemplative style, or deliberative prayer, McCoy said, can help us better discern what we want out of our lives. This Ignatian exercise relies on retreat and immersion into the story.

To deliberately pray with a text, she said, you must “read the passage and let the scene unfold.”

The story of God and the stories of other people are weaved together, she said, and we discover that our stories are interwoven. Her friend likens our combined stories to a piece of embroidery, in which we can only see the crisscrossed threads and messiness. In truth, the fabric of our lives is much more beautiful than we will ever realize.

“Imagination and prayer allow God to guide you to truly see,” she said.

McCoy mentioned the story of Jesus curing the blind man in the New Testament. In the story, the man born blind is cured of his physical blindness when he accepts the task that Jesus gives him in blind faith. The man’s physical cure is symbolic of the spiritual remedy.

“He wants to see, but it must have been more than a physical seeing that he wanted,” McCoy said. “This seeing was more than physical. When he’s healed, he is so full of love and gratitude that he cannot resist going out and talking about it. He shares the gift that he has received with everyone else because his gratitude cannot be contained.”

This type of deliberate prayer, she said, helped her while she was clinically depressed. McCoy’s depression was particularly difficult because her depression was accompanied by personal shame.

While she was praying, she looked outward, seeing Christ with his bloody wounds. She said that she identified with him because of her internal wounds.

McCoy’s love of God, combined with her imagination, allowed her to grow spiritually and come closer to Him, like the blind man. Her narrative of pain, suffering, and loss allowed her to realize how beautiful love is and foster her relationships with God and other people.

McCoy asked if the desires we have

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The Center for Ignatian Spirituality and the Jesuit Collaborative hosted McCoy to talk about how God can use imagination during transitions. and those of God are really different. St. Augustine’s view, she said, is that our deepest desires are in fact truly good.

When our desires are distilled to the fundamentals, we are left with a love of God and people alone. We are often called to desire things that will not make us truly happy. In reality, living by the

beatitudes and loving our neighbors require our attention.

An audience member asked McCoy whether imaginatively finding God is like Machiavelli’s views of effective leadership. The audience member likened imagining God to Machiavelli’s imagined truths as opposed to effectual

truths.

McCoy agreed, echoing an earlier point in her talk that the imagination is always going to be at least partially removed from the truth, and she pointed out that it is in knowing God better that we better understand what we do not know.

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A8D<J CL:<P Generally speaking, Boston College Dining has what it does down to a science.

Little guessing is involved on the part of the hungry student—Thursday in the Rat always promises mac n’ cheese, there will always be the Chestnut Hill Grill to fall back on, and when it gets really ugly, Late Night is never too far off.

It’s a well-oiled machine that produces a wide spectrum of nutritious hot and cold foods (with an odd mozzarella stick in the mix) that we all depend upon. As an off-campus student who is continuously scrounging for Eagle Bucks, I know that this dependability and consistency is invaluable.

One peculiarity in the prepared food section, however, has continuously mystified me over the last three years, and I am sure I am not alone. Sitting unassumingly in refrigerators all across campus, the cheese tray is a puzzling collision of cheese and doit-yourself food budgeting.

I’m sure that I am not the only patron who has encountered the unmistakable dilemma of the cheese tray—a horribly lop-

sided ratio of cracker to cheese that heavily favors the latter. As fond as I am of cheese, I am deeply troubled by this distinct lack of cracker. Despite many of my best efforts, it seems that there is never enough cracker to adequately complement the cheese.

Ultimately, when the cracker runs out and I’m confronted with a mountain of cheese with no hope of starchy deliverance, I feel a bit like I have failed.

So I write here today not only for my own purposes of putting a responsible cheese rationing strategy into print, but also to assist with anyone else who feels that he or she has wrestled with this puzzle too many times. In brief, here is the best-prescribed method, component by component, for maximizing both cheese and cracker utility when eating a cheese tray.

First things first, let’s talk about the fruits and cheese tray miscellany. For the purposes of keeping this piece focused on the important stuff (cheese and crackers, obviously), we’re not going to take this extra cheese accoutrement into consideration.

What you choose to do with the apples and grapes is up to you—whether you love them as a sweet complement to the savory flavors that dominate the tray or loathe them for being a distraction from the main event, use the fruit portion responsibly. If you further choose to make use of the piece of lettuce that lines the bottom of the tray, I respect the thoroughness, but that’s your business. To

each his or her own, I guess.

On to the important stuff. You have three crackers, and it’s up to you to use them in a reasonable way. It would be easy to be lazy and/or wasteful with the first cracker.

To simply put on a convenient amount of the Brie cheese and kiss it goodbye would be the first-timer thing to do. That’s not the life that we have chosen. This cracker will be daunting, but it really needs to be completely devoted to the Brie. This is a heavy one, and you are free to break it up however you’d like, but there is really no other way. It’s also important to use more than the amount of cheese you think is necessary per square centimeter of cracker. The last thing you want is to get to the last shard of the cracker confronted by a daunting amount of Brie.

Use whatever you need to help wash down what promises to be a heavy cracker (might be a good time for the apples and grapes), but you’ve got to power through.

Moving forward, I think order is a little less important, but personally I always tackle the Baby Gouda second. This will probably be the most enjoyable cracker of the three, so cherish it. Slice the Gouda however you’d like and treat yourself. If you’re feeling ambitious, it is absolutely possible to ration the cracker and save a few fragments to make the onslaught of cheddar cubes a little more bearable, but this is up to you.

Finally, the third cracker to finish off the tray. The pile of mild white cheddar

cheese before you is daunting, but you can do this—it’s all about self-control. The first bite should involve a stack of cheddar cheese that’s almost too tall for your jaws, just to knock out as much as possible. The cube sizes vary pretty wildly, but now is a good time to stack up some of the smaller pieces.

When you get into the grind of distributing cracker to cube, you likely won’t be focused on the size of the cubes as much as you will the quantity of them per bite. Inevitably, after this first bite, the cracker will break into several pieces, and it becomes a matter of discipline with regard to picking up cheddar cubes. Feel free to be creative with how you spear, stack, or sandwich these cubes. Having a bit of fun with it will make the task of being excessively sparing with crackers that much more bearable.

As a final note on the process itself, I need to comment that there are few sensations more satisfying than the final bite of a well-executed cheese tray. If you’ve made it far enough that your last bite is a reasonable one (which is no small feat), congratulations—you deserve this. If you aren’t as fortunate, however, don’t despair. Whether the last bite is a near-miss, with a ratio that’s just a bit off, or you’ve failed altogether and are faced with a nearly-full plate of cheese, just know that this is not an exact science.

These things happen. It’s just a matter of how we learn from them.

What makes this particular choice of

prepared food unique is not the exquisite selection of cheeses, but rather the strategy involved. I’m convinced that when BC Dining put together the cheese tray, its intention was not simply to feed us but also to intellectually challenge us (hence, Eat. Drink.

Talk. Think.).

So if the logistical issues of the cheese tray have plagued your mind for any period of time, I hope this piece managed to help to some degree. If this piece instead introduced a new existential element to your snacking, I genuinely apologize, but I’m prepared to defend this article as a wake-up call. Take this advice however you’d like, but if nothing else, never wish away another water cracker again.

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Two new books written by Boston College faculty about immigration were released at a book launch last month hosted by the Center for Human Rights

and International Justice (CHRIJ). The New Bostonians: How Immigrants Have Transformed the Metro Area Since The 1960s, written by history professor Marilynn Johnson, and The New Deportations Delirium: Interdisciplinary Responses, co-edited by LSOE professor

M. Brinton Lykes and BC Law professor Daniel Kanstroom, explore different facets of life as an immigrant in the United States and in the Boston area.

Johnson’s book looks at how largescale immigration from Latin America, Asia, and Africa after the passage of the

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The two new faculty publications look at the constantly changing immigration patterns, politics, and lives in the modern United States.

Immigration Act of 1965 helped revitalize the city.

Johnson is a social and urban historian of the modern U.S. and has been teaching at BC for 21 years. Nearly all of her research and books are about the history of cities and urban life, including that of Oakland, New York, and Boston.

Immigration in particular has been a consistent theme.

Johnson is not formally affiliated with the CHRIJ but is a fan of its work, particularly since she studies both violence and migration—two themes she said are “very much linked in history.”

That being said, Johnson claims her book is “rather different” from Lykes and Kanstroom’s. Instead of examining recent policy debates and immigration enforcement practices, Johnson’s work explores the rise of immigrant rights in response to constantly changing immigration legislation. This novel perspective provides a closer look at how deportation policies have broadly affected both authorized and unauthorized immigrants.

“Mine seeks to tell the story of new immigrants in Boston since the 1960s and how vital they’ve been to our workforce, economy, and the revitalization of the city since the 1980s,” Johnson said. “This is where The New Deportations Delirium picks up and stakes out new ground … In short, the two books complement each other nicely.”

The New Deportations Delirium: Interdisciplinary Responses, co-edited

by CHRIJ associate directors Daniel Kanstroom and Lykes, takes a look at the impact of the 1996 Illegal Immigra-

tion Reform and Responsibility Act on the country’s immigrant population.

According to the NYU Press, millions of migrants to the US, including many long-time residents with green cards, have experienced summary arrest, incarceration without bail, transfer to remote detention facilities, and deportation without counsel—a lifetime banishment from what is, in many cases, the only country they have ever known—since immigration laws were hardened in 1996.

Lykes is a community-cultural psychologist with more than 25 years experience working in Guatemala, and Kanstroom is an immigration attorney who currently focuses primarily on detention and deportation issues and teaches human rights law. Both authors are associate directors of the CHRIJ and founding members.

“We at the CHRIJ were delighted to co-host the book presentations with [Dr. Johnson] as her book looks at the multiple contributions of migrants to the greater Boston area, whereas ours looks more closely at what happens to migrants who enter the area without proper documentation and are most directly affected by current immigrant policies and practices,” Lykes said.

In doing so, she managed to document the social, educational and economic contributions of immigrants to Boston’s economic recovery. This includes the contributions of many who are not authorized, and explores

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T-100ish days left until graduation.

In first grade, Ms. McCloud had us bring in 100 of “something” to show to the class. I piled up 100 pennies in a giant manilla envelope and walked in to find all of the kids crowded around a tiny black square on the table in the corner of the classroom. Hannah’s scientist parents had single-handedly (and microscopoly?) counted off 100 grains of salt.

Whatever, Hannah.

Aside from the lofty realization that Hannah’s parents needed to chill, sevenyear-old Emily had a mini epiphany. Who knew that “one hundred” could fit in a centimeter-squared and a giant manilla envelope?

One hundred days before graduation.

That’s 55 class days, one trip to the Plex, three times I’ll accidentally watch Keeping Up with the Kardashians, 900 pages of Infinite Jest, 50 films, 200 cups of coffee, one 2 a.m. trip to IHOP, two Sunday mornings at the Breakfast Club, 33 (approximately) dance parties, one seasonal playlist, and 10 Late Nights too many.

I can measure this period of time in

seasonal shifts, songs, days, books, films, conversations, or grains of salt arranged neatly against a dark cardboard square.

Conceptualizing the time we have left is daunting, but also kind-of-really exciting.

It feels like, prior to the great post-college abyss, there were bite-sized intervals of time we could rely on. But everything following the progression of schools and its standardized benchmarks is amassed into one hungry beast.

Thinking about deadlines is counterintuitive and uncomfortable, but it also endows the in-betweens with meaning. Seemingly dull and mundane tasks suddenly emanate a spirit of memento mori. A little less anxious denial and a lot more creepy grinning as you walk down Linden Lane.

It’s easier to think about time as an imposed, regimented structure. I personally try not to think about its stealthy passage, but just kinda, sorta, let it happen. The problem is that the illusion of having a lot of time breeds lethargy. We succumb. Thinking about time manifests itself in cheesy bucket lists, vulnerable full disclosure, and a desire to be an active agent in one’s own life.

In Moonwalking with Einstein, Joshua

Foer talks about exercising and training your brain to remember. As we age, we get caught up in routines, and “if you’re not doing things that are unique and different and memorable, this year can come to resemble the last, and end up being just as forgettable as yesterday’s lunch.” Our ability to recall memories will weaken as our memories blend together and become more and more alike.

What if, instead of 100 pennies or 100 grains of salt, I’d brought in an eclectic collection of objects and trinkets (for example, an acorn, a lucky penny, a pokemon card, my Aaron Carter poster, and Skittles-flavored Smuckers)? The value and meaning attributed to 100 is suddenly weightier and substantially more sentimental.

Maybe it’s helpful to think about life in terms of 100-day expanses and attempt to make those days a collection of dissimilar memories. This doesn’t have to be a dramatic act of reinvention, but an opportunity to make slight alterations in everyday routines. Also, this carpe diem disposition shouldn’t be symptomatic of a looming graduation or acute senioritis.

This is why I’m writing this column now, and not when I’m over and out.

Last year, I was in the Rat with a friend of mine who was graduating in a couple of months. He brought up dodged and hasty goodbyes, something I do all the time. I avoid saying goodbye or taking goodbyes seriously because they’re sad and uncomfortable—“I won’t say goodbye because I’ll probably see you again!” And then I don’t see that person again, and the goodbye is way less monumental than it should have been. I was taken aback by the crude realization that

I probably wouldn’t see him again, but it was also a much-needed wake-up call.

So here’s a humble offering of a wakeup call. It might be a little untimely and premature, but hopefully it will spur a sense of urgency and a desire to forge some odd and assorted memories with your 100 days.

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Even though it’s cold outside, you have a ton of studying to do, and you may not want to get out of bed, Boston College Rec might make you rethink your spring semester hibernation.

Bundled up in two sweatshirts, snow pants, a giant scarf, a puffy coat, a hat, and gloves, I set out with my friends last weekend on a narrow snowshoeing trail at Stratton Mountain in Vermont. Now, if you had asked me if I would have ever willingly signed up to wake up at 5 a.m., drive three hours to Vermont, and hike almost four miles up a mountain in 5 degree weather on a Saturday, I probably would have just laughed. After we started our hike, however, I was happy my friends had signed me up.

My friends and I were led on our hike by three BC students. They provided transportation to the mountain in Vermont and instructed us on how to pack for the trip and use the snowshoes when we arrived at the trail. Although I had never snowshoed before, the leaders were very helpful throughout the day, allowing my friends and me to set our own pace as we hiked. It was a long but leisurely day, and I was happy to have this opportunity to get off campus for a few hours this winter.

BC Rec is offering a variety of seasonal activities this semester to help students stay active throughout the winter season, from hiking at the Blue Hills Reservation in Milton, Mass., snowshoeing at various locations throughout Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, to cross-country skiing. Students may sign up for these weekly and monthly outings online, with prices ranging from $15 to $30 for day-long trips. For avid BC skiers and snowboarders, BC Rec also offers limited shuttles for drop-off and pickup at nearby ski areas during the winter sports season.

All of these outdoor adventure trips are led by BC student volunteers who take classes and undergo hours of training to become eligible to run these programs.

In addition to excursions during the

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BC Rec offers a wide range of fitness classes and group excursions for interested students to keep them active throughout the winter. cold-weather months, activities such as paddleboarding, paddleboard yoga, rock climbing, and Outdoor Adventures’ SpringBreak trips are offered for the warmer part of the semester.

The biggest upcoming Outdoors Adventures trip will be the Spring Break trips to Assateague Island, Md., according to Becca Fink, marketing and communications manager for BC Rec. Students who wish to spend Spring Break on these trips can sign up to either backpack or sea kayak. Each excursion is eight days long and consists of camping, exploring, and spending time enjoying the beach.

“Students on the trips will get to have a unique experience,” Eli Crispell, assistant director of outdoor activities at BC Rec, said in an email. “Whether they go backpacking or kayaking, each group will travel to a new remote campsite each night and spend their days traveling along beaches, bays, and estuaries. We will carry everything we need with us and will be able to disconnect and discover this unique and exciting place. Between the wild horses that call the island home and the ocean waves this is a truly wild adventure.”

These off-campus trips usually accommodate five to six people each due to limited transportation. They have proven to be very popular and are filling up fast.

For those that are not feeling that adventurous and would rather stick around campus, weekly offerings from group fitness classes to instructional classes and intramurals are also available to students throughout the semester.

There are a variety of group fitness classes, such as the traditional spin, zumba, yoga, barre, and step classes, offered daily at both the Flynn Recreation Complex and the Quonset Hut on Newton Campus. Instructional sessions being offered include beginner through intermediate tennis classes, beginner bachata and salsa dance classes, and beginner through advanced jiu-jitsu.

Current intramural sports include walleyball, basketball, and indoor soccer.

Both the basketball and indoor soccer intramurals offer competitive, intermediate, CoRec, recreational, and women’s divisions. The second phase of spring intramural registration begins March 18 and includes multiple divisions of flag

football, wiffle ball, ultimate frisbee, volleyball, dodgeball, and floor hockey.

BC Rec also offers certification courses. Lifeguard CPR/FA/AED classes are available this semester for interested students. Each course is three days long and costs roughly $240 per student.

After signing up for weekly zumba, an indoor soccer intramural, and a weekend snowshoeing trip, you will probably be fairly sore. Not to worry—sign up for one of BC Rec’s new massage therapy sessions. Massage offerings range from the traditiwonal Swedish massage to the more specialized Trigger Point Therapy massage. Available sessions are on Mondays and Tuesdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and cost between $45 and $115.

So for those who need a break from the library, head over to BC Rec and check out what they have to offer to beat the winter blues.

Waking up early and making the trip off campus to ski, snowshoe, or hike may seem infeasible for many students this winter. Taking in the view from the peak of the mountain with my friends after a morning of snowshoeing, however, made the early morning trek worth it.

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Daniel Corrou, S.J., a Jesuit at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry going through regency, the final stage before ordination, lived from 2011 to 2014 in the city of Beirut, Lebanon. With his passion to help others through a Jesuit lens, Corrou worked with Jesuit Relief Services to bring aid to those affected firsthand by the Arab Spring uprisings.

During his time in the Middle East he continued to develop what it means to live the Jesuit values. At BC, the mission of the Society of Jesus rings throughout the core tenets of the University. But many times students have trouble combining the elements of a Jesuit mission with the values of their everyday lives. Corrou has three areas that

he feels highlight what is central to not only a Jesuit education, but also to incorporate that education into students’ lives.

“First is to see an academically lively life, and interest to the life of the mind,” Corrou said. “Second is to see a commitment to the work of social justice and solidarity with the poor that makes itself known in the academic life. And third is that grounded in a profound spirituality there is depth beyond social analysis. Something is there about absolute reality, something about God. These three things ground my life as a Jesuit.”

For his stage of regency, when candidates are normally sent to Jesuit high schools or universities, Corrou was sent to Lebanon for Arabic studies.

Corrou first arrived in the Middle East two weeks before uprisings began in Tuni-

sia. He was sent to the Jesuit headquarters for the Middle Eastern province in Beirut, Lebanon. The Jesuits there decided to send Corrou to Syria due to the stability at the time, and its population of Iraqi refugees.

“They said I should definitely go over to Syria and live in Damascus, because it is the best place to learn Arabic,” Corrou said. “When in Syria my main job would be to study Arabic in the day and in the afternoons work with Jesuit Relief Services Iraqi refugees in Syria.”

Uprisings and instability started in Tunisia in December 2010, then spread to Libya and Egypt as the winter and spring progressed. By the time Corrou started applying for visas to get into Syria, the country was not letting any Americans in.

“The war had started in certain places in Damascus, Syria,” Corrou said. “Everyone

was saying, ‘Give it six weeks, it will all blow over. Syria will get stable.’ They said that for the first year. Then I went to Beirut, to camp out and do Arabic studies there.”

Corrou ended up in Beirut as a mistake, but still found that there was a direct need to help refugees through JRS. During his two years, Corrou worked at a Jesuit high school, teaching English. During his teaching, he spoke French at his home and learned Arabic.

Due to the political uprisings, he and his colleagues were trying to figure out what was going on, as well. During his second year, there were certain places where wealthier people realized the gravity of the situation and planned to leave. Many people boarded up their houses and

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When I look out my window, I see Walsh. I see the blue strobe lights on Saturday nights and sophomore girls piling into Ubers. In one particular window, I see what appear to be Post-It notes arranged into large letters that read “Trump 4 Prez.” While I hope my Trump-endorsing neighbors are joking, I can’t help but feel frustrated that it’s even a question.

For many of us freshmen, sophomores, and juniors, this is the first election we’ll be able to vote in. Voting is a rite of passage, the proverbial first privilege we get as adults.

Having missed the 2012 election by just two weeks, I’ll be casting my first vote this November. Well, maybe.

For starters, I’m not very interested in politics. One of my least favorite things is listening to my peers argue about politics, especially during this election season. I find that these conversations often lead to intense frustration from both sides and rarely offer any valuable insight. So, being the conflictavoidant person that I am, I rely on outside sources for my political education, which, too, proves ineffective.

Though college campuses are stereotypically politically charged centers, many students, including myself, gather their political knowledge primarily through social media. These quick bits of media commentary serve as sources for political opinions, which can be problematic. National coverage of the election, by nature, focuses on the negatives and fails to give candidates equal coverage. Consequently, it becomes easy for us to be apathetic when the media surrounding this election is so negative. I haven’t done extensive research, but what I hear on the news and read in the headlines is mostly gossip. I’d say the political coverage I’m exposed to is 95 percent Trump-related, and, with no intention of voting for him, I’m not learning anything valuable.

How are those who are politically challenged (like me) supposed to find the means to educate themselves and choose the best candidate? When I watch the debates or endorsement videos, I get lost in the ambiguous promises to create jobs, lower college tuition, defeat ISIS, and, perhaps the most ambiguous of all, “make America great again.” Especially during the primaries, these statements aren’t thoroughly backed with a plan, they’re just empty promises to gain initial support, which is both confusing and disheartening and makes ignoring the election far easier than engaging in it.

While presidential candidates are always mocked in the media, this time around, it’s especially bad. The 2016 presidential race is essentially a reality show. SNL is making a comedic comeback, as the political sketches basically write themselves. Tina Fey’s recent impersonation of Sarah Palin’s Trump endorsement was sadly identical, as much of the dialogue remained unchanged. Listening to Sarah Palin promise that Donald Trump is going to “kick ISIS’ ass” hardly offers comfort. In fact, it makes me greatly fear for the national security of this country if we’re relying on a former reality TV star to defend us from international terrorists. Palin’s original performance was begging for a satirical rewrite—“We’re not gonna chill, it’s time to drill, baby, drill!”

While I don’t know enough about politics, nor do I have the desire, to comment on the actual platforms of this year’s candidates, I can say that there isn’t one candidate that I don’t have a major problem with. I’m sure I’ll find myself frantically scanning platforms in the month preceding the election, desperately trying to find the lesser of two evils, which is a pretty depressing strategy when choosing a president.

Throughout my education I’ve learned it’s my duty and greatest privilege as an American to vote. I’m a firm believer, however, that someone shouldn’t vote without having done due diligence in choosing her candidate. So, I find myself in a catch-22, as I’m unsure how to gather solid information in this joke of a political race, but need to educate myself before November.

And I suspect I’m not the only college student that feels this way. In September, USA Today reported that national polls were anticipating a low voter turnout for 18- to 24-year-olds in the 2016 presidential election. As this age group already has a lower voter turn out, this is troubling. Even though I know I need to vote, I’m honestly not sure I’ll make it to the polls. Between submitting an absentee ballot and being lost somewhere between the Trumpeters and “feelin’ the Bern,” I have a lot to accomplish before November. But until then, I’ll sit and silently judge my neighbors. #Trump4Prez.

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E\n =le[iX`j`e^ @em\jk`^Xk`fe J_flc[ @eZcl[\ 8cc 9: Mf`Z\j After the Light the World campaign successfully reached its $1.5 billion goal, the University is beginning the process of investigating for a future fundraiser through the University Strategic Planning Initiative. This investigation will look into Boston College’s eight schools and determine what areas are most in need of fundraising. By the end of this process, the University should have a plan of action, allocating funds that it will then attempt to raise through another campaign.

When it comes to University spending, there is a persistent issue between the administration and a number of students: a perceived lack of interest in student needs when it comes to spending money. Since the process for the next fundraising campaign is just beginning, now is the perfect opportunity to confront these complaints from the outset, establishing a desire to collaborate with students on how money is spent.

To accomplish this, the University should ensure that the investigation process involves many facets and members of the Boston College community: students, faculty, staff, and so on. By doing this and allowing everyone who is involved in day-to-day life at BC to contribute to the investigation, the University would hear valuable insights from people who see the various shortfalls in funding that directly affect portions of their BC experience. This fuller picture would not only appease those who feel left out of the process, but would also help draft a comprehensive plan for future fundraising.

As it stands, the University seems to already be working to address this. The committee represents a number of different portions of BC and comes to the issue with a wide diversity of viewpoints.

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“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”

-David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

One possible concern is the fact that only one undergraduate student is on the committee. With the large number of undergraduates at BC, the variety of opinions and ideas is large and widespread. One undergraduate student is not able to fully represent the interests of the entire student body, and the committee would benefit from another undergraduate presence.

Transparency is another important part of this process. As the investigation begins and administrators search for the best and most necessary uses of money, they should be certain to not only allow students to voice their concerns and ideas, but to also ensure that they are able to see how the process is moving

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The University has proven to be very successful in matters of fundraising, and future efforts would benefit from increased transparency and a certainty that the entire BC community has been heard.

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This past week, disciplinary action was taken against five Boston College students who were involved in the December “12 Days of BC Racism” protest.

The protest involved the singing of Christmas carols which had been altered to criticize BC and the entering of Gasson Hall during a trustee luncheon. The students presented Dean Thomas Mogan with a proposed list of changes and caroled inside of the atrium until they were asked to leave. They then continued their caroling outside of the hall.

The five students were written up for disturbing classes in session at the time and for being involved in a protest which had not been granted a permit. The discontent from new development serves as a reminder that there are serious issues that the community should be working to address.

One of the most realistic and immediate ways for the administration to respond to these concerns and the complaints of groups such as Eradicate would be to institute an administrative position meant specifically to address these issues, an idea initially brought up by the Undergraduate Government of Boston College in its fall proposal.

As race develops into an increasingly important and discussed issue on campus, it requires further attention.

Instead of designating these issues to administrators who have numerous other responsibilities, the best and most efficient way to deal with these ongoing difficulties is to allow one person to head the effort, ensuring that he or she is able to give it his or her full attention and is provided

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adequate resources.

BC already has an office for Institutional Diversity, but it does not have a high-level administrator, such as Georgetown’s vice president for institutional diversity and equity or Marquette’s executive director for diversity and Inclusion, who would be meant to deal exclusively with issues such as the ones brought up by Eradicate.

The purpose of this new administrator would be to craft solutions to the diversity and equality issues on campus, while also providing a strong voice for minority groups in administration dis-

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In difficult situations like this, it is easy for each side to become entrenched. A member of the administration tasked solely with addressing these growing issues and bringing about solutions through compromise and mutual understanding would be a good first step by the administration, demonstrating responsiveness to student activism while also working to bring about practical solutions.

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PLEXAPALOOZA - Some people apparently enjoy things like this. It seems to be a successful, well-attended event. While we don’t exactly understand the appeal, we will acknowledge that there are people in the world who adore the stench of sweat and vodka, who revel in the sardine-like confinement of a gym full of sweaty freshmen, who love the sound of dying rodents and short-circuiting toasters blasting from overhead speakers. You’re all like a bunch of squirrels, sprinting around the trees and waving their little furry arms in the air. Do we understand why you behave the way that you do? No. We just accept it for what it is.

THE PRU - Whether you’re standing by the Reservoir, on the fifth floor of O’Neill, or on the top of the stairs to Upper, you can stare out into the distance and see the top of Boston’s definitive skyscraper. It may not match perfectly with the fantastic colonial decor that marks the rest of the city, but at least it’s visible from the deep recesses of Boston College, a constant reminder that the city, and the many adventures it holds, is always a short T ride away.

THE GASSON BELLS - They could ring at any moment for any reason. Since the first day we arrived at BC we could never figure out why the bells were ringing at 12:42 one day and then 3:21 the next, but there must be some reason. Whatever that reason may be, it adds a little mystery to every day.

A young Republican is an increasingly difficult thing to be. One faces a slew of inadequate candidates, ranging from the drearily dated to the alarmingly absurd.

Befitting this, the reaction to the right’s presidential hopefuls from the Millennial Generation has been, for the most part, overwhelmingly blase. There are, of course, pockets of rabid fans, but they are only a small slice of the demographic under consideration. As far as the election of 2016 is concerned, the vote of the young conservative is utterly undecided.

This indecision is the product of an unfilled political void: the unrepresented realm of social liberality and fiscal conservatism. Many millennials who prefer Republican economic policy—free markets, lower taxes, and minimal government expenditures—simultaneously lean far to the left on issues like climate change, practical gun control, and marriage equality. The Republican Party, unfortunately, refuses to lean with them.

This type of split position is something troublesome for American politics, as any broad defiance of the conventional principles of either established party often is.

It can’t be described under traditional political terms or lumped under traditional ideological umbrellas. Even “center-right,” the catch-all term for moderate Republicans with the occasional liberal inclination, doesn’t seem to work. Nor can these voters be cast into the Libertarian designation. They adhere too firmly to the proactive social reforms of the l eft, much more progressive than the basic Libertarian call for general personal freedoms, which leaves them stranded between two established philosophies without any authentic definition of their own. This is a sort of neo-neoconservatism, representative of a rising 21st-century phenomenon, and a combination of values critical to both major parties.

The fact that the language to describe this political position is so vague and

clunky speaks volumes about its underrepresentation. Whereas “Republican” might previously have answered an inquiry into political orientation, for Millennials on the right, today that response comes with an asterisk and a lengthy footnote concerning their positions on various social issues. And there isn’t a single candidate on the stage of the Republican debates who adequately reconciles with the average Millennial footnote.

As a product of this, where young voters of this overlooked base would like to stand up in support of Republican economic and foreign policy, they are more and more often sitting down and regretfully shaking their heads at Republican climate change denial and cruel, reactionary immigration policy. And even as they do this, candidates continue to spend their full energy competing for the sup-

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Though 2016 is shaping up to be a year of political revolution (by steady American standards), what part of this “revolution” will bring social liberality and economic conservatism any closer to legitimate representation in a candidate? None of the political “outsiders” threatening to turn Washington upside down in a rage of populist purification have expressed any understanding of this demographic, and the aging establishment certainly isn’t about to bend toward practical inclusion. There’s a chance this void may go unfilled for years.

Perhaps this is a result of how deeply the strict two-party system is engrained in the electoral mechanisms of this country–it can be fairly easy for the establishment to forget that nontraditional views

even exist. But this is not some radical fringe movement. This is a mainstream call for an egalitarian embrace of modern reality. This is an entire generation of Republican voters being overlooked because of strict party guidelines on social policy and endless pandering to the far right, the supposed heart of the conservative electorate.

This could potentially spell doom for the Republican Party. Perhaps not this election, perhaps not the next election, perhaps not any time in the near future, but somewhere down the line, if this goes unchanged, the influence of the right is going to be wiped from the American political scene, as it faces off with a Democratic Party broadly united by the moral high ground of social liberality. With this social liberality, unfortunately, comes fiscal liberality: broad government intervention in markets and trade, deficit spending, and high taxes that slow domestic growth and drive corporate wealth to cheap havens overseas.

As these policies drag on our economy, the Republican higher-ups are going to belatedly realize that, at the turn of the century, their fiscal policies had the loyalty of an entire generation, and they squandered it by stubbornly clinging to an archaic social agenda.

This is perhaps a bit ominous, but this crucial representative void exists, and it must be filled. A candidate willing to stand up on the matters of climate change and immigration, but keep an agenda of tax reform and decreased spending, would be a good first step. But even before that occurs, it might help to name the political orientation he or she would be representing more definitively.

A fiscal conservative with passionately liberal social leanings befitting the 21st century, not willing to give up on the right just yet, though they are certainly not pleased with the direction in which it is heading socially—a Republican, yes, but not an ordinary Republican. Instead, a revolutionary ideological subset, a product of this unique political age: the Embarrassed Republican.

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We may be in the minority here, seeing as tickets sold out within two minutes, but dear God, it’s horrible.

We’d rather eat 20 pounds of salami, while riding a camel through the streets of Boston and screaming epithets at random strangers then ever, ever, ever, ever, ever go to freaking Plexapalooza.

LINES - They are the worst. Want an omelet? Line. Steak and Cheese?

Line. Student Services? Line. It’s a world full of lines and the slackjawed people who inhabit them.

Next time you see a long line, do the only logical thing: hold your head to the side, close one eye, stick your tongue out the side of your mouth, and mutter curses about William Howard Taft. It will make people think you’re crazy, so they won’t say anything when you cut the line.

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by Disney as being perpetrated by “white slavers.” The insensitivity of Lucas’ comment was obvious, but perhaps even more glaring than that was his overwhelming ignorance.

Slavers usually didn’t hand over a $4 billion payout to their victims, but Lucas wouldn’t be aware of his metaphor’s weakness, outof-touch as he has become. Bitter over the positive press and attention Disney’s new chapter in his former saga has received, Lucas has no one to blame but himself for handing over the rights. And yet, might there actually be some validity to the fear of exploitation once a creator’s essence is removed from the product?

The whole uproar does raise interesting questions about the nature of storytelling and authorship. Who truly possesses ownership of a story? Is it the creator, the rights-holder, or perhaps even the audience? Just when one of these three seems like the simple and sure answer, a logical argument can be made just as quickly for either of the others.

Lucas sold the rights to his tale, so it is at least legally clear who owns the franchise.

Nevertheless, an almost suffocating question remains as to whether an idea can be sold. The transfer of tangible items in Lucas’ sale, the rights to produce merchandise and so on, isn’t that difficult to wrap one’s mind around. Far more difficult, however, is the forced corporality of selling an idea. The characters and universe of Star Wars were born from Lucas’ mind, so they are perhaps as much a part of his psyche as anything else. While Disney can logically buy the rights to use these figments of Lucas’ imagination, one wonders whether true ownership has been transferred at all.

The even greater issue at hand is the

process that occurs the instant a story is received by the public. When the audience falls in love with the characters and universe of a story, some sense of ownership is transferred away from the author by way of emotional and monetary investment.

At the very least, the audience seems to be owed some degree of perceived ownership through their patronage. In the case of a long-running franchise like Star Wars that has embedded itself in American culture and cinema, the argument is even stronger.

While the source of the story exists in the creator’s mind, the seeds of it have taken root in countless people over the past four decades. Now almost everyone has a piece of it in them.

Thus far, Disney has managed to earn the support and loyalty of the people with its treatment of the franchise. The only one who feels slighted is Lucas, bitter at Disney for diverging from his vision of the story.

But if Disney fails to meet expectations with future installments, I believe it should receive even more backlash than Lucas got over the years. For all the many missteps and groan-inducing flaws Lucas introduced to the franchise, the public had to at least concede that the story was his to ruin. As the creator, Lucas’ mind was the wellspring of the whole universe, and so ultimately, like it or not, his word was law. Disney’s ownership and creation-by-committee approach to future content lacks the benefit of the doubt that the public usually gives to original creators.

In the same breath as his cringe-worthy slaver comment, Lucas compared Star Wars to his child. In that part of the metaphor, he isn’t far off the mark. The emotional attachment a creator feels toward their intellectual property is in many ways similar to the connection between a parent and their child. The two relationships are joined in the shared and unique pride of having created something from yourself where once there was nothing. It is this emotional connection that leads the public to give original creators more leeway to make mistakes.

However emotionally invested we may get in the product or however ingrained it may

become in our culture, we are instinctively called to a sort of deference toward the person who brought it into being. The audience is an emotional shareholder, but the creator holds the controlling interest.

The legal rights included in that interest can be bought and sold, but the emotional authority does not transfer with it, and Disney would do well to remember that the audience now holds a controlling emotional interest in the franchise.

When the people chosen to handle and advance the story are fans just like any other member of the public, it becomes far more difficult to accept their changes as canon.

You could ask any number of screenwriters what their treatment of the next chapter in the saga would be and you would get an equally diverse array of answers. The only vision that could be in some way “true” is Lucas’. Like a Part IV to The Godfather without Coppola and Puzo or a Rocky installment without the influence of Sylvester Stallone, future installments of Star Wars, however critically acclaimed and well-received they may be, will be somehow lesser than what came before. The ingredients of the story remain, but its beating heart and the energy of its genesis will be missing.

The truth of the matter is that we seldom remember expansions to a story that do not come from the original creator. Like the attempts to rewrite King Lear with a happy ending or the forgotten sequel to The Odyssey not written by Homer, we seem predisposed to reject parts of a story that do not fully mesh with the fabric of original installments. Creators’ stories take root in all of us and it is ultimately up to the discretion of subsequent generations to decide how original entries in a story are weighed. When enough time has passed in human history that Star Wars has shifted from a piece of cinema to something of an American myth, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Disney’s subsequent additions to Lucas’ story held in less esteem and affection.

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The Lyons Hall elevator was moving a millimeter a second. Maybe it was the uncomfortable summer heat or the incessant Welcome Week activities that stoked my restlessness, compelling me to seek refuge from my overly zealous floormates. I glanced at the words “Chamber Society” and “Cello Ensemble” that decorated the yellow flyer in my hands, feeling excitement and nervousness as the elevator inched its way to the fourth floor. The doors eventually creaked open to reveal a dimly lit hallway with the grim tinkling of piano keys reverberating off of its fading walls. Walking amid the unfamiliar shadows, I tentatively made my way to a room sparsely filled with musicians and singers. I was walking into a meeting that I had been eagerly looking forward to since I had arrived here—a recruitment meeting for the various music performance groups on campus.

My initial excitement about joining a performance group began to slowly ebb away as I realized that I did not find that community feeling that I had been searching for since I arrived at Boston College. There seemed to be an unspoken agreement in the room about the appropriate distance between individuals and, most of all, about the distance between them and the rest of the BC community. The longer I sat in the small crowd listening to professors market the different organizations, shrugging off the heavy veil of disappointment became an increasingly difficult undertaking. Despite my doubts, I auditioned for BC’s Chamber Society and was placed in a trio. After weeks of lugging my cello-sized violin case to rehearsal and practicing the music with my fellow trio members, I found myself slumped against my chair at rehearsal, reflecting on my feelings of dissatisfaction.

I come from a small town in Massachusetts where the arts were well ingrained into my school’s culture. Acapella concerts welcomed huge crowds with their infectious enthusiasm and talents. Beautiful artwork decorated the hallways during the beloved annual Encounters with the Arts celebration. Shrek, a hysterical musical production, was the epitome of high school theater success—having multiple sold-out shows and profiting from the sales of souvenir Shrek ears. In my community, art was as integral to the culture as were athletics or academics. Not only were these three parts conjoined harmoniously to form the identity of my community, but they also were celebrated as individual parts, each with unique achievements and contributions to the members of my community. Coming from such an environment and transitioning into my freshman year at BC, I found myself facing an unnerving balance in this new atmosphere.

I thought back to my first BC football game.

Maroon and gold decorated the stadium. Foam fingers and clenched fists jabbed into the air, moving in time with the clamoring of the marching band. The crowd roared as armor-clad players raced onto the field. The enthusiasm and pride were infectious. This moment was a microcosm of BC culture. It contextualized how the sense of community and spirit was heavily invested in one particular aspect of this institution.

The spirit within the BC community for athletics is admirable, scarily impressive, and it is one thing I hope for in the arts at BC. At football games, sitting down during playing time is not a socially acceptable option. At my first Chamber Society concert, audience members needed candy-canes as incentives to stay for the duration of the concert. The arts community consists of talented and creative individuals who move tirelessly, going through the motions without celebrating each other properly. While athletics are deeply rooted in BC’s culture, the arts consist of pockets of talented individuals, disconnected and hopefully yearning for the BC community to rally behind their achievements as well. How I see it, such a goal is only achievable if the artists celebrate themselves and each other. When an artist’s passions and achievements are bound up in those of another, they fortify a tenacious community. By collaborating on projects or going to and promoting each other’s events, united artists can claim a principal space in the collection of things that make up BC’s identity.

Art deserves to be a truly integral part of BC culture because it connects the individual to something much greater than his or her own talents and capacities—it is inextricably tied up in the narrative of humanity. It shows us that we have the ability to create our own realities, express our inner truths and passions, and find meaning within our lives. Most importantly, art reminds us of our shared humanity, of how we have the responsibility to rally behind our fellow humans in their creative endeavors. Community is not a uniquely human matter, but the reasons for which it can be unbreakable are.

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and left to go into Lebanon or surrounding countries where there was more stability. These people intended to come back after six months or so.

But during the middle of Corrou’s second year abroad, the floodgates opened and the refugee crisis became more serious.

Corrou explained that the refugee status was different for those in Lebanon due to the changing global status of migrants.

“People had very few resources and started to have a sense of hopelessness that this wasn’t going to end, if not for good, then for a matter of years,” Corrou said. “Global things started to happen with refugee and migrant questions. In the last 50 years, refugees left a place and went to an open space, such as the Ethiopian refugees from the ’80s. Then the UN or other resources would set up a tent city. It wasn’t good, but everything was localized and all contained. Now what is happening is refugees are going into cities and finding where to live.

There are no refugee camps. Lebanon is a country of 4 million people, and you have 2.5 million Syrian refugees coming in.”

Corrou and others in JRS would meet those refugees on the streets and try to understand what their needs were.

By seeing what these people needed, JRS began to develop a network. Corrou related this process to what groups on BC’s campus do, like 4Boston and Arrupe volunteers.

JRS quickly began to build up a network and receive donations from wealthy Lebanese or Americans. The organization built a framework in the area and began to become a structured part of JRS. “Before it was ad hoc donations from rich [Lebanese people] or Americans,” Corrou said. “Bare bones. From there we had to build a structure to support that.

Once we had a framework, we started getting larger grants from international NGOs. In doing this, we were realizing that the number of people was growing so quickly, that this little group wasn’t going to be the best at helping with basic emergency needs. At this point large NGOs—Caritas, International Red Cross and UN agencies were getting involved.”

Corrou and JRS quickly realized that these larger international organizations were better at displaying the emergency need.

“What we realized in these major neighborhoods where we had connections set up is that we needed a school or social center,” Corrou said. “That is what JRS does very well in East and West Africa and Southeast Asia. JRS is very good with psycho-social programs.”

During his second year, Corrou was also in charge of the Beirut functions.

He worked along the border and the coast of Lebanon. A program that Corrou worked on specifically was developing a

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Daniel Corrou, a Jesuit novice, spent three years from 2011 to 2014 living in Lebanon and working with Jesuit Relief Services to aid those affected by the Arab Spring uprisings. social center out of a school building.

This made the process of receiving aid more normal for the people.

There were intentions to use the center in the evenings to show movies, but due to the strict 8 p.m. curfew, it was not possible to do activities after dark.

Corrou came back to the United States, and arrived at Boston College

in August 2014.

For students to be involved and aware of the refugee crises going on currently, Carrou said that students need to be smart about what information they believe and not fall prey to speculation.

“There is so much misinformation out there,” Corrou said, “about what is happening in Syria, and what is go-

ing on in terms of U.S. involvement, certainly all of the stuff with refugee settlement.”

Corrou said that there are many great programs already in place at Boston College, such as BC Catholic Relief Services, the Muslim Student Association, the Center for Human Rights and International Justice, and the BC School of Social Work.

These organizations do not necessarily only work with refugees and Syrians, but they display the correct information through having educated students and professors leading the groups. Since one of the major areas of misinformation is a failure to understand Islam, Corrou asks students: How can BC students come out of BC with a better understanding of Islam?

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Immigration, from A4 “push factors” driving immigrants from Central America to the U.S. and to this area.

According to Lykes, her and Kanstroom’s volume is interdisciplinary, “as we at the CHRIJ are convinced that without collaborations among lawyers, social science researchers, practitioners—psy-

chologists and social workers, and judges and attorneys in particular—activists and advocates, and people in the media—in this case, a filmmaker—we will not be able to create a better life for migrants and for those of us in receiving communities and a more just and comprehensive immigration policy that reflects our better values—and international human

rights norms.”

The Center has partnered with community-based organizations in the Boston area looking to collaborate on an interdisciplinary and transnational project.

This project would bring together Central American immigrant members of the organization, staff organizers from

the group, lawyers, and other professionals in order to document how the recent surge of immigration enforcement is affecting immigrants and their families and communities.

Ultimately, the participatory action research project hopes to contribute to human rights research and build advocacy skills among immigrant community

members within the United States, while simultaneously generating action-oriented data and information.

BC faculty and students associated with the project come from diverse academic and vocational backgrounds, including backgrounds in the fields of law, psychology, action research methodologies, and social work.

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When going on a Boston College tour, the guide always gloats about how fun it is to pack the T so Boston University students cannot get to TD Garden for a BC-BU Beanpot battle.

Unfortunately, last year, the Eagles fell short in the semifinals, and students were denied the joy of depriving BU students of a T ride. This year, however, the Eagles and students alike hope for a different outcome in order to keep the tradition alive. But before students can hop on the B Line, BC must face a challenging opponent in the semifinals.

On Monday night, the Eagles (17-4-4, 10-14 Hockey East) will head down to TD Garden for a 5 p.m. matchup against the Crimson (12-

4-3, 8-3-3 ECAC), as Harvard tries to avenge last year’s 3-2 overtime consolation game loss.

In the USCHO.com poll, the Eagles sit in the No. 5 spot, while the Crimson are close behind at No. 7. In the PairWise, however, the teams’ roles reverse, with Harvard at No. 5 and BC at No. 7.

With two power teams going head-to-head, this semifinal matchup is guaranteed to be a thriller.

Coming off an impressive 4-0 win against Notre Dame in South Bend, the Eagles need to stay on top of their game. With a healthy lineup, BC has every opportunity to

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Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016, otherwise known as Groundhog Day, is a very important day. Bostonians will learn whether this unexpectedly mild winter will end early or be extended by six weeks. But for BC women’s hockey fans, Feb. 2 is significant for another reason—the undefeated Eagles (27-0-0, 19-0-0 Hockey East) and Harvard’s Crimson (12-8-1, 9-6-1 ECAC) will square off at Boston University’s Walter Brown Arena for a highly charged Beanpot semifinal game.

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MICHAEL SULLIVAN I’m hard headed. My opinions rarely shift, and I keep my convictions strong. It’s not a quality I’m proud of, just one I have a hard time shaking. And entering this job in January 2015, my ideas were firm with regard to the payment of college athletes: they get a full scholarship, plus any added unspeakable perks that cause the NCAA to get into a hissy fit.

But I’ve finally broken. I’ve learned enough about the NCAA and its unjust stance toward athletes. I’m talking about denying Cheick Diallo and Tacko Fall eligibility with unbased investigations into their academic pasts. Or denying all of us the chance to watch an 18-1 SMU men’s basketball program, which is banned from March Madness for the wrongdoings of a player and administrative assistant. Or how about telling LSU running back Leonard Fournette that he can’t sign his jerseys and sell them for charity to help flood victims in South Carolina because it violates NCAA bylaws? Or how about ...

You get the idea. Point is, I’m here to recant many of the thoughts I expressed in my first column of 2015.

In it, I weighed the pros and cons of Boston College’s decision to vote against the Power Five’s movement to allow cost-ofattendance payments to athletes. From a business standpoint, I still understand the motive behind Director of Athletics Brad Bates’ decision. Many schools, like BC,

See NCAA Payments, B2

A lot of history will hit the ice along with both squads when the puck drops on Tuesday at 5 p.m.

On March 21, 2015, Harvard defeated BC 2-1 in the Frozen Four semifinal game. (Harvard would go on to lose the national championship game to the University of Minnesota.) Since that day, the Eagles have lost exactly zero games leading up to this next installment of the competitive BC-Harvard rivalry. In the years since the rivalry’s 1996 birth, the Crimson have won 25 times, the Eagles have won 11 times, and the teams have tied once. BC has dominated for the past decade, going 10-4-1.

The undefeated Eagles are ranked No. 1 according to the PairWise and the USCHO.com poll. By contrast, the Crimson are No. 10 in the PairWise and were not ranked by USCHO.com, although they did receive

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The Irish didn’t have much fight in BC’s second date with them this year, falling hard.

If you take a look at the standings in the Hockey East, Boston College men’s hockey is in first place. But it wasn’t always Boston College 4 that way.

Notre Dame 0 4-3 and 40—two different scores, two different results, and two different points in the 2015-16 season for No. 5 BC (17-4-4, 10-1-4 Hockey East) and the No. 10 University of Notre Dame (14-5-7, 10-2-2).

At the first meeting between the two at Kelley Rink on Dec. 10, the Eagles had injured teammates, offensive lethargy, and an inability to keep a third-period lead. The Fighting Irish gave the Eagles their first loss in 13 games, sparking a three-game losing streak for BC while bolstering a 12-game unbeaten streak for themselves.

Turn the clock ahead to 2016, on

Jan. 29 in South Bend, Ind. The Eagles’ losing streak is long over—they took three out of a possible four points from two Hockey East rivals, Providence and Boston University, in the last few weeks.

After getting banged up, defensemen Casey Fitzgerald and Steve Santini were back in the lineup, without any extended time missed.

Santini skated down the ice after the first faceoff, hurtling a shot toward Notre Dame goalie Cal Petersen, which ended up rebounding off a Notre Dame skater behind the net. Austin Cangelosi collected the puck and backhanded it, which scooted just past Petersen positioned next to the right post. In the first 16 seconds of the game, BC had the lead.

What a difference a healthy lineup makes to keep a rivalry alive.

BC went on to score three more goals, one in the first period and two

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Boston College men’s basketball took on No. 2 North Carolina in a game that began eerily reminiscent of the Eagles’ Boston College 62 legendary upNorth Carolina 89 set of then-No. 1 Syracuse at the Carrier Dome two seasons ago.

The Tar Heels didn’t have it early on, especially from the free throw line, while BC looked efficient, setting the stage for an upset neither side would ever forget. A win like that is the type that could vindicate a season of a lot of losses for BC, if only for a short while, and even if it’s just another game for the other side. It’s what brings a unique hype to college sports.

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But not every early close lead gets to turn into a Cinderella moment. And for the Eagles (7-14, 0-8 Atlantic Coast), they’ll have to continue to wait for theirs. A game that started promising for Jim Christian’s squad turned into yet another day at the Dean E. Smith Center in a 89-62 loss to North Carolina (19-2, 8-0).

The game began scoreless for the opening three minutes, as sloppy turnovers, poor passing, and easy missed shots prevented both sides from establishing themselves. The Eagles actually had a good chance of taking multi-possession leads early on, but misplaced passes and silly fouls meant they could never capitalize on their chances.

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A.J. Turner had his best game at BC, but North Carolina was too much for the Eagles.

Column: The Pride of the NWHL

Women’s basketball: Tech stings BC

How Denna Laing’s injury has drawn international attention to the NWHL.......B2

The Eagles continue their poor play in the ACC with a loss to Georgia Tech.........B4

TU/TD...................................B2 Jerome Robinson injury.............B2 Roundup............................B4

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DEMKO DELIVERS The junior goaltender made a convincing case for the Hobey Baker Award on Friday night with a 4-0 shutout of No. 10 Notre Dame. He was the most recent netminder to shut out the Fighting Irish at Compton Family Ice Arena on Feb. 27 of last year.

TAR HEEL TRAMPLING  BC managed to edge UNC in one category during an 89-62 loss on Saturday: turnovers. The Eagles held a 23-11 (dis)advantage in turnovers, leading to 30 points for the Tar Heels and a blowout loss in Chapel Hill.

TD GARDEN, HERE WE COME - The Beanpot is right around the corner and that means many Superfans will be making their first trip to TD Garden—the home of the Celtics and Bruins.

But it’s also home to very, very frustrating Wi-Fi, which creates problems when we live tweet games. Sorry for the delays.

THUMBS DOWN RIVALS NO MORE - With the release of the 2016 ACC football schedule, BC learned that it would no longer be playing Syracuse during Rivalry Week next season. You can’t really blame the conference for axing the “thrilling” rivalry considering the two programs’ combined record of 7-17 last season.

EAGLE INJURIES - Both Jerome Robinson and Darryl Hicks went down with injuries last week, leaving BC short handed during the most brutal stretch of its ACC schedule. On the bright side, maybe this could open up some playing time for fan-favorite walk on Steve Perpiglia.

BASKETBALL BOMBS AGAIN - The Eagles outshot Georgia Tech but lost another conference game thanks to mediocre fourth quarter play. At least freshman standout Mariella Fasoula, who led BC with 23 points, showed off her gyro-step as she continues to earn consideration for All-ACC honors at the end of the season.

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But many recruits do care about how much money they can get. We can argue about whether that’s justifiable, but it’s a fact of this process. This decision paints BC in a negative light, as though the program doesn’t care much about its athletes. It generates negative press the program doesn’t want, and may turn blue-chip prospects’ attention to other programs. Bates and the administrations care deeply about their athletes, so that assessment may not be true. But when do perception and reality ever meet up?

So now, I’m an advocate of paying college athletes. But what I’m caught on is the perfect way to do it.

I’ve seen a lot of proposals, many of which intend to simply give players a salary. I don’t agree with that because the work and time they put in is not so easily quantified. Plus, we have to take into account the fact that these players still get full scholarships (especially now that BC has agreed to pay cost-of-attendance to athletes).

But, of the million or so boys who play high school football across the nation, only 6.5 percent play in college. Of that 6.5 percent, or about 70,000 players, only 1.5 percent make the NFL, or about 300. By Year

Four, half of those guys are gone.

Given those stats, something has to be done to ensure college players’ financial security and safety.

Just take a look at how Marcus Lattimore’s career has collapsed.

The star running back from South Carolina was poised to get paid big bucks after his breakout freshman season. But by NCAA bylaws, he had to remain in college at least one more year. So as a sophomore, Lattimore returned, only to tear ligaments in his knee. He was forced, then, to return in 2012 for his junior year to try and show NFL scouts that he was healthy. It worked, until he had another devastating injury in which he tore every ligament in his right knee.

Lattimore, a surefire first-round draft pick as a freshman, landed to the San Francisco 49ers in the fourth.

By 2014, he was out of football altogether. A promising career had ended before it really began. Lattimore was deprived of the millions he could’ve gotten if he’d had the option to go straight to the pros.

There’s no way around it. Get them their damn money.

But how?

The most interesting idea I’ve heard is from New York Times sports business columnist, Joe Nocera. He suggests a system in which every Division I men’s basketball and football team would use a salary cap ($650,000 for basketball, $3 million for football), paying each $25,000 as a minimum. Schools could recruit based on how much money they were willing to allocate to a player—under Nocera’s guidelines, mind you, the number of scholarships in football would be dropped from 85 to 60.

These salaries can be tax deductible and paid through boosters, and the players can sign contracts forcing

them to stay in college for X amount of years, a benefit to the universities.

In addition, the National College Player Association (NCPA)—an advocacy group for college athletes— can grow into a full-fledged union that has a seat at the television rights negotiation table and can help set up funds for lifetime health insurance.

Whew. Got all that? There’s more that I’ve left out, but that’s the basic gist. It sounds really radical, with plenty of flaws. To unpack it, I shipped a few questions to Bates via email to better understand the possibility behind some of the policies proposed by Nocera. I don’t agree with everything he said, but it helps provide a better context than just passing judgment on an idea that seems good, but may have been without actual consultation from both sides.

For starters, the only real part of the plan that appeared to appeal to Bates was that he likes policies that maximize the NCAA’s development and health of students, such as the NCPA helping facilitate TV money into lifetime health insurance. But Bates dispelled Nocera’s notion that it shouldn’t be difficult for Power Fives to afford these salary caps. As previously stated, of the 230 athletic departments that publicly report profits, only 24 made money. Now, all 24 are Power Fives, but that’s only 24 out of 60. And, as we know, BC is not one of those schools. Bates also pointed out that parity would decrease even further if only a select few can actually fulfill the needs of a salary cap.

As far as the salary cap is concerned, Bates isn’t convinced. He is a firm believer that the full, debt-free scholarship an athlete receives, especially at BC, is an invaluable award that cannot be quantified so easily. But beyond his personal ideas,

he doesn’t believe it’s a viable option whatsoever.

“I wonder about the tax implications of such a concept and whether an athletic scholarship will then be considered taxable,” Bates said. “In some models, the net value to the student could possibly be reduced.”

Bates is also not convinced, justifiably so, that having boosters transparently fund the salary caps would prevent them from making illegal payments, something I think we can all agree with (here’s to you, Nevin Shapiro). It’s also foolish, Bates believes, to base decisions on how long a student stays in college. After all, only eight schools had one-anddones in men’s basketball last year.

Rather, he referenced the NCAA’s recent decision to allow more time for men’s basketball players to decide if they’ll leave for the draft as a step in the right direction.

Bates and I disagree on Nocera’s proposal to take away scholarships given to football. I believe strongly in parity across the sport, and 85 is far too many. Reducing scholarships in football will spread them out among other sports, male or female, allowing them to grow as well. This should be the goal of a holistic athletic department, as far as the NCAA publicly claims at least, rather than funnelling money solely into football and men’s basketball.

Bates admits this but argues back that, although the NFL has only 53 roster spots, it can add players more easily than college football can.

Universities are held back by admissions, the National Letter of Intent, and attrition, and cannot account for injuries. Again, also a fair point.

Realistically, then, what would the best option be? Well, while Nocera’s proposal overall might be ideal for some, the best option is likely one that he mentioned early

in the column called the Olympic model. Under this system, players would have the full rights over their likenesses. Players can generate their income from endorsements, autographs, jobs, controlling of their image and likeness on TV and in video games, and much more. To that idea, Bates’ response was insufficient for my liking.

“The concern, of course, is that payments for such items as autographs could be excessive and beyond commensurate,” Bates said.

I understand why it might be a moral issue, but I don’t agree that it’s a problem. The bigger problem is that the players weren’t getting paid for their likenesses in the first place.

With the Olympic system, any athlete can profit off it. This’ll help sports that aren’t profit sports but are regional, such as baseball to southern ACC schools and men’s and women’s hockey to BC and other schools in the North. Nocera’s other ideas benefit only men’s basketball and football and, in all honesty, hurt the other sports. In addition, it wouldn’t cause any overwhelming policy change by the NCAA and would cut down on ridiculous sanctions that the corrupt organization instills upon 18- to 22-year-olds.

So I implore the NCAA to go with the Olympic model. Because by caring so much about these actions and not allowing athletes to get the money they rightfully deserve, the NCAA only hurts the people it claims to care so much about, and its own self image. And I challenge Bates, one of the few ADs that publicly shows he cares for his athletes, to lead this charge for a fairer system.

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;\eeX CX`e^Ëj @ealip 9i`e^j 8kk\ek`fe kf k_\ EN?C SHANNON KELLY 2015 was one of the biggest years for women in sports. It was the year that Jen Welter became the first female coach to work with an NFL team, and when Jessica Mendoza provided commentary and analysis as the first announcer for ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball It was also the year that the National Women’s Hockey League (NWHL) was formed—four teams in the Northeast, with a salary minimum of $10,000 per player. 2015 marks the first year that women were paid to play hockey.

With this first came others, from the first season to the first Women’s Classic, played at Gillette Stadium on Dec. 31. The game, which pitted the Boston Pride against Les Canadiennes of the Canadian Women’s Hockey League (CWHL) would usher in a more somber new year for the NWHL. A few minutes into the first period, Pride forward Denna Laing crashed into the boards, injuring her head. It would later be announced that Laing had a severe spinal injury that left her with minimal feeling in her arms and none in her legs.

That would be a pretty bad day for

anyone—maybe even the worst day.

But for Laing, the day of the Women’s Classic was “the best day of my life,” as she put it in a Facebook post on the Denna Laing Team page.

She began rehabilitation for her injury on Jan. 12, a day after posting her first spoken words since the accident: “Hello,” as a smile crosses her face, and then, “I’m back.”

The athletic community has rallied around Laing as she and her family start her road to recovery.

Thousands of dollars have been raised in Laing’s name, and her story has been broadcasted to millions of people. Instead of remaining private throughout her ordeal, she’s taken this opportunity to show onlookers her rehabilitation and treatment at every step. Posting updates on her Facebook page, Laing documents not only her triumphs, such as operating her own electric wheelchair, but also her struggles, which for her can even be taken positively.

By letting people look in on a very intimate and challenging aspect of her life, she demonstrates the hard work of rehabilitation, building up a strong network of supporters in her fight to regain movement and control over her life. With the prominence she has

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gained since her injury, she has been drawing more and more people to the NWHL—people who are now invested in its future.

Laing is implicitly putting a face to the NWHL when she presents this image to the public, one of perseverance, good-naturedness, and competitive spirit. People who may not have cared about women’s hockey now have a reason to, and it’s all because of the way Laing has handled her recovery process.

Even while rehabbing, Laing has promoted the NWHL’s first sponsor, Dunkin’ Donuts, in pictures and videos on social media. Her Boston Pride hat is often on display in her health update pictures. It’s clear that Laing’s “new challenge,” as she calls it, is not just strength exercises and steps to recovery. It’s letting people know about the history that she’s a part of and desperately wants to grow.

The future of the NWHL is better measured in years instead of decades.

Though many people are hopeful that this league will make it, there have been several previous endeavors into professional women’s hockey, including another iteration named the NWHL. The previous NWHL was comprised several Canadian teams

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and lasted eight years, until the league folded and its teams were absorbed into other leagues.

Those leagues, however, never paid their players or maintained the kind of platform that the current league has. The NWHL centers on four teams in a concentrated area at game times that are most advantageous, and teams all have caps at $270,000. Having a sponsor as big as Dunkin’ Donuts shows that now might be the best time to start a viable professional women’s hockey league.

In a world that seeks to show that women can be involved on the athletic mainstage, people will flock to Sunday games featuring the four teams.

Laing’s contribution to that image extends farther than her post-injury Facebook page and tweets. In the glimpses of Laing as a Pride member and beyond, one can see the personality behind the player. Her public Instagram displays pictures of country music concerts, friends, high school reunions, and, of course, hockey. As a member of the NWHL, her job as a player is not enough to make a living wage on its own. The Princeton grad is also a victim advocate for the Essex County District Attorney’s Office, a vocation that requires empathy and

commitment.

The evolution from young hockey lover, to student-athlete, to career woman and professional athlete brings home an authentic feel to everything that Laing does. Her Instagram could very well be left private, and her recovery story could remain confined to a rehabilitation center.

But she chooses to broadcast it all to the world, possibly in hopes that young girls can see that the NWHL is a very real and attainable goal. The story that brought her widespread attention, though tragic, has helped the NWHL for the better. As Laing said in her first post a week after the accident, “We made history that day and I would never take those moments back.”

As of Jan. 20, Laing has started to exercise her legs, in hopes that one day she will be able to move them on her own. She’s made history as part of the league and continues to write it through her day-to-day rehabilitation.

One day, she might be back on the ice for the NWHL, too.

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come out of the gate hot and challenge a talented Crimson team.

Along with motivation from last year’s tournament woes, this BC squad has the determination to bring the Beanpot back to its home in Chestnut Hill. Because #JY1K, injuries, and the Notre Dame rivalry are behind them, the Eagles can put their sole focus on defeating a competitive Harvard squad.

Last Time They Played: The last time BC took on Harvard was in last year’s Beanpot consolation game. The Eagles needed the win to maintain their dignity, but they were not fully invested in the game because no trophy awaited them after the final buzzer. With penalties plaguing the team the entire game, the Eagles had to rely on their defense and Demko to keep the game close. Harvard had the 2-1 edge heading into the final period, but Matty Gaudreau slid the equalizer past Steve Michalek to knot the game at two apiece. In overtime, BC continued to batter Michalek with shots while the Crimson struggled to get off offensively. The constant bombardment of shots put pressure on the Harvard goalie, allowing Ryan Fitzgerald to tip in the game-winning goal, giving BC a 3-2 victory.

Keys to the Game Limit Penalties: Throughout the season, BC has struggled to keep its game clean. Having an aggressive team is good when it comes to fighting to edge out an opponent for a necessary win.

The Eagles, however, tend to take it one step further, giving the other team valuable power-play opportunities. With an average of 5.9 penalties per game, BC must be wary of its aggression while still maintaining a highenergy game in order to limit the Crimson’s man-advantage opportunities. This is extremely important because Harvard has scored 22 power-play goals this season on 69 attempts, giving it a 31.9 power play percentage compared to BC’s 19.6 power play percentage. The defense will have to stand tall and support Demko, especially when it is a man down due to the Crimson’s dangerous power play lines.

Look Out for Jimmy Vesey and Kyle Criscuolo: Seniors Jimmy Vesey and Kyle Criscuolo are the two biggest threats to a BC victory. With 16 and 14 goals, respectively, Vesey and Criscuolo dominate the Harvard offense.

Along with fellow first liner Alexander Kerfoot, this trio has

sparked plenty of offensive action and has been the key factor in close games. In order to come out with a victory, the Eagles must heavily defend these two players and deny them open access to the net. Both players average about one goal per game. If the Eagles can shut them down, it will give them a big advantage in securing a W. Demko vs. Madsen: Demko tends to be BC’s saving grace in many close games, and his superhuman saves will definitely be important in securing a victory. But sophomore Merrick Madsen has proven to be quite the star this season for the Crimson. Demko is ranked No. 3 in goaltending statistics, and Madsen is right at his heels in the eighth-place spot.

Demko has had eight shutouts this season compared to Madsen’s four, but both goalies have high.93 save percentages. Although Demko has faced more shots, Madsen is clearly a high-caliber player as well. Both goalies allow fewer than two goals per game, with Demko allowing an average of 1.64 goals to Madsen’s 1.85.

In order to move on to the final round, both teams will have to figure out how to get past these top goalies.

Don’t Wait for the Perfect Shot: Although the Crimson are ranked similarly to BC, the Eagles are more aggressive on the offensive end when it comes to taking shots on goal. In spite of that, the pressure of making it to the Beanpot final may cause the Eagles to start off a bit shaky. Neither team can wait for the perfect opportunity to take a shot, especially when on a power play. With two top goalies, both teams are going to have to get scrappy by taking every shot possible and will have to wait for one to sneak past the goal line.

Other Opponents BU: No. 9 Boston University (14-7-4, 8-4-3 Hockey East) is coming into the Beanpot off a three-game win streak. The Terriers average 3.6 goals per game behind scoring leaders Ahti Oksanen and Matt Lane, who have each scored 14 goals this season.

BU is a solid third-period team, scoring 44 of its 90 goals in the final frame this season.

Because of this, and their ability to thrive in the Beanpot atmosphere, you can never count the Terriers out of the game. Sean Maguire has been strong this season in goal, making 581 saves for a .922 save percentage. BU has defeated Northeastern twice this season (5-4 on Nov. 6 and 4-1 Nov. 7) and Harvard once in their

sole matchup (6-5 on Jan. 7). BC is the only Beanpot opponent that BU has yet to defeat this season after suffering a loss and then tying the Eagles in January.

Northeastern: Northeastern University (9-12-4, 4-8-3 Hockey East) is ranked No. 28 in the PairWise rankings and is looking to continue its six-game win streak Monday night. Sophomore Nolan Stevens leads the Huskies with 10 goals this season, two of which were against BC when the

Women’s Beanpot, from B1 eight votes. BC is coming off a 4-1 victory over Merrimack College, while Harvard enters the game fresh off a 4-1 win over Princeton University.

Last Time They Played: Earlier this season, the two teams met at Harvard’s Bright-Landry Hockey Center, where BC pulled out a 2-0 victory in another chapter of the electrifying rivalry. Halfway through the first period, Meghan Grieves poked a deflection past Harvard’s goaltender Emerance

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Stevens works well under pressure and will be the biggest threat to NU’s opponents during the tournament. The Huskies average 2.8 goals per game, while allowing about 2.4. Freshman Ryan Ruck has been manning the goal this season and does not falter under pressure. With a save percentage of .906, Ruck will be key in keeping the Huskies competitive in this wide-open Beanpot tournament. NU couldn’t defeat BU and BC this season in regular season play and has not faced the Crimson since the 2013-14 season.

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Keys to the Game Win the Goaltender Battle: Maschmeyer and Burt are two excellent goaltenders. Burt has recorded nine shutouts, while Maschmeyer has six.

Both netminders have surrendered 32 goals on the season. This won’t be a high-scoring game, and if the Eagles

want to advance to the Beanpot finals, they will need Burt to play in top form.

She faced 29 shots in their last meeting and 21 in the March 2015 loss, conceding just two goals over both of those matchups. BC will also need to test Maschmeyer all game long. In their last meeting, the Eagles took advantage of opportunities to sneak two shots past the senior goaltender. Testing her early and often will lead to such opportunities and allow BC to advance to the Beanpot finals.

Help for Carpenter, Skarupa: If the Crimson is smart, it’ll try to keep the puck away from standout senior forwards Alex Carpenter and Haley Skarupa for as long as possible.

Carpenter and Skarupa are the most lethal duo in women’s college hockey, combining for 112 points so far this season. In last year’s Frozen Four, however, the pair was nowhere to be found, as Harvard held them scoreless en route to a 2-1 victory.

This year, the Eagles have often been at their best when Carpenter and Skarupa aren’t doing the scoring. In last month’s 2-0 win at Harvard, BC’s first such victory in nearly a decade, it was Meghan Grieves who played hero, scoring two goals to support Burt’s 19th career shutout. Throughout the entire season, players in supporting roles have stepped up, as the Eagles’ roster appears deeper every game. At this point, Carpenter and Skarupa both know what they have to do to push past Harvard and earn another berth in the Beanpot final. But ultimately, it will be up to role players like Grieves and other third-liners to eke out a win against a very difficult Crimson squad.

All Eyes on D’Oench: Miye D’Oench, Harvard’s elite scorer, burned Burt in last year’s Beanpot title game for the eventual game-winning goal, and she could do the same this year unless the defense tightens up.

The Eagles’ blue line needs to swarm D’Oench and force the Crimson’s more inexperienced players to make plays in the biggest game of the season to date.

Harvard sent three or four defenders at Carpenter in last year’s championship game to keep her off the stat sheet, and it might do the same this year. The Crimson are onto something, and the Eagles should follow suit. If BC doesn’t give D’Oench the attention she deserves to force her into uncomfortable shots and passes, deja vu could strike in the Beanpot semifinals.

Other Teams Northeastern: What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? BC and Northeastern fans might discover the answer if the two programs meet in the Beanpot final, which could pit Husky forward Kendall Coyne against Eagles goaltender Katie Burt. To give an idea of how good Coyne has been this season, consider this: Carpenter, who may be the best women’s hockey

player of our generation, has 61 points for the Eagles this year. Coyne has 64, the nation’s best mark. Northeastern’s Olympic star has totaled 36 goals and 28 assists to date, carrying the No. 6 Huskies to a 22-4-1 record (two of the four losses have come against BC), including 12 straight wins heading into the tournament. Seriously, this woman hates to lose.

But Coyne does have help on the ice, namely sophomore forward Denisa Krizova, whose 31 assists are good for second-best in the country. Krizova leads a notable sophomore class that features five players with double-digit point totals for the Huskies. This team is young, hungry, and playing its best hockey of the year entering the Beanpot on Tuesday.

Coyne and Krizova have lit a fire under Northeastern over the past month, spurring an undefeated January and the 12-game win streak which is the longest in program history heading into the Beanpot. The Huskies’ 23 wins before the Beanpot also ties a school record. If this offense can be as effective in February as it was in January, then expect a shootout at Walter Brown Arena.

Boston University: The Terriers are the underdogs in the 2016 Beanpot Tournament, which says a lot about the competition considering BU is ranked 12th in the PairWise rankings. Despite their national recognition, the Terriers have struggled against Boston schools, losing all four games this season against local rivals BC and Northeastern. The loss against Beanpot semifinal opponent Northeastern was particularly unsettling for BU fans. The Huskies skated circles around an outmatched Terrier lineup that allowed seven goals in a 7-1 rout. And while blame shouldn’t be placed on any single player, one number that is particularly alarming is sophomore netminder Erin O’Neil’s 52 goals allowed—nearly 3 per game. O’Neil and her defense’s weaknesses may be exposed against the kind of electric offenses that will be present in this year’s Beanpot.

On the offensive end, watch out for Rebecca Leslie’s keen passing ability (28 assists) and Victoria Bach’s knack for finishing around the net (17 goals).

Leslie and Bach, sophomores, are two of the younger members of an experienced group that, unlike their Boston rivals, doesn’t have a star player that the team can point to. Rather, BU relies on its well-roundedness up and down the roster to be successful. The Terriers put their depth on full display against the Eagles in the rivals’ last meeting in January, when BC barely squeaked past BU in a 4-3 comeback win. That same team that played the nation’s No. 1 to a virtual deadlock will be back again tomorrow night on its own ice, and the Terriers will be looking for revenge like seemingly every other team in this tournament.

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From the early Cangelosi goal onward, it was evident that the Eagles’ offense was clicking. BC set the fast pace for the game, capitalizing on turnovers by the Irish and generating momentum up the ice. This, in combination with Demko’s adaptability in the net, gave the Irish trouble.

During the penalty kill resulting from the hooking call on Michael Kim at 10:19 into the period, Demko was there to block and save the puck. After the penalty expired, Colin White got possession of the puck and sprinted down the right side of the ice, ultimately causing Petersen to lunge into a split in an attempt to save it. Petersen was unsuccessful.

The Eagles soared into the second period up by two goals, and the Irish were desperate for one. But Notre Dame’s offensive

efforts led to a penalty on Dennis Gilbert for slashing at 6:49 into the period. While the Irish killed the penalty, they struggled with their attempts to score, falling farther behind the Eagles with less than six minutes left in the second. Thanks to Adam Gilmour, BC was with a three-goal lead, much to the visible frustration of Petersen, who slammed his stick on the crossbar.

After penalties called for too many men on the ice and high sticking, BC found itself playing 5-on-3 hocke y with less than three minutes left in the second. During the power play, Alex Tuch dished the puck across the front of the crease to Zach Sanford, who swiftly netted it. The game was slipping away from the Irish.

On the penalty kill with several seconds left in the second, White generated a shorthanded chance for BC, drawing a slashing penalty on Jordan Gross.

White was also given a penalty shot, but he couldn’t net the puck as he had in the first period. NBC Sports Network’s live stream, however, did not show the shot, instead cutting away to a commercial about Notre Dame students playing with robots.

The Irish’s frustrations came to a boil in the third period, and the Eagles did not stand back and watch.

There was a lot of traffic in front of the net, which often ended in pushing and scuffles after the whistle. Demko responded to the pressure, and although he wasn’t always positioned perfectly, he fluidly moved in reaction to shots on net.

BC killed penalties on Scott Savage, White, and Tuch, and Notre Dame killed penalties on Sam Herr and Jordan Gross, but the Irish’s penalties brought them even farther from scoring, preventing them from generating any offensive energy or momentum. Notre Dame’s muddled offense and BC’s rejuvenated lineup and solid goaltending prevented any attempts for a comeback for the Irish.

BC is a different team from the last time it faced the Irish. It has held its own against higherranked teams and has climbed its way to the top of the Hockey East. The Eagles, however, have another hurdle: the Beanpot.

And all the teams in the tournament will come into it in the same position as the Eagles— red-hot.

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Steve Santini (6) attempts to poke the puck away from a Notre Dame forward. BC kept the Irish in check all night.

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On a fast-break dunk toward the end of the second half, Robinson went up for a strong dunk and slammed into the ground out-ofbounds. He got back up and walked off without assistance, but remained on the bench for the duration of the game.

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According to Zack Spears of Eagle Action, point guard Jerome Robinson broke his right wrist during Boston College’s game against Florida State on Tuesday night.

He is expected to miss three to five weeks. Spears also reported that guard Darryl Hicks suffered a

the locker room before the game ended.

Both losses will hurt the Eagles going forward, as Hicks has been stepping up as one of head coach Jim Christian’s top hustle players.

After missing his first two years at BC with ACL injuries, Hicks has averaged 4.0 points and a rebound in 13.8 minutes a game off the bench.

Without Robinson, however, BC will have to reshape its whole offense. The first-year ball-handler is second on the team in scoring (11.6 points per game) and assists (2.8) behind Eli Carter, and

is also second in rebounding (4.0) behind center Dennis Clifford. He also leads the team in minutes and steals per game, with 33.1 and 1.4, respectively. In his absence, there will be an even greater pressure put on Carter to carry the load on the offensive end.

These injuries come at an especially difficult point in BC’s alreadytreacherous ACC schedule. After its matchup at No. 2 UNC on Saturday, the Eagles will travel to No. 11 Virginia and No. 16 Louisville, before returning home for another game against the Tar Heels.

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To add insult to injury, Sammy Barnes-Thompkins went down pursuing a loose ball and came up clutching his hamstring in the opening minutes of the second. Although he had to be carried off the court, BC fans collectively held their breath, but he did make a return in the closing minutes of the game.

A.J. Turner finally opened the scoreboard with 14:16 left on the clock, but by then UNC had built a 51-32 point lead. The Tar Heels had to just focus on closing out the game. By the final whistle, 16 different players had clocked in for the boys in blue as they continued to exploit the same turnovers the Eagles had

BC vs, North Carolina, from B1 Nevertheless , B C kept it close, outshooting UNC for a good portion of the first half, and held tight, taking the occasional lead, trailing 24-23 with seven minutes remaining in the half.

Then Brice Johnson and his teammates took over. UNC took advantage of the turnovers and shook off its slow start. The Tar Heels thundered forward, going on a 15-0 run at the tail end of the first half to take a solid if not commanding lead. And with that run almost all hope of a BC win faded from the Dean Dome, and the two teams entered the locker room with UNC up 41-30.

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been committing all game.

The real story of this game were turnovers. BC shot 44 percent, with 10 made from beyond 3-point range, but 23 turnovers will doom even the best teams.

Eli Carter, despite a game-high 19 points, committed seven alone. That is certainly a sign of a young team, but at the end of the day that is no excuse this far into the season. The Eagles will need to execute better if they want to win a conference game this year.

One of the few bright spots of the game was Turner. The only starter who managed to escape without a turnover despite playing 34 minutes, he also put up 10 points and seven rebounds.

His off-the-ball movement was great, and he showed on more

than one occasion flashes of brilliance that could make him into a great player.

One play in particular was a fast-break where Turner floated the ball into the net while driving into North Carolina’s Kenny Williams to get the foul. It was a simple play, but one that shows both potential and current ability.

At the end of the day, this is another huge loss on a resume full of huge losses this year for BC basketball. All eight losses on the current streak have been by double digits, and while the scores have been getting closer in recent weeks, those scorelines still count as an L in the game log. The future may be bright, but waiting is still frustrating.

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“We had so many key stops, but it’s not a stop until you actually control the rebound,” head coach Erik Johnson said after the game.

“So, the focus with our players is gonna be grabbing that ball with two hands, tearing it away. If we had done that a few more times, this is our game going away.”

The game started out slow as both teams struggled to score early on. A BC lead of 2-1 persisted through the first quarter until just after the first TV timeout. Scoring remained very balanced for the Eagles throughout the first quarter, with four different players scoring.

Katarina Vuckovic of Georgia Tech scored seven in the first, and she would prove to be a difficult player to stop throughout the game.

At the start of the second, Mariella Fasoula got the Eagles going with a layup. In an ACC season that has been fairly disappointing so far, Fasoula has been a real bright spot for BC. She tied her career-high with 23 points and added six rebounds.

The freshman is quickly emerging as a good option for the Eagles and a solid building block for the program. The rest of the second was pretty even, as neither team could build up much of a lead to

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by Boston College women’s basketball that come off assists, good enough for tops in the country. This profiBoston College 56 ciency Georgia Tech 62 at sharing the ball is confounding when considering that the team struggles so much with turnovers. The trademark team-first style of the Eagles (13-8, 1-7 Atlantic Coast) mixed with turnovers made Sunday afternoon a frustrating one as they fell to Georgia Tech (13-9, 3-6 ACC) 62-56.

While the Eagles were sharing the ball well, it was the defensive side of the floor, specifically defensive rebounding, and, once again, turnovers where BC fell apart. Just a simple glance at the box score tells so much of the story about the game.

Key markers of success seem to point to a BC win as it shot 50 percent from the field while Tech shot just 35 percent. Where the Eagles fell apart was on the backboards. The Yellow Jackets piled up 17 offensive rebounds and outrebounded the Eagles by 10 for the game. There were simply too many second chances for the Yel-

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Sharp-shooting Kelly Hughes came out of the break hoping to get the Eagles going, and she hit threes on consecutive possessions to give BC a lead of three. Vuckovic hit her third 3-pointer of the day in the quarter on her way to a double double.

The third quarter was very similar to the second, as neither team could pull away, and they went back and forth holding small leads. The Yellow Jackets led the game 47-44 at the end of the quarter.

Vuckovic put Tech up four at the start of the fourth with another three, and the Yellow Jackets held that lead for the rest of the game.

BC kept fighting back, but it could not close the gap. Fasoula got the lead back down to two at the 6:33 mark, but a foul on the next possession gave Tech two more points.

Alexa Coulombe hit a jumper at 4:43, but the Yellow Jackets had another answer to push the lead back to four. Turnovers and shooting fouls down the stretch kept BC from ever getting the lead back.

Even with those, Nicole Boudreau had a chance to tie the game with 33 seconds left and just missed it off the front of the iron. The game ended with the biggest lead that either team held for the whole game: six points.

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Eli Carter (3, top) shot only 33 percent from the field (6-of-18), but was still BC’s leading scorer with 16 points.

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Women’s tennis had a strong weekend, starting with a win against Harvard and following with a decisive victory against UMass: winning both the doubles point and four of six singles matches. The doubles team had an overall strong weekend. Both teams that finished their games against Harvard notched the necessary wins to ensure victory over the Crimson. The singles team was split 3-3, with memorable performances from Asiya Dair and Jennifer Ren.

Men’s tennis headed to New Haven to play against Monmouth, Yale, and Buffalo this weekend. The team had a tough weekend, losing to both Yale (2-5) and Buffalo (3-4). The Eagles saw some success in doubles from the unexpected pair of Aidan McNulty and Alexandre Thirouin, who have only played together once. McNulty and Thirouin defeated Buffalo 6-3. Hank Workman was the only player to see success in singles against Buffalo, winning 6-7, 6-4, 6-3.

The team has time to recuperate—its next match is Feb. 22 against Brown University in Providence, R.I.

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Men and women’s track participated in the BU John Thomas Terrier Classic.

Though it was unscored, the highlight for the Eagles included Paige Duca’s 10thplace finish out of a large pool of 94 competitors with a solid time of 2:51.49. The men’s team continues its indoor season in New York at the Armory Track Invitational next weekend while the women’s team stays close to home to compete at BU again for the Scarlet and White Invitational.

Swimming had decisive victories against Providence College on Friday. Both men and women beat the Friars, 147-56 and 120-85. The men notched first place in all but one event.

The ski team went to Stowe Mountain this weekend to compete in the University of Vermont Winter Carnival, coming in 10th out of 15 teams. BC finished with 150 points.

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Occasionally, he catches glimpses into the ethereal realm beyond a single door and skylight. Unbeknownst to him, he and his mother are prisROOM oners.

Element Pictures But, in spite of this containment, everything is right in Jack’s eyes, as the story spun by his mother justifies the world as it exists within the room. His existence and the existence of the room is self-contained, self-justified, and self-regulating. Room is the world, because Room is all there is.

Room tells the story of ‘Ma’ (Brie Larson) and her son Jack (Jacob Tremblay) as they live their lives in Room, a simple fourwalled, sound-proofed cell that neither can

leave. Frequent visits from their captor, Old Nick (Sean Bridgers), bring food and supplies from an outside world Jack has never known and for which Ma yearns. As Jack grows older, hints of a reality separate from Room become more apparent until Ma cannot hide the truth about the nature of Room and the world beyond it. The gravity of their shared plight leads to actions to liberate their bodies from containment and their minds from a fabricated reality.

The performances of Tremblay and Larson are outstanding. Larson effectively portrays the emotions of a mother shielding her child from the horrors of their situation, while attempting to give the boy some semblance of a normal childhood. One can read the suppressed anguish on Larson’s face, allowing viewers to sense the sorrow underlying every scene. A tender, nurturing look toward her son harbors just as much pain and sadness. Larson has proven herself as an actor who can excel in maternal roles, as in Short Term 12 (2013), but is even more eclectic as she balances the tragedy and necessity of her role as a mother.

At Larson’s side, Tremblay gives one of

the best child acting performances to date.

His performance feels genuine and real. He does not come off a child being fed lines and stock emotions to mimic, but rather a child responding as expected given his position. Much of this can be credited to the directing style and instruction given to Tremblay, who was spared much of the adult content of the film. Before filming scenes, director Lenny Abrahamson would hit Tremblay with scenarios like, “Your friend stole something from you, how does that make you feel?,” giving him tangible links to his own experiences to elicit reactions and emotions that were more fluid and less forced.

Tremblay as Jack encapsulates a kind of simple and uncorrupted view of the world with lines like “There’s doors and... more doors. And behind all the doors, there’s another inside, and another outside. And things happen, happen, HAPPENING. It never stops.”

Speaking to the greater nature of the world in a way that only an innocent child could, Jack demands, in many ways, that we rediscover the world that he is expe-

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Larson’s performance blends the horror of captivity and the tenderness of motherhood. riencing for the first time. These insights do not come from a place of unbelievable moral superiority, as in other child actors (i.e. Haley Joel Osment in Pay it Forward (2000)), but from a child making valid observations on simple aspects of life.

In its one hour and 58-minute run time, Room explores an enormous amount of ground. Philosophically, Room feels much like Plato’s allegory of the cave, as morsels of the outside world find their way into the enclosure. On this level, the film works well

at establishing the parameters of existence for Ma and Jack—Ma ‘s yearning for the outside and Jack’s ignorance of it.

Room will continue to infiltrate the minds of viewers days after its viewing. It demands a careful eye to appreciate the kind of craft that went into telling a story in a box. It marvelously establishes the fragile balance of innocence and survival, as a mother must defile and dismantle a child’s view of the world, a worldview she created, to secure a better future.

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What place does silence have in music? Could there be music if there wasn’t silence? These seem to be the questions that the all-female London quartet, Savages, tries to answer on its second full-length effort, Adore Life.

It seems ironic that Savages would try to answer this question now, when its first album was titled Silence Yourself.

That album, like every great punk album, punched you in the face. And that’s exactly what Savages wanted, as frontwoman Jenny ADORE LIFE Beth told Savages Pitchfork two years ago: “We’re submerged by voices, opinions, images. They take us away from who we are. The idea with Savages is to get back to this more focused attention, so you’re harder to reach.”

Now, Savages seems able to explore silences because of its excellent rhythm section. The bass slithers through every song like the blood coursing through the veins of the record, red, robust, and alive, while the drums are the heartbeat:

sometimes galloping and out of breath, other times serene, but always steady and full of life.

This sensibility is best heard on two tracks: the semi-title track, “Adore,” and the sixth song, “I Need Something New.” The aforementioned “I Need Something New” starts off with no sound at all, other than Beth’s scratchy vocals that often turn into a growl as she sings, “I need something new in my ears.” After a pause, she continues, “something new you could say perhaps.” Her voice cracks on the word “say,” like a boy going through puberty. It is startling. Then the song explodes with running drums and layered guitars, one of the noisiest tracks on the record.

The vivacious “Adore” is defined by its creeping shuffle and aided by a silky baseline that threads itself through the entire song. Likewise, the soft snare drum adds just enough momentum for the song to seem as weighty and important as its subject matter: a love of life. In the verses, she sings of lust and hunger and then on the hooks she states: “I understand the urgency of life / In the distance there is truth which cuts like a knife / Maybe I will die maybe tomorrow so I need to say / I adore life.” It is one of the album’s best songs.

Just because the members of Savages now adore their lives—complete with a fan base ranging from Iggy Pop to Johnny Marr—doesn’t mean they still can’t be pissed off about it, as on “T.I.W.Y.G.” during which Beth chants, “This is what you get when you mess with love.” What you get, apparently, is storming guitars, heavy drums, and “suffering, straight from the gods.”

As a whole, this record is great. It’s tight, cohesive, and all members are seemingly masters of their instruments.

But it feels as though something is missing. The band seems content to let exceptional playing make up for a lack of sharp lyricism.

The package the members put things in is shiny, pretty, and just a little tattered. Apparently, punk has gone high fashion for Savages. But when you look inside, you find that what they’re saying—expect for on the above-mentioned tracks—is not all that grand or new. It is simplistic. The ideas are not that demanding, speaking to univeral problems and responses, but in the end there is more to music than just the words.

Savages is, undoubtedly, one of the tightest, most musically adept bands you’ll hear playing today, but does that really matter if you can’t connect with what it’s saying?

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The first studio album released by an up-and-coming musician doesn’t often singlehandedly account for his initial popularity, but the direction that the artist takes on his first album usually constitutes his fame in the future. If Kevin Gates follows the trail he blazed with Islah, he will likely see success after success as the years pass by.

A ISLAH bird’sKevin Gates eye view of Islah reveals a strong mastery of songwriting, even when compared with popular hip-hop artists today. Many of the tracks on the album exhibit a refreshing use of smooth tones and vocalizations, even when mixed with fairly standard mid-speed tempos.

Perhaps the best example of Gates’

musical stylings surfaces in the song “2 Phones,” the third song on the album.

Gates has an impressive voice, one that guides Islah in sections in which he raps as well as sings. Islah would not achieve nearly such high praise if it were not for Gates’ impressive vocal range.

“2 Phones” is far and away the best song on Gates’ album. Other top-tier performances include “Thought I Heard (Bread Winner’s Anthem)” and “Ask For More,” but none are quite so well-done as “2 Phones.” Gates, for the most part, does little to innovate on the common hip-hop formula, but succeeds so well in his execution of said pre-existing formula that no blame can truly be laid.

Naturally, there are certain exceptions to Gates’ generally stunning performance. One of the primary themes that exists within Islah is sex, and Gates’ views on relationships, love, and the like become central to many of the songs.

While this strategy succeeds in certain areas, it fails in others—“Hard For” is unnecessarily over-sexualized, with no traces of finesse or tact. The song

comes across not as an insight into the role that sex plays in life, but instead as a stumbling attempt to embrace the oversexualized hip-hop culture that pervades much of today’s music. There is nothing inherently wrong with the usage of sexual imagery in music, but Gates does not pull it off with class, which is disappointing and muddles the overall quality of Islah.

Likely to be underrated is a collaboration with Trey Songz, Ty Dolla $ign, and Jamie Foxx. “Jam” is an exhibition of talent from big names in the hiphop and rap industries and comes at a place in Islah that ties the whole work together quite well.

Artistic collaboration can serve the artists quite well or damage their work irreparably. This is an excellent example of the former. Gates’ style seemingly would not blend well with Songz, $ign, and Foxx, but, surprisingly, it does.

For Gates to continue his foray into popular culture, he must achieve two major goals. First, his satisfying blend of vocals and beats must be expanded

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The oversexualized nature of some songs continue to hinder Gates’ otherwise tactful debut. upon and perfected—as stated before, he has not innovated, but upholds classical hip-hop stylings quite well.

For a monumental level of popularity to be reached, Gates must continue to perform as well as he has in the past.

This is to be expected, but the second point is perhaps less obvious: Gates must continue to collaborate with other well-known artists. His talent is massively improved and honed by partnerships with others, which appears to be

his one-way ticket to stardom. Gaining a sizable following is a difficult task. In many ways, these partnerships serve to build his name as much as they serve to hone Gates’ craft.

The road to popularity is not an easy one to travel in the music industry, but Gates, with his first studio album, has made a solid first step. If his talent and execution continue to grow as it has, hip-hop fans may soon start to see the name Kevin Gates more and more.

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The Campus Activities Board hosted its annual Flynn Recreation Complex concert, Plexapalooza last Friday where The Chainsmokers, the headlining duo, thrilled the crowd with an eclectic collection of covers and original songs.

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Earlier in the month, CAB Plexapalooza tickets for The Chainsmokers sold out within two minutes of going up online for purchase—a record time

that left a sizable portion of the student body outraged. Though a fe w of these ticket s were rendered void after students attempted to re-sell the tickets to the show at greatly inflated prices, this did little to dent the size of the crowd that flooded in.

The event’s organizers were just

as surprised.

“I expected the Chainsmokers to be a big draw, but we never imagined tickets selling out that quickly,” McCauley said. “It was ridiculous.”

The Chainsmokers show marks the fifth time an electronic music act headlined the annual

student-run winter concert, and the second consecutive Plexapalooza with a major DJ act (the first was Dillon Francis in 2015).

Midway through their performance of “Kanye,” Taggert and Pall cut their music, after praising the enthusiasm of the

BC crowd, to deliver a brief insight into the meaning behind the song.

“Just so y’all know, this song is not about Kanye West,” explained Ta g g e r t , “ t h o u g h h e i s a n awesome guy. This song is about being yourself and not giving a s--t what people think about you.

You guys [at BC] are smarter than most people, ourselves included, but the sooner you learn [to be yourself regardless of judgment], the better.”

For one night, as everyone danced like no one was around to watch, everyone was a little more like Kanye.

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It has established itself as one of the most prevalent criticisms in music today, and easily the most tired and cynical one.

The argument seems to boil down to the way music is created. In a musical world currently submerged in computerized instruments paired with highly advanced digital editing capabilities, it is now possible to create an entire song on your Macbook, given the proper software and knowledge of how to use it. This, purists would say, takes the soul out of music, as it trades the imperfect authenticity of humans playing real instruments for fine-tuned music derived from a digital catalog of sounds. They would tell you that the human error, passion, and emotion of music performed live with no substantial computerized assistance is what certifies something as real, genuine music.

This stance can be convincing, and is shared by more people than just dads who complain after a Skrillex song comes on the car radio. The massively popular Foo Fighters, for

example, recorded the entire Wasting Light album on tape in frontman Dave Grohl’s garage, clearly preferring to make music in its most raw form.

Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor has repeatedly said that insulting pop music is to his sensibilities as a musician.

I’m certainly not trying to assert that either of these men—or anyone who makes this argument—is necessarily wrong. Admittedly, art is most moving when presented without filters or without concern for smooth edges and perfection. The problem comes when all music that isn’t produced this way is unilaterally deemed inferior.

But this is just a symptom of those that feel out of touch with a new time. Think of the grandparents who have a disdain for modern technology—they’re out of touch because they fail to realize that technology changes constantly, as do the demands that people keep up with it. The same phenomenon rears its ugly head in the debate over what constitutes “real” music. To write off modern popular music and the methods used in its creation as negligible or offensive simply because it does not meet a certain conceptual standard is to assert that there is a predetermined box into which music is allowed to fit. In so doing, one places a restrictive definition on the art of music.

If Bach fans from 18th-century Europe had been given the chance to listen to Corey Taylor and Slipknot, they would probably be just as

offended as Corey Taylor is with today’s music. The point is that music, like all art, is constantly evolving, redefining itself, and experimenting with completely new and sometimes bizarre ideas. From whichever era of music you love, what has occurred in this evolution cannot be justifiably called a development of a lesser musicality altogether, but rather a different musicality. Sure, there are some artists that make you question where music is headed, but those kinds of artists existed back then, too. In short, oldies don’t always have to be goodies, and the newfangled music that the kids are listening to isn’t always worthless.

Of course, there are festering problems with modern music.

Sometimes it is overly commercialized, sometimes the lyrics are cheesy or inane, and sometimes a song is simply not good. But to paint with a broad brush, throwing all of today’s music under the bus, is simply irresponsible. It’s understandable that people would feel this way because there are shining examples of embarrassingly bad music out there today.

Heedlessly following this viewpoint, however, is irresponsible because this belief is akin to forfeiting faith in the very art that musicians so ardently defend and define so strictly.

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Despite the group’s advanced age, Wilco performed with a strikingly energetic performance that left fans speechless.

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Wilco, as a band that straddles the line between popular and underground, thrives on such songs to stay afloat.

Most enjoyable were Wilco’s renditions of its perhaps less c o m m e r c i a l l y p o p u l a r, y e t arguably more intricate tracks.

“Misunderstood,” a relic of Wilco’s second album, Being There, struck the crowd not with the rockenergy present in Wilco’s hits, but instead amazed every soberenough listener with the band’s famous coordination, not only

between instrument and voice, but more importantly, between the different members of the band.

Jeff Tweedy, often portrayed as the sole creator and lifeblood of Wilco, is nothing without his incredibly talented crew of guitarists Nels Cline and Pat Sansone, bassist John Stirratt, and drummer Glenn Kotche. The combination of raw sounds and unique vocals that the band puts together makes a more incredible experience, one that would be hard to trade for a forgotten light-fest in the Plex.

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The pop singer-songwriter refocuses her sound on her eighth studio album.

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If middle school was a microcosm for the music industry and today’s top artists akin to student stereotypes, Frank Ocean would somehow get away with never handing in his

assignments. Justin Bieber would be the new kid everyone wishes would just go back to Canada already, and Taylor Swift would remind the math teacher that he forgot to assign the homework (Every. Single. Time).

Rihanna, however, is the tough, edgy chick just one wedgie

away from expulsion. She doesn’t ‘do’ deadlines, the girl shops exclusively at Hot Topic, and her parents have probably set her bedtime to something crazy, like 11:30 p.m. on a school night.

Like a cool, eighth grade ringleader whose reputation only increases with each new demerit earned and every detention defiantly ditched, Rihanna has made a name for herself in the entertainment world as a woman who does things her own way. Having no qualms about consistently canceling concerts on the day of a performance, Rihanna certainly is, as the title of her seventh studio album title proudly proclaims, Unapologetic.

A signature diva act amplified by a blase singing voice that seems to say, “this is all insufferably

boring for me,” Rihanna’s rebellious persona is all part of her appeal. It’s indispensable, actually. A talented artist with an impressive set of pipes is one thing, but a singer with those same qualities who seemingly exerts little to no effort to achieve such a successful career in music is much more impressive.

In the wake of her recent release Anti, Rihanna is revelling in an incredible amount of praise.

Despite being decidedly different from the high-energy poppiness of her previous LPs, the atmospheric Anti is a welcome blend of reggae and synth-saturated R&B. Mixing more genres in Anti than she has in all of her first seven studio albums combined, Rihanna experiments with new styles that fans never expected her to even

consider adopting.

This album, a love letter to marijuana and glitter at some times and an emotional shout into the void at others, is evocative of Miley Cyrus’ odd Dead Petz from 2015. It’s a risky venture into untrodden territory for the Barbadian singer, the eerie instrumentals and all-overthe-place percussion simply inconsistent with infamous hit songs of her prime. A far cry from what faithful fans expected of their pop/R&B princess, Anti seems to suggest that the singer’s new style is intended to be anti-old Rihanna.

In many ways, however, Rihanna is still the same artist as when she debuted in 2005 with Music of the Sun. Sure, she’s hacked off her hair a few times and acquired a considerable number

of tattoos since “Pon de Replay” first dominated radio stations and karaoke machines everywhere. Of course her lyrics have transformed from “Lemme see you move and rock it til the groove’s done” to aggressive expletives or suggestive content in “S&M.” She’s still cool, she’s still bored, and she’s still one of the most-played artists on your iPhone. Deadlines? Yeah, right.

Promises? Puh-lease. Rihanna is the baddest kid on the block, the toughest tween you’d ever have the misfortune of running into at recess. The funny thing is, she (and we) wouldn’t have it any other way.

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Sia’s v ulnerability comes through when listening to these tracks. The flow of the tracks, however, is muddled. The beginning of the album sounds like typical Sia. For the first six songs, the album seems to be going according to the singer’s usual formula. Her songs usually

consist of a slow beginning , starting with a solo piano. Her voice then builds , until she reaches some high note with the repetitive lyrics speaking of confidence. Then the song comes down from its high.

Confidence is never a bad thing, and it is wonderful for powerful anthems about feeling “Alive” or “Unstoppable,” as two of the tracks are named. But when the pattern is close to identical for the first six tracks, it can feel repetitive and stale. Individually, the songs are actually pretty engaging , but together, they start to feel unoriginal and, quite frankly, a little boring.

Sia finally breaks out of her normal style starting with the track “Reaper,” which was cowritten by Kanye West. This track has a catchy start and sticks

out in the album. A bit more adventurous with the backing track, the computer-generated sound complements the lyrics and gives the song a cool, edgy vibe.

She keeps this trend going with the next song, “House on Fire.”

Perhaps it’s the lyrics that are a nice change from the beginning of the album. The whole idea of comparing herself to a house on fire and needing oxygen to keep burning adds a tangible vulnerability to the song. The next song, “Footprints,” does sink back a bit into the formulaic feel, although the lyrics set it apart.

The message of trust and love through hard times is uplifting.

Following “Footprints” comes “Sweet Design.” This song seems to come out of nowhere, using a strong computerized beat with a high-pitched voice. The lyrics

seem absolutely meaningless— usually Sia’s music has some point to it, but it’s extremely difficult to find anything here. Her voice seems out of pitch in places, and even the backtrack is lackluster.

The eleventh song on the album, “Broken Glass,” takes a completely different turn from “Sweet Design.” The lyrics, the progression of pitch, and the background are spot-on. The singer-songwriter sings about the importance of the love she has and how she isn’t discarding the person like broken glass. It’s a striking metaphor.

If Sia tapped into the essence of this song, she could possibly draw from a wider audience and keep her sound fresh. To end the album, Sia slows down with “Space Between.” None of her other songs are as slow

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A stunning vocal-range saves Sia’s album from its lackluster lyrics. and somber as this track. Her beautiful vocals have a haunting, unsettling quality to them—a striking way to end the album.

While many of the tracks on this album are intriguing and thought-provoking, it is

easy to understand how some of them were turned down by big names in the business. This seventh album, Sia may be using this album as a stepping-stone toward reinventing her style and exploring some options.

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: >I@<>F S8C<9 UMMER LIN Hunting for pelts in the untouched and unpredictable Nebraska Territory, Leonardo DiCaprio grappled with a bear, dragged his ragged body through the snowy wilderness, gourged on a bison liver, and endured the freezing waters of river rapids. Unfortunately for Leo, these physical hardships should not guarantee an Oscar. The Revenant might be DiCaprio’s toughest role, but is not his best, as the bulk of its accolades rest on the achievements of others rather than his own.

Throughout his career, DiCaprio has exercised his acting dexterity in numerous films. From a mentally challenged boy in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) to the corrupt, cocaine-fueled stockbroker in The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), DiCaprio has shown that he not only can tackle, but excel in nearly every role given to him. For DiCaprio, a large part of his success is in part due to the talent he surrounds himself with.

Though he may never himself sit in the director’s chair, those he has worked with have spoken of DiCaprio’s commitment to his roles. “Working with Leo has been the best experience I’ve ever had as a director,” Alejandro Inarritu, director of The Revenant, said. After completing Shutter Island (2010), frequent collaborator Martin Scorsese went so far as to call Leo an “inspiration” on- and off-set. Leo has also had James Cameron, Baz Luhrmann, Steven Spielberg, and Christopher Nolan calling the shots behind some of his biggest hits. A counter to the Nicholas Cage mentality, DiCaprio remains relatively fastidious about where his image shows up on screen. This is not meant to diminish the degree to which Leo’s performances had an impact on the positive critical reception of some of his films, but his legacy is at least partially influenced by his friendships with renowned directors.

Though he offers up a commendable performance in The Revenant, DiCaprio does little to add to the atmospheric effects of the film. With such a large portion of the film’s praises resting on the magnificence of its cinematography, achieved through natural lighting and true-to-form weather conditions, audiences may feel that his embodiment of Hugh Glass is rather lackluster and uninspiring. DiCaprio’s performance feels like a performance, but it never takes on a more transparent quality. As The Revenant seeks to accurately recreate the life of 1820s fur trappers in a visually poetic way, DiCaprio’s performance never harmonizes with the setting. Slapping on an indiscernible accent, while muttering the few lines given to him, his character is explored prosaically through his fleeting eyes, grimaces, and nasal flairs. His hardships come in the form of the grueling filming conditions, rather than the merits of the acting craft.

In contrast, Tom Hardy is unrecognizable as John Fitzgerald. The Englishman is in no way, shape, or form visible, as every facet of his being speaks, not only to the character he is meant to embody, but the world from which he came. As a trapper, he feels like he belongs in the world, and in a film in which the visual fluidity is paramount, things that stand out (Leo), stand out markedly so.

When asked whether his life is worth the cost of the pelts he so fervently clings to, Fitzgerald responds, “Life! What life are you talkin’ about? I ain’t got no life. I just got livin’.

An’ the only way I get to do that is through these pelts.” This speaks volumes of the kind of transformation Hardy went through, as these words felt like they were coming from the place surrounding the characters, rather than words from a scripted page.

More of a technical filmmaking piece than an example of acting in its purest form, The Revenant represents a noble, cinematographic marvel. The praises that can be said of the acting in the film do not belong to DiCaprio.

In many ways, I hope DiCaprio does not win an Oscar for this work or any future endeavor. It’s not like they really matter anyway. His skill and career do not rest on the approval of the masses, but are exemplified by the quality of the work he puts out, not the trophies lining his shelves.

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Andrew Taggert and Alex Pall arrived at the Flynn Recreation Complex late Friday night to a scene they have grown accustomed to seeing.

Past the mixers, decks, amplifiers, and metal barricades was a mass of party-goers, donned in rave attire and armed with pulsating glowsticks handed out earlier in the evening, who cheered wildly as the duo took the stage. Professionally, Taggert and Pall are better known as The Chainsmokers, and for the last four years they have established themselves as one of the bestknown EDM acts in the country.

Based in New York City, the Chainsmokers began spinning decks in 2012, steadily gaining notoriety for remixes of local bands’ work.

By late 2013, The Chainsmokers enjoyed commercial success and nationwide recognition on the EDM scene thanks to their surprise hit

“#SELFIE.” Since then, the duo has toured across the globe alongside acts like The Prodigy, Alesso, and Diplo, and plans to release their debut LP sometime this year.

Like at many of their live shows, Taggert a n d P a l l k e p t th e c ro w d e n e rg e t i c a n d entertained throughout with a mix of impressive showmanship and bass-heavy tracks. Die-hard fans were not left disappointed as the duo played a number of its crowd-pleasing hits, such as “Roses,” and “Let You Go.” Interwoven with its own discography was an eclectic array of hip-shaking songs, ranging from DJ Khaled’s “All I Do Is Win” to a deep house remix of “The Circle of Life” from the Lion King.

Helping make the duo’s theatrics possible were the students of the Campus Activities Board (CAB), who oversee and organize the annual winter show. Working with BCPD, EMS workers, and event staff, CAB transformed the Plex’s

basketball courts into an impressively spacious concert hall for thousands of guests. While the party was raging just beyond the orangeclad security guards and crowd-containing barricades, CAB members expressed both pride and relief in their work.

“We’ve been coordinating this for some time,” Pat McCauley, MCAS ’17, said while keeping abreast of the event backstage during a student’s opening DJ set. “All of this was done by students, so credit to everyone who can get an event this hectic running as smoothly as it does year to year.”

The atmosphere behind the barricades was starkly different from that of the frenzy of people in front of the stage—back there, an amalgam of CAB staffers, stage technicians, and security was too occupied with technical effects and transitioning between musical acts to dance

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While the Chainsmokers excited students in the Plex on Friday night, another band rocked out across town in Boston’s Orpheum Theatre. Flowery guitar riffs leading to explosive solo guitar jams by the band’s Nels Cline could be recognized as none other than Chicago’s Wilco.

The entrance of the ancient, tattered Orpheum Theatre was scattered with the typical Wilco-fan demographic:

middle-aged men and women trying to harken back to their younger days.

After a gentle pat-down at security, I immediately saw the wondrous, yet simultaneously decrepit, architecture of a theatre that opened more than 160 years ago, amid a country at war.

Crumbling plaster and broken banisters set the stage perfectly, however, for the aging Wilco, and its now addictionfree lead singer, Jeff Tweedy. Neither the band nor the theatre symbolize perfection—instead, the two entities display self-conflict, trial, failure, and

eventual success. Both the band, and the theatre, exist only for their efforts to fight through the toughest of times.

Regardless of the band’s age, Wilco’s energizing presence shone through. As per recent tradition, the band performed the entirety of its new album, Star Wars, to begin the concert. The brash guitar lines and funkadelic electronic effects of “EKG” lit up the Orpheum in an essence that would make you think that the band was in its earliest stages, attempting to rise through the ranks. “Random Name Generator,” the album’s most popular

track , was played with the utmost excitement, and elicited a parallel energy from the crowd. Admittedly, because the newest album is not the band’s most popular, a good majority of the audience was surely confused for the first couple of songs played.

Once Wilco finished its playthrough of Star Wars, it shifted gears, playing its most popular and crowd-pleasing tracks, many of which came off of the criticallyacclaimed Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. “Heavy

See Wilco, B7

GRIFFIN ELLIOTT / HEIGHTS EDITOR

While the alternate rock band played through the entirety of its latest album ‘Star Wars,’ fans were thrilled to find that Wilco was willing to dig deep into its extensive repetoire.

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