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“Hiro: Photograph” exhibit at the MFA features 24 iconic Hiro photographs, A5

The BC band sits down to talk about its upcoming EP, ‘Big Steal’ and its evolving style, B3

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9P D@:?8<C JLCC@M8E ?\`^_kj <[`kfi National Signing Day is upon us, bringing much excitement to athletic departments around the country. At last, schools can officially announce which high schoolers and graduate transfers will be joining their respective football programs for the 2016 season.

And, as head coach Steve Addazio would likely say, Boston College is excited to bring a new pack of dudes to Chestnut Hill.

The Eagles have announced that 21 players will join the program. This list includes 18 freshmen (two early enrollees) and three graduate transfers (one early enrollee). These recruits have many of the typical backgrounds one would find in the types of prospects Addazio likes to recruit: 11 come from Catholic or private high schools and 14 were team captains at some point in their careers. In addition, 10 attended BC camp this summer, and 15 of the freshmen were First Team All-State.

The head coach confirmed that 83 of the scholarships have been filled and he aims to fill the full class by the beginning of spring practice—he did not confirm if those scholarships will be given to incoming freshmen, graduate transfers, or current walk-ons.

The 2016 incomers come from 13 states, with only eight within a fivehour radius of the University, only two of which come from Massachusetts: offensive linemen Shane Le onard (Marshfield HS) and Sean Ragan (St. John’s, Shrewsbury). This is a vastly different strategy from last year’s class, which featured 15 of its 26 players within the “fence” that Addazio wants to build in the New England area. Yet the head coach said in his Wednesday afternoon press conference that his recruiting strategy has not changed that much in the region. Rather, Addazio expressed his staff ’s effort to expand his reach throughout the whole the country.

“We are expanded nationally in the Catholic leagues, into Texas, New Orleans, and California,” Addazio said. “We’ve always been in the Catholic leagues in Ohio and Indianapolis, that’s always been strong for us, we want to continue to grow that.”

Addazio also emphasized his focus on one area in particular: New Jersey.

He implied that this strength comes from the way his staff is currently constructed, specifically defensive back coach and recruiter Anthony Campanile. A Rutgers alum and former assistant, Campanile has many connections in the northern New Jersey area—his brother coaches at Bergen Catholic, one of the region’s powerhouse football schools.

Also unlike last year’s class, which was evenly balanced across both sides of the ball, this year’s recruits have more of an offensive flavor to them. Of the 21 players, 12 are offensive players, with seven on defense and two special teams specialists. By position, the Eagles will bring in two quarterbacks, two wide receivers, two tight ends, five offensive linemen, three defensive linemen, three linebackers, two defensive backs (Addazio confirmed that Mike Palmer, listed as an athlete, will likely be a DB), and two punters.

Despite the mass exodus of running backs—Marcus Outlow, Jordan Gowins, and Sherman Alston all transferred

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DREW HOO / HEIGHTS EDITOR

Last year, UGBC presidential candidates gathered for the official campaign kickoff.

After meeting the GPA and disciplinary requirements set out by the Office of Student Involvement (OSI) and acquiring and submitting the necessary 250 undergraduate signatures by Jan. 29, three teams have been nominated for the Undergraduate Government of Boston College president and executive vice president in this year’s UGBC presidential elections.

The three pairs that will make their first appearance at the Feb. 21 campaign kickoff are Anthony Perasso, LSOE ’17, and Rachel Loos, MCAS ’18; Elizabeth Foley, MCAS ’17, and Joseph McCarthy, CSOM ’17; and Olivia Hussey, current

UGBC executive vice president and MCAS ’17, and Meredith McCaffrey, MCAS ’17.

According to Adam Rosenbloom, co-chair of the UGBC Election Committee and MCAS ’16, there were a few teams who submitted intent forms to run, but never submitted the required signatures.

Now that the three teams have been qualified to run, they will prepare for the Feb. 21 campaign kickoff. The event, held in the Vanderslice Cabaret Room, will begin with each team giving a short speech about its platform, followed by games the Election Committee has prepared for the teams, said Megan

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OF MICE AND EIGHT-MEN J`eZ\ FZkfY\i# jfd\ i\j`[\ekj f] NXcj_ ?Xcc _Xm\ Y\\e _flj`e^ X ]\n le\og\Zk\[ m`j`kfij% 9P ?<@;@ ;FE> ?\`^_kj <[`kfi Beginning in early October, the fourth floor of Walsh Hall, where Victoria Johnson, MCAS ’18, lives with her suitemates, began its battle with the mice of Walsh. Lasting over five months, select Walsh residents struggled with sharing a living space with mice. Throughout the fall semester, Johnson and her roommates fought their unwelcomed guests with pest control, strongly worded work orders, and a tweet to the Office of Residential Life—even their parents joined the fight. By the beginning of spring semester, however, Boston College’s custodial services had built up Walsh residents’ resources.

“It might have been specific floors, but I don’t think it was building-wide,” Nekesa Straker, director of residential education said. “I don’t even think specific floors, but maybe specific locations.”

Winter is coming, however, and with cooling weather comes an undeniable migration of animals from outdoors to indoors.

“Mice generally don’t like being outside in the colder weather, so they try and find a way into the build-

ing, and it doesn’t take much of an opening for them to get into the building,” Gerry Boyle, associate director of custodial services said. “It happens. We’re not micefree on campus. Students have to put the work order in. Once it’s put in, it’s an email to our outside vendor, who can then respond.”

After seeing—and filming—that first mouse scurry across their floor, Johnson and her roommates put in a work order. The resulting action was standard—three mousetraps in response to the information provided in the work order—but the mouse did not fall for any of them. With growing frustration about the mouse roaming around their apartment, Johnson and her roommates phoned a friend to help.

“Our friend was there for like three hours, and finally managed to capture it,” Johnson said. “So he did more than pest control did. But even after we got rid of the first one, we kept seeing another one roam around.”

By putting in work order after work order with each mouse sighting, Johnson and her roommates followed what Boyle stated to be the correct protocol.

According to Johnson, however, the helpfulness of pest control seemed to decrease with every work order they filed.

Boyle explained that if traps are set, yet mouse activity is still being reported, pest control will go to the unit and react based on the information given.

Generally, they will look around the mentioned locations of mouse sightings for holes or other ways of entry for mice, then block them. Pest control will also lay down more mousetraps, as needed, in response to the content of the work order. Straker and Boyle both said they were unsure about the exact number of suites in Walsh affected.

Boyle continuously emphasized the importance of the work order, as this is all pest control has to react based on. What Johnson experienced, however, left her and her suitemates increasingly frustrated with the seeming inaction from pest control, despite strongly worded work orders.

“Sometimes they’d just put an extra sticky paper pad or something, but they weren’t really doing anything,” Johnson said. “We’d have mousetraps that just weren’t even set anymore, like they snapped and they just didn’t fix them. They weren’t really doing anything.”

Johnson’s seemingly futile efforts against this unwelcomed fuzzy foe carried on until Winter Break. During Winter Break, custodial service’s action was fivefold, according to Boyle. Its first order of business was to check in on the apart-

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The U.S. Department of Education requires that every federally funded university adopt a non-discrimination notice under Title IX, the federal law that ensures gender equality on campuses. Title IX also protects against

sexual assaults on campuses.

BC’s notice explains how the University is committed to creating a safe living and learning environment for all students. It makes special note of students who are vulnerable to discrimination based on their race, color, national origin, sex, religion, disability, age, marital or parental status, sexual orientation, military status, or other legally protected status.

GLC, however, would like to see gender identity and expression included in BC’s policy. Collin Pratt, director of policy for GLC and MCAS ’17, is leading the group’s initiative to modify the document.

Currently, the University has gender identity and gender expression in mind when dealing with Title IX, Pratt said.

He believes that BC treats sexual assault

and discrimination equally, regardless of students’ identities.

“The actual institutional change would not be that difficult to do,” Pratt said. “It would basically be changing the wording of a document.”

Under Title IX, BC is not legally required to include gender identity or gender expression in the policy. The federal law only mandates that nondiscrimination policies include the term “sex.”

“In our modern society and especially in the queer community, sex and gender have vastly different meanings,” Pratt said. “To use them in the same sense is archaic and it’s also very limiting.”

In BC’s Sexual Misconduct Policy it states that sexual misconduct can be committed by persons of any gender and

can occur between people of the same or different gender.

“Our response is the same regardless of how students identify,” Associate Vice President of Student Affairs Katherine O’Dair said.

After researching Title IX’s restrictions, Massachusetts law, and 28 other universities’ policies, Pratt and GLC drafted a report outlining the reasons that the group believes the policy needs to be changed. They plan to present it to the administration in the near future.

Pratt hopes to have the document’s wording changed by the end of the academic year.

“The University’s policy of non-discrimination, which complies with state and federal discrimination laws, reflects

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The Gaelic Roots and the Irish Studies Program is sponsoring a concert of Scottish, Quebecois, and Celtic music, featuring cellist Natalie Haas and guitarist Yann Falquet. The event will be held in the Cadigan Alumni Center on Feb. 4 at 6:30 p.m.

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Students can travel with College Democrats of Massachusetts to Nashua, N.H., on Feb. 6 to knock on doors and “get out the vote” for presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. The bus will leave at 8:30 a.m. and students must register prior to leaving.

The Thea Bowman AHANA and Intercultural Center will be holding an opening ceremony on Feb. 4 to kick off a series of events throughout February in celebration of Black History Month.

The event will take place in the Fulton Honors Library.

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Gif]% DXb\j G9J J_fn Heather Cox Richardson, a history professor at Boston College, served as a consultant for PBS American Experience series on President James Garfield that premiered on Feb. 2.

The episode, “Murder of a President,” tells the story of Garfield’s unprecedented rise to power, his assassination by Charles Guiteau, and the aftermath of this tragic event.

Richardson, an expert in 19th-century American history, made sure that the script was historically accurate and helped to provide political context.

She also provided on-air commentary.

DXk_# CpeZ_ K\Xd Lg Boston College’s mathematics department is teaming up with the Lynch School of Education for the third year to help graduate students prepare exemplary math teachers to work in high-need school districts in the Boston area.

The National Science Foundation received a $1.6 million grant, allowing them to pair each early-career teacher with a master teacher and a mathematician.

The eight early-career teachers in the program spent one year in the Lynch School’s master program as Donovan Scholars. They are now working in schools across the Boston area. Master math teachers with at least four years of experience serve as their mentors.

“I am tremendously pleased by the community of teachers that is taking shape,” Solomon Friedberg, a co-principal investigator and McIntyre professor of mathematics, said. “I see our teachers supporting and enriching each other with thoughtful feedback and well-thought-out professional activities, and a community that builds on and joins the expertise of the many individuals concerned with math education. I am also impressed and pleased by the interest of the teachers in deepening their understanding of mathematical topics and incorporating this understanding into their teaching.”

8cldeX =`^_kj ;il^ @jjl\ Hound Labs, Inc. recently became the first company to solve the challenge of calculating whether or not someone is driving under the influence of marijuana. This is an important issue, given that 165 million Americans now have legal access to marijuana, but there had not been a way to know if a driver was under the influence. The previous methods only allowed one to tell if a person had used marijuana in the past 30 days.

Jenny Lynn, CSOM ’91, currently heads up marketing as the CMO at the start-up. She has been working at the company since its inception. Her husband, Dr. Mike Lynn, founded the company. He works as an emergency room physician and reserve deputy sheriff, and noticed that there had been a spike in marijuana-impaired driving.

He set out to find a way to detect whether or not a person was under the influence, founding Hound Labs, Inc. in 2014.

Alan Gross heard knocking on the door of his Havana hotel room on the night of Dec. 3, 2009.

Moments later, he found himself confronted by three men, and was taken into custody by the Cuban government. He had planned to leave on a flight back to the United States in several hours but never made it.

“I say that I was kidnapped,” Gross said to the audience of students, faculty, and community members on Tuesday afternoon.

Gross was invited to speak as a guest of the Clough Colloquium, a program meant to bring leading figures to campus to share the individual experiences they have had in their respective fields.

As a humanitarian in the public eye, Alan Gross was asked to share his journey in Cuba. He originally traveled overseas as an employee of Development Alternatives Inc., an international development company. His task was to bring communication equipment to Cuba, set it up, test it out, and train the local people in how to use it. Gross spoke passionately about the gratification he felt as he introduced the Internet to the people of a shrinking Jewish community he was assigned to. At the time, Cubans only had access to the Internet if they worked for the gov-

ernment—he estimated that only 2 percent of the population had such capability. Foreign guests could connect to the Internet for $6 per hour, but that was too expensive for the local people.

Gross played videos of the locals’ first moments utilizing such technology, and then described their excitement in being able to connect to such information.

“They had access to information, and in Cuba, information flows only go up. They don’t go down,” he said.

This became problematic for Gross because the Cuban government saw his actions as a threat.

“They didn’t see it as a technical project. What they saw was a contra-Cuba project,” Gross said. “They said that I was going to overthrow the government by myself.”

Thus, Gross was captured and tried for two days. In that time, the court sentenced him to 15 years in a maximum security prison. For three and a half years, neither the Cuban nor the U.S. government would give him any information.

“I was a prisoner of two governments,” Gross said.

He explained the less obvious reason why he was not receiving assistance from the United States.

Working with his lawyer, Scott Gilbert, they found out that the U.S. government had imprisoned five Cuban men who were found

guilty of conspiring to commit acts of espionage. After discussing the situation with the U.S. Justice Department, Gilbert found out that ideally, the U.S. could exchange the spies for Gross’ release, but it did not seem to make sense to the government to trade five spies for one non-spy.

Therefore, Gross found himself spending the first year of his captivity entirely in a cell. After that year, he was allowed some more time outside, and he established three factors that would help him survive his ordeal. First, he would never forget his strong roots and the family he had that survived the horrors of the Holocaust. He also prioritized physical exercise, and did whatever he needed to in order to get his 10,000 steps in each day, even if this meant walking around in circles. Finally, he always made sure to find something to make him laugh.

“Humor is good for the heart, it’s good for the mind,” he said.

Although he was a prisoner, Gross sometimes received visitors, ranging from his family to political figures. He recalled one day when President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, came to speak with him. Carter explained that he had met with Raúl Castro the night before. He said that Castro had acknowledged that he knew Gross was not a spy. When Carter asked why Castro continued to hold him

in custody, he replied he had to, otherwise the rest of the government would find serious fault in him.

“Castro is a pragmatist, but he doesn’t have the power that his brother did at one point,” Gross said.

On Dec. 17, 2014, Gross was finally freed in exchange for the remaining three Cuban intelligence agents.

“I don’t know if I’ll ever get the whole story behind my liberation,” he said.

He also described the initial confusion he experienced when he arrived home in the United States and encountered people in public who would stop him to take pictures. For months he could not understand, until one day he had an epiphany. He realized that all of those people were emotionally invested in him and his story. Stepping off the plane and coming home reassured them in their hope.

“I was the return on that investment,” Gross said.

He also spent time answering questions about his story, and discussing his disapproval of the U.S. embargo against Cuba. When asked about his opinion on Cuba’s transitioning government, he said that he knows most people would not appreciate his response.

“I’m not sure that democracy is what Cuba needs,” he said. “The changes have to be their way, not our way.”

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Rev. Agbonkhianmeghe Orobator, S.J., speaks on conflicting faiths in Africa.

By Connor Murphy Heights Editor In front of a packed Gasson 305 Monday night, Rev. Agbonkhianmeghe Orobator, S.J, spoke about Africa’s complex religious heritage: a confluence of traditional African spirituality, Christianity, and Islam.

Orobator is the president of the Hekima College Jesuit School of Theology and the Institute of Peace Studies and International Relations in Nairobi, Kenya, as well the former Jesuit provincial of East Africa, where he headed the Society’s operations in Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, South Sudan, and Sudan.

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African religion, but you can’t take African religion out of an African,” Orobator said, highlighting what he thinks is the defining characteristic of religious heritage on the continent. “African religion is the deep anchor that secures the foundation of Christianity or Islam in the soul of the converted African.”

Last week, Orobator delivered the first part of the lecture, which focused on general religiosity in Africa, including its high historical rate of conversion to Islam and Christianity. He continued that thread this week, cautioning that any conversion statistics should be taken with a grain of salt, rather than simply praised as Pope Benedict XVI did in a 2009 speech. He

laid out a couple of reasons.

First, statistics on religious conversion generally understate the influence of traditional African religion. Orobator even argued that “traditional” is not an accurate description, because it carries a connotation of irrelevance, while African religion is actually firmly established not only on the continent, but also in places like Brazil and Cuba.

Second, conversion to Christianity or Islam can cause some problems, considering that terrorist groups claim both religions as justification for violent attacks—Boko Haram in Nigeria and the Christian Anti-balaka militias in the Central African Republic, as well as pockets of al-Shabaab in East Africa and Al-Qaeda in North Africa and the Sahel.

Religious conflict in Africa has historical roots in tribal disputes, efforts by Muslims to establish political and economic dominance in North Africa, and missionary activity by Christians.

According to Orobator, it is important to remember that Muhammad was both a prophet and a statesman, and that early followers of Islam were heavily focused on nation-building. He also cited Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart, which is partially about Christian missionaries in late-19th-century Nigeria, as an example of the tensions caused by Christianity in Africa.

The current religious conflicts in Africa are not unprecedented, but their severity and extremism is thought to be worsening.

“It can no longer be plausibly maintained, as many do, that religion in Africa is nothing but a force for good,” Orobator said. “Event after event points to the escalating bellicosity of religion in Africa.”

Exacerbating that worsening, he added, is that Africa, with its relative political and economic instability, is especially vulnerable to religious fundamentalism. In addition to the other terrorist groups operating around the continent, Orobator mentioned Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army, an East African rebel group that cites Christianity as its inspiration and is accused of human rights violations like child abduction and slavery. Capturing and prosecuting Kony was the subject of the viral Kony 2012 film and failed campaign run by the advocacy group Invisible Children, Inc. As a response to Africa’s growing religious fundamentalism, Orobator suggested that traditional African religion can be a moderating force.

“African religion is a bulwark against extremist attempts to dissolve the essence of religion in a pool of sectarianism and hypocrisy,” he said. “The authentic spirituality of this continent is a repository of experiences for the renewal of humanity.”

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CORRECTIONS Monday’s Title IX article indicated that a student who filed a suit against the University was the same student who filed a civil complaint in court in 2012. The Title IX case was filed by a different student.

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“We want to show teamwork between the teams,” Azzalina said. “The games are meant to show how well the vice president and president work together and things like that.”

The kickoff will then be followed by a debate in the Cabaret Room on Sunday, Feb. 28., when the candidates will discuss their platforms and engage in a formal debate. This will lead up to the voting booths opening at 12 a.m. on Mar. 2 until 8 p.m. on Mar. 3. The results will then be released at 8:15 p.m. on Mar. 3.

“We’re really trying to make, as al-

ways, the election season as fair as possible,” Azzalina said. “We’re completely unbiased and we’re trying to reflect that in all of our actions, and we’re definitely really excited about it and about getting involved in this campaign … This is our time of the year, so we’re ready.”

Perasso, who is an editor for satirical campus newspaper The New England Classic, and Loos noted the similarities between their campaign and those of the U.S. presidential candidates.

“For example, part of us wants free college for everyone, and part of us wants to build a big wall,” Perasso and Loos said in an email. “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.”

Foley and McCarthy both expressed their excitement for their team’s candidacy, explaining that it has been their

goal since their freshman year. Foley said that her various positions on campus as an RA, and in the Office of First Year Experience, the First Year Service Program, and the Bystander Intervention Program have given her insight into the real issues facing BC students.

Foley noted that in the past two years, the number of students voting, along with student engagement in UGBC, has decreased. She said that the pair hopes to change that by encouraging students to see the opportunities and resources offered by UGBC, and by being as transparent as possible about their ideas for their campaign.

“Over the course of the past three years, Joey and I have committed ourselves to what we like to call ‘boots on the ground’ student affairs work,” Foley said in an email. “It is with this spirit of engagement and conversation that Joey and I are hoping to revitalize UGBC.”

McCarthy noted that the two are considered outside candidates, and expressed his hope that people will not quickly dismiss them for that. As the two move forward, McCarthy said, the focus for their campaign is to “Run for BC, not UGBC” by presenting tangible ideas with the support of the BC community.

“With our diverse campaign team, we plan on giving this election our all,” McCarthy said in an email. “Although we cannot go too much in-depth, we just want people to know that we plan on being honest, transparent, and fun as possible as we can in the upcoming weeks.”

Similarly, Hussey and McCaffrey expressed excitement for the upcoming elections. The two said they look forward to listening and engaging with students all over campus.

“Elections are a great time for students across campus to rally together

and share their ideas, and we encourage all members of the the BC community to be engaged and aware throughout the campaign process,” McCaffrey said in an email. “We cannot wait to share our vision for a better BC with the student body, and we wish the best of luck to all the other teams.”

In the meantime, the Elections Committee is aiming for a smooth, successful, and fair season as it prepares for the upcoming events, Rosenbloom said.

Because this is his fourth year on the committee, he said that he is hoping to avoid any personal attacks against other candidates, which he experienced in the 2013 elections.

“This is really about explaining your stance and what you believe the issues are at BC, and then just really going out and persuading others to also believe that and vote for you,” Rosenbloom said.

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our commitment to inclusiveness and our Jesuit, Catholic mission and identity,” University spokesman Jack Dunn said. “All individuals are welcome at Boston College and the University does not discriminate against anyone based on their uniqueness or identity.”

At the end of the fall semester, Pratt and Nick Minieri, chair of GLC and CSOM ’16, met with administration and graduate students in an LGBTQ roundtable discussion to talk about issues of inclusivity on campus.

Pratt hopes to have another meeting in the coming weeks to further the discussion of equality at BC. GLC has also created three concrete initiatives, in addition to the policy change, for the spring semester.

The group hopes to work with housing to start discussion about gender-neutral dorms, change the single-stall bathro oms in Gasson and Campion to gender-neutral, and add gender options, other than male and female, to BC enrollment documents.

“If we could start changing the mentality that we don’t always have to stay in line with our peers, we can be ahead of the game, and we can make changes and lead the communities that we are apart of as universities, I think that could be really important,” Pratt said.

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By Ryder Lee For The Heights John Cho, famous for his roles in the Harold & Kumar films, Star Trek, and an extensive array of TV appearances, spoke in front of an audience of several hundred students in Robsham Theatre on Monday night.

The Asian Caucus, AHANA Management Academy, FACES Council, and the International Club of Boston College collaborated to bring the Korean-American actor to BC. Cho’s visit marks the second speaker organized by the Asian Caucus Cabinet under its newest speaker initiative.

Last January, the Cabinet hosted original Star Trek actor and social advocate George Takei.

The group’s speakers are meant to bring attention to issues that are not often discussed in detail at BC, including diversity, culture, and race, Asian Caucus co-president and MCAS ’16 Andy Chen said. He said the initiative is designed to bring in

people who have been able to break the mold that often “traps” Asian-Americans.

Chen used the example of mental health awareness in Asian-American society.

“There’s a huge East Asian stigma about not discussing mental health issues,” Chen said. “There’s this ‘if you’re sad, try harder’ [state of mind]. We really find it a priority, especially on college campuses, to develop a culture of talking about mental illness and trying to [improve] education and support.”

Cho became the first Asian-American romantic lead in U.S. television history when he was cast in Selfie in 2014. He also played a small but memorable role in American Pie. Cho was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1972, but immigrated to the United States in 1978, settling in Los Angeles. He attended the University of California at Berkeley, where he developed an interest in acting. That interest burgeoned into a career, leading to appearances in blockbuster movies and primetime TV shows.

During the talk, Asian Caucus Cabinet members Andrew Lee, co-director of the AHANA Caucus and MCAS ’16,and Suraj Mudichintala, co-president of the South Asian Students Association and CSOM ’16, interviewed Cho, asking questions pertaining to his career, personal life, and his thoughts on Asian-Americans in the entertainment industry.

Cho discussed his struggles finding his personal identity as an Asian-American man. He described a visit to his birth country of South Korea to promote Star Trek. He recalls needing a translator to have lunch with old relatives, an experience he called “awkward,” but also “revealing” and “memorable.”

Several of the questions posed by Lee and Mudichintala prompted Cho to describe the adversity he faced as an AsianAmerican in a white-dominated industry.

In particular, Cho pointed to the standard hiring practices of talent agencies as an example of difficulties Asian-American actors face in pursuing traditionally white roles.

“If a part doesn’t specify ‘open to all ethnicities,’ it’s unavailable to minority actors,” Cho said, explaining that the industry defaults to white actors for the vast majority of roles.

When asked what individual actors could do about changing mindsets in Hollywood, Cho argued that any actor can avoid roles that stereotype certain ethnicities “as long as they’re willing to lose the money.” Cho himself described cases where he refused to play traditional Asian-American characters, like “the effeminate male, the bucktoothed nerd, [and] the guru mystic.”

While much of the conversation between Cho and the moderators was directed toward the changing status of Asian-Americans in such fields as entertainment and film, not all of the subject matter was heavy.

Due to his roles in the Harold & Kumar stoner-comedies, Cho was asked about his opinion on the legalization of marijuana.

He declined to comment.

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By Taylor St. Germain Asst. News Editor

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Second Meet @ Shea event encourages problem-solving and innovation skills.

Through the use of competition, creativity, and collaboration, the Shea Center for Entrepreneurship’s “Meet @ Shea” event on Tuesday night brought students together to put their problem-solving skills to the test. This was the second Meet @ Shea event the Center has put on this year.

The event, which was put on by four student leaders from the Start @ Shea board, featured information systems professor George Wyner. He shared his personal experience with innovation and offered attendees problem-solving methods.

Sixteen students attended the event, and were broken into groups of four to perform three challenges of differing difficulties.

“I’ve never done anything like this before,” Will Hennessey, CSOM ’17, said.

“I’m looking forward to picking at my creativity.”

The groups were first pitted against each other in competition to build the tallest tower out of only index cards. When the time clock began, students rushed to open their packs of cards and immediately started configuring the paper into different shapes.

The groups’ methods to build their

towers differed. Some groups started by individually trying to find the best method to stack, while others stuck to their original blueprint plans. By the end of the seven minutes, some towers stacked over two feet tall.

Students then deliberated over ways that they could have improved their towers, and then were given two minutes to put their improvements into place. All innovation takes reflection and revising, Pamela Taylor, organizer of Meet @ Shea and MCAS ’16, explained.

The next challenge was intellectually focused, and forced students to describe the color yellow to a blind person. All four of the groups came to similar conclusions: the only way to describe a color to a person without sight, is to use other senses.

“We wanted to describe it with senses that blind people do have,” Lizzie Manning, MCAS ’16, said. “We said it would feel like the warmth on your face, you could play songs like “Yellow Mellow,” and you could have them taste lemonade or yellow cake.”

The third challenge was centered around Wyner’s method of problem-solving: drawing a picture. Using personal anecdotes, Wyner explained his definition of “progress thinking.”

“Sometimes you only see what you’re doing now, in this moment, and not the future,” Wyner said. “If we open up our

minds, we can open up new ideas.”

Weyner then instructed the students to come up with a plan to solve the problem of food waste within a 12-minute period. The students were meant to express their ideas in a drawing, showing the different activities of each counterpart of the process.

Some students drew on real-life experiences. One group came up with an agenda to reduce food waste in Eagles Nest.

Another participant drew upon his time working in a deli and used his personal experience to find a solution to excess food production.

Groups also took into account BC culture, human nature, and societal issues when trying to solve the issue of food waste.

Wyner explained that the project was meant to be difficult. When students ran out of ideas, the visual diagrams would help them see the big picture ideas, he said.

The Meet @ Shea events are intended to bring together students from all of BC’s schools and allow them to discuss innovation and start-up ideas. The Shea Center for Entrepreneurship also hosts Accelerate @ Shea, a program for students who already have start-up ideas.

“We want to bring together students— who may have otherwise never met—in an environment that encourages the crosspollination of ideas and makes entrepreneurship more accessible,” Taylor said.

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Thursday, February 4, 2016

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JUAN OLAVARRIA As soon as I stepped out of the car, I saw it, the tangible reminder of things no more. Out of the thousands of times I had taken the short walk down Beacon Street and right on Miner toward Fenway, this was the most significant.

I had heard and experienced the often strange and terrifying force of sudden change, but this instance in particular struck me as both odd and weirdly uplifting.

The Elephant Walk, at the corner of Beacon and St. Mary’s, had served as my point of reference for the entirety of freshman year. When all else failed, the Elephant Walk was always there to guide me home—until last semester, that is.

For a very long time, all that remained of one of my favorite quirky sights of Boston was a hole in the ground and a promise for a new development to take its place.

As the months went by, however, its perpetual stillness left me feeling like something had been ripped from the area’s character. That corner felt to me as indigenous to Boston as the T, the Red Sox, and bad driving, although in its own unique way—but I digress, back to my walk this weekend.

The hole was now filled by a brand new building—just the outer metal beams, that is—but the fact remains that the new construction had managed what I believed impossible only a week prior-to fill that tangible and metaphorical empty space.

It’s a testament to the thriving redevelopment sector of the city over the past few years. I remember coming to Boston when I was 15, and the sights from that visit, especially from the Financial District and the Fenway area, are overwhelmingly different from the actual state of the city.

Just in the past year, the Fenway area has seen the opening of the City Target, Wahlburgers, and several residential buildings, among others. It has become the epitome of up-andcoming neighborhoods in the city.

The innovation bug has also bitten many colleges and universities, BC included, and they have embarked upon several projects that will undoubtedly bring individuals in the area much-needed income.

The city has emerged from the depths of the Great Recession with intent, and not only in the redevelopment sector. General Electric recently announced that it’s moving its global headquarters to Boston, a new casino is set to open in Suffolk, and the Government Center T station is scheduled to re-open in late March.

CareerBuilder recently released a new study that outlined how each major city in the U.S. performed in job creation and evaluated whether they met the projections. Boston, although not in the top 10, managed to keep pace with the national rate.

What this shows is that we are currently experiencing a new renaissance in the city, with every aspect of the city seeing at least marginal improvement.

What I hope to see is that during this rapid expansion of the city, the features that make the city what it is are not lost in the process. I cannot imagine Boston without its trademark brownstones, road-sharing subway cars, Citgo sign, or hell, even the annoying-yet-quaint cobblestone streets of the North End. It may have been too late for the Elephant Walk, and I may be alone in this quasi-obsession with that place, but it is sights like those that made the city feel that much more like home.

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THE MFA

Harry Winston Necklace (left) and Foot Series #8 with Ant (right) are two of the 24 photographs in the Museum of Fine Art’s “Hiro: Photographs” exhibit open now.

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The exhibit, located within the cozy Herb Ritts Gallery, features 24 arresting photographs that all but jump off the wall. The photographs are all the work of the iconic fashion photographer Hiro.

Hiro, born Yasuhiro Wakabayashi in 1930, began pursuing a career in fashion photography in the early 1950s. Inspired by the work of photographers such as Richards Avedon and Irving Penn, Hiro was able to find employment as Avedon’s assistant. Before long, Hiro’s own talent was recognized, and his career took off. Although his work was featured

in many major magazines, such as Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, Hiro remained relatively unknown to the public, making this his first solo exhibition in an American museum.

The idea for the exhibit was conceived almost two years ago by curator Anne Harvigna. After first admiring Hiro’s work while putting together the MFA’s “History of Fashion Photography” exhibit on 2007, Harvigna could think of no one better to feature when the MFA’s former director asked him to compose one more fashion photography exhibit. Although Hiro and Harvigna had met over the years, she was thrilled that he accepted her proposal after maintaining a low profile in the public eye throughout his career.

“If you know anything about his work you would have seen that he hasn’t had very many exhibitions,” Harvigna said. “The reason for that is that he doesn’t seem to put himself forward in that way.

He was interested in making his

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Even after 87 years, Charlie’s Sandwich Shoppe leaves Bostonians licking their fingers and hungry for more.

In June 2014, when Charlie’s announced its closing , locals were heartbroken and distressed—but a regular customer with a deep affinity for Charlie’s, Evan Deluty, saw an opportunity to bring back the jewel of the South End. Owner of another restaurant called Stella, Deluty quickly bought the Charlie’s and immediately saw to the renovation of its interior. Plumbing, electricals, and city certifications went underway in more than a year-long process. “[We’re] very excited and h o n o re d to h av e re o p e n e d Charlie’s, and look forward to another 87 years,” Deluty said over the phone.

Nestled in the bustling streets of the South End, Charlie’s Sandwich Shoppe had been an iconic establishment for over eight decades, serving hearty portions of its famous turkey hash alongside dozens of other delectable classics.

Since 1927, Charlie’s has been open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

With only 32 seats and no bathrooms, the loyal customers present at the shop collectively described Charlie’s as “equal par t s old- scho ol diner and neighborhood coffee shop.”

In many ways, Charlie’s has become successful in not only cultivating a business but also a sense of family within the restaurant itself.

“I’m psyched,” Deluty said in an interview with Boston.com.

“It’s been a complete rehab, the building was gutted to the bricks, but we tried to maintain the integrity and wonderful charm that Charlie’s had.”

Inside, the walls are adorned

with gleaming photos of past patrons, ranging from Duke Ellington to Sammy Davis Jr. to President Barack Obama.

Countless athletes , p oliticians, and celebrities have perched on one of Charlie’s bright red barstools, mopping up grease from a famous seared burger or digging into a creamy tuna melt.

With the numerous awards it has collected over the years, including a James Beard Award in 2005, it’s no wonder such a humble establishment has become legendary.

“I used to bring my kids in there so they could spin on the stools like I did when I was a kid,” Deluty said. “My kids go to school around the corner ... I’m a South End guy, and have been going for years.”

Deluty trie d to ke ep the place as original as possible, maintaining the overall layout inside the establishment right down to the number of seats in the place.

For him, it is all about keeping up the legacy of the previous owners, as Charlie’s is now as much a part of Boston as the T or the brownstones that align the streets of the city.

The new owners are very excited for the prospects of a reopened Charlie’s, as they see the tradition continuing for decades to come.

After months of hard work and back-breaking renovations, Deluty and his family were delighted to re-open Charlie’s Sandwich Shoppe last month to a lined-up crowd awaiting breakfast fare.

He has kept the breakfast menu intact and has annouced that Charlie’s will begin serving lunch fare in future months.

Crowds of hungr y locals packed the restaurant during the early hours of of the reopening day, eager to return to the delectable classics they nostalgically remember.

work, and he didn’t feel the need to promote himself beyond what he was doing.”

But fortunately for viewers, this exhibit offers the perfect first taste of Hiro’s unique aesthetic. The photographs, some in color and some in black and white require deep consideration on the part of the viewer. Many present fascinating juxtapositions, like the photograph featuring a jet black horse’s hoof draped with a-glimmering ruby and diamond necklace. These photographs push viewers to reconsider their opinions of fashion and beauty, all while allowing them to relish in the elegance that is a Hiro photograph. Very aware that this would be many viewers’ first experience with Hiro’s work, Harvigna worked closely with Hiro to compose the exhibition, traveling to his studio many times to consult.

“I was looking for images that I thought were particularly strong,” Harvigna said of the selection process. “[Hiro is] best known for

his color, but I wanted a few black and whites, I wanted to make sure that what makes him so distinctive was readily apparent, that sort of dynamic, graphic punch of his work, and the fact that it has this incredible elegance and at the same time is surreal or almost creepy.”

Hiro’s individual aesthetic is certainly obvious in the exhibit. After entering the room, it is impossible to drift from picture to picture in a daze as many museum-goers are apt to do, for each photograph is shocking and completely different from the one that came before. The exhibit flows naturally, but is filled with excitement and energy, two qualities that are essential for both exhibits and fashion photographers alike.

“Most fashion photographers have the challenge of trying to create work that fits the expectations of the job that is at the same time creative and expresses something of their own aesthetic,” Harvigna said.

“But more importantly, [work that

is] eye-catching, so that when it’s in a magazine and people are turning the pages they’ll maybe slow down and actually look—really look—or remember the picture.”

And the photographs featured in the exhibition are certainly impossible to forget. Each one is infused with a sense of confident ease, but still made interesting with visual risks. Hiro’s black and white photographs are elegant, and his colored ones are shocking, burning into the viewers’ minds and conveying a sense of joy. His photographs are not just pleasing to the eye, but exist on an intellectual level, betraying the care with which he composed each photograph.

“If you see current fashion photographers, you can see that [Hiro’s] work has inspired them,” says Harvigna. “He took a very long time for his shoots, he would plan what he was going to do very meticulously, the making of each picture is a long, slow deliberate process, and I think you see it in the work.”

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Thursday, February 4, 2016

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The two CliqBit founders, Hannah Wei (left) and Olivia Joslin (right), discuss their new app.

By Pasquale Difillipo Heights Staff Frustrated with the lack of an ideal platform to share funny moments, Olivia Joslin and Hannah Wei, both Wellesley ’18, created CliqBit. CliqBit is similar to Snapchat, allow-

ing users to share their photos, videos, and posts with a specific group of friends for a limited time frame that can range from only five seconds to as long as 48 hours.

CliqBit’s inspiration occurred when Joslin and Wei were discussing their days and were upset that they had missed the opportunity

to share a funny moment with their friends.

“No one really posts statuses on Facebook anymore, Twwitter is also a fading network,” Joslin said. “There wasn’t anything we could find with the funny focus that we wanted.”

Joslin and Wei leveraged their computer science backgrounds to create a polished, user-friendly app featuring a newsfeed and “Blazin’ Bits,” which highlights trending posts shared on the app. Users can create groups, known as “cliqs,” which allow you to share privately with specific groups of friends. Users can sign into the app using Facebook and share their posts to their friends’ “walls” as well. If users like a post, they can give feedback by tapping the “cheers” button. There is no public counter, removing the anxiety over likes on your post.

A unique feature is CliqBit’s ability to allow users to share posts for as little as five seconds to as long as 48 hours. Wei believes this versatility is one of many attributes that separates CliqBit from many of the other apps.

“In the app world right now, there are either very permanent platforms or anonymous disappearing platforms,” Wei said. “We hope

to be a bridge of sorts and be somewhere in between.”

Currently, the app has around 800 users, which has allowed the founders to identify potential issues before officially launching.

They expect to see growth following the Feb. 3 launch, Joslin said.

CliqBit is designed to be a place for members to interact casually and make people more aware of their own individual, humorous moments. Joslin hopes people recognize their funny content and share it in a positive environment.

Initially, both founders said it was difficult to get everything up and running and needed to learn along the way how to manage their time. Both founders indicated that starting your own app can be difficult, and one needs to wear multiple hats in the process.

“We were running from class to class,” Weid said. “Cutting out other parts of our lives in order to keep up with all the roles we have to play.”

Joslin and Wei hope to target college students and hope users will be able to find and follow funny users through trending posts.

They want to set themselves apart from the

social media app YikYak, popular among college students despite having a divisive atmosphere with the shroud of anonymity.

CliqBit is meant to be a haven, they said.

“We want social media to be more positive and want people to share some of the nicer moments in their lives,” Joslin said. “Many don’t want to deal with negative content in their lives.”

CliqBit hopes to advertise in the future, with ads displayed as posts, as well as hosting events to promote the product. They also floated the idea of having a paid account for comedians. This account would include an ability to sell tickets, along with a link to a website, Joslin said.

The app launched this week and is available on the iOS App Store. Joslin and Wei hope to release an Android version in the future. They believe that an Android version will allow for expansion into Asia, a heavily Android-based market.

In the future, the founders believe the app will continue to make social media fun.

“We are definitely going to keep updating it to keep up with the younger generation,” Wei said.

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By Laura Galligan For The Heights

By this August, Chelsea Theatre Works will open new doors to the youth population of Chelsea, Mass.

In the summer of 2014, Trip Venturella and his colleagues noticed that the Factory Theatre, which housed several small theatre companies, had closed down, leaving the companies without a home to perform in.

They decided that their company, Apollonaire, should open its arms and welcome them inside to a coworking black box theatre.

This plan will allow children from the ages of eight to 18 from Chelsea and its neighboring communities of East Boston, Revere, Winthrop, Cambridge and downtown Boston to act on stage, Venturella said.

“We kind of looked around and said ‘there really is no place where young people can do art,’ so we are building a home for that in Chelsea,” he said.

Venturella is looking to help talented, motivated, excited kids who would start in the program by taking classes, but eventually progress to producing shows, interning with their companies, and moving on to higher education.

Many of the students who will be attending come from the lowerincome Hisp anic community of Chelsea, MA. “We welcome anybody who is motivated, but [the students] tend to be the bilingual kids from the Chelsea area,” Venturella said.

Lynch School of Education professor Julia Whitcavitch-DeVoy believes

theatre changes the lives of many, having seen it in scholarly journals as well as in her own children.

It enhances one’s communication skills and overall development, she .

“It creates a context where you need to work together with one or more people, so there’s that social development piece,” WhitcavitchDeVoy said.

“I think for most people who are involved there’s an emotional development as well because as you progress through the programming, you feel more confident in your abilities,” she said.

Venturella agreed, noting that there are studies that demonstrate that theatre has an impact on not only the artistic part of the child, but also academically and socially.

“It helps improve high school graduation rates and how many kids go on to higher education,” he said.

“It’s very much a positive force in the kids’ lives,” he said.

Kate Weidenman, LSOE ’16, who also majors in theatre, believes that theatre has an impact on anyone, but particularly those who are willing to be vulnerable and impressionable.

It enhance s s elf-conf idence, self-concept, and self-presentation, Weidenman said.

Weidenman then points to the parallel between play and learning, and the close proximity of the theatre to the students’ neighborhoods as key. She believes kids will be much more willing to attend without having to travel far away.

“Theatre also allows its participants to make mistakes,” she said.

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Chelsea Theatre Works stage allows local children and teens a chance to express themselves artistically and learn in a safe environment. theatre from just another extracurricular because you are not simply trying to ‘win’ or even trying to learn a new skill.” He said.

“You are creating a version of yourself and attempting to give it away to people who want you to succeed [and thrive].”

Whitcavitch-DeVoy added that giving students an improved space has a large impact on the students’ self-worth.

“I think theatre gives you some

tools to say, ‘Yes, you do have that opportunity and you do have that potential,’” she said. “So I think it’s particularly important where there’s low-income and some economic challenges and demoralization.”

One of the main upsides of the project is having a theatre of their own, said Venturella, by making the children feel more comfortable and at home in the space.

Currently, he and his colleagues are “neck deep” in the expansion proj-

ect, which they hope to have open for the 2016-2017 season that begins in August, and they are very excited to broaden their impact on the Chelsea children and teens.

One of the most significant aspects of having a bigger space is that it allows the company the liberty to conduct more ambitious projects.

“It means more participants, more resources, more audience members, and finally a bigger community,” Weidenman said.

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And her independence does not stop there.

Even though she is a college student as well, she does not live in a traditional dorm and instead pays her own rent for her own apartment.

She buys all her own food. To support herself, she works several jobs.

She writes for publications around the world.

Despite being the same age as I am, she graduates this year and is actively job hunting.

You know what screams adulthood more than paying your own phone bills? Job hunting.

Needless to say, my friend is the most independent and adult friend I have. I value her friendship immensely, as she is the kind of friend

who makes you better by being herself. Over Winter Break, I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to visit her.

I forgot to mention earlier—on top of everything else that makes her so independent, she moved to Australia a few months after she graduated high school and currently lives on her own in Sydney.

Sydney is stunning. While the winter—which, although warm, was still winter—dragged on in Boston, the summer sun was shining in Sydney.

We visited the Opera House, which was a surreal experience. I attempted to find 42 Wallaby Way. We stayed out for New Year’s to watch the fireworks over the bay and promptly fell asleep on the train ride back home.

We ate so much delicious food. We visited a farmer’s market. We finally got to go surfing—the first two attempts had been canceled, one due to a shark sighting. We watched the sun set over the Sydney Harbor Bridge.

We had a number of incredible experiences in Sydney for the two weeks I was in Australia. But the most incredible thing to me was how much the city was an essential part of my friend’s life, more so than I had ever imagined.

Not only does my friend work there, but she also goes into the city frequently on weekends and nights.

For her, Sydney seemed to be a part of her routine and everyday experience in Australia.

When I returned home to Boston before school started, I was struck by how this was not the case for me. The city remains elusive to me.

Although Boston has always been a presence in my life—I lived in a suburb about 30 minutes away and grew up hearing stories of my parents’ childhoods in the city—it still seems like an unattainable dream sometimes.

It is not a part of my routine or everyday experience like Sydney is for my friend. Instead, Boston seems— and has always seemed—like a place that only exists for occasions. A place to visit for a birthday party, a play, a homework assignment.

When I returned from Australia, it felt like I had spent more time every day in a city that takes two flights and a day to travel to, than I had spent in Boston in my everyday life.

Reflecting now, this seems almost wasteful. How many opportunities and interesting experiences had I missed in the city?

Yes, Boston can be expensive

meetings I have on campus, I find and takes time to travel to, but the experiences I have had in Boston have myself dreaming of the elusive city and wishing I could go explore. always made the trip worthwhile.

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Af_e :_f Jg\\Z_ J_fnj N`ee`e^ JkiXk\^p Yp 8j`Xe :XlZlj John Cho, famous for his work on films such as the Harold and Kumar series and 2009’s Star Trek, spoke at Boston College on Feb. 1 as part of the Asian Caucus Cabinet Speaker Initiative.

He spoke about his life and work in the film industry as well as addressed issues of importance for the AsianAmerican community.

This is the second example of the Asian Caucus successfully bringing an influential Asian speaker to campus—the first being George Takei last January.

Through the success of these events, it is clear that the Asian Caucus has developed a strategy for securing speakers that should be emulated.

By pooling funds from the eight cultural clubs that make it up, the Caucus is able to bring interesting and noteworthy speakers to campus that not only attract attention for the event itself, but also bring positive recognition to the Caucus.

As an organization whose mission is to “creat[e] a unified voice that is necessary to create awareness of issues that affect the Asian-American community,” the Asian Caucus has successfully used these notable speakers to bring those who might normally be uninterested in hearing a talk about Asian-American issues to their events.

With fast-paced and tightly-scheduled college students as the main audience, one of the only ways to attract them to events and bring their awareness to causes is to grab attention with a name that draws people’s attention, just as John Cho did this past Monday.

Other student organizations and initiatives would do well to notice this.

By focusing a great deal of the funds on one event, the Caucus is able to generate interest and success in a more meaningful way than if it had dispersed the funds among several lesser events.

BC students, and people in general, are drawn to these larger and more notable events over small, underpublicized events.

By focusing the majority of funds on large events, groups are better represented and develop a name for themselves

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Over this year the Asian Caucus has demonstrated skill and commitment in bringing two big-name Asian speakers to campus. Its skillful use of funds to support one event is something other student organizations should take note of, especially when trying to generate interest for their own specific causes.

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In an attempt to expand the administration’s non-discrimination policy to include gender identity, the GLBTQ leadership council—an offshoot of the Undergraduate Government of Boston College—has prepared a “gender identity and gender expression” report that it will present to the administration.

BC’s current non-discrimination policy already protects against discrimination based on “race, color, national origin, sex, religion, disability, age, marital or parental status, sexual orientation, military status, or other legally protected status.” GLC believes, however, this should be expanded to include “gender

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identity and gender expression,” as its proposal specifies.

This portion of the non-discrimination policy already exists at other universities such as Boston University, Yale University, and Georgetown University, a fellow Jesuit school. GLC’s efforts to expand the non-discrimination policy are commendable, but the decision lies almost entirely with the administration. The extent of GLC’s power ends with its presentation, report, and proposal. As an organization of student government, it can organize

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and fight for its cause, but cannot actually implement any of the policies it proposes for the University.

D e spite this , the prop o sal still remains a good first step toward its goals and, even if rejected, acts as a symbolic gesture declaring UGBC’s stance when it comes to this issue.

In a situation in which its power is severely limited, it has done as much as it feasibly could.

The final decision remains in the administration’s hands, with the success of the proposal still questionable. In the past, the administration has moved to expand the policy to include sexual orientation, and has not demonstrated discrimination against students based on gender identity or expression, including in incidents of sexual assault in which the response does not change based on a student’s gender identification, according to Katherine O’Dair, associate vice president of student affairs.

Despite Georgetown’s inclusion of this gender identity and gender expression clause, a number of other highprofile Catholic institutions, such as Fordham University, Marquette University, and the University of Notre Dame, have not included any such clause within their non-discrimination policies.

This gives BC a chance to establish a precedent for gender identity and expression, as well as non-discrimination, among Catholic universities but also opens it up to backlash from Catholic organizations that do not agree with the expansion of this policy.

While working toward achieving this policy change is a commendable effort for the GLC, the decision will ultimately rest on the administration and its view of the situation.

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Thursday, February 4, 2016

“It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.”

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR A Reponse to “Eradicate’ Members Receive Disciplinary Action in Response to Unregistered Protest” When I first read this article, my initial reaction was to condemn Boston College’s administration for attempting to punish an anti-racism protest. Just more ways that the administration refuses to work with the outspoken students, right? But after I reread some sections and thought about it a little more, I came to support the administration’s decision to discipline “Eradicate” members. Their protest was illegal—that’s all there is to this matter.

The article suggests that the administration is open to working with the group, as long as it is registered. If Eradicate had repeatedly tried to register their protests and signs but were denied, this would be an entirely different story. A group cannot get special treatment around the rules just

because they support an important and just cause. Eradicate should have protested in accordance with the rules or, if they found the rules unfair or used against them, fought them through a lawful and institutionalized process. I have already discussed this issue with many people, and I want to be an advocate for the administration in this case; they are just following standard procedure, and would like us to do the same.

If there exists some problem within the procedure itself, then disobeying will not accomplish anything. We need to work with the administration if we want anything done, and immediately causing friction is not the answer.

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A Reponse to “Winning Over Millennial Republicans” I read Nicholas Hissong’s Feb. 1 op-ed, “Winning Over Millennial Republicans,” with interest; while I am not sure if I (having been born in 1997) count as a “Millennial” (my dictionary gives a 1994 cut-off date, but Neil Howe and William Strauss, who coined the term, give it as 2004), I am a young Republican, and I concur and sympathize with Mr. Hissong’s statement that “A young Republican is an increasingly difficult thing to be.”

When I first glanced over Mr. Hissong’s piece, I thought that he was a libertarian (vide “Many Millennials who prefer Republican economic policy…”) —something that I am not, but all well and good for him. Surprisingly, however, he is no libertarian, which he goes out of his way to point out in his third paragraph. Pourquoi? Well—“They [Millennial Republicans] adhere too firmly to the proactive social reforms of the Left…”

While I agree that many young Republicans are, unfortunately, wed only to the call of lower taxes and free markets at the expense of the rest of conservative principles, they do tend (I have found) to be libertarians rather than rabid socialjustice warriors of the Left. But no!—the surprise is that these “neo-neoconservatives” (honestly, “neoconservative” was a silly enough contradiction in terms. Need we augment the problem by adding another “neo”?) “…are…shaking their heads at Republican climate change denial and cruel, reactionary immigration policy.”

I will pass over the implications of the words denial and reactionary, but accusations of “climate change denial” and “reactionary immigration policy” already betray a deeper liberalism. Think

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of it this way: say that Hissong is completely right on these issues (he’s not). He wants the government to do something about them (“proactive social reforms”). That would imply a powerful, progressive government that could work against conservatives who disagree. It would need high taxes and increased spending, taking away rights from Christians and imposing Almighty Progress (and possibly putting Kim Davis in jail again)—and, voila, we have orthodox liberalism!

Now, of course, Mr. Hissong’s piece does not endorse the party platform of every liberal in modern politics—I can’t see Hissong voting for Bernie Sanders, with his anti-business agenda—but it seems in accord with the majority of modern- day liberals. Former Senators Jim Webb (D-Va.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Ct.), both of whom I admire, would be too conservative for Mr. Hissong’s taste.

It is difficult and ultimately untenable to be a “fiscal conservative with passionately liberal social leanings,” especially if those passionately liberal social leanings spill over into passionately liberal economic platforms as well. The problem is not that Mr. Hissong is a liberal. He has a right to it as much as I have my right to be an unrepentant conservative (on all issues, not just those pesky fiscal ones). The problem is that we already have a party that tends to be liberal and “progressive.”

But they’re not called “the Embarrassed Republicans” (although it might be more fun if they were)—they’re called the Democrats.

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WEIRDLY WARM WEATHER - The warmth of the sun, the smell of freshly melted snow soaking into the grass, people wearing long-sleeve Tshirts and light sweaters: it all comes together to make the least seasonal beginning to February we’ve ever seen. It felt like the end of the school year, or the spring thaw. Luckily, it should only last a few days and then we can get back to the windwhipped, snow-flying fury of New England winter.

CLOSED DOORS - Remember freshman year, when your RA told everyone to keep their doors open if they wanted to make friends and share the good vibes of community and love? That was stupid and dumb.

Closed doors are the best. They keep people out. There’s nothing better than spending 27 hours in one room with a closed door, two bottles of milk, 17 empty mason jars, and a vial of your own tears.

BEING RELATABLE - You all get what I’m saying, right? Everyone locks themselves in small rooms with various strange items? This is all totally normal and everyone can relate because there’s nothing better than ubiquitous, uninteresting platitudes that everyone can be part of.

UBIQUITOUS - If you ever want to sound pretentious, feel free to use the word ubiquitous. People will respect you and want to spend more time with you.

I was in my sophomore year of high school, visiting Chicago for the first time with my family. Soon after we boarded the train, a large woman swaggered over, yelling so aggressively that spit flew from her mouth. She focused on a man sitting alone and insulted him with words that I wouldn’t repeat here— even if The Heights allowed me to. The victim just stared straight ahead, obviously angry, but ignoring the woman as best he could to avoid trouble. And then the subway stopped, and we all went our separate ways.

For me, that incident serves as a snapshot, a personification of mental illness at its worst. Since then, I’ve run into numerous other individuals suffering from a variety of other mental and emotional pains—depression, eating disorders, anxiety, trauma, and abuse, to name a few. Judging by common reactions toward and treatment of these problems, I sometimes wonder what image society as a whole has of mental illness. I fear that too often we paint it in extremes. That lady, nearly frothing at the mouth in uncontrollable rage, is mental illness as we understand and fear it—and we remain sitting on the train, watching a single mind’s chaos unfurl.

But what we fail to realize is that, more often than not, our understanding is exaggerated unto falsity. We turn passive in fear and stigmatize something that affects all of us in manifold ways, thereby granting it power over us.

The greatest problem with our perception of mental illness is that we forget that we’re all a little unbalanced and illogical. We fail to realize that when

BEING POLITE IN EMAILS - Dear Franklin, How are you today? It’s been three days since I last saw you and I do miss you so. I hope you’re feeling fantabulous and that every day brings you peace and goodwill. I’m writing to you on this fine day to inquire as to whether you will ever decide to get off your lazy hindquarters and do your work for our group project. I hope I don’t sound harsh or overly serious, but I promise that I will destroy every facet of your existence if you don’t respond to this email. Other than that, everything seems great, positively dandy. Best wishes, Jeremiah J. TennyPenny.

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and emotional—and we suddenly find ourselves confessing our pains like secret sins. I’ve seen this happen in particular at some retreats, where an attempt to create community results in an overwhelming number of people sobbing, gasping as they tell their stories to people they met the night before.

I worry that at times these “quick fixes” and “retreat highs” serve as sugar pills for a society fearful of taking proper medicine: they encourage a delusion of security and health, while avoiding those issues that endanger both. We confess our sorrows, and then pronounce ourselves cured and satiated.

We don’t have to “confess” anything—our pains shouldn’t be translated as shame. Simple as it sounds, we should treat our pains as pains. The way I see it, an arm can be broken any number of ways—by one’s own fault, by the fault of another, or by variations of other causes and consequences—but the fact remains that there’s a broken arm that needs to be fixed. The fact remains that someone is suffering the pain of that broken bone. If we are a society that knows its values, then we’ll take the whole process seriously: even after the bone has set and the cast comes off, we’ll continue to check in. We’ll recognize that sometimes healed bones can ache with the coming of rain.

People are enigmatic creatures, always changing. Therefore, it stands to reason that mental illness is equally—if not more—complex. So let’s let the doctors be doctors. Let’s assist those with broken arms and continue to look after each other, even when we appear completely healed, simply because we appreciate the importance of creating a supportive community.

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RUNNING OUT OF SOCKS - Everyone knows you can re-wear underwear for at least eight days, and you never have to wash your pants or shirt, but when it comes to socks, it’s one and done. You wake up one morning to find yourself searching desperately for a clean pair of socks, only to find you’ve once again run out. The rest of your clothes are in perfectly good, clean supply, but you still have to do laundry because the terrible stench of your godforsaken footses has destroyed every pair of socks you own.

these symptoms grow into a disorder or illness, we can’t suddenly lose our humanity. Yet we fear being characterized as the disorder, and as a result we often cover the more riddling parts of ourselves. The senior struggling with an eating disorder, the optimist secretly burdened with anxiety, the friend who is a borderline alcoholic—they’re all in the Boston College community, appearing at unexpected moments and hiding behind locked doors. And when we’re not “those people,” we fear discussing them, because we associate mental illness with the lady frothing at the mouth. We don’t like to think that we, so similar to these suffering students, could in turn be associated with her.

The funny thing about the stigma is that it often reveals itself quietly. I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone teased for being depressed or suffering from an eating disorder—BC students (as far as I’ve seen) are pretty upright people. We know better than to bully each other.

But what we will do is deny, deny, deny.

“I don’t think that’s true,” I heard someone say to a friend who tried to explain her mental illness. “I mean, I support you if you are, but that just doesn’t sound like you.”

It’s like we strip off our masks for a moment and those who see gently slide them back on for us. “Let’s not make this an issue,” they seem to say. “Let’s forget that this happened.” In this way, we protect our friends and ourselves.

We view mental illness as an extreme— it’s not something that happens to this friend or that kid in class. We’re all fine.

Because otherwise, these BC students become something separate from the community.

In allowing ourselves to view mental illness within such extremes, we also jump to the extremes of denial and silence. Inevitably, however, these issues cannot remain forever under the surface—they’re simply too complicated

If you’re like many Americans, you may be asking yourself, “Why does this election cycle have so much anger?”

Much has been written about the potent populist ideas dominating the airwaves—especially regarding Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders—and it’s apparent that this style of political rhetoric is in vogue.

Yet the prevailing sentiment is that these cries for systemic change are nothing more than a passing fad, a craze destined to dwindle as people come to their senses. Many act as if the angry political discourse is an anomaly divorced from material reality, as if politicians are inventing the frustration behind this election’s narrative. In actuality, this fiery upwelling has been a long time in the making. Over the past three decades, we’ve seen moderate politicians on both sides of the aisle who have propped up the increasingly unequal status quo and led to the disappearance of the middle class, which is now looking for someone to blame.

As much as the mainstream media likes to hype up election drama, the increasingly palpable anger in this country is not just a tool politicians use to get elected. Yes, fear has been and always will be a powerful political instrument, but the rush by every candidate to frame him or herself as anti-establishment proves itself beyond the normal scope of political maneuvering and taps into deeper rumblings within American society. Even traditionally pro-business Republican candidates have pivoted to include income inequality and campaign finance reform in their campaign platforms—even if their actual policies will only exacerbate the problem. Jeb Bush states, “If you’re born poor today, you’re more likely to stay poor. We need to deal with this.” And, attacking a corrupt campaign finance system, Trump says, “I will tell you that our system is broken.”

So why is there this massive bipar-

tisan surge calling for a drastic change in the status quo? Well, to put it bluntly: the American Dream has disappeared over the past 30 years. Since 1980, wages have only increased 8 percent, while productivity has simultaneously increased 63 percent. At the same time, however, as motionless wages are a reality for 99 percent of Americans, the richest among us continue to do better and better with the top .01 percent now owning as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. This disparity has direct consequences for the working class, as yearly wages for the average American family would be $17,867 higher if not for the explosion of inequality since 1979.

Unfortunately, this trend shows no signs of stopping, and while the country is still suffering the devastating aftermath of the Great Recession, the top 1 percent has captured 95 percent of the gains in income since the 2008 economic crash.

The causes behind this massive shift in wealth are too complex to go into in this short column, but, in short, the middle class began its decline during the Reagan era, when policies became increasingly pro-corporation. Reaganomics has never been challenged, whic has lead to the current radically unstable status quo. This is no longer a moderate and restrained society, so why would people be looking toward moderate, restrained candidates who simply rebrand the very policies at the root of our country’s problems?

This imbalance also extends beyond the economic sphere. Due to Citizens United, the wealthy and the corporations they run can buy candidates and basically decide who gets elected with their ever-inflating profits. This led to Princeton’s recently declaring that America is no longer a democracy, but rather an oligarchy, as the average citizen has next to no influence over our political system.

The American Dream has a companion in the morgue: American democracy.

Even if people aren’t aware of these facts (or refuse to believe the truth behind them), they still feel their effects.

With an entire generation frozen in economic limbo, citizens are starting to feel the icy chill of our radically imbalanced society. Throughout this economic winter, politicians have promised hope and change time and time again,

just to leave the middle class out in the cold. No wonder the fiery rhetoric of the likes of Trump or Sanders appeals to the ones left behind. Due to the loss of faith in a system turned against them, voter turnout continues to be extremely low, especially among the most disadvantaged. A recent Pew Research Center survey found that 61 percent of Americans believe the economic system favors the wealthy, and 75 percent think that politicians are corrupted by the abundance of money in politics. This has traditionally translated into indifference, but this election cycle is different. Apathy has eroded into anger, and fed-up citizens are finding hope in the prospect of dismantling a defunct system.

Herein lies the crux behind the burgeoning popularity of populist rhetoric.

As more and more people find themselves unable to find a full-time job, are drowning in student loans, or are filing for bankruptcy because of medical bills (due to circumstances outside of their control), they will turn toward so-called radical candidates who are blaming the death of the American Dream and democracy on a dysfunctional economic and political system. Pundits say these radicals are bound to go out of fashion.

But doesn’t a radically broken system warrant a radical solution?

This is why the calls for the necessity of moderate candidates fall on deaf ears. Moderation in politics implies the status quo only needs a facelift, while in reality our modern society desperately needs reconstructive surgery. People are tired of plastic politicians, with more corporate sponsors than a NASCAR driver, promising change that will forever be on the horizon. The sun is setting on the age of apathy, and voters are starting to realize that they have the power to counter the might of money in our political system. A charming politician with empty promises will not quell the anger reverberating through the nation. People want a politician who cannot be bought. If we have four more years of a “moderate” candidate, this election cycle’s anger will pale in comparison to the next one’s rage.

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In less than one month’s time, Boston College will make its way to the polls (read: online election form). It will commit to a future, with the fate of the University hanging in the balance. Of course, by “Boston College,” I mean approximately one-third of undergraduates.

And by “fate of the University,” more reasonably we’re referring to the fate of the Undergraduate Government of Boston College, which is still a big deal. And for those of you who don’t think student government matters, consider this: in the 2015-2016 academic year, UGBC’s total budget was $319,351, with $17,500 given in direct stipends to its leadership. Each undergraduate commits roughly $35 to this government via the student activities fee. For all intents and purposes, we’re paying for the services these student leaders provide.

Already in the 2016 UGBC election cycle, we’ve seen an editor for satirical newspaper The New England Classic commit to running for the highest student office. And given that this self-declared satirical candidate successfully secured the 250 student signatures required for a UGBC run, it’s safe to say we all have some soul-searching ahead of us this election cycle.

Does student government really matter?

Is it even a legitimate concept to believe a modern university could, in part, be governed by students? In his campaign, current president Thomas Napoli, MCAS ’16, proposed an overhaul of free-expression policies on campus, particularly in regard to University rules which punished students for unapproved fliers and protests. The proposed reforms, which at the beginning of the summer were said to be virtually a done deal, were completely squashed in September. The Office of the Dean of Students, which had the ultimate authority in approving the proposal, rejected it on the grounds that unfettered speech was something that would necessarily work against the interests of administrators.

In hindsight, this was an unsurprising conclusion to this particular student effort, but it does offer great insight into how decisions are made at BC: student interests can never win without significant buy-in from administrators. Come this time of year, there will almost inevitably be some snarky opinion piece remarking on the futility of the incompetence of UGBC. Of course, we should be critical of our student leaders whenever necessary, but I also think it’s worth considering how many vested University interests stand to benefit from the belief that our student organizations are simply incompetent, and student advocacy only really ever touches on superficial problems.

As a BC undergraduate, you should be worried about how the University’s leaders perceive the concerns of students. A recent piece in Psychology Today, written by a researcher at BC, detailed the organized administrative response to the declining “resilience” of BC undergraduates. This piece has been modified from its original version, when the researcher discloses his relationship with the University. The piece details some distressing opinions coming from the University’s senior leadership, essentially characterizing BC students as petulant children, unwilling to accept responsibility and in need of thorough “handholding” from faculty in making even the simplest of decisions. It goes so far as to describe administrators and faculty members as victims of a sort, held captive by the id of an infantilized undergraduate population. Aside from being heavily insulting, this narrative is really helpful to understand why BC insists that “unsupervised” student protesters deserve to be punished, why student government constantly struggles to maintain legitimacy at BC, and why—as one administrator put it—student groups at BC should not tell the University what to do. Which brings us back to our election, and the baffling reality of a University—with an increasingly diminished perspective on the legitimacy of student advocates—allocating over $300,000 a year to an organization devoted to student advocacy.

If BC undergraduates truly are as mentally distressed as the “resilience” narrative maintains, it should be the University’s top concern to work with student leaders to better understand these problems and develop solutions. The natural conclusion should be that University policies are failing us. Instead, BC has become the poster institution for framing the expressed needs of students as a major character flaw. Student interest needs to be considered a compelling force in University politics. When all decision-making happens at the top, it’s unsurprising that students (and faculty) exhibit a diminished sense of responsibility and mental wellbeing. It’s unsurprising that students doubt the legitimacy of the organizations said to represent them.

It’s also unsurprising when, year after year, BC’s best and brightest fall short in delivering on their campaign promises. To borrow from the rhetoric of national politics today, the system is rigged. We don’t need better leaders. We need a model of University decision-making that transcends the narrow perspective of administrative interest.

Students are not the problem.

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Over the past few months, I’ve become convinced that the Boston area doesn’t get enough credit. People who view the area from afar see a veritable mountain of snow covering pink whales, boat shoes, and respectable businessmen who can trace their family history back to Plymouth Rock.

There is the ever impressive Museum of Fine Arts and the Orchestra peeking out from the snowdrift because we are, of course, talking about a metropolitan area, which means that it not only has history but also culture.

But, once you really start looking at Boston, and the cities surrounding it, you might notice that they walk themselves back from the abyss of stuffiness (something that can come naturally to cities with just the right amount of history) because they have developed a trait coveted in both people and cities alike.

The Boston area refuses to take itself too seriously.

Take for example one of the newest storefronts in Cambridge, Cash for Your Warhol.

If you walk past it, located in Inman Square, the aggressive yellow signs in the windows might make you pause for a minute.

Cash for your Warhol? Are there people who wonder what to do with all the extra Warhols they have lying around their homes? Who are those people? They must be really rich.

You may be intrigued enough to start peeking inside the windows of the store, which at first glance looks authentic enough, kind of like those stores that dramatically announce that they will ‘buy gold for cash.’ But there are no Warhols of any kind in the store. There are only more of the brightly colored Cash for Your Warhol signs and a few checks hanging on the wall.

At this point, you might be so curious as to how this establishment functions that you actually go into Cash for Your Warhol.

If you do get to that point, you will discover that the whole thing is but a joke, with conceptual art projects all wrapped into one storefront.

Cash for Your Warhol is the brainchild of Geoff Hargadon, a Somerville resident, whose day job is managing a wealth management practice. Hargadon’s passion for photography and conceptual art lead him to begin the project in 2009 with just a few Cash for Your Warhol signs. Hargadon intended to comment on the financial crisis of the time, and the way art is sold in the modern world, according to the Boston Globe. The project gained momentum from there as public interest grew, and separate galleries began featuring Hargadon’s Warhol signs. Cash for Your Warhol even has a function phone number and a website proclaiming that you can “Raise cash!” and “Avoid bankruptcy!” with your “Confidentiality assured!”

For me, the fact that this form of storefront can exist within the Boston area is a victory. Cash for Your Warhol is a platform that opens up a discussion for more serious topics, like the nature of art or the financial crisis, while allowing people to laugh at the absurdity of it all. It is the kind of place that lends an important element of lightheartedness and sends out the signal that Boston is the kind of city that you want to actually be in, not just look at from afar.

I guess that cities are not too dissimilar from people. The enjoyable ones are constantly changing, with just the right about of stuff staying the same. Like people, they also need the ability to disassociate themselves from the stressful expectations of their past and their present so that they can make people laugh. They need to be a space where conceptual artists feel comfortable setting up transient shops that will brighten someone’s day and give them something amusing to discuss at the dinner table.

Like Hargadon, the Boston area needs, and seems to have, a practical side, where they manage wealth, balanced by a side where they can express—or provide a place for others to express—their passions.

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Mice, from A1 Workers checked, reset, and cleared traps as needed.

Once existing traps were addressed, they put additional bait and traps in the ceilings.

As Boyle mentioned before, it does not take much of an opening for mice to enter buildings.

The last step the staff is taking is patching up the pipes in the ceiling, where it had noticed openings within while creating a minefield for mice in the ceilings.

“We tried to button up the building a little tighter,” Boyle said. “We’re doing everything we can on our end.”

Johnson came back after the month-long break to

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To best ensure that the outside mice remain mice outside, the custodial staff checked the exterior door of Walsh, making sure that when they were closed, there weren’t any places that mice could enter.

After break, about a week into the spring semester, door sweeps—meant to keep mice from scurrying into units from under the door—were put on every door in Walsh Hall.

find two dead mice in her suite. Though Johnson and her roommates were disgusted, Boyle saw this as a positive.

“That means the mice took the bait and died,” he said.

Boyle explained that the custodial staff had gone through the units that had mouse traps in them and tried to clean out any dead mice the workers found while checking the traps that had been set throughout the

semester. Thus, finding dead mice after break—while an unfortunate sighting—means that the new bait the staff had set was effective.

A decrease in the number of mice is good news for Walsh residents, and with a drop in mice count comes a drop in the effects that mice have on sanitation. Mice carry around bacteria and infections, much like any other animal does. And, mice come with their urine droppings.

Boyle and Straker were both very clear that any mice droppings and other visible excretions were promptly cleaned up by pest control. With the reasoning that there is no way to really detect mice urine, however, Straker stated that, if there were mice found in a bathtub, for example, that there would be rigorous sanitation measures taken, but other than visible excretions, action is not taken.

“I’m not aware of any students going to the infirmary because of mice-related infections or anything,” Boyle said, backed by Straker’s nodding in the background.

Johnson and her roommates are hopeful that from now on, their only guests will be those who are invited to the room.

With Walsh’s newly established armory, equipped with ceiling traps, door sweeps, sealed holes, and fortified exterior doors, Walsh residents are armed to conquer the outsiders this semester.

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The group, which has been on campus since 1988, competes in Improv Boston’s Annual Comedy Beanpot, a tournament between 18 New England colleges and universities, every February.

This year, the group decided to organize a preview of the event on BC’s campus.

CCE will host four groups: Boston University’s Liquid Fun, Suffolk University’s Seriously Bent, and Northeastern University’s NU and Improv’d.

“I wanted to build off of that spirit [of the Beanpot] of different Boston schools competing and bring that aspect to the comedy,” Elisabeth Ryden, vice president and secretary of CCE, said. “It’s a good way to bring Boston together.”

CCE also decided to host a preview of the event in order to strengthen its relationships with the other colleges’

teams, Starlin Shi, MCAS ‘16 and cocoach of CCE, said.

“This is the first time we’ve had a collaborative event with off-campus improv groups,” Ryden said. “And that’s really exciting because one of the main themes in doing improv is teamwork. It’s all about communication. So taking that to a larger scale and doing it with other teams is really exciting.”

The competition will consist of three different events—short form, long form, and line games. The short form game lasts for a few minutes and involves suggestions from the audience, whereas the long form continues for about 20 minutes.

For the line games, all performers stand in a line on stage and are given an idea by the audience. They are very quick one-liners, Ryden explained.

“You always get your inspiration from the audience,” she said. “So the person running the game can ask for an object or thing, but they usually just take anything the audience gives.”

The improv club performs about once a month and participates in three events beyond BC’s campus each year: the Boston Comedy Arts Festival in Sep-

tember, Nationals in November, and the Annual Comedy Beanpot in February.

CCE is open to all students—no previous improv experience is necessary. Therefore, many of their meetings revolve around practicing improv. Raymond Santos, MCAS ‘16 and co-coach of CCE, and Shi teach lessons on improv and work to develop the skills of every member.

The group has about 45 members, but there are different levels of commitment, Shi and Santos said.

“We try to keep things as casual as we can,” Shi said. “It’s improv—you want to have fun and it’s not exactly a life or death issue, but there are definitely some people who get super into it.”

They are taking a nine-member team to the Beanpot. There was no official tryout for the team—it was based off of their performances at the club meetings.

CCE meets on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays in Gasson.

“It’s more practice than rehearsal,” Shi said. “Practice is more to see if we can react in the moment because we don’t know what kind of inspirations we’re going to get from the audience.

So it’s just sort of honing those skills so we can react in real time.”

The Beanpot in Boston generally attracts a different crowd, Ryden said.

Audience members usually consist of Boston residents and BC graduates rather than current BC students.

“The show we’re doing this weekend is much more directed towards BC students,” Ryden said.

The group’s goals for this weekend, Shi said, are for the event to run smoothly and to get a strong turnout.

“It is a very unique event,” Shi said.

“I think that improv isn’t necessarily the best-advertised thing on campus.”

Improv, Shi said, makes some audience members feel uncomfortable. Shi ensures that the environment will be relaxed and comfortable and no one will have to unwillingly participate.

Santos and Shi hope to win the Beanpot this year. If they do, it will be their first win since 2014, when the women’s and men’s hockey teams also won the hockey Beanpot.

“It’s just a blast because you get 18 teams together, and they’re generally just a bunch of goofy people,” Shi said.

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If you ever notice a guy walking around campus every day with a Pink Ladies pin on, that’s me. FOX sent it to me about two weeks ago, along with a press package/treasure chest of other Grease goodies, as a reminder of its Grease: Live musical that aired last Sunday. I ate all the popcorn and cotton candy and gave away a couple of flags and t-shirts, but the Pink Ladies pin is mine. It’s sleek and it’s pink, and pink’s my favorite color. That’s all there really is to it. Plus, it emblematizes my love for what I consider to be the best of the best when it comes to American musicals.

Now, I know, that’s a bold and arguable claim. But in this case, it’s personal. I can’t thoroughly argue that Grease is the technically best musical out there, but for me, it’s funky, it’s funny, and I grew up watching it. No show tune could possibly match Frankie Valli’s “Grease” theme. It’s not possible. “Grease” exudes rocksolid coolness and suavity. “Grease is the way we are feelin‘.” That’s all that needs to be said on the song’s and, really, the movie’s account.

So when I received this press package from FOX, I actually got kind of excited. I say “actually” because I’ve been skeptical of and disappointed by the string of live musicals that NBC has broadcasted over the last couple of years. To quote Brian Lowry’s Variety review of Carrie Underwood’s The Sound of Music Live!, “the actual production too often felt as lifeless as [its] alpine backdrops.” Some might find this a bit over-dramatic, but honestly, I fully agree with Mr. Lowry. It’s not that Carrie Underwood didn’t sing well or that the sets and props were atrocious. Everything felt so stiff.

It seemed like everyone was uncomfortable trying to make the production as great as they wanted it to be, which came off as overdone and inauthentic.

When Peter Pan Live! came around next, I thought my ears would start bleeding at the sound of Christopher Walken’s pirate shanties.

Apparently making the jump from singing in Hairspray to prancing about as Captain Hook was a bit too much for the beloved actor.

And don’t get me wrong, I love Christopher Walken, but try watching an excerpt from Peter Pan Live! without curling over in tears, laughing at the monstrosity of a performance that unfolds before you.

With these two examples in mind, I was shocked to find myself intrigued by FOX’s Grease: Live. Maybe it was the fact that I actually enjoy Grease, whereas I’m pretty indifferent toward The Sound of Music and a musical Peter Pan. I didn’t know any of the cast members for Grease: Live except for Vanessa Hudgens, and I was pretty indifferent toward her, too. Nevertheless, last Sunday came and, as the day went on, my hopes for Grease: Live actually got pretty high.

That is, until the show started. At that point, I realized my fatal mistake. The worst part was, I should have seen it coming.

I’ve seen Grease with John Travolta upwards of 10 times. I don’t put it on very often because seeing it more than ten times is realistically a large enough fill of Grease for a lifetime, but when I haven’t seen it for awhile and I think about watching it, I embellish to myself how much I actually like watching it. It’s never as satisfying as I remember it, which is sad, but true.

The other thing I forgot was that I don’t like renditions of Grease. I’ve seen stage productions of it twice and both times nothing felt engrossing or fleshed out with the same tone and authenticity as the movie is. The actors in both stage productions didn’t break past the point of being actors.

I wasn’t watching Danny Zuko strut around “Greased Lightning.” I was watching some guy do his best Danny Zuko impersonation.

And that’s exactly what happened with Grease: Live. It didn’t own Grease’s essence at all. Full of “live television” gimmicks and unnecessary celebrity cameos (except for the original Frenchie as the waitress at the diner), Grease: Live was a plastic, lifeless imitation of an American classic. Every line felt like it was spewed from a 1950s dialectic robot with a jammed on/off switch.

Renditions of Grease are supposed to revive a sensibility. They’re supposed to exhibit, to quote Frankie Valli, “the time, the place, and the motion.” But, at least for me, Grease: Live didn’t have the groove and it didn’t have the meaning.

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Rocchio-Giordano, Borges, and Ricciardi make up one of Boston College’s unique upand-coming bands, aptly named Funky Giant.

The band came together after Rocchio-Giordano and Ricciardi met in their Music Theory class.

Ricciardi, the lead guitarist of Funky Giant, was intrigued to hear Rocchio-Giordano played the bass, and the two almost instantly hit it off.

While the two played together throughout the fall semester, Funky Giant finally came together when the two met Borges, who was, at the time, a drummer on the BC marching band.

“Back home I played in some other bands, recorded some albums, and did some shows, so when I came here I wanted to try something

different,” Borges said. “Over the year, I found out [marching band] wasn’t for me and when I met up with Henry [Ricciardi] and Nick [Rocchio-Giordano] and I saw pretty quickly that we could all work together.”

Working together, it seems, is the group’s main priority. In talking with Funky Giant, teamwork and sound-layering are at the forefront of the conversation. Rocchio-Giordano, Borges, and Ricciardi want to produce as many different, vivacious sounds as they possibly can with their drums, bass, and guitar. As Rocchio-Giordano puts it, “On the drums, Mario [Borges] can play just about anything you ask him to, consistently.

I sort of bolster that, playing the bass, adding a bit of beef to it. And then Henry [Ricciardi] just drizzles the perfect sauce right on top of that.”

Describing Ricciardi’s guitar as the perfect sauce on top, while an eccentric metaphor, is an accurate way of characterizing his riffs and chords that flick Funky Giant’s tracks with energy.

Borges’ eclectic and steady drum beat centralize Rocchio-Giordano’s and Ricciardi’s guitar and bass, and Rocchio-Giordano gives Funky Giant’s tracks the perfect tinge of groove that the band’s name necessitates.

While Funky Giant doesn’t have a singer right now, they’re open to the possibility of tak-

ing someone in.

“I think we’ve still got a great sound with just the instrumentals, but it’d be cool to bring in someone who could help with some of our covers that are actually supposed to be sung,” Borges explained. “It’s about expanding our possibilities as much as we can.”

In the meantime, Funky Giant can carry on with its sound triumphantly and without worry. The few tracks posted on Funky Giant’s SoundCloud page exhibit a marvelous genremelding style that exudes old-school funk.

“Herbie Hancock was one of the first to take a really competent jazz music theory with a highly technical background and put it into more mainstream funk music,” Ricciardi said about the band’s influences. “He would record these epic 16-minute jams. I think that’s why we like him so much. We like to take our backgrounds in different types of music and bring them together in an epic track like Herbie did.”

In talking with Rocchio-Giordano, Borges, and Ricciardi, it’s evident that each musician cares deeply about the music he plays personally and the multi-faceted craft that they bring together. Unfortunately, however, it hasn’t been exceedingly easy for Funky Giant to

come together and record its tracks. The band played at last semester’s Music Guild Winter Concert and attends many of the Guild’s openmic nights, but recording space can be hard to come by around campus.

“The Music Guild’s helpful in setting up gigs, but when it comes to recording, it’s hard to organize things because BC’s focuses are more directed towards aiding the academic programs and their students ,and the academic departments, it seems, don’t always agree on what the equipment should be used for,” Rocchio-Giordano explained. “The priority for these departments is their students’ taking classes.”

It might be simple for Funky Giant to find its way into the recording studio, but in the meantime the group is enjoying jamming together and playing at venues on and off campus. Last week, Funky Giant played at the Great Scott alongside fellow BC and Small Talk.

And, for now, that’s all Funky Giant is looking for. Rocchio-Giordano, Borges, and Ricciardi want to explore Funky Giant’s musical frontier. They’re not looking to revolutionize the music scene at BC, but they want to see if they can add their own distinct flavor to the mix.

8ikj <k_`Zj1 Kip`e^ kf Cffb 9\pfe[ 8ik`jkjË 8Zk`fej CHANDLER FORD Here’s a surprise to absolutely no one at all: Miley Cyrus is a controversial topic lately. Ever since her divergence from Disney Channel-child-star role model several years ago, her career has been the topic of non-stop debate. More conservative homes and families have demonized her for her actions, while more tolerant groups have accepted her radical split from her old self. Whatever the prevailing opinion may be, the dichotomy between the family-friendly Hannah Montana and the independent Miley Cyrus begs an interesting question: is it possible to separate an artist’s actions from her art?

Unfortunate as it may be, artists as a whole sometimes get a bad rap. Many are well-known philanthropists, like Bono, lead singer of U2 and environmental activist. One of Jon Bon Jovi’s greatest non-musical achievements is the founding of the Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation, and actress Angelina Jolie is well known for her work as a

Goodwill Ambassador for the U.N. Refugee Agency. Wherever you turn, it’s relatively easy to find the creatives who love their fellow man.

Of course, there are two sides to every coin. For every artist-philanthropist working to make the world a better place, there’s a bad apple spoiling the bunch. A prime example of this is Ian Watkins, lead vocalist for the band Lostprophets. The alternative metal band was formed in 1997 and produced five studio albums in its time together.

Though somewhat unknown, Lostprophets were undeniably talented and clearly had a bright future.

In 2012, Ian Watkins was charged with crimes far too disturbing to print. I will spare you the very dark details, and I recommend that you do not pursue the topic any further if you have a weak stomach. Needless to say, Watkins was found guilty and sentenced to 35 years in prison, thus ending the band’s story for good.

I was left in a dilemma—one indicative of a much larger social issue in the art world. How is it possible to reconcile

the detestable actions of a singer, actor, or performer that is so well loved? Fans of the late Michael Jackson (myself being one of them) know this pain all too well. The music that Jackson created brought the world together, but the man who created it was rooted in extremely poor life choices (or at least appearances). I’ve discussed this reality many times with friends and family, and it’s an incredibly divisive issue—naturally, it has taken me quite a long time to figure out just how I feel about Watkins, Jackson, and any other artist that falls under this umbrella.

Here’s where I fall on the issue: Even if a person is morally bankrupt, it is still okay to enjoy the work that they publish.

This might not be a popular conclusion to draw, but it’s the only way to come to terms with the pain caused by the actions of those we look up to. Morals and ethics are tricky little things—it’s possible to live a good life with them, and it’s possible to live a good life without them. Regardless of the worldview a person holds, however, there will always be someone who disagrees. Vilifying artists’ work in light

of disagreeable life choices only leads to closed-mindedness. By no means do I believe the crimes of Watkins and the supposed acts of Jackson are acceptable, but I do very much believe in the value that their art still holds.

Earlier in this column, I alluded to the life and career of Miley Cyrus. Though not a criminal by any means, Cyrus is still very often criticized for the path that her life has taken. It saddens me to see such a talented woman be crucified by critics, especially when the music that she produces is at the very forefront of pop culture innovation. It is for this reason that I implore all readers to think about the happiness an artist can bring to the world before beating said artist’s reputation into the ground. In the words of the great Kevin Smith, “Discourage an artist, you get absolutely nothing in return. Ever.” If critics would, for only one moment, take this idea into consideration, the world might be that much better of a place.

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THIS WEEKEND in arts

BY: HANNAH MCLAUGHLIN | HEIGHTS EDITOR

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (THURSDAY AT 7:30 P.M.)

‘PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES’ (OPENS FRIDAY)

The renowned American rock band is headed back to Boston’s TD Garden this week for a lively performance of classic hits. Springsteen and the band that has backed him since 1972 is set to entertain audience members young and old.

‘THE CHOICE’ (OPENS FRIDAY) This Nicholas Sparks novel turned feature film tells the sentimental story of lovebirds Travis and Gabby. Through obstacles and adversity, the two attempt to preserve a seemingly unbreakable bond.

FETTY WAP (SATURDAY AT 5 P.M.) The New Jersey-bred hip-hop artist will take top hits like “Trap Queen” and “679” to House of Blues next week. On Monday, Fetty Wap will perform as part of Monster Energy’s “Welcome to the Zoo” event.

This zombie-filled film adaptation of the parody novel by Seth Graham-Smith attempts to incorporate fantasy elements into a time-honored classic

by Jane Austen.

DREAMWORKS ANIMATION

‘HAIL, CAESAR!’ (NOW PLAYING) When chaos erupts at Capitol Pictures, and the studio’s star actor is kidnapped, Eddie Mannix is the man who must set things straight. Starring George Clooney and Channing Tatum, the comedy hits theaters on Friday.

JUICE & WILL BOLTON @ BRIGHTON MUSIC HALL (NOW PLAYING) Juice, William Bolton, CSOM ’16, and others from the Boston area will take the stage to perform some new tracks and old fan-favorites.

RUMOR (OPENS FRIDAY) The Dance Organization of Boston College takes over Robsham this weekend with “Rumor,” the crew’s first dance show of the semester. Get ready for this high-energy collaboration featuring Synergy and The Heightsmen.

‘VAGINA MONOLOGUES’ (NOW PLAYING) McGuinn 121 is your destination for this semester’s production of The Vagina Monologues. As always, the entertaining event is sure to draw a crowd for every performance this weekend.

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Thursday, February 4, 2016

Small Talk JULIA HOPKINS / HEIGHTS EDITOR

The evolving band goes ‘sonic spelunking’ in the outer reaches of music.

Caleb Griego | Assoc. Arts & Review Editor In a dreamy, ethereal way, words jettison out from the void. “Love, love love, how do I?” What does he mean? What is he calling to? As in most of its songs, Small Talk’s “Undercover” continues to linger in the mind, long after its flourishing piano accompaniment fades into a resolute silence.

Small Talk is a Boston College-based band with psychedelic indie influences.

As the band, comprised of Conor Gallagher, CSOM ’16, Chris Southiere, Berklee ’16, Adam Dubuc, University of Rhode Island graduate, Sean Seaver, MCAS ’16, and Zoe Ainsburg, Berklee ’16, prepares to release its latest EP, The Steal, it is apparent that, through this EP, the band is continuing to evolve in sound and musical style.

Individually, the members of Small Talk come from diverse musical backgrounds. In both their tastes and in their own musical pursuits, this kind of melange aids in the varied sound heard in the band’s own work. When building EPs and tracks, vocalist/guitarist Seaver and synthesist and sampler Dubuc start crafting Small Talk’s music by working off demos that they created in each other’s absence. Though Small Talk may not, as

a group, be influenced specifically by the reggae, jazz, or indie rock that its members enjoy, the varied views and tastes lend to the progression and complexity of the band’s sound, seen especially in The Steal. Such diversity does not interfere with the synchronicity of the EP. “There is a lot more details, sonically, in these songs,” Seaver said about The Steal in relation to previous releases.

Where songs from previous EPs, like “Brothers,” were layered with 46 tracks, new songs, like “Zelda,” contain an impressive 176 tracks. Such volume within a single song, Seaver explains, aims to make the songs nuanced and multifaceted.

“We didn’t want someone to hear the song once and be done with it,” he said.

“We want you, on your 10th listen, to still be able to get something new out of the song.”

Much like watching a movie and catching things upon the second viewing, songs rife with nuance and craft in The Steal will not only warrant repeat listens, but demand them, to heighten the musical experience. Instrumentally and lyrically, each song offers up so many interesting features that single

listens cannot possibly do them justice.

Songs like “Zelda” will allow attentive listeners to relish in the silences, brief instrumental additions, bassline, and qualities reminiscent of psychedelia in subsequent hearings.

Small Talk does not shy away from more cerebral aspects in its songs. Similar to past releases, like “Brother,” which includes audio bits from the Seaver family’s home videos, The Steal promises more in terms of interesting sampling.

Dubuc, the band’s sampler, called the inclusions “sonic spelunking.”

“I think it’s cool to have atonal sounds and sounds that have more of a texture and setting,” Dubuc said. “These last songs actually have quite a bit of those sounds. Tapping on empty glasses and banging on some wooden stuff in my basement—basically anything that could be hit with a stick was fair game.”

The additional sounds do just that to bring a whole new face and feel to songs.

“Undercover” offers sounds of crickets, while “Zelda” opens with children at play and “Ellipse” gracefully slips in the subtle beating of a heart. The genuine human connection felt by the heartbeat strengthens the emotional effectiveness

of the song. These additions are not only aurally pleasing, but beautiful in their simple inclusion.

For Small Talk, that kind of nuanced differentiation extends its ways across songs as well, as the band reaches for different sounds between pieces of the EP. “We don’t want to be a band with an 11-track album and every song is in the same style with the same arrangement, with the same tones,” Seaver said. “We want it to be eclectic.”

The Steal contains entrancing synths, beautiful vocal harmonies, and vibrant baselines. With so many enticing musical elements present in its work, it would not be surprising if Small Talk garners a considerable following in the future.

But Small Talk is not concerned with being accessible to everyone, wishing to instead “challenge and confuse our audience, rather than pander to their expectations,” as Seaver honestly puts it.

This is in no way off putting, as it speaks to the core of the art of music. As in most artistic endeavors, these works are meant to elicit responses, feeling, or emotions in listeners. Though the members of the band would love if everyone could appreciate its music and

find something that resonates with them, the integrity of the artistic process predominates any attempts to be universally comprehensible.

“It’s not making it for ourselves or anyone, it’s just what we feel, we put it out there,” Southiere said. “It doesn’t mean anything until someone gives it meaning.”

To the credit of Small Talk, within The Steal, there are many opportunities to find something that resonates with you. Amid all the musical variation and flourishes, the lastest EP speaks to a variety topics. Instrumentally and lyrically, the band is capable of spanning the emotional spectrum. The Steal is an engaging binaural experience.

The dynamism of the band translates to a slew of interpretations of its content.

Within the band, Southiere points out that each member can interpret songs differently, each listener bringing forth his or her own subjective interpretation of the same work. And if this sentiment is true within a musical group, it can certainly be deposited among listeners outside the group. Therein lies the beauty of its music.

“We are all listeners,” Seaver said.

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HANNAH MCLAUGHLIN On Monday, Feb. 1 at approximately 10:40 p.m., a horrific series of events transpired on planet Earth. Raging fires and major flooding decimated human civilization, the world’s 8.7 million species suddenly ceased to exist, and our entire life-sustaining space rock was not simply tipped off of its axis, but hurled violently into the depths of a vast and unforgiving universe.

Well, at least that’s what I assumed must have happened due to the depressing series of snapchats I received that night from a high school friend of mine. Just seconds before my friend sent me the first somber selfie, Boston University defenseman Doyle Somerby took advantage of an empty net to secure a 3-1 Beanpot victory for the Terriers at TD Garden.

If this article’s apocalyptic premise didn’t make

it abundantly clear already, the aforementioned friend goes to Northeastern.

As GPA-paranoid students by day and bloodthirsty sports fans by night, we BC undergrads sure know a thing or two about competitive rivalries, be they academic or athletic in nature. Together, we comprise a flock of Eagles who gleefully gloats about how it “Sucks to BU” whenever the chance arises. When it comes to the savage support of our alma mater, we are certainly not alone. Just ask a group of BU students which B-Line school would win in a fierce battle to the death, and you’d be hard-pressed to find someone backing BC. As individuals, it’s the same story. Who hasn’t secretly sneered at our best friend when she scores higher than us on a medieval history midterm? We’re constantly consumed with who’s best, what’s best, and how we could become the best (if we’re not already). Despite this mindset making for some messy situations and needless anxiety at times, I think the whole competition thing is kind of fun.

Maybe it’s the over-the-top arts enthusiast in me (it is), but I like to think that the same

exists in the entertainment world—and to an even larger extent, really. More often than not, people identify themselves with the Hogwarts house they think they belong in, the rock group they’re most loyal to, or even their favorite member within a single band. I’ve actually had a guy proudly introduce himself to me as “the Ringo Starr of [his] friend group.” If that’s not a foolproof pickup line sure to get all the girls swooning, boys, then I don’t know what is.

Fandoms exist at all levels within entertainment—from dueling film franchises to music genres to even specific songs within a single Bruce Springsteen album (quick, which is better: “Born to Run” or “Thunder Road?”). Even latenight TV forces us to choose channels wisely, pitting Jimmy against Jimmy at the same time every night.

Star Wars or Star Trek? Dumbledore or Gandalf? Graduation or My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy? Vampires or Werewolves (okay, I don’t get the hype surrounding that one either)? The Pokemon or Yu-Gi-Oh! debacle is easy, though.

Any franchise with a crime-fighting turtle called ‘Squirtle’ wins the fantasy anime card game

throne, no question.

The frustrating thing about entertainment rivalries, however, is that there is no definitive way to decide who’s best. Hockey has indisputable bits of data to it—team records, player stats, all of those good things. For instance, you could like Peyton Manning and his annoying Nationwide commercials all you want, but it doesn’t change the fact that he’s got one ring to Brady’s four.

Based entirely on opinion and personal preference, entertainment is different. There exist no numbers to crunch that can determine the superiority of 30 Rock over Parks and Rec or one Powerpuff Girl over the other. I could claim that Michael Buble is the worst cover artist plaguing our generation today, but dammit, I just can’t prove it.

Sure, I’d like to give those who claim Kevin Michael Richardson’s cartoon Joker is superior to Heath Ledger’s realistic one a swift right hook to the face and ask them if they kiss their mother with that mouth. Unfortunately, my argument would have no fact-based leg to stand on.

In the Boston area alone, BU claims it’s

best, while Harvard rolls its Ivy League eyes.

Northeastern might make a strong case for its swanky fitness center, but we Eagles know that what sweltering Plex heat doesn’t kill you makes you stronger (MIT doesn’t trouble itself with any of this petty competition, because it’s too busy building robots who run faster than cheetahs and solve world peace in its spare time, thank you very much).

If my going off on a tangent has taught us anything here, I think it’s this: much like award season is a catalyst for tumult and tension in the entertainment industry, the annual Beanpot tournament causes major rifts among Boston’s finest academic institutions. The only difference is that The Academy’s decisions regarding superiority have no math or factual evidence to back them up, whereas hockey games do.

In conclusion, according to mathematical proof and hockey statistics, BC is better than Harvard.

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women. Or, at least that’s what all Nicholas Sparks novel-turned feature films want their fans to think. Almost always set in the South and containing the classic boy-meets-girl love affair, each new novel and its subsequent adaptation for the silver screen churned out by the revered romance writer seems to be nothing but a slightly reconfigured version of its predecessor.

Despite the e vident plot consistencies from one mushy romance movie to the next, the films bring throngs of sentimental viewers flooding theaters with every Sparks release. Containing all of the aforementioned elements of the novelist’s typical drama-laden love stories in its premise, The Choice is perhaps the best example of the quintessential Sparks-inspired film.

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That said, The Choice is also one of the worst movies to come out of Hollywood in a very long while.

A literal girl-next-door type, Gabby encounters her noisy neighb or when she ang r ily marches the six yards separating her front porch from Travis’.

She demands that he turn of his terrible music. The two engage in a lackluster fight of flirty foolishness. They take turns lobbing minor insults at each other as Travis tries unsuccessfully (surprise!) to seduce Gabby.

Utterly dull and decidedly underwhelming, the movie plays out in an even more monotonous manner than one would expect.

From the minute Travis (played

by Benjamin Walker) first flashes his carefree, crooked smile at the overly studious Gabby Holland (Teresa Palmer), the audience knows that there is absolutely no way that the two will not eventually end up together.

Anticipating the mind-numbing predictability and reckless overuse of stock scenes in a Sparks-based movie is automatic and almost integral to the viewing experience. Moviegoers paying for a ticket to a Sparks flick enter the theater having already moved past the realization that

there will likely be no “will they or won’t they” plot twist to keep them on the edge of their seats.

The film lacks any divisive or convincing conflict between the two main characters that might potentially pose a problem for their inevitably perfect relationship.

Another disappointing aspect to add to the film’s ever-growing laundry list of missteps is the actors’ lack of onscreen chemistry.

Despite their supposed undying romance being the story’s central conflict, lovebirds Gabby and Tom just don’t seem that into each other. The characters are vapid, and their interactions merely cringeworthy.

Simply stated, the one hour and 51-minute film is approximately one hour and 49 minutes too long . Instead of a highbudget film adaptation of the novel, a two-minute summary would suffice. Perhaps better suited as a bedtime story—one that drags on long enough and contains few to no engrossing plot points—the film is a perfect remedy for insomnia.

True love stories ask how far the heart will go in the face of true love? The Choice raises is this: How far will film critics go to avoid the next Sparks film?

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It’s not often that the world celebrates a broken heart. In fact, female songwriters are often criticized for writing about their pained emotions—for example, Taylor Swift’s receiving hate after supposedly writing 1989 about ex-boyfriend Harry Styles. Yet Kelly Zutrau, the lead singer and driving force behind indie-pop trio Wet, has crafted the perfect balance between heartbreak and beauty on the group’s debut, full-length Don’t You, an album that is making the world rethink the heavy-hearted ballad.

The album begins with “It’s All in Vain,” the band’s current number-one track on Spotify. The emotional track narrates someone’s losing trust in his or her partner, lamenting, “I don’t believe you when you / Tell me that you love me most / And when you tell me I’m the only one.” Culminating in Zutrau’s lyrical character’s leaving her unfaithful partner behind, the slow piano and drum machine-based track show more powerful resolve than helpless heartbreak. “Deadwater” continues along the same trend, yet with a more bubbly melody. The lyrics recount Zutrau’s suffering in a relationship and “shaky” feeling upon it ending, but end in her claiming that “there are better things for me,” and that when the breakup occurred,

it happened “for a reason.”

Don’t You continues with “Don’t Wanna Be Your Girl,” a heartfelt explanation for ending a relationship that originally appeared on the band’s self-titled 2014 EP. The track has over 17 million listens on Spotify, has garnered nearly a million views on YouTube, and has been covered by pop artists like Troye Sivan. The next track on the album looks to mimic this success, and is no disappointment after the older track. “Weak” is currently Don’t You’s best-seller on iTunes, and marks a significant uptick in energy on the album. In one line she claims that “If you’re leaving / You’ll only take from me.” The motivational pop vibe of this song is a beautiful mask for the apparent pain in the lyrics—the scar tissue over what was an open wound.

“Island” follows with the vocals of a Bon Iver cover and the accompaniment of a late-90s R&B track. Wet’s constant juxtaposition of its R&B and indie influences is an integral part of its unique, pop-ish sound, which is setting it apart from similar groups.

“All the Ways,” one of the album’s highlights, follows “Island,” immediately kicking into a vibrant drum rhythm unlike any other song on the album’s purposefully unpredictable percussion set. Zutrau’s vocals on the track are multiplied and layered to create the appearance of a girl band, an image that would not come

to mind while listening to most of the album’s soulful, bare ballads.

“Small and Silver” follows, using the same strong percussive devices, but invoking none of the sugary energy supplied by “All the Ways.”

“You’re the Best” is another track from Wet’s EP, starting with Zutrau performing a cappella through electronic effects. By the third verse of the song, these effects are shed in favor of a bubbly guitar riff, unlike the strident chords found on other tracks. Lyrically, this song is particularly interesting, mentioning a “Rosalie” in the back of her lover’s

mind. Zutrau claims in “You’re the Best” that the couple will be able to “work out all the rest,” a promise that, unfortunately, did not come true.

The album’s next track, “Move Me,” actually begins with a similar style of finger-picked electric guitar as found in “You’re the Best,” a skill the band chose to keep till the end of the album. The track is a challenge for her significant other to choose between “saving” her or “moving” her—loving her or letting her go.

“Body” is an anthem of self-doubt that describes an attempt to find solace in another person’s affection.

The painfully relatable sentiment is engaging lyrically and instrumentally. The album’s final track, “These Days,” returns to the more wistful tone of its first songs. Welcoming a swell of stringed instruments and little other accompaniment, the track fades out with a diminished piano medley.

Proven by the exceptional crafting of its first full-length album, Wet might just be the band to watch in 2016. Because of its incredible emotional draw, this is not the last listeners will be hearing of Don’t You’s power-breakup songs.

Concept albums are beautiful, wonderful beasts. Each one is a new experience, often an exploration of the mind, the human condition, or some similar theme. It is hard to pin down exactly what Saul Williams’ latest studio album is, but whatever the case may be, MartyrLoserKing is a work of haunting genius.

Saul Williams’ newest album

is an impressive mix of styles. It is grounded in electronica, with mixtures of spoken word, rap, classical, and hard rock. The uniqueness of MartyrLoserKing makes it a standout work alone, but the album is so much more than a piece of innovation. The first track, aptly titled “Groundwork,” sets the tone for the rest of Williams’ album. It is difficult to ascribe a genre to his songs, but if “musical horror” existed, “Groundwork” and the entirety of MartyrLoserKing

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would be its quintessence. The use of synthesizers and distorted voices creates an incredibly unnerving feel for every song and a general tone of tension for the album itself.

MartyrLoserKing progresses forward with “Horn of the Clock-Bike,” a premier melding of classical music with electronic stylization. The eerie tone continues with “Ashes,” perhaps the most agitating song on the album. Over and over, Williams repeats, “Dancing on the corpse’s

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ashes, dancing on the corpse’s ashes.”

He quite masterfully creates high levels of unease in his listeners, which further serves the ideas he presents in the entirety of the concept album.

MartyrLoserKing is not without its own problems. Certain pieces of songs around the middle of the tracklist feel more like sound-mixing errors than thoughtful nuances.

Williams’ lyrics could use some clarification as well, as there are a number of occasions in which it is difficult to discern particular words.

Still, despite its errors, the professionalism of MartyrLoserKing carries it beyond any real criticism.

Perhaps the biggest problem that concept albums face—monotony— does not apply to MartyrLoserKing.

Each track feels like its own special labor of love. Though they blend together nearly seamlessly, every song from beginning to end has its own particular flavor, and this is perhaps what drives Williams’ album to be the very best of the best.

Other standout tracks on MartyrLoserKing include “All Coltrane Solos at Once,” “Burundi,” and “No Different.” Particularly, “All Coltrane Solos At Once” serves Williams very

well. Like all the other tracks, it creates a very tense feeling, keeping listeners on their toes at all times.

“All Coltrane Solos At Once” transitions directly into “No Different,” and is eventually rounded out by “Homes/Drones/Poems/Drums,” an extremely strong finish to a stellar set of songs. As the drums beat ominously and Williams chants the same lines over and over, it exudes a sense of panic and worry, almost connected to the visual of a tribal dance around a pit of fire.

MartyrLoserKing, from beginning to end, is an absolute roller coaster, and any fans of the concept album style should absolutely make it a point to listen to Williams’ latest work.

Concept albums are inherently a risky venture—if the audience rejects the message, they reject the work as a whole. Saul Williams has made a massive gamble with his newest studio album, but it would seem as though his hard work has paid off. MartyrLoserKing is a masterpiece, worthy of being held in the highest regard, and despite its problems, artists everywhere would do well to emulate what Williams has created.

Zayn Malik’s departure from boy band One Direction in March 2015 was one of the year’s largest pop culture stories, sparking more than 4,600 tweets per minute on the topic and breaking the hearts of teenage girls everywhere. After the initial shock, fans were poised to wait anxiously for his solo music career. On Jan. 29, Malik delivered.

His single “PILLOWTALK” was released with its accompanying music video, sparking yet another frenzy of Internet chaos. Now recording under the name ZAYN, the pop star used this new video to distinctly separate himself from his past as a preteen icon.

Between racy lyrics, such as “So dirty and raw / Be in the bed all day,” and clips featuring nude female models, the video is beyond anything a “Directioner” would be able to view past their underage web sensors. “PILLOWTALK” embraces the track’s raw sexuality with images of flowers blossoming in front of actresses’ most x-rated features, intimate scenes between Malik and rumored girlfriend Gigi Hadid, and 3-D outlines of female bodies pulsing toward the screen.

The sensuality of the video, however, is not its most commanding aspect. “PILLOWTALK” is crowded with visual manipulations that mimic Photoshop on a 2006 MacBook—after every few frames, the screen transforms from a kaleidoscope of Malik and his models to a color wheel of pixels dragging behind the heartthrob’s deliberately “sexy” movements.

ZAYN’s fans had a lot to process with the drop of the “PILLOWTALK” video. The racy visual and lyrical content made it clear that Malik wishes to be treated as an adult rather than a boy band member, yet the production of the video appeared much closer to the work of a middle school student’s first trip through iMovie. ZAYN might have bitten off too much in his first video as a solo artist. While the single is impressive, the video is debilitating.

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IGGY POP “Gardenia” DIIV concluded 2015 with a handful of shows opening for early shoegaze pioneers Ride— drawing inquiry from Ride’s lead-singer, Andy Bell, as to the band’s pedal setup. DIIV was apparently worthy of inspection. Its single, “Is The Is Are,” coming off the album of the same name, is psychedelic rock at its finest.

When an artist becomes a generational fixture, it’s easy to relegate his best work to history. The best he can do is rerelease alternative mixes in the growing market for nostalgia. By teaming up with Josh Homme and other contemporaries, Iggy Pop offers something a bit more inspired.

Fashion and art often meet in tight places, and it would be unusual to find both in search of new talent. Primal Scream’s new single draws the power of synth-pop and the sort of whimsical coalescence that typifies duets. Sky Ferreira brings an edge to the enterprise that justifies the transition to pure pop mechanics.

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The Crimson began the day with a 31.9 power-play percentage, second-best in the nation—its kill, on the other hand, was at an impressive 85.5 percent. But on Monday evening, it was BC that made the most of its chances, scoring on each of its first two power plays while the Crimson came up empty.

“We hadn’t been moving pucks too well, and tonight we were just moving them quick,” freshman Colin White said. “That’s what we’d been working on in practice this week.”

BC dominated the flow of the game early on, rattling off three quick shots in the direction of the goal in the first minute. As Harvard scrambled to clear the puck, its defense left Casey Fitzgerald open in front of the net. His brother, Ryan, found him just a few seconds later, and Casey blasted it in on the left side, giving him his third goal of the season and BC a speedy 1-0 lead.

The Eagles’ defense continued to control the pick for most of the period, holding Harvard without a shot for the first 10 minutes.

Unfortunately for Demko, this came on a breakaway spring for Ryan Donato, who had been in the right place at the right time on a rebound that flew out from Harvard goalie Merrick Madsen. Two BC defenders raced neck-and-neck with Donato, but he kept ahead and slipped one by Demko on the right side.

Five minutes later, the Crimson took its second shot on net and notched another goal.

And again, there wasn’t an easy chance at a stop for Demko.

As Harvard forward Jimmy Vesey sprinted down the ice, he was swallowed up by BC’s defenders, causing him to lose the puck and his footing. He toppled over and slid straight into Demko, who lost his own stance as he partially fell over the top of Vesey. Demko lost his stick as he stood back up, but no whistle had blown. Just a few seconds later, Adam Baughman got the puck in the middle of the ice and shot it straight under Demko’s

legs, where it trickled in for Baughman’s first collegiate score.

But then that was it. Demko became an impenetrable wall for the rest of the game, stopping all 21 shots he faced after. He had a few especially strong saves on the first of Harvard’s two power play opportunities toward the end of the first period.

Then in the second period, BC got back on top.

BC capitalized on its first man advantage in the second frame. Ian McCoshen—who had been up to his usual strong enforcing during the first period—fired a rocket from just in front of the blue line. Madsen got in front of it enough to knock it off to the side, but the puck found Alex Tuch, who in turn hit his open linemate Zach Sanford for an open goal.

They weren’t done there. Captain Teddy Doherty sold an interference call midway through the period, giving BC its second 5on-4. This time, it was freshman Colin White getting in on the scoring action, putting away his team-leading 16th goal of the season.

With scores on both power plays, BC has continued a recent trend of improvement with the man advantage. Head coach Jerry York credited Greg Brown after the game for establishing the “no dust rule,” which is aimed at preventing stagnation on power plays.

“We’re trying to go tape to tape to tape without stick handling,” York said. “I think that was a big change in our power play.”

The lead BC got from those two was all it would need.

Austin Cangelosi was called for slashing in the latter half of the third period, but the Eagles successfully killed Harvard’s second, and final, power play. This win gives BC a spot in the Beanpot final, where it will face the winner of the other first-round g a m e b e t w e e n B o s t o n Un i v e r s i t y a n d Northeastern.

“As we prepared for this tournament— my 22nd Beanpot—of those, this is the most balanced field of major players in college hockey now,” York said. “We’re all on top of our games.”

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Each team was whistled for two penalties, but BC managed to convert on both power play opportunities and limit Harvard each time. It was a tight game, but after 60 minutes of competitive hockey, BC claimed a 3-2 victory to advance to its ninth Beanpot final of the last 11 tournaments.

Main Takeaways Resiliency: The Eagles struck first when Casey Fitzgerald slipped a shot past Harvard’s Merrick Madsen less than two minutes into the first period.

BC didn’t celebrate for long, however, as the rest of the first period would be largely dominated by the Crimson. Just under 10 minutes into the period, Ryan Donato netted the equalizer on a breakaway.

Five minutes later, freshman Adam Baughman scored his first collegiate goal to give the Crimson a 2-1 lead heading into the first intermission.

But the Eagles showed their resilience in the second period, coming out fired up and ready to play.

BC took advantage of Harvard’s first two penalties of the game, scoring on both power plays to reclaim the lead. In the third period, they bounced back from a slashing call on Austin Cangelosi and killed the penalty without any real danger to preserve their 3-2 lead. In the final minutes of play, Harvard desperately tried to even the score, launching shots at Demko and keeping the pressure on. So far this season, BC has had some shaky third periods. The team has erased multiple-goal deficits to win games. It has squandered multiple-goal leads to lose games. Against Harvard, the Eagles didn’t falter. They put pressure on Madsen and kept up the defensive intensity.

Winning the Special Teams Battle: Penalties and power plays ended up determining the outcome of the game. BC’s victory stems directly from its ability to take advantage of its own power plays while killing Harvard’s.

Coming into the night, Harvard averaged an 85.5 percent kill rate and an impressive 31.9 percent power play percentage. BC had an 86.1 percent kill rate and converted on 19.6 percent of its power plays. Based on these statistics, some might think Harvard would score power play goals on the Eagles. Instead, the Eagles won the special teams battle. Each team com-

mitted two penalties, but BC killed both of Harvard’s power plays and scored on both of its own.

Harvard coach Ted Donato praised BC for its special teams play.

“They won the special teams game going two-fortwo on the power play,” he said. “They did a good job against our power play, which has been pretty successful all year … I give BC a lot of credit for that.”

Side Notes Van Kula Suited Up: BC’s backup goaltenders haven’t been able to stay healthy this season. Concussions and ligament injuries have limited the playing time of Chris Birdsall, Alex Joyce, and Ian Milosz.

Roughly half an hour before the start of the game, college hockey journalist Scott McLaughlin tweeted that BC’s backup goalie would be Chuck Van Kula, a student manager.

Van Kula, a freshman, played high school hockey at St. Joseph’s Prep in Pennsylvania before becoming a manager of the varsity hockey team at BC. He did suit up for the game, and Jerry York said that he was ready to go in if Demko sustained an injury.

“It’s either him or me,” York joked.

Crowd Control: As the minutes trickled down toward the start of the first period, waves of Eagles fans made their way to their seats. Harvard’s student section remained almost completely empty. By the time the puck dropped, the BC faithful were loud and rowdy, while Harvard had only a handful of fans on its side. The lack of a strong fan presence is typical for Harvard, especially for the early game of the Beanpot, and the imbalance between the student sections was notable all night. Throughout the game, Eagles fans made their presence known. They often broke out into choruses of “Let’s go Eagles” and “We are—BC!” During breaks in play, the fans cheered raucously when people in BC gear were shown on the Jumbotron, and TD Garden was filled with booing when Harvard fans got screen time. Several times throughout the night, the Harvard marching band chanted “Let’s go Harvard!” Whenever this happened, the BC student section immediately drowned them out with a louder chorus of “Let’s go Eagles!” After BC’s three goals, its fans’ cheering filled the entire Garden with noise. The overwhelming support from the student section created an atmosphere similar to Kelley Rink, and this Beanpot semifinal game almost felt like a true home game for the Eagles.

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The Eagles began cold on defense, allowing the Crimson to score two easy goals on Thatcher Demko. But in the final two periods, Casey Fitzgerald (not pictured) and Co. locked up the Crimson.

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8[[Xq`f <oZ`k\[ 8Yflk )( E\n GcXp\ij kf Af`e <X^c\j ]fi )'(Recruits, from A1 following the 2015 season— Addazio did not offer any back a scholarship this season. He asserted in his press conference that it was a mix of feeling content with his current core and not finding the perfect man for his system.

“What we didn’t want to do was stack up a bunch of numbers at that position,” Addazio said.

“I’d like to bring a big back.”

Because he believes he already has the necessary skill players in the running game in Jonathan Hilliman, Tyler Rouse, and Myles Willis, Addazio and his crew turned their attention to rebuilding a passing game that finished 125th out of 128 in yards per game through the air in 2015 (111.2). A key component of that is utilizing the tight end position with freshman Korab Idrizi.

At 6-foot-3, 228 pounds, Idrizi comes out of Bergen Catholic.

He set a school record for tight ends with 30 catches for 432 yards despite missing a month with a back injury.

Idrizi recently flipped from Rutgers, likely because of Campanile and his connection to Idrizi’s alma mater. Along with incoming freshman Ray Marten, rising junior Tommy Sweeney, rising sophomore Jake Burt, and larger wide receivers in Chris Garrison and Charlie Callinan (whom Addazio describes as “hybrids”), the program now is much deeper at the position than it has been in recent years.

And although the Eagles have previously used blocking tight ends, Addazio and tight ends coach Frank Leonard stated a desire to get the position more involved in the offense.

“That’s a direction that we’re

heavily looking into right now,” Addazio said. “That’s reflective in our recruiting. And it’s a direction I want to take advantage of.”

Addazio also adds two threestar wide receivers to the roster: Kobay White and Christian McStravick. White is an all-around athlete who played both sides of the ball in high school, as well as basketball, and threatened several Pennsylvania state records, including receiving yards. McStravick, a Strake Jesuit (Houston, Texas) graduate, is a key recruit as Addazio continues his national focus.

The Eagles will add two quarterbacks to the roster as well: graduate transfer Patrick Towles and freshman Anthony Brown, both of whom are already on campus as grayshirts. Brown, a three star recruit from St. John Vianney in Tinton Falls, N.J., has

been verbally committed since May of last year and is the 11thranked dual-threat quarterback in the Class of 2016. This now gives BC six quarterbacks on the roster, joining the rehabbing Darius Wade as well as last year’s primary starters: Jeff Smith, Troy Flutie, and John Fadule. “ It ’s a b e a u t i f u l t h i n g ,” Addazio said on the prospect of the impending quarterback competition.

But what Addazio is most proud of is the prospects he has recruited on the offensive and defensive line. Some of the players to focus on from this group are freshman Bryce Morais and graduate transfer Jimmy Lowery.

Morais comes from the same Georgia high school (Grayson) as Ole Miss star Robert Nkemdiche and may be a candidate for a redshirt. Lowery, a transfer from Eastern Illinois, is viewed

by offensive line coach Justin Frye as a player who could have a big impact on the younger players this season.

Addazio insisted that these are the areas that BC must put the most effort into when recruiting to emphasize its niche as a “tough, physical football team” that runs an old school, power run attack as opposed to a spread offense. Addazio would rather concentrate on a game focused on the lines rather than a skill-skill game. And based on the players he has brought in, Addazio thinks his line has the potential to be more than just great.

“There’ll come a day in the next two or three years when we will have the most dominant [offensive] line in the ACC,” Addazio said. “In a couple of years, everyone will be talking about the great line at Boston College.”

Most recruiting sites aren’t impressed with the haul Addazio has brought in. Rivals ranks this year’s class 72nd in the nation, 24/7 Sports at 77th, and Sports Illustrated at 70th, to name a few.

But Addazio dismissed the star ranking system as a legitimate way to measure recruits for this program, given other factors, such as facilities and academics.

Rather, Addazio has placed the onus on himself and his staff to develop the players that he already has and build this young roster from the ground up on the return tour to legitimacy. And, in terms of his whole recruiting process, the Eagles are right where Addazio believes they need to be.

“Now our roster is f ull,” Addazio said. “We’re young, but it’s exciting young, because it’s talented young. And now what we just need to do is work like heck to develop it.”

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To be fair, Emmert has made some progress advocating for the rights of studentathletes. He recently praised athlete activism and has made efforts to increase the voices of players in the decision-making process. He even laughed off a recent story where a former college athlete sold shirts with Emmert’s face on them to

illustrate the partiality of the NCAA’s current policies.

Unfortunately, the truth is that Marcus Lattimore is not laughing.

Emmert’s inaction on the subject is costing players hardearned money that they could be earning from their name, images, and likenesses, affording them a hint of financial security in case of injury.

Rather than pursue a solution to the problem, though, Emmert has devoted most of his time busting schools for minor recruiting violations and looking for a legal means to keep student-athletes unpaid.

The same corrupt sys-

tem that Emmert is trying to reform is also the one that enabled his rise to power in the first place. He condemns school officials for failing to blow the whistle on rule violations, but has yet to address his own cover-ups of the past.

I don’t think Emmert is a bad person. But I don’t think he has changed since his days at Montana State, UConn, and LSU, either.

To answer Pelto’s question from earlier: Yes, he does know what’s going on, and he’s not doing anything about it. Only now, it’s the matter of paying college athletes and changing century-old rules to reflect a

game that is evolving because of big money and even higher stakes.

In the next five years, Emmert needs to prove that he is really working for the college athletes that he’s supposed to be representing, and that means implementing an Olympic-style model that gives players the liberty to profit off their brand. If not, both his tenure as president and the decision to renew his contract will be considered failures.

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Multiple times, BC defenders simply got lost in a maze of screens, allowing open jumpers.

Additionally, they struggled to keep UVA off of the free throw line. Despite his early struggles, Gill still finished with a double-double—10 points and 11 rebounds—and attempted 10 free throws. His size proved too much for Clifford and Idy Diallo, both of whom were in foul trouble almost the entire game. In addition to defense, these free throws allowed UVA to win a game in which only Brogdon made more than two field goals.

Defensively, B C managed only three baskets in the second half before the Cavaliers pulled their regulars at the last media timeout. They did attempt 16

free throws in the second half, but many of them came once the game was out of hand.

For once, the bad offensive performance didn’t stem from an abundance of turnovers. The team only had 11 turnovers, two fewer than Virginia. The real issue for the Eagles was their shot selection. They relied on far too many 3-point attempts, shooting 26 and making just eight. As a result, they shot 26.5 percent from the floor, the best mark for UVA’s defense in ACC play.

BC seemed to tr y to replicate last year ’s game plan against the Cavaliers, with Ervins Meznieks filling the role of Patrick Heckmann. After Eli Carter was trapped coming off of ball screens, he would toss it back to Meznieks, looking for the Latvian freshman to make a play. As he has in all games during conference play, Meznieks struggled mightily, shooting just 1-for-9 from the floor. He failed to take advantage of the defense as it rotated back to him and often didn’t effectively move the ball to teammates.

Carter, who finished with seven points on just 2-for-10 shooting, was more deferential

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Dennis Clifford gets stripped by two UVA players while attempting a layup. than usual in the early going, taking just two shots in the first half. He made the right basketball play when faced with a double team, but his teammates were unable to reap the benefits.

On a team devoid of secondary options, even a seemingly advantageous offensive setup failed to produce points.

Much of the credit for this failure goes to UVA’s stellar defense, which held its opponent to 47 points for the second consecutive game. Rotations behind the ball were crisp, with Tony Bennett’s squad quickly cutting

off any lane that appeared to be open. The team forced the Eagles to keep the ball on the perimeter, in a position where they really couldn’t do much damage.

Amid the blowout, BC closed the game on an 11-0 run, trimming the margin of defeat from 25 to 14, a slightly more resp e ctable numb er. The r un also pleased anyone who bet on BC for this game, as the Eagles entered the night as 23.5 point underdogs.

In this brutal stretch of the schedule, Vegas might be the Eagles’ only hope for a victory.

They say defense wins championships (unless this is Boston College football, that is). And as great as Denver’s defense is, and as much as they followed the “New York Giants Key to Success Over the New England Patriots (TM),” we cannot forget how dominant Carolina’s defense is as well. Let’s all pretend like we’re sneezing and dab it up, and scream “LUUUUUKE” in celebration of BC’s greatest player ever.

Prediction: CAR 24, DEN 14 RILEY OVEREND

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The Eagles took control of the game as soon as the buzzer sounded for the start of the first period, seamlessly cycling the puck up to Harvard’s zone.

BC’s defensive coverage kept the game in Harvard’s zone, and any play the Crimson had in the Eagles’ zone was kept away from the front of the net. About four minutes into the period, Meghan Grieves took a shot at Maschmeyer out from the blue line.

A rebound made its way to Tori Sullivan, who tipped the puck just to the right of Maschmeyer 17 seconds later.

Then, the floodgates opened, and Maschmeyer was not enough to hold the Eagles back.

A little more than a minute later, a shot from the same spot on the blue line was released from Kaliya Johnson’s stick .

Maschmeyer couldn’t see the play because defenders were screening her, and the puck slipped past to give the Eagles

a two-goal lead. Sullivan then struck again at 8:09 into the period, when Maschmeyer let the puck slide across the front of the crease and into the net.

While it would take eight more minutes for BC to score again, the Eagles’ defense was relentless. It won several battles from behind the blue line and kept Harvard from the center lane in front of the goal. The Eagles’ offensive unit smoothly passed to each other, and it seemed as though where one player left off, another would take her place.

“It’s definitely reassuring knowing we have Katie [Burt] back there, but at the same time I think we’re looking to play all three zones,” Carpenter said after the game. “So, you know, we have her back there but I think our defense, Megan [Keller] leading the way, plays a big role in playing all three zones.”

More than halfway through the first, Harvard almost had a breakaway starting at the Eagles’ blue line. It was soon taken away

by Megan Keller, who would

then turn around and score her first of the game. BC then closed out the period with a goal from Carpenter with about one minute left.

The second period began, but with a slight difference. In a game predicted to be dominated by goaltending talent, Har v ard’s Ma schme yer w a s re place d by b ack- up go alie Brianna Laing, sister of professional women’s hockey player Denna Laing. Her replacement would remain for the rest of the game, but Laing in no way could stop the damage already inflicted by the Eagles.

Harvard gained more traction in the second by aggressively attempting to get the puck on net. Laing stepped up to the plate, keeping the game as close as it could be. Five minutes into the period, however, Dana Trivigno skated down the left side of the ice unguarded and passed to Lexi Bender in front of the net. Bender then poked the puck past Laing, bringing the Eagles up 6-0. Keller went to score her second goal at 8:20

into the period, sending a shot from out wide past the glove side of Laing. A touchdown and an extra point.

Almost halfway into the second, Harvard received the first penalty of the game—Nikki Friesen for body checking. While the Crimson defense rallied to kill the penalty, its offense could not generate energy on the other end of the ice. The Eagles kept the Crimson away from the front of the net, giving Burt easy saves.

The third period was much quieter for both teams. BC’s offense had a less rigorous attack, but its defense continued to prevent any opportunities from Harvard. Carpenter brought the final score of the game to 8-0 halfway into the period, giving her 124 career goals. That breaks Brian Gionta’s record for goals by a BC player, male or female.

But in the end, another record for Carpenter didn’t really matter, because she got what she (and the team) really wanted—a win and revenge on the Crimson.

Assoc. Sports Editor Denver ’s defense is go o d, but the Panthers have bulldozed over elite defenses all year. Cam Newton and the Carolina offense will have their troubles, and a turnover or two in the biggest game of their careers is inevitable. But with Luke Kuechly and Josh Norman opp osite Pe y ton Manning on offense, the Panthers should have no problem keeping the Broncos under 20 points .

Prediction: CAR 27, DEN 16 ANNABEL STEELE

Asst. Sports Editor I know, I know. Picking against the Panthers is probably seen as insane. But I just can’t ignore Peyton Manning. This is his last game in the NFL, and it feels like a part of my childhood is dying. (Sorry, Patriots fans. I’m an unapologetic Manning supporter.) But I feel an upset coming. It won’t be a high scoring game, but it’ll be exciting. The tough Broncos defense will stop Cam Newton in his tracks, so don’t expect a lot of dabbing. Peyton will have a final game worthy of his storied career. Maybe next year, Luke Kuechly!

Prediction: DEN 17, CAR 14 JULIA HOPKINS / HEIGHTS EDITOR

After losing to Harvard last year in the Beanpot final and national semifinal, the Eagles took revenge by routing the Crimson at Walter Brown.

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In the championship game of the 2015 Women’s Beanpot, Har vard University defeated the Eagles, ending their 29-game undefeated streak and denying them the title of Beanpot champions. Harvard goalie Emerance Maschmeyer only let in two goals,

one from Haley Skarupa and another by Andie Anastos. BC’s offense was stifled by the Crimson defense, only having a total of 32 shots on net for the entire game.

Captain Alex Carpenter was as well—she had a stunning total of three shots. The Crimson, led by Maschmeyer, later defeated the Eagles in the NCAA Women’s Hockey semifinals. The game that knocked BC out of the running for the National Championship was decided in the third period. BC outshot Harvard in the game, but its offense could not figure out Harvard’s star goaltender.

This year, the Eagles eliminated any doubt caused by last year’s game and were prepared for the Crimson.

“They were on us right off the bat and we weren’t ready for them,” Harvard head coach Katey Stone said.

BC (28-0-0, 19-0-0 Hockey East) advanced to the championship game of the Women’s Beanpot with a first-round final score of 8-0 against Harvard (12-9-1, 9-6-1 Eastern College Athletic). This game also

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Of course, the fan vote is only a small part of the overall selection process. But it says a lot that the nation’s hardcore college

hockey fans think a goalie is worthy of an award generally reserved for forwards.

Even on a night when he wasn’t at his best, he held Harvard to just two goals— both of which came at odd points—and his offense picked him up, returning from a first-period deficit and a loss in the first round of the Beanpot last year to take a 3-2 win for Boston College men’s hockey. But even the man who often carries this team couldn’t do it alone.

Coming into the first game of the Beanpot—a rematch from last year’s consola-

tion round, which the Eagles won 3-2—BC (18-4-4, 10-1-4 Hockey East) led Harvard (12-5-3, 8-3-3 Eastern Collegiate Athletic) in nearly every basic team statistic but one: power-play percentage.

BC has maintained a remarkable percentage for its kill, entering the game leading Hockey East at 86.1 percent along with eight short-handed goals. With an extra man on the ice, the Eagles haven’t been nearly as dominant, succeeding in just 19.6

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In 2005, documents surfaced in an investigation of a UConn construction scandal—a project ridden with corruption that cost the university $100 million—that found three highranking administrators were aware of the mismanagement and kept their mouths shut. Two of the officials resigned. The other is Mark Emmert, now president of the NCAA. Wherever Emmert goes, controversy seems to follow. As a member of Montana State’s senior management team in 1993, he was involved in a case of academic fraud, but the NCAA didn’t rule on the university’s “lack of institutional control” until after Emmert had left two years later.

At UConn, Emmert’s own notes revealed he knew about the project’s issues, yet he has repeatedly denied knowledge of a financial snafu. But, again, before an official investigation could release its findings, Emmert was long gone—this time to LSU. His tenure at the SEC powerhouse as chancellor wasn’t as contentious, although allegations of systemic academic fraud resulted in an NCAA investigation and five minor violations. His success at LSU helped promote him to the role of president at the University of Washington, before accepting the top job in college sports in 2010. Despite some positive contributions in his positions predating his NCAA presidency, it’s hard to ignore the odd pattern that tailed Emmert as he climbed the ladder of collegiate sports.

“When you Google ‘Emmert,’ you do sort of see this pattern, which is he’s a great front man, but there always seems to be these problems with the people around him,”Jonathan Pelto, who helped lead the UConn investigation, told USA Today. “Does he trust bad people? Is the problem that he doesn’t know what’s going on? Is the problem that he does know what’s going on and doesn’t do anything about it?”

Valid questions like these make the NCAA’s decision to renew Emmert’s contract as president through 2020 all the more puzzling.

In his five years as head of the organization, Emmert has made strides in curbing academic fraud, but has chosen to maintain the status quo on the front of paying student-athletes.

The NCAA’s stance on the issue has remained rigid, despite the grossly enormous TV deals that exceed hundreds of millions of dollars annually.

The enormous revenue of the NCAA, estimated at $1 billion, has also translated into a growing salary for the head honcho of America’s most beloved non-profit. In 2013, Emmert’s salary eclipsed $1.8 million, an 8 percent increase from his 2012 figures. That’s like a CEO openly exploiting undocumented workers for million-dollar profits without any backlash whatsoever.

And when college athletes proposed a fair compromise that would allow them to profit off of their names, images, and likenesses, Em-

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Perhaps more than any other team in college basketball, the University of Virginia (18-4, 7-3 Atlantic Coast) has become known for its grit and intensity over the last few years. The Cavaliers play hard for the full 40 minutes, beating you methodically and grinding you down with multiple efforts. And as Matt Milon found out, UVA players continue to hustle hard, even in blowouts.

Deep reserve Justice Bartley’s thun-

derous block with less than a minute remaining dropped the freshman guard to the floor and punctuated UVA’s 6147 victory over Boston College men’s basketball (7-15, 0-9) on Wednesday night.

Sammy Barnes-Thompkins led the way for BC with a career-high 14 points.

He drilled four 3-pointers and was the team’s only player in double figures.

The game lacked flow for the entire first half, with UVA entering the locker room with a 29-20 advantage. Both teams struggled to penetrate deep into

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the paint, with a Dennis Clifford dunk with just over three minutes left before halftime serving as the game’s first points in the paint.

Barnes-Thompkins did virtually all of his damage in the first, scoring nine consecutive points for the Eagles on a trio of 3-pointers, the last of which he banked in from several feet beyond the arc. His mini outburst allowed BC to close within 23-18, the closest that it would get for the rest of the night.

In his run, Barnes-Thompkins hit threes running off of a screen, as a

spot-up shooter and off the dribble, displaying his full skill set. Still, the Eagles shot just 28 percent from the floor in the half.

They managed to stay in the game by making life hard on UVA’s offense.

Forward Anthony Gill, the Cavaliers’ top post option, struggled during stretches of the first half as the Eagles doubled him, forcing him into difficult cross court passes. They closed off most of the driving lanes and kept UVA off of the offensive boards for the first 18 minutes of the game.

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If it weren’t for Malcolm Brogdon, the Cavaliers would’ve been in serious trouble. Luckily, UVA’s quietly efficient senior leader took charge, scoring 17 of his game-high 27 points in the first half.

He finished a perfect 5-for-5 from 3-point range and 8-for-8 from the free throw line.

In the second half, UVA finally pulled away from the Eagles. After a pair of free throws from Garland Ow-

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