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A building-by-building guide to BC on-campus housing, A4

The Organization of Latin American Affairs held its 12th annual culture show in Robsham this weekend, B7

The Eagles embarassed themselves with the worst first half in the ACC this year, B1

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Hussey is currently the executive vice president of UGBC.

“Meredith and I are deeply saddened to announce our withdrawal from the upcoming UGBC Election,” Hussey said in an email. “However, due to some unforeseen personal matters, I have made the decision, in consultation with Meredith, my family, friends, and campaign team, to discontinue our efforts before campaign kick-off, which was supposed to happen Sunday.”

Their announcement came just five days after Eliz-

abeth Foley, MCAS ’17, and Joseph McCarthy, CSOM ’17, announced that they were also dropping out of the race. Anthony Perasso, LSOE ’17, and Rachel Loos, MCAS ’18, are now the only remaining team.

The Elections Committee sent an email saying that the Campaign Kickoff will no longer be on Feb. 21, as originally scheduled.

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While many may be focused on the ongoing election season of the Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC), the current UGBC president, Thomas Napoli, MCAS ’16, and executive vice president, Olivia Hussey, MCAS ’17, are still working to accomplish their goals for the rest of their presidential term. This remains true despite the earlier news that Hussey and her campaign partner, Meredith McCaffrey, MCAS ’16, formally withdrew from this year’s UGBC elections.

In their own candidacy last spring, the team offered a 42-page platform detailing plans for implementing proposed policy goals, which highlighted a comprehensive free speech and expression policy. The proposal suggested that the landscape of campus be redesigned to better allow for student activism with the goal of complementing a more liberal, transparent policy on the approval of campus events, flier postings, and protests.

After being elected, the two have headed UGBC while the Student Assembly attempted to pass a free speech and expression proposal last spring, which sought to limit the University’s ability to control the scheduling of protests and distribution of fliers on campus. The proposal included the suggestion that a committee for free expression be formed on campus. In Fall 2015, however, the University released an updated Student Guide that included changes in formatting but left out policies approved by the Student Assembly in the spring.

Though the changes to the Student Guide did not materialize in the fall, Napoli and Hussey led UGBC in their launching of two initiatives in October that give students tools to target or bypass restrictions around free expression on campus. The first is the Free Expression Reporting form, an online way for students to privately report incidents in which they believe their free speech was curtailed, and the second is the 10-Student Service that would allow students not in

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The email, received by about six students and staff, contained a virus known as Locky that can encrypt the recipient’s computer and the drives of any computers connected to it, David Escalante, director of computer policy and security, said. In other words, if a student has an external hard drive attached to his or her computer to save documents and the computer get the virus, it will wipe the hard drive, too.

If someone receives the virus on a computer that is linked to a shared-file server, he said, then all of the computers

on the system could lose their shared documents. This is a large concern, as most of the members of the academic departments work on the same file-server.

The IT department reached out to the IT departments of other schools, as it usually does, and found that the virus has been documented at other schools as well.

According to Forbes, over 100,000 computers received the virus on Feb. 17, and the people who created the virus have been asking for $420 to restore the victims’ computers.

Escalante estimated that many thousands of emails with the virus were sent out, but only about half a dozen students received the emails in their inboxes. Many of the security measures—anti-virus and spam control—sent the rest of the thousands of emails to students’ spam folders.

What makes this virus particularly difficult, he said, is that it is not “binary”—usually either all of the emails will

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Congressman Richard Neal and Boston mayor Marty Walsh will speak in Gasson 100 on Feb. 22 at 6 p.m. about Ireland’s Easter Rising of 1916.

The event, which is sponsored by the Irish Studies program, is open to the public.

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Professor Gary Molander from the University of Pennsylvania will speak as part of the chemistry department’s seminar series on Feb. 23 at 4 p.m. in Merkert 130. He will discuss “Single Electron Transformations to Enable Cross-Couplings.”

Jon F. Danilowicz, the diplomat in residence for New England, will speak in Stokes 195 on Feb. 24 at 4:30 p.m. He will discuss careers in the U.S. Department of State and other fellowships post-graduation. The event is sponsored by the University Fellowships Committee.

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DXjjX kf ;`i\Zk 9f`j` :\ek\i Alan Wolfe, the founder and current director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, will retire in early 2017. Mark Massa, S.J., the dean of the School of Theology and Ministry since 2010, will take his position next year.

Massa will continue his work in the School of Theology and Ministry (STM) until the end of the academic year. He will then embark on sabbatical before starting his new position in 2017, Provost and Dean of Faculties David Quigley said.

“A leading historian of Catholicism in the United States, Mark Massa has successfully led the School of Theology and Ministry since 2010,” Quigley said to the Office of News and Public Affairs. “Under his watch, the school has attracted a community of very talented students and faculty, and Mark has helped sustain a serious-minded conversation about how STM can best serve the contemporary Catholic Church—in Boston, across the nation, and around the world.”

Massa, in his time as dean, hired one third of STM’s current faculty.

The Boisi Center works to join scholars, policy makers, media, and religious leaders in discussion about the intersection of religion and public life.

Leaders at the Boisi Center hope to uncover the moral consequences of public policies. The Center was created in 1999 by Trustee Associate Geoffrey T. Boisi, BC ’69.

Gif]% I\Z\`m\j JkXekfe Gi`q\ Associate professor of psychology at Boston College Liane Young was awarded the 2016 Stanton Prize by the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. The prize is given to those who have made significant contributions in research in philosophy, psychology, or related disciplines.

“Liane is a pivotal member of the psychology department, bridging social psychology with cognitive neuroscience,” professor of psychology Ellen Winner said to the Office of News and Public Affairs. “It is fitting that we as a Jesuit institution have among us one of the pioneers in the scientific study of morality.”

Young also won the SPP’s William James Prize for writing in 2006 and a Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2012, which is given to scientists and scholars thought to be the next generation of leading researchers.

Young also serves as principal investigator in the Morality Lab at BC. She uses behavioral measures, magnetic stimulation, and neuroimaging to study moral judgement and social behaviors. “ Fu n d a m e nt a l q u e s t i o n s about human moral cognition are inherently interdisciplinary, as I discovered back when I studied ethics as an undergraduate philosophy major,” Young said to the Office of News and Public Affairs. “Now, I very much enjoy discussing these issues with my colleagues all over campus—in psychology, philosophy, political science, education, and the law.”

When Elvira Di Fabio of Harvard University learned that most of her senior undergraduate students had never set foot in their campus art museum, she came up with a teaching strategy forcing them to see the grand exhibits. Peculiarly, as the museum’s staff noted, none of the students spoke English.

Last Friday afternoon, Italian professor Di Fabio spoke to romance language instructors and graduate students about the educational use of art for developing foreign language competency, as taught in her own original course. A workshop period showing one of the dynamic teaching strategies followed the lecture. Di Fabio is senior preceptor in romance languages and literatures at Harvard, as well as a former member of the development committee for Advanced Placement Italian. The director of the Education Council of Boston’s Italian Consulate also attended the event.

Di Fabio sought to correct the misconception that the Harvard Fogg Art Museum is undemocratic by integrating museum visits into her pedagogy.

Di Fabio succeeded in instating arts integration in the fourth semester of language study at Harvard. She described the benefits of the program as inducing high-order thinking, facilitating more holistic language learning, and demonstrating the intersection of disciplines. She dubbed it democratic as it does not assume any previous art

history expertise.

“It’s still a language course,” Di Fabio said. “Very much a language course. But it’s using the language in a nontraditional way.”

Her time spent with the College Board working on AP Italian influenced her class structure profoundly.

The exam tests three types of engagement—interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational—through multiple facets.

The Harvard course includes four to six actual visits during the semester, alongside pre- and post-museum tasks. The first visit includes an Anteprima, where a docent leads the students on a museum tour. Harvard even has Italian-speaking guides that allow the Anteprima to happen in the class’ target language. Museum visits also include Italian practice through small group discussions and tasks, observation, and short presentations.

The students even download Italian audio to their smartphones to use.

The course also requires that students make a Vademecum, the Latin word for handbook, with their various writing exercises. The final projects ideally serve as museum guides in the class language.

Di Fabio expects her method to have several positive results distinct from a typical language class. Describing paintings off the cuff allows for authentic expression in the target language. The students also exchange creative ideas and learn about art history in the process. But Di Fabio, just as in her initial thoughts about constructing the course, made sure to

Shanequia was just 12 years old when a 29-year-old man seduced her.

He told her he loved her, she said, and they would go out to dinner and to the movies. After two weeks, he told her that he was a pimp, asking her to get involved to make some money for him. She did it for him because she cared about him, she said.

At one point, Shanequia tried to run away because she was tired of working and wanted to be a child again. He found her, however, and raped her. She began to think that her body was his property and blamed herself for being raped.

On Friday evening, the Boston College School of Social Work showed the film Very Young Girls, a documentary about sexual exploitation in New York City, including Shanequia’s story, and held a panel discussion with local experts who work to help young men and women who have been exploited.

The film documents the stories of the girls in Girls Education and Mentoring Services (GEMS), the only organization in the state of New York that serves girls and young women who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking.

The women were recruited into the industry between the ages of

12 and 16, as they explain in the film. The average age for entering is only 13.

Dominique, who dreamed of being an archaeologist when she was older, was 14 when she started.

As a child, she experienced domestic abuse, so when an older man began to act like a father to her, she welcomed him. The man, who became her pimp, encouraged her to do drugs, too.

She gave all of the money she made to her pimp, who did not always feed her. Although she wanted to leave “the life,” she had no other options—she could not go back to school, but she was too young for the shelters, which were only open to women over 18.

Dominique, like all of the other girls in the film, found a shelter in GEMS. Rachel Lloyd, who was sexually exploited as a teenager, founded the organization in 1998 after realizing that there were many young women who needed help, but were not eligible to receive aid from traditional social service agencies.

As the film shows, the women who come to GEMS for assistance are given a bed in a New York apartment, money for food, a chance to receive an education, and various other tools to help them restart their lives. The women are given a strict curfew and cannot bring any males

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Di Fabio, a professor at Harvard University, spoke at BC last Friday. stress the importance of the students gaining a new pedagogical space.

“I’m asking them to go into this new academic space, a space that is unlimited both physically and metaphorically, and to start using their language in that new space,” she said.

The workshop section allowed Di Fabio to demonstrate, and others to try, one of her teaching methods, called visual thinking strategies or VTS. She showed a piece of art and made the group sit in silence for minutes to observe it. Then, she asked three questions, the next only after the former was answered—“What’s going on in this picture? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can you find?”

She stressed that the teacher should repeat students’ comments, validating their thoughts and correcting and expanding their language, as well as pointing to the responder, listening well, and remaining neutral.

With the wealth of visual information on the Internet, such an activity could even be done without a museum. The important things are language development and exchange of original ideas.

“We don’t all think the same, even in the same language,” Di Fabio said.

But even despite her rigid technical basis for her work, Di Fabio emphasized the philosophical importance of learning a second language, remarking that multilingualism bridges ideas. She distinguished between communicative and symbolic competence, the discussion of ideas versus their extraction and conception.

“It’s a conversation between me and me,” Di Fabio said. “Many of the students will never go to Italy or France or Spain, or any of the target language [countries] that we teach. So why should they learn at all? Because there’s another person inside them.”

Thursday, Feb. 18

10:22 a.m. - A report was filed regarding property found at Gasson Hall.

5:36 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a party who was transported to a medical facility by ambulance from Hardey House.

10:34 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a party who was transported to a medical facility by ambulance from Vanderslice Hall.

within the vicinity of the apartment building. They still have many of their freedoms, Carolina, one of the women in the film, said.

The film captures the women celebrating birthdays and Christmas—they have a big Christmas dinner, sing songs, and exchange gifts.

If Lloyd does not see one of the women for a few days, she will call her to check in on her. Not all of the women choose to stay, and there is nothing she can do to force them to.

If law enforcement catches the underaged children who are sexually exploited, the police can charge them with prostitution. In the film, Carolina relapsed and left GEMS. She was then arrested for prostitution and served a 30-day sentence in jail.

In the panel discussion following the film, Donna Gavin, a member of Boston Police’s Human Trafficking Unit, explained that since 2005, no children have been tried for prostitution in Boston.

Many of the laws, she said, changed in 2012, as people began to realize this issue is happening everywhere, even in Boston. Some of the traffickers, Beth Bouchard, program manager of Support to End Sexual Exploitation at the Children’s Advocacy Center in Suffolk, said, can be found at public transportation stops throughout the city.

This is a high-risk, prevalent is-

sue in Boston, Bouchard said. Often gender, race, and socioeconomic status play a role.

In total, about 50,000 women are trafficked in the U.S., Westy Egmont, a professor in the School of Social Work, said.

“It’s such a complicated web they’ve been a part of that unless you’ve been there and talked their language and relate to it, you are always an outsider,” Egmont said.

“And I think in our humility we have to recognize our need to partner with women to be those agents.”

These people also need an alternative to a pimp, Egmont said. He pointed to faith as one substitute.

“So much of it happens behind closed doors,” Gavin said.

Last year, Bouchard said, there were 177 referrals for runaways, who are at a high risk of exploitation. Of this group, 75 percent had a history of running away.

Being a prostitute is not always a choice, as many people think it may be, she said.

“People just don’t get it,” she said.

“They want to think that if they’re over 18, it’s strictly by choice, that there are other options.”

To combat exploitation and trafficking, Gavin believes, we must target the customer rather than the seller.

“If there were no buyers, this would not be a problem,” she said.

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Two years ago there was a similar situation in which a team went unopposed. They were offered the positions, but they chose to allow an opponent to join the race. This, however, is a different situation, Rosenbloom said.

Hussey will continue in her role as executive vice president until the end of her term.

“We have been so inspired and humbled by the passion and energy of our team and all BC students we’ve interacted with over the past few weeks, and hope that the momentum to address the issues affecting students does not end with our withdrawal,” Hussey said in an email. “We urge all students to continue to engage with both the elections and the issues going forward, as it is imperative for creating a better BC. We are so grateful to BC and everyone who has supported us for this incredibly opportunity.”

Perasso believes that it is important to still have an election and hopes the Elections Committee will allow another team to run.

“We don’t want it to be a monarch silently handing over the crown,” he said. “There is zero part of me that wants to win unopposed.”

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After Hussey and McCaffrey announced their withdrawal from the upcoming UGBC Election, the Elections Committee has postponed the campaign kickoff until further notice.

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Still, when asked about the progress of such initiatives and whether the time they have left in office is long enough to realistically accomplish their goals with free expression, Napoli and Hussey did not report administrative changes.

“In terms of free expression, there really hasn’t been any policy updates the entire year,” Napoli said. “I know that a couple of drafts were sent to legal counsel and up to University leadership, but were ultimately rejected at the top level. So right now, from my understanding, there’s not a lot of wiggle room within the lower offices to address free expression issues.”

Still, Napoli did find outcomes from the Free Expression Reporting form and Ten-Student Service initiatives.

“There has been, at least in my opinion, some cultural shifts in terms of demonstrations this year,” Napoli said, recalling that no demonstrations have been denied this year, despite the protest by Eradicate BC Racism in December which was never registered.

Napoli explained that this change in accepted protests is a positive shift and demonstrates that people in those roles are being

more supportive. Still, he expressed a desire for policy changes to sustain this support for the long run.

Hussey noted that UGBC created a committee this year dedicated to student rights in the Student Assembly, which has been working this year with the Office of Student Initiatives (OSI), facilities, and dining teams to get more spaces on campus for banners, polls, and flyers.

“I’m personally very hopeful and optimistic that [the expansion] will happen by the end of the year to go in effect for next year,” Hussey said.

Hussey said that the expansion might not be to the full extent that they would like it to be, but believes their current efforts to allow students to hang posters on the second floor of Corcoran Commons and to have removable poles to hang banners on in the Quad will be successful. She said that this would be for registered student organizations.

For student groups that are not official, Hussey has been working on the Incubator phase since last summer. The Incubator phase has been in place to give some rights to student groups that are not registered and to streamline the process in which they can become official groups. This phase gives a two-month window for these unofficial student groups to come to UGBC. In return, UGBC will book rooms and post flyers for them in order to help them

become registered.

Leah Nowak, a student on the UGBC Board of Organizations and MCAS ’17, who has been working on the Incubator phase, explained that she initially got involved in the

group’s being official on campus.

“As it exists in the proposal, it needs too much approval from the administration and the Office of Student Involvement for us to really implement it without it being approved

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She has since been working on the program with Ellie Schaefer, MCAS ’17, who is also on the Board of Organizations, as well as the head of UGBC Student Assembly, Monica Coscia, MCAS ’17, and Michael Celib, MCAS ’17, to pull together the final proposal for this phase over Winter Break.

Nowak said that the phase has not yet gone into action, though the team has tried to implement it within one group in terms of the mentoring aspect, where it sat down with a trial group to talk about the feasibility of the

first,” Nowak said.

Nowak said that they have been doing as much as they have been able to do without getting approval, but are waiting for their proposal to be accepted in order for the phase to fully take off.

“We’re hoping this is a good first step in allowing clubs that are still getting started to have those rights and potentially prove to the University their value,” Hussey said.

Napoli said the Incubator phase takes some risk of blame off of the University when certain groups might be in question for their content or reasons. He said that OSI has understandable hesitancies when looking at new groups,

as it is difficult to rescind a group’s registration once it is administered. As a result, the Incubator phase decreases the reluctance of OSI to consider new groups in the process. Hussey said that both she and Napoli will be meeting with administrators in OSI and the Dean of Students about this phase the week before this upcoming Spring Break.

Hussey said that the administrators, such as Dean of Students Thomas Mogan, Mark Miceli, the associate director of student engagement, and Gus Burkett, OSI director, are all willing to work with UGBC on these initiatives, though concrete policy changes are typically made by higher levels of the administration, and are thus more long-term.

Napoli agreed with Hussey that the big policy changes will require a sustained effort, specifically targeting conversations with the leadership of the University.

Hussey noted that there were protests and demonstrations last fall than there were throughout her previous two years at BC. She also said that though the two haven’t seen concrete policy changes, their efforts, in addition to those started by previous UGBC president Nanci Fiore-Chettiar, GSSW ’16, have started a previously missing conversation about free speech among the administration.

“By keeping that conversation very alive and well, we hope to continue those efforts,” Hussey said.

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“In this case, none of this is true,” Escalante said. “We know it’s gotten through to some people, but there are other people who are in IT who said we could look at their mail boxes, and they seemed to be the target of messages,

but the messages never actually got through [to their inboxes]—so it was blocked.”

The IT department is trying to understand why, in this case, some emails got through to students’ inboxes, while others did not.

One theory they have, Escalante said, is that the virus is constantly changing. Each email is similar enough that they understand

it is part of the same virus, but they all have slight variations. Because the emails are always changing, it makes it difficult for IT to analyze the virus and find appropriate means to stop the spread of the virus.

BC has not had an email virus like this in several years, Escalante said, and IT is still investigating it.

Although he was not exactly sure why students were receiving the virus, Escalante decided to send out the email as a preventative measure so that students and faculty could hopefully avoid the detrimental effects of the virus.

“We’re not aware of anyone that’s become encrypted, as of Friday morning, to which I

would breathe a huge sigh of relief,” he said.

Yesterday afternoon, one of IT’s security vendors launched a troubleshooting session to make some adjustments to their filtering software, Escalante said in an email. These measures, he said, will make it much less likely for any future Locky attacks to get into students’ emails.

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By Joseph Yuengert For The Heights Although Greek mythology is considered a staple of childhood literature today, before Nathaniel Hawthorne, these stories were considered to be too adult in theme for children, according to Sheila Murnaghan, the Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Professor of Greek at the University of Pennsylvania, who came to speak at Boston College on Thursday evening. Murnaghan spoke about the methods Hawthorne used to integrate Greek myths into suitable children’s stories.

Murnaghan, a prominent Greek literature scholar, was invited to speak as the second guest of the Heinz Blum Memorial Lecture Series this academic year. Since 2000, the lecture series, named after the late Heinz Blum, who founded the BC German studies department, annually brings

in well-known scholars from across the country to speak about literature.

The event, held in Gasson 305, was well-attended by faculty, students, and the general public. Franco Mormando, a professor in the romance language department, introduced Murnaghan, who lectured for about 50 minutes and took questions afterward.

Murnaghan started out by discussing the impact that Hawthorne had on children’s literature. While he is best known for his adult novels such as The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables, Hawthorne later in his career turned to writing children’s literature.

In two of his best-known pieces of children’s literature, A Wonder-Book for Boys and Girls and Tanglewood Tales, Hawthorne revolutionized children’s literature by integrating tales from Greek mythology into stories palatable for children.

“Many people today have pleasurable experiences with mythology in their childhood,” Murnaghan said. “Hawthorne was able to have classical culture integrated into the modern experience.”

Murnaghan started by giving some background on the cultural views of Greek mythology at the time of Hawthorne.

In the mid-19th century, telling Greek mythological stories to children was not commonplace because the content matter was very adult, with prevalent themes of adultery, murder, and theft. Additionally, since many of the characters were religious figures from ancient Greek religion, these tales were considered pagan and unholy in the eyes of most American Christians.

She then went on to explain how Hawthorne reworked these tales to be suitable and widely accepted by 19th-century Americans. In his two children’s books, Hawthorne uses a framing narrative of a

young college student, Eustace Bright, who is telling these tales to a group of children.

Bright is meant to represent Hawthorne himself. Murnaghan stated that the views and dialogue of Bright correspond to Hawthorne’s own thoughts and views on childhood.

Murnaghan proceeded to provide examples of the changes that Hawthorne made to the characters and storylines of the original Greek myths. Since many of the themes of the original tales could be dark and disturbing, Hawthorne had to make slight changes to make them into children’s stories.

Murnaghan pointed out the story of Pandora’s box as an example of Hawthorne changing the tone of a story to be more suitable for children. In the original story, Pandora’s mistake was incredibly costly, opening a jar that let all of the evils out into the world. Murnaghan explained

how Hawthorne’s reworking of the story is much less drastic, portraying the incident as a child’s mistake without massive consequences.

Murnaghan then delved into the Christianizing nature of Hawthorne’s stories. Either by subtle or overt measures, Hawthorne placed touches of Christianity in these new stories. Even though the stories of Greek mythology were pagan, Hawthorne thought that the lessons taught through them were not in conflict with Christianity. Murnaghan pointed out that while these stories conveyed important moral lessons, they “offered moral messages lightly.” She explained that Hawthorne changed many of the characters in the stories to be children instead of adults.

“First and foremost, these were entertaining stories for children,” Murnaghan said. “But in addition, they were now stories about children.”

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The Student’s Guide to Finding the Perfect BC Home Walsh and College Road: Two Roads Diverge in Sophomore Year 9P 9I@>@; B<CC<P ?\`^_kj JkX]] A building comprised of sophomores, eight-mans, and the Front Desk Pilot Project: Walsh Hall on Lower Campus, home to many late nights and sophomore bonding, is a favorite and quickly-picked building during the housing process.

Eight-man suites contain two bathrooms and a common room, offering more living space for residents to enjoy. Walsh is also centrally located—with its proximity to Corcoran Commons, the Res, the B-Line, and other residence halls, residents are able to enjoy different aspects of campus life right outside their door.

Walsh Hall is on Lower Campus and composed of four- and eight-person suites.

It is the least expensive option for sophomores living on Lower Campus. If someone lives in Walsh, he or she is required to buy the meal plan since only the eight-man rooms come with a kitchenette.

The proximity to other sophomores on Lower Campus helps to create the social atmosphere that Walsh is known for around campus. Along with this comes the consequences of late nights every weekend, whether you are involved or not, due to the combination of loud music and thin walls.

According to many of Walsh’s sophomore residents, the partying can be somewhat of a double-edged sword, with its social perks but also obvious drawbacks.

Life in Walsh can be, as a consequence, a tightrope act between these.

The atmosphere of having sophomores

all around and a lively social scene has contributed to the installment of the Walsh Front Desk Pilot Project, where Walsh is the only building on campus that has front-desk security and police during the weekends.

Residents of Walsh need to swipe in nonresidents during the weekends, while any sophomores can access the building from 7 a.m. to midnight.

The housing process seems to bring out the worst in people—sophomores usually have to sacrifice friendships and scramble to put together a group of eight to secure a spot on Lower.

College Road (CoRo) houses sophomores in doubles, traditional triples, and traditional quads. There are three buildings that make up College Road: Roncalli, Welch, and Williams. CoRo is generally picked—or assigned—later in the housing process, but there are many benefits that students tend to overlook.

Like most students, Christopher Keegan, MCAS ’18, had a plan going into the housing lottery, but things turned out differently than he had anticipated.

“Well, we went for an eight-man and got denied a pick time for all the suite housing days,” Keegan said. “We eventually got a pick time on Wednesday at 8:15 which, as it turns out, was the last pick time where we were guaranteed housing on CoRo.” Keegan and his eight-man decided to block rooms in Williams, and there are benefits to this living situation that he didn’t anticipate having.

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Walsh Hall, composed of eight-man suites, is a popular option for sophomores who want to secure a place on Lower Campus. any academic building within 10 minutes,” Keegan said.

Anyone living on CoRo is required to have a meal plan since none of the dorms have kitchens or kitchenettes. Although most of the people at Mac are freshmen, CoRo is closer to the cafeteria, resulting in quick walks for meals.

There are communal bathrooms, so students have another way to get to know each other through late-night talks after brushing their teeth. Additionally, since many of the

hallways are blocked groups of eight- or six-mans, many sophomores already know most people living around them.

“The best part about living in my building, as cheesy as it may sound, is the people,” Keegan said. “Most kids in my building have become friends, and because our floor is made up of different blocked friend groups, we’ve all gotten along well and hang out with each other regularly. Sometimes a night in Williams is just as fun as a night on Lower.”

When approaching the living situation, Keegan helps remind freshmen especially to build a group of people that you want to live with, to have a direct roommate sorted out, and to not stress.

“Go for what you want, but don’t be disappointed if you don’t get it—it’s a lottery after all,” he said. “Live with your friends, and don’t throw together an eight-man just because you think you need to have one.

Live with people you genuinely want to be around for most of your free time.”

Vanderslice, 90, Stayer: Air-Conditioned Castles

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Vanderslice Hall offers suite-style housing with other ammenities such as practice rooms, study lounges, and air-conditioning.

9P A8D<J CL:<P =\Xkli\j <[`kfi Beyond St. Ignatius Chapel, lining the gently curving St. Thomas More Rd., stands a powerful trio of modern-style buildings. This block of opulent on-campus lodging is composed of Vanderslice Hall, 90 St. Thomas More

Rd., and the sparkling Stayer Hall (also known as “The Gate”). Decidedly the air-conditioned crown jewels of Lower Campus, this trinity of modern, suite-style comfort has long been considered the pinnacle of luxurious sophomore, junior, and occasional senior living.

For sophomores with the good lottery fortune to live on Lower Campus, Vanderslice and

90 St. Thomas More halls—known as “Vandy” and “90,” respectively—provide a more luxurious and socially tame alternative to life across The Mods in Walsh Hall. For juniors lucky enough to be granted four years of housing, Vandy and 90 are also popular on-campus options after The Gate inevitably fills. With the passing of the beloved Edmond’s Hall, however,

Vandy and 90 promise to be an increasingly popular option in the upcoming semesters for juniors that intend to live on campus.

“It has really nice closet space, I’d say,” explained Vanderslice resident Omeed Alidadi, MCAS ’18, when asked about his favorite aspects of life in Vandy. “The common room is very spacious, and the location is pretty prime,” he added, highlighting the proximity to Corcoran Commons, and the Plex.

Vandy houses 423 students, while 381 reside in 90. Both feature fully air-conditioned, suite-style accommodations. Though the most common suite arrangement is that of the eightman configuration, a few unusual exceptions also exist, like six-person suites exclusive to 90 and nine-person suites unique to Vandy.

In addition to the obvious location and amenity perks of life in Vandy and 90, the buildings also have their share of unexpected quirks providing some character. Among these, 90 offers several lounge-style practice rooms featuring pianos for student use, and unique spiral staircases connect several of the study lounges in Vandy.

Among its weaknesses, Alidadi noted that the lack of social scene between Vandy and 90 isn’t always a great thing, and the lack of excitement in the halls is at times very noticeable.

“People might stop here, but they really spend their night in Walsh or The Mods.” Alidadi added that all nights eventually lead down a similar path and find their way to BC’s great

equalizer—Late Night.

“All things considered, if you’re looking for some peace and quiet, I’d definitely recommend living in Vandy or 90,” concluded Alidadi, adding that, “it’s pretty close to El Pelon, too.”

Close in physical proximity to Vandy and 90, Stayer Hall is a residence hall with an exterior that speaks volumes about its interior aesthetic. Currently, but not for long, the newest building on the scene, Stayer is nothing short of a ritzy apartment building. This towering oasis on Lower Campus houses 306 students and is home largely to on-campus juniors and seniors, featuring an array of glimmering suitestyle rooms with standard partial kitchens.

“Stayer has been nothing short of incredible,” raved junior resident Brian Brooks, MCAS ’17. “The building itself is gorgeous—well-lit, carpeted throughout, and kept very clean.”

Just slightly over 10 years old, Stayer Hall’s youth is still evident, exemplified by its cleanliness and the consistent performance of its various amenities and appliances.

“The elevators are quick and efficient,” Brooks added, “though they do lack the charm that comes with the impending feeling of death provided by elevators in a building like 90.”

“Charm” aside, Stayer is a heavy favorite of juniors and seniors in non-modular housing, and it looks as though this is not soon to change.

Ignacio, Rubenstein, Gabelli, Voute, 66: Lower’s Finest 9P A8D<J CL:<P =\Xkli\j <[`kfi Standing physically atop a hill overlooking much of Lower—but emotionally somewhere between the paradise of The Mods and the purgatory of Edmond’s—Ignacio, Rubenstein, Gabelli, Voute and 66 Comm.

Ave. halls round out the housing pack.

Known for their unusual layout and attractive exposed-brick interior, Ignacio and Rubenstein halls (referred to as Iggy and Ruby, respectively) are popular apartmentstyle options for seniors, with a larger variety of amenities. All apartment-style accommodations include private bathrooms, living rooms, dining areas, and, unlike suite-style residences, full kitchens. The two buildings share an extremely similar layout, and both house 364 students, the large majority of whom are seniors.

Along with attractive interiors, perks of life in Iggy and Ruby include extremely close proximity to academic buildings, and a select few photogenic rooms that offer beautiful views of St. Mary’s Hall and Gasson Tower. Though it may lack the reputation of other buildings on campus, residents often note that life in Ruby and Iggy is better than many think.

“The thing about Iggy is that it may not

have the backstory of The Mods or the reputation of Walsh, but it is easily the most convenient building,” Iggy resident Katie Carsky, MCAS ’16, said. “I can put my laundry in, go to O’Neill, run back to change to the dryer and go back to O’Neill with ease.”

Moving slightly north in the direction of the Career Center, one will find Gabelli and Voute halls sitting pleasantly side by side overlooking Comm. Ave. These buildings feature similar room layouts to Ruby and Iggy, with high ceilings and extremely large windows and common spaces. Gabelli and Voute residents often cite proximity to the T and main gate bus stop as major location perks.

In addition, the six-person suite living arrangement predominantly found in Iggy, Ruby, Gabelli, and Voute is also a favorite among residents, and, according to Carsky, it may be the perfectly tolerable number of roommates.

“You almost always have someone to hang out with,” Carsky explained, “but it’s never too much.”

Rounding out the pack of Lower-/ Middle-Campus housing options is the often-overlooked 66 Comm. Ave. Though laid out traditionally as opposed to suiteor apartment-style, 66 offers comfortable accommodations in an attractive brick

building designated for sophomore honors students. Though the 233-person building is intended largely to house honors students, there remains a significant number of nonhonors students, many of whom are overflow from the Walsh/Vandy/90 lottery.

“The Fishbowl Lounge,” a study lounge room enclosed by soundproof glass, is a favorite study spot among residents, who

also note its location as ideal for Marathon Monday spectating.

Another point of pride among 66 residents is a recurring program appropriately entitled “Cookie Night,” in which the building’s resident minister provides homemade cookies for all residents on Wednesday nights.

Though many of these options are often

viewed as second place to The Mods or Walsh, the perks are not to be underestimated. Location and cleanliness are just a few of the bright sides of living in the “second place” senior and sophomore housing options on Lower. All things considered, if you’re ever feeling down about your housing situation, remember—there’re lonely kids on Upper.

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I’m in the middle of my 15th year of school. That’s 15 first days of school, 15 syllabus weeks, 15 excited jitters to start something new. That’s 15 times that I’ve told myself that if I hunker down and work hard, I’ll excel on all levels. That’s 14 times I’ve told myself that this year will be better than the last.

Freshman year, I didn’t miss one class. I couldn’t even understand the concept of skipping class—“You mean … you purposely don’t go? What if you miss something?” The idea of paying $60,000 a year for an education that you voluntarily hinder seemed incredibly stupid, ungrateful, and counter-intuitive to me.

In the past two weeks, I’ve missed six classes. Six. Some, because I’ve slept in. Others, because I had other work I wanted to get done. Not one of those was crippling to my grade in that class, or to my education as a whole.

Not one. Many, however, put together in a short period of time like that, is.

Everyone slips around this time.

We’re at that point in the semester where the first tests that we underestimated have been handed back, the first papers that we didn’t spend enough time on have been handed in, and the first grades that we are sure we can improve upon next time are somewhere on our transcripts.

Throughout the week, I commit a collective 60 hours to extracurricular activities and work—not unlike many of my peers. Classes have become a thing I do on a side here at Boston College, and are by no means the thing I set my goals around or adjust my schedule to.

That’s crazy. That’s a waste of the money, time, and energy that it took me to get into this school. And yet, it’s a slump I’ve fallen into and cannot get out of. Just like the slump I fell into last year when I started writing my 10-page essays the day before they were due.

Just like the slump I fell into senior year of high school when I did all of my homework for the day during secondperiod study hall. Just like the slump I fell into in 8th grade when I stopped outlining the chapters of assigned reading.

It’s an unbreakable pattern that I’m convinced I’ll break time and time again.

So, who’s to blame? The obvious answer would be me. I’m the one falling short of these simple goals. I’m the one who has decided that sleep is more important than attending my 9 a.m.

I’m the one who still hasn’t started my 12-page paper due on Wednesday. But I’m a student at Boston College, so of course I’m about to find a way to blame this on something else.

It’s a combination of things. It’s the weather—though that’s a hard argument to make during this year’s 50degree February. It’s the unreasonable expectations put on students to excel in both academics and extracurriculars— a song you’ve heard sung a thousand times. It’s the positive affirmation of being students of BC constantly coming our way that swells our selfconfidence. It’s a feasibility of looking at a new year, or a new semester, and saying firmly to yourself: this one’ll be different.

Maybe you’re different. Maybe every school year for you has been better than the last. Maybe you only improve academically as the semester goes on. Maybe you love learning and hate sleeping.

But for the rest of us, for the people who make promises they know they can’t keep every September and January, we’d better watch out, because I can feel midterm season creeping up on us and slowly tightening its grasp around our throats.

To quote the infamous Rubeus Hagrid: there’s a storm coming—we all best be ready when she does.

Last week I was sitting in my English seminar when a Boston College alumna gave the class a piece of advice that reflects an aspect of BC culture that I believe is too often undervalued: “When BC gives you a place to stop and think, take advantage of that,” she said.

As I listened to her talk about how retreats and her time at BC shaped her interest in higher education, I couldn’t help but think about the question I’ve struggled to answer after getting back from a retreat: What happens when the “high” fades away? A string bracelet or necklace can serve as a fond reminder of a meaningful weekend experience, but how do we continue to “Live the Fourth” once we return to the daily grind of being a BC student?

After nearly three years at this school, I have come to recognize the importance of taking brief moments to reflect at BC. For me, this usually means taking the occasional trip into Boston for a change of scenery, but I’ve found that some of my most valuable experiences here have unexpectedly come from retreats away from campus—and the common message I’ve taken away from them.

Although I was someone who was intimidated by the Jesuit, Catholic tag attached to BC coming in as a freshman, I have come to appreciate how retreats are a distinctive aspect of BC. I am not Catholic, nor had I ever taken a philosophy or theology class before coming to BC. I had never been on an official retreat before arriving in Chestnut Hill, and all of the misconceptions I had surrounding the word “retreat,” including listening to copious amounts of The Fray while journaling and praying for hours, deterred me from wanting to sign up for one during my first semester of freshman year. I remember listening to a presentation about 48 Hours during orientation and how the University advertised the weekend as an “experience” rather than a retreat, and was slightly interested about the possibility of visiting Cape Cod, though I still was hesitant to sign up. It wasn’t until second semester, when I was feeling like the weekends at BC were beginning to follow a monotonous pattern, that I decided to try something new.

I’ve realized that these retreats are a characteristic of BC that separates the University from the likes of Boston University or Harvard. Nearly 30 percent of BC undergraduates participate in some form of an off-campus retreat each year.

Many of these retreats are not explicitly religious, but rather are centered on leadership, issues of transition, finding a vocation, or service. And I found it surprising that over 1,300 students participate in retreats focused on reflection and prayer every year.

Since freshmen year, I have been on a number of retreats ranging from Freshmen League to Kairos, but what I’ve taken away from each experience is the ability to reflect. The Jesuits like to use the term “Examen” to refer to a brief reflection of what has happened over the previous day—or a daily meditation.

Similarly in Freshmen League, we use the “Examenito” to take a few moments to think more deeply about our lives at least once a week and share with others in the group.

I am not advocating for every BC student to go on a retreat to think more deeply about his or her life. But I believe this ability to take a moment to reflect— whether at the end of the day or sometime during the week—has been the one aspect I’ve embraced from retreats that I never imagined I would appreciate as a freshman frightened by BC’s spirituality.

As I listened to that BC graduate talk about retreat culture to our English class, I realized that the “high” so many of us feel after getting back from a retreat will inevitably fade away over time. But I have found it is important to at least take away something from the experience—and try to incorporate it into our lives.

And if BC gives you an opportunity to stop and think, take advantage of it.

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New dorm buildings will open fall 2016 as part of BC’s 10-year plan to guarantee all students four years of on-campus housing.

9P D8;<C<@E< CFFJ9IF:B ?\`^_kj <[`kfi RIP Edmond’s. The possibly asbestos-ridden, leaky, sad excuse for a dorm is currently housing its last set of residents ever. Come Fall 2016, BC will debut two new dorms, 2150 and 2000 Comm. Ave. As The Heights reported earlier this year, Boston College has a goal of meeting 100 percent of the demand for undergraduate housing, according to University Spokesperson Jack Dunn. Even with the destruction of Edmond’s, the new dorms are going to help accomplish part of this goal.

Many people are familiar with 2000 Comm. Ave. as an off-campus housing option. The University purchased the property, and it is currently under construction to transform the dorm to BC housing standards. 2000 Comm. Ave. will be composed of apartment-style dorms, featuring 540 beds configured into both single- and doubleperson rooms.

The pool will be replaced by an outdoor common space, and the balconies will not be available for student use. While much of the building will look the same as it did when it was an apartment complex, there will be added lounges and study rooms, just like all of the other BC dorms have.

This dorm will offer the unique experience of living “off campus,” while still having the benefit of living in University housing.

Located right across from South St., the dorm will be in the middle of the off-campus action. There is a bus stop right in front of the building, but it is only a short walk to campus.

This could be especially attractive to juniors with four years of housing who don’t want to deal with off-campus leases, but would like the experience of living in an apartment-style building near the majority of the junior class.

Unlike traditional off-campus apartments, this dorm will still be staffed by BC residential assistants.

Anyone who’s spent any time on Lower Campus this semester has certainly seen

(or heard) the construction of the highly anticipated new building, 2150 Comm. Ave. This dorm will likely house seniors, with 490 beds spread between 60 six-person and 16 four-person suites. The suites will feature full kitchens, essentially replacing the suite styles that will be lost with the destruction of Edmond’s.

The dorm will also house a new University Health Services clinic. It will have 12 examination rooms, five patient rooms, one isolation room, and one treatment room, with other specialty rooms as well.

In addition to Health Services, the dorm will have 15 study rooms and five lounges.

There will also be a cafe, a seminar room, and three soundproof music rooms.

If the in-house amenities aren’t enough to convince you, the dorm is right across from El Pelon and Crazy Dough’s. Also, some of the rooms will overlook the graveyard, a fun backdrop for Halloween parties.

It isn’t the Mods, but at least there probably won’t be any mice.

The Mods

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The iconic Mods remain the most highly sought-after senior option available, despite being designated temporary housing.

9P E@:FC< JLFQQF ?\`^_kj JkX]] The Mods, located at 100 St. Thomas More Rd., are made up of 38 six-man apartments, each including a private living room, dining area, full kitchen, and backyard with a grill. While “B” mods are rumored to have basements, and “A” mods attics, the doors are locked to prevent student access. Two people reside in each bedroom—however, there is only one desk because of limited space. It is also important to note that the bathrooms are split—the second floor has one full bathroom, and the first floor has a half bathroom (toilet and sink). Last but not least, the lighting is pretty dim, so be prepared to bring in extra lamps.

Despite these quirks, the Mods, which were originally temporary on-campus housing, have endured to become some of the most sought-after housing on campus.

Situated smack in the middle of Corcoran Commons, the Plex, and O’Neill Library, this housing location is a BC student’s dream come true. Furthermore, students

have the luxury of a backyard when the weather is nice and instantaneous access to the senior tailgating scene during football season.

As one might guess, the Mods fill up quickly during housing registration, so if you do not have an early pick time on Feb. 29, for six-person apartments, you need a backup plan. Additionally, if you are an underclassman hoping to occupy a Mod in the future, make sure you do not get caught in the Mods on game days because if you do, your Mod privileges will be revoked.

Catherine Larrabee, MCAS ’16, says living in the Mods in “genuinely awesome.”

“There are definitely some drawbacks— no dishwasher, no garbage disposal, and the general falling-apart quality of the place, to name a few,” she said. “But these are completely outweighed by the fun of Mod life. It’s such a blast to live in a little house with all my friends, conveniently located right on campus. It’s been so nice out this year, and we’ve definitely made use of our backyard. I haven’t found storage

space to be an issue at all.”

“If you like fun, you should live in the Mods,” Allie Landes, CSON ’16, said. “If you like cleanliness and space for your things, you maybe shouldn’t. Just kidding!”

Putting a full bathroom upstairs and a half bathroom and separate shower downstairs shows that the contractors were fully aware that six people would be living in a small space. While the Mods may have the homiest feel of all the dorms on campus, things may get a little too close for comfort at times. Every square inch of Mod space serves a function, from desks used as extra storage space to closets repurposed into showers.

Both Larrabee and Landes describe the Mods as a social community because everyone lives in such close proximity to one another. They emphasize, however, that it is just an enjoyable place to live during the day as it is to party at night. After all, residents essentially occupy private homes in the middle of the hustle and bustle of BC’s campus.

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<: J_flc[ :fej`[\i <ok\e[`e^ <c\Zk`fej ;\X[c`e\ Olivia Hussey, current Undergraduate Government of Boston College executive vice president and MCAS ’17, and Meredith McCaffrey, MCAS ’17, dropped out of the UGBC presidential race Saturday.

After the earlier dropout of Elizabeth Foley, MCAS ’17, and Joseph McCarthy, CSOM ’17, this leaves only one team of candidates remaining: Anthony Perasso, LSOE ’17, and Rachel Loos, MCAS ’18.

These dropouts and the subsequent postponement of the elections kickoff illustrate a problem inherent in the current UGBC presidential elections process. By setting the election date before Spring Break and having such early deadlines, the Elections Committee does not properly allow candidates to prepare for the process or wholly understand the level of commitment.

Perasso has stated that he wants the Elections Committee to open the race up to more candidates. In 2014, when Nanci Fiore-Chettiar, GSSW ’16, and Chris Marchese, BC ’15, were initially going to run unopposed, they also encouraged an opening up of the race and the Elections Committee followed suit, and another team entered the race.

With only one team remaining, the Elections Committee should consider Perasso’s opinion on this matter. If it decides to open the elections, it should also ensure that candidates looking to enter the race have met the same high standard that was set earlier by holding them to the same number of signatures and other requirements that were met by the other candidates.

It is essential that standards are not lowered in this unexpected situation, and that every candidate undergoes the same rigorous process.

A better way to handle the process of elections would be to extend the deadline to potentially hold the election after Spring Break.

Monday, February 22, 2016

“If you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.”

-Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

There are less than two weeks until the originally planned election, not nearly enough time for another campaign to mount a fully prepared competition.

Extending the deadline is something that should be done for future elections as well, not just in this particular situation. Holding the elections this early does not allow candidates to fully consider what they are entering into, as recent dropouts could indicate, and also diminishes the visibility of the current UGBC leadership.

As UGBC attempts to achieve various changes, like modifying the Student Guide,

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When the Elections Committee makes its decision, it should remember how it handled the Fiore-Chettiar and Marchese situation and take Perasso and Loos’ opinion into consideration.

The committee should also initiate a change in the date of elections, allowing more time and ensuring fairness among campaigns.

This change would create a better atmosphere and allow for more preparation in future UGBC presidential elections.

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The Undergraduate Government of Boston College has been working on improving the Student Guide for this past year. UGBC president Thomas Napoli, MCAS ’16, and executive vice president Olivia Hussey, MCAS ’17, were unable to pass their proposal to change the Student Guide, and many of the changes they hoped for have not materialized.

Despite this, they have worked with members of UGBC to develop an initiative called the Incubator phase, which would allow not-yet-official student groups to approach UGBC with their ideas. This would help give students seeking studentgroup legitimacy an easier path, while also providing resources such as space and flyers.

The group would have to go through a two-month trial process in which it would demonstrate why the group should be granted official status.

If UGBC were to approve a group, it would then advocate on the group’s behalf and attempt to seek the administration’s approval and official seal.

This program would benefit the student body by making the formation of a group easier for interested students. The process now can seem difficult and intimidating, but by going through UGBC, students would have an easier approach.

It encourages a diversity of student groups and creates a better atmosphere for said groups. This would be a good use of UGBC’s influence and ability, using resources to improve the situations of these students.

Another benefit of this program is the two-month trial period. Student groups

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would have to demonstrate their worth.

Instead of just a PowerPoint or a simple presentation, the y would actually be showing what they could accomplish, and their approval would be based on a more concrete understanding of the group. By making the process more difficult than a simple one-time event, the Incubator phase forces interested student groups to demonstrate real dedication to their cause.

This weeds out those groups that wouldn’t effectively pursue their goals if approved by the administration.

Accepting this proposal would be a positive move by the administration. There

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The Incubator phase would encourage these students, while also testing the viability and worth of the groups, ensuring the best possible results.

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J<8E JL;FC CANCELLATIONS - Whether it be a class, practice, meetings, or any of the number of things you do in order to maintain your high-achieving rollercoaster of a life, it’s always a fantastic relief to have something be cancelled. Your day looks free again, unrestrained. The possibilities are endless. Maybe you’ll take a nap, or eat ground chuck for hours, or stock up on canned goods. It doesn’t matter as long as you’re not doing your scheduled junk.

SEBASTIAN BONAIUTO - He’s been director of bands here at Boston College since 1989. He conducts both the University Wind Ensemble of Boston College and BC bOp! When the world’s getting you down and all you want to do is gaze out a nearby window and deliver long, cryptic soliloquies about horses, remember that there’s still music in this world thanks to the efforts of Sebastian Bonaiuto.

MASON JARS - They may be tools of the hipsters, but there’s something undeniably enjoyable about drinking out of a mason jar. It reminds us of the decade we spent living on an Appalachian mountaintop with nothing but our loyal dog and our deluxe coffee brewer.

NOT PAYING ATTENTION - You’re sitting in class watching that cruel minute hand circle slowly toward that 50 minute mark. It’ll all be over soon.

Within a minute you’ll be out the door and back in your room, where you can eat bagels and watch re-runs of The Leftovers until you fall asleep.

But then you hear your name. The voice of the professor, vindictive and mocking, asks you to explain the point she just made. Stammering, choking on your words, your face turning red, you begin kicking your legs in the air and shaking your head rapidly. “Nuggets,” you scream. “Nuggets and bacon.” You look around and see the rest of the class staring back at you, expressions of either malevolent amusement or pity across their faces. “Well,” the professor says. “I was looking for something a little more … eruditically persuasious, if you know what I mean.” You hang your head in shame.

LOST HOURS- When you turned your computer on all you wanted to do was touch up that essay, maybe get some work started on next week’s discussion questions. Then you saw that the newest season of Funny Monkeys Throwing Stuff at People was on Netflix. Now 10 hours have passed, you’ve grown a small beard, your eyes are red and your leg muscles are in the first stages of atrophy. How could this have happened? Where did the time go? You try to get up from your chair, but fall to the ground. Crawling across the floor, you mourn your lost hours.

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Today’s college students grew up in a time when a new edition of Chicken Soup for the Soul popped up in school book fairs each year, often to be purchased by parents and discussed among teachers. While many had been served plenty of Campbell’s chicken noodle during childhood to combat the common cold, they didn’t quite understand serving warm broth to soothe anything but an aching stomach.

When kids grow up, they realize pain can come from more places than a sick stomach or a broken limb. They come to understand that Chicken Soup for the Soul provides a distinct cure for mental and emotional sickness, just as the edible form is a physical remedy.

The success of this series has reinforced a trend that has been increasingly standard in the modern practice of medicine: the dichotomy between mental and physical well-being. In so doing, health care practice misses the powerful relationship between psychological and corporeal being and, as a result, fails to properly treat conditions of unwellness.

The sharp line between mental and physical being derives from the Western spiritual belief that the strength of human mental capacity far outweighs that of the physical body. While the body will return to ash, it has been proposed and believed for much of the past two millennia that one’s soul can live beyond its current vessel. As such, the curative options for the body remain limited to bandages that can only perpetuate its health for so long until reaching its inevitable demise. The mind, on the other hand, has the potential for continued life and, as such, its well-being has been addressed with a far different set of curatives: methods for good habit development, positive thinking, or ethical action. By practicing these methods, the strength of the mind can be preserved

despite the limited health of the body.

The problem with this hierarchy of mind over body is that it separates the treatments that are considered for mental and physical pain and diminishes the powerful interactive relationship between the two parts of being.

This circumvents the fact that physical ailments can be greatly improved in conjunction with treatments created for mental well-being, and vice versa. This is not to say that a burn victim’s scars can be healed through cognitive therapy alone or that a person who was recently dumped can escape his sad thoughts through an improved exercise regimen, but for one field of medicine to ignore or minimize the role of the other is to promote a treatment of the person that is incomplete at best and possibly harmful if it allows for the persistence or even augmentation of unwellness.

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She will typically be asked a series of questions relating to diet and other wellness habits, a routine checkup of vital signs will be administered, and the doctor will typically give a prescription to alleviate the symptoms. The doctor does not often focus on the personal life of a patient, and therefore could miss a case of mental anguish that may be the underlying cause of these symptoms.

On the other hand, take the case of a person who seeks the help of a psychological professional. He will often be asked to speak to how he is feeling and the events in his life surrounding those feelings that might be working to trigger undesirable emotions. In this instance, the doctor will prescribe some sort of means to manage those emotions and mitigate their effects. The doctor will not commonly provide any type of treat-

ment to address the physical manifestations of the patient’s emotional ailments.

In both instances, the common means of modern medicine fail to address the whole person because of the persistent belief that the body and mind represent different aspects of being, both with a unique medical language and practice. According to this, there is a way of being mentally ill and a way of being physically ill. Each has its own manifestations, and the one takes primacy over the other depending on which medical professional one chooses to visit. In all instances of human pain, however, there are manifestations of physical and mental anguish, and these manifestations are often intimately related. Some cases demonstrate one more than the other, but it is important to recognize that the powerful symbiotic relationship between them can support well-being as much as it can deteriorate it. Therefore, all aspects of health care need to realize and incorporate aspects of both so that the entire person’s wellbeing can be addressed on the road to recovery.

Recently, there have been marked improvements in research and practice that have demonstrated improved results in well-being when aspects of physical and mental therapies are incorporated symbiotically, one improving on the treatment of the other. It is now standard to provide survivors of physical trauma from war or disaster with cognitive therapy. Promising research has shown that the long-term health of microbiota in one’s digestive system can affect one’s emotional state. These are important steps, but these two health care systems have been too far removed from each other for too long, and much more work can be done to synthesize the two. Health care practice should continue to bring mental and physical treatments into communion with each other, improving the speed and quality of care as it addresses the condition of the whole person, both in psychological and corporeal being.

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M8C<I@< :?<I9<IF The negotiations have intensified.

“Can I have this bagel?” you ask yourself.

No. Of course not. Do you realize how many carbs are in a bagel? Well, what if you have a salad for dinner? And some green tea. For the antioxidants. You sweet talk your dietary guilt complex, trying to get it to budge. The situation is tense, but you are a skilled negotiator, with years of experience in dietary diplomacy.

Screw it.

You eat the bagel. It’s delicious. But after the sweet rush of carbs and cream cheese dissipates, your guilt complex counterattacks with a full emotional offensive. You feel a sudden, intense desire to eat something green, or better yet, never eat again. What have you done? You are Kennedy, and this bagel is your Bay of Pigs. You may not have an entire nation depending on your decisions, but you do have your physical and emotional health at stake. So far, things are not looking good.

So what do you do? Who wins the war? Do you give in to the guilt, replacing pleasure with self-discipline? Do you militarize the dinner table, watching each forkful with the distrustful eye of a dictator? Or do you let freedom ring? Do you eat what you want, when you want, dietary norms be damned? Do you give in to your tendencies for emotional eating, masking it under a program of laissezfaire nutrition? I ask again: who wins the war? Then again, no matter who wins the war, you still lose. You let your fears, anxieties, and emotions rule what you eat.

And in the end, this dietary Cold War can consume you.

Perhaps the Cold War analogy seems extreme. It’s not that serious a problem, this tense relationship with food. But

what if it is? According to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders, 91 percent of female college students report dieting to control weight. This dieting may begin in good faith, but it often progresses to pathological, even dangerous eating patterns.

Perhaps this widespread tendency can be attributed to media or beauty corporations or just a year in the high-pressure vacuum that is the college campus. Some say the Cold War began in the throes of WWII. Perhaps the culinary Cold War began in a war over body image.

Sometimes I wonder if there isn’t something in the water here. Something that intensifies our need for perfection, whether in the classroom, on the field, or even at the dinner table. Just walk into the Plex, where you can find rows on rows of full ellipticals, each claimed by

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I’ve listened to enough dinnertime diet conversations to know I’m not the only one. The Cold War exists, no matter how natural our salads appear or how effortless our trips to the Plex seem to be.

I used to think this battle existed primarily outside ourselves. There were the people who dieted and the people who didn’t. The people who obsessed over calories and the people who looked at cook-

ies like a gun-owning Republican looks at the Second Amendment. But now I’m not convinced. Somewhere along the line, this battle became internalized. We no longer fight on one side of the war, but rather let the war rage on within ourselves. We eat burgers, but then we feel guilty about it.

Then we eat salads, but only begrudgingly, with an acute sense of restraint. Slowly, but surely, the troops have rolled in.

After years of this internal polarization, I’ve had enough. Frankly, I’m exhausted. I wish I could call out, “olly olly oxen free” and let this war come to a peaceful end. I’d call off the calorie counting and the emotional binge eating, the severe restrictions and the uncontrollable excesses. Tell the troops to go home. The war would end, on our terms. The dietary detente would rule, and we could once more enter the kitchen unarmed, with a relaxed mind and an excited stomach.

Unfortunately, I’m not a political science major. I received a D- on my first “How to Rule the World” essay, and I’ve since let any political aspirations go to the wayside. I haven’t figured out how to defuse intense geopolitical conflicts, much less my own struggle with nutrition. I’m told the solution lies in willpower or selfacceptance. Perhaps someday I’ll wake up and my guilt complex will be replaced by a more supportive sense of restraint.

Until then, I’ll see you at the Plex or the produce section of Trader Joe’s. I may also see you in White Mountain, though hopefully not too often.

Until the armistice begins, I wish you strength and courage. Strength to fight on, but more importantly, courage to walk away from the war itself. I hope you treat your body with vegetable-induced respect, but still provide it with the satisfying pleasure of a chocolate chip cookie. I hope you enjoy every guilt-free, hearty, healthy, delicious, perhaps even chocolaty, bite.

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The Republican field is still murky, and a clear establishment-backed candidate has yet to emerge, but after Saturday’s Republican debate, one thing has become apparent: John Kasich is the one candidate on the stage who cares about people. Kasich has ascended as the centrist candidate who has a clear track record of treating all Americans with equal compassion and dignity, and has been a fiscally responsible executive who has stimulated economic growth in Ohio. While it might have been Jeb Bush’s brother George who coined the term “compassionate conservatism,” it is Kasich who actualizes it.

On fiscal issues, Kasich is a faithful and genuine conservative. Upon taking office, Kasich turned an $8 billion budget deficit into a $2 billion budget surplus. Kasich has been able to hold a balanced budget in his state, a feat most governors can only aspire to. He also acknowledges there are some shortcomings to our robust free market. Kasich understands that economic theory is important, but sometimes people need help. As president, Kasich will bring his firm handle on the economy into the White House and will work to balance the federal budget, a feat our country has not been able to accomplish in over a decade. He will have the same courage as President George H. W. Bush, who made law that all increases in spending must be matched by an increase in revenue, a truly conservative principle that our country, and party, has strayed from.

On social issues and health care, Kasich’s policies are exactly what this country and the Republican Party need—he is a social moderate who urged government employees to comply with the Supreme Court’s ruling on gay marriage, and has told conservatives that it is time to move on from the marriage issue. In Ohio, Kasich expanded Medicaid and masterfully reduced funding for the program, helping his citizens become insured, but managing costs responsibly.

Regarding immigration, Kasich shines when compared to the radical ideas of the other candidates seeking office. Kasich understands that it is inhumane to ship 11 million people out of the country, breaking up families and communities. Furthermore, Kasich supports allowing more visas for skilled immigrant workers who want to come to this country, something that the private sector has been asking for. Here, Kasich shows that he will not pander to the party’s most extreme voters like Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and even Marco Rubio have begun to do.

Foreign policy is one of the most critical aspects of this election cycle, and Kasich will be strong on ISIS and other threats, both domestic and abroad. Kasich believes in a reasonable plan to form a coalition of countries to work to defeat ISIS, unlike some other more hawkish candidates. Kasich also concludes, sensibly, that our problems do not need to be solved militarily, and sometimes diplomatic solutions, such as our agreement with Iran, can be good for our country and the global community.

Many Republican primary voters are likely to attack Kasich, calling him a RINO (“Republican in name only”) or a candidate who is not truly conservative, but I see it as quite the opposite. The Republican Party that I support is the party of Reagan and the party of H. W. Bush. Kasich embodies both of these men. I am not sure exactly when the national Republican Party transitioned from the party of these great leaders to the party of Trump and Cruz, but I have not traveled with them.

The party that I support cares about what is best for all people. The Republican Party I know stands for civil liberties and a free society for all. I stand for a government that has a responsible budget, but also allows citizens the freedom to do what they want, whether it is to love whom they want or to spend their money as they want. This Republican Party is the party that must rise, not the hateful and controlling party of Trump.

It is too early to concede the election to Hillary Clinton, as many pundits have done, and if an extreme candidate such as Trump or Cruz is elected, that is exactly what the party will have done. The Republican Party of the future still has time to modernize, emphasizing free-market principles and free-choice principles. The party does not have to alienate vast swaths of the electorate that likely agree with many of the things the Republican Party should stand for. The modern Republican Party is reflected in John Kasich: A socially moderate, fiscally responsible, and caring candidate who does not want to leave anyone behind. If Republicans want to win in the general election, they will go to the polls and elect Kasich as the party’s nominee.

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Monday, February 22, 2016

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PERASSO AND LOOS WILL TAKE YOU DOWN TO FUNKYTOWN

AMELIE TRIEU/ HEIGHTS EDITOR

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His running mate, Rachel Loos, MCAS ’18, followed close behind, her hair blue, her outfit, like Perasso’s, almost entirely denim, with a bright red turtleneck sweater. They coordinated their outfits when I told them I was bringing a photographer.

Eventually we had to walk outside and into Carney, where we found an empty conference room with a nice aerial picture of BC. “That’s the old BC, though,” Perasso noted.

“Back before we eradicated racism.”

Perasso and Loos are, as they stress, complete outsider candidates for Undergraduate Government of Boston College president and executive vice president. They’re also editors for The New England Classic, BC’s anonymous-ish fake newspaper.

On Feb. 4, The Heights reported on the three pairs—two of which have since dropped out—who had qualified to run in the upcoming UGBC election. Amid comments from other candidates about goals for relations with the administration and students’ civic duty came something a little unexpected.

“We would tell you more, but we don’t even know what exactly we’re doing because we’re still being molded into the politicians our Big Corporate Donors want us to be,” they said in an email.

This isn’t a protest campaign, or a joke, or a publicity stunt, especially now that they’re the only team remaining. Last week, Elizabeth Foley, MCAS ’17, and Joseph McCarthy, CSOM ’17, exited the race, citing personal reasons.

Then on Saturday, Feb. 20, Olivia Hussey, current UGBC executive vice president and MCAS ’17, and Meredith McCaffrey, MCAS ’17, also dropped out.

Perasso said he hopes the Elections Committee decides to allow other candidates to enter the race.

The UGBC campaign kickoff, initially scheduled for Feb. 21, has been postponed for now. Perasso and Loos are serious about winning, and they want their candidacy to be put to a vote.

“I was an OL, I drank the kool-aid,” Perasso said. “We’re not here to bash anybody.”

But besides following all the election’s rules and deadlines and participating in next week’s debate, Perasso and Loos aren’t going to do anything straightforward, either. Poking fun at the status quo is their platform, and they’re not shy about expressing their disinterest in running UGBC like one would expect a traditional college student government to operate. Like it now operates.

things—” “But we’re not,” Perasso finished.

To Perasso and Loos, the only power UGBC’s president and executive vice president have to do anything substantial is in their personal salaries. They have a say in how to use the rest of the budget, some $328,000 for the 2015-16 school year, but they only have absolute control over that $6,000. They would like to tackle fossil fuel divestment and mental health problems, but they’re pessimistic about getting tangible results. Loos pointed to the positions’ relative lack of authority to explain why she and Perasso hesitate to make big promises. Perasso cited the tenure of Thomas Napoli, current UGBC president and MCAS ’16, and Hussey as part of his frustration.

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“I don’t know much about [UGBC],” Loos said at one point.

“First and foremost, it’s an acronym,” Perasso offered.

“All the candidates make a lot of promises, but then there’s not much they really can do,” Loos said.

That’s when they got serious. I think.

“We just wanna bring back the funk,” Perasso said. “That seems like a pretty tangible promise, because the winners get paid $4,000 and $2,000, and that’s $6,000.”

Where’s that going to go?

“Something real cool,” Loos said. “We could say that we’re gonna do all these great

“When they ran they had this whole ‘We’re gonna do this on this day, this on this day, and this on this day,’ and now those days have passed and nothing’s happened,” he said. “It’s good intentions and that’s great, but they weren’t bringing back the funk, really.”

Perasso questions UGBC’s relationship with the administration, saying that it obviously hasn’t been effective. Not that it’s all been bad, though.

Perasso said the budget has been used well on speakers like mental health advocate Kevin Breel and the What I Be campaign. But they think students deserve more.

“That’s tuition money just going to UGBC, [students] should get that back in some way,

shape, or form,” he said. “It shouldn’t just be a couple things that are cool. … Once again, I think we come back to the aura of the funk.”

At this point Perasso had talked a lot about the funk, so I asked him to define it.

“Funk is like the opposite of cookie-cutter,” he said. “The funk would be the opposite of what most [UGBC administrations] have done.”

Perasso told an employee of BC, a “high-up guy,” about his and Loos’ plan to bring back the funk. The guy laughed and said, “Hah, BC’s the least funky thing on Earth.” Joking aside, Loos said that what she thinks their team brings to BC is a different kind of energy. And maybe what that guy said only served to prove their point.

“When people leave this school, the thing they’re gonna miss the most is the people, so the more things we can do to bring the people together, doing things we wouldn’t normally do, that’s the funk,” Perasso said.

Perasso and Loos don’t plan to physically campaign at dorm hours, so don’t expect to see them in your hallway. They’re more focused on videos they’ve made, which can’t be released until the postponed campaign kickoff. Their online headquarters is on MySpace and features a “Make Carney Great Again” slogan and lots of denim.

The page also has a post from Feb. 16, screenshotted from an online article, easy to miss amid the weirdness. The post is a quote from Adam Rosenbloom, co-chair of the Elections Committee and MCAS ’17, recounting to The Tab how Joseph Arquillo, LSOE ’17, suggested that he should be added to the ballot because Perasso and Loos’ campaign is satire. Below the quote, they wrote, “who said satire isn’t serious?”

At its core, Perasso and Loos’ campaign is about how they think UGBC takes itself too seriously. They’re excited about potentially changing that culture.

“I’m not scared of anything,” Loos said. Neither is Perasso.

“Win or lose, we change how people think about the whole process,” he said.

He wasn’t joking.

9iXq`c kf 9:1 8 KXjk\ f] 8ZX` Xk :Xie\pËj ;`e`e^ ?Xcc 9P :?I@J ILJJF ?\`^_kj JkX]] Acai bowls have made their way from Brazil, to California, to Lower Campus, and now to Carney’s dining hall on Upper Campus.

The meals debuted at Carney’s on Thursday Feb. 18. Acai bowls are a frozen blend of fruit and superfood acai that is topped with granola and sliced fruit.

Acai bowls were first introduced at Addie’s on Lower Campus at the beginning of the school year. These bowls are blended with almond milk and topped with crunchy, gluten-free organic

granola, which is locally sourced from Maine. The bowls at Carney’s, however, are blended with Greek yogurt.

After receiving over whelmingly positive feedback at Addie’s, Boston College Dining Services decided to expand the option to Carney’s.

They are being presented as a BC Test Kitchen item, and will be featured every Thursday from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

“We will see how they sell and ask for student feedback,” Director of Dining Services Elizabeth Emery said in an email. “The bowls will be slightly different than what we offer at Addie’s with a larger serving size, and students

can top their own bowls.”

Emily Bridges, a graduate nutrition intern at BC, wrote a report to the National Association of College and University Food Services praising the health benefits of the acai bowl.

“Packed with potassium, calcium, and fiber, the acai bowl goes beyond a sweet treat; it’s a nutritional powerhouse,” Bridges said in her report. “The bowl can easily be made vegan by omitting the honey granola, which makes it a great option for students adhering to a plant-based diet.”

The acai bowl is one of the many efforts BC Dining has made to provide healthy food for students. The Nour-

ish healthy-eating campaign provides a monthly nutrition tip to students via social media and poster messages.

Some of the past tips include to choose foods closest to their natural forms and to drink water instead of sugary beverages.

“I would suggest that if students choose this item for [a] meal like some do for breakfast at Lower, that a source of protein is added since almond milk is low in protein,” campus nutritionist Sheila Tucker said in an email. “Grab a container with some yogurt, have some peanut butter on toast, or pair with an omelet.”

In March, the Nourish campaign will

promote its newest tip: students should fill half of their plates with fruits and vegetables.

BC Dining works to stress the importance of incorporating protein and vitamins into the diet in order to promote a healthy and happy lifestyle.

“Dining Services is always looking for ways to expand healthy offerings or to better market existing items,” Tucker said. “Students can watch for items in the Test Kitchen and be sure to give feedback when they want to see an item return to the menu. Dining Services also encourages customer feedback through the link on the Dining web site or through social media.”

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All good things must come to an end—or so we’ve all been told. But what about bad things? They must meet a merciful death Boston College 48 at some point Wake Forest 74 too, yes?

Well, it depends on who you ask.

On Sunday night in humid WinstonSalem, N.C., Boston College (7-20, 014 Atlantic Coast) reached the bottom of the college basketball abyss.

Doral Moore of Wake Forest University (11-16, 2-13) scored 19 points, grabbed seven rebounds, and recorded three blocks—all career highs—to end

the Demon Deacons’ 11-game skid. But his effort helped keep very much alive two ignominious streaks for the Eagles, who remain winless in conference play after the 74-48 loss.

With 3:32 to go in a first half that defied all basketball logic, BC head coach Jim Christian stood in front of his bench, expressionless, staring at Darryl Hicks.

The sophomore guard had just floated a cross-court pass intended for Eli Carter from the left side of his own 3-point line. Wake Forest’s Bryant Crawford swooped in for the steal, and the ensuing layup pushed the score to 37-4.

That play, that gaze of utter disbe-

lief, was the low point of the low point of BC’s season.

For the game, the Eagles turned the ball over 18 times. They shot 31 percent from the floor, including an unconscionable 6-of-30 from beyond the arc. They went scoreless for the game’s first seven minutes.

Again, they did not score a single point for seven straight minutes to begin the game.

On the other side of the box score, five Demon Deacons scored in double figures. Wake Forest shot 44.4 percent from three and, as a team, dished 17 assists, nearly four more than its sea-

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On University of Vermont’s men’s hockey Senior Night, Boston College completed its weekend sweep of the Catamounts and, with Providence’s 3-1 win Boston College 4 over Notre Dame, Vermont 1 extended its firstplace lead in Hockey East to three points with only two games remaining.

BC (23-4-5, 14-1-5 Hockey East) continued to ride its current nation’s best unbeaten streak,

which has now reached 14 games with a 4-1 win against Vermont (12-18-3, 6-11-3). The Catamounts could not slow down BC’s quick skaters, and struggled again on special teams by failing to convert on any of their nine powerplay opportunities.

The first power play for UVM came just 1:29 into the first period when Alex Tuch was sent to the box for boarding. Vermont’s power-play woes from the previous game continued. Casey Fitzgerald got deep into the Catamounts’ zone

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Following last season, Boston College women’s hockey expected to prove a point after losing to Harvard in the Beanpot final and National SemiBoston College 9 final, and losing to Providence 1 Boston University in the Hockey East final.

Those losses are in the past. This is a new team that knows what it means to lose on the big stage and is determined not to make it

the program’s reputation.

But even the team exceeded its own expectations.

In a 9-1 win over Providence College (10-22-2, 6-16-2 Hockey East) Saturday afternoon, the Eagles (34-0-0, 24-0-0) became the first hockey team—male or female—in Hockey East history to boast a pristine record of an undefeated regular season through conference play. BC joins the 2012-13 Minnesota Golden Gophers as the only teams to make it

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Point guard Martina Mosetti (21) couldn’t find her stroke, missing all six of her shots.

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There are but three unassailable certainties in this world: You will die. You will pay taxes before you die. And any assemblage of 55 Louisville basketball talBoston College 45 ent from Louisville, Ky., men or women, will apply suffocating defensive pressure.

That held true on Sunday at Conte Forum, where Boston College women’s basketball (14-13, 2-12 Atlantic Coast) committed 21 turnovers and managed just 14 assists in a 55-45 loss to the University of Louisville (22-6, 13-1).

After Cardinal baskets, BC point guard Martina Mosetti had to shield the ball from the swiping mitts and greedy

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intentions of bouncy defenders—for 94 feet.

The needle on the barometer didn’t return to normal levels, though, once she finally entered the frontcourt. Louisville routinely denied entry passes to the elbows and wings, forcing BC to extend its offense much farther from the hoop than it would have liked.

“I thought there were times where we allowed ourselves to be denied,” Eagles head coach Erik Johnson said after the game. “There’s a toughness thing, too, that just because a kid’s in my face doesn’t mean I should just stand there and say, ‘Oh, well we gotta pass it somewhere else.’”

The Cardinals appeared poised to blow the game’s lid off midway through the first quarter when they went on an

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11-0 run to go up 18-7.

But, privy to Newton’s third law—for every action there is an equal reaction in the opposite direction—the Eagles ripped off 11 straight points of their own to pull even with Louisville at 18 apiece just three minutes into the second period.

After the media timeout, the Cardinals flexed their defensive muscles and, Newton and normal force be damned, held BC scoreless for the final 4:51 of the first half to build a nine-point lead heading into the break.

From there, it was virtual gridlock.

The deficit oscillated between single and double digits, but the Cardinals maintained a secure advantage behind

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Monday, February 22, 2016 BASEBALL

THUMBS UP TOUCH ’EM ALL Birdball’s Gian Martinelli started off his freshman campaign with a bang, homering in his second career at-bat for the Eagles. The 1B/ DH will never forget his first collegiate hit, and the two-run blast makes it easier for us fans to forget that he finished the weekend 0-9 at the plate.

BLANK SPACE  BC baseball starting pitchers didn’t allow a single run during their weekend sweep of Northern Illinois. Right now, Mike Gambino’s pitching staff is putting up more zeros than an Eagle basketball statsheet.

BYE, BYE, BABY - With two wins over Vermont this weekend, BC men’s hockey clinched a firstround bye in the Hockey East tournament next month. More importantly, though, the Eagles earned the No. 1 spot on John Buccigross’ #cawlidgehawkey rankings.

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Along with the return of the long-awaited rising temperatures and increased daylight comes the revival of our nation’s pastime. With high hopes and a clean slate, Boston College baseball left Friday morning in search of kinder climates, as it travelled to Glendale, Ariz., to meet the Northern Illinois Huskies for their first fourgame series of the season.

Birdball, as the team has come to be identified, begins the year hoping to build off a successful 2015 campaign, in which it ended up with a 27-27 overall record. Despite finishing last in the Atlantic Division of the ACC with a conference record of 10-19, the Eagles’ 27 wins were good enough to attain their first .500 season since the arrival of head coach Mike Gambino in July 2010. Birdball leapt at its chance to continue to build momentum and herald respect as a legitimate competitor in one of the nation’s most formidable baseball conferences with an opening weekend sweep of Northern Illinois.

To call Sunday’s matchup a “game” would be overly kind. A much better term to describe the events that unfolded Sunday afternoon would be “massacre.” The Eagles were completely dominant on both sides of the ball, as they left an unmistakably bitter taste in the mouths of the Huskies, throttling their opponents in the series

finale, 17-0.

After scoring two early runs in the second inning and chasing NIU starter Ryan Olson after only two innings pitched, Birdball opened the floodgates, putting up a whopping 11 runs on the Husky bullpen in the third and fourth innings.

There is a saying among those in the baseball community, and its validity was evidenced Sunday: “walks kill.”

The NIU staff surrendered 11 walks in the contest. In fact, BC only had three extra-base hits on the afternoon.

Free passes combined with timely hitting from the BC squad, which boasted base hits for every batter in the starting lineup, was enough to put the contest well out of reach early on.

Seven of BC’s nine starters had an RBI, with seniors Gabriel Hernandez and Joe Cronin plating two runners each.

One Eagle, however, reigned supreme, as senior Logan Hoggarth produced a whopping five RBIs on the day in just three at-bats.

For the second time in the series, the Eagles’ pitching staff kept the Huskies off the board as five arms combined to give up only six hits and three walks. Freshman southpaw Thomas Lane started his collegiate career with a dazzling five-inning shutout performance, letting up only four base runners on two hits. A revolving door of effective BC relievers kept NIU off balance. Each pitcher registered one scoreless inning en

route to preserving the club’s second shutout of the season, and completing the series sweep.

On Saturday, the Eagles started strong and continued to persevere through a long day in the strong Arizona sun to take both games of the doubleheader, 5-0 and 2-1, respectively.

The dominance of the BC pitching staff was put on display during Saturday’s doubleheader as eight Eagle pitchers combined for 18 innings of one-run baseball.

The second game of Saturday’s double-header proved to be the most hotly-contested game of the weekend.

Starting pitching for both teams was strong as the game remained scoreless into the fourth inning. It was a remarkable debut for freshman Jacob Stevens, who gave up just two hits through six scoreless innings of work.

After a single and a hit-by-pitch, junior Johnny Adams finally broke open the scoring with a single to plate fellow junior Michael Strem. A fielder’s choice off the bat of senior Stephen Sauter later in the inning would allow Adams to score, putting BC up 2-0 after four frames.

The two clubs would continue to duel zeroes until the eighth when the Huskies rallied to create some late-game drama. With two outs in the eighth, BC reliever Sean Hughes

surrendered a walk to NIU senior Alex Smith.

Smith was subsequently driven in by a double from fellow senior Justin Fletcher. With a runner in scoring position in a one-run game, Gambino called to the bullpen and brought in sophomore Donovan Casey. With ice water running through his veins, Casey fanned the next hitter to move the game to the ninth, where he would complete his four-out save and seal the win.

The tone was set in the first game by senior left-hander Jesse Adams, who submitted six scoreless innings before handing the ball over to a morethan-capable BC bullpen. Gambino chose to once again use a committee of relievers for one inning each. The trio took care of business without drama and sealed the deal with three innings of scoreless relief en route to a comfortable win.

Offensive support was provided by two RBIs apiece from Cronin and sophomore Jake Palomaki. It was a frustrating game offensively for the Huskies, who failed to find timely hitting, stranding eight runners on base.

The series began Friday with 5-1 win for the Eagles, featuring a dominant showing from junior right-hand pitcher Mike King, who surrendered just one hit and three base runners in a scoreless seven-inning gem. King looks to be picking up exactly where

he left off last season, as he led the team with a 3.03 ERA making eight starts (out of 14 total appearances) in the final eight weeks of the season.

He was relieved ably by sophomore Brian Rapp, who closed the door on the Huskies, tallying six outs while surrendering only one run.

On the offensive side, Birdball was powered by freshman designated hitter Gian Martellini, who in just his second career at-bat, launched a three-run home run over the left field fence. The 3-0 lead was added to by RBIs from junior Nick Sciortino and Cronin. Five runs proved to be more than enough to propel the Eagles to a decisive opening day win.

All around, it was an immaculate opening series for the Eagles, who are 4-0. This is the best start to a season in the Gambino era.

Offensively, the Eagles put up 7.25 runs per game, with contributions coming from the top of the lineup to the bottom. Huge five-RBI weekends for Cronin and Hoggarth tie them for the club lead. Five other Eagles, however, had multi-RBI series, making this BC lineup look formidable and potent.

By surrendering only two earned runs in 36 innings pitched, Birdball’s pitching staff has earned itself a 0.50 earned-run average to start the season.

Even more shocking is the fact that every single pitcher on the roster made an appearance.

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The Eagles looked like a high school JV squad that somehow stumbled onto the Warriors’ court. At one point, the score was 39-4. That’s not a joke.

CHRISTIAN EATS CROW - Jim Christian sat Eli Carter to start the Wake game, trying to prove that the young Eagles squad can win without him. It’s unclear if Christian himself believes this, because he subbed Carter into the game about two minutes in.

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Boston College softball participated in the first annual ACC/Big Ten Challenge tournament this weekend. The Eagles traveled to Chapel Hill, N.C., and squared up against the University of Illinois twice and Northwestern University twice. They recorded three losses and one victory over the weekend.

BC’s only win of the tournament came in the form of a 3-2 victory against Northwestern. The Eagles scored all of their runs in the bottom of the third inning.

Loren DiEmmanuele’s run opened the scoring. An error by Wildcats

pitcher Kenzie Ellis allowed Chloe Sharabba to advance to second after her base hit. DiEmmanuele advanced home, giving the Eagles a 1-0 lead. Annie Murphy’s subsequent double drove Sharabba home to brace BC’s lead. Northwestern replaced Ellis with Nicole Bond, but the Wildcats would still surrender another run before the end of the inning. A wild pitch allowed Murphy to advance home. At the end of the third inning, the Eagles led 3-0. NU cut into the lead in the top of the fourth when Andrea Filler’s double sent Krista Williams home, but the Eagles escaped the inning without more harm. The Wildcats added their second run of the game in the sixth inning, when

field. The Illini added another run when Thomas hit her own homer in the fifth inning, boosting the lead to 5-1.

The Eagles dropped a close game to Northwestern, 4-3. BC took an early lead after DiEmmanuele scored on an illegal pitch, and Murphy’s double drove in Jessie Daulton and Sharabba in the first.

The Wildcats tied it up after their own first inning offensive flurry.

Filler drove in Sabrina Rabin for the first run.

Amy Letourneau’s home run sent Filler home, too, tying the score up at three apiece. The second inning ended without either team adding runs, but the Wildcats took the lead in the third. Sharabba’s

error allowed Brooke Marquez to advance home and break the tie.

Neither team was able to add anything else, and the game ended as a 4-3 victory for Northwestern.

Illinois handed BC its worst loss of the weekend, 9-1. BC opened up scoring in the third with a run from DiEmmanuele. For the rest of the game, it was all Illini, all the time.

The Eagles surrendered four runs in the fourth inning, including a bases-loaded walk. Two more runs came in the fifth, giving Illinois a 61 lead. Later, Annie Fleming scored on a wild pitch to increase the lead to 7-1. The game’s final runs came after Madison Paulson’s error allowed two Illini to reach home, resulting in the 9-1 final.

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UNDEFEATED, NOT PERFECT - BC women’s hockey finished the regular season with a perfect 24-0-0 record in conference play with a 9-1 win over Providence on Saturday. C’mon, Katie Burt, no shutout? We expect perfection from you by now.

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Sabrina Rabin homered to center.

They couldn’t procure that crucial tying run, however, and the Eagles claimed their only victory of the weekend, 3-2.

BC’s 5-1 loss to Illinois was lopsided from the beginning. In the first inning, the Eagles couldn’t handle Allie Bauch’s shot to right field, resulting in a two-run homer and an early lead for the Illini. In the second inning, BC pitcher Jordan Weed’s throwing error allowed Remeny Perez to advance home, giving Illinois a 3-0 lead. Later in that inning, a single from Carly Thomas drove Kylie Johnson home for a 4-0 lead. BC’s only run of the game came in the fourth, when Jordan Chimento homered to left

On a cool Sunday afternoon at the Loftus Sports Center, Boston College lacrosse fell out of rhythm and failed 14 Notre Dame to get anyBoston College 4 thing going against the University of Notre Dame. The No. 11 Eagles (2-1, 0-1 Atlantic Coast) went into the weekend with momentum after starting the season with a 2-0 record. Having beaten both BU and Holy Cross soundly, BC seemed to have all cylinders firing as it entered South Bend, Ind. But it was No. 9 Notre Dame (3-0, 1-0) that had all of the momentum, striking quickly and frequently, ultimately handing

BC its first loss of the season by a score of 14-4. The loss leaves BC with a 3-7 record all-time against Notre Dame, and snaps BC’s threegame win streak against the Fighting Irish.

The outcome was never in much doubt, as Notre Dame showed how tough ACC play can be by neutralizing the BC offense. Unlike the Eagles, the Irish took advantage of every offensive opportunity that came their way. This led to a statistical thumping, as the Eagles were outmatched in a variety of ways.

The scoring began 1:20 into the game, when BC’s Caroline Margolis notched her sixth goal of the season. Notre Dame struck back quickly, tying the game a mere 22 seconds later. Mary Kate

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After the goal, the floodgates opened on BC’s defense, as the Irish responded with a vicious 10-0 run that extended into the second half.

Cortney Fortunato began the streak for Notre Dame with the first of her five goals coming three minutes after O’Neill gave the Eagles the lead.

Notre Dame opened up a 7-2 lead at halftime, thanks in part to three goals that came in the last minute of the period.

Kate Weeks broke the Irish scoring streak 12 minutes into the second half with her third goal of the season. The damage, however, had already been done, and Notre

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Dame scored three more goals before Kayla O’Connor scored her fourth goal of the season with a little more than a minute left in this lopsided game.

Notre Dame dominated in every statistical category, outpacing BC with more shots on net, groundballs won, converted free position shots, and saves. This came in addition to winning the turnover battle, as Notre Dame turned the ball over 17 times to BC’s 19.

Penalties also plagued BC, as the team compiled one green card for delay of game and three yellow cards. Notre Dame, on the other hand, committed no penalties throughout the game. In terms of production, no one contributed more than Notre Dame junior at-

tack Fortunato, who scored five goals and had seven total points.

For BC, four different Eagles scored unassisted goals. Three of the four goals came off of free position shots, while Weeks’ goal near the end of the game was a clean, unassisted shot.

While losing is neither fun nor easy, the Eagles can use this loss as a learning experience to grow as a team. Notre Dame was BC’s first real test against ACC competition, and with the rest of the ACC slate coming up, BC should now know what to expect. While it is too early for BC to be concerned with its conference ranking, its coming games will be more telling of what direction this team will go in as the tournament season approaches.

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Head coach Danny Manning’s team was without the services of starting forward Devin Thomas, who sat out for the first of a two-game suspension for violating athletic department policy.

The absence of Thomas, one of the ACC’s top rebounders at 10.2 per game, proved a blessing in disguise for Manning because it opened up minutes for Moore, Wake Forest’s most heralded recruit in this year’s freshman class.

Almost from the opening tip, the contest’s fate was sealed. Making his first career start, Moore slammed home a trio of dunks on the Demon Deacons’ first three offensive opportunities.

On the other end, the reverse was happening.

Senior Dennis Clifford dropped pass after pass on the interior. Freshman Matt Milon blew a wide-open layup on the Eagles’ first possession.

Carter, who rode the bench to start the game due to questionable shot selection in recent action, entered the lineup and immediately launched a baffling blizzard of ill-conceived bricks.

For the Eagles, flat play from the tip gave way to anxiety. Anxiety quickly morphed into hopelessness. And hopelessness, ultimately, spawned indifference. The death knell tolled.

In the cruelest twist of irony in recent NCAA history, Carter drilled a half-court shot at the buzzer before the break. The scoreboard read 41-14.

The Eagles attempted to save face with an 11-2 run before the first media timeout of the second half, but there’s no saving a face that’s been burned off in the fires of basketball hell.

Garland Owens’ two second-half alley-oops couldn’t possibly repair the damage done in the game’s first 20 minutes. His 13 points and five rebounds wouldn’t possibly do the trick either.

BC even outscored Wake Forest 3433 in the second period, but Christian kept his usual rotation in the game while Manning rested his starters.

After 14 straight losses—all but one by double digits—the BC faithful are tired of conjuring up silver linings.

Going winless in conference play is bad, indeed.

When will it all end?

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Against the Demon Deacons, BC made several careless turnovers during the first half.

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Kelley Rink rolled out the red carpet for Boston College women’s hockey Friday afternoon, as the team celebrated its six seniors—Alex Carpenter, Haley Skarupa, Dana Trivi1 Providence gno, Lexi Bender, Kaliya Boston College 7 Johnson, and Meghan Grieves—in their final regular season home game.

The red carpet was warranted, as the six have a 77-44 record with the Eagles over the last four years, and three members were Patty Kazmaier Award finalists, with Carpenter ultimately receiving the highest honor in women’s college hockey The Eagles (33-0-0, 23-0-0 Hockey East), the celebrities of the women’s hockey world this season, crushed Providence later in the night, 7-1. Nearly all of BC’s seniors contributed to the win, with Trivigno leading the charge in the offensive onslaught against the Friars (10-21-1, 6-15-1).

The Eagles didn’t wait to start the scoring, rapidly firing off shots early in the first period. Skarupa passed the puck onto Carpenter, but she shot too high and it hit the post. Finally, Trivigno slotted the puck past one of Providence’s own seniors, goalie Sarah Bryant. It slowly trickled past her glove and into the far corner of the net. The goal went under review due to a potential high-sticking call, but the referees let it stand.

Throughout the game, BC proved how effective it is not only offensively, but also on the penalty kill. After Tori Sullivan landed in the box for checking, the offense carried on like nothing had happened. Skarupa and Car-

own penalty soon after, and Hockey East’s all-time greatest dynamic duo Carpenter and Skarupa wasted no time in taking advantage of it. Carpenter passed to her fellow senior, who nailed the shot in between the goalie’s stick and the right post.

The Eagles ran away with the lead after their third goal. Carpenter and Skarupa switched roles to give Carpenter her 38th goal of the season. Originally thought to be scored by Keller, whose shot from the blue line overwhelmed Bryant, the puck went off both of Carpenter’s skates, landing just inside the goal.

Immediately after the goal, Providence head coach Bob Deraney pulled Bryant and replaced her with Allie Morse. She did not fare better than her counterpart.

Kali Flanagan shot from the point and launched it into the back of the net, giving Morse no chance to save it. Later in the period, Keller collaborated with Trivigno for her second goal of the night. Keller made a perfectly executed pass to a wide-open Trivigno, who shot it backwards and into the goal.

Head coach Katie Crowley opened up the third period by substituting Burt for Gabri Switaj, who has seen action in seven games this season. She saw only eight shots on goal while Burt saw six plus the goal, adding up to a meager 15 for Providence. The Eagles, on the other hand, barraged the Friars’ goalies, notching seven goals on 55 shots.

Miano earned another goal when she redirected Skarupa’s shot, slipping the puck past Morse for the final score of 7-1. Providence had several power plays in the period, but failed to use them to decrease the lead.

Crowley praised the seniors for their abilities and values on and off the ice. “They’ve been tremendous

penter streaked up the ice, passing back and forth until Carpenter took her shot, but it hit Bryant’s left shoulder.

Later, when Grieves served a penalty for too many players on the ice, the Eagles still actively tried to score despite being down a skater. The Friars barely controlled the puck when they entered the offensive zone.

With five minutes left in the period, Providence got back at the Eagles, when a shot from PC captain Lexi Romanchuck from the point escaped the grasp of Katie Burt. The netminder has racked up 13 shutouts this season and has a goals against average of 1.15, a likely indicator that the Friars’ first goal would likely be their last.

BC did not keep the score tied up for long, when Providence’s Lauren Klein got called for hooking. Facing the power play, Toni Ann Miano took a pass from Trivigno to sneak her own shot past Bryant.

In the last two seconds of the period, Megan Keller landed in the penalty box for checking. The Friars, however, could not capitalize during the remaining 1:58 of the second period. Providence received its

to our program, and I think it’s great for our younger players to look up to them,” she said.

Though several of the goals and major plays came off the sticks of seniors, the match showed promise of what the team will be like next season. Miano and Keller, who are both sophomores, were just two of the underclassmen who contributed, and their performances suggest an easy rise to leadership roles on the team in the future.

After the game, the red carpet made another appearance when the Eagles received a trophy for claiming No. 1 in Hockey East for the regular season. If BC wins its next game in the series against Providence, it will be the first team in Hockey East to go undefeated.

For Trivigno, the pressure to remain perfect lies in the ability of the team to not get ahead of itself.

“We’re just trying to look at every day as a new day,” she said.

Based on this first game in the home-and-home series, it looks like the red carpet may be rolled out yet again at Kelley Rink.

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through the regular season unblemished.

PC initially got it going, firing off two shots before Alex Carpenter answered with a few of her own, although unsuccessful.

Though the team took some time to start off, BC came into its own, starting with the line of Makenna Newkirk, Dana Trivigno, and Andie Anastos. Newkirk assisted Anastos on the first of three goals—the junior’s first career hat trick—putting the Eagles on the board 15 minutes into the first period.

a score of 5-1, but the game was not over, and the Eagles certainly weren’t done.

“They go until the last buzzer goes,” head coach Katie Crowley said to BCEagles.com.

“Today, everyone got in the game and it was a true team effort.”

Six minutes into the third period, Trivigno intercepted a clearance attempt by the Friars and assisted Anastos to score her second goal of the game. But the Eagles and Anastos were not done there.

Skarupa came back for more, taking the puck away from a PC defender at the point

The momentum only picked up from there. Three minutes later, Haley Skarupa was through the neutral zone and passed the puck off to Lexi Bender, who assisted Kenzie Kent on her 13th goal of the season.

Bender started the second period with a goal four minutes in, one of the three goals to come from power plays. The Friars finally responded three minutes later. Cassie Carels launched the puck from the corner during a power play, making it a 3-1 game. But that’s all PC would get as the Eagles picked it up to another level, making themselves worthy of the zeros in their record.

PC head coach Bob Deraney could not find a suitable goalie to stop the Eagles, changing netminders twice from Sarah Bryant to Allie Morse, after Toni Ann Miano’s goal in the second, with Madison Myers finishing the third period.

Right after the goalie change to Morse, Skarupa proved that no one was going to make a difference against a team like this, tipping in Keller’s assist, notching yet another goal for the Eagles.

BC entered the last 20 minutes of play with

to increase the Eagles’ strength. But Anastos wasn’t done either, with another goal just minutes later.

BC went 3-for-5 on power-play opportunities: Bender, Skarupa, and Ryan Little all capitalized on the man advantage. Skarupa’s was her 72nd career Hockey East goal, putting her third in career conference goals.

On the other end of the spectrum, Little’s was her career first and came in the last 20 seconds of play, on assists from Carpenter and Grace Bizal.

But the Eagles are looking to bigger and better things: next up is the Hockey East Tournament, starting with Maine at Kelley Rink, where the expectations are as high as ever. This team still has something it wants to make up for from last season. There is something to be said for finishing the season on a win like this, showing how BC does not want this year to be like the last.

Crowley said it all after the game.

“It’s an amazing feeling [to finish the regular season with a perfect record],” Crowley said. “I’m just really proud of the way my team played all year long.”

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BC then went on a power play of its own, but couldn’t find the back of the net, despite shots on goal from Ryan Fitzgerald, Adam Gilmour, and Alex Tuch. Even after UVM killed the power play, the Eagles continued their attack on goal.

Casey Fitzgerald beat UVM goalie Packy Munson, but just missed a goal after his shot deflected off the crossbar.

The Catamounts broke through 14 minutes into the first period, as Mark Puskarich beat Demko glove side on a wrist shot that was assisted by Craig Puffer. This was UVM’s first power-play goal of the weekend, and was a brief change in momentum. But it wouldn’t last much longer.

The Eagles notched the equalizer 19 minutes into the first period. Casey Fitzgerald shot the puck on goal, and Munson was unable to corral the rebound. Gilmour got his stick on the puck and whipped it past the freshman goaltender just as a BC power play expired to tie the game up.

The second period was much sloppier for the Eagles, as they were outshot by Vermont 14-10, and were forced to kill three penalties. Ian McCoshen picked up the first penalty for roughing five minutes in. Ryan Fitzgerald’s stick broke early on in the power play, and though the Eagles were in their defensive zone for the entire two minutes, they successfully killed the penalty.

BC went several stretches of the second period without a shot on goal, at one point going nearly 10 minutes without a shot.

The Eagles also missed several key opportunities to get their offense going while continuing to get cursed by

the zebras. They picked up another penalty against Ryan Fitzgerald at 9:47, but UVM’s chances to score were again stopped by Demko and with key clears down the ice by the BC defense.

The Eagles’ offense got going late in the second period, as it launched a flurry of shots on goal from Miles Wood, Steve Santini, and Austin Cangelosi.

Even though it had seven shots on goal in a row, BC still couldn’t find the back of the twine.

BC picked up its third penalty of the second period on a slashing call on Matthew Gaudreau with 2:35 left in the period. Again, they were able to successfully clear the puck several times, and got one shot on goal right before the period ended, but went into the second intermission still tied with UVM, 1-1.

After two frustrating periods offensively, BC finally broke the game open in the third period. UVM picked up a penalty 30 seconds into the period, and the Eagles kept the pressure on for the

entire power play. Cangelosi scored his 16th goal of the season—his fourth in as many games—just as the power play expired, on a shot from an angle that even Munson could not believe.

BC went on the penalty kill for the sixth time as Wood went to the box for goaltender interference six minutes into the period. Demko lost his stick just seconds into the power play and had to use a defender’s stick, but the rest of the special teams came together to kill the penalty, despite a last-second scramble in front of the net by UVM. Just 30 seconds after BC killed its penalty, Ryan Fitzgerald netted his 17th goal of the season on a wrist shot from the right circle to beat Munson and put the Eagles up, 3-1.

The Eagles and Catamounts were called for matching penalties late in the third season for hooking and goaltender interference, respectively, and while Demko was slow to get up after the interference, he continued in the game. He

made his best save of the night against Brady Shaw, kicking out his leg at the last moment to rob Shaw of a sure goal.

BC got its last penalty of the night with 2:35 left, and Vermont pulled its goalie for a 6-on-4 advantage. But still, the Catamounts couldn’t capitalize, despite their last minute attempts. Ryan Fitzgerald put the game out of reach with an empty-net goal two seconds before the end of regulation.

The Eagles’ win gave them a sweep of the Catamounts and four more points, controlling their own destiny going into their last series of the regular season against UMass Lowell.

To clinch the Bertagna Cup for Hockey East’s best regular-season record, the Eagles will only have to win one of their two games in a home-and-home with the River Hawks, or hope that Notre Dame (two games against Boston University at home) or Providence (a home-andhome with Massachusetts) can’t overtake them.

Jg\Z`Xc K\Xdj ;fd`eXk`fe Gifg\cj 9: Fm\i :XkXdflekj 9P :8D@CC< ?FD8 ?\`^_kj JkX]] The puck dropped in Burlington, Vt. to begin the first of the two-game series for Boston College men’s hockey with the University Boston College 3 of Vermont. A Vermont 1 mere 15 seconds later, the Eagles were climbing upward.

On the first faceoff, Jonathan Turk got possession of the puck, and sent it hurtling past an unprepared Thatcher Demko. Suddenly, the Catamounts were leading the Eagles, 1-0.

It didn’t take long for BC to remind Vermont why it is No. 2 in the country.

The Eagles (22-4-5, 13-1-5 Hockey East) struck back immediately against Vermont (12-7-3, 6-10-3) in a 3-1 final, giving them a first-round bye in the Hockey East Playoffs. Special teams were integral in this matchup, with 13 total penalties during the game.

But the Eagles knew how to take advantage, notching two power-play goals.

And after the first goal, Demko returned to his winning form, perfectly backstopping the talented BC defense, while the Eagles’ No. 3 offense was too much for UVM freshman Packy Munson.

About five minutes after the Cata-

mounts’ goal, Miles Wood skated up the ice. Wood wristed the puck toward Munson, but couldn’t get it past him.

The rebound, however, made its way toward Austin Cangelosi. The junior’s hard shot knotted the game up for the Eagles, giving them their only evenstrength goal of the night.

Not long after, in the first period, a penalty on Dan Senkbeil for hooking gave the Eagles the one-man advantage.

It took a mere 21 seconds into the power play for BC to get the lead. Zach Sanford dished the puck past a distracted Munson for what would prove to be the game-winning goal.

After the goal, Yvan Pattyn received a penalty for slashing, exemplifying the aggressive, penalty-riddled minutes to come. While the Catamounts tried to take back the lead with their physical play after the penalty expired, the Eagles’ defense prevented them from doing so.

The Eagles capitalized on Catamount turnovers and converted them into scoring chances.

UVM’s closest scoring chance late in the first came off a hooking penalty on Colin White at 13:58. Demko kicked away a Catamount shot, and Mario Puskarich picked up the rebound. Puskarich then fired the puck, which ricocheted off the goalpost.

Ian McCoshen almost gave it back.

The fiery BC defenseman earned three penalties for different infractions—high sticking, elbowing, and interference—in the span of 10 minutes at the end of the first and beginning of the second.

Though the Eagles maintained control of the puck for much of this part of the game, having to play with a man down prevented them from increasing their lead.

As the Eagles killed the penalty, Pattyn was given a penalty for high sticking. BC used this opportunity to score its third goal. Sanford passed across the ice to team captain Teddy Doherty, who was waiting at the back door. The score was 3-1, and that was the way it would stay. UVM tried to get scoring chances during two more penalties on BC, but could not deliver on rebounds from Demko.

Despite two more penalty kills for the Eagles in the third, the Catamounts had sealed their fate. BC’s perfect 7-for7 penalty kill gave the team the win and the first-round bye.

It wouldn’t be the only good news the Eagles received on the night, however.

With Providence’s 3-2 overtime win over Notre Dame, BC is back in first place in Hockey East by a one-point margin.

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Austin Cangelosi (top) scored his fourth goal in as many games to even the game at 1-1 in the first.

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The Eagles shot 35.3 percent from the floor on the afternoon, their second-worst mark in a single game this season.

“The reality is we didn’t make enough shots to win a game at this level,” Johnson said. “We got our best players some really, really good looks, and those didn’t go down. And that would have made the difference in the game.”

Frustration abounded, but it was most evidently expressed by freshman center Mariella Fasoula, who was whistled for two offensive fouls in the first half and engaged referee Dan Outlaw in a running dialogue throughout much of the game. She managed to score 12 points from lobs over the top of the defense and sneaky post entries.

She has now reached double figures in scoring in 21 games this season, including 13 straight.

Joining her with double-digit points was junior guard Kelly Hughes, whose four first-half 3-pointers kept the game within arm’s reach. She only scored one basket in the second half, finishing with 14 points.

Their efforts weren’t enough, however. Neither was the team’s defensive performance—the Eagles held the Cardinals to 43.6 percent shooting from the floor, in the neighborhood of Louisville’s season average.

“As great of defense as we can play, holding Louisville under 45 points is probably asking a lot,” Johnson said.

“The fact that we held them to 55 really gives us a chance. For us, it’s just being able to put a full game together on both ends.”

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Mariella Fasoula finished with 12 points against the Cardinals, her 13th consecutive game with a double-digit scoring performance.

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Once again, Boston College women’s basketball did what it does best on the offensive side of the ball: share it. Of the 23 baskets the Boston College 67 Eagles scored Clemson 64 Thursday night, 17 of them came off assists. BC (14-12, 2-11 Atlantic Coast) is strongest when the team plays together, proving it as the Eagles downed the Clemson Tigers (4-22, 0-13) by a score of 67-64.

The Eagles got off to a quick start, scoring the first five points of the game, including a 3-pointer from Kelly Hughes.

Her 3-pointers were a theme of the game for BC, as she led the team in points and

hit five 3s over the course of the game.

Clemson came back with a run of its own, scoring seven straight.

The Eagles brought it back at Clemson with baskets on three straight possessions, all off assists. One of those baskets was a 3-pointer by Nicole Boudreau, Hughes’ shooting counterpart, and two of them were layups from Mariella Fasoula.

Emilee Daley, who has not contributed as much this season as she did last year, was much improved in the first quarter. With the lead 12-7 in favor of BC, Daley was a part of the next four made field goals for the Eagles, notching a 3-pointer and a layup in addition to two assists. After two free throws from Fasoula, the Eagles closed out the first

quarter up by 12.

In a tough season, Nelly Perry has been a bright spot for the Tigers. She was at it again against BC, especially during the second quarter. She scored the first four points of the frame, totaling 15. But that was all Clemson scored in the quarter, and despite its best efforts, BC still led by 10 going into the half.

With the help of Perry’s teammates, the ACC-winless Tigers got going in the third. Victoria Cardaci hit two layups right after the break, and, along with a layup and jumper by Perry, the Tigers cut BC’s lead to two.

It wasn’t the Tigers’ offense, but their defense that helped spur a comeback in the third quarter. It forced three turnovers and didn’t allow a second-half field

goal until the 5:13 mark, when Hughes hit a 3-pointer off a pass from Kailey Edwards.A Fasoula layup followed by two free throws and a “dagger” 3-pointer by Hughes put the Eagles up nine to start the fourth. At the time, it seemed like a nail in the coffin, but Clemson impressively refused to quit on the game.

Even when BC stretched the lead to 11, Perry and Cardaci kept their team in by scoring big buckets. The Tigers stormed back, finally evening up the Eagles.

BC head coach Erik Johnson called a timeout to draw up a play for his star player, Hughes. Right out of the timeout, BC got Hughes an open look from beyond the arc that she drained, a true dagger. For the remainder of the game,

BC kept Clemson just out of reach for its second ACC win of the season and the first on the road.

Hughes, Fasoula, and Daley were the three top performers in this one.

Hughes scored a total of 21 points on five 3-pointers, all while chipping in a team-high seven rebounds. Fasoula was the consistent player that she seemingly has been for weeks now, scoring 16 points and snagging four boards. But Daley was an X-factor off the bench, scoring 10 points and making key contributions throughout the game.

While Clemson is the bottom team in the ACC, any conference road win for the Eagles is huge, and this one goes a long way in showing that the consistent effort

by BC is starting to pay off.

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The Brendan O’Brien-produced Victo-

rious, is anything but a stylistic departure.

Very little of its lean 36 minutes of ’70stinged hard rock will contain any surprises.

What is truly puzzling is the LP’s incredibly odd chronological duality—its first half stands toe-to-toe with the best moments in the band’s catalogue, and its second half is astronomically bland and uninspired.

“The Love That You Give” and the titular “Victorious” are perhaps the most effective opening one-two punch on a Wolfmother album to date. The former is explosive, yet concise as lead singer Andrew Stockdale effortlessly channels an early-’70s Ozzy Osbourne. The latter, “Victorious,” is simply larger than life, with an irresistible guitar riff and an appropriately triumphant chorus.

The keyboard-laced “Baroness” is another gem, calling to mind the less spacey moments in Blue Oyster Cult’s catalogue.

The band’s crunchy rock assault is dialed back for the folksy ballad “Pretty Peggy,” a tune that’s as anthemic as it is hopelessly romantic. Its slight resemblance to alternative contemporaries like Mumford & Sons may turn a few heads, but it’s still firmly rooted in Led Zeppelin’s “Going to California,” more

than anything else. Closing out the first half of Victorious is “City Lights”, a smooth yet upbeat showcase of exuberant rock and roll.

Stockdale’s vocal harmonies in the chorus are particularly airtight, and producer O’Brien’s bright, vibrant mix allows the tasteful bass lines to coexist harmoniously with the razor-sharp guitars.

Victorious takes a pitiful nosedive into its dreadful second half. In terms of memorability, inventiveness, charisma, or dynamism, these five tracks offer close to nothing. Promises were made on the album’s outstanding first half that simply couldn’t be kept. The shift is immediately noticeable on “The Simple Life,” which is a somewhat satisfying, but forgettable affair.

After the catchy but similarly underwhelming “Best of a Bad Situation,” the LP’s diminished momentum plummets with the utterly lazy “Gypsy Caravan,” which contains the most unimaginative, transparently recycled guitar riff that’s likely to appear on any rock album in 2016. “Happy Face,” another sludgy Black Sabbath attempt, drones on, directionless for its first two and a half torturous minutes, and by the time it

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Though offering a promising star, ‘Victorious’ soon runs out of musical flourishes and ideas. picks up its pace—both in terms of tempo and attitude—it’s too little, too late. “Eye of the Beholder” closes the record out with yet another drab, throwaway chorus. At this point the boisterous swagger of “The Love That You Give” is barely visible in the rearview mirror.

Perhaps Wolfmother’s revolving door of musicians is its Achilles’ heel—frontman Stockdale is essentially a one-man band in the studio, writing and performing everything on Victorious save the

drums and keyboards. When crafting an entire album’s worth of standout rock ballads, Stockdale has a hugely demanding task in front of him. The record’s two sharply juxtaposed halves are certainly strange. That the track list was knowingly arranged in this fashion is doubtful, but the yin and yang on Victorious is fascinating nevertheless—how even a shining display of excellence like the front half of this record can have a looming shadow not too far behind.

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Each song is laugh-out-loud hilarious, as the show’s writers translate Rebecca’s innumerable life problems into what seem to be pretty high-budget performances.

In episode 11, Rebecca’s daydream shows her stepping onstage in an elegant gown to sing a heartfelt but hate-filled ballad to herself. Referring to herself in the song as, “just a lying little bitch who ruins things / And wants the world to burn.”

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is simply hysterical. Its premise, infused with firstworld problems and a generous dose of dramatic irony, is remarkably witty despite seeming silly and pointless at times. With a satirical and relatable humor employed throughout each episode, the comedy-drama fusion is a must-see for Millennials.

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Sequels are a tricky business, even in the music industry. They have to feel cohesive with the original work, while standing on their own as a distinct piece of art. In film, there are very few that have accomplished this: the second Alien and The Godfather films come to mind, along with the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy.

But in music, success is more rare. The most recent exYES, I’M A WITCH TOO ample of Yoko Ono a sequel in music is Justin Timberlake’s second chapter of his The 20/20 Experience, which felt connected to the first part, but as its own entity, was lackluster at best. It is even harder to create a successful sequel when the first installment was a reboot of older material. This is exactly the challenge that one of music’s most controversial figures, Yoko Ono,

faces on her latest compilation/remix album, Yes, I’m a Witch Too. With the original album, Yes, I’m a Witch, artists were invited to do covers or remixes of Ono’s material. Most of the artists chose to keep Ono’s vocals and create new backing tracks. That process holds true for the sequel as well. The reinventions of the songs range in genre from classical to electronica, rock, and everything in between. The result is a diverse collection of songs that shows the talent of the artists Ono gathered to create her remix.

The album’s opener, “Walking on Thin Ice,” was remixed by New York DJ Danny Tenaglia, but strangely has no bouncing beats or synth in sight. Instead, he replaces the song’s original beats and charging guitars—from the album Double Fantasy with John Lennon—with a string arrangement that feels as though the wind is blowing through the listener’s hair, or like the sun is breaking through a stained-glass window. Complementing Ono’s breathy and cracking vocals, this song feels as though you are experiencing a beautiful moment

that you know you are going to lose, slipping from your grasp like water through your fingers. This version is much better than John Pierce’s remix that appears on Yes, I’m a Witch, in which the synths and guitars were too overbearing and melodramatic to get at the vulnerability of the song. In this case, the sequel wins out over the original reboot.

Another song that reinvents the original well—but not necessarily better—is “Ms. Lennon.” Swedish pop/rock heroes Peter Bjorn and John replace the song’s somber guitar accompaniment with a shuffling kick drum and wobbling guitar chords that make it feel as though you are meandering through a desert. There is also a bit of hectic, scratchy guitar work in between the verses that intensifies the lyrics, which detail the way people perceived Ono’s grief after Lennon’s death. She sings this song heartbreakingly. But this cover is not necessarily better than the original because this song (and most of these songs) were fantastic anyway.

These remixes highlight the versatility of Ono’s songwriting and first-rate

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Rife with remixes and self-sampling, Ono is able to create a sense of cohesion between songs. lyricism.

On “Wouldn’t”—originally from the album Rising—acclaimed house DJ Dave Aude transforms the once-funk-infused track into a bona-fide club banger complete with laser-like synths, a pulsating beat, and church-ready piano chords. But it is Ono’s lyrics that still stand out, even when they are drenched in autotune for a robotic effect. Ono asks, “Wouldn’t it be nice to be a star? / Shinin’ and sparklin’, looking down the whole and plenty / Be-

ing looked up with a telescope / While my sister’s busy cutting the rope,” as she sings about being a heroine, a hero, and a star, and as she goes on, you begin to believe her.

With 17 tracks—some much better than others—and so many different styles to wade through, the album can give you a bit of listening fatigue, but you are never bored by what comes next. How many albums can you say that about?

Not many.

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“Many times, it feels like Latinos and Latinas are shoved into one narrative, one holistic experience. This isn’t true.

We, the Latino community, are a tree—a tree with a multitude of branches, each with their own significance,” Edgar Sanchez said.

Sanchez’s statement set the stage masterfully for the poets, dance crews, and mariachi band that followe d, which exhibited an eclectic range of talents and interests from an even more eclectic gathering of Boston College and Harvard students.

Robsham has never rung with as much enthusiasm as it did during Mariachi Veritas de Har vard’s two performances. The mariachi crew, complete with string quintet, horn duo,

and guitar trio, performed a variety of Spanish melodies that embodied the many specialties, sounds, and speeds that a mariachi band is capable of.

Gilded in golden frets, the group’s outfits sparkled with a noticeable glimmer against the rustic orange background, which mimicked a clear sunset across a hazy desert. Many members of the mariachi band contributed dazzling and often surprisingly impressive vocals to many of the Mariachi Veritas’ numbers.

One guitarist in particular had almost everyone in the audience on his or her feet in a standing ovation in the middle of his song.

Before the mariachi band’s opening set and second set after the intermission, two videos featured several Latino and Latina students expressing their narratives, showing the crowd what it has been like for them to adapt to American culture, holding onto their Latin culture as best they could along the way.

These videos were simple, yet poignant.

Students like Karla and Karina Ross, both MCAS ’18, Sofia Payano, MCAS ’19, and Sofia Zenzola, CSOM ’16, displayed a variety within the Latin

American community that many might not expect to find. These students, along with a few others, discussed the subconscious societal segregation they sometimes feel, alongside what they miss about home, and what about being Latin American makes them proud.

S e veral p o ems written by B C students were read throughout the night, showing some of the struggles of growing up in America as a Latina or Latino and what these students have learned from their experiences and, notably, from their parents. Each of the three poems, written and read by Miya Coleman, MCAS ’19, Azo Mbanefo, CSOM ’17, and Luis Miguel Torres, MCAS ’16, dealt with adapting to a new language, struggling to integrate the Latin American culture into a new home, and their parents’ plight in a country where they didn’t necessarily feel welcomed.

“Build a wall… I think we know who said that,” Torres said. “America, there’s always been a wall.” Simple, soft-spoken thoughts like these echoed through Robsham to an engaged, mesmerized crowd, which listene d attentively to the outstanding vulnerability of

the poets.

On a lighter note, several BC dance crews’ performances were sprinkled throughout “¿Que Pasa En Mi Casa?”

Conspiracy Theory, Cumbia Dance Collaborative, Fuego del Corazon, and Viva de Intensa Pasion all shuffled onto the stage at different points during the night to show off melded hip-hop and more traditional Latin American dancing styles. The dances featured a superb soundtrack of Latin American hip-hop that audience members were sure to Shazam, if they didn’t already know the tracks by heart.

B.E.A.T.S. also sang a couple songs in the first act, and while the songs didn’t directly link to the Latin American theme, struggling to assimilate into American culture was still at the forefront of the group’s message. The group’s cover of Robin Thicke’s “Dreamworld” had the Robsham audience, which was whooping and hollering throughout the rest of the night, in a silent daze.

The acappellic bass was absolutely stupefying, entrancing the audience in an all-encompassing head bob.

Sanchez was quite possibly the best MC that could have been picked for the

event. He was extremely energetic and personable, and he had the audience rolling around in tears of laughter while he was introducing each act. His opening and closing statements summed up the intention and tone of “¿Que Pasa En Mi Casa?” beautifully, and his presence kept the show extremely light-hearted, even amid its understandably and necessarily heavier moments.

Holistically, “¿Que Pasa En Mi Casa?” captured many facets of the Latin American culture at BC in an accessible and exciting fashion. The several dance acts, poetry readings, and musical numbers, alongside the brief, yet informative and personality-driven student interviews, all culminated in a fascinating, impassioned, and resonant display of Latin American culture and how well it can fit in the U.S. “¿Que Pasa En Mi Casa?” made it evident that the Latin American community of BC is not one described in a few stereotypical phrases and pictures.

Instead, as Sanchez so aptly put it, the BC Latin American community has a diverse spectrum of stories, characters, and dynamics that all branch out from one root.

AMELIE TRIEU / HEIGHTS EDITOR

The Organization of Latin American Affairs gave attendees an extended glimpse of Latin American culture through performances from Mariachi Veritas de Harvard, B.E.A.T.S., Fuego del Corazon, and a few BC poets.

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The works in O’Neill represent the artistic persuits of black Bostonians and the relation of expression and art in the black community.

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Steve Locke’s works show another use of painting as a visual record of encounters and people. Art functions “as a note to myself,” Locke has said. “They document something about the men I have seen—their strength, beauty, cruelty, cowardice, energy, power, clothing—that I find compelling enough to draw and take back to my studio.” His portraits do not contain specific shapes or forms, attesting

to this kind of unique interpretation of ordinary events.

Outside of the books, smaller paintings in the display cases are striking in color and composition. Harlem Renaissance painter Lois Mailou Jones’ Mere Du Senegal and Self Portrait use color to evoke feelings of hot and cold. The gradients of color draw emphasis on the figures they enframe.

The pastel painting Brothers by Calvin Burnett and the piece Sunlight and Shadow use light to varying effects, evoking feelings of both anxiety and ease. In a similar way, the transitions from light to dark guide the eyes of the viewers around the painting. The kind of suggestion and visual prompting present in the paintings is a testament to Jones’ intent and craft.

Together, these works represent the kind of art emanating from the Boston

area. These artists all had different predispositions, agendas, and ideas.

Though they shared a common thread— their race and time spent in Boston—they were able to express themselves in unique ways and offer up different critiques of society and the self. In this way, art was used as a medium to express the differences of individuals and groups, through experience, in provocative ways.

The Black Artists in the Boston Area exhibit offers many compelling pieces to muse over and fascinating excerpts from the artists themselves. The works fit into the larger theme of black artists from Boston, while preserving a sense of individuality and personal craft amopng the artists. These distinct, compassionate works are as compelling as the artists who created them.

anatomical humor with the intellectual, creating an environment every person can enjoy. Broussard is, beyond any doubt, not afraid to offend—he comments on every societal nuance that he sees differently than others, with a particularly humorous section on rap lyrics. Like Stone, Broussard is quite talented in the department of audience connection. From the beginning of his set, Broussard admits, at least half of his audience has him pegged as “the stereotypical douchebag,” and that he has simply accepted the title with pride.

Similarly to Stone, Broussard is also fairly well-known. He has performed on Comedy Central, as well as starring on MTV2’s Guy Code and Not Exactly News. In his routines, Broussard also mentions both his sculptures

and his drawings, the latter of which were presented at A Night of Comedy. According to him, he rather enjoys puns, often drawing small sketches that illustrate a unique pun or play on words. In addition to being a gifted comedian, Broussard is also a very skilled artist, and his artwork sculpts out the perfect end to a spirited evening of laughter.

Throughout the night, Boston College students bonded through laughter and love of humor, which, more than anything else, Stone and Broussard exude. It is clear that these two have a genuine passion for making others smile, making their work all the more enjoyable. For this reason more than anything else, the show was incredibly effective—there is absolutely no doubt that Stone and Broussard would be welcome back for yet another excellent “Night of Comedy.”

KRISTIN SALESKI / HEIGHTS STAFF

Alex Stone and Matthew Broussard won over the crowd with self-deprecation and societal quirks.

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Within the realm of horror (film, television, or otherwise), it’s relatively easy to find something that scares you: those who love ghouls and ghosts have Paranormal Activity, psychological thriller fans have Silence of the Lambs, and so on. Horror master Stephen King delineates three types of scares—first, the gross-out, which is “the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, [or] when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm.”

Second, the horror: unnaturally sized spiders, or a murderer grabbing you in the dark. The last one, terror, is the worst, according to King—this is

“when the lights go out and you feel something behind you, you hear it, you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around, there’s nothing there....”

All of these types of horror have one thing in common: they’re linked to the physical body. Gross-out affects the body, horror clings to the heart, and terror clutches the mind…but how does one scare the s oul?

This question is precisely why I say that H.P. Lovecraft should be read by every person who has an interest in horror stories. Author of “The Call of Cthulhu” and The Shadow Out of Time, Lovecraft wrote within a rather exclusive genre: cosmicism (or the scary variety, known as cosmic horror). Cosmicism is difficult to summarize, but in short words, it is the literary movement that embraces the vastness of the universe. Lovecraft often wrote on this topic, taking into account ideas of human insignificance, the universe’s tendency toward

entropy, quests for knowledge ending in tragedy, and the existential depression that arises from these realizations. His work is unparalleled, with no writer or artist ever truly breaching the genius that he purveyed.

Back to the original question: how does one scare the soul? The answer is a bit clearer now—cosmic horror. The realization of how small you are does wonders for the person looking for a little existential terror.

So, with that in mind, where does one find material that falls under the umbrella of this miraculous and enlightening genre? Well, that’s just the problem. Cosmicism and cosmic horror are two of the most tragically underused genres in the history of human art. Of course, Lovecraft’s work exists, but considering the fact that it is nearly 100 years old (and extremely wordy to boot), fewer and fewer people seem to have an interest in his stories.

With such an open field of source

material, one would think that directors and producers would capitalize on this untouched genre, right?

Wrong. It is surprisingly difficult to find any fictional work that touches intentionally and exclusively on these ideas. Mark Twain’s short story “The Mysterious Stranger” captures the idea a bit, telling the story of a malevolent being that creates humanity out of modeling clay, only to snatch away its existence over and over again. Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy also dabbles in cosmicism, as well as H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds, arguably. A solid modern example is Cartoon Network’s animated show Rick and Morty, which is, in my opinion, one of the best programs currently running on television.

Other than these instances, however, there simply isn’t much in the way of cosmic-horror-based fiction.

This is a curious problem in the horror genre. Why are we, as the human race, so much more comfortable with

and attuned to physically terrifying ideas, rather than ideas that challenge what it means for us to exist? As with most questions in the realm of the arts, it’s unlikely that there’s one specific answer. Perhaps, though, it has something to do with how we’ve grown as a species. Only in the past 30,000 years has humanity developed into anything more than a hunter-gatherer. We’re now capable of questioning where in the cosmos we arrived from. All versions of fear that Stephen King explained are rooted in survival, but only cosmic fear deals in thoughts of something so beyond humanity that it is incomprehensible to all human thought.

Does the lack of work in cosmicism represent our denial of human frailty?

Maybe. Or maybe, just maybe, I’m far overthinking the topic, and assigning logic where none needs to exist.

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:8C<9 >I@<>F I love film, and I love French. Taking a French cinema class seemed like the perfect marriage of the two. The course seemed a bit daunting, as I feared I would not be able to speak about films in the same capacity that I could in English, but as time went on, the universality of film and my passion for it took over, and the words, regardless of language, came easily. French films are really where film started, and the knowledge garnered from that course continues to be insightful and relevant to every film I have seen.

I remember seeing several documentaries on George Melies and the Lumiere brothers, three pioneers in the world of film.

They were influential, and I understood their role in the early days of film but never experienced their works in their entirety. By watching their films, I was able to better understand what cinema was all about. These gentlemen were innovators. They were on the forefront of film discovery and method.

There were really no other people filming, so these men sought out what it meant to film.

There were no rules—they made them.

Melies used illusion, magic, and mystery to perform spectacles on the reel. In small cinema salles, audiences were amazed and fooled by the magic Melies performed through splicing and multiple exposures.

His longer stories, like Le Reve d’un Astrome (The Astronomer’s Dream) (1898) and Le Voyage Dans La Lune (A Trip to the Moon) (1902) contain iconic images that have imbedded themselves in our minds and in the fabric of cinematic history.

The Lumiere brothers used film to a completely different effect. They captured the life of the passerby by setting up a camera on the street. What is considered the first film Sortie de l’usine Lumiere de Lyon (Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory in Lyon) (1895) captured the exit of workers.

The fluid movements of people in unison, going in every which direction, captured the beauty in an otherwise banal moment. There is no plot in any conventional sense, and its 52 seconds do not meet the standard runtime. But the essence of filmmaking still lies within it. Film is a medium that can capture anything and make it a point of intrigue.

As we passed the naissance of film in the early 19th century, the evolution of film and filmmaking progressed at a rapid pace. Film was able to document the societal sentiments and disposition during the World Wars in a way other media could not with films like La Grande Illusion (1937). It also offered up critiques of public life and challenging viewers with a variety of emotional depth in films like Le jours se leve (Daybreak),1939, and Les quatre cent coups (The 400 Blows),1959.

Before taking the class, I had actually watched several of the films from the New Wave era of the ’60s. These are the films that stick with me to this day and continually bring a smile to my face. Watching them again was a treat. The New Wave era saw artists break away from conventional storytelling mechanisms to try for something new—in a sense, to reinvent the rules. They wanted to tell a story differently and in doing so challenge viewers visually and cerebrally.

Watching some of these films again confirmed my love of them. Au bout de souffle (Breathless),1960, Paris nous appartient (Paris Belongs to Us) (1960) and Cleo de 5 a 7 (Cleo from 5 to 7) (1962) all critiqued societal structure in their respective plots, as much as they did through their unconventional filming techniques.

What that class gave me, more than a deeper appreciation of the art of filmmaking, was the notion that people deal with the same existential issues, regardless of geographical location. Those things manifest themselves in every facet of our lives. That makes the Lumiere brothers’ first film as poignant as a New Wave film with a clear and pointed message.

And that is what makes film such a great medium—it is able to break down events ordinary or extraordinary in the same fashion and speak to something more profound.

The camera is just the same in that way—it captures what it sees.

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If laughter truly is the best medicine, a wide array of illnesses must have been cured at last Thursday night’s comedy show in Robsham Theater.

Organized by the Campus Activities Board (CAB), “A Night of Comedy” featured the humor stylings of Alex Stone and Matthew Broussard. From Stone’s seamless, natural audience interaction to Broussard’s self-deprecating sense of humor, the duo had every audience member rolling in laughter from beginning to end.

The night began with Stone’s routine. Covering every topic imaginable, from cheating girlfriends and the taste of human meat to petting feral wolves

and playing “Would You Rather,” Stone quickly built an easy rapport with his audience members, making them feel like a part of the show rather than just spectators. At one point, Stone began dialoguing with members of the crowd—after telling the story of a mouse who had escaped his mouse trap, he attempted to discover who had the grossest critter-related story.

Any performer that can make a viewer feel like a good friend is an effective one, and this, by far, is Stone’s biggest strength.

Stone, relatively well-known in the world of comedy, has appeared on NBC’s hit show Last Comic Standing and has also performed at Montreal’s Just For Laughs comedy festival. His debut album, Hello, was released in August of last year and features a number of unique tracks that are guaranteed to draw

a laugh from anyone who listens.

Halfway through the show, Stone ended his set, and up stepped Broussard. After giving the audience a choice between offensive and non-offensive material (naturally, in a crowd of college students, the offensive material was first choice), Broussard launched into his spiel. As it happens, the choice played quite well to Broussard’s style of delivery—without warning, he began by lamenting the fact that college kids, still immature and ignorant, aren’t actually capable of having a real opinion.

Offensive humor fittingly balances Broussard’s personality. With his background in bioscience and applied mathematics, he very effectively blends

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This month, the O’Neill reading room displays a collection of works that speak to artistic and social endeavors of black artists with roots in and around the Greater Boston area.

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It’s such a rich and attractive place, brimming with progressive thought, that it’s no wonder that visionaries and artist find themselves, at various points in their lives, in the city on the Charles.

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This February, in conjunction with Black Histor y Month, the reading room in O’Neill hosts “Black Artists in the Boston Area: Cultural Enrichment in the 20th and 21st Centuries.” The exhibit displays a varied collection of works by black artists who lived, worked, and created in the area. The pieces are as varied as the artists themselves, coalescing to form a group that stands as a testament to the diverse thoughts and ideas emanating from the Boston area.

The several books on display, rife

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with selections of artists’ paintings and drawings, represent the drastically different works of the artists featured in the gallery. Ellen Banks incorporates mixed media in her paintings, using musical notes and their shapes to evoke different feelings. In one such work, Maple Leaf Rag, a grid of colorful right-angled shapes spans a canvas, mimicking the look of a written text or a musical composition. Banks uses this kind of visual mimicry to represent the form of language or music in a less explicit presentation. In this way, the

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piece is a wonderful illustration of the beauty and intrigue found in visual abstractions.

Another book opens to works of John Wilson. His paintings and sketches highlight more politicized aspects of life. A graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Wilson captures construction workers at work in two pieces, Construction Workers and Genoa Harbor. Both incorporate sweeping cur ved lines , broken up

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